Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1931, Page 22

SHOUSE PREDICTS DEMOCRATIC GAINS Victories in Eighth Michigan, First Ohio Dstricts Are Foreseen. Democratic victory in special con- | gressional elections Tuesday week in two normally Republican districts is forecast by Chairman Jouett Shouse of | the Democratic National Executive Committee, In a statement yesterday from party headquarters, Shouse said revolt against the Hoover administration and the dis- content of the people prompted impar- | tial observers to concede the Democratis candidates had a good chance of win- ning in the first Oho and eighth Michi- #an districts, Republican Hits Tariff. Shouse suggested the Republican | spokesmen do “some missionary work” in their own party after quoting Col William Cooper Procter, soap manufac- turer and & Republican, as saying downward revision of our tari p was needed for the return of prosperity Already holding a majority of one in | the House line-up, the Democrats would be in a better position to organize the House if they took the two traditionally | Republican districts Definite plans on how to fill the va- | eancies in the fifth New Jersey and the | first New Hampshire districts, created by the deaths of Representatives Acker- man and Hale, respectively, last week, are to be made this week. Both are traditionally Republican strongholds. | ‘The New Jersey Legislature will meet today to undertake a change in the election laws. Gov. Winant of New Hampshire 18 expected to announce | what course will be taken to fill the Vacancy there. Former Gov. John H. Bartlett and Mrs. Hale already have been mentioned | here as possible candidates. Bartlett 18 & close friend of the Hale family and | is chairman of the International Joint ‘Commission. House Members Arriving. ‘The annual influx of House mem- bers in preparation for the convening of Congress December 7 has begun. Representative Tilson of Connectiout, the Republican leader, is to arrive to- morrow. _Tilson and Representative 8nell of New York, chairman of the ership nomination. Snell will return after the election. Saturday, Representative Christgau, independent Republican, Minnesota, declared neither Snell nor Tilson was satisfactory to independents. A skeleton unearthed by workmen at Bohermore, Irish Free States, indicated that it was that of & man who was hung which was near the spot | American | the district of Mayor Memento of American | NING STAINED FRAGMENT OF WAR PLANE BROUGHT FROM FRANCE. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. | A small strip of material, which once | covered the rudder of a plane of the| Lafayette Escadrille, stained with the | blood of an American boy, has been| brought with loving and reverent care| to Washington by the Marquise de| Chambrun who, with the marquis, the t-great-grandson of Gen Lafayette ed in the United States to attend the recent celebration at Yorktown ‘The delivery of the relic to the rel- atives of the young American, Ronald ‘Wood Hoskier, formerly of East Orange, N. J. constitutes to the marquise a sacred trust given into her keeping by French war veteran, who for 14 years hes guarded the memento of the sacrifice with an almost | plus fidelity The French veteran, Henrl Bourril- lon, now mayor of Mende, in the prov- ince of Lozere, brought the fragrant of the crashed plane, bearing the tri-colors of Prance, to the marquis and the mar- quise shortly before their departure for the United States. and requested that| the souvenir be delivered to the rela-| tives of Aviator Hoskier, if they mlghl} be found. The marquise de Chambrun. | whose husband is a representative from | urrillon, glndly | accepted the mission requested of her. | rot only through her sympathy with Mayor Bourrillon’s desire, but because of the fact that she s of American parentage. Unwrapping the piece of material for which M. Bourrillon'’s wife had lovingly made a silk-lined velvet covering, the | mayor told his story to the marquise. Scene Near St. Quentin. He brought back vivid scenes of an afternoon in April, in 1917, when as & sergeant of French Infantry, he was intrenched with his regiment near St Quentin. Suddenly, he saw a plane, | 184 HOSPITALS AND INSTITUTIONS ARE USING FATHER JOHNS MEDICINE Hali-sick, run-down people are ill-equipped to face Winter's | dangers. With strength at a low be serious. | | | THE MARQUISE DE CHAMBRUN. bearing the colors of Prance, pursued by three German planes. sued, the French plane crashed, and fell closely behind the trench Wwhere| the sergeant’s regiment had witnessed | the engagement. | Several men, among them Sergt.| Bourrillon, crept up to the crashed plane, and from out the debris brought the crushed body of young Hoskier. “Never in my life,” yor Bourrlllon‘ told the marquise, “had I been s0 touched as at the sight' of that young American boy, whose blood was rapidly staining the colors of France, as he ¢bb, even an ordinary cold may Now is the time to build up resisting power to ward off colds, Father John's Medicine is a food no alcohol. lin use. FOR STRENGTH AFTER ILLNESS medicine that contains no drugs, | Father John's Medicine is a blending of highest grade mrd»f icinal cod liver oil and other valuable ingredients so prepared that | its great food value is easily taken up by the system. 75 years JOHN'S | MEDICINE A fight en- | Engl WASHINGTON, %"dflu to the tri-colored rudder he had been placed after his removal from the plane.” ‘Major Bourrillon also told me. re- lated Mme. de Chambrun, “that in the plane he found two machine-gun car- t.rlfl'u.,mme of e:m:h nhvwed, u}:t his gun_hi apparently when he tried to El'nm The jammed cartridge :xphlned why he had been brought lown.” After night had fallen Sergt. Bour- rillon had seen the body of the young American carried back of the lines by French stretcher bearers. Memory Is Kept. In death the sergeant had met his hitherto unknown youn American comrade, and in memory of their meet- 1 he had carefully cut from the Padder of the crashed plane & strip of the tri-colored material, spotted so pro- fusely with the eloquent stains. “I should like his relatives to ha the memento,” Mayor Bourrillon ex- lained to the marquise. The mayor soon_after the crash obtained the name and birthplace of Hoskier. Mme. de Chambrun expressed her hope to locate relatives Hoskier to officials of the State De- partment. Steps were immediately taken to trace the present whereabouts of the young man's family, and it was STAR learned yesterday that a former resi- | dent of East Orange, H. C. Hoskier, the only person by that name to have re- sided there, had left the United States about two years ago and was now re- siding in Trinity, the Jersey Islands, part of the Channel Islands, between land and France. It is believed that H. C. Hoskier is Ronald Hoskier's father, and a8 a con- sequence the plece of cloth will once again be carried across the ocean by the Marquise de la Chambrun to be delivered to the father of the American boy who gave his life for France. ‘The United States has engaged in more than 50 armed military expedi- tions cutside its own bounda of Ronald | A. A. A. PROTESTS PLAN FOR NEW U. S. CAR TAX | No Industry Is Harder Hit by De- pression, Association State- | ment Says. Any plan by the Federal Government | to 1ay a Federal tax on automobiles will | be opposed by the American Automoblle Association. Reported intention to restore the war excise tax on motor vehicles as an aid |to balancing the budget drew an asso- | ciation protest that “no American in dustry has been harder hit by the d | pression” and that “Treasury intim tions” automobile taxes are nominal are based on “false assumptions.” The motor vehicle, the association said, already pays 18.3 per cent per annum of its valuation, bears “a very | 1arge share” of road costs and has “con- | tributed more than a billion dollars in the form of excise taxes, which prac- tically balances the total outlay in Fed- eral_(highway) aid to date.” ARTHRITIS After three years of bedridden arthritis deformans. & representative b ¢ Pasadena, Calif.. wi Washington, for Bldg., 210. e Atlantic Poun treatment ‘Arthritls. nd Rheumatism, when due to excessive Uric Acid. 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