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A—2 a» 3 Dall Children Join Father POLITICIANS LIKE WALKER TAGTICS Chief of Relief Spending Expected to Please Party Men. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Capitol Hill is breathing easier. A| *practical” man is at the head of the| spending. His name is Frank C.| Walker and he used to be treasurer of the Democratic National Commit- tee. This doesn't mean that Messrs. Tugwell or Hopkins or Ickes are to be sidetracked, but it does mean that President Roosevelt has asked Mr. Walker to take the place alongside| of him in handling the 54.000.000.000! fund, with its vast possibilities in the | realm of what is called “work relief.” There is no concealment of the fact that, in handling public works proj- ects, members of the Senate and House of the Democratic faith and loyalty found Secretary Ickes a some- what_difficult person to deal with. Mr. Ickes knows about politics in its| objective sense, but refuses to become subjective. Somehow or other he in-| sisted on using logic and courage in| telling the seekers after favors thst‘ he would apply his independent judg- | ent to his job and the protesting|catch on to the fact that it could|dom of the press.” = . make money out of Mr. Morgenthau. | groups who might want hl_m to do otherwise could forget their “porkfi‘ barrel” traditions. alker Skilled in Politics. But, notwithstanding the splendid record in administrative ways that, Secretary Ickes made, it appears he is not the type to handle matters of | this kind on the eve of a presidential | and congressional election. So Frank | Walker was chosen. Now it should! not be assumed that Mr. Walker is by any means an old-fashioned po- litical manipulator. For he is not. But his skill in handling the politi- clans may mean less antagonism to the administration than some one else’s method. For, whatever virtues the New Deal may have or whatever ideals it has championed. the fact remains that $4,000.000,000 is $4.000,000.000, lnd‘ that it is going to be spent in some | districts and not in others, and that | it may mean hard feelings and dis- | appointments as well as money giving. | Under such circumstances, the key | executive, who knows how to say| “no” gracefully and tactfully when it | is necessary and who knows how to | say “yes” when it is essential for all | good men to come to the aid of the party, is almost indispensable. This is getting down to first principles in modern politics. New Job for Richberg. Mr. Walker is & man of business training and capacity. It is alto- gether fitting that he should be asked to take over the directorship of the | National Emergency Council, as Mr. | Richberg turns to the big law task he ! has ahead of him in trying to make | the novel ideas of the New Deal stick | from a constitutionality basis. And, 1f he makes good in that very difficult | and perplexing assignment, Mr. Rich- berg may look ahead to filling a place on the Supreme Court of the United Btates some day when Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas has been re- warded and there is still another va- cancy. Incidentally, Mr. Walker is an ex- eellent contact man for the President | with the heads of emergency agencies as well as with the members of the Cabinet. When he was director of the National Emergency Council be- fore, the post was of much less im- portance. Now it is virtually the No. 2 job in the Government, at least in the executive branch of the Gov- ernment. It is a position requiring not merely infinite tact and patience | but real diplomacy and business ca- pacity. Mr. Walker will prove a great asset to Mr. Roosevelt, and this is not in any way reflecting upon Donald Richberg, who has performed very well in the office, but who probably prefers a chance for promotion in his own field of the law. It should not be overlooked that Dr. Tugwell is going to have a chance to put into effect his ideas of rural rehabilitation, and, while Mr. Roose- velt has given his Undersecretary of Agriculture a free hand and a lot | of money to spend, nevertheless some | of this authority will have to be checked through a man of Mr. Walk- | er's perspective, too. ‘Tugwell Plan Far-Reaching. The country has little idea today of the immense transformation which the Tugwell plan of moving people back to the land involves. It is a scheme that means redistribution of the population and possibly a with- drawal from various cities of what has been called a surplus population. There are uncles and aunts and broth- ers and parents and relatives gener- ally whose presence in a given locality may cause one to dislike being trans- planted, but the Federal Government | work all sorts of miracles these days, 0 a little thing like personal inclina- | tion will not worry the authors of the new scheme. They also work on the principle of averages—if the maximum number who want to move can be moved and given & means of livelihood on the land, scmething may be accomplished. What it will do to real estate values in our cities is something else again, but that touches the whole question of trying to develop national suffici~ ency and 2 new economy, and all this dispatch set out to explain was that at the head of all the spending is someone with & practical mind who knows something about politics, cam- paign funds and the other attributes of political government. There is con- siderable satisfaction about it in Congress, where, for a long time, it was feared there might be failure to understand that, all things being equal, the participants in a political system cannot be ignorec on the eve of a campaign year. (Copyright, 1935.) ANTI-RED BILI{ PROTEST IS PROFESSORS’ ALONE University of California Attitude Not Reflected, President Writes Legislator. By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, April 25.—An offi- cial denial that the protest of 18 Uni- versity of California professors against an anti-Communist bill represented the attitude of the university brought an end today to a controversy. In a letter to Assemblyman Frank Martin of Altadena, Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the university, de- clared the 18 professors “acted entirely on their own responsibilities.” “Frankly,” wrote Sproul, “I think they used extremely poor judgment in their method of attack upon the bill of which you are co-author.” Martin, - leader of a camnaign to enact legislation sharply curuing rad- ical movements of all sorts, declared he was satisfied with Sproul's expla- nation and would not carry the matter further, What’s What Behind News In Capital Speculators in Silver Worrying Treasury as Prices Leap. A passersby have suspected Mr. Morgenthau was digging for gold. Occupants of the largest desks inside well knew that the real pur- pose must be to hide the Treasury from the international silver specu- lators. At least one Treasury author- ity has suggested privately that it should be done. ‘There is no question that Treasury mentors are worried because the in- ternationalists are making our silver policy succeed too well. When the Treasury took the silver bear by the tail, it was with the understanding that the critter would play peacefully. The world was told that silver prices would be boosted gradually to probadbly three times the them prevailing level, that possibly two Dbillion ounces would be bought. It did not take the world long to BY PAUL MALLON. STEAM shovel has been dig- ging in the Treasury front vard for several days. Some It was soon evident that this was a one-way game, that prices always went up, that Mr. Morgenthau always bought., but never sold. It is not often that the world runs into a buyer like that. Philanthropy Element Sensed. What has happened in the silver world is well shown by a bulletin issued recently by the Federated Chambers of Commerce of India. It severely criticized the India gov- ernment for letting any silver go. If Mr. Morgenthau is constantly going to buy at higher prices, the Indians might as well wait for the higher prices, Of course, every one has figured | that out. Speculation has ensued. The world price has been going straight up and up. This has been crowding Mr. Morgenthau into in- creasing his domestic prices. It is not generally known, but the Treasury also has been forced virtually to dis- continue silver purchases for a while. | Thus, the Treasury finds itself pledged to buy a billion more ounces in a market where the sellers are holding out for a promised top price of $1.29 an ounce. This same silver could have been bought for 35 cents an ounce before Mr. Morgenthau be- | came a silver buyer. Opinions Differ. Several courses of action have been under discussion privately for a week. Some Treasury advisers suggested the issuance of a statement throwing a | wet blanket on the silver market. They wanted to drop the bear’s tail | and seek the nearest tree, but they knew very well that the silver Sena- tors and Father Coughlin would pur- | sue them. Others have recommended another automatic 5 per cent increase in the domestic price whenever the world price exceeds Mr. Morgenthau's price. On the basis of the 71-cent price, this would mean adding three cents plus. It would also mean that the merry game will continue indefinitely. The London agreement will not break up India’s game. Under i, she is ostensibly permitted to sell 35,000,000 ounces of silver a year. But, under a trick clause, she may accumulate deficiencies in her sales o fany one year. Last year, she sold only 30,000,000 ounces. So this year she could therefore sell 40,000,000 ounces. Of course, India is not the only in- ternational silver speculator. There are some in China who are said to be finding smuggling worth while. Also, the telegraph wires still run from New York and elsewhere to the free Montreal silver market. The farmer who has received the most relief money from the A. A. A. is the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., one of New York's richest cor- porations. It is an unadvertised fact that Metropolitan has acquired thousands of farms as a result of mortgage fore- closures in recent years. When the A. A, A. restriction pro- | gram came along, the New Dealers found the insurance company one of the biggest landowners. Last March 1, the A. A. A. released 500 checks to the Metropolitan, cover- ing corn, hog and wheat contrac ‘This was only one payment. In fact, it was delayed because of an inside dispute caused by Metropolitan's in- sistence on certain changes in the contract forms. Since the firm is an ahsentee landlord, it wished a wider clause written into the contract which would relieve it of certain obligations. The matter was adjusted after four months’ debate. Company Unions Gain. A. F. of L. chiefs are not cheering over the latest gains in membership, | bringing it up to 3,500,000 dues-pay- ing members. The reason is that the Twentieth Century Fund simultane- ously estimates that company unions now cover 2.500,000 workers and Have gainqd as much as the A. F. of L. e N. R. A. board has quietly ed the Government to pay lovernment representatives on code authorities, who formerly been paid by the industry. In the industry has paid these efective. nt Commerce Secretary Dick- is the latest New Dealer to book. His is “Hold Fast the Way.” agairf shortly with critical reports on 'arm and banking program. (Copyrisht. 1935.) Sugar Wages Climb. Laborers in sugar mills of Cuba are eiving higher wages than at any THE EVENING STAR, W PUBLISHER RAPS NEWS HANDOUTS Association Also Warned That N. R. A. Extension Bill Holds Perils. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 25.—The Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers’ Associa- tion, told by one speaker that news- papers had saved the freedom of the press during code negotiations, heard another say a deluge of Federal prop- aganda threatened to destroy its value. John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the Richmond (Va.) News-Leader and president of Willlam and Mary College, said yesterday the Govern- ment was using “the most powerful and insidious mechanism that has been developed in the history of man” to disseminate its propaganda. Col. Robert R. McCormick, pub- lisher of the Chicago Tribune, said that because the newspapers defended it at Washington, “the freedom of the press was preserved for all people.” The Chicagoan declared the news- paper’s greatest function was the ex- posure and denunciation of corruption in government. As a result, he said, “the newspaper has incurred the ill| | will of ambitious politicians and be- | | come the chief exponent of the free-| Raps “Propaganda” Flood. | Asserting that a free press was of | little use if it had to depend on false | information, Bryan said 53 agents | were putting out propaganda for Fed- eral departments and agencies. “In the first year of its existence,” he added, “the A. A. A. issued 5,000 news releases. In the latter part of | 1933 there was no newspaper big | enough, after it had discarded all its| news and advertising, to carry the| handouts from Washington daily. | “The Department of Agriculture used to issue purely factual bulletins,” | he said. “They are now propaganda | bulletins, aimed to create a special state of mind. \ “Wherein does it differ one bit whether it is done by Stalin, Musso- | lini, Hitler or Von Goering, as long as it is done?” | Bryan urged publishers to find “other and corrective sources of news.” Election of officers today will mark the retirement of Howard Davis, | business manager of the New York Herald-Telegram, after three terms as president. Bainbridge Colby to Speak. Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of State, and Jerome D. Barnum, pub- | lisher of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post- Standard, are slated to speak at the same session. Colonel McCormick said publishers | | had saved the freedom of the press | “for the time,” but at the price of | vigilance in code negotiations and uvpon firm refusal to accept ‘“deceit- fully misleading” suggestions from ' N. R. A. acthorities for the imposition of limitaticns upon that freedom. Repeated warnings were given at the opening sessions against accept- | ance of the N. R. A. extension bill | now pending in Congress, and pub- | lishers were flatly advised by their | Code Committee that its enactment | in present form would abrogate con- stitutional guarantees of a free pre: The Code Committee's recommenda- tions were adopted unanimously. | Recommendation against ‘“further voluntary assent to any code” was ! made by the Code Committee in the | event of enactment of the present | proposal extending the N. R. A. for | another two years after expiration of | the present act June 16. ! | Howard Davis, business manager of | | the New York Herald-Tribune, presi- dent of the A. N. I. A. and chairman of the Code Committee, asserted “at- | tacks on a free press have been and are being made from many scurces and in many ways.” Wagner Bill Criticized. The Code Committee concluded its report by stating that “any thought | given the N. R. A. bill must include consideration of the Wagner (labor | disputes) bill,” the provisions of which were characterized as “‘obnoxious” in | & separate report by the committee | on Federal laws. | “Both measures,” the Code Com- | mittee reported, “would place all la- | | bor relations under the supervision and control of politically appointed agencies of Government. Both measures would subject employers to the decisions of these agencies, under penalty of fine or imprisonment or both for failure to comply. Neither measure places any obligations on employes or employe organizations to comply with such decisions. “Each of these measures seeks to evade the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, | which prohibits fishing expeditions into one’s private affairs. Such ex- | peditions have only recently been con- | demned by the United States Supreme {Court in an opinion by the late Justice Holmes to which there was no | dissent.” ! Four Problems Raised. ‘The N. R. A. bill in its present form, the Code Committee declared, raised the problems of (1) Government regu- latory control over the press, (2) presi- dential power to determine who shall and who shall not be included under codes, (3) the imposition of numerous requirements not now contained in the newspaper code, and (4) extension of the code for another 90 days. Following the reports and addresses by Davis and Col. McCormick, the as- sociation unanimously adopted a reso- lution introduced by James Stahlman of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, re- questing the various newspaper asso- ciations in the country to co-operate | with the A. N. P. A. in the formation of a committee to consider “mutual problems” should the N. R. A. exten- sion bill be adopted. | The association adopted three reso- lutions introduced by Col. McCormick: Commending South Dakota papers. for their defense of the right to comment on the public service of the court. praising Louisiana papers for their stand against a tax which “under the guise of a general tax sought to throt- tle and destroy newspapers that dared to criticize the acts of the party in control of the State legislation,” and complimenting the Code Committee for its work in N. R. 4. matters. LONG RESIDENT DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME Chester De Vries Kraft, a resident of Washington for the last 20 years, died suddenly yesterday at his resi- dence. the Dresden Apartments. A native of Wheeling, W. Va., Mr. Kraft had been the representative of the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in Parkersburg, W. Va., before moving to this city. He is survived by three sisters, Miss Ann E. Kraft, with whom he lived; Mrs, Lewis N. Tabenner of Parkers- burg and Mrs. Nancy E. Weller of Baton Rouge, La., and a brother, How- ard C. Kraft, of Oblong, Ill. Funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow at 10 a.m. Burial will be in the family lot at Curt and her brother “Buzzie.” vacation at White Sulphur Springs, CALIFORNIA MAKES 0 . VOTE APPEA Chairman Norton Receives Copy of State Legisla- ture’s Joint Resolution. A copy of a joint resolution adopted by the State Legislature of California appealing to the President and Con- gress to favorably consider and submit to the States an amendment to the Constitution providing national rep- resentation for the District was re- ceived today by Chairman Norton of the House District Committee. The resolution was signed by Gov. Merriam April 1, giving California the distinction of being the first State to take such definite action. The copy was sent to Mrs. Norton by Frank C. Jordan, secretary of the State of Cali- fornia, bearing the seal of the State. Text of Resolution. ‘The resolution declares: “Whereas, the District of Columbia with its half-million people, is the only community in the United States | whnich is denied representation in the National Government: “Whereas, the men and women re- siding in the District of Columbia have no voice in determining through a vote for President. Vice President, and spokesmen in Congress the poli- cies of the Nation in which they live, either in war or in peace; “Whereas, the Distirct of Columbia taxpayers must pay what they are as- sessed without opportunity to de- termine the nature of their taxes or the purposes for which the money is spent: “Whereas, it is a fundamental prin- ciple of our republic that governments derived just powers from the consent | of the governed; Amendment Urged. “Be it therefore, “Resolved, by the Assembly and Senate of California, jointly, that the President and the Congress of the United States are hereby respectfully urged to set in motion the machinery for correcting this present un-Ameri- can condition of the residents of the District of Columbia by submitting to the States for ratification the consti- tutional amendment enabling Con- gress to make it possible for residents of the District of Columbia to vote for President, Vice President and Rep- resentatives of Congress; and be it further, “Resolved, that the Governor of the State of California is hereby requested to transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and member of the House of Representatives from Cali- fornia in the Congress of the United States, and that such Senators and members from California are hereby respectfully urged to support such legislation.” THROUGH, SAYS RASKOB Refuses Even to Say He w.m Vote Democratic Ticket Now. HONOLULU, April 25 (#).—John J. Raskob, capitalist and former chair- man of the Democratic National Com- mittee, said yesterday he was “through with politics.” He arrived on the Em- press of Britain from Yokohama on his world tour. When asked if his allegiance still held with the Democratic party, Raskob replied: “I always have been an independent in my voting.” He declined tc comment ori political figures or questions. ASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, shown with his two children, the grandchildren of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Sistie” (left) They are shown as they joined their father on the bridle paths during their Easter W. Va, APRIL 25, 1935. —Wide World Photo. BULL BOXER ARRESTED | Knocked Animal Out, but Wore Brass Knucks, S8ay Police. PULLMAN, Wash,, April 25 (#).— A young man strode up to a full-| grown bull and knocked the animal, groggy with a right to the jaw at| a live stock auction here yesterday. Police arrested J. L. Blalock of Moscow, Idaho, on charges of being drunk and disorderly and carrying a concealed weapon. They accused Blalock of wearing “brass knucks” inside a glove when he hit the bull. LONG PLEDGES AID' 10 BORAH IN 13% Threatens Third Party Move Unless Liberal Type Is Nominated. By the Associated Press. Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisi- ana brought his third-party thre further into the open today with a flat assertion that unless one of the major parties nominates & man of | the “Borah caliber” they will be “spliz wide open.” His statement was taken as a new indication that the Louisiana Sena- tor will seek to have his say on & Nation-wide scale when the lines be- gin forming for the 1936 battle. Although he offered his support to Senator Borah, Republican, of Tdaho or any one of a number of “liberals” whom he named, he voiced very little hope that any of them would be nom- inatec. by either of the old parties. Promises Split. And “if thev don't do it," Long | said, ell have a third party that will split them wide open.” | Telling newspaper men last night that he didn‘t “give a damn about | party labels,” Long offered Borah as| his first choice. Borah. he said. could have his support whether the Idaho Republican independent ran “on the | Republican, Democratic, Socialist, | Progressive or any other damn ticket. l “If the Democrats or Republicans | nominate & man of that caliber there will be no third party,” he said. Among the others to whom he | pledged his support if they were given | the nomination were Senators Norris, | Democrat, of Nebraska; Nye, Repub- | lican, of North Dakota; Wheeler, | Democrat, of Montana; Frazier, Re- | publican, of North Dakota, and | Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma. He mentioned Senator McCarren, Demo- | crat, of Nevada also, but more tenta- ! tively. | Again Hits Roosevelt. “I'd include Pat McCarran if he'd stay consistent” he said. “Any of those men would carry out the idea of redistribution of wealth.” The Lousiana Senator, whose most recent assaults on the Roosevelt ad- ministration have led to hints that administration men are going to give him the “silent treatment,” aimed an- other blow at Mr. Roosevelt and his predecessor. “Now we don't want any Roosevelts or Hoovers running again after what we've seen,” he said. He was non-commital on the ques- tion whether he himself will head the third party movement if the old parties do not make choices accep- table to him. Waits 27 Years for Wife. PITTSBURGH, Pa. (#).—Jerome Hoffman told the court he waited 27 years for his wife to return and that was enough. He asked for a divorce. Needed by Every Student AMERICAN GOVERNMENT TO-DAY Frederic J. Haskin pomem e Order Form—— === Price §1 | at_ The Evening Star Business Office, or by mail, postpaid NOGME cevvernennconcsanaccccssnns {Sfiu’t cecceescscstssnstscsscanes | o e e e e e e e e e e e e The Euening Htar Offers Its Readers A complete guide to the Federal agencies, old and new. 478 pages, richly illustrated. “This volume would be most valuable in the senior grades of our pub- lic schools and in our col- leges”—HARRY B. MITCHELL, President United States Civil Service Commission. State...es | the various departments and | reductions of force. MARITAL STATLS | CHARGE DEFENDED Babcock Claims Figures Prove Fewer Women in U. S. Jobs Marry. The debate over the effect of the | | marital status law on the morals of | | Government workers continued today | when E. C. Babcock, president of the | American Federation of Government ' Employes, replied to yesterday's at- tack by Representative Cochran, | Democrat, of Missouri, by inviting Cochran to look up the record on the marriages of woman Federal employes before and since the law was enacted. Babcock, castigated by Cochran for alleging at & House Civil Service Com- mittee inquiry that the law was fos- tering illicit relationship by young men and women employed in the Gov- ernment, who feared for their jobs if they married, said: “Since you appear to doubt the cor- | rectness of my statements before the | Civil Service Committee that section | 213 has had the effect of deterring marriage, may I suggest to vou, as I yesterday suggested to the Civil Serv- | ice Committee, that vou obtain from pendent establishments. as to lvnr:’:n' personnel in Washington, the number of marriages of woman Government workers which took place in each year | since 1920, Urges Check on Data. | “If you obtain the above-mentioned information. and it does not prove | the correctness of my judgment with respect to this matter, I shall be very happy indeed to agree with your posi- tion that section 213 has had no effect on marriage.” | Babcock's testimony was given | Tuesday at the hearing on a bill by | Representative Celler, Democrat. of New York, to repeal the marital status law which provides for dis- | missal of husband or wife in necessary When the A. F. G. E. head was recalled yesterday at the final session of the committee, and asked if he could cite specific cases, he said he | knew of nine and that “this is only part of the picture.” Refuses to Resign. | 1n his assault on Babcock vesterday. | Cochran called for his resignation. but | Babcock said he had no intention of getting out. | The Civil Service Committec will| not have a report readv for about 10 | days because it is the intention of Chairman Ramspeck to wait on the | printed hearings before getting his committee together. Whatever the committee’s récom- mendations may be, however, it is certain that any move toward tepeal will find stormy going in the House. Chairman Ramspeck has found «ppo- sition sentiment there, and Cochran let it be known yesterday that he would fight any effort to do away with the law, |C0ngress in Brief By the Assoclated Press. TODAY. Senate. Debates motion to take up antl- lynching bill. House. Debates Navy appropriations bill. 'YESTERDAY. Senate. Sent farm tenant bill back to committee. Confirmed nomination of Marriner 8. Eccles as Governor of Federal Keserve Board. Banking Committee heard James P. Warburg in opposition to reserve board provisions of bank bill House. Debated Navy appropriations bill. Agriculture Committee gave final approval to A. A. A. amendments. TOMORROW. Senate. Finance Committee, in executive session on soldiers’ bonus, unless & final decision is reached today. Commerce Committee, hearings on | merchant marine bill. | House. | Continued debate on Navy appro- | priation bill for the 1936 fiscal year. Public Utilities Subcommittee of the District Committee resumes hear- ings at 10:30 am. on bills authoriz- ing the erection of two bridges and sn underpass across the railroad tracks in the area between Florida and West Virginia avenues northeast. ? ]WOMAN DIES COUGHLIN OPENS PLUTOCRAT DRIVE Thousands Cheer Platform at Detroit—Nye Joins Forces With Priest. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 25.—The National | Union for Social Justice, turned into a political force at a mammoth rally directed by Father Charles E. Coughlin last night, faced the Middle West and East today, promising to drive the “plytocrats” out of public office. Chicago, New York and Philadelphia are under tentative consideration by | Father Coughlin and his associates as| the next battle grounds in the organ- | ization of State units of the Nallcna” Union. Flanked by two Senators and four Representatives from Washington, the‘ Detroit priest pushed his National | Union to the front as a definite political weapon last night. The Olympia Stadium, filled to near capac- ity by 15,382 persons, set up salvos of applause for him and his fellow | speakers. ‘ Backed by Legislators. Money and its use, both s profits for manufacturers and bonuses for war veterans, formed the backdrop setting for the political birth of the National Union. Alding the Detroit priest in his first of 12 State rallles were Sena- | tors Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, and Representatives Willlam Connery of | Massachusetts, Martin L. Sweeney of | ©Ohio, Thomas O'Malley of “Wisconsin | and William Lemke of North Dakota. ‘ ‘Thunderous cheers greeted caustic attacks on profit-makers and interna- | tional bankers. Every disavowal of‘ standpat partyism likewise was| cheered. i Father Coughlin called the first of the State meetings as new phases in | the activities of the National Union. | “In these phases,” he said. “it is endeavoring to change minorities into majorities as it is determined to unite the disunited, to organize the disor- ranized, to amalgamate the broken parts of our social structure.” Aim to Drive Out Plutocrats. As to the purpose of the National Union in the field of American politi- cal affairs Father Coughlin said in his prepared text: “It is not our desire to form a politi- cal party, but it is our intention to drive out of public life the men who have promised us redress, who have preached to us the philosophy of so- cial justice and, then, who have broken their promises—practice the philosophy of plutocracy. “With these men we have no sym- pathy They deserve to be driven from their congressional district, or from their senatorial State, or from the broad expanse of the presidential Nation with our undivided, united strength.” In another phase of his prepared statement, which he issued for pub- tication, he said: “The laborer shall not forget the defeat of the McCarran amend- ment. * * * “The farmer will not forget the agricultural plank in the Democratic platform espoused at Chicago in 1932. | That policy promised ‘tariff protec- | tion, the sam tection that indus- try has today * When the Cab- inet was established at Washington a Republican by the name of Wal- Jace was made Secretary of Agri-| culture and the Democratic promises were forgotten. “The days of broken promises and hypocritical pledges have passed, as tonight there is born in the hearts of the members of the National Union * * * the philosophy of ‘united p! . | we_stand or divided we fall. " The 16-point program of political reforms in matters of money and wages was not discussed by any of the speakers. BACKING CAR INTO TRAIN'S PATH | Iowa Resident Gets Off Tracks Once, Then Starts Motor in Reverse Gear. By the Associated Press. MURRAY, Iowa. April 25—The| backing of an automobile into the the death of a woman. Members of the train crew re- ported that Mrs. Winifred Reynolds. 35, stalled her automobile on the Burlington tracks. She backed off successfully, but apparently killed the motor. The car then coasted down an incline across the tracks. She started the motor, but the car was in reverse gear and lunged back into the path of the train. PROFESSOH' DIES AT 96 Henry Cowles Smith Was North Central College Teacher. NAPERVILE, Ill, April 25 (#).— Henry Cowles Smith, 96, emeritus pro- fessor of Latin at North Central Col- lege, where he had been a member of the faculty since its founding in | 1862, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. E. Travis. Prof. Smith joined the college staff after his graduation from Oberlin, first serving under his father, Rev. Au- gustus A. Smith, who was then presi- dent of North Central. COUPLE Dlé TOGETHER ENFIELD, Ill, April 25 (P).—Dr.| and Mrs. J. V. Tucker, inseparable for | years, had long expressed to friends a | desire they die at the same time. | Yesterday Mrs. Tucker died after a | long illness. Her husband, at her| bedside when she was pronounced dead, went to another room and| slumped on a bed. Two hours later he too was dead. ALIEN RED DEPORTED Foreigner's Communist Affiliation Is Declared Offense. CHICAGO, April 25 (#)—Federal Judge Charles E. Woodward yester- day held that membership in the Communist party on the part of an alien constituted a deportable offense and ordered Frederick Wilhelm Werr- man, reputed organizer for the party, | to leave the country. | The contention of the Government was that the Communist party advo- cates the overthrow of the Govern- ment. —- Brazil Wins Women's Parley. ISTANBUL, April 25 (#).—Brazil | was chosen for the 1936 meeting of | the Women's International Congress yesterday as 300 delegates from 35 nations brought this year's week long | session to its close in the ornate Yildis Palace here. L) | European — HOPES FOR NAVAL CONFERENCE FADE Saber-Rattling Causes U. S. to Lay Plans Aside. By the Associated Press. America’s hopes of a 1935 naval limitations conference, on which” House leaders pinned faith in halving funds for new warships, were described in official quarters yesterday as swiftly | evaporating in the heat of European sabre-rattling. This development came as the $458,- 000.000 naval appropriation bill churn- ed through House talk tovard a vig- orous struggle to restore the $29,380,- 000 originally asked by the Navy for laying down 24 more vessels in the next financial year. Despite a provision in the London naval treaty for a new conference in 1935, authoritative quarters yesterday believed such a meeting impossible. The State Department officially would refer only to the complete absence, 5o far of diplomatic discussions or corre- spondence looking to a conference. Two Pacts Expiring. What this situation meant to those fighting for the new ship money which the House Appropriations Com- mittee cut to $15,000,000—and they included Secretary ~Swanson—was that after December 31. in the absence of a new conference, both the Wash- ington and London naval pacts will have expired, the former because it has been denounced by Japan. Swanson said the bill before the House “authorizes us to carry on” the 24-ship program, “but gives us only six months’ money.” He said he would defer a decision on starting all 24 ships unless the full $29,380,000 was restored. A move in this direction already was charted by Representative De- laney. Democrat, of New York, veteran of the Naval Committee, though Chairman Vinson of that group said |'it would be simple enough to push through a deficiency appropriation when needed in the future. Maverick Offers Resolution. As the controversy crystalized. Rep- resentative Maver: Democrat, ot Texas labeled the Navy Department a “stumbling block to peace” and sub- mitted to the House a resolution to commit the Nation to a policy of peace and neutrality. Maverick would forbid the use of military or naval forces against an- other power for any purpose except to protect the United States and its possessions from armed invasion, bar loans and sales of munitions to bellig- erent nations and restrict travel of Americans in war zones. Since an Appropriations Subcommit- tee first began working on it, the naval construction fund has been un- dergoing chameleonlike changes. The administration, the Navy and the Budget Bureau recommended $29.380,000 to start work on 24 more vessels in the next fiscal year. The subcommittee. with numerous members from inland States. decided half that much money and half that many ships would suffice. Committee Forced to Yield. The administration. irked, suggested it would be a good idea to put both figures back where they were originally and began turning on the pressure. Finally the subcommittee, in what a member of the full Appropriations Committee termed a “face-saving" move, determined to let the 50 per cent cut in funds stand, but to give the Navy authority to contract for all 24 vessels if it preferred and then seek a deficiency appropriation in the next session. Vinson. a naval leader for vears, said he was “not going to offer any amend- ment to increase the constructicn fund because the bill gives us everything we | want anyhow.” MAE WEST WEARIED . BY MARRIAGE DENIALS Indicates She Yorker Trumped Up Claim Just to Get a Job. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Believes New April 25— | path of a train was listed today by There may bea forgotten man in Mae | Coroner H. E. Storey as the cause of | West's life, but Mae went right along denying it today. “When I get married,” said Mae, & little weary about the hubbub over a marriage she swears she never experis enced. “I'll concentrate on it. And Tl be the first to announce it.” That was buxom “Diamond Lil's" latest answer to the supposition that she was the Mae West who married a song-and-dance man named Frank Wallace in Milwaukee 24 years ago. Reports that the New York Frank Wallace—one of several Frank Wal- laces to blosscm out of the general Mae West question—was besieged with stage offers on his claim to being the missing “Mr. Mae West" brought an- | other retort from the blond screen star. “Well," welled Mae, “that makes it appear that he is getting precisely what he went after—work.” BOY SAVES BROTHER ROCHESTER, April 25 (#).—While a train rushed toward them, Carl Schoeneman, 9, pulled the uncon- scious form of his brother, Albert, 13, from railroad tracks here yes- terday with but a few seconds to spare. The boys had been playing along the tracks when Albert stumbled and fell. His head hit a rail, knocking | him _unconscious. ; BEDTIME STORIES BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. 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