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A—2 waw THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1935. HOMESTEAD PLAN DECLAREDFALURE Even Tugwell Reported Ready to Abandon Dream . of Shifting Population. -} BY DAVID LAWRENCE. “These are the days of smoke screens. Big, sensational messages about in- heritance taxes and the like are used to divert attention from some of the palpable failures. The latest of these is the passing of 'the dream of the “planned economy” experts on the subject of “rural re- settlement” and ‘“subsistence home- isteads.” "It will be recalled that populations ‘were to be moved about, small com- munities were to be built and, in short, America was to be remade by the New Deal. Dr. Rexford Tugwell was the prin- eipal exponent of the idea, aided and abetted by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, both of whom saw in it a practical form of idealism which they believed would appeal to the public imagination as an attempt at least to help the “underprivileged.” Town Building a Flop. But now, alas, the whote thing is being liquidated as impractical, or, to put it more gracefully, the idea is being recast with plans much more modest. In two years, with $25,000,000 to &pend, only 33 projects were started, involving 1,065 houses either com- pleted or under construction. At pres- ent only about 268 of these houses are occupied. The troubles are manifold. In the first place, sticking a rural settlement in the middle of a vast area and try- ing to make a community where there is no employment for the inhabitants has been found to be an obstacle. Take Reedsville, W. Va, in which Mrs. Roosevelt had a special interest. Well, they are still trying to persuade 8 certain captein of industry to have his company put a factory or branch or something there so as to give the town a start. But town-building on the whole has proved a flop. The rumor is that even the left-wing Dr. Tugwell doesn’t like the sociological aspects of these communities. They turn into “com- pany towns” if dominated by one industry or they become centers of intensive or excessive reform, with amore conservation than work. The name “subsistence homestead” was, it is recognized, a bad choice, for subsistence isn't very attractive as a design for living. To subsist implies the minimum of comfort and not the abundant life which the New Deal promised to all who would cast aside cousins and aunts and migrate to the wide open spaces where the towns were to be built. So the projects turned out to be interesting only to stranded miners or destitute farmers or rundown city per- sons who were willing to try anything once. Also, the record of repayment to the Government on the loans made for the subsistence homes has been poor, and other discouraging aspects have entered into the picture. The first news of what happened eame officially with a brief bulletin posted on the Department of Agricul- ture’s board recently stating that the subsistence homestead division had to be liquidated this month. This was based, of course, on the expiration of the provisions of the old national in- dustrial recovery act. But then there was in the offing the $4,000,000,000 work-relief program. Dr. Tugwell had been made rural resettlement ad- ministrator. ‘The President, too, had earmarked $100,000,000 for the resettlement di- vision. But the mathematical bugaboo which limited to only about $1,140 the gmount to be spent on each man em- Pployed has put a damper on the whole resettlement plan. At a recent meet- ing of key executives in the adminis- tration, the President looked ruefully at Undersecretary Tugwell as he re- gnarked that some of “Rex’s pet proj- ects” would have to go by the boards. s Tugwell May Change Plans, It turns out that among Dr. Tugwell’s bwn assistants there is disillusionment, and rumor has it that Dr. Tugwell himself has about become unsold on the practicality of the scheme. Anyway, the question now is: What &hall become of the whole idea? Dr. Tugwell is represented as believ- Ang that the best method would be to #et up projects of “suburban homes” or ‘what are called “satellite cities.” These would be 'homes built on an acre of ground and sold to city workers on the edge of a town or city. Experience with this type of project at Houston, ‘Tex., has convinced Dr. Tugwell that 4t would be useful. But this, after all, is Government housing rather than any such revolu- tionary plan of moving populations around, which was visioned by Presi- dent Roosevelt and amplified in speeches by Dr. Tugwell, and this is high-cost work, as projects go, and that’s what the $4,000,000,000 program,! is supposed to frown upon. So while officials are not ready to confess abject failure, the whole reset- tlement idea nevertheless is being liquidated as gracefully as possible along with the subsistence homestead plan. (Copyright, 1935.) 200 ARE STRICKEN AT U. OF MARYLAND Food Poisoning Suspected Women Attending Rural Course Faint. Stricken suddenly ill this morning, about 200 of the 800 women attending the annual rural women’s short course at the University of Maryland were treated at the infirmary, as Govern- ment specialists were called to ex- amine food served at supper last night. Most of the women blamed the chicken salad they ate at the qvening meal. The women attending the short eourse come from all sections of the Btate, Declaring there is no cause for alarm among the families of those at- tending the short course, Dr. Raymond A. Pearson, president of the tniver- sity, this afternoon iscued the follow- ing statement: “Dr. Leonard Hays, university phy- sician, stated at 12:45 c’clock this aft- ernoon that only 10 cases remained in the infirmary, and it is all will be fully recovered before night. Altogether the infirmary has cared for 200 cases, aithough most of them were extremely mild. “The What’s What Behind News In Capital Trust-Busting Prose- cutions in Place of N. R. A. Not Yet Forthcoming. BY PAUL MALLON. HE New Dealers have been doing considerable talking out loud lately about enforcing anti- trust laws. The Justice De- partment has announced it is going to enforce them strongly, now that the N. R. A. is done. You may have been induced to suspect that the wrath of the Federal prosecutor is aroused. There is no need for any business man or trust-busting Senator to wait around for this partieular wrath to descend. The inside on that situation was aptly described by a certain sub- cabinet officer, who recently said off-the-record: “If the Government were to en~ force the anti-trust laws in the rigid way they have been inter- preted by the courts, it would cost $100,000,000 ¢ year and play havoc with about half of American business.” You may bet your last dollar that a mild and moderate policy will be pursued. The only anti-trust changes to be expected in the next few months are those directly involving court decrees and codes. An example is the old 1920 court decree against the American Column and Lumber Co., restraining it from any action to maintain or raise prices. That decree was modified officially when the N. R. A. lumber codes per- mitted price fixing. Now that the N. R. A. is gone, the decree will again be operative. There are not many companies in this situation. Prosecutions Assured. The Government also may be ex- pected to proceed against some large trust law violators, as it has in the past. Such prosecutions show the heart of the prosecutor is in the right place. In fact, the New Dealers even now can point to a record showing 25 anti-trust law prosecutions in the first two years and two months of its ad- ministration (under N. R. A.) as com- pared with 26 in the four years of the Hoover administration. But as for the new general sus- picion that the New Dealers will embark on a trust-busting cam- paign, it is out of the picture, and neither Attorney General Cume mings nmor the New Deal is the trust-busting type (the utility bill to the contrary notwithstanding). The time is not ripe for such things. Most business men you talk to these days seem to have an indescribable inner feeling that things are better, that continued improvement is in- evitable. There are no statistics to prove it. In fact, the standard busi- ness barometers (steel, autos) are con- tinuing to fall under the seasonal Summer heat. But it has become suddenly popular for the first time in years to take an optimistic view of recovery. It is no longer popular to be a pessimist. You will get the best example from the stock market. It has shown con- tinuous strength in recent weeks in the face of unencouraging news. It refuses to follow bad news. It has lost its fear. Economists have written a hundred different excuses for the phenomenon. One is that purchasing power is being stimulated by Federal activities, but such activities have not increased lately. The other excuses are no better. ‘What appears to have happened is that confidence and self-assurance are being re-established by a fatalistic anticipation that the end of the de- pression cycle has been reached. Stirling Given Suggestion. Navy Secretary Swanson has written a personal letter to Rear Admiral Stirling, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, suggesting that the admiral be a little more careful about the articles he writes for magazines. The letter was no a reprimand, only a suggestion. What caused it was the fuss stirred up largely by friends of the Soviet here about Stirling’s last piece sug- gesting that European nations should stop quarreling among themselves and recognize the danger of a spread of Communism. It was somewhat gratu- itous advice. There is a rumor around that Presi- dent Roosevelt will put out a statement when Congress adjourns, assuring business that the major reform pro- gram has now been enacted, that there will be no more. The rumor is premature, but the situation it describes is not. It is a fact that he is keeping Congress here to get his entire reform program out of the way. The coming Fall will start a full-year in preparation for the elections. (Copyright. 1936.) SUSPENDED SENTENCES METED OUT TO PICKETS By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—A dozen pickets arrested in front of a restau- rant on Forty-second street after a mass demonstration Wednesday night were given suspended sentences by the bench, but the defendants all agreed to have him hear the cases. Fifteen TUGHELL WORKS TONOVEFARVERS Rural Resettlement Task Is Organized Into Four Divisions. By the Associated Press.’ Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersecre- tary of Agriculture, today organized his Rural Resettlement Administra- tion into four divisions for & job which will include moving many farmers to more productive land. - Lindbergh Revealed as Scientist With his 50 State resettlement di- | rectors, Tugwell was under instruc- tions by President Roosevelt to “see to it” that the future rural popula- tion “come out of homes where they have been able to live and grow under proper conditions, according to adequate American standards.” In using the $100,000,000 set aside for this purpose, the President told the State leaders gathered at the White House yesterday, “We cannot, must not and will not let politics en- ter into this work.” “You who are here today,” he said, “are entrusted with the duty of bringing not only new hope, but a new program into the lives of a great many thousands of families.” He added, however, that only an average of $1,143 could be spent on each family. Besides “taking and keeping” dis- tressed families off relief rolls, Mr. Roosevelt said, another objective would be to “devote our land re- sources to their highest uses; not only for this generation, but for future generations.” The divisions set up by Tugwell were the Land Utilization Division, Rural Rehabilitation Division, Sub- urban Towns Division and the Man- agement Division, which will direct completed communities of all kinds. Contractors and builders are seek- ing a modification of presidential re- quirements that only between $1,100 and $1,200 per worker be spent on most projects, including materials and other costs. LAWS OF DUBIOUS VALIDITY URGED Dr. McBain Holds Plan Would Increase Support for Consti- tutional Change. By the Associated Press. CANTON, N Y, June 21.—Dr. Howard Lee McBain of Columbia Uni- versity told the conference on Ca- nadian-American affairs today that it would be “good tactics” for the Presi- dent to jam through as many New Deal laws of doubtful constitutionality as possible. Dr. McBain argued such & course would increase the support for a con- stitutional amendment to enlarge the powers of the national Government to regulate busiress, He said he assumed the President still held the view expressed on May 31, just after the Supreme Court had stricken N. R A. off the statute books. Outside the.conference, Dr. McBain intimated that he believed the present social security and the Wagner bills as described in the press came under the head of the “doubtful constitu- tionality.” “At the time of his famous press interview of May 31,” he said, “Mr. Roosevelt was evidently of the opinion that in the light of the Schechter de- cision (throwing out N. R. A), little that is really reformatory in the polit- ico-economic eystem can be accom- plished short ot amending the Consti- tution. “If this is still his view, it would be good tactics for him to drive through Congress as many New Deal bills of doubtful constitutionality as he can and to hasten these laws to an early judicial decisicr: as to their constitu- tionality. * * ¢ “The President would not of course encourage the drafting and enactment of laws knowr to be unconstitutional for the deliberate purpose of arousing opposition to the Constitution. But if he believes a law to be otherwise good the mere fact of its being held un- constitutional may prove to be grist for his mill fcr ultimate reform.” A noted authority on constitutional law, Dr. McBair spoke at the discus- sion of politics in the conference, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, St. Lawrence University of Canton, and Queen’s University of Kingston, Ontario. e MORE LINDBERGH RELICS RECEIVED BY MUSEUM Flyer's Mother Sends Additional 0dds and Ends to Permanent Home in St. Louis. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, June 21.—The Lind- bergh trophy collection in the Jeffer- son Memorial Building here continued to grow yesterday as a large box of odds and ends was received from Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, his mother. It was the 195th box to be received since the collection was begun several years ago following “Lindy’s” famous solo hop over the Atlantic. The box’s contents included enough bay rum from the Virgin Islands to last for a year’s daily shave, a boomerang from Australia, album photographs from Colombia taken during Col. Lind- bergh‘'s South American flight, and a long curved animal tooth from an un- identified donor. The flying colonel recently deeded the collection here to the Missouri Historical Society. Debates seating of Rush D. Holt, Commerce Committee Senate: May not be in session, if Holt's case and Bankhead farm tenant bill are disposed of today. District hearings at Subcommittee, 3 o'clock on proposed bridges over railroad tracks in vicinity of New Yatt.venmmflm\‘. » OOL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. DR. ALEXIS CARREL. Col. Lindbergh is revealed as a scientist whose mechanical genius devised an artificial heart and lungs, in which Dr. Carrel makes whole parts of a body live indefinitely. Diagram shows mechanism devised by Lindbergh in 1931 while a worker in the Rockefeller Institute’s division of experimental surgery. The device announced to- day differs from the prototype shown here, but the principle is the same. blood to circulate without use of pumps, joints or moving parts to remain free from danger of contamination. ‘The simple coil of glass in diagram is set on a table that revolves and rocks, so top of the coil waves around and around. Waving motion and enlarged chamber at top cause artificial blood to circulate. ‘The problem was to cause artificial Lung effect is ob- tained by admitting oxygen and other gasses through the tube shown at left. Life Sustained Out of Body By Lindbergh’s Robot Heart D. C. GOLF HONORS Aviator Solves Perplexing Problem; Opening New Phase of War on All Dis- eases—Associated By the Associated Press. ) NEW YORK, June 21.—The me- | chanical genius of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, switched to science, in- augurates a new cycle in medical progress arnounced today. He has perfected a new mechanical heart and lungs at the Rockefeller Institute, where he has been working for several years in seclusion. It en- ables surgeons to remove a whole or- gan, such as kidneys, heart, spleen or glands, from a body and keep it alive | indefinitely, growing independently, in an artificial chamber. The mechanical heart furnishes artificial blood. It revives organs an hour after death of the animal from which they came. Goal Long Sought. This Teaches a goal medicine has sought 123 years. The goal is to make | whole parts of the body live in glass | chambers where scientists could see | them and learn at first hand how they | fight disease and how they secrete the sinews of health. Heretofore the removed organs died, caught bacterial infections just like a person. Lindbergh's new apparatus has overcome infections. His contribution is mechanical. He teamed with Dr. Alexis Carrel, and with him signed the announcement made in.the publication Science. Dr. Carrel won the Nobel prize for keep- ing tissues alive outside the body. But this new work is in no sense the old tissue culture. “Its techniques, as well as its pur- poses,” the announcement said_ “are quite different. “Its ultimate purposes are the manu- CAR THIEVES HUNTED Armed Pair Take Automobile of T. V. A. General Solicitor. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., June 21 (#).— Police today were looking for two men who robbed James Lawrence Fly, gen- eral solicitor of the Tennessee Valley Authority, of his automobile last night. A Fly said two white men confronted him when he returned to his car from a drug store. They drew pistols, he said, grabbed his keys and drove the car rapidly away. : 389 POUNDS KEEPS MAN OUT OF COURT Judge McMahon, However, De- scends to First Floor to Arraign Prisoner. 4 ‘Weighing 389% pounds, William A. Coleman of Somerset County, Pa., was unable to walk the three flights of steps in Police Court to appear before Judge John P. McMahon on a ffgitive warrant today so the court descended to Coleman, where the latter was ar- raigned in a first-floor office. Coleman, who claims to have come here in an effort to secure R. F. C. loans for the operation of his Penn- sylvania coal mines, was arrested on a warrant from Chicago, charging him with the non-payment of the $500 bill at the Sherman Hotel in that city. The defendant was not only too large to walk up the steps, but it also was impossible to place him in the United States marshal's van for transportation to the jail to await the 30 days allowed him under the law before an actual hearing is held. He is represented by Attorney Wil- liam R. Litchenberg, who was making efforts this afternoon to secure bend for Coleman’s relesse. MARK IS 39,511 FEET Italian Woman Flyer's Altitude Is Officially Announced. ROME, June 21 (P)—The new world’s altitude meters (39,511.0758 feet). Italy’s star woman fiyer set the record over Monte Oelio airfield. Her mark is about one-half mile than that-set by Mile. Maryse Hilss of France, who fiew to & height of 36,771 feet June 17. Ly o With Dr. Carrel. facture in vitro artificially of the se- cretions of endocrine glands, the isolation of the substances essential to the growth, differentiation and func- tional activity of those glands, the dis- covery of the laws of association of organs, the production in vitro and the treatment of organic and arterial diseases, etc.” To date, 26 experiments have been made. They include kidneys, spleen, heart, thyroid gland, ovaries and suprarenal glands. In only two did infection develop, and that was in the organ before re- moval. Thyroid glands were kept more than 20 days with pulsating arteries and active circulation. With the organs were removed enough surrounding tissues and ar- teries to enable them to function. Ovazjes and thyroids grew rapidly in their artificial surroundings. One | ovary developed signs associated with pregnancy. Pump Not Described. Although this work is in no sense the artificial production of life, it shows that if scientists find out how to change non-living material into living, they can hope to maintain the life thus brought into being. No description of Lindbergh’'s new pump was given. The institute later is to publish a description of the pump. It was made this year, the last in s series which he began in 1931. The announcement revealed that the first mechanical heart and lung Lindbergh made was described by him in 1931 in Science, without his name appearing. ELLIOTTROOSEVELT OUSTER 15 SOUGHT Young Domocrat Faction.to Demand Removal From Texas Office. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex, June 21.—That familiar Texas battle cry: “State rights,” sounded again today as the young Democrats of the Lone Star State were plunged into debate on whether Elliott Roosevelt should con- tinue as the first vice president of their organization. A faction opposed to the President’s son plans to present before the Dallas organization tonight a resolu- tion asking for removal of young Roosevelt from office. Phil Overton, leader of the anti- Roosevelt faction, said favorable ac- tion on the proposal would force the matier before the State Executive Committee, Overton, young Dallas attorney, said the group resented an attempt by Roosevelt at the Amarillo State con- vention to have the organization “approve constitutional amendments which would keep alive the principles of the national recovery act.” “We have not and will not oppose general principles of the New Deal,” declared Overton, “but we will fight for State rights.” Overton predicted that if Roosevelt continued as first vice president it would “split the ranks of our or- ganization of 30,000 young Demo- crats.” N John I. McCarty, State president, said he did nob “see any occasion for an argument until all members of the Executive Committee meet next month.” Man Dies at Work. While at work on the dock at afternoon, >~ MISS FAUNCE WINS Defeats Miss Houghton, 4 and 2, for Second Con- secutive Title. Miss Winifred Faunce of the Manor Club today won the District women's golf championship for the second con- secutive year, defeating Miss Eliza- beth Houghton of the Chevy Chase Club, 4 and 2, in the final round of the tournament, played at the Indian Springs Country Club. Miss Faunce, one of the few woman champions to repeat in recent years, jumped into the lead on the second hole of the final round and never was caught thereafter. Three up at the turn, with a score of 40, Miss Faunce ended the match with a par 5 on the long sixteenth hole, despite the gal- lant stand made by Miss Houghton over the last few holes of the match. Miss Houghton was 4 down at the thirteenth hole, but she won that hole with a birdie 3 and missed a 2-foot putt to win the fourteenth. Consist- ently outdriven from the tee by the defending title holder. Miss Houghton almost made up the discrepancy with her accuracy around the putting | greens. Miss Faunce turned in one of the most brilliant performances ever recorded by a local woman golfer in the final round today. When the match ended on the sixteenth hole she needed two pars for a score of 78, which would have set a new com- petitive record for the Indian Springs course. Mrs. Jack Scott of Congressional won the first flight consolation, de- feating Miss Ellen Kincaid of Beaver Dam, 3 and 2. Score of the champion- ship final follows: Out— Faunce ... Houghton In— Faunce . 545 445 5 Houghton . 456 345 T Faunce wins, 4 and 2. OHIO EDITOR BEATEN AT NEWSPAPER DOOR Frank Malloy Attacked as He Attempted to Enter Plant Through Picket Line. By the Associated Press. LORAIN, Ohio, June 21.—Prank Malloy, managing editor of the Lorain Journal, where a controversy between editorial employes and the manage- ment is in progress, was attacked and beaten as he entered the newspaper plant today. Malloy said he was attacked by a number of men, none of whom he , as he attempted to get past a picket line, and that several former editorial employes witnessed the attack. Police were called and order was restored. Malloy said a number of mechanical employes were intimidated as they en- tered the plant. Members of the Lorain unit of the American Newspaper Guild said some of their number had been discharged recently from the paper because of guild activity. Malloy said the dis- charges were due to an economy move. CHEERED IN BRITAIN German War Veterans Given Ova- tion at Legion Rally. BRIGHTON, England, June 21 (®). ~Twenty-nine German -554 553 544—40 -B675 553 554—44 WOMAN MAY JOIN SECURITY BOARD New Mexican and Arkansan Mentioned for Other Two Posts. By the Associated Press. As the two branches of Congress prepared to put the vast social secur- ity program in final form by adjust- ing their differences in conference, the prediction was being made by prominent Democratic leaders today that one of the three places on the Social Security Board will be given to a woman. Thus far there is no inkling as to her identity. Names prominently mentioned for the other two posts in- clude Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico and Vincent M. Miles of Fort Smith, Ark. Miles is an attorney, while leaders said Anderson has a background of research in insurance and social problems. Some leaders were described as hop- ing to have the Eastern, industrial States represented on the board. OM- cials were reluctant, however, to talk about its membership until the vast bill finally is enacted. One of the points at issue between the two houses is whether the board shall be an in- dependent agency or under the Labor Department. The House voted for the former, the Senate for the latter. Exemption Is Moot Issue. Another is the amendment of Sen- ator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, to exempt approved pension systems of private concerns from the taxation provided in the bill. This is opposed by the American Federation of Labor and certain administration leaders, including Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, & co-author of the security bill. ‘The expectation has been expressed that the board will create divisions to handle old-age pensions for the needy, the contributory system, aid to mothers and children, and unem- ployment insurance. Secretary of Labor Perkins, for years a crusader for the legislation, predicted 20 States would establish unemployment insurance systems within the next year and that 35| would have old-age pension systems within that period. Twenty-eight now have old-age pension systems. Bill Held Constitutional. Miss Perkins, who suggested un- employment insurance to Alfred E. Smith when he was Governor of New York in 1921, declared that Attorney General Cummings had examined the 5ill in the light of the Supreme Court’s | N. R. A. decision and found it con- | stitutional. “It is without question a thing the | people wanted deeply,” she said. “I saw proof of their desire everywhere 1 spoke, and every time I have spoken in the last several years I have talked about social security. “Look at the vote of Congress on it (372-33 in the House; 76-6 in the| Senate.) | “English business men tell me,” she | said, “that unemployment insurance | saved small business in that country during the depression. These pay- ments comin; in allowed the unem- ployed to keep on buying at the Tegular places, not as much as before, but enough to keep the business going.” CATHOLIC SERMONS ON MEXICO ORDERED Cardinal Hayes' Letter to Priests | 1abor provisions would get back COURT FIGHT SEEN ON WAGNER BILL Steel, Coal and Automobiles Plan Tests as Soon as Board Is Set Up. By the Associated Press, Court tests of all the principal New Deal labor measures are in the making. Steel, automobiles and coal plan to carry the Wagner labor disputes bill to the courts as soon as the new Labor Relations Board it would set up hands down decisions affecting them. If the Guffey coal stabilization bill creating a “little N. R. A.” for the bituminous industry is enacted—as administration men confidently be- lieve it will be—Southern producers expect to have it in court almost be- fore the President’s signature is dry. Social Security Test Seen. While its source has not yet been disclosed, test of the social security Jegislation is generally expected. The administration and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor place their hope for winning the expected Wag- ner and Guffey bill cases on a broad interpretation of the Constitution's commerce clause. Industry generally is zo tied in with the flow of goods from one State to another, they contend, that regula- tion of industrial labor relations is within Congress’ power. Opponents, on the other hand, con- tend that such regulation would be unconstitutional in the light of Su- preme Court decisions that neither mining nor manufacturing in itself was part of interstate commerce, Gives Wide Powers. The Wagner bill, which has passed both Houses and now is in conference to thresh out amendments, would give the Labor Board wide powers, outlaw ‘“company-dominated” unions and bar certain “unfair labor prac- tices.” The Guffey bill would provide a tax on all coal mined. Operators complying with price-fixing and 99 per cent of their tax. Those favoring the measure point to the Supreme Court's oleomargarine decision as a precedent in their favor. The court allowed Congress to tax colored oleomargarine practically out of existence in behalf of butter pro- ducers. But opponents insist the bill would be an invasion of the juris- diction of the States. THEFT OF WIFE’S TEETH COSTS MAN $200 FINE Just Joke, He Says, Producing Them in Court—Judge De- cides to Have One, Too. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, June 21.—“Give them back,” Judge Thomas A. Green or- dered sternly. William Larson, 46, somewhat sheepishly fished in his pocket and produced his wife's false teeth, missing two days. “It was a joke,” said Larson, whose wife had told the judge that besldes stealing her teeth, Larson beat her. “Now I'll have one,” said the judge. “You're fined $200 and costs.” Last_fim's Club Formed Here by Rainbow Veterans Says “Persecution Strikes at People.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 21.—A letter by Cardinal Hayes in which the Roman Catholic archibishop of New York denounces the ‘“persecution” of re- ligion in Mexico as “the death strug- gle of humanity” was published today. “This persecution is not against the Catholic Church alone,” the Cardinal wrote all priests of the archdiocese. “It is an effort to destroy religion in every shape and form. * * * “It strikes at every principle on which our own Government is founded for the happiness, the welfare and the prosperity of the people.” Cardinal Hayes directed that a sermon be preached in every church and chapel next Sunday on “Church in Persecution, Especially With Refer. ence to Mexico.” “An organized minority, controlling both ballots and bullets, has been able to pass laws that violate every human right,” he wrote. Jackrabbits Cut Strange Capers In Derby Training Inspire Phrase, “Uncer- tain as a Jackrabbit,” in Kansas. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Kans, June 21— They have coined a new phrase in this part of Kansas—“uncertain as a jackrabbit.” Before Pittsburg decided to hold the world’s first jackrabbit derby, no one had taken much trouble to in- quire into the behavior of the long- eared speedsters of the plains. The 25 thoroughbreds brought here from Western Kansas to run in to- morrow’s classic have done some surprising things while being groomed for the 200-yard event. Two of the fmported “steeds” died. | One broke training. It won't make Final SurvivorWillDrink Toast to Departed Comrades. A “Last Man's Club” has been formed by Washington veterans of the Rainbow Division, who will be hosts to 1,000 of their comrades ex- pected to attend the national reunion of the division at the Willard Hotel July 12, 13 and 14. ‘The local veterans obtained a bottle of rare wine which they will seal in a .75 mm. shell only to be opened by the last surviving member of the group. This “last man” then is to drink a toast to his departed com- rades. Officers of the “Last Man’s Club” are Harold B. Rodier, president; Rev. Arlington A. McCallum, vice presi- dent; Fred C. Reed, secretary; Col Wiliam R. Stacom, treasurer; Cecil J. Wilkinson, ritualist, and M. Man- ning Marcus, vintner. The wine bottle sealed in the shell will occupy a place of honor at future reetings of the club. [PRIANICEE] IVIER R [EDGED [EIDEEMER] their hopes for the Kansas derby. They blinked in surprise, for blessed events had occurred during the night. One “stable” owner spent several CROSS-WORD PUZZLE Sharpens the mind . . . enlarges your vocabulary « .. and it’s real fun, Section C, Page 7 it go with: as & jack-