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WLLANS VOGES A.A. . GRIEVANCE Tobacco Official, Who Was on Recovery Board, Charges ‘Craftiness.’ BY DAVID LAWRENCE. 1t isn’t often that some one who has heen on the inside ot an administra- tion feels compelled to come out into | the open and tell the truth about | whnat he has observed behind the scenes. But when the provocation is scute, such incidents happen. Th: al is why the statement issued by Clay Williams, vice chairman of 'he Loard of the Reynolds Tobacco Co., who for many months was chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Becard here, takes on especial signi- ficance. Mr. Williams has had the confi- cdence of President Roosevelt. He is u popular personality, a business man who from the start has tried to see the good rather than the bad in the | New Deal, and one who has put his | eflort behind N. R. A. in order tu make it effective as an emergency irstrument. So when Mr. Williams has his :av sbout the Department of Agriculture | and the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- | ministration and does so in a state- | ment that charges some of the ad- ministration experts with “crattiness” | “subtletly of | and “‘unfrankness” and wethod.” here is evidence from a witness who must have been deeply moved to use such expressions. Tobacco Representative. Mr. Williams is a tobacco man. His company puts out “Camel” cigarettes. but in his statement he is represent- | irg all the tobacco companies. His grievance is that the consumer runs the risk of having to pay more foi This cigarettes and the tobacco farmer runs the risk of getting less for his moduct and everybody in between T ns the risk of being injured by the ertificial control set up by the A.A. A The objection which Mr. Wl)lmms raises, however, applies to vegetables | and fruits as well as to tobacco, and concerns a point which has been very difficult to explain because it anses out of the most adroitly phrased piece | of legislation that has come out of Capitol Hill thus far this session. Originally the A. A. A. plan re- quired that a processing tax be levied on tobacco and other products, and | that this tax be figured so that the tobacco grower would get a price which was equivalent to a certain average for preceding years. This was called “parity.” achieved, stood that the processing taxes would be reduced, if not repealed. But now | it appears that the processing taxes ' are to be retained even when parity is | reached. First glance at the language of the A A A amendments now pending | would lead one to believe that, when | parity is reached, the Secretary -of Agriculture would not use his proc- essing tax power any longer. Indeed the language is that the Secretary is | “authorized to take no action” to maintain parity. But it develops that this merely means that he is not re- sponsible for what happens after parity is reached and that, if the processing | taxes are in operation, he is not au- thorized to take any action to remove them. No Reflection. “There’s no reflection whatever here,” says Mr. Williams, “on any member of the committee or of ihe Congress or any of their methods. They were relying on administrative officers of the A. A. A. working with the com- mittee, and presumably explaining to the committee just what they were proposing and why. They were not 1o be expected to be on guard against craftiness of such a deep-laid charac- ter. Nor was it to be expected that before a Congress which is rightly ready to do anything it can properly do to help the farm situation there would be an attempt to leave false impressions as to the effect of pro- posals. “If the proposals were all right generally and were in the interest of the farmers, there could be no legiti- mate need for subtlety and secretive- ness and craftiness of method on the part of the A. A. A, in any of its work with the committee or with the Con- gress. “But A. A. A is out in the open now. The amendments made in the Senate Committee at last make the plain admission that, where products are above parity but not more than 20 per cent above it, the tax is to be 20 per cent of parity. Already one- fifth above parity, but another fifth is to be added. And even where the product is more than 20 per cent above parity—it makes no difference how much more—there is no termina- tion of the tax affected thereby. “No wonder A. A. A. hesitated to | tell consumers,” who are to use these | tax-burdened products, about that proposal. No wonder it didn't even | tell it to the farmers, whose product has to carry that burden to and through its market and suffer what- ever restriction of consumption and whatever other damage is caused thereby.” Opposed Public Hearings. Mr. Williams charges that the A. A. A. has hearings, and adds that it is notorious that its own representatives been sitting continuously with the committees behind closed doors which excluded all other interested parties.” ‘The foregoing picture of how legls-‘ lation is drafted and what happens when opposition appears is not un- usual under the New Deal. is truly unusual is that a friend of the President’s and a man who has been working for the administration until just a few weeks ago, when he resigned his post, should feel im- pelled to make such sweeping charges. Mr. Williams now joins the ranks of those disillusioned business men who were originally asked to bring “con- structive criticism” or to “co-operate” or to put their shoulder to the wheel in a great national crisis. The list of self-exiled friends of the administra- tion is growing. and, if the truth be known, most every resignation from the so-called Roper council and most every defection from the administra- tion among business men has been due to an experience almost exactly like that of Clay Williams. (Copyright. 1935.) SUB VOYAGE RECORD AMSTERDAM, July 11 (#).—Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm the Dutch submarine K 18 arrived yesterday from Serabo, Dutch New Guinea, com pleting what was said to be the longest voyage ever made by an undersea craft. Since leaving the Netherlands in De- cember, 1934, with a crew of 35, the submarine traveled 23,000 miles and visited five continents. Once parity has been | it has always been under- | insistently opposed public | “have | But what | What’s What Behind News In Capital | | Roper and Kennedy New in Presidential Dog House. | | | BY PAUL MALLON. | HE White House dog house has filled up rapidly on occasions. Among those who are reported i to have been seen entering it | lately for a rest from presidential | s. | petting are: Commerce Secretary Roper. His | Imlsery is his subordinates. Bicker- | ings and resignations appear to be | continuous among them. One of two | steps is contemplated. The admin- | istration will either have to buy soft ] boxing gloves, so the subordinates will not hurt each other, or else get a new | administrator as referee. (If a new administrator is decided on, he will | be one who is a more distinct per»‘ sonification of commerce.) Chairman Kennedy of the Se- curities Exchange Commission. He | supposed to have favored per- mitting banks to resume the un- derwriting of securities. This 18 an amended provision of the mew bank bill which the President | opposes. It is understood Mr. Ken- nedy recently got back on the “right” side of this issue, which | means he is about king Ingh | around the White House, whereas he formerly was ace. Prof. Moley, the original and best brain truster, whose views are less left-wingish than current policies. al- though he is not in personal dis- Peeking inside at the official family, you will see these recent changes: State Secretary Hull appears to have emerged as top man in anything pertaining to his sphere. He has demonstrated that he has principles, and he has maintained them con- sistently. Almost equally strong in White House favor is Agricultural tary Wallace. He is an entirely different type. His principles have had to be aitered from time to time, but he is respected jor his sin- cerity. Increasing prominence at the presi- | dential hearth has been gained by Attorney General Cummings, This is partly due to the expanding legal aspects of the New Deal. But more than that, Mr. Cummings has learned how to say “no” as well as which makes his advice worth more. Ickes In and Out. Not exactly in the dog house. but hanging around it on a more or less | permanent basis is Interior Secretary Ickes. The diminution of P. W. A. work means he has had less to do than formerly. Of course, of the little George Peek. Yankee trading. done this season. Liberals Fight Dickinson. There was a subtle but important promise to business behind the pro- posed transfer of able Assistant Com- merce Secretary Dickinson to the Jus- tice Department. He will have charge of anti-trust prosecutions. As every near-insider knows, Mr. Dickinson is ! no trust buster. ruin a large section of American busi- ness to enforce the letter of the anti- trust laws. You may expect a rule of reason from him. ‘The liberal advisers of the President do not like this at all. In fact, they launched an undercover campaign to prevent the President from approving | the change as soon as they heard about it. They do not even consider Dickinson as a “moderate liberal,” possibly because he did not approve | their original Securities Exchange Commission act. Mysterious Amendment. White House insiders are investigat- ing to find out the origin of that bank | bill amendment to permit banks to re- enter the securities underwriting field. | The subject was not directly men- tioned in the hearings. So fas as the the original occupant residence out back is He is in charge of which isn't being | | cated such an amendment. the bill came out of the Senate Barlk- ing Committee the amendment was in it. The last heard on that subject was two years ago when Winthiop Aldrich. president of Chase Na- | tional, told the same Senate Com- | mittee that security affiliates should be abolished. They were, in the | Bank bill of tnat year. | You may now rest assured they will | not be in the final form of the new bank bill. ABIRD LIKE THAT | CAN ONLY | | | | | A smart young patent registrar found what was wrong with the Blue | Eagle at the start. It is a story long concealed, but worth recording. You may recall that when Gen. Johnson designed the bird originally | he sought to have a patent on it design was shoved ahead of all pend- ing cases by registering it with a half number. The young registrar, handling the case, noted that one wing of the bird, as designed, had many more feathers than the other. He called the defect to the attention of the supervisor and urged that a new design be submitted, so the Blue Eagle would have an equal number o} feathers in both wings. The supervisor said the design would have to be registered with- out change. “All right,” replied the smart young lawyer. with greater prophecy than he knew, “but a bird like that can only fly in circles.” Wise Precaution. Administration advised a hurried choice of that designation after it was noticed that the original choice of a name—Rural Electrification Division— would have become R. E. D. in the alphabet soup. (Copyright. 1935.) He believes it would | public record now shows, no one advo- | Yet when | rushed through the Patent Office. The | | Some one at Rural Electrification THE _EVENING WALEYTOFOLLON VT 10 STAND | Kidnaper of Weyerhaeuseri | Boy to Testify in Wife’s ; Defense. | By the Associated Press. | | TACOMA, Wash., July 11.—There | was a strong probability today the kidnaper would follow his victim to the witness stand In the rapidly clos- ing trial of Mrs. Margaret Thulin | Waley for the $200,000 abduction of 9 year-old George Weyerhaeuser. George will be the last Government witness, District Attorney J. Charles | Dennis said, and likely will end the | prosecution’s case today. | Attorneys for the 19-year-old de- fendant indicated her husband, Har- ! mon, already serving a 45-year sen- | tence after admitting his part in the | kidnaping, will be brought to court Hrom McNeil Island Prison and will be the ounly defense witness. Will Ask Directed Acquittal. John F. Dore, defense attorney,| said he would move this morning for | a directed verdict of acquittal, but! in event it is denied, will have the | husband tell that his wife had noth- | ing to do with transporting the young | | lumber fortune heir across the mnhu‘ State line. Dore said the Government had been | unable to substantiate, except through Mrs. Waley's own pre-trial statement, | that she was present when George | was taken across the border. The case was brought withmn the ' Lindbergh law aad Federal jurisdic- | tion when George was held {or more than seven days and was taken from | Spokane, Wash,, to Newman Lake, Idaho. Grandfather Testifies. The Government vesterday called upon Mrs. Waleys cwn kinsman to aid it in trying 19 convict the girl of the crime ‘o which she tried un- successfully ‘hrez times to plead guilty. Julius Thulin, 68, of Ogden, Utah, Margaret’s grandfaiher, testified a few days after J. P. Weyerhaeuser jr., Tacoma lumber man, paid $200.000 for his son’s release Mr. an1 Mrs. Waley and their fuzitive asserted con- federate, William Deinard, alias Ma- han, began arri7ing at kis home singly each carrying a suilcase George Weyerhaeuse Federal building all yesterday after- noon, in a locked cffice of United States Marshal A J. Chitty s suite, waiting to testify, 'WATERS IN LEASH, STATES COUNT TOLL was a' the Gov. Lehman Takes Command in New York to Succor Thou- sands of Victims. By the Associated Press. Flood waters in upstate New York and Eastern Pennsylvania were in leash todav as officixle reckoned the cost of mother natur=z ravages at 53 deaths and prope:iy camage 1o ex- cess of $26,000,000 Help for the viciims converged on the stricken areas from a dozen | sources. In New York Gov. Her- bert Lehman personally assumed com- mand of rehabilitation work with a survey of the damage done acd an estimate of the hein needed. From Harrisburg, Pa, ald was hurried to communities along the Susguehanna, Schuylkill and Deiavare Rivers. and their tributaries. To Hornell, Bath. Canisteo. Ham- mondsport, Binghampton and other New York State cities and towus hur- ried thousands >f red Cross, T E. R. A, C. C. C. 8iu oller State and local relief workmea tc remove wreck- age, clear higawavs ard rehaoilitate | homes. Fresh diinking water and anti-toxin were <uppled The destitute in New York State alone numbered almosi. 3,000 National Guerasmen and State troopers were on duty in New York State to prevent lecting. ROOSEVELT SCHEDULES MONETARY CONFERENCE Harrison, Morgenthau and Fisher to Meet at White House for Discussion. By the Associated Press. | President Roosevelt arranged suc- | | cessive appointments late today with George L. Harrison, governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank; Secretary Morgenthau and Prof. Ir- ving Fisher of Yale, a monetary expert. There was no indication, however, that the appointments would amount\ to more than & routine discussion of | | monetary affairs. Morgenthau parried questions at his | | press conference as to whether he favored a free gold market. | “I don't know,” he said. “I'm go- | ing to the farm, and right now I'm interested in the free raspberry mar- ket.” He is leaving tonight for his New | York farm. FIVE ENGINES ORDERED C. & 0. Awards Locomotive Con- tract to Lima (Ohio) Works. A contract for five powerful locomo- tives, to cost a total of $650,000, was awarded by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad today to the Lima Locomo- tive Works at Lima, Ohio. ‘This is one of the largest locomotive | orders placed in many momh.s 1 Considers resolution to investigate | all lobbies at cost of $50,000. Debates A. A. A. amendments. Territories Committee continues Virgin Islands inquiry. | House. | Votes on T. V. A. amendments. | Rules Committee continues lobby inquiry. el TOMORROW. i | Senate. Further consideration of A. A. A.| gmendments. Military Affarrs will hold ntullr weekly meeting. Conferees resume work on security bill at 1 p.m. House, Considers privale calendar, social STAR, WASHINGTON Cliicago Zoo Has 45-Pound Baby D, THURSDAY, ULY 11, 1935, SKINNER IS NAMED pqmted Secretary—Byrd Confirmed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star The yet unnamed newborn off-spring of Bebe. 4.000-pound hippopotamus at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, is The baby weighed 45 pounds when born July 8, but was not seen much shown here in its first photograph. until the next day. as hippopotami d attendants, since captive hippos hav POLICE.HEADS GET RESOLUTION LIST Bar Association Support Considered at Parley in Atlantic City. ! By the Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY. July 11--The International Association of Chiefs of Police considered today a resolution 10 indorse the American Bar Associa- tion’s drive against “undesirable + members.” The Resclutions Committee of the association prepared the measure after ¢n attack by United States Attorney Ceneral Homer S. Cummings on lawyer-criminals.” Other resolutions betore session would: Commend the motion picture in- dustry for its co-operation in ceasing | te “glorify” the criminal. Suggest an educational campaiga tc show the desirability of universal fingerprinting. Praise the work of Attorney Gen- eral Cummings and J. Edgar Hoover, the final director of the Federal Bureau of In- | vestigation. Recommend uniform laws to re- quire law-enforcing agencies to for- ward all fingerprints immediately to Washington Indorse the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation Police Training School and recommend proper training of police personnel Ask the President national police d: Suggest inter-city communications for police radio and Federal broad- casting major crimes information to all police radio stations The convention already has to proclaim a ap- proved continuation of its committee | t study consolidation of police units, elimination of politics in police depart- mments, ana permanent tenure for police chiefs. BUSINESS ADVISERS T0 FILL VACANCIES Meeting of Administration Coun- cil First Since Dissension Started. By the Associated Press. Vacancies occasioned recently by resignation of several members were expected to be fillad today at a ‘meet- ing of the administration’s Business Advisory Council, composed of busi- ness executives. About half & dozen members were scheduled to be added to the 43 men now comprising the council’s member- ship. The meeting was the first to be held | by the group since internal dissension. blamed by some for the recent resig- nations, cropped out in its ranks. Four members have left the council in recent weeks. There was a possi- bility others might follow them. but | no further resignations were antici- pated in the immediate future. At today's meeting the council also | may choose a new chief to succeed Harry P. Kendall, Boston, whose term expires with the adjournment of Con- gress. RAY LONG FUNERAL TO BE HELD TODAY| By the Associated Press. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif,, July 11— Pinal rites, with only a few close azine editor and newspaperman, who ended his life here two days ago. Rupert Hughes, noted noveltist and a close friend, will officiate. Crema- tion will follow and the ashes will be placed in a vault here, pending in- | structions from Mrs. Long, who is in Greenwich, Conn. The former nationally known ed- itor shot himself in his home here ‘Tuesday night. o their nursing In the water. Bebe is e been known (o destroy their youn. Paris J ud ve, Tr By the Associaied Press PARIS, July 11.--The presiding judge admitted it took more than mere nudity to shock him as Joan Warner American dancer, who maintains that clothes hamper her art, went on trial here todav on charges of offending Paris’ morals. A gallery of notables—famed avia- tors. painters. novelists and even one zoology professor—rallied to defend | Miss Warner's contention that nude- ness is not necessarily naughty. The painter, Maurice Devlaminck. regaled the court room, which pre- viously had been denied the sight of Miss Warner doing her dances for its benefit, with his dissertation upon ! “artistic nudity "’ Mere nakedness, he remarked, failed to shock him ‘Well, M. Devlaminck,” the judge put in, “giving confidence for confid- dence—it doesn't shock me. either." The judge indicated he approved | the morality of Joan's act. but M Bauverat. vice president of the Asso- ciation for the Increase of the French | Population, as plaintiff, asked that she be punished “for the principle of the thing " The court will probably next week Bauverat, under questioning by the defense attorney. admitted that the dance itself was perfectly proper and that Miss Warner “resembled a white statue.” He added. however: "But I never saw a statue take bff its clothes and dance Raymond Délmotte. the holder cf the world's land-plane speed record _testified that Miss Warner was a woman “of perfect morality.” but the judge cut him short to reveal that the police investigated the private life of the dancer and found it one of perfect dignity.” In his final plea declared: “Your dance is art, but your art betrayed you. You are a young woman from & young country, but now you are in an old country which has its own traditions. Ycu must be punished.” At the opening of the hearing the | render ils decision the prosecutor judge announced there would be mno | debate as to whether her dance, which brought down the wrath of the MAJ. ROSEMERE BURIED Full Mllnnlv Honors Accmdnd at Arlington Cemetery. Maj. Earl H. Rosemere, 56, U. S. A retired, who died Tuesday at his home in Cambridge, Md., was buried in Arlington National - Cemetery today with full military honors. Maj. Rosemere, a native of Roxbury, Mass. first saw service as a private with Troop E, 3d Cavalry, in 1898, sérving until 1904, when he was com- missioned in the Quartermaster Corps. He was retired in 1930, at his own requesl after 30 years of service, VANDERBILT KIN WEDS VISCOUNT MAIDSTONE Ambnssndor nnd Mu Attend London Marriage of Bingham Countess Gladys Szechenyi. | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, July 11-—Countess Gladys | Szechenyi, granddsughter of the late | Cornelius Vanderoilt #nd daughter of | the Hungarian Li'rister to London, mdnv was married to Viscount Maid- tone at St. Paul's Church, Knights- idge. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham of | the United Sta‘es and Mrs. Ring- | ham were included i the conarega- | tion. The bride was hr escorted info the | triends attending, will be held T e e e 1 | for Ray Long, 57, once brilliant mag- [ er car by her cousin, Wfllhm H. Vanlerbili. | 'The bride is .-\e drughur of Count | Laszlo Szechen)'l. to-mu Minister to | the United Si and the former | Gladys Vlnderhllt of New York. | Viscount Maidstone who was born | | Christopher Guy Heneage Finch-Hat- ton, also is of psrtial American | descent. He is reiated on his moth- er's side to the LCrexel family of i Philldelphin Survey chloses Advertising Quintuples Number of Users BY HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. NEW YORK, July 11.—Advertising doubles the number of persons familiar with a brand, triples the number who try it, and quintuples the number of users. ‘These figures are averages from a study of bond papér made by Charles C. Stech, research expert in ad- vertising. Stech. studied the use of 27 brands of bond paper by printers. He learned the percentage familiar with each brand, the percentage who tried out each one, and the percentage who be- | came regular users. ‘There were three brands of pape" known to more than 75 per cent of the printers. Of these 72 per cent tried out the three brands and 20.4 per cent were regular users of them. At the bottom were seven brands of paper, known to 14 per cemt of the | printers. Six per cent had tried them | out and less than half of 1 per cent of | these printers used the seven. When the average of persons know- | ing about the brands was raised to 35 per cent, in a different group of bond papers, the trials rose to 15 per cent, | but the regular customers rose only a | tenth of 1 per cent. | But when the papers were known |to 50 per cent of the printers the Iu.un rose to 9 per cent. Above that came the phenomenal jump to 20.4 customers in the topmost three kinds of bond paper. The study showed an unusually large | increase in steady customers when | nearly every one was familiar with the brand. No saturation point was revealed. The highest single brand was known to 96 per cent of the | printers, and apparently its regular users were far greater in proportion than those of any of the lesser known an affectionate mother. a relief to —A. P. Photo. ying Dmu'or Not Shwhed by Mere Nudlly Association for the Increase of the French Population, was obscene or artistic. He announced it was artistic and that the case would be based solely on the question of whether the Amer- fean girl's “antics” were a danger 'o public morals. The court room was packed spectators heard M. Bauverat for the condemnation of all dancing in Paris, with Miss Warner in particular, being made an example Said Bauverat: “Since Hitler sup- pressed nude dancing in Germany, the Nazi birth rate has risen 35000 a year™ ‘Then counsel for the defense sug- gested that his client dance nude in the court room to prove “in the in- terests of justice” that the dance was all art. The judge. however. demurred answering: “Despite the fact that it is a hot day, it cannot be done, for I am afraid I would have to allow the spectators o strip, 100.” The ask DRAWS CHICAGO REPLY. Police Censor Defends Clean Shows, After Paris Charge. CHICAGO, July 11 «# —Police Lieat. Harry Costello of the Censor Squad said today he never saw Joan Warner dance, but that if her dance was “a good deal cleaner than those done in Chicago” it would be very clean ndeed. Her attorneys made that charge fo- day in Paris, where Miss Warner, American nude dancer. is on trial for offending public morals. “We insist that any performer in an alleged nude dance.” Lieut. Costello sald, “wear an opaque brassiere and trunks. We visit every theater or night club where a nude show might be given. “Since Judge Joseph B. David, in freeing Fan Dancer Sally Rand of indecency charges, made his remark | that ‘some people would like to put pants on a horse; horses are about all that have escaped having pants ordered in so far as nude dancing in Chicago is concerned.” ROOSEVELT HIT ON TAX PROGRAM |Hastings Charges President More Interested in Chang- ing Social Order. | By the Associated Press. Attacking the administration’s tax | program in the Senate today, Senator Hastings. Republican, of Delaware. expressed belief that President Roose- velt is “much more interested in | changing the «odal order than he is in raising revenue.” He declared the proposed levies are “punitive” and “clearly intended as | such.” | Discussing his resolution to post- pone consideration of new taxes until a special session in November. the Delaware Senator said a tax bill could not be worked out “adequately” with Congress in its present state of mind. Certain to Do Poor Job. “The fact that we are worn out. | our patience almost exhausted, makes | certain that we shall do a poor job,” | he said. Hastings added that higher levies; on wealthy individuals and corpora- tions and new taxes on inherited | wealth would not put “our financial | affairs in order,” even after expeness were cut to the bone. Senator Copeland. Democrat. of New York supported Hastings' appeal | for a Summer recess. “Congress is not in physical condi- | the | tion to legislate at this time,” Senator-physician from New York in- sisted. now on the country a radical change l'in our tax structure will add to the discomfort of industry.” Michigan joined their plea for | Summer recess. Hearing Is Delayed. ‘The House Ways and Means Com- | pend its hearings on the tax program until tomorrow due to the failure of witnesses to appear. Five persons were on the witness calendar when the committee met, but none answered when their names were called. They included Chester H. Gray of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation and Gen. R. E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman Doughton said that de- spite this delay he expected the hear- ings would be finished by Saturday and the draft of a bill would be taken , up by the committee next week. e Greek Plebiscite Bill Passed Assembly passed a government bill to- day arranging a plebiscite on the ques- tion of restoration of the monarchy. The date and other details will be decided upon by the cabinet before bend papers, November 15. nude | Moreover, he added, “to force | | Washington in 1894, had come to the | Senator Vandenberg. Republican, of | a mittee was forced meanwhile .to sus- | ATHENS, July 11 (#).—The Greek | COLLEGE PARK, Md, July 11.— | A new trio were in key positions at | the University of Maryland today as a result of the action of the Board of | Regents in special session at Baltimore | yesterday. |~ Dr. W. W. Skinner of Kensington, | veteran secretary to the board, was | advanced to the position of chairman, | made vacant through the resignation | last month of George M. Shriver. | Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of Balti- | more became the first woman secre- | tary of the board to fill the vacancy | caused by Dr. Skinner’s advancement. Byrd Designated. H. C. (“Curley”) Byrd, vice presi- dent of the university, was designated ‘ acting president pending the selection of a permanent successor (o Dr. Ray- | mond A. Pearson, who resigned at the | “command” of the regents. Dr. Skinner has been a member of the board for 19 years and its secre- tary for the past 18 vears. His term expires in 1936. He is assistant chief of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture. As the personnel of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture and the Board of Regents is identical. Dr. Skin- ner will serve as chairman of both bodies. The president of the univer- sity serves as executive director of the State Agricultural Board. Shriver Kesigned. Former Chairmaa Shriver sent his resignation to Gov. Nice on June 29 the day after tha last previous meet- ing of the Board cf Regents, a: which Dr. Pearson's tesicnation was re- quested following a prolonged 1avesti- gation of facuity-ctudent charges of inefficient adm Mrs. Whitehurst, a former presi- dent of the Sta's Fegeration of Wom- en's Clubs, is the only woman to serve on the Board of Regenis. She was appointed for nine-year term in 1933 The board consists nine sons, there beinz cne vacan v present because Gov Nice to fill the post relinguished Shriver. Candidate for Presidency At the time ‘Le rigents announced Mr. Byrd had formally been ap- pointed acting presidert. it was stated he would be 2 candidate when the | regents consider ‘the selection of a permanent president Mr. Byrd has becn associated with the institution for 22 years as a faculty member, coach and exacutive. He is credited with much of the progress made in reccnt years oy the university, from which he gracuated in 1908 Dr. Skinner aiso s a graduate of the institution. STATE PROJECTS SEEK $1,785,077 P. W. A Gets War Department Request for Mary- land. ciated Press A request for $1.785,077 was sent the Public Works Administration today by | the War Department for carrying out | construction projects on Army reserva- tions in Maryland Among the proposals was $118,104 for reconditioning hangars, construct- ing paved aprons, runways and roads and rehabilitation of of per- Al vet Mr. has by Municipal Airport, uses. Work totaling 5514 was pro- jected for Fort Howard. It included rehabilitation of barracks. and other buildings: reconditioning water, sewer and electrical systems; rehabilitation of sea wall and filling a swamp area and repairing roads and walks. The sum of $897.709 was requested for use at Fort Hoyle, which involves building a road and bridge to Mag- nolia Gate, a sea wall and pier on the Gunpowder River, rehabilitating buildings, repairing roads, walks and drainage, improvement of grounds, in- cluding demolition of useless struc- tures, drainage and landscaping and improving the water, sewer and elec- tric systems. A separate item of $92,500 was re- quested for construction of a Canal Creek bridge at Fort Hoyle. The sum of $9.450 was asked for repairing and painting harbor boats at Fort Wash- ington. 'COXEY NOMINATED " AT OMAHA SESSION Farmer-I.abor Convention Again Honors 1932 Presidential Choice. By the Associated Press OMAHA, Nebr., July 11—“Gen.” Jacob S. Coxey, 81, who advocated $50,000,000,000 inflation to give $100 | to each unemployed person, last night was nominated to run for President | | by the handful of delegates attending the *“National” Farmer-Labor party convention. | Coxey's “army” in its march on | convention stating he had no presi- | dential aspirations. He was the party’s 1932 candidate. Previously Senator Huey Long. Louisiana Democrat, had been men- nuned by some delegates as a possi- bmty for the nomination. But Coxey | was named without opposition, with Leslie Erickson, Minneapolis, as running mate. Also approved was an inflationary the platform despite protests of Nor- man Baker, Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in Iowa in ]932. He bolted the convention over wealth tax proposals. The nominations | adoption closed the convention, called | by Roy M. Harrop, Council Bluffs, | Iowa, national chairman. Sessions, scheduled to start Monday, were post- poned. Harrop. estimated that 50 attended. Coxey, in an address, said the | money question was “simply the gold | standard or the human standard.” Wool Lobby Is Added Not to be outdone by House utility lobby and “super” lobby investiga- tions, the Senate yesterday added wool dealers to its list of special inquiries. € | RALEIGH buildings and utilities at Logan Field, the Baltimore which the Army quarters The Massilon, Ohio, man, who led | his | “share-the-wealth” plan as a part of | and platform | CONFERENCE HELD - HEAD OF REGENTS " ON MALADY GAN (Mrs: J. L Whltehurst Ap- Infantile Paralyms Reaches 86 Total in Virginia, With Seven New Cases. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, July 11.—Seven new cases of infartiile paralysis in Virginia were reported to the Staty Health Department Fere: today as Dr. 1. C. Rigin, he: <.mmissioner. con- ferred in Washington with Dr. War- ren Draper, former Virginia Frealth commissioner, wno ic now an Aas- sistant surgeon gencial in the nealth service The seven rases brought the total since June w0 81, athough 1t was pointed ' out that tie figure actually would stand at o6 sizce three cases reported by the Richmond Health Department had ol been formaiiy re- corded by State auihcrities Of this number 34 have been re- ported in July. Rictmond, which has 15 cases. includes in that number four brought here for treatmeut, Dr Brownley Foster, health director for the city, said Brunswick County Has 4 Of the seven «a.es. four came from Brunswick County alcne, one from Petersburg. one fion Mecklenburg, and one from Ja C‘ty Count: The disease ! in the area of r on the North Caro’ health authoriti watch in that I has "a line, and State bave kept close wor particularly Instructions also have been issued physicians that al; cases of the disease be reported immediately when they are definitely Jiagroscd. No Federal Health Service experts on paralysis have been sent into Vir- ginia, it was reported in Washington his afternoon, although three of them are .n North Carolina. Officials ex- plained that Federal men are sent into a State cnly when requests are made for them Recovery Figures Lacking. figures were available at Health Department today on the recoverv of those afflicted with the paralysis. But at Lynchburg Dr Mosby Perrow said 2-year-old Felix Brumfield of that city had been re- leased from quarantine and “is well as far as the health bureau is con- cerned Health have point the cases a some of them “It seems No th fi the Department officials here ut that “about half’ reported as severe, with mild. to be well proved that convalescent serum is of no value as a curative agent and, in fact, when used intraspina at times may do some harm.” it was asserted today a bulletin on infantile paraly mailed to all physicians and heal! officers of Virginia by the State Health Department The bulletin describes experiments with vaccines in treatment of pol- iomyelitis and states there has not been “sufficient experimental evi- dence” offered with controls to indi- cate the value of serums at this time The outbreak in Virginia has not reached epidemic proportions through- out the State. although there is a definite increase in the south central section, Dr. Riggin said NORTH CAROLINA TOTAL 338. Eight New Cases of Infantile Paraly- sis Reported. N. C, July 11 W@ Eight rew cases of infantile paralys d to the State' Board of Health yesterday. making a total of 338 listed this year. However, 109 are in the contagious stage Carl V. Reynolds. State health said It was gratifying to be able to de- velop such an encouraging picture of the poliomyelitis situation in the State bv separating the contagidus cases from those that are no longer infectious.” Dr. Reynolds said. Dr. officer, HOW DISE. . SPREADS. Does Not Follow Main Highways From State to State. poliomyelitis. or infant epidemic, centered in North | Central North Carolina. where there has been steady increase in the cases reported since June 1, is mov- ing northward very slowly and along routes of loca: travel. it is shown by statistics assembled by the Public Health Sesvice Even if the present rate of move- ment remains constant. which is un- likely, the malady should not reach the District of Columbia in epidemic form until late in the Summer, and by that time its virulence probably will have subsided The Public Health Service investi- gations indicat. the poliomyelitis virus is not spread by through travel. It | does not follow the railroads or the { trunk highways, except as they form part of the locst road system. In the last three months there have been 77 | cases in Virginia, but the majority of them have been in the counties adjacent to the North Carolina border in the south central part of the State, Halifax and Lunenburg Counties have |'had 10 cases each and Mecklenburg |and Brunswick Counties four cases | each. The rest have been scattered through the State and apparently have not been part of the epidemic. | They represent only the normal inci- | dence for three Summer months. The Public Health Service, under | the direction of Dr. J. P. Leake, is | testing the value of poliomyelitis vac- cine, of the efficacy of which it is very doubtful, in Greensboro, N. C. This | city is in the center of the poliomyeli- tis area, but has had no cases to date. It is planned to vaccinate about 200 children and observe the effect if the epidemic does strike the city. Dr. Leake has expressed the opinion that a child is just as safe without the treatment. The progress of the epidemic has been due north. There has been no spread to the east or west, probably because there is not so much east-west | travel. Thus the Virginia coast has been practically untouched and no cases have broken out as yet in the Summer resort section of Western North Carolina. BOXER ADMITS MURDER | Slew W and Wounded Mother, Police Say. LONDON, July 11 (#).—A police | officer testified in Lambeth Police | Court today that Ramond Henry Bousquet, 30, Winnipeg boxer who has been fighting here under the | name Del Fontaine, had confessed | the murder of Hilda Meeks, 21, » | waitress, and wounding of the girl's | mother, Mrs. Alice Meeks. | The crime took place in South Lon- don last night and Bousquet appeared in court today. Preliminary hearing was adjourned for eight days, The paralysis London tress