Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1935, Page 4

ALASKAN COLONY PLEASES OSBORN .Practicality Admitted, but Observer Asks Return of Malcontents. BY ARVILLE SCHALEBEN. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star, PALMER, Alaska, July 13 (N.AN. A.).—The report of an independent and unsympathetic observer = agrees with opinions of several Matanuska Colony officials that the project is Pprogressing satisfactorily. ‘The observer was Chase S. Osborn, former Governor of Michigan and former Milwaukee newspaper man. He telegraphed President Roosevelt: “I have just completed a rigid exami- nation of your Alaskan Matanuska Colony. I have not found a single critical or serious or sensational con- dition in the colony—all this in spite of the fact that I am completely out of sympathy with your administra- tion.” Several colony officials are also viewing the prospects of the colony more hopefully. “The work of co-ordinating activi- tles is nearly done and we are getting set for real construction progress,” said Eugene Carr, F. E. R. A. co- ordinator. Project Head Enthusiastic. Don Irwin, project director, says, “Things are looking fine.” “The health of the colonists is the best it has ever been, and we are ready for any medical emergency,” sald Dr. E. E. Ostrom. “There's certain to be shelter for all | by Winter,” said Engineer Francis | Biggs. “Action is what we needed and I think we're getting it,” commented Colonist Frank Ring. In his inspection trip around the colony Osborn ran into a group of Michigan colonists who told him they | would have gone back if their trans- | portation had been paid. They seemed | to think he had come to assist them in returning, which was not the case. Practical Aspects Cited. After terming the scenery here far superior to the “little dinky moun- tains in Europe,” Osborn said of the colonizaticn project: “I think it is a | good thing. It will serve to call the | attention of America to the marvels | of Alaska. It might even operate to prove definitely whether Alaska has | agricultural possibilities. It's a good thing for the United States to preserve some pioneering spirit. NG STAR, WASHINGTON, Swimming Pool to Replace Gutter Youths of Central Washington Hail Plan to Reopen “Y” Facilities. 44 E SITS in the gutter when it rains.” That's how tow-headed George Edward Rin, 6, gets his water sports these sweltering days. The description is Billy Zim- merman’s. Billy is a little older and more articulate than George, but less fortunate. He has no bathing suit or he, too, would “sit in the gutter when it rains.” An impromptu shower in the rain or & splash in the supposedly forbid- den waters of the Union Station foun- tain are the only swimming facilities accessible to Billy and George and hundreds like them in the overcrowd- ed Central Area of Washington. Some have no place to bathe, much less to swim. Billy and George and half a dozen playmates, scrambling over the iron steps of a small two-family dwelling in the 400 block of H street, shouted lustily when told that plans were un- der way for reopening of the basement swimming pool at the Y. W. C. A. 614 E street building. The Central Neighborhod Council of Social Agen- cles, assisted by The Star, is sponsor- ing a campaign for $750 to reopen the pool for three or four months. The Star has donated $100. Billy was visibly upset by the pros- pect of & pool’s opening in the neigh- borhood and him with no bathing suit. He came from behind the clouds like the sun after the rain when in- formed that suits would be provided or would not be required at all. In the same biock two families, totalling nine, live in four tiny rooms on a second floor. Thev share the use of a single bath room in which, by turns, they wash tiremselves and their clothes. A thin mother sat listless in the heat and expressed her ap- proval of the pool idea with as much enthusiasm as she could muster. Her voice was flat with fatigue and worry as she told of her :ick husband, out of a job two years, and three children with no place to romp except the pavements of H street. A mother of two, cunsidering herself fortunate to have for the almost ex- clusive use of her family a bath room the size of a clothes’ closet, said her husband was “going ou relief” I[hurs- day after a long period of unsmploy- ment. An ancient path tub serves as a swimming pool for Louise Jones, 7| and her sister Helen, 4. Clad ir. their bathing suits, ey splashed vigorous approval of a place v.here they could | make a bigger £plasa. “I think it's marvelous that the | men here have done as much as| they have for the celonists up to the present time. There may even have been too much pampering, but I'm | getting quite pro-Matanuska. “I do think, however, that it is the duty of the Government to take back | every malcontent and establish him in as nearly similar circumstances as he had before he left for Alaska. In | this project, the Government acted as ,’ real estate agent, and if the colonists | don't like to farm or are dissatisfied with the land, they should be re- turned. It would benefit those who | remain.” Osborn said he had found many colonists who professed not to be pri- marily farmers, and who were not | ‘sold” on the future here. Many told him conditions in the valley had been misrepresented to them by the case workers who signed them up for the project. (Copyright. 1935, Newspaper the North American | by Alliance, Inc.) BAKERY STRIKE BRINGS CITY BREAD SHORTAGE | Big Companies in Des Moines to Refuse to Grant Demands for Closed Shops. By the Associated Press. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 13.—Des Moines faced a bread shortage yester- day as its day-old bakery strike con- tinued in deadlock. The managements of the six major bakeries affected by a strike of bakers, drivers and salesmen announced they had no intention of complying with the strikers’ demands for closed shops. ‘The strikers continued to picket the bakeries, preventing deliveries. Union leaders said bread for all hospitals in Des Moines would be per- mitted to leave the bakeries. Treasure Chests Of Gold and Silver | Found in Wheeling Woman’s Will Leaves Valuables Stored Attic to 4 Sisters. By the Assoclated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, July 13.—An attorney's fiction-like story of treasure in a musty attic left at least two members of the deceased owner’s family cold last night. They said they “knew it all along.” W. C. Clift, Oklahoma City lawyer, announced he found three chests of gold and silver—largely in service sets —in a Wheeling, W. Va., office build- ing. He said the treasure was part of the $100,000 estate left to her four sis- ters by Mrs. Henry L. Hazlett, widow of Louis S. Delaplaine of Wheeling, former consul to British Guiana. Clift is attorney for the sisters. Commenting today, an attorney for Hazlett, retired broker, said he was “entirely unmoved.” And at Tulsa, Mrs. Lee Abbott, one of the four heirs, declared “there was no secret about the existence of the chests. Our sister told us all about it.” At Wheeling efforts to learn more of the local details of the strange dis- covery met with little more success than the confirmation that the chests were found on June 28 in a secret yoom and immediately shipped West. A transfer firm said it had been hired to move three chests—since re- ported to have contained a fortune in silver and gold—to the railroad station. It was told nothing about the con- tents. Robert Findlay, caretaker of a down- town office building, which is con- nected with the old Louis S. Dela- plaine residence, and the man who accompanied Clift to the secret room, did not see the contents either. He said the attorney showed him ecredentials; that he accompanied the man on & tour of the old home; that they found the room and the three in chests. That was all Findlay knew, beyond the fact that Clift immediately arranged to have the boxes moved to the station, » The central area which the pro- posed pool would serze is bounded by the Mall, North Capitol street and | Eleventh and O siree’s It is swarm- | ing with children lving under hous- ing conditions which Miss M. Edith Coulson, secretary of the Neighbor- hood Council, saii were “the worst I've seen in Washington.” Fifty-two per cent of the resident familics are | on relief. Jammed into 28 alley dwell- ings are 531 persons. Recreation facilities are limited and are without bathing or wading fa- cilities. E—1 COUGHLIN WINS POINT IN SOLDIER FIELD ROW Superior Court Judge Says Chi- cago Park Board Must Hear Petition. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, July 13.—Superior Judge | James J. Kelly yesterday overruled | a Chicago Park Board motion to dis- | miss a petition in which Rev. Charles | E. Coughlin, Detroit radio priest, | asked a writ of mandamus compelling the board to grant him use of Soldier Field for a mass meeting. Judge Kelly instructed the Park Board to answer the petition by July 17 and set the hearing for July 18. In ruling against the board Judge Kelly cited higher court decisions, which he said held that discretion similar to that vested in the Park Board in renting the fleld was sub- Jject to court review as to soundness and reasonableless, e SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL AT ROOSEVELT NOW Shift of 1,800 Pupils Made to Complete Repair Operations at Central. The white Summer high school was shifted yesterday from Central to Roosevelt to permit necessary repair work to be completed at the former school in time for the Fall term. Some 1,800 pupils were involved in the shift. E. J. Lockwood, director of Summer schools, said the rest of the Summer session probably will be completed at Roosevelt. The repairs, mostly of plumbing, were decided on early this year, but it was thought there would be ample time for them after the Summer school was over. Recently, however, it was found the scope of the work neces- sitated a longer period. MRS. SEWELL WINS CASE Business Manager Fails to Prove Stocks Were “Love Gifts.” LOS ANGELES, July 13 (#).—Henry Guttmann, debonair promoter, was convicted yesterday on two counts of grand theft from Mrs. Blanche Sewell, wealthy widow, who hired him as her business manager. The jury acquitted him on three counts and disagreed on three others. Mrs. Sewell accused Guttmann of stealing $44,000 in stocks and secur- itles. Guttmann’s lawyers argued they were “love gifts” and that relations between the dapper University of Vienna graduate and Mrs. Sewell were {riendly until he made a trip from New York to Los Angeles with the actress Polo Negri. Mrs. Sewell is the mother of Barton Sewell, Beverly Hills millionaire sports- man, a principal in a “wife-swapping” case several months ago. Her personal wealth was estimated at $10,000,000 or more. 3000000000000 0 00000000 SAVE MONEY ON STORAGE and MOVING All Farniture Carefully Crated and Packed by Exp € CMITH'S 0 AGE Long Distance Movers Fine Fur Coats Fumigated and Stored in Moth-Proof Rooms. O'rianl ] Rugs Sham- ‘These boys are enthusiastic over gutter when it rains, but rains are not the prospect of getting the unused Y. W. C. A. pool to swim in. They get their bathing now by sitting in the so frequent. —Star Staff Photo. D. C., SATURDAY, RAlNB[]w fllVISlnN Sultan Addresses Veter OUT SIGHTSEEING Delegates Go to Fort Myer to Be Commander’s Guests at Review. ‘War-time comrades of the famous Rainbow Division piled into busses and automobiles this morning for a sight-seeing tour which started the second day of heir seventeenth an- nual reunion. As if they had not seen enough of the trappings of wor in the days of ’17, the convention delegates, all of whom participated in combat, flocked LANDON REFUSES LECTURE TRIP EAST Busy Pinching Kansas Pennies, He Regards Balanced Budget and Letters of Praise. By the Assoclated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., July 13.—Gov. Alf M. Landon—thLe Kansas budget-bal- | ancer—refused tonight to take time | out from pinching pennies for a lec- turing junke’ East. tauqua, N. Y., and Chicago have come speaking invitations since Kansas en- | tered the new fiscal year July 1 wfl-h: a balanced budget. | Landon—who stiffens coldly at| mention of the boom already started in his behalf tor the 1936 Republican presidential nomination—grinned to- day as Jetters, cards and telegrams poured in. | He picked up a note from William | J. Wollman of New York. “The only chance for salvation this country has is in the strictest economy | by the Federal Government, the States, counties and municipalities, | because the taxpayers have not got| the money,” Wollman wrote. From Garnett, in his own State, came a letter from C. I. Layton, that| Landon read more than once: “It is such a relief to hear a man in high place speak of saving a penny instead of spending a billlon dollars. All we hear is spend and spénd, tax and more taxes.” —_— GIRL HIKER KILLED Injured Fatally in Arizona Try- ing to Get Ride. PHOENIX, Ariz, July 13 (P)—A pretty 24-yeat-old hitch-hiker, be- lieved to be either Miss Todbo Goody- koontz of Long Beach, Calif, or Pat Bismere of Briceville, Tenn., was in- jured fatally here yesterday when struck by a motor car. She and a girl companion were trying to ob- tai na ride to Los Angeles when the accident occurred. The driver was not held. PAIR ATTACKED BY MAN Assailant Wields Pipe—Makes Escape With $18. Miss Louise Gibkons, 21, of 1319 D street northeast, and her escort, Archie R. Beach, #9, of 544 Shepherd street, were treated at Soldiers’ Home Hospital .last night after they had been attacked by an unidentified man in the home grounds. According to police, the couple went to the duck pond in the grounds to escape the heat, when the man at- tacked them, striking Beach on the head with a piece of p'pe and deliver- ing & blow to Miss Gibbons’ face. Taking her purse, containing $18, the man fled. 8-Day MOUNTAIN EXCURSIONS Leave July 19 and 20 Proportionate rates to intermediate stations, HALF FARES FOR CHILDREN Good on Certain Trains Consult Ticket Agent- for Full Details. pooed or Cleaned by Ar- menian Experts. 1313 U St. Phone No. 3343 CHESAPEAKE and QHIO - : DEPLORES AMENDING OF CONSTITUTION | Dean Pound of Harvard Law School Says Application With Reason All Needed. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, July 13.—The United States “does not need to amend the Constitution,” even though | it is a heritage of the ‘“horse and buggy days.” Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School told the From New York, Baltimore, chnu-;Commonwealth Club of California | Yyesterday. “It is only necessary,” the noted legal authority declared, “to do what the Supreme Court has been doing— take a reasonable view of reasonable- ress,” in apply.ag the Constitution to modern problems. WoobwARD O™U™F (o G Smeers toward Fort Myer, where they were to be the guests of Csl. Kenyon A. Joyce, post commander, at & military review. Armored cars were to meet the veter- ans at Key Bridge ard escort them to the fort’s riding hall. Rain forced abandonment of the plan to nold the review on the drill fleld. The 3rd United States Cavairy and the 16th United States Field Artillery, 1st Battery, were to participate in the exercises. Shortly after noon, the Rainbow men were to go from Fort Myer to Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to honor 125 division comrades buried on the Virginia slopes. The services are to be held in the memorial am- phitheater and will be conducted by the Rev. James A. Murray, division national chaplain, and the Rev. Ar- lington A. McCallum, chaplain of the District chapter. The 3d Calvary band will provide music. Reoeption at White House. A White House reception for the veterans and their accompanying women folk was scheduled for early afterncon. President Roosevelt will be unable to greet the delegations, as he is away on a week end holiday. The President sent a letter to the reunion, which was read at yesterday’s session. He said he was “officially proud and personally delighted” over the achievements of the Rainbow. The veterans and members of their ladies’ auxiliary will dance at the Wil- lard tonight at a ball lasting from 10 pm. to 1 am. Special intermission entertainment will be provided. Today’s ceremonies got off to & tardy start because of the rain and last night's festivities. The exciting experiences of Champagne, St. Mihiel and the Argonne were reborn in retro- spect at a smoker last night in the JULY 13, 1935. DELAY IN GRIMM APPOINTMENT ASKED House Committee Asks More Time to Investigate Morgen. thau Aide. By the Assoclated Press. President Roosevelt has been asked by a speclal House committee to with- hold appointment of Peter Grimm, who was named Wednesday to be a special adviser to Becretary of the Treasury Morgenthau on real estate finances. The committee, headed by Repre- sentative Sabath, Democrat, of Illinois, asked the President to delay the ap- pointment until after the group could | complete an investigation of Grimm's connection with New York bondhold- ers’ reorganizations in New York. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of New York, a member of the com-! mittee, charged Grimm had “played “Cafe de la Crystallerie” on the Wil- lard’s tenth floor. The old war songs were sung and unlucky was the vet- eran who couldn't remember the enatches of French picked up “over there.” Waitresses were directed to serve nothing unless it was ordered | in French. As guests of Clark Griffith, who would have preferred playing host on a more happy occasion, the veterans saw yesterday. Other veterans were con- ducted through the Justice Depart- ment's crime laboratories. A principal and popular speaker at yesterday's brief business session was former Gov. Wilbur E. Brucker of Michigan. All speeches were short and little business was transacted, in | nounced policy of subordinating busi- ness to fun., Quake Shakes Pern Town. earth tremor shook Trujillo, north of | Lima, at 12:40 am. yesterday. The | shock, lasting 40 seconds, caused no | damage, but created widespread panic, | & LoTHROP Pruowe Distmicr S300 Monday Morning—9:15—WJSV Hear Jean Abbey Women's Home Companion Radio Shopper She will tell you about the interesting new things at Woodward & Lothrop—many offer- ings designed to make your Summer more com- fortable and pleasant. Summer Headlines —achieve “front page” importance, what with long hours spent, hatless, beneath the sun, or dancing beneath a romantic moon. An easy-to-care-for coiffure is the perfect answer. May we help you achieve one through a flattering permanent, a particu- larly becoming haircut. Telephone DIstrict 5300 for an appointment. HAm DRESSING, SECOND FLOOR. Detroit defeat Washington at base ball | line with convention officials’ an- | LIMA, Peru, July 13 (#).—A strong | with the Republicans” in connection | with the Roosevelt Bondholders' Com- | | mittee in New York and the Para-| mount Broadway Corp.'s reorganiza- | tion. |~ Grimm 1s expected here Monday to be sworn in. He will advise the Sec- | | retary in connection with activities of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., Fed- | eral Housing Administration and the Farm Credit Administration. | MEIGHAN IMPROVES NEW YORK, July 13 (#).—The condition of Thomas Meighan, veteran stage and screen actor, who was oper- | ated on Thursday for a bronchial obstruction, was said to be “favorable” last night. The operation was neces- sitated, his physician said, by an attack of pneumonia Meighan suf-| fered last January, He is 56, How will you like your the right Commissioner Dan Sultan (right), who addressed the Rainbow Division at their convention at the Willard Hotel last night and presented them with the key to the city. Sultan is shown with M. Manning Marcus, president of the Rainbow Division of Washington, ans —Star Staff Photo. GREEN LAUDS CUT IN PROJECT HOURS Hopkins’ Action Praised by A. F of L. Head as “Move in Right Direction.” WALMSLEY AIDES DESERT T0 LONG Mayor Clings to Job—Ward Leaders to Draft Ouster Move. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, July 13.—T. Semmes Walmsley became virtually a mayor without a city today as desert- ing followers joined the forces of Sen- ator Huey P. Long in a plan to have the Legislature put him out of office. Leaders of the mayor's old political organization asked him to resign yes- terday, and when he refused trooped to Long's skyscraper hotel suite and “surrendered” the city into the Sena- tor's hands. Long, presiding in shirtsleeves, un- able to restrain his glee, “advised” the old regulars to circulate a petition asking the Legislature to remove the mayor. Surrender Conference Called. The old regulars huddled in con- ference and then reported they would caucus Monday at 10 am. to arrange public meetings to discuss the plan. The ward leaders indicated the pro- posal would be followed, which prob- ably would mean a special session of the Legislature the latter part of next week, The old regulars came into Long's sulte sheepishly. Long slapped their backs, shook hands and joked ami- ably. Ulic Burke, spokesman for the group, solemnly notified Long they had come to seek his “assistance” in bringing about a “condition of peace and harmony in the city.” Robbed of Patronage. By the Associated Press. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, today indicated a belief Harry L. Hopkins' recent reduction of working hours for persons engaged on Works Progress Administration projects was a move in the right direction. Maximum hours weve cut from 180 to 140 per month and the indications were the proposed wages of $19 to $94 a month would remain unchanged. Atlhough Green had not concluded hig study of the hours scale, he said “Mr. Hopkins' reduction will mean an increase of hourly wage rates, appar- enfly, and therefore indicates, I be- | lleve, recognition of sur principles.” ‘The federation has fought for work relief wage rates equal to the rates prevailing in private industry. There has been no announcement as to just how the new rates will compare with prevailing rates. CARNIVAL IS TONIGHT A carnival will be held tonight at the St. Francis Xavier Church, Twenty-fourth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, which will be pre- ceded by a concert by the Holy Com- forter's Boys' Band. A parade, headed by the Boys’ Band. will inaugurate the carnival, beginning at 6:30 pm. from Second and Penn- sylvania avenue and continuing out the avenue to the church. —_— Darien to Have Paving. Darien, Manchuria, is to have paved streets in place of dirt tracks. New Relations? You are a bride whose days are filled - with romance—and practical problems! You have foods to buy. The spare bed room needs draperies and blankets. You must have a telephone installed. There is the medicine chest to be filled with sim- ple yet reliable supplies . . . insurance to think of. And the generous check from Uncle Michael . . . you are planning gn anew car or a grand piano with that! relations. Laws passed at Long's direct: | have robbed Mayor Walmsley of patronage power and taken y | city’s authority to collect taxes. Sal aries of city employes are unpaid. During the caucus Long made an uncomplimentary reference to the old regulars. Burke reminded Long of an “agreement.” “Oh, yes,” saild Long. “The one understanding I had over the phone with the old regulars was that I would call them gentlemen, not rats.” T. V. A. MODIFICATIONS STIR WILLKIE’S WRATH Same Treatment of Public | ity Would Be Fought as | Piratical, He Says. | By the Assoctated Press | NEW YORK., July 13—V | condemnation of modifications | Thursday by the House of Repres tives in the original Tennessee V Authority bill was made yesterday | Wendell L. Willkie, president of the | Commonwealth & Sou | whose subsidiaries oper: | Asserting that provisions of originally reported by the M Affairs Committee relating to auc ing, sale of power at not less tk cost and requirement of condemnz- | tion of existing lines before dupl | ing existing facilities were elimin: | from the bill, Willkie said a pub | utility company U “piratical” if it at ment at the hands of Legislatures. When you make each unaccustomed purchase you establish new relations. Whether they will bring you joy depends on your care and forethought in choosing But inexperience need not turn you timid. Read the advertisements in this newspaper. They will tell you what to buy, where to buy and how much to spend. They will bring you the knowl. edge you need. They will help you to find “new relations” that will become ready helpers and faithful friends.