Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weataer Bureau Forecast.) Fair today and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature tomorrow; gentle to moder- ate north winds. Temperatures—High- est, 79, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 60, 6 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-9. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,588—No. 33,353. | Che Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. > FARM BLOCS FOIL ADJOURNMENT; PRESIDENT ASKS RECESS STUDY TO PRESERVE GAINS UNDER N.R. A. L2 Senate Sets Session for Tomorrow. DELAY WINS BY 5 MINUTES| Fight on Cotton, Wheat Loans Remains. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. In a desperate last-minute drive the cotton and wheat blocs in the Senate prevented a final adjourn- ment of Congress at midnight last night. The Senate and House stand in Tecess until tomorrow at moon. Congressional Staffs’ Exodus Blocked as Adjournment Fails Cancellations Fail to Disturb Railroad Officials Who Ordered No Special Equipment for Home Rush. Failure of Congress to adjourn| Representatives and Senators, 300; | halted a wholesale exodus of members | Congress clerks, 250; messengers, 100; | of Congress, their secretaries, clerks | House, Senate and Capitol police, 40; and lobbyists slated to begin last elevator operators, 35; pages, 20. midnight. | The lobbyist good-by was opened Although the railroad office in the | jate Friday night by B. B. Robinson, Capital sold yard after yard of tickets | chief Washington party-giver for the all day yesterday—more than 300, to | Associated Gas & Electric, whose busi- be exact—a flood of last-minute can-| ness here <> Sends Special Message to Leaders. HITS CHISELERS 'SINCE CODE END Parleys Planned to' Map Drive for Laws. ey WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1935106 PAGES. cellations failed to perturb officials at Union Station, who,said no special | equipment had been ordered. Ap- parently many had waited for more | definite assurance of adjournment be- | fore making their Pullman reserva- tions. A large part of the city's official | With the skids all greased for a get- away, something faltered. The House voted, 202 to 95, to return to the Senate the concurrent resolution population also would have gone by | today if Congress had adjourned. bite us because we have noi seen | Rough estimates put the number at 745, divided among these groups: | ceases when Congress ceases. Beware of Watch Dogs. As weary members of Congress to=d the mark for the leap to the homes they left in January, now set for this week, Senator Dieterich, Republican, of Illinois warned them: “The old watch dog will probably him for so long. We shall have to (See MEMBERS, Page 4.) In a surprise message to congres- | sional leaders last night, President | Roosevelt called on them to prepare legislation during the recess of Con- gress for preserving permanently to the Nation “such social and economic advantages” as were gained in N. R. A. and other previous emergency legislation. In identic letters to Chairnian Har- rison of the Senate Finance Com- | mittee and Doughton of the House the - Star NO'SIR! 1 WON'T JUMP IN SOME OF W ) W PUSH ME 7 i t \ ue e SN ~N g m A \; BUT THE BOYS MIGHT 3% IN/ WL S A\ Subscriber or Newsstand Copy Not for Sale by Newsboys FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE 0.5 WARNS WORLD ITWONTCOTOWAR AS BRITISH FLEET RINGS SUEZ CANAL |Feverish Days of 1917 Are Recalled as Senate Sends White House Sweeping Neutrality Resolution. (ETHIOPIAN ARMY DIGS TRENCHES ON BORDER 150,000 Italian Soldiers Tramp in Grim Maneuvers in North While Other Thousands Leave Naples for Africa With Cheers Ringing in Ears. * The Situation Abroad: Great Britain ordered the strength of its Mediterranean fleet concen- trated around the Suez Canal yes- terday. At Valetta, Malta, an offi- cial announcement disclosed war- ships would be stationed at both entrances of the canal: ————| Ways and Means Committee, | President said evidence had been pre- | Ethiopia began the construction of earlier adopted, providing for adjourn- | frontier trenches. Em Hails S. peror aile ment August 24. Precisely five minutes before the hour of midnight, when adjournment would have been automatic the House clerk breathlessly rushed into the! Senate chamber bearing the adjourn- ment resolution. Byrnes Asks Reconsideration, Immediately Senator Byrnes of Bouth Carolina, leader of the cotton bloc in this fight, moved a recon- sideration of the vote by which the Senate had adopted the adjournment | resolution. Vice President Garner put | the motion and there was a roar of “ayes.” No Senator voted “no.” A moment later Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, | moved a recess of the Senate until tomorrow. For hours the cotton and wheat Senators had tried to bring back from the House the adjournment resolution. It was their only hope to save the third deficiency appropriation bill which carried their amendment for 12-cent Government loans on cotton and 1'>-cent loans per pound on Wwheat. The House leaders had decreed the deficiency bill with these amendments should be allowed to die, even though | it carried more than $76.000.000 for beginning the operation of the economic security bill. They flatly declined to permit the bill to be sent to conference as requested by the Senate. In view of the votes taken in the House and Senate last night, it now- seems probable that the cotton and wheat amendments of the Senate will be written into the deficiency bill and the measure sent to the President. Whether the Chief Executive would veto the bill under such circumstances has not been disclosed. | The administration’s recent order limiting loans on cotton to farmers to | 9 cents a pound started all the trouble. | ‘The cotton farmers have had 12-cent | loans in the past. | The loans to wheat farmers would establish an entirely new practice. | sented to him that “serious impair- | Selassie issued a proclamation in- PRESIDENT SCORES ROOSEVELT SIGNS | | FES OF REFORN,LATE MEASURE Exhorts Young Democrats A. A. A. Bill Praised on to Unite Under Banner | ment of established standards by a minority” in industry had taken place since the Supreme Court declared the N. R. A. unconstitutional. Mr. Roosevelt, it was said in some quarters, had considered sending a special message to Congress dealing with this problem. He decided, how- ever, to convey his information and recommendations in letters to the two committee chairmen. Johnson to Hale Into Court l + Family Heads Refusing Jobs Administrator Threatens to Force Employables With Dependents to structing the civil population of Addis Ababa how to seek safety in the event of an air attack. An army of 150,000 Italian soldiers moved through the mountains of Northern Italy, preparatory to maneuvers beginning at dawn. Si- muitaneously, 350,000 other Fascist troops will engage in war drills in other sections. A tremendous ova- tion was given the departure for Africa from Naples of nearly 6,000 TERRFIES DENVER City Hall Among 14 Build- | of Liberalism. (Text of Speech on Page A-5.) President Roosevelt championed the philosophy of change and reform last night striking out in a radio address at standpat “Torles” and advancing the innovations of the New Deal as “Government co-operation to help make the system of free enterprise work."” ‘The President waved aside “prophe- cies of gloom” over new social and economic adjustments and belittled the idea that “to change is to de- stroy.” Every part af his speech, directed primarily to the Young Democratic Clubs in convention i Milwaukee, but designed for a Nation-wide audi- ence, indicated that the New Deal was a continuous affair end that the President was not yet choosing to rest upon legislation already enacted. The President called upon progres- sives to unite and remain united. He warned that methods and details could easily provoke disagreements when broad objectives should be the matter held in view. Holds Principles Sacred. “Rules are not necessarily sacred —principles are.” the President de- clared. “The methods of the old order are not. as some would have you believe, above the challenge of youth.” In these references some saw the President’s indirect return to his previ- ously expressed thesis that progress A coalition of the cotton and wheat Senators alone made possible the vic- | toward the objectives set forth in the tory of the cotton men yesterday. It Constitution must not be hobbled by required a two-thirds vote of the!rigidity of rules construed under it. Senate to write the cotton loan legis- | With his political foes already making lation into an appropriation bill under | capital of his hints at amending the the rules of the Senate. A motion | Constituticn, the President’s to suspend the rules, made by Sen- | gave some evidence that he was not ator Byrnes yesterday afternoon so|ready to go ahead openly with this | speech | Final Approval—Others Get Signature. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Surrounded by a small group cf as-| sociates, President Roosevelt spent | the greater part of last night in ms/ study on the second floor of the White | House signing bills and keeping in touch with Senate and House leaders regarding the futile efforts to bring | the Congress to a close. | While Mr. Roosevelt has had a number of major bills before him, yesterday afternoon he signed the A. A. A. measure which strengthens the | agricultural adjustment act, which e | regards as of great importance. i | Incident to this signing the Presi- | dent issued a statement in which he said: “This legislation supplements the original agricultural adjustment act, enacted May 12, 1933, which unques- tionably has keen of great value to American farmers. It carries forward the agricultural program on the broad economic basis of the original act. “This act as a whole will enable the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- tion to move fciward in its construc- tive and essential work in behalf of agriculture.” D. C. Bills Are Signed. | _The only bill of significance to the | District of Columbia, signed late yes-| ;' terday by the President, were the one amending the code of laws of the Dis- | trict to provide pensions and annuities | to the aged persons in this city and | the bill providing annuities for de- pendent blind persons in the Dis- | trict. In addition to this there | are asnumber of unsigned bills, the | most important of which aré the one | providing for railroad pensions, the | rivers and harbors omnibus bill, the | as to make in order the cotton amend- ment, was carried by a vote of 50 to 19. Immediately Senator Frazier | of North Dakota, speaking for the wheat Senators, proposed an amend- ment to the cotton amendment au- thorizing Government loans on wheat to the farmers. op SI as ) ! plan but was agreeable to missionary | (See SIGNING, Page 5.) work propagating the idea of govern- mental adjustments to keep pace with ; . Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Data On “Chiseling.” The Chief Executive said he was sending certain information bearing out his conclusions regarding the “chiseling” of a minority in industry. He added that as additional informa- tion was gathered he would transmit it to the two committees for their use. The President urged that in the meantime industrial groups in in- creasing numiers avail themselves of the provisions of the joint resolution | passed by Congress extending the N. R. A. until next Spring. In this way, industry could put into effect the minimum wage, hours of labor and prohibition of child labor under vol- untary agreements. He called attention to the fact that such agreements, when approved by the President, are exempted from the | penalties of the anti-trust laws. By such action, he contended, industry could do much to preserve the sub- | stantial gain made while the N. R. A. codes were in effect. Conference Planned. Mr. Roosevelt said that during the adjournment of Congress he would | into conference representatives | call of managements and labor and con- sumers in the hope “that discussion will create among them a general agreement as to the best means of | accelerating industrial recovery and the elimination of unemployment.” He remarked that insufficient time remained to present to Congress a complete picture of the post-N. R. A. situation, but asked that the commit- tees analyze the information collected by N. R. A. thus far during the recess. In that way, he thought, “adequate data would be made available for a thorough understanding of the com- plex situation confronting industry and labor.” Letter From President. The President’s letter to Senator | Harrison follows: “My Dear Mr. Chairman: “Reports upon industrial tions, which commerce and industry, have condi- been functioning without the advan-| tages of the codes of fair competition, covering the short period in| The Frazier motion prevailed by a Republican youths. Accordin,ly, what vote of 41 to 23 and then both the he said was of a philosophical vein Byrnes and Frazier amendments were | summed up in one of his final phrases: inserted in the bill. | “The spirit of America is the spirit Apparently certain of an adjourn-: of inquiry, of readjustment, of im- | ment last night, the President earlier provement.” | had sent to both Vice President Gar-| The American spirit of individual- | ner and Speaker Byrns letters bidding | ism, alone and unhelped, could not | them good-by and congratulating | cope with economic disarrangements; them on the good work of the session. ' the experience of the depression iem- But he spoke too soon. | onstrated this, the President declared. “I expect we will be here several | In line with the developments of days,” said Senator Robinson, the finance and industry to more compli- Democratic leader, after the recess: cated structure, he went om, social | finally was taken. control had to develop. Turbulent scenes were enacted in | Praives Now Taws. i social needs. Main News Section. The President declared that ne was | General News—Pages A-1 to B-6. not making a political speech. He told his listeners that he would make Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-9. the same address to a convention of Lost and Found—A-9. Death Notices—A-9. Vital Statistics—A-9. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. | Editorials and Editorial Fea- | tures—D-2. both Houses last night. At one point i when Senator Tydings of Maryland ‘was addressing the Senate while the | cotton Senators were iiching to get io & vote on the Byrnes motion to request the return by the House of the ad- | Jjournment resolution, Senator Clark of | (See ADJOURNMENT, Page 4.) LEAVE BILLS DENIED | PASSAGE LAST NIGHT McKellar Blocks Copeland’s Ef- fort for Action After Read- ing Telegram. Another effort by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York to get the two Government employe leave bills thorugh the Senate failed when Sen- ator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee again announced he wouid oppose their passage. Senator Huey Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, who was in the midst of a final speech, yielded to Copeland, who sent to the desk a telegram from E. Claude Babcock, president of the | American Federation of Government Employes, appealing for action on the leave bills. After the telegram had been read, Copeland asked McKellar if he would be willing to allow action on the bills, which have already passed the House. *“Undoubtedly I will not,” McKellar replied. “I have already stated pub- licly I would be willing to go into the question in January and work out a bill fair to all employes.” From this thesis grew the Presi- dent’s references last night to the legislation sponsored by his adminis- tration although he refrained from discussing it as a partisan product. He championed the new laws or bills soon 19 become law covering banking, the securities business, labor relations, bank deposit insurance, social security and utility regulation. “The reforms for which we were condemned Z4 years ago are taken“to- day as a matter of course.” Mr. Roose- velt declared. “And so, I believe, will be. regarded the reforms that now cause such concern to the reaction- aries of 1935.” Mr. Roosevelt made dhis speech from the diplomatic reception room in the White House. Henry Morgenthau, jr., Secretary of the Treasury, and mem- bers of the presidential office staff were on hand. It wgs his first major radio address since ‘The Presi- dent spoke while Congress was at the point of adjournment, ending a ses- sion in which virtually all the ad- ministration’s legislation, albeit some of it compromised, was carried out. Representative Bertrand H. Snell, Republican leader of the House, is to be his party’s spokesman in comment on the session and on the President’s remarks in a speech over the Colum- bia Broadcasting System at 6:30 East- ern standard time today. Three Infants Die in Fire. TULAMEEN, British Columbia, Au- gust 24 (#).—The three infant chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Robin- son were burned to death today in & fire which destroyed their home here. 2 Civic News and Comment—D-4. | Who Are You?—D-4. Contract—D-4. Public Library—D-4. Veterans’ Organizations, Nation- al Guard and Organized Re- serves—D-5-6. Fraternal Organizations—D-5-6. Serial Story—D-6. Resorts—D-7. Short Story—D-8. PART THREE. Society Section. Society News and Comment— ¥ (See MESSAGE, Page Chambruns Sail for U. S. CHERBOURG, France, August 24 (#).—The Count and Countess Rene Adelbert de Chambrun sailed tonight | aboard the Empress of Britain on a honeymoon visit to Canada and the United States. Pierre Laval and the Count is a nephew of the late Nicholas Long- worth. 4 Bodies Taken From Tunnel. BERLIN, August 24 (®).—After four days of continuous search for victims buried in the collapse of a sub- way tunnel under construction near Brandenburg Gate the first three bodies were extricated today. Unofficial estimates are that some 17 bodies are still in the debris. Pages E-1-9. Well-Known Folk—E-3. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Happy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-3. Books—F-4. Stage and Screen—F-5. Music—F-6. Radio News and Programs—F-7. Automobiles—F-8. Aviation—F-8. Cross-word Puzzle—F-8. Children’s Pa%e—!"-fi. High Lights of History—F-9. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Financial News and Comment, tock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. Stam; -5. Clasalfied Advertising—G-5-12. 4 The battle between the gangster ai in the war on crime?” - The answer to this question authorities on the cause Beginning She is the daughter of Premier | By the Associated Press. Work or Face Punishment. NEW YORK, August 24 —Thrown on the defensive after their abortive strike attempt against the Works Progress Administration, labor leaders pre- the dole and into relief jobs. | pared tonight to resist a new effort io force their unemployed followers off ‘With 40,000 W. P. A. jobs open and no takers, Gen, Hugh Johnson, works progress administrator for New York City, threatened to prosecute able-bodied heads of families on the home relief«e | rolls who refuse to go to work when called on. " Under the plan, effective Momtiay, all employables who turn down prof- | fered jobs will be cut off the dole im- mediately, and if they have depend- ents titey will be haled into Domestic { Relations Court on charges of non- support. The court is empowered to mete out jail terms. “We have the money, we bave the jobs and we have the people who are out of work,” declared Gen. Johnson, “no amount of alibis in the world can explain or justify the failure to get them together.” A bitter protest against the “work- or-go-to-jail” order was voiced by David Lasser, chairman of the Work- ers’ Unemployed Union, a ieft wing organization which sided with Amer- ican Federation of Labor unions in their recent strike against the W. P. A security wage. Exnressing the conviction that “a free people will not yield to such bludgeoning,” Lasser declared: “During the last war men went to jail as conscientious objectors. If necessary, the unemployed will go to jail as conscientious objectors to forced labor and allow the city to take care of their families. “The unemployed are ready and willing to work, but will not be en- rolled in Fascist labor battalions.” Lasser interpreted the order meaning that “we are to have the forced labor of Hitler's Germany and Mussolini’s Italy.” Drastic in scope and swift in exe- cution, the decision to invoke jail penalties against those who prefer the dole to work, for whatever reason, {had the approval of Federal Relief | Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. | Among the excuses offered by those | who turn down W. P, A. jobs is that | th: work is not in their line. | officials contend, however, that they | will be transferred from the unskilled | division to work for which they have | been trained as rapidly as possible. REPEAL ELECTION CLOSE IN TEXAS Vote 144,930 to 124,639 Against Prohibition on Half of Returns. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., August 24.—Oppon- votes in a referendum on repeal had been counted. In a tabulation covering reports from 172 of the 254 counties, 16 of them complete, the vote on repeal | for and 124,639 against. The reported vote was about one- half of the generally forecast light total of between 400,000 and 600,000. the special election which was called to decide on seven proposed amend- ments to the State constitution. The vote on payment of pensions to per- f sons over 65 years of age, not habitual drunkards and not inmates of State | institutions, stood 202,723 for and 53.- | 743 against in the 10 p.m. tabulation. WIN“ING THE WAR ON CRIME nd racketeer and the forces of the law goes on with unremitting fury, and the average citizen may ask: “What has been accomplished and what still may be accomplished will be given In & series of seven articles, written by the foremost United States and combating of crime, in co-operation with the National Committee on Public Education for Crime Control, appearing exclusively in The Evening Star Tomorrow With an article by J. Edgar Hoover on “Police Efficiency and Crime,” and followed by others to run each day next week. ents of State-wide liquor prohibition | in Texas clung to & narrowing lead | tonight after approximately half the | of the 16-year-old constitutional pro- | vision against hard liquor was 144,930 | Old-age pensions ran away with| AR RECORDS SET BY GEN. ANDREWS Flies Bombardment Plane fo Lower Marks Held by Col. Lindbergh. By the Associated Press. LANGLEY FIELD, Va., August 25.— | Brig. Gen. Frank M. Andrews this | afternoon hurled his Martin bombardment plane over the second average speed of 165.4 miles per hour, which Col. Follett Brady, intelligence officer at Langley Field, said broke three world records for the 1,000-kilo- meter course, previously held by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Gen. Andrews’ elapsed time for the 1,000-kilometer course, flying with a 2,204.6-pound (2,000 kilogram) load, was 3 hours 45 minutes and 13 seconds. The general, commander of the General Headquarters Air Force here, | flew for the record over a triangular course on which the points were Wil- loughby Spit in Hampton Roads, Bolling Field, Washington. The previous marks, set by Col. Lindbergh, Edwin Musick and Boris Sergievsky in a Sikorsky S-42 sea~ plane, were 157.3 miles an hour over the prescribed distance, first, without ipay load; second, with pay load of 500 kilograms, and third, with pay load of 1,000 kilograms. The flying general barely failed in his attempt to set records for the 2,000-kilometer course, which he cov- ered by twice circling the three pylons between 8 minutes and 55 seconds minutes 45 3-10 seconds after 5 o'clock this afternoon. . Nazis Warn Barbers. BERLIN, August 24 (#).—Germaa barbers and restaurant owners wer2 warned today they are liable to arrest and withdrawal of their licenses if they do not immediately report to secret police any ‘“subversive talk” among their customers. One restaurant keeper at Prankforl was taken into custody for “tolerating conversation hostile to the state” without attempting to put a stop to it or informing authorities. British Mine Deaths Now 9. SOUTH ELMSHALL, Yorkshire, England, August 24 (#).—Five men injured in an explosion in the South Kirby Mine last night died today, bringing the number of victims to B | ings Attacked in Destruc- tive Rampage. By the Associated Press. DENVER, August 24—A maniacal firebug terrorized Denver tonight with his mysterious firebrand as he kindled | three fires in the $6,000,000 city hall, | where he endangered art treasures, and eluded a ring of officers to start a later fire in an office building. Firemen and especially detailed po- licemen searched frsntically for him. Fourteen buildings had felt his as- sault in the last three days. In each instance the fires were dis- covered and extinguished quickly. Police Surround Building. Fifty armed officers surrounded the city hall, blocked all entrances and corridors, believing he had secreted himself there. | Within a half hour after his attack | upon the Municipal Building, a fire | call came from the Majestic Building, | two blocks away. | ‘There the firebug had touched a match to a quantity of motion picture and searched each office, | troops, including two sons of Benito Mussolini and his son-in- law. U. S. Emphasizes Neutrality. By the Associated Press Congress gave stern notice to the world yesterday by word and action that America would resort to unpre cedented measures to preserve her neutrality during any foreign war. | Scenes rivaling the feverish, dark days of 1917 marked the epochal step taken by the Senate in sending to the White House a modified? yet still sweeping, resolution placing & six- months’ mandatory embargo on arm | shipments to belligerents. President | Roosevelt’s signature was forecast confidently. The decisive 77-to-2 vote by which it approved amendments to its original neutrality proposal was capped quickly by another dramatic Senate inter- change that culminated in a refusal to register what some termed an offi- cial “rebuke” to Senator Pope, Demo- crat, of Idaho for a statement he made in England predicting the United States might become involved in an other world war. Relief | film stored in the men's room on the fifth floor. Little damage was done. Resolution Beaten, 47 to 26, One blaze in the City Building dam- | Although discharging, 47 to 26, a aged several prints and pictures do- |resolution by Senator La Follette nated the city by the Carnegie Foun- | Progressive, of Wisconsin serving no- dation. Another fire kindled in a |tice that the Senate had not author- cabinet where especially fine works of | ized any of its members to represent | art are kept smoldered and went out | it abroad “directly or indirectly.” without damaging the prints. Burned | Senators made it plain that such matches were discovered at the scenes | statements as that of Pope were “un- of nearly all the blazes. fortunate” but carried no official Hospital Book Clue. At the city hall fires police found burned sheets of a hospital registra- tion book, offering the theory that the man might have been released from a | hospital recently. The firebug started his incendiary orgy Thursday when he fired three Catholic churches, damaging confes- weight. | The neutrality resolution, repre- nting a reversal of traditional Amer- ican policy in permitting the Presi- dent wide discretion in conducting | international affairs, calls for an out- right ban or shipments of arms and munitions to belligerents until Feb- ruary 29, 1936, two months after the B-12| lap of his 2,000-kilometer flight at an | sional booths and a prized painting. | Dext Congress convenes. Yesterday six more fires broke out | 1t 8lso makes it unlawful for Amer- in rooms in small hotels, office build- |ican ships to carry arms or imple- ings and stores. | ments of war to any port of a belliger- Early this morning the man kind'ed | €0t Of to a neutral port for trans- a fire at the door of the Annunciation | ShiPment to a warring nation. And it | Catholic School in East Denver. | gives the President dicretion in re- | “John McAuley, who lives near the |Stricting use of American water by school, fired a fusillade of shots at | belligerent submarines and travel of the bent figure outlined in the glim- | American citizens in war zones and mering blaze, but the man escaped. |°R Ships of belligerents. Johnson, Connally Assail Plan. Senators Johnson, Republican, of Californi and Connally, Democrat, of STRIKERS BLOCK MAIL Texas assailed the neutrality pro- Clash With Police Mark Delivery | Posal. but joined 75 others in voting | for it. Connally said he did so be- Attempt at Iowa Plant. | cause it was a “gesture” toward peace; CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, August 24 ' Johnson because it marked a “triumph () —Police and strikers traded blows | for the international isolationist and today when & United States mail | the doom for the internationalist.” truck driver attempted to go through | _ Senators Gerry, Republican, of picket lines at the Iowa Manufactur- | Rhode Island and Bankhead, Demo- Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and | after 10 o'clock.this morning and 53 | | ing Co. plant here with a parcel post | package. The strikers are machinists at the | plant. They demand higher wages and better working conditions. The pickets have succeeded in pre- venting delivery of food to 25 or 30 workers in the plant since Friday night. The clash came when officers tried to pull aside a street barricade to allow the mail truck to pass. Three attempts to yank down the barrier were made, but strikers held their lines, and the mail truck finally left. FIRST SHOWBOAT OWNER ON MISSISSIPPI DIES Mrs. Thomlinson and First Hus- band Started Theater Cruise on River in 1879. By the Associated Press. DOTHAN, Ala, August 24—Mrs. Callie F. Thomlinson, 74, of Columbia, Ala., reputed co-owner of the first showboat on the Mississippi River, died in a hospital here today. Mrs. Thomlinson and her first hus- band, Capt. E. B. French, started their first showboat cruise in 1879. After Capt. French’s death, she car- ried on the business with Capt. J. E. McNair ‘until 1907, when she retired and moved her residence to Columbia. son of Columbia. Her original river vessel was leased for use in the film version of Edna Ferber's novel, “Show- boat.” ) In 1915 she married C. H. Thomlin- | crat, of Alabama cast the opposition ballots. It was the booming voice of the | husky Democratic leader—Robinson of | Arkansas—that warned the world | America will not go to war “to settle | European controversies.” He took the | floor to reply to the statement Friday (See WAR, Page 3.) 'BOY, AGED 11, HELD IN BROTHER'S DEATH | Colored Youth Admits Having Hit Child, 6, With Rock for Chasing Chickens. Eleven-year-old Douglas Williams, colored, 2600 block of Pierson place southeast, was ordered held for the grand jury by a coroner’s jury yester- day after he admitted having struck his 6-year-old brother on the head with a rock when the lad refused to stop chasing chickens. The younger brother, Stanley Pat- rick Williams, died of a fractured skull Wednesday at Gallinger Hos- pital. He had been taken there late Monday after he was said to have been taken suddenly il while play- ing at his home. * The elder boy testified he had struck his brother with the rock when the latter refused to heed his repeated commands to stop chasing some chickens. The boy told the jury he is fatherless and that his mother works. .