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-+ YOUNGDEMOCRATS PLEDGE THER AID Will Work for Roosevelt. Frank Wickhem Elected to Head Organization. Young Democrats Urge Amendment For D. C. Franchise Amendment of the United States Constitution to grant full rights of citizenship to the people of the District of Columbia was advocated by delegates to the con- vention of the Young Democratic Clubs of America at Milwaukee, Wis., in a resolution adopted last night, according to the Associated Press. In its resolution, the organiza- tion indorsed a proposed amend- ment which grants full voting privileges to District residents, placing the Federal territory on a political footing similar to that of the States. MILWAUKEE, August 24 (P .— Frank Wickhem, assistant United Btates district attorney from Sioux Falls, 8. Dek., pledged tonight a three-point program during his presi- dency of the young Democratic clubs of America. “I pledge to do everything in my power to build up the Young Demo- crats organization, to build up the Democratic party and to re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt next year,” he told the clubs’ national convention Victor in a spirited one-ballot con- test that had much of the fanfare of a national presidential convention, the 34-year-old attorney, received the ac- claim of parading delegates as John Roosevelt, youngest son of the Presi- dent reached out to clasp his hand. Wickhem won over Ralph Cham- bers, Picher, Okla, banker and cat- tleman, by a 94 to 75 vote. Five votes were cast by the Michigan dele- gation for Willlam F. Dorn, Detroit, 28-year-old former assistant State attorney general. Mrs. Louis Gelleher from Lees- burg, Va., was elected vice president without opposition. Charles Murphy of Portland, Me., defeated Frank Reel of Boston, Mass,, for treasurer. Two of the men boomed for presi- dent were nominated for secretary to succeed James Roosevelt. Before the roll call was finished, George William- son of St. Paul conceded the elec- tion of Joe Cordell Carr of Nash- ville, Tenn., and his motion that the election be made unanimous was carried. Indianapolis was named host city for the 1937 convention. A motion to table settled a parlia- mentary dispute over a resolution to suggest to the national Democratic party that nominations for President and Vice President be a simple ma- Jjority rather than by the two-third vote as at present. Other resolutions approved by voice included: A commendation of Congress for acting to forbid the sale of war ma- terials to warring nations, and to pre- vent loans to warring nations, and a request that such a policy be made permanent. A suggestion that the Young Dem- | ocrats conduct regional meetings. | A demand that Federal employment | be permitted only those in sympathy | with the principles of the Democratic party and the administration. An indorsement of the principle that the farmer is entitled to a fair share of the national income, and the continuance of the farm program for national prosperity. COLORED MAN HELD SUICIDE BY CORONER Verdict Exonerates Son, Held Pending Outcome of Police Investigation. A certificate of suicide has been issued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac- Donald in the death of Charles Henry | Waters, 52, colored, 1417 Columbia | street, an employe of the Carnegie Institution of Washington for 30 years, whose body was found early yester- | day on the stairway of his home by his son, Charles B. Waters. { ‘The verdict exonerated the son, | who had been held pending the out- | come of a police investigation and an autopsy ordered by the coroner. The elder Waters was found on the stairs with a clothesline about his neck, one end of it lashed to the banister. Examination showed a cut in his scalp and that one eye was discolored. Two Die in Boat Collision. PANAMA CITY, Panama, August 24 (®) —Two men lost their lives when | the tanker Cathwood, entering Balboa Harbor to dock, crashed into a Pan- ama banana boat and sank it, it was reported to canal officials today. Monkey Runaways Create Stampede In Elephafit House ‘Al Capone’ Leads Sortie at Frank Buck’s An- imal Compound. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24.—Followers of the great monkey hunt on Long Island tonight were digesting reports of & wild midnight sortie, in which a band of escaped simians was supposed to have thrown six full-grown ele- phants into hysterical confusion. Attendants in the elephant house at Frank Buck’s Massapequa animal compound told of being awakened in the middle of the night by loud and frantic trumpetings from their charges. Dashing out in pajamas and trailing night shirts, they said they found 18 of the fugitive monkeys bombarding the outraged clephants with water buckets and other missiles. The elephants thundered and stomped, and the monkeys screamed deflance at the inrushing keepers. All was bedlam until the keepers man- aged to round up 15 of the shrieking little fugitives. The three others then fled, leaving the elephants on the wverge of & nervous breakdown. Keepers said the monkeys had in- vaded the elephant house in search ©of food, and insisted they were led by Al Capone, the scar-faced little monkey gangster for whose capture & $50 reward has been offered. Ca- pone was among the three that es- caped. b THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 25, 1935—PART ONE. Text of President’s Speech He Advises Young Democrats Not to Fear the Changes That New Conditions Demand. The text of the President's address follows: I am deeply sorry that I have had to forego the opportunity of accompanying my old friend, Sen- ator Ryan Duffy, to Milwaukee to be with you, as I had planned, to- night. But the closing days of a far-reaching and memorable ses- ston of the Congress of the United States keeps me here in Wash- ington. You doubtless know everything that I am going to say to you— because starting as early as last Monday certain special writers of a few papers have given you a complete outline of my remarks. I have been interested and some- what amused by these clairvoyants who put on the front page many days ago this speech, which, be- cause of pressure of time, I could only think out and dictate this very morning. Whatever his party affiliations may be, the President of the United States, in addressing the youth of the country—even when speaking to the younger citizens of his own party—should speak as President of the whole people. It is true that the presidency carries with it, for the time being, the leadership of a political party as well. But the presidency carries with it a far higher obligation than this—the duty of analyzing and setting forth national needs and ideals which transcend and cut across all lines of party affiliation. There- fore, what I am about to say to you, members of the Young Demo- cratic Clubs, is precisely—word for word—what I would say were I addressing a convention of the youth of the Republican party. Speeches Different Years Ago. A man of my generation comes to the councils of the younger war- ~iors in a very different spirit from that in which the older men ad- dresced the youth of my time. Party or professional leaders who talked to us 25 or 30 years ago al- most inevitably spoke in a mood of achievement and of exultation, They addressed us with the air of those who had won the secret of success for themselves and of per- manence of achievement for their cc ‘ry for all generations to come. They assumed that there was a guarantee of final accomplishment for the people of this country and that the grim specter of insecurity and want among the great masses would never haunt this land of plenty as it had widely visited other portions of the world. And so the elders of that day used to tell us, in effect, that the job of youth was merely to copy them and thereby to preserve the great things they had won for us. I have no desire to underesti- mate the achievements of the past. ‘We have no right to speak slight- ingly of the heritage, spiritual and material, that comes down to us. There are lessons that it teaches that we abandon only at our own peril. “Hold fast to that which is permanently true,” is stili a counsel of wisdom. ‘While my elders were talking to me about the perfection of Amer ica I did not know then of the lack of opportunity, the lack of education, the lack of many of the essential needs of civilization; that all these existed among millions of our people who lived not alone in the slums of the great cities and in the forgotten corners of rural America—existed even under the very noses of those who had the advantages and the power of Gov- ernment in those days. Old Generation at Fault. I say from my heart that no man of my generation has any business to address youth unless he comes to that task not in a spirit of exultation, but in a spirit of hu- mility. I cannot expect you of a newer generation to believe me, of an older generation, if I do not frankly acknowledge that had the generation that brought you into the world been wiser and more provident and more unselfish, you would have been saved from need- less difficult problems and needless pain and suffering. We may not have failed you in good intentions, but we have certainly not been adequate in results. Your task, therefore, is not only to maintain the best in your heritage, but to labor to lift from the shoulders of the American people some of the burdens that the mistakes of a past generation have placed there. There was a time when the formula for success was the simple admonition to have a stout heart and willing hands. A great, new country lay open. When life be- came hard in one place it was necessary only to move on to an- other. But circumstances have changed all that. Today we can no longer escape into virgin terri- tory; we must master our environ- ment. The youth of this genera- tion finds that the old frontier is occupied, but that science and in- vention and economic evolution have opened up a new frontier— one not based on geography, but on the resourcefulness of men and women applied to the old frontier, The cruel suffering of the recent depression has taught us unfor- gettable lessons. We have been compelled by stark necessity to un- learn the too comfortable super- stition that the American soil was mystfeally blessed with every kind of immunity to grave economic maladjustments, and that the American spirit of individualism— all alone and unhelped by the co- operative efforts of Government— could withstand and repel every form of economic disarrangement or crisis. The severity of the re- cent depression, toward which we had been heading for a whole gen- eration, has taught us that no eco- nomic or social class in the commu- nity is so richly endowed and so independent of the general com- munity that it can safeguard its own security, let alone assure secur- ity for the general community. Youth’s Objectives Change. ‘The very objectives of young peo- ple have changed. In the older days a great financial fortune was too often the goal. To rule through wealth, or through the power of wealth, fired our imagination. This —each individual for himself. It is my firm belief that the new- er generation of America has a different dream. You place em- than on a plethora of riches. You think of the security for yourself and your family that will give you good health, good food, good edue cation, good working conditions, and the opporturiity for normal rec- A reation and occasional travel. Your advancement, you hope, is along & broad highway on which thousands of your fellow men snd women are advancing with you. You and I w that this modern economic world of ours is goverred by rules aad regulations vastly more complex than those laid down in the days of Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill, They faced simpler mechanical processes and social needs. It is worth remembering, for example, that the business cor- poration, as we know it; did not exist in the days of Washington and Hamilton and Jefferson. Pri- vate businesses then were con- ducted solely by individuals or by partnerships in which every mem- ber was immediatly and wholly re- sponsible for success or fallure, Facts are relentless, We must ad- just our ideas to the facts of today. Credit Concepts Different. Our concepts of the regulation of money and credit and industrial competition, of the relation of em- ployer and employe created for the old civilization, are being modified to save our economic structure from confusion, destruction and paraly- sis. The rules that governed the relationship between an employer and employe in the blacksmith's shop in the days of Washington cannot, of necsessity, covern the relationship between the 50,000 em- ployes of a great corporation and the infinitely complex and diffused ownership of that corporation. If 50,000 employes spoke with 50,000 voices, there would be a modern Tower of Babel. That is why we insist on their right to choose their representatives to bargain collec- tively in their behalf with their employer. In the case of the em- ployes, every individual employe will know in his daily work whether he is adequately represented or not. In the case of the hundreds of thousands of stockholders in the present-day ownership of great cor- porations, however, their knowledge of the success of the management is based too often solely on a finan- cial balance sheet. Things may go wrong in the management with- out their being aware of i for a year, or for many years to come. ‘Without their day-to-day knowl- edge they may be exploited and their investments jeopardized. Therefore, we have come to the need of simple but adequate pub- lic protection for the rights of the investing public. A rudimentary concept of credit control appropriate for financing the economic life of a nation of 3,000,000 people can hardly be urged as a means of directing and protecting the welfare of our twen- tieth century industrialism. The simple banking rules of Hamilton's day, when all the transactions of & fair-sized bank could be kept in the neat penmanship of .. clerk in one large ledger, fail to protect the millions of individual depositors of a great modern banking institution, And so it goes through all the range of economic life. Aggressive enterprise and shrewd invention have been at work on our economic machine. Our rules of conduct for the operation of that machine must be subjected to the same constant development. Fight of 1911 Recalled. And so in our social life. Forty years ago, slum conditions in our great cities were much worse than today. Living conditions on farms and working conditions in mines and factories were primitive. But they were taken for granted. Few pedble considered that the Govern- ment had responsibility for sanitae tion, for safety devices, for prevente ing child labor and night work for women. In 1911, 24 years ago, when I was first a member of the New York State Legislature, a number of the younger members of the Legislature worked against these old conditions and called for laws governing factory inspection, for workmen’s compensation and for the limitation of work for women and children to 54 hours, with one day's rest in seven. Those of us who joined in this movement in the Legislature were called re- formers, socialists and wild men. We were opposed by many of the same organizations and the same individuals who are now cryinz aloud about the socialism involved in social security legislation, in bank deposit insurance, in farm credit, in the saving of homes, 1n the protection of investors and the regulation of public utilities. The reforms, however, for which we were condemned 24 years ago are taken today as a matter of course. And so, I believe, will be regarded the reforms that now cause such concern to the reactionaries of 1935. We come to an understand- ing of these new ways of protect- ing people because our knowledzs enlarges and our capacity for or- ganized action increases. People have learned that they can carry their burden effectively only by co-operation. We have found out how to conquer the ravages of dis- eases that years ago were regarded as unavoidable and inevitable. We mbst learn that many other social ills can be cured. Let me emphasize that serious as have been the errors of unre- strained individualism, I do not believe in abandoning the system of individual enterprise. The free- dom and opportunity that have characterized American develop- ment in the past can be maintained if we recognize the fact that the individual system of our day calls for the collaboration of all of us to provide, at the least, security for all of us. Those words “freedom” and “opportunity” do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. New Political Practices Needed. Any paternalistic system which tries to provide for security for every one from above only calls for an impossible task and a regi- mentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people. But Gov ernment co-operation to help make the system of free enterprise work, to provide that minimum security without which the competitive sys- tem cannot function, PROBE OF SPREAD IN PRICES URGED Baltimore Senator Scores Wide Variation in Farm and Retail Rates. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 24.—A legis- lative inquiry into the spread between prices paid Maryland farmers for pro- duce, and prices paid by consumers for the same produce was proposed today by State Senator Raymond E. Ken- nedy, Democrat, fifth Baltimore. Kennedy, declaring “this spread is out of all proportion,” asserted thou- sands of bushels of food are rotting in fields near Baltimore because of low prices. At the same time, he pointed out, prices to the consumer in city mar- kets are rising. Cites Bacon Prices. “It is not confined to vegetables alone,” he said. “Bacon in a Balti- more market is 54 cents a pound. The highest & farmer can get is 12 cents per pound on the hoof. All the pro- cessing taxes and anything else I can think of cannot account for that.” Senator Kennedy said many farmers haul their produce to market, only to be told that commission merchants are overstocked and do not want it at any price. He asserted an official agency to apprise farmers of such con- ditions would result in marked savings. Will Propoese Law. When the special session of the Legislature convenes, Kennedy said, he plans to introduce a resolution calling for a commission to study middlemen’s profits in the State. The commission he proposes will investigate: ‘The possibilities of a cull law as a means of holding up prices to the farmers and increasing the standard of quality in the markets. A proposal for the official agency to notify farmers when markets are glutted. A system of community canning houses, backed by the State, to afford disposal of surplus produce such as tomatoes and beans. —_— GAS RATE PARLEY SET Conferences on proposals for adop- tion of a sliding scale plan for an- nual adjustment of rates of the Wash- ington and Georgetown Gas Light companies are to be started after -t-1 torneys for the utility return this| week from Bermuda. | Stoddard M. Stevens, jr., will re-| turn to New York tomorow from his Summer home in Bermuda. He wil be accompanied by John Bruton, as- sociate counsel. —————— trained brains of every business and profession. Government to- day requires higher and higher standards of those who would serve it. It must bring to its service greater and greater competence. The conditions of public work must be improved and protected. Mere party membership and loyalty can no longer be the exclusive test. We must be loyal not merely to persons or parties, but to the higher conceptions of ability and devotion that modern government requires. There was a day when political sages, or those who controlied them, took the attitude that any- thing new, or what they called “new-fangled,” would lead to dire results. There is nothing ne win those prophecies of gloom. I read these lines in a paper the other day—a little poem entitled “Going to the Dogs”: My grandpa motes the world's worn cogs, And says we're going fo the dogs; His granddad in his house of logs, Swore things were going to the dogs; His dad, among the Flemish bogs, Vowed things were going to the dogs; The caveman in his queer skin togs, Saia things were going to the dogs; But this is what I wish to state— The dogs have had an awful wait, Principies Are Sacred. I would be lacking in any sense of responsibility and lacking in elementary courage if I shared in such a hopeless attitude. 1, for one, am willing to place my trust in the youth of America. It they demand action as well as preachments, I should be ashamed to chill their enthusiasm with the dire prophecy that to change is to destroy. I am unwilling to sneer at the vision of youth merely be- cause vision is sometimes mistaken. But vision does not belong only to the young. There are millions of older peo- ple who have vision, just as there are some younger men and women who are ready to put a weary, self- ish or greedy hand upon the clock of progress and turn it back. ‘We who seek to go forward must ever guard ourselves against a danger which history teaches. More than ever we cherish the elective form of democratic govern= ment, but progress under it can easily be retarded by disagreements that relate to method and to de- tail rather than to the broad ob- jectives upon which we are : greed. It is as if all of us were united in the pursuit of a common goal, but that each and every one of us were marching along a separate road of our own. If we insist on choosing different roads, most of us will not reach our common des- tination. The reason that the forces of reaction so often defeat the forces of progress is that the Tories of the world are agreed and united in standing still on the same old spot, and, therefore, never run the danger of getting lost on divergent trails. One might remark in passing that one form of standing still on the same spot consists in agreeing to condemn all progress and letting it go at that. Therefore, to the American youth of all parties I submit a message of confidence—Unite and challenge! Rules are not neces- sarily sacred—principles are. The methods of the old order are not, as some. would have you believe, above the challenge of youth. Let us carry on the good that the past gave us. The best of that good is the spirit of America. And the spirit of America is the spirit of inquiry, of readjustment, of improvement, above all a spirit in which youth can find the ful- fillment of its ideals. It is for the and spirit and continuity to our g’:mmmudtnmum Stage Going Home Celebration This is how a 741h Congress ‘Bats’ Only .043, Half as Well as Predecessor By the Associated Press. The statisticians busied them- selves yesterday to discover that an amazing number of bills and resolutions were introduced dur- ing the first session of the Seventy-fourth Congress, but the percentage of measures which became law was low. In fact, Congress’ batting aver- age was but .043. Here are the figures, date: Introduced in House, 9,245. Introduced in Senate, 3,467. Public and private bills and resolutions passed by House and Senate and already signed into law, 550. The Seventy-third Congress, the first of the New Deal, at work 197 days in both sessions, con- sidered 10,848 measures, 976 of which became law, a “batting average” of .089. SCANDINAVIA DUE TO INDORSE LEAGUE Foreign Ministers Expected to Restate Adherence, but Stand on Sanctions Is Unknown. By the Associated Fress. OSLO, Norway, August 24 —Foreign ministers of the four Scandinavian countries who will meet here August 27 and 28 are expected by diplomatic observers to reafirm their nations’ loyal adherence to the League of Na- tions. Official circles, however, have nol indicated so far to what extent the four are willing to go on the question of possible League sanctions against Italy in the event of war with Ethiopia. Of the four countries Norway has the largest economic interests with Italy, exporting to that country ap- proximately $5,000,000 worth of prod- ucts and importing goods to the extent of about $3 000,000 annually. The newspaper Arbeiderbladet, chief up to mouthpiece of the cabinet, editorially | expressed surprise today at Russian | “pacivity” in the East African situa- tion. STOCKHOLM,. August 24 ().— Swedish army officers now serving as instructors and advisers to the Ethio- pian army may remain on_their pres- ent assignments at least until war be- tween Ethiopia and Italy is declared, it was said here today. Should an order for their return be issued the officers could still remain, but with the penalty of losing their Swedish commission. BARGE CAPSIZES LONG BEACH, Calif, August 24 (#).—Already damaged by fire, the former gambling barge casino cap- sized today when three-day-old flames ate through midship planking and water filled the hold. Two Coast Guard patrol boats pre- pared to tow the one-time barkentine, christened the James Tufts, from its anchorage several miles off shore here, to Terminal Island to be broken up. group of House members would have preferred to leave. They were photographed yesterday on the steps of the Capitol, staging an impromptu celebration and giving their idea of a going-home picture. —A. P. Photo. (Continued From First Page.) Tennessee Valley Authority amend- ments, the Guffey coal bill, the neu- trality bill, ship liability bill and the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage bill. Other bills signed yesterday and | last night by the President follow: Joint resolution to provide for the erection of a suitable memorial to the Fourth Division, American Expe- ditionary Forces. An act to authorize the erection of a suitable memorial to Maj. Gen. | George W. Goethals within the Canal Zone. An act to authorize the purchase of the Winnie Mae by the Smithsonian | Institution. | An act to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for air-mail serv- ice in Alaska. An act requiring contracts for the | construction, alteration and repair of any public building or public work of the United States to be accom- | panied by a performance bond pro- | tecting the United States and by an | additional bond for the protection of persons furnishing material and labor for the construction, alteration, or re- pair of said public buildings or public | work. An act for the relief of Emma B. Hine. An act for the relief of Florence Overly. | An act for the relief of Thelbert | Davis. An act for the Hoffman. An act for the relief of Sanford Madison Strange. An act for the relief of August A. | Carminati. An act for the relief of John P. relief of John L. An act for the relief of Hugh S. Lisk. An act for the relief of E. P. Purvis. An act for the relief of the Weis- Patterson Lumber Co., Inc. An act for the relief of Milton Hatch. An act to extend to Sergt. Maj. Ed- mund S. Sayer, United States Marine Corps (reired), the benefits of the act of May 7, 1922, providing highest World War rank to retired enlisted men. Grayson. An act for the relief of Will A. | Helmar. An act for the Greene. nings. An act for the relief of Forrest D. Stout. An act for the relief of Maj. E. An act for the relief of Bertha Moseley Bottoms. | An act for the relief of Malachy Ryan. Gustin. An act for the relief of Brooker T. Wilkins. An act for the relief of Kint Row- land. Wright. An act for the relief of W. H. Keyes. An act for the relief of David A. Trousdale. | An act for the relief of Mrs. William | E. Smith and Clara Smith. 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C.l the Otter Cliffs radio station on Mount Desert Island, in the State of AL AMENDNENT BILL IS NOW LAW Signing of Act Forestalls Suits and Enables Tax Collections. The A. A. A. amendment bill—in- tended both to cxtend the Farm Ad- ministration’s power and bulwark it legally—was written juto lav yester= Jay by President Roosevelt. Peppered by its foes on constitu- tional grounds, some of its provisions will face the Supreme Court in the Fall. The President’s pen stroke was the signal for a formal Justice Depart- ment move to seek dismissal of more than 500 temporary injunctions which have been granted against processing tax collections. Instructions already had been sent throughout the country for starting the counter-atack. The bill moves to ratify the collec- tion of such taxes. More than $900,- 000,000 has been taken in. But the suits have been mounting daily, When a Federal judge in Boston in July held that the tax system was un- | constitutional, in the case of the Hoo- sac Mills, there were 200 such suits on file. Today. however, they had mount- ed beyond the 1,000 mark. Recovery Is Limited. The measure seeks further to safe- guard the Government by providing that should the Supreme Court hold the law uncontitutional, only those taxpayers who had absorbed the levy them-elves, without passing it on to the producer or consumer, could re- cover. The processor would have to file a claim with the commissioner of internal revenue and the transcript of hearings and findings of the com- missioner would constitute the court of record when the recovery suit was filed. The 1.easure is designed to: Permit the use of 30 per cent of the Maine, as an addition to the Acadia National Park, and for other purposes. Joint resolution authorizing the State of Arizona to transfer to the | town of Benson, without cost, tile to section 16, township 17 south, range 20 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, for school and park purposes. An act for the relief of Oswald Orlando. | An act for the relief of Albert Henry Geroga. MENNONITES ASSEMBLE IN ANNUAL CONFERENCE By the Assoclated Press. KITCHENER, Ontario, August 24.— More than 150 Mennonite ministers will preach in 30 Ontario Mennonite Churches tomorrow in the opening fundamental conferences of the.Gen- eral Conference of the Mennonite Church in North America, which be- gins business sessions Monday. Actual conference sessions will be held in a camp meeting tabernacle 1 mile south of Kitchener, where the ’ seating capacity has been doubled to hold 4,000 persons. Fifty tents have L been erected on the grounds. The first delegates to appear were { Rev. J. N. Kauffman of Dhamtari, | India, and Bishop T. K. Kennedy, Trenque Sanquen, Argentina, with | their families. ‘Long Plans Return |To State to Boost L. S. U. Grid Team {Jests With Black Who Refers to Him as “President.” By the Associated Press. | With the closing of Congress, Sen- | ator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, said* yesterday he would return to ‘;u)uini-m and take a rest from na- Seabrook. * An act for the relief of John B. tional and State affairs because they | will be “secondary” to his interest in versity and its foot ball team. ‘While being interviewed in the Sen- | ate reception room, he was smilingly interrupted by Senator Black, Demo- crat, of Alabama, who said “Well, the President is being interviewed.” “You can say this,” Long then added, “that since the Senator from Alabama has interrupted me, that I have been informed the reason why Louisiana can’t get & foot ball game with Alabama is because that uni- | versity is advised by its Senators not to play us. They know we would whip them.” Long indicated he would leave for | Louisiana during the week end. He | said that when he returned he would immediately push a plan of the uni- versity to buy farm lands and en- able youths of Louisiana to work their way through college. DROOP For 78 Years the Droops—Fath: PIA Priced as Low as $195 New Uprights EVERYTHIN ical Instruments the affairs of Louisiana State Unl- | customs receipts under tariff laws for premiums on exports of farm prod- ucts, indemnifying losses on exports, | paying additional benefits to farmers |in connection with the adjustment p-ogram and diversion of farm com- | modities into channels away from the | usual. Extends Cattle Purchases. Extend the cattle purchase act and | provide $10,600,000 to be used with unexpended balances to eliminate dis- eased animals. Let the President use submarginal lands to be acquired with relief funds, | for public purposes. | Enact a similar potato control meas- ure, providing for production quotas and taxes on production in excess fo | the given quotas. | Extend the Bankhead cotton con- | trol and Kerr-Smith tobacco control | acts for two years with the approval of producers. | Put into operation “e “ever normal granary plan,” authorizing the Gov- | ernment to acquire agricultural com- | modities pledged as security for Gov- ernment loans and to make payments “in kind” to producers who co-oper- 1 ate in the adjustment programs. 4 OF FAMILY KILLED Mother May Die as Result of Crossing Crash. LOUDON, Tenn., August 24 (P).— A man and his two sons were in- stantly killed and a daughter fatally injured 2 miles south of here this afternoon when a Southern Railway train struck their automobile at & crossing. The mother of the family was crit- ically hurt and may die. The dead: Will Grimes, 36; Johnny Grimes, 16; Claud Grimes, 14, | and Miss Ruby Grimes, 18. Mrs. Jennie Grimes, the mother and fifth occupant of the car, was taken to the Harrison Memorial Hospital znd had not regained consciousness late tonight. 5 Snakes in Dresser Drawer. PARIS, Mo., August 24 (#).—Imag- ine the surprise of 12-year-old Virginia Mounds when she pulled open & dresser drawer today and out slith- ered three copper head snakes. Her screams attracted her father who killed the reptiles. No one in |the family could account for their presence in the drawer. REXEXL X AXIXEX S Specializing in * Perfect DIAMONDS Also ccmplete line of standard and all-American made watches. ‘ Shop at the friendly store— o you're aYs o{mud with & %’ Smile—with no obligation to buy. %3¢ Charge Accounts Invitsd % M. Wartzburger Co. 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