Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1935, Page 2

ARTIFICIAL PRICE | ‘FALLACY IS SHOWN Bloc Politics and Costs of “Juggling” Brought Home to New Deal. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. No better example of the trials and tribulations of a government em- Barked upon a policy of artificial economics could have been given than the political flasco which marked the adjournment of Con- gress. Basically, the argument of the Southern Senators for a pegged price of cotton is no different from that which prompted the Hoover admin- istration to buy and sell farm com- modities through the Farm Board, whose losses were revealed officially only this week as having been about $344.000,000. The New Deal, of course, with its erop control and crop lending .schemes, has merely followed the principle that it is the business of government to manage prices—some- thing which would be ail right if there were no politics or human na- ; ture to contend with and if every- bedy would bow to the mandate of government gracefully and unselfish- 1y, as is envisioned by the champions of a utopian state. Bloe Shows Power. But the Department of Agricul- ture and the Agricultural Adjustment | Administration officials are very un-! happy over what has happened, for | & they have been face to facc with a | political bloc of formidable propor- tions—the Senators from wheat and cotton States. Several years ago such a group, known as the “farm bloc.” operating on a bi-partisan basis, harassed the Harding. Goolidge and Hoover administrations success- | fully. i TIs it the business of Government to! peg prices? It never used to be, but | What’s What Behind News In Capital Duffy Speaks for Roose- velt, But Anti-Hoover Speech Falls Flat. BY PAUL MALLON. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT shot back an answer to Mr. Hoo- ver's constitutional challenge a few days back, but the Na- tion missed it entirely. The President’s reply was too subtly masked in the name of Democratic Senator Duffy. It was projected in a generally unnoticed speech delivered by Duffy at the convention of Young Democrats in Milwaukee. What the Nation did not know was that the entire portion of Duf- fy’s speech referring to Mr. Hoover was prepared inside the White House. Certain phrases used by Dufly were supposed to have been written by tie President himself and edited by Herbert Hoover's old poiitical nemesis, the publicity straiegist, Charles Michelson. The New Dealers ¢id not consider it wise for the President to answer the ex-President directly. That 'oum| have attracted too much attention for | them. They thought Duffy’s use of | the White House material would draw | nt national attention to it. But| Aty is not widely known outside his' own bailiwick. The tone of the re- turn fire fell somewhat flat. Only one spaper used the remarks on page wreeay What Duffy said for the President ever since the war the drive through | amounted to a charge that Mr. Hoo- Republican and Democratic adminis- | ver had advocated far greater expan-| trations has been to give the farmer | sion of presidential power 10 years | what is known as a parity price—an | ago than Mr. Roosevelt is advocating | average that is equivalent to the today. Another attack on Mr. Hoover, | prices he used to get before 1914.|read to the Young Democrats by Gov. | This pledge of a parity price has| Earle of Pennsylvania, also is supposed | brought processing taxes subsidies, | to have been based on data supplied joans on farm commodities above by New Deal headquarters here. How- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, elations Board HUPSUN’S INCOME Heads Labor R JOSEPH WARREN MADDEN. Newly appointed head of the Labor of Labor, photographed in his office Relations Board of the Department | as he assumed his duties yesterday. -—Star Staff Photo, ORCASE FACES | | Bendix Dispute Is First on Calendar, but Procedure Is Undetermined. By the Associated Press. The new Labor Relations Board to- day prepared to consider its first com- | plaint of alleged violation of the Wag- | of Norfolk, Va.. was killed here shortly WIDOW 1S KILLED <> | NEWLABORBOARD' AS CAR HITS POLE Spencerville Couple Se- riously Injured in Crash at White Oak, Md. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WHITE OAK, Md., August 27— Mrs. John Clark, 67-year-old widow, market levels and a host of artificial- | ities that place upon the Pederal Gov- ernment a responsibility with far-| Teaching consequences. Thus while | the Hoover regime pegged prices. it didn't try to control production. The | Roosevelt-Wallace program seeks to restrict production and theoretically to | pay the farmer for limiting his output. | Cut in Income Proved. 1 But meanwhile the New Deal gcheme has come a cropper just as! did the old Farm Board. Farm prices are controlled by world conditions. Cotton, for example, has been selling below 12 cents in the world markets, | and yet the Washington Government has been willing to lend 12 cents. Now, as the world price has worked down lower, the New Deal wants to lend only 9 cents, and this naturally | amounts to a reduction in income for | the cotton farmer. ‘The difference is to be made up by & fluctuating subsidv. Had this drop come naturally, due to weather condi- ever, the President may not have fig- | ured in that directly. Duffy Too Modest. ! 1f the New Deal high command had | only known that Duffy recently con-| cealed his supposedly heroic rescue' of a 4-year-old girl, the commanders | might have chosen a better publicity | man. | Duffy was returning from a sail on & lake near his Wisconsin home about two weeks ago when the child fell into | the water nearby. Several other per- | sons were around. He called to them | to fish the girl out. When no one| budged. he hopped In himself and | saved her. He admonished the crowd | later not to tell the newspapers any- thing about it, and then hopped a train for Washington. | A normal Congressman would have telephoned for mews photog- raphers, re-enacted the scene for the news reel and pinned a medal on himself. Any one could have found out who ner labor disputes act as a result of | before noon today wien an automobile | charges by the United Automobile Workers that the Bendix Products | Corp. of South Bend. Ind.. refuses to | recognize the union is nptmnnuvei of all its employes. | At the same time, the union peti- tioned the board to conduct an elec- tion to substantiate the union’s claim that it represented a substantial ma- jority of the company's 4,000 employes The Wagne?t act provides that a labor | organization having a membership of | a majority of the employes in a plant | in which she was riding crashed into a telephone pole In avolding the col- lision with another machine. Her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howell Stabler of Spencerville, members of one of Mont- gomery County’s most prominent fam- ilies, were severely injured in the same | mishap. Their son, Henry R. Stabler, 40, was uninjured. Police were told that the elder Stabler was driving south on the Coles- ville pike when an automobile occu- D€ STATEMENT FILED Utilities Magnate Complies With Order of Lobby Probers. Howard C. turned over to the House Rules Committee today & detailed statement of his income over the period he developed the Associated Gas & Electric Co. into one of the country’s largest utility holding com- panies. The committee also was given state- ments containing the names of vari- ous banks from which the Assoclated borrowed $1,000,000 to conduct its ex- tensive campaign against the Wheeler- Rayburn utilities bill and showing bow it was expended. Hopson's statements will not be made public until he returns as a witness before the committee and is qQuestioned about various items, espe- cially the expenditures in connection with the company's efforts to defeat the utilities bill. Ordered by Committee. All of Hopson's statements were pre- pared at the direction of the com- mittee several weeks ago when the utilities magnate was excused to ap- pear before the Senate Lobby Com- mittee. He was asked for this infor- mation on the witness stand, but was unable at that time to recall certain | details the committee wanted. Chairman O’'Connor of the Rules Committee, in the rush for congres- sional adjournment, made no definite plan for resuming the investigation. He sald he intends to give this ques- tion serious consideration in the next few days. It is likely that various phases of the inquiry will be assigned to subcommittees which will work un- til Congress reconvenes fn January. Still Retained as Witness. Hopson has left Washington lor] what he described as a long-needed | rest, but he has not been released as & witness either before the House or Senate Commitlees. The Senate group is not expected to recall him for some time. The House Commit- | tee, however, probably will ask his| return in a few weeks for an ex- amination sbout his income and the statement relating to the $1.000,000 | loan and how it was expended. | Before both the Senate and House committees, Hopson insisted the va- | rious reports as to the amount of his | income were “greatly exaggerated.’| Some of these rumors placed his in- come at from $2,000.000 fo $3,000,000 a year and the Senate committee en- deavored to show he and J. I. Mange, president of the Associated. received about $29,000,000 over a period of 13 years. Hopson repeatedly referred to these earnings as mere “paper profits,” | pointing out that the vast amount of | this so-called income was reinvested | | next to provide special courts; TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1935. Child Neglect Aids Crime Results Appear at Age of 19, Time When Violations A re at Peak. Editors note: This is the second in a series of seven articles on erime and its control, written by the foremost authorities on the cause and combating of crime, in co-operation with the National Committee on Public Education for Crime Control KATHARINE F. LENROOT, Buresu, United States Department of Labor. Copszight, 1935, by NANA) ‘The majority of delinquents C only opportunities for adventure and satisfying experiences. Almost 200,000 children pass before the juvenile courts each year. the number having decreased somewhat since 1930 as compared with the years tmmediately preceding. This decrease may be due in part to diminished public attention to what seem rela-| tively minor problems of conduct and | 1o curtailed resources for treatment. } Crime Rate Highest at 19. About 19 per cent of the total num- ber of persons whose fingerprints were recorded in 1933 were between the ages of 16 and 21, and it was found | that 19 years is the age at which the | crime rate appears to be highest. Ap-| | proximately 29,000 boys and girls are in institutions for juvenile delinquency | and close to 60,000 under the age of | 21 are received in jalls and work- | houses, reformatories and peniten- tiaries during the course of a year. | The criminal law is essentially ab- | stract, general and inflexible. Before the adoption of Juvenile Court legis- lation, children above the age of 14/ were held criminally responsible for their acts, and children between 7| and 14 might be held responsible if | they could be shown to have such in- telligence as to unerstand the wrong- | fulness of their acts. Youth, even of very tender years, is not yet fully removed from criminal processes. Yet in the last century and | especially in the last 30 years great progress has been made. The first step was to provide special institu- | tions for juvenile delinquents; the the third to provide clinical and diag- nostic services for the study of the ' individual offender, and the fourth to organize the community for the pre- vention of delinquency through the development of worth-while interests and activities. Many Outside Scope. In spite of much real progress through these measures of prevention and treatment, many juveniles have remained outside their scope because | of inadequate or defective laws, low | age limits, or ineffective, poorly sup- ported administration organization. Many children are still detained in jalls and police stations, where they are subjected to associations with RIME has its beginnings in childhood neglect and juvenile delinquency. childhood lived in homes where the essentials of normal family life were lacking. They attended schools which did not meet their needs, where they developed habits of failure, discouragement, rebellion and truancy. And they lived in congested neighborhoods where street life afforded their shall speak for all employes In col- pied by colored people and driven by lective bargaining. | Artzander Graham, colored of Balti- Charlton Ogburn, counsel for the | more, drove out upon the highway from | in the securities of his company and | adult criminals. subsequently deflated to a small por- Decisions are frequently made by tion of their original value in the stock ' Juvenile Courts without an adequete | auto workers, called the case one of | the most important his union would | lay before the board. i Old Boeard Called Election. i The old Labor Board, after receiv- | | ing & similar complaint and petition | Columbia road. Stabler swerved his machine to one | side of the road to avold a crash and, left the highway. plunging into a pole. | The car was demolished, the pole | snapped in two. Mrs. Clark died instantly from in-! | last Winter, crdered an election at the ' torna] injuries, a fractured pelvis, | tions or factors abroad, it would have | the White House favorites are by look- been accepted as the operation of the | ing into the diplomatic reception room Iaw of supply and demand. But since | 8t the White House the night the the Government itself does the cut- | President delivered his radio talk to ting of the price, the result has been | Young Democrats. that the Senators from the States af- | Gathered there, from left to right,| fected raised & how! and managed to| were Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. | tie up the whole session of Congress Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Reliefer Harry with threats that had to be taken into | Hopkins, Prank Walker and Undersec- | “ consideration lest the Congress get | retary of Interior West. Their admir- out of hand altogether. | ing beams were focused on the Presi- Incidentally, the Norris “lame duck” | dent as he talked. They could not “simendment was supposed to end all | have looked more like teacher’s pets if filibusters by having a long session of | each had had a big red apple in his 'Congress and avoiding the so-called | hand. wphort session. But a few Senators not “Wired for Sound.” Zonly have filibustered but have pre- | A bystander whispered his admira- vented for several days the passage of | tion of Mr. Rosevelt's radio talent to sthe third deficiency bill in order to | & neighbor. saying, “The old man s | .ake their influence felt. The Norris | certainly wired for sound.” ‘amendment has failed to accomplish this particular objective, though, of | .course, it has eliminated voting by | “lame duck” or defeated Congressmen. ! The principal lesson of the events ! 0f the last few days, however, is that | political pressure by groups or bloes L5 still as intense as ever, and that | 'alncms who try to regulate prices _ scientifically find the political oppo- | ___ Pry 4 “sition almost overwhelming. The | | * gost, moreover, to all the taxpayers of The coal magnates opposed to the prices maintained indefinitely at Gov- | new Guffey N. R. A. law already are ernment expense is most disconcert- | arranging to tie it up in the courts. ing and may make an even greater | They are looking around for a com- ”political issue than the alleged benefit | pany and a lawyer. The company will “or lack of it to the cotton farmer. be designated to resist payment of the 2 Also, America’s cotton market |tax and to Sle suit. The identity of | | | the Supreme Court | sional hearings. {such cases. John Carmody, one of | |and the board will hold no formal “#broad is diminishing because the | “prices inside the United States are too high for foreign purchasers. This | “means that textile mills in America lie idle and workmen are in distress | I'because foreign spindles can get cot- | ftor:. cheaper elsewhere than in the | iUnited States. Brazl, India and| CEgypt are increasing their cotton pro- | #duction coincident with the reduction ! fenforced in America. | There is a possibility, too, that the | + prices for raw cotton, if held too high ! #by the Government, may result in diminished consumption of cotton | ‘goods inside the United States. Al . it #of this makes a problem so compli- | +cated for political government that fthe opportunities to solve it ukly‘ «for all concerned are reduced no mat- “ter how well-intentioned the New . Dealers, like Secretary Wallace and iFarm Administrator Chester Davis, “happen to be. Sectionalism Still Evident. -, Subsidies i the farmers may have to be paid during the emergency but fany plan that forces the Government 10 maintain loans at the market price fwithout a margin for safety or any scheme which places the American “Government in the situation as the “¢ontroling factor in any farm com- v modity price is bound to end tragical- Z)y. because every sectional interest swill demand for itself an advantage «and will join with other sections in 7what is koown as log-rolling to get »Mmore advantages. 4. The leadership of the national 2executive must come to the surface in »such a dilemma, but on the eve of . presidential elections even the Presi- wdent hesitates to get his fingers “burned ir a sectional controversy =which he paturally wants the Con w»itself to straighten out for him. .such are the fallacies of New Deal «economic:—artificial price tinkering ~and political log-rolling mixed into & :emfwlng combination that in the end must be borne by an already over- burdened household budget. > (Copyright. 1935.) Moonlight Cruise Planned. To raise a milk fund for under- 4 S T R PG . Dancing, vaudeville and anovelties have beén arranged for the e A the lawyer may be a surprise. They are angling for the attorney general of a Southern State who has been bat- tling with the New Deal. The idea is to take a short cut to the Supreme Court if possible with- out going through all the lower courts. They want to hasten a judgment. There has been a lot of inside plot- ting and replotting of strategy about Mr. Roosevelt's Western trip. The New Deal publicity staff has been passing out the word for weeks that the President was withholding his fire from the opposition, but would release when he went West. Much was to be made of the trip. It may not turn out that way. Western plans have been changed several times. The most recent ver- sion of the itinerary is Chicago, Kansas City, Little Rock, Uvalde, Tex. (Garmer's home); Boulder Dam and Sam Diego. returning through the Panama Canal. That would call for few speeches, and little politics. The fact seems to be that the Presi- dent is veering to a wholly different strategy of entrenchment rather than grand attack on the opposition. Educators may have noticed that the national youth movement and the Buresu of Education have each been acting as if the other did not exist lately. The reason is that Director Williams of the youth movement ap- proached Commissioner St of the Education Bureau with some ideas for co-operation, but received a some- what classic reply, in effect, as follows: “Dr. Williams, you have a hot potato and you have it in your mouth. You alone can decide what to do with it.” (Copyright. 1935.) PUPILS GRADE TEACHERS Will Rank Them on Disposition and Appearance. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Augusi 27 (#). —Turn about is fair play. The pupils will grade the teachers at two Spring- field shools this year. In grade 7-B, theyll write down & questionnaire what they think of mmw;lfix for Jumior pre- high loting by an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Ogburn recalled that he was arguing the case in Chicago the afternoon wiped out all| N. R. A. codes, with their collec-| tive bargaining guarantees, in theé| Schechter decision. The Government | | dropped the case shortly thereafter. The new action could be the basis s for a Supreme Court test of the | Wagner act's constitutionality, vigor- | ously contested by representatives of | the automobile industry at congres- Procedure Is Uncertain. The next move on the Bendix com- | plaint remained uncertain today, ! since the new board has not yet de- | termined exactly how it will handle | the members, is not in Washington, meeting until he returns next week. The board will meet with all its regional directors before procedure is finally determined. The Bendix case may be turned over to a regional board for the taking of testimony be- fore the national board acts on it. 0 PARALYSIS SCARE DELAYS SCHOOLS ! American Federation of Hosiery Work- Massachusetts Communities Close Libraries and Theaters to Children. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, August 27.—Acting to prevent a spread of infantile paralysis, health authorities, of two Eastern Massachusetts cities ordered the open- ing date of public schools postponed today, and several communities barred children from libraries, theaters and ather public places. As Fall River, where the disease bas been most prevalent, Dr. Patrick H. Walsh, chairman of the Board of Health, announced the schools would remain closed indefinitely and chil- dren under 15 years of age would be barred from the public library, swim- ming pool and beaches. In Haverhill the opening of the schools was postponed from Septem- ber 9 to 23 and health officials voted to prohibit gatherings of children 18 years old or younger at indoor places of amusement. Seventy cases of infantile paralysis have been reported at Fall River, 18 of them within the last 48 hours. Dr. Walsh said the total was the highest since 1910. Haverhill has had 18 cases and 2 deaths. WILLYS FUNERAL RITES T0 BE HELD TOMORROW Arrangements Are Announced for Burial of Late Automo- bile Manufacturer. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—Rev. Roe- liff H. Brooks, rector of St. Thomas’ is to officiate at Episcopal Church, funeral services for John N, Willys fo- afternoon dits. morrow . Willys died early yesterday after an iliness of several weeks. He was a ploneer automobile manufacturer and former United States Ambassador to Honorary pallbearers include J. L. Replogle, A. J. Brosseau, Carl Herman Baruch, Ward Canaday, D. R. Wilson, H. C. Tilotson, 1 1 Leonard, 1. &' Miler plant. The company biocked the bal- | snock and lacerations of the forehead | Stabler, who is 72, suffered injuries wife, who is 69. received a possible ' and chest. { Injured Are Elderly. t of the chest when thrown against the steering wheel of his machine. His fracture of the left arm and injuries of the head and possibly a broken | Mrs. John York of 5357 Twenty- | ninth street happened upoa the scene | while out driving with her two young children and carried the injured to Montgomery County General Hospital, at Sandy Spring, where X-rays are to be taken to determine the extemt of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Stabler’s injuries. Mrs. Clark also was carried to the institu- tion, but she was pronounced dead upon arrival Graham awaited for the arrival of ‘Montgomery County police. e HOSIERY UNION WAGE SCALE IS RETAINED Workers Denied Increase Manufacturers Are Refused Permission to Cut Pay. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, August 27.—The and ers announced today that wage pro- not be changed. Lessing J. Rosen- wald, arbiter in the negotiations, denied the increase asked by the Fed- eration and refused the demand of manufacturers for a reduction. ‘The federation said it won its de- mand for a continuation of a 36-hour limitation on double-shift footers, with payment of the “extra” of 11 per cent of weekly earnings for this class of operators. market crash. FOURTH SALE DELAY | MARKS STATE PROBE| Federal Judge Orders Investiga- tion of Violence by Grand Jury. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY., August 27—A' fourth postponed farm foreclosure sale was recorded in Missouri today as & | Federal grand jury began investigat- ing the violence at Plattsburg two | ‘weeks ago in which a Federal officer and his three aides were roughly han- dled by farmers. A sale at Maryville was postponed without explanation yesterday after a large crowd of farmers,‘many of them strangers who appeared in dutomobiles | bearing out-of-State licenses, sur- rounded the court house. Previously a sale at Maysville had been postponed twice, once after the representatives of s mortgage firm had been mauled and ordered out of town. Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis in- structed the grand jury to go deeply into the Plattsburg affair. This was the only instance in which Pederal officers were involved. There United States Marshal Henry Dilling- ham was held prisoner nearly four | way. They started out by being stage- | hours until the legal hours of sale had passed. . BOOM DAYS ARE AHEAD, CONVENTION GROUP SAYS By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 27— Members of the National Association of Better Business Bureaus open thefr annual convention here today with assurance that boom days are ahead. One hundred members are atienamng the sessions, which continue througn Thursday. i Col. Clarence O. Sherriil, former The wage increase asked was 20 cents per dosen pairs of hosiery, The contract is effective for a year. MAN SHOT BY POLICE IN ERROR ASKS $150,000 Puts Pain and Suffering Damages at $135,500—Sues After Miami Accident. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, August 27.— Harry Hopkins, 23, of Brooklyn, N. Y., whe was shot and wounded by City De- tective J. I. Deas here December 11, 1934, today sought $150,000 damages from the City of Miami. A paper he filed in United States Court yesterday Hsted grounds for damages as: Pain and suffering, $135,000; hospital and X-ray expenses, $2,500; doctor’s fee, $1,000; extra liv- ing expenses in convalescence, $1,000; doctors’ and nurses’ fees, District of Columbia Commissioner and first city manager of Cincinnati, sees better times ahead, he said m an address before the members from buresus in 50 cities in the United States and Canada. He described the recent cycle in business practices from ruggea Inai- vidualism to “rigid regimentation” and back again to “the more pleasant flelds of private initiative.” REUNION ABANDONED “Monkey Trial” Found Non-Feasible. DAYTON, Tenn., August 27 (P.— ‘The propesal to hold s reunion of the Scopes Plan Bryan to Dayton. . McKenzie said that a number of the principals, mecluding the defendant in the trial 10 years ago, John Thomas TACTFUL IF CARELESS basis of knowledge of the needs of the child or the condtions of his| home. It has been found that th| Juvenile Court is no panacea for the crime problem and that a large pro- | portion of children who pass through | courts and correctional institutions | and criminals are individuals who in MISS KATHARINE F. LENROOT. tudes and relationships and graduate to careers of adult crime. Economic security, including social provision against the hazards of un- employment, incapacity and widow- hood, and development of adequate public welfare service for family re- lief and child protection, is the moet important measure of crime preven- tion because it contributes to the de- velopment of normal and wholesome | family life. Measures Which Are Needed. Educationai measures needed to meet the problems of truancy and delinquency include more widespread | attention to children who find dim- | culty in learning and who are un- | adjusted in their home and school relationships. FPurther development | of vocational and other school acti ities for groups which formerly would | have left school at an early age to enter industry is urgently needed at s time when few jobs are available | for young people. | The cost of reasonable programs of | crime prevention certainly would not | be out of proportion to the estimated present annual expenditures for erim: nal justice of more than $350,000.000. | We have our choice in the United States between expending large suras | on courts and penal institutions and developing such measures of social | protection and school and community organization as will encourage de- velopment of wholesome childhood and make it unnecessary for boys and girls to seek companionship and sd- | venture in ways which are soelally destructive and individually demorai- | | fail to establish normal social atti- i Irvin S. Cobb Says: The Snakes Were Bored | | at Hopis’ Famous | | Dance. ‘ WALPI, Ariz, August 27.—1 wouldn't have missed the snake dance for a lot. i Some of the snakes didn't feel that| struck and wound up being bored) Well, back East| those professional snakes around the | night clabs would | rather dance with | ladies than other gentlemen. At least most of them would. Probably runs in| the blood. The hig idea is| that for one week the Hopis pray for rain and then turn the snakes loose to carry the word personally to the sacred thunder birds. This year they sort of over- prayed themselves, because right in the middle of Sunday evening's final services there came a regular cloud- burst. Faith which moves mountains is one thing, but when it starts wash- ing them down flat that’s putting on the pressure. The high priest finished his big talk to the skies with his nose plugged so he wouldn't get drowned as an inside job, and when he put on his gum boots and waded out on the flat o turn his bunch of snakes loose I think the last thing he whis- pered in their ears was to ask the weather god whether he couldn't take a joke. There was one busy snake that put me in mind of Huey Long having one of his little debates with Mayor Walmsley of New Orleans. He had 14 rattles and a button and his poison sacs hung so far down he looked like he was a Windsor tie. « right. 1935. by the North American i .N!'mlper Alliance. Ine.) WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD Reaches Century Mark Without Desire to Live That Long. MANHATTAN, Kans, August 27 always told relatives upon hearing of his or her had no desire to live that long. Yes- terday she celebrated her own 100th anniversary—and enjoyed it. Mrs. Gardiner, whose favorite pas- time 1s ‘card playing, lives with her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Willard. 8he was born near Coatesville, Pa. 17 PLOTTERS JAILED Motorist’s Diplomacy Works Well Young Woman Among Prisoners Held in Mexico. MISS ALA KLAUS INJURIES FATAL | Trained Nurse Was Hurt in' Auto Crash—Two Others Recovering. Miss Alma I. Klaus, 32, of 916 Rit- tenhouse street, died last night in Georgetown Hospital from injuries received early Saturday when the automobile she was driving ran off the road, hit a tree and caught fire at Westmore, Md. Meanwhile no serious traffic acci- dents were reported in the District HOUSING PROGRAM 15 FACING SNAG Would Suffer if Included in President’s Order to Speed Relief Projects. RY NELSON M. SHEPARD. Secretary Ickes was In apparent doubt today about the inclusion of his $230,000,000 low-cost housing pro- grams in the President’s order to speed up all work-relief projects for quick employment. The effect of the President’s man- date placing a September 12 deadline on applications for works progress funds and a December 15 deadline for execution of contracts, Ickes in- dicated, will force the abandonment of & number of large State and mu- nicipal projects. Ickes Undecided. ‘The Secretary blew “hot” and “eold” on the possibility of completing the huge housing program within the limitations set by the President. “I have always gone on the theory,” he said, “that the housing was ex- empted from rules of the general work relief program.” In the next breath Ickes read from the President’s order that “all projects” must be contracted for and closed by December 15. He explained that it apparently was “all inclusive” in its scope. ‘The President’s orders, Ickes said, have “no worse effefts on P. W. A. today than on any of its other agencies.” He added it would make it very difficult to get projects under way in time, as a great deal depends on the celerity in which they get it cleared through official channels Ickes said he “supposed” President Roosevelt ordered the deadlines “in a desire to get the money to work as soon as possible and because he want- ed to get things under way before leaving on his vacation.” With applications pouring in at the rate of 300 1o 400 a day, Ickes be- leves that the major part of the mu- nicipal and State programs will be cleared in time ‘The chief difficulty facing the hous- ing program, regardless of whether it is concluded in the President’s rush order, lies In the acquisition of sites. Titles on 18 Sites. Out of 76 housing projects under consideration the Government owns titles to only 18 sites, options have been obtained on 20 other sites and condemnation is proceding on 8 more If the President requires a closing of housing projects by December 15 the bottom would undoubtedly fall out of a considerable portion of the pro- gram. Under any circumstances mors speed will have to be applied in secur- ing site, Ickes explained. The question of land purchsses must be settled in the case of each housing project before Ickes can in- vite bids er engage architects to draw up plans. Controller General McCar also must pass on all projects before any contract can be awarded. — e TOLL RISES TO EIGHT OFF NEWFOUNDLAND Others Feared Lost in Week End Storm—Father and Son Found Dead in Ship. By the Associated Press. 8T. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, August 27.—With more feared lost the known death toll in Newfoundland's week end storm swelled to eight today. Word reached St. John's that a little schooner had drifted ashore at Hazel Cove with a father and son dead in her cabin. The storm-battered Annie Anitd, sighted yesterday off Cape Pine adrift | on her beam ends came ashore with the bodies of Capt. Walsh and his young son aboard Six others were lost aboard the schooner Walter. | More are believed to have died when | the storm struck two other ships off 'fl! coast. One of them, dismasted, | was adrift off Powell's Head:; the other, all but submerged, was rolling in the combers off the Northwest Vir- during the 24-hour périod, ending at 8 am. today, as police continued in the sixth week of the traffic safety campaign here. Miss Klaus and her two companions. Miss Barbara Lee Edwards, 27, 1667 gins. JAMES LIN AND BRIDE ’CONTINUING HONEYMOON Monroe street, and Louise M. Gouriou, | 31, of 1510 Twenty-first street, were pulled unconscious from the blazing |car by three Washington men who drove up shortly afterwards. Miss Edwards and Miss Gouriou received numerous injuries, but were reported improved today. The trio had attended a dinner at Braddock Heights, a resort near en route to Washington. Friends to- day expressed the belief that the front wheel brakes had locked, causing the accident, pointing out that the brakes previously had been gone over after having given some trouble. Burial in Texas. Miss Kiaus, a trained nurse, re- cently had been employed in her profession at the Eastern Star Home. She came here about nine years ago after graduating in nursing at her home in San Antonio, Tex. The body will be taken there for funeral serv- ices and burial. Miss Kiaus leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Prank L. Kilaus; a sister, Mrs. Gladys Gillis, and brother, Elroy arrested for traffic violations in the 24 hours ending at 8 am. today. Of these, 26 were arrested for speeding, 1 for driving while drunk, 3 for reck- less driving and 4 for passing red lights. Police reports showed 13 per- sons received minor injuries in 21 sccidents during the period. A total of 9,040 traffic arrests have been made since the campaign started. ERROR CORRECTED Wrong Address Given in Sanitary Law Case. ‘Through an error made by an in- spector in the Food Inspection Divi- sion of the District Health Depart- ment, The Sunday Star carried a statement that Cornelius Ahen of 1616 Q street, had been fined $10 for viola- tion of the sanitation laws. This in- Son of President of China May Continue Studies or Return to Homeland. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 27— James Lin, foster son of the Presi- dent of China, and his five-and-ten store bride presumably were contin- uing, at some Ohic resort today, their honeymoon. Their landlady said last night they had been gone for “some time.” Lin, who was a student at Ohio State University when the romance budded, and Mrs. Lin visited an aunt of the bride at Farmersville, Ohio, about two weeks ago. The aunt said they were enjoying themseives and desired to keep out of the Nmelight. Whether Lin will continue his studies at the university or go to China is & matier of conjecture. His foster father, Len Sim, is reported by Chinese authorities to have re- quested his adopted som’s return. RECSHEAIEr R MAN, 73, BEGINS 10-DAY CAMP AT COURT HOUSE BY the Associated Press. OLATHE, Kans., August 27.—C. B. Wiard, 73, began a 10-day camping stay on the court house veranda here today, to be sure he would be the first man to enter when tax sale of Johnson County farm property be- gins September 4. To all inquiries Wiard responded he was instructed by another to purchase & certain farm. ‘There have been all-night poker games on the court house lawn by those waiting in past years to obtain cholce properties, but it is the first time in loeal history amy one has appeared more than 24 hours before an advertised sale. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED