Evening Star Newspaper, September 2, 1935, Page 2

____—;—___————-—_——_'——L—— Three Killed in Transport Plane Crash NEUTRALITY LAW FULL OF PITFALLS President Declared Unduly - Hampered in Carrying on Foreign Policy. BY DAVII; LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt never uttered a more profound truth than when he sald neither Congress nor the Chief Executive could foresee the situations that might make neutrality legisia- tion of doubtful value as a means of Keeping the United States out of war. But he might have gone further and added that, as between Congress and the President of the United States, authority to conduct the deli- cate foreign relations that develop for a neutral country when some other nations are engaged in war might bet- ter be lodged with the executive branch of our Government. Mr. Roosevelt has had peculiarly valuable experience on this question, for, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he was on the inside of the Wilson administration in the trying| period of neutrality that preceded our entrance into the World War. And while there are many people who to- day wish America had never joined the allies and while there are many, too, who superficially will place con- siderable blame upon our neutrality policies, the fact remains that, con- fronted with the events as they arose from 1914 to 1918, the hands-off policy might in those circumstances have produced greater trouble .and possibly more involvement than is generally realized. Arms Embargo Peril Cited. ‘The demand, for instance, for an embargo on arms which came from the elements which sympathized with the German side of the war was plainly viewed as an anti-British npaneuver calculated to ‘curtail the British source of munitions in America. But suppose Congress had adopted such mandatory legislation, what would have been the reaction in a country like Canada, just across the line from the United States? The figwer of Canadian youth was at the ffont. To have cut off the British munitions might have led to such ill- feeling with Canada as to leave scars for generations thereafter. Thus, Canada today is America’s best cus- tomer. To no small extent, Canada’s interests and our own in world af- fairs are much the same. Likewise, in Par Eastern affairs, the interests of another British dominion, Australia, are sympathetic with American policies. ‘The ramifications of any hard and fast rules that will compel the United States to maintain a neutrality, which, on the surface, seems like a strict observance of a hands-off atti- tude, but, in reality, means taking sides with one or the other of the belligerents, are such that 531 mem- bers of a legislative body cannot hope to deal with them. No country in the world has found 1t possible to conduct foreign relations through a legislature, influenced as it inevitably is by political currents. Foreign Element Complication, ‘America has a much more diffiicult task in preserving neutrality because there are so many fofeign strains in our cosmopolitan electorate, but this 1s all the more reason why the Chief Executive, representing only the na- tional interest, should have the dis- cretionary power to deal with any situation that might arise. Nor is the matter of neutrality a simple question of keeping out of or pasticipating in & war. The senti- mental aspect, of course, has been emphasized and accounts for the enthusiastic way In which various members of the Congress have sought to take advantage of emotional vote- getting. But neutrality is too often a problem of commercial intercourse affecting the employment of millions of citizens through destruction of foreign trade. Thus, to put an embargo on muni- tions alone might not be harmful to a belligerent nation which has plenty of factories of its own, but an em- bargo on the export of iron and steel and cotton and other raw materials used in the manufacture of explosives cowld present an altogether different problem of interference with domestic trade and employment. Farmers Need Markets. Then there are the farmers of America, who used to have a consid- erable export market and who would not take kindly to a policy which forbade them to export the products of the soil to the belligerent coun- tries. Then, how can food for com- batant armies be differenfiated from food for non-combatant peoples? Mr. Roosevelt rightly says the pur- pose and objective of the legislation passed by Congress in its closing hours is good, but that inflexible rules are dangerous in neutrality problems. Obviously, he had asked for permis- sive powers and had been refused. He was prepared to let the neutrality resolutions lie on the table till next session. He would have preferred no legislation to any which sought to tie his hands. As it developed, he could have vetoed restrictive legisla- tion, but he did not wish to seem to be in the position of opposing neu- trality. His stand might have been misconstrued abroad, especially in Ttaly. So the compromise which was adopted merely restricts the executive until next February, after which he will have broad permissive powers, though not broad enough to deal with all possible contingencies. It is a matter of surprise that a Congress which has been so generous in be- stowing upon the Chief Executive all sorts of powers of discretion to handle domestic questions should be so re- luctant to trust the President in mat- ters of foreign policy. Public Opinion Acts as Curb. But the truth is Mr. Roosevelt prob- ably could have easily gained his end by an appeal to public opinion had he thought it wise to make an issue at this time. There is merit, of course, in the view held by many members of Con- gress that the plunging of a Nation into war by a clumsy neutrality policy should not be something which one man can bring about. But, on the other hand, a President is much more responsible to the national interest on foreign policy than on any other single problem of Government. Pub- li¢ opinion can and should be the only corrective or deterring influence, What’s What Behind News In Capital Banks Share Burden of Morgenthau in Sup- porting Bonds. BY PAUL MALLON. HE Treasury had a lot of technical explanations ready to offset the bad publicity from Secretary Morgenthau's bond failure, but you will probably find the right answer in the latest figures of the Federal Reserve Board. These prove that bond dealers have lately been loaded up with Govern- ment bonds, that they have been turning their holdings over to banks. In turn, the banks have been reduc- ing their dealers’ loans and increasing their own holdings of Governments. In other words, a process of dealer liquidation was on when the latest ‘Treasury auction was held. The figures show that bank loans to dealers were cut $63,000,000 last week, while bank holdings of Govern- ments increased $47,000,000. Chicago banks took $16.000.000 more of Gov- ernments that week. In non-banking language this means that Mr. Morgenthau could have inserted a pin in a calendar, blindfolded, and have selected G better time for his auction. Excitement about the faflure did not run very deep on the inside. Most trustworthy authorities belleve it was a danger signal, but that significance can be overestimated. For instance, they cannot see that it means the saturation point for Government financing is aproaching, at least not over the immediate horizon. What calms them is the fact that excess reserves of banks have now reached the peak of $2,780,000,000. Banks have no place to hold such reserves except in Governments. Thus, while the bankers might like to hold down on buying Governments, they cannot, for this reason and others. Furthermore, they have so many Gov- ernments now that the responsibility for maintaining the price rests almost as heavily on them as on Mr. Morgenthau. This may partly explain why Mr. Morgenthau was so trainquil as to suggest he had no apprehensions about the future. Bitter Fight Rages. Another phase of the matter is the inner relationship between the bond dealers and the Treasury. They have both now reached the ear-chewing stage. You can depend on it that the bond boys will do everything they can to make Mr, Morgenthau stop the auction bidding system. The Treasury formerly played safe on bond issues. The interest rate was usually elevated %, sometimes more, above the sero point. But under the bidding system, the dealers are com- peting to cut down their profits. The Government is not the only one having trouble with the bond market in the matter of interest rates. Some scouts for the 8. E. C. have discovered evidence lately in- dicating that bond dealers and brokers are working together in in- jormal combinations to prevent rates from going lower on private bonds. Several dealers combined recently to bring pressure on one bond house which underbid all competitors on a $10,000,000 institutional issue. Certain banking authorities see some significance in the fact that private investors have been selling Governments and putting their money into the stock market lately. ‘The “complete exposition” of Presi- dent Roosevelt’s plan to balance the budget in 1939 was highly authorita- tive, but also altitudinously imagina- tive. Mr. Roosevelt’s good friend, George Creel, is supposed to have obtained the idea from the President himself. But the President got the idea out of his hopes and the Treasury extracted the figures from the air. Future Hazy. The truth is the Treasury does not know what its receipts and expendi- tures will be next month. Its haziness about the future expands at the con- templation of each sheet of the calen- dar. It cannot have ever s faintly worth while opinion beyond next year. Receipts beyond January 1 will de- pend entirely on business. The esti- mates made by the Treasury are merely rough guesses, because some guess must be made for bookkeeping purposes. Future relief expenditures are, of course, incalculable. Note—Mr. Creel is also an adviser of the National Youth Administration on a per diem basis of $25 for each day he works. Delusions Studied. Latest book on the private reading list of the New Deal thinkers is one entitled “Extraordinary Popular Delu- sions and the Madness of Crowds.” It is supposed to have been written in 1841. Its revival is attributed to Ber- nard Baruch, who composed a fore- ‘word noting the similarity of the de- lusions of past centuries with those of 1929. An announcement from the Works Progress Administration con- tained the jollowing project ap= proval: “Grading, draining and paving Jag alley, Wellsville, Ohio; Federal contribution, $1,557; sponsor's con- tribution, $28.” The administrators were apparently willing to overlook the meager contri- bution from the sponsor, in view of the noteworthy social desirability of the project. (Copyright, 1935.) fort to keep the United States out of war. In this controversy Mr. Roosevelt is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, M NELNIANA TO SEEK NEW AR HONORS Joins Nine in Thompson Tro- phy Speed Classic at Cleveland. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September 2.—Harold Neumann, the Moline, Ill, air flash, sought his third straight day of star- dom at the National Air Races today as he joined nine other pilots in the Thompson Trophy race, the world speed classic for land planes. Neumann, who thrilled the thou- sands of spectators yesterday by win- ning the third and final lap of the Greve Trophy race after taking the first two heats Saturday, said he would pllot Benny Howard's Mr. Mulligan in the Thompson speed test. Mr. Mulligan is the plane Howard plloted to win the Los Angeles-to- Cleveland Bendix race Friday. Col. Roscoe Turner, who came in second in the Bendix race, in an elapsed time cof 23'; seconds behind Howard, was expected to give Neu- mann a close contest. Free-for-All for Men. The Thompson race, outstanding event of the National Air Races, is cpen to any type of airplane and is a free-for-all for men pilots. 1t will be over a distance of 150 miles in 10 laps over & 15-mile course. Qualifying speed is 225 miles an hour. Officials said 12 planes are entered in the Thompson race, but that only 10 are expectad to start. Competing with Neumann and Turner, providing they qualify, will be S. J. Wittmanwn of Oshkosh, Wis.; ‘Woods C. (Penny). Olers of Henrletta, Okla.; Marion McKeen of Hollywood, Calif.; Lee Miles of Oklahoma City, Gordon Israel of Chicago, R. A. Kling ot Lemont, Ill.; Art Chester of Moline, 111, and David Elmendorf of Los An- geles The winner takes s cash prize of $6,750, with the remainder of $15.000 divided among second, third, fourth and fifth place winners. Thrills Not on Schedule Yesterday's spectators had un- scheduled thrills when the plane of one of three skywriting stunt pilots appeared to burst into flame while soaring above the grandstands. Sur- plus oll in the plane’s cowling was on fire. The pilot did not know of the incident until after the three planes tell which plane had been afire. A high wind, which blew the para- chute jumpers all over the field, caused one to narrowly miss the grandstand. It landed on an awning. Clifford W. Henderson, managing director, estimated yesterday's attend- ance at 75,000 persons. A colorful fireworks display will bring the races to a close tonight. MILITARY AIRPLANES URGED FOR MINING Rex Beach Would Use Army and Navy Ships to Develop Alaskan Resources. By the Associated Press. JUNEAU, Alasks, September 2— Rex Beach advocates employment of Army and Navy flying personnel and equipment in the development of Alaska’s mineral resources. ‘The author announced the idea yes- terday shortly before he took off for Lemesurier Island, whence his old friend and guide, Joe Ibach, had radioed him, “The fishing is good.” The Army and Navy could, Beach believed, aid development of mining districts by aerial mapping expeditions and transportation of equipment and prospecting units of youths with min- eral knowledge. This would relieve unemployment and increase the popu- lation of the territory, he said. Beach said he expected to return here Tuesday if he could “tear himself away” from the fishing grounds, fiy to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and return to New York by rail. MEDIATION MOVE BY POPE DOUBTED Vatican Circles Believe Report of Action to Stop War Is in Error. By the Associsted Press. ROME, September 2.—Vatican City circles were skeptical today about rumors circulated here that Pope Pius had selected a legate to act as medi- ator in the Italo-Ethioplan conflict. ‘These rumors had it the Pope would attempt to act as mediator, naming & Tepresentative to act in his behalf. Some said he had already picked that representative. Prelates sald they did not believe the Pope would send a moderator to Premier Mussolini until war actually had been declared. At the same time, Italian govern- ment officials said they knew nothing of any attempt by the Pope to com- pose the dispute. Prelates at the Vatican called at- tention also to the accord between Italy and the Vatican wherein the Holy See declared: “It wishes to remain and will re- main extraneous to all temporal dis- putes between nations and interna- tional congresses convoked for the settlement of such disputes unless the contending parties make a concordant appeal to its mission of peace. It nevertheless reserves the right in every case to exercise its moral and spiritual power.” MRS. MARY H. CARLEY, 67 YEARS OLD, DEAD Daughter of Late Jacob Von Der- lehr of Washington to Be Buried Wednesday. landed and then it was impossible to | ONDAY’ SEPTEMBER 2, 1935. Above is shown' the wreckage of the Western Air Express plane, which crashed and burned yesterday a few minutes after taking off from Los Angeles for Salt Lake City, taking the lives of the pilot, co-pilot and stewardess, Left to right, insets: Pred Burlew, 35, co-pilot; Donna Naylor, 22, stewardess, and George C. Sherwood, 39, pilot. [ 4 30N ARLINER DI N FIERY CRASH 2 Pilots and Stewardess Victims as Plane Hits Power Lines. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 2.— night in the flery crash of a Western Alr Express plane a few minutes after taking off from Union Air Terminal for Salt Lake City. The dead: George C. Sherwood, 39, pilot, Los Angeles: Fred Burlew, copilot, 35, Glendale, Calif., and Miss Donna Nay- lor, 22, stewardess, Burbank, Calif. Both fiyers were married. The dual-motored Boeing transport ‘was circling toward the fleld with its it struck a high-tension wire line and crashed in flames against a ranch barn. Heat Prevents Rescue. Piremen battled the heat for 20 minutes before they could recover the charred bodies. Firemen from Bur- bank, Hollywood and Los Angeles answered the alarm. Seventeen sacks of United States mall were carried in the plane. Postal inspectors were summoned to guard the remains of this cargo. At the airport the Western Air Ex- | press operations department reported the plane made a perfect take-off in ;he face of overcast skies and some og. Motors Miss Fire. As the big metal ship passed over airport; the plane seemed to waver the pilot apparently tried to head it back. Sherwood was one of the veterans of Western Air Express, having joined the organization shortly after it was formed In 1924, and remaining al- most continuously in its service. He was & captain squad commander of the 11th Observation Squadron, 40th Division, California National Guard. GIRL FLYER UNHURT IN SOLO HOP CRASH College Student, 20, Steps Out of Borrowed Plane Un- scratched After Fall. By the Associated Press. PAOLI, Pa., September 2.—Mary King, 20-year-old student at Leland Stanford University, California, mak- ing a solo flight in a borrowed plane, crashed into & tree and dropped to the ground—but she. wasn't even scratched. The girl, spending her vacation with her parents, who live at Vil- lanova, stepped from the plane after the crash at the Main Line Afrport here yesterday and explained a sud- den gust of wind blew her into a tree. Miss King is & daughter of Samuel A. King, lecturer in English diction at Bryn Mawr College. NEW DEAL LOAN CRITIC ASKS P.W.A. ALLOTMENT Talmadge Administration Seeks $350,000 for Milledgeville Power Plant. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 2.—The State administration of Gov. Eugene Tal- madge, who repeatedly has criticized New Deal lending agencies and scored the Federal Government's ventures into private business fields, has ap- plied to the P, W. A. for $350,000 to build & State-operated power plant at Milledgeville. The money is to be used for the erection of a heating, light and power plant to serve the State prison farm, the State. Women’s College and the Hospital for the Insane, all located at Milledgeville. Georgia recenty entered the whole- sale produce business on a large scale by launching & chain of farm- ers’ markets, NEW MISSISSIPPI DAM TO BE OPENED TODAY Rites to Mark Finish of First Unit on Program to Restore Trafic on River. By the Associated Press. ALMA, Wis, September 2.—Com- pletion of the first unit of the Gov- ernment program to control the upper Mississippi and restore its traffic will . | be celebrated todsy at the dedication . | and formal opening of the Alma Dam. The $5,000,000 structure is the first of Three persons were killed late last | fia] engines apparently missing fire, when | \Canton Outraged Flappers Ordered | To Cover Thighs | Chinese Officials Start Intensive Campaign of Dress Reform. By the Associated Press. CANTON, China, September 2.—The government inaugurated yesterday a rigorous dress reform ostensibly de- signed to discipline ‘“exhibitionist ppers.” Authorities decreed that sleeves must extend below the elbows and dresses below the knees. Long'pants were required to be worn with slit skirts of native materials. The latter re- quirement was caused partly by a| | moral crusade of shocked citizens, who | complained that women were slitting | | their skirts to reveal bare thighs. The extra clothing decree was also motivated by the necessity of finding a market for the recently built gov- ernment textile factory. Government servants and students | were ordered to wear uniforms and | men were forbidden to appear on the streets coatless or wearing pajamas. 1.5 TO DRAW UP }BANNEI] ARMS LIST {Embargo Does Not Extend to Raw Materials, Offi- cials Say. By the Associated, Press. The United States, newly pledged to an arms embargo during foreign conflict, now faces the task of tabu- lating just what “implements of war” shall not leave its shores in such an emergency. The first word from official sources was that an arms embargo must con- form rigidly to the language of the neutrality law, which directs President Roosevelt during a foreign war “defi- nitely to enumerate the arms, am- munition or implements of war, the export of which is prohibited by this act” L. | No such list now exists, but officials | hastened to advise newsmen that the embargo authority does not extend to raw materials, which might be classed as warfare accessories. During the first seven months of 1935 the Commerce Department re- ported export gains in cotton linters— useful for manufacturing explosives— scrap iron and steel, copper ingots, trucks, tractors and the like. But fire- arms, ammunition and explosive ship- ments dropped nearly half a million under 1934 to only $3,316,000. Italy, busily mobilizing, was & com- paratively heavy purchaser of acrap metal, linters and trucks. But under present interpretations of the six- month mandatory embargo, these products would not be affected. ‘This factor, together with the ab- sence of a credit embargo, was be- lieved by some to have been in Mr. Roosevelt's mind when, on signing the neutrality act, he said “this section requires further and more complete consideration between now” and the date of the embargo’s expiration. ‘While lacking & war implements list for purposes of the neutrality law, the United States has embargoes in effect against China, Honduras and Nica- ragua and has had them in the past against Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Bolivia and Paraguay. Further, it has a draft before the League of Nations of a proposed international convention for the control of arms and munitions manufacture. Officlals said this draft might well form the basis of a neutrality law embargo. TWO CHURCH WRECKERS HELD IN DEATH OF THIRD Youth Found Under 800-Pound Piano—Pews Overturned and Windows Shattered. By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Septem- ber 2—Amid overtirned pews and bits of glass from shattered windows., the body of Orville Eldridge, 20, was found under an overturned plano yes- terday in the Grasshopper Holiness Church. County detectives arrested two men who were booked as Clyde Beavers, 25, and Laymon Cross, 18. They were charged with murder. Detective Charles Taylor quoted the pair as saying the trio entered the church Saturday night with the intentlon “of wrecking it because they knew they were in trouble al- there.” Taylor said the two claimed “we decided to go back and do a good job of i#.” ¢ He declared the accused men said they heard a crash and found Eld- ridge pinned under the 800-pound piano. Eldridge died of strangulation. ‘Woman Hurg in Fall. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, September 2 (P)—Mrs. Elisabeth Fleming, 77, stooped, tied her shoe string, straight- and fell over. 00 et » e % e —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos, CATHOLICS PLAN APPEAL TOHITLER Hierachy.to Ask Him to Guarantee Germany Will Remain Christian. By the Assoclated Press, BERLIN, September 2.—The Cath- olic hierarchy made it known today that it would appeal direct to Reichs- fuehrer Hitler to guarantee that Ger- many would remain Christian. The appeal was decided upon after the reading of a pastoral letter in all Catholic churches yesterday exhort- ing all members to “stand fast in the faith” and to resist the onslaught of the church’s assailants. The letter was the outgrowth of the recent conference of Catholic bishops at Fulda and was read in all the churches of the faith in Ger- many. “The fourth commandment enjoins us to obey authorities,” the letter said, “but when the laws of the state come into conflict with natural laws and dislodge the commandments, then St. Peter's word obtains. ‘We must obey God rather than men.'” The hierarchy informed the church members it had addressed a memo- randum to Der Fuehrer calling his attention to “the misuse of new fight- ing slogans and other limitations of Christian freedom and interference with the Christian conscience.” The appointment of Hans Kerrl as deputy for church affairs may make it impossible to contact Hitler per- sonally, but Catholics expressed the hope that he would re-emphasize Christianity as the foundation of the third Reich at the Nazl party con- gress in Nurnberg this manth. The meeting place of a Catholic youth organisation at Alstedde, near Luenen, Westphalia, was closed by police who arrested four youths for wearing forbidden uniforms and “pro- vocative conduct.” . In Neisse two Catholics were im- prisoned for tearing down Dr. Wilhelm Goering's placard against “political Catholicism.” —_— Riot (Continued From Pirst Page.) it did no damage. Bystanders said it ‘Was set off apparently with no other intention than to add to the confu- sion. Troops called out by the Governor, who said he had “no statement to make” immediately, were units of the 263d Coast Artillery from Greenwood and Greenville. They were ordered to duty armed with rifies and sidearms. J. C. Turner, s clerk in & store im- mediately across from the main plant of the mill, said the shooting broke out at 6:10. “A bunch of strikers and sympa- thizers were picketing the main en- trance and regular employes of the mill were in front of the plant on the Little Hill,” he sald. “Other regular employes were also behind the strikers and sympathigers. “The thing that started the shoot- ing, as I saw it, was when R. Melton broke through the picket line in his automobile to take his children to work. “Right away the shooting started. Windows of Melton's car were shat- tered and somebody jumped on the running board and slugged him. “In no time bullets were whistling everywhere. The workers on the hill in front of the mill and all the others, it seemed, started shooting. “When the first bullets were fired, the strikers began to run. In a few minutes none was in sight. “When the pickets ran, they left Mrs, Kelly dead and the others wounded.” i National Guardsmen were withdrawn from the scene only last Friday after a 35-dgy patrol of the mill premises, where some workers struck two months 8go, alleging discrimination against union members. Sheriff Clamp said the shooting be- gan about 30 minutes before he had planned to bring deputies on duty. BRITISH FLEET AT HAIFA Maneuver Is Part of Mediterra- nean Fall Schedule. HAIFA, Palestine, September 2 (#)—The British cruisers Arethusa, Delhi and Durban arrived here today from Malta, followed by eight de- stroyers. The maneuver has described as part of the Mediterranean fleet's Fall schedule, which will bring 11 fighting ships within 200 miles of the Suez Canal while additional vessels are drawn in even closer. The battlship Resolution and its sister ship Ramillies have arrived at Port Sald from Malta, accompanied by the cruiser Dispatch, MOSLEMS TO CONVENE }hnuvn Congress Expected to Dis- cuss Ethiopian Situation. JERUSALEM, September 2 (Pal- | piece. cor Agency)—The Arab newspaper Mirsat-Ash-Sharq said yesterday o world Moslem congress had béen called for September 13 at Geneva, presum- ably for discussion of the Ethiopian and wrist. | situstion. WORK WL SHAE PRESDENTSREST Three Weeks Begun at Hyde Park With Late Rising on Chilly Day. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. AYDE PARK, N. Y., September 2 —Cold gray skies, and & chill in the alr, strongly suggestive of Autumn, greeted President Rocsevelt on his first morning back at his mother’s Hyde Park Home, where he expects to remain for possibly the next three ‘weeks. ‘The President, his face beaming in anticipation, went to his old, paper littered desk in his cubby-hole study on the ground floor of the rambling mansion, to give his attention to work, he intimated, however, that he would do some loafing this afternoon. Much to Be Deme. While he came here for a well earned but long-delayed Summer vacation, Mr. Roosevelt brought along| enough business papers to keep him| busy for at least a half of each day| of his stay. Judging from the port- folios and boxes taken from the baggage car of his special train which brought him here from Washington Mr. Roosevelt has merely changed the scene of his labors. In addition, a temporary executive office has been set up at the Neison Hotel, in Poughkeepsie, five miles’ away, with a skeleton work force in| charge of Stephen Early of the White | House secretariat. Moreover, the President, while here, will, as usual,| be in constant touch with the execu-| |body for any useful purpose on & tive office back in Washington, as| well as the various department heads, by means of direct telephone and | telegraph lines. Each day an Army; airplane will land near here with a mail pouch for the President. SEARCH FOR ADY STIRS COLORADO Police Without Trace of Capitalist Who Disap- peared Friday. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, September 2~The strange disappearsnce of Capitalist Joseph W. Ady, jr., 53, figuratively under the eyes of his fame ily, caused intense police activity here today and brought some fear of kidnaping. Ady vanished with his car Friday night while his wife believed he was dressing for dinner, she told Police Inspector 1. B. Bruce, nationaly known criminologist. The search for Ady, a mining en- gineer and capitalist, spread over an area 100 miles wide while the officers puzzied over the fact he apparently had left the house without his move- ments being noted by any one. Returned From Office. Mrs. Ady, who was the widow of the mine-wealthy James F. Burns told Bruce he returned from the office at the usual time Friday, talked brief- ly with her and went to his room When dinner was announced about 6:30 pm. Mrs. Ady called to him and he said he would come downstairs shortly. Silence met a second call, although Ady had not been seen at the door of his room or descending from the - second floor of the house. After the small sedan he used be- tween home and office was found missing from its parking place Ady's room was inspected and his absence established. Not until yesterday could it be established definitely that Ady was not in Cotopaxi, Colo., where he had negotiated for a quarry in connection with materials for a projected addi- tion to the Government mint in Rises Later Than Usual. Mr. Roosevelt remained abed this morning longer than customary back in Washington. After breakfast he sat for a while in the large, cozy library chatting with members of his| family and Dr. Rexford Tugwell, Under Secretary of Agriculture, and director of resettlement, who accom- panied him on the journey from the Capital, and Mrs. Tugwell, who has ! been here several days as the guest | of Mrs. Roosevelt. . Mrs. Roosevelt had made elaborate plans for observing Labor day, but these were canceled when it was | decided that she personally represent | the President at the funeral of Mrs. Harold Ickes, the wife of the Secre- tary of Interior to be held tomorrow Mrs. Roosevelt's plans for cele- brating the holiday were to have been featured with a picnic at the Val Kill | estate, where are located Mrs. Roose- velt's furniture factory, and the . President’s swimming pool. Welcoming Crowd Small. As usual upon President Roosevelt's return to Dutchess County, there was | only & handful of natives on hand to greet him when he alighted from his | special train yesterday morning. Eighteen persons, besides station at- tendants, were sufficlently interested to go to the station. At the foot of | the front steps of his home stood Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's 81-year-old mother. No doubt the latter will lose no time giving & detail account of the Dutch- ess County Fair which just closed Saturday, which the President was unable to attend. Mrs. Roosevelt, sr., always has some products from her farm on exhibition and gives a trophy for one of the saddle horse events. Also, some of the Roosevelt children always ride. This year John, the youngest of the Roosevelt boys, rode and Mrs. Roosevelt, sr. served as judge in a baby contest. The | last Summer and the Summer before. | Estate Is Inspected. ‘The President yesterday afternoon drove over the estate inspecting the flelds and the stock and the trees. He said he probably would make an- other inspection trip this afternoon. He 15 especially interested in the herd of 17 Holsteins, milk from which is sold to s nearby creamery. Mr. Roosevelt disposed of all the really important acts of Congress be- fore he left Washington, but there still remain a large number of bills passed during the closing days of the Congress which must be acted upon shortly. These he brought along with him, and & number, mostly personal relief bills, will receive his veto. Mr. Roosevelt has followed the custom of accompanying each veto with a mes- sage explaining. Before her departure today for Chi- cago, Mrs. Roosevelt was the recipient of & large basket of flowers sent to her by the International Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association, in session in Pittsburgh, Pa. Irvin S. Cobb Says: We Surpass Romans in Slaughtering Humans to Make Holiday. BARSTOW, Calif., Septémber 2.— Last evening we skirted Death Valley, where, even when the temperature goes t0 120, nobody dies but every one would like to—~and all of a sudden we real- ized that today reckless drivers ‘would be spread- ing the inferno influence all over the land, weather permitting. It is estimated that the auto- mobile death toll for Labor day will be 400 killed and more than 10,000 hurt or crippled. We did that well last year, and this year, be- ing a progressive people, we want to pile the mortality statistics even higher. When it comes to slaughter- ing human beings to make & houdfiy, the old Romans were pikers. | The figures are lacking, but, if the truth were known, I'll bet not one person in a thousand driving at reck- less speed is really in a hurry to get anywhere or will be needed by an: rival if he does mot arrive all in one be getting old. I'd rather in Chicago. | President was able to attend the fair | Denver. Investigators, however, still regarded a search toward Cotopaxi as one of the best of their meager “leads.” Native of Kansas. | A World War veteran, a figure in the fabled gold fields of Cripple Creek and an investcr in oil and life in- surance enterprises, Ady is a native of Newton, Kans, who came here in 1895. His .marriage to the former Mrs. | Burns took place in fashionable St | Thomas’ Church in New York in |1920. The' estate of her late hus- band was estimated as high as $6,- 000,000. A capitalist with varied interests for two decades, Ady had curtailed his activity somewhat in recent months, but he was known to be negotiating for the granite quarries near Cotopaxi, to the southwest. FRANCE OPENS DRIVE FOR CONSTITUTION Former Senator Declines to An- nounce Own Candidacy for , President, However. By the Associated Press. PORT DEPOSIT, Md., September 2.—Ex-Senator Joseph I. France, op- penent to former President Herbert Hoover in the 1932 Republican pri- | maries, yesterday fired the first gun of what he said was a campaign to force 1936 presidential candiates to “restore constitutional government to the United States.” France, although refusing to an- | nounce himself as a candidate for | the G. O. P. nomination, asserted | he was “qualified” and that his future | plans would depend upon reception of | a “sample” platform he is preparing for approval of other candidates. In a formal statement, the “first plank” of the platform, he warned against “further usurpation of the | Constitution” by Federal officials | “thirsting for power.” “The enactment of the eighteenth amendment was a flagrant ‘usurpation’ by the Federal Government of power,” he continued. “Under the stress of present conditions, with the increas- ing demand for more power on the part of the Federal Government and its officials, there might well take place more dangerous amendments to the Constitution by this method of “usurpation.’ ” NYE ASSAILS OIL DEALS IN ETHIOPIA Industries Are Assured U. S. Will Protect Their Interests. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Mass., September 3.— The world “this very hour,” United States Senator Gerald P. Nye, Repub- lican, of North Dakota, said last night, is “more dangerously near war than it was one hour before the World ‘War.” He spoke at the closing session of the Greater Boston Methodist camp meeting. The United States, he declared, must adopt a policy of permanent neutrality. “If America wants to stay out of another war let experience be her guide and leader,” he said. “Into the jaws of another war, brazenly, within the past 48 hours, come forth reports that American industries have in- vested in a large way in Ethiopia. “These industries, such as the Standard Oil Co., would not invest in countries on the verge of war if they did not have the assurance that Uncle Sam would send Marines, sailors and soldiers to protect their dollars.” 10,000 ATTEND RACES AT TIMONIUM FAIR Racing Strip Unharmed by Morn- ing Rain—Large Fields in Eight-Event Program. Special Dispateh to The Star. TIMONIUM, Md., September 2.— Despite rainfall today, more than 10,000 race fans turned out to help the Maryland State Fair and Agri~ cultural Soclety usher in the third meeting of Maryland's Fall campaign. Up to noon, the light rain had not harmed the racing strip. There were some scratches, but capacity flelds still remained for the day’s eight- race program. ‘The Fall season’s initial steeple- chase will be- run as the day's sec- ond race; ft has attracted seven leppers, with Swansea, a recent ar- Says mi be late for supper in this world tonight than on time for breakfast in some other world tomorrow morning. rival from Saratoga Springs, the early favorite. Daily double wagering will be of- first time. .