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DEMOCRATS COURT | | What's What CLAM DISUTED Study of Record Lifts Blame for Ten Invalid Laws From G. 0. P. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. There's an old saylug that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and the Democratic National Com- mittee, which has set out to convince the country that the newspaper cor- respondents in Washington are in- accurate in their interpretations, might with advantage look to the rellability of its own pronouncements. Thus the Democratic committee in its latest statement to the newspapers has this to say: “As Senator Lewis of Illinois pre- sented in a Senate speech, the Supreme Court pronounced unconsti- tutional seven acts signed by Presi- dent Hard!ng, seven signed by Presi- dent Coolidge and three signed by President Hoover.” Little Truth in It. ‘The only thing true about the fore- going statement is that Senator Lewis said it in a speech to the Senate on August 1. Now the facts are that the Supreme Court of the United States did render 17 opinions during the period in which Messrs. Harding, Coolidge and Hoover happened to be in the presidency, but the acts of Congress which were passed upon by the Supreme Court in those years were adopted n previous years and bore the signatures of other Presidents. It sometimes takes several years for an issue to be presented to the Supreme Court. The date of a final decree, therefore, has no possible con- nection with the administration that happens to have come in power siace the original law was passed. Of the seven decisions of uncon- stitutionality rendered while Mr. Harding happened to be in the White House, three were opinicns on acts passed during President Taft's admin- istration, three were on laws passed during Mr. Wilson's term and only one was a bill which Mr. Harding signed. In Coolidge Term. Of the seven decisions which were rendered while Calvin Coolidge hap- pened to be in the White House, one was on a law signed by him, and there were three which were enacted with the signatures of President Harding, two that had been passed when Mr. Wilson was President and one while Gen. Grant was in the White House. Of the three opinions rendered dur- ing the time Herbert Hoover was President, holding acts of Congress in- valid, two were laws passed while Mr. Coolidge was President and one that had been adopted when President Wil- son was in office. So the true record of decisions holding acts of Congress unconstitutional in the period under discussion runs as follows: Decisions affecting laws passed dur- ing Harding’s term, four. Decisions affecting laws passed during Coolidge's term, three. Decisions affecting laws passed during Hoover's term, none. The foregoing total of seven laws signed by the three Republican Presi- dents in the 12 years since the World War compares with a total of seven acts actually signed by President Roosevelt which were declared un- constitutional within the first two years of his term in the White House. Competent lawyers say the probabil- ities are that seven more of the acts passed during the last two years of Mr. Roosevelt’s term will also be de- clared invalid. So the chances are Mr. Roosevelt will achieve the record of having transgressed the Constitution more times than any other President of the United States in approving in- valid acts of Congress. Leads McNutt Into Error. Tt is most unfortunate that Senator Lewis’ speech, which he had inserted in the Congressional Record with a table alongside of it, has not been cor- rected, because it is leading to inno- cent error on the part of such well- meaning Democratic Governors as Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, who repeated the same misstatements on August 23 to that gathering of Young Democrats at Milwaukee, which was an assemblage so important, appar- ently, that Mr. Roosevelt himself ad- dressed it by long-distance wire from the National Capital. Gov. McNutt was formerly the dean of a State university law school, and 80 it puts him in a much more awk- ward position than the average lay- man who tries to quote statistics on a matter of this kind." The Indiana Governor in his speech sald: “During the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations the Repub- lican Congress passed and a Repub- lican Executive signed 17 important administration measures which were declared unconstitutional by the Su- preme Court of the United States. “Only six measures passed during the Roosevelt administration have been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The score shows 17 errors by the Republicans to 6 by the Democrats.” The Seventh Decision. It will be noted that Mr. McNutt concedes only six measures declared unconstitutional under the Roosevelt Tegime. Other New Dealers do the same. They apparently do not count the decision of the Supreme Court in the second gold bond case, but, as matters have since turned out, opinion of the court must be counted a8 & defeat for the New Deal. The court not only said that Congress went beyond its power in abrogating & contract in a Government bond, but pointed out that no loss had been proved. Now, under legislation enacted at the session of just closed, the citizen is deprived of an opportunity to sue in the Court of Claims to establish his loss. So the defeat of the administration on the gold bond contract has been ren- dered complete by its own confes- sion. of guilt in the law signed by Mr. Roosevelt barring gold clause suits. . But it is really not vital to com- pare how many acts were passed under Republican or Democratic ad- ministration that were later declared unconstitutional. As & matter of {act, Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, in a radio speech recently ¢laimed that ‘“strictly Democratic” fiow passed 20 unconstitutional ws and “strictly Republican Con- gresses” 42. It would not help matters to find out how many Republican or Democratic Presidents signed these laws. For there is no offense in mere presidential approval ¢t an act which is later declared un- constitutional. This is because it cannot be presumed that there will slways be unanjmity of opinion in exploring the legal ground that en- Yelops constitutional controversies. 3 Inspiration Prime Question. * Much more to the point is: How imany Presidents, after receiving & Pody blow like decision in the N. R.A. rendered by Behind News In Capital Democratic Politicians Souring on Program of Spending. A ing trip through the East with the strange news that even the local Democratic politicians are’against the spending program. His conclusion, which has already been reported higher up, is that the political advantages of spending have been spoiled. Red tape, frequent changes of plan and the Hopkins- Ickes attitude toward the politicians are contributing causes. All down the inside line, similar talk has been increasing here. If State, local and county political authorities join the chorus, some entirely mew arrangement may be expected. President Roosevelt told the depart- ing congressional leaders that he would not have much to submit to Congress next session. The implica- tion was that he is not seriously ap- prehensive about reverses in the courts this Fall, that the reform pro- gram is temporarily complete, that election is coming on. The leaders, however, were not im- pressed. They have heard that before. BY PAUL MALLON. LIBERAL New Deal official re- turned recently from a scout- An indentation was left in the ce- ment floor of the new Supreme Court Building, just to fit the carpet. The only trouble was that the indentation was about six inches (believe it or not) too deep. Cement is now being filled in to the proper point. Attend- ants have suggested that the New Dealers would have been able to stand it if some of the justices had sprained their ankles in a group before decid- ing on pending cases. Brookings Plans Gold Report. The Brookings Institute is cooking up some more medicine for the New Deal. A report is being prepared on the gold policy and its effect on prices. It will be out in about 60 days. The institute is non-political, but its critical analyses of New Deal pol- icies (remember the N. R. A) have furnished more data for political view- points than any other agency. This particular study is being financed by 2 special appropriation from the Rockefeller Foundation. Youth Movement Opposed. A non-political protest against the national youth movement wes made by a prominent educator, Prof. George Drayton Strayer, of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, not long ago, but did not get into the papers. It was in an address to teachers, questioning the tendency toward central Federal control of education. “No greater danger to democracy can be found,” said Prof. Strayer, “than resides in the organization of a central control over education which may at any time be used for the purposes of propa- ganda and which is entirely suited to the needs of $hose who would develop a Fascist state.” Lawyers Kill Lobby Bill. Among the measures which did not get through Congress was the Black lobby registration bill. It would have required all lobbyists to register and to disclose their compensation. It was killed by the American Bar Association because its provisions would have blanketed attorneys and thus was considered an indignity to the legal profession. However, some of the credit is really due to a couple of high-priced Democratic lawyers here. They are members of the un- o;cial “$25,000 Club,” so called because members favor that amount as a fee. ‘When President Roosevelt signed the Spanish War veterans' pension bill he said: “This establishes no ground of precedent for pensions for the World Wor group; theirs is an en- tirely different case.” Apparently the representatives of World War veterans did not hear him. At least the V. F. W. crowd, headed by James van Zandt, is organizing to push for a uniform pension idea. They figure that the bonus is already a certainty; that it will be enacted in January. They are right about that. Also, enactment of a pension sys- tem is only a question of time. It will not come next year because the bonus will satisfy the veterans’ vote for at least one more election. Most legislative authorities, however, con- sider it a certainty within five years. Prepares Argument, A prominent union official called at the | the 8. E. C. the other day to get copies of the regulation statement of the firm whose employes he speaks for, He wanted to learn something about the internal financial position of the firm 50 he would be in a better labor bargaining position. It seems that the only reason Vice President Garner is going to Japan is that the boat on which he booked passage for the Philippines takes that route, going and coming. Garner has no message for the Japanese and no purpose beyond his- Philippine ar- rangements. Publisher Dies. BELVIDERE, N. J., September 3 (#)—Elmer Smith, 75, newspaper publisher, died at his home today after a long iliness, Smith published the Warren Journal, & weekly, for the last 36 years, and prior to that owned newspapers in Illinois and North Dakota. & unanimous court comprising con- servatives, radicals and liberals, turned around and demanded of Con- gress the passage of more legislation violative of the same principles? The historians and . research ex- perts will have a hard time finding any single administration in the whole history of the United States, which has taken more liberties with the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States, than has the administration of Pres- ident Roosevelt the first two and & half years of mmn:benq THE EVEN PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT RALLY TONIGHT Duchess County Demaocratic Women Hosts—-MacArthur Sees Roosevelt. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of Th 4 HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 3.— President Roosevelt tonight will break his routine of work and relaxation to address a large gathering of Duchess County neighbors. Mrs. Roosevelt was scheduled to make the address origi- nally, but she left yesterday for Chi- cago for the funeral of Mrs. Harold Ickes, and he is to fill the engagement. As the occaslon is being sponsored by the Democratic Women's Club of Hyde Park, it is thought likely that the President will give a decided po- litical, although informal, tone to his remarks. Rally at Farm Home. ‘The scene of the rally will be the lawn of the home of Moses Smith, the President’s tenant farmer. It is lo- cated on the President’s estate. It was here that the President addressed his neighbors last Summer at a “Roosevelt homecoming rally.” Smith's wife is general chairman of tonight's rally and will introduce the President. Representative Caroline O'Day, who is house guest at the Roosevelt home, also will address the rally. At & luncheon at the Val Kill Cot- tage, arranged by Mrs. Roosevelt, the President had as his Labor day guests Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Mrs. Morgenthau, Dr. Rexford Tugwell and Mrs. Tugwell and their daughter and Representative O'Day among others. Confers With MacArthur, Mr. Roosevelt's routine today was broken by a long conference with Chief of Staff MacArthur, who is scheduled to retire from that high command very shortly and take up new duties in the Philippines. The intimation given here is that Gen. MacArthur is to act in an advisory capacity to the new Governor in the Philippines. Those who stand out prominently today as being likely to be named chief of staff are Maj. Gen. George S. Simonds, deputy chief of staff, and Maj. Gen, Malin Craig, head of the Army War College. It was intimated that Gen. Simonds, whose age would make it impossible for him to serve out the four-year tour as chief of staff, may be given the command for a limited period, when Gen. Craig would be promoted. The President announced action on eight bills yesterday. He vetoed seven and approved one. Among the bills vetoed was one to provide travel expenses for Spanish- American War veterans in the Philip- signed. The President cited the cost of $7,000,000. He recently approved a bill restoring full pension payment to Spanish-American War veterans. ZIONISTS CONDEMN Protest of German Delega- tion at Lucerne. By the Associated Press. LUCERNE, Switzerlaad, September 3—The World Zionist Congress voted today its condemnation of German | Nazi persecution of Jews despite oppo- | sition by the German delegations. The resolution carrying this protest was offered by Dr. Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress. It began: “The ninteenth World Zionist Con- gress raises its voice against sys- tematic deprivation of the rights of Jews in Germany, which undermines their moral and material position.” The resolution charged “defamation of the whole Jewish people in their spiritual, ethical and cultural achieve- ments” and declared “the Jewish peo- ple, which defended its honor and personality during thousands of years of history will never. under any_cir- cumstances, submit.” To encourage continued immigra- tion of German Jews to Palestine, the congress voted to instruct the Zionist executive to take all work connected with the transfer under its control. The Palcor (Jewish) Agency also reported that the congress asserted the British government had not ful- filled all the obligations assumed to- ward the Jewish people in the League of Nations mandate for Palestie and appealed to that government “gener- ously to fulfill that obligation by initiating an active and sympathetic policy in Palestine.” HAWAIP'S 12,000 TROOPS MASSED IN REVJEW Military Affairs Subcommittee Sees Islands’ Defenses, Led by Maj. Gen. Drum. By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, September 3. —Hawail's greatest military review was held yes- terday. It ended the official program ten- dered to Representatives Parks of Arkansas, McMillan of South Carolina, Dockweller of California, Blanton of Texas and Snyder of Pennsylvania, members of the Military Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Commite tee, who came here to investigate Hawali’s defenses. R Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, com- mander of the Hawallan Department, led 12,000 troops before the.reviewing stand. Heavy guns rumbled on specially laid railway tracks in the first parade of Hawaiian coast defenses as air- planes swooped overhead. Fully 25,000 spectators occupying & querter-mile of bleachers cheered as the Army carried on in perfect weather. PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR 10 DAYS “Tough” Inmates Blamed for Dis- turbance in Eastern Penn- sylvania Penitentiary. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 3.— Guy T. Holcomb, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Eastern State Penitentiary, revealed last night that 14 “tough” ers have been on a hunger “strike” for about 10 days. Anogher prisoner quit the “strike” after.going without food for five days. the 15 convicts G STAR, pines after the treaty of peace was| | an Atlantic City, N. January and has been reported in| NAZI PERSECUTION, | Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, Loulsville Junior Vote of Congress Taken Over| BRENER KIDNAP SUSPECTS TAKEN William Weaver and Myrtle Eaton Are Held in St. Paul. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, September 3.—Willlam ‘Weaver and Myrtle Eaton, among 22 persons indicted in the $200,000 Ed- ward G. Bremer kidnaping, were held in the county jail here today pending arraignment in Federal District Court. Brought here late yesterday by air- plane by Fderal agents, following their capture Sunday on a “chicken ranch near Allendale, Fla., the two were questioned here about the abduction and then jailed. ‘Weaver is charged with the actual kidnaping of the St. Paul banker January 17, 1934, and Mrs. Eaton is accused of conspiracy. Weaver and Mrs. Eaton had been living in Florida as Mr. and Mrs. J. ‘W. Osborne. They had legally adopted & 2-year-old baby the first of the year and were known by neighbors as chicken farmers. In their house about two miles from Allendale, however, were found a half- dogen guns, including a shotgun and two automatic pistols. Only Tweo Still at Large, Arrest of Mrs. Eaton and Weaver left Alvin Karpls, long sought as public enemy No. 1, and Harry Camp- bell, his henchman, the only major principles still at large in the Bremer case. Of the others indicted for the actual kidnaping, Harry Sawyer, former St. Paul bootlegger, is being held in jail here pending trial; Arthur Barker, leader of the Barker-Karpis gang, is serving a life sentence; Elmer Farmer and Harold Alderton, Bensen- ville, Ill, are serving 20 years; Byron Boltcn is in the county jail here pending sentence and Volney Davis is serving a life term. Others sentenced on conspiracy charges are John J. McLaughlin to five years, James Wilsca to five years and Oliver Berg to life imprisonment. PROGRESS IN GEM CASE Brooklyn Man Arrested by Federal Men, In announcing the arrest of William Weaver and Myrtle Eaton yesterday, the Department of Justice also re- ported progress in solving the Miami- Biltmore jewel theft case as agents arrested Robert C. Nelson of Brooklyn, believed linked with the case, in New York City. Nelson is being charged with conspiracy to violate the na- tional stolen property act. Meanwhile, agents are pressing their search for Alvin Karpis, leader of the St. Paul mob and high ranking pub- lic enemy of the moment. Karpis shot his way out of a police trap in J., hotel last many sections since. Two Others Hunted. Two other “big shot” kidnapers also still hold places on the depart- ment's “must” list, these being Thomas H. Robinson, jr., abductor of Leaguer, on October 10, 1934, and William Mahan, linked with the snatching of young George Weyer- haeuser in Tacoma, Wash., last May. There have been rumors that Rob- inson suffered the same fate that ended the career of John Hamilton, Dillinger gunman whose body was found last week in an Illinois gravel pit. Reports that the ransom bills have been slow to appear have strengthened the belief that the once- crazed kidnaper may be dead. A “lone wolf,” Robinson cannot be traced through underworld connec- tions, it has been pointed out. He has been reported in many parts of the United States. R ILLSE |GERMAN HELD IN PRAHA AS LURE TO EMIGRANTS Sign Painter Charged With Being Commissioned to Entice Those Wanted by Reich. By the Associated Press. PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, 8:ptember 3.—Gerhardt Berthold, a sign painter, was arrested yesterday charged with being a secret German police agent commissioned to lure wanted German emigrants back to the Third Reich. An official communique quoted police as saying Berthold pretended he was an anti-Nazi and tried to induce emigres to take subversive literature to Germany “in order to enlighten the people.” Police said Berthold was responsible for 2ases in which three men who car- ried anti-Nazl pamphlets across the Czech border were shot as smugglers by Saxon frontier guards. Captured MYRTLE EATON. Unemp_loyment Board Takes Office WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1935. POLTEALTRENDS SOUGHT I TALS Labor Day Speeches Are Studied to Show Temper of Groups. By the Associabed Press. The politically minded sought to- day to read signs of the future from the tenor of Labor day speeches which contained both praise and con- demnation of the Roosevelt admin- istration. Leaders of organized labor gen- erally appiauded the social legisla- tion enacted under the New Deal, assailed its opponents and expressed new hopes for the future. Admin- istration foes, on the other hand, mounted platforms to unleash new attacks. Left to right: Commissioner Melvin Hazen, John Locher, Daniel J. Callahan, citizen members of the board; Roland Brennar, secretary to the Commissioner, and Commissioner Sultan, STEWARD ASSAILED BY A.F. . E HEADS Convention President Called “Obstructionist” for Op- posing Bill. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, now in convention at Yellow- stone National Park, was charged with “following an obstructionist policy” against the Sirovich bill in a state- ment issued today by three officers of the American Federation of Govern- ment Employes. The statement was issued in reply to Steward's annual address yesterday at the Yellowstone convention, in which he criticized the A. F. G. E,, although not calling the organization by name. Ste! also criticized the Sirovich bill, omnibus measure carrying & number of civil service reforms. The joint statement was issued by David R. Glass, national vice presi- dent, and Charles I. Stengle and Lee Somers, executive assistants to E. Claude Babcock, A. F. G. E. president. “Challenge” Accepted. “Luther C. Steward has taken ad- vantage of his organization’s conven- tion,” the statement said, “to make attacks on the Sirovich bill and the American Federation of Government Employes which we cannot permit to go unchallenged. “As for the Sirovich bill, it is no secret that he presented an omnibus bill to Representative Sirovich which proved so inadequate and unsatisfac- tory that President Babcock suggested that Sirovich prepare a new bill, which he did. Thereupon Steward and his associates followed an obstructionist policy with respect to this bill—al- program. Government employes who | are familiar with the situation know in bringing their hopes to realization.” Membership Doubted. ‘The joint statement also questioned the National Federation’s membership claims, asserting President Steward and Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary- ure, the former claiming 64,000 and the latter only 44,368. “The American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes is eager to promote | Government employe legislation, no | matter who sponsors it, and for that reason President Babcock indorsed the Logan bill, sponsored by Steward's organization, and ‘our federation sup- ported it before a congressional com- mittee. We did not consider it adequate, and do not now, but we i did not oppose it merely for that | reason or because it was a Steward creation.” The two organizations have been rivals since the National Federation of Federal Employes withdrew from the American Federation of Labor and the latter organization helped to set up the American Federation of Government Employes, LADY WATSON SEEKS POSITION AS DOMESTIC Widow of British Poet Asks Work to Tide Her Over Until Estate Is Settled. By the Associated Press. BRIGHTON, England, September 3.—Lady Watson, widow of Sir Wil- liam Watson, British poet, who died August 13, is seeking employment, even as a domestic, to tide herself and daughters over the period neces- sary for clearing up the estate, it was learned yesterday. She is listed in the Brighton registry office as & candidate for work as a housckeeper or secretary. Her daugh- ters already had such employment, Lady Watson announced. She said she was expecting about $10,000 from America when the estate is settled. JEWISH VETERANS ELECT Abraham XKraditor of Brooklyn Heads Group. BARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Sep- tember 3 (#).—Abraham Kraditor of Brooklyn, was elected national com- mander in chief of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States at the closing session of the thirty-niath annual national encampment yester- day. Harry Shaffer of Pittsburgh, was named senior vice commander. Other officers elected were: Dr. 8. William Kaub, Newark, N. J., surgeon geaeral, and Herman Brans, Newark, judge advocate general. W. C. T. U. OPENS SCHOOL Evils of Alcohol to Be Taught in Daily Sessions. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., September 3 (#).—The National Women's Chris- though it covered most of the items| included in his announced legislative | where to place the blame for delays| treasurer, have not agreed on the fig- | opinion, (Story on Page B-1.) $5,000,000 NAVIGATION DAM IS DEDICATED First of 28 Structures Planned in Giant Inland System Is In- spected by Gen. Markham. | By the Associated Press. ALMA, Wis., September 3.—Formal dedication yesterday of the Alma Dam, first to be completed of the 26 struc- tures planned to psovide a 9-foot channel between the Twin Cities and St. Louis, marked a big step forward in development of one of the largest inland waterway systems in the world. An address by Maj. Gen. E. M. Markham, Washington, D. C., chief of the United States Army Engineering Corps, preceded the official dedication of the $5,000,000 structure. A flotilla of boats brought Gen. Markham and other visiting officials down the river to Alma from Winona, Minn, After an inspection tour of the dam, Gen. Markham spoke from the top deck of the U. 8. 8. Gen. Allen, tied up in the main lock. Lowering of the fifth roller gate, a 110-ton steel cylinder, featured the official dedication. LEAGUE T0 AFFECT U.S, POPE STATES 0il Deal Shows How Amer- ica Might Be Drawn In, He Says. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 3 —Senator Pope of Idaho, predicted today the foreign policy of the United States would be affected by the present meet- ing of the League of Nations Council. “Whatever action is taken by the League of Nations during the next few weeks” said the Senator, who is here to observe the council sessions privately, “will have a very profound effect on the future foreign policy of the United States. “The recent acquisition by Ameri- can interests of an oil concession in Ethiopian territory has, served to convince most Americans of the ease with which our country can become involved in war, “For this and other reasons, there is as much or more public interest in the League in the United States as in any other country. The people of the United States want to stay out of war; public opinion will demand our full co-operation with any agency which proves itself capable of main- taining peace. “At the present time, a very sub- stantial portion of the public opinion of the United States tavors the prin- ciple of collective security. If the |League of Nations is successful in averting actual warfare between Italy and Ethiopia, it will have proved its capability for the successful appli- cation of that principle. “If the collective efforts are un- successtul in the present crisis, I fear the progress toward a system of law and order in the world will be halted for a few years.” Hull (Continued From First Page.) deliver tomorrow” the $1,000,000 loan to the Ethiopian goverament for which the concession was given as security. The agreement, signed July 19 at London, stipulates the money must be paid over within 90 days of the signing for the concession to be exercised. Deal “Private Matter.” Chertok said the “deal has abso- lutely no connection with the Du Pont interests. It is a private matter, and T have secured the necessary capital from private individuals who wish their identities kept secret.” The details of the territories cov- ered in the concession are in the hands of a business associate in London, Chertok said, but declared “they cover most all the spots where there is be- lieved to be oil or percious metals.” Beside the du Font Co. Chertok displayed contracts to represent in Russia the Seagrave Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Ohio, the National Meter Co. of Brooklyn and the Black & Clawson Co. of Hamilton, Ohio. He declined to name a date on which the money would be paid over but said it would be “well within the 90-day option period.” Chertok said he had not come forth with his clalm sooner because he had not been aware of the concessions given to other American interests. Native of Russia. ‘Upon his return to this country from Europe August 20, he said, he went immediately to a secluded district in Connecticut where he rested and “didn’t even read & newspaper.” Chertok said he was born in Russia 32 years ago and come here with his parents when only a year old. He attended law school at New York Uni- versity for four years, but left when he was 23 years old without getting his degree. in my| ~—=8tar Staff Photo. MRS. CKES' DEAT PROBE IS DELAYED Body of Driver in Fatal Crash Taken to Gallup for Burial. By the Associated Press. SANTA FE, N. Mex,, September 3. —New Mexico's investigation into the automobile wreck which killed Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the cabinet member, was at a standstill today as | funeral services were arranged for | Frank Allen, second victim of the William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said in a Canfon, Ohio, address that the basis for “a better social and eco- nomic order has been laid.” Talmadge Renews Attacks. In contrast, Eugene Talmadge, Democratic Governor of Georgia, described the administration as “the greatest enemy of labor.” “When the policy of the Govern- ment is to make jobs fewer,” he as- serted in a speech at Sioux City Fall, 8. Dak, “labor is the first to suffer.” Talmadge's statement was made a day after John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, had told a Labor day gather- ing: “Organized labor in the contest that is to come has no choice but to support the President morally, # with votes, and with its frugal pen- nies. Of the result there can be no doubt.” Knox Cites Living Costs, Col. Frank Knox, Chicago pube | lisher, who has been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential candidate, in a statement released for mishap. The body of Allen, hired driver of | the car, was taken to his home at Gallup, N. Mex, for burial after a coroner’s jury had decided his death | yesterday was due to “concussion of the brain and surgical shock caused | from a pelvic fracture.” District Attorney David Chavez said Allen died before a statement could be obtained from him about the crash. This, he sald, would handicap his investigation, but he was determined to clear up conflicting details. He said he hoped to accomplish this as soon as he could question the two survivors of the accident, Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Washing- ton newspaper woman, and Ibrahim Seyfullah, Turkish Legation secretary. Both were reported out of immediate danger. A “black sedan” which Seyfullah said he believed he saw, and two other witnesses reported near the crash scene was one of the chief | points Chavez was attempting to clear up. ATTEND ICKES RITES. Cabinet Members Arrive for Services | This Afternoon. CHICAGO, September 3 (£ —Two members of President Roosevelt's cab- inet arrived in Chicago today to a tend the funeral of Mrs. Anna Wil- | marth Ickes, wife of Secretary of the | Interior Harold L. Ickes. Secretary of War George Dern and Mrs. Dern and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper and Mrs. Roper were the first of a delegation of Washington |an automobile accident near Santa Fe. N. Mex., Saturday. They were to gather with Illinois | State officers at public ceremonies in | the Ickes' suburban Winnetka home at 2 pm. (Central standard time). The family planned private services for the burial. Mrs. Ickes' body arrived from the West this morning and was met by Wilmarth Ickes, a son, and William { H. McCrillis, an aide to Mr. Ickes. The red cedar box containing the casket was banked with flowers. Speeding to Chicago from the East, | heading a party of Mrs. Ickes' inti- velt, wife of the President. With her was Postmaster General James A. Farley. Harry L. Hopkins, Federal prelief administrator, was an early arrivals. For his own party and in behalf of those of Mrs. Ickes' Washington friends unable to be present, Secre- tary Roper said: “We regarded Mrs. Ickes as a very unusual woman * * * a woman of vision and of heart. She was an example of the greatest type of Ameri- can womanhood.” One minute of silence was to be observed at 3 p.m. in the Department of Interior and by P. W. A. workers in Washington in honor of Mrs. Ickes. De Lara, Composer, Dies. PARIS, September 3 (#)—Isidova De Lara, 77, composer of many operas, died here yesterday after a long illness. Irvin S. Cobb Says: European Nations Re- sent Italy’s Speed in Selassie Row. SANTA MONICA, Calif.,, September | 3—PFrom where we sit it looks as though the other European powers are all sweaty and bothered, not so much because Italy decided to jump on Ethiopia, but because Italy got the idea of jumping on Ethiopia before any of the rest of them. They have the advantage in note writing, but Italy keeps right on dealing the deck her own way, tions, 22 defi- ances, 1 invasion and a great gross of orations ahead, and hasn't stopped yet to catch his breath or replace loose divots. This seems to be as good a time as any to correct the impression that Mussolini orates all the time. Musso- lini does not orate all the time. Only in his waking hours. (Copyright 1938, by fl'o Yogtn Amerifpn officials to join the family in paying | findl homage to Mrs. Ickes, killed in | mates, was Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roose- | publication, said “higher living costs” and “higher taxes” would aid Re- publican chances for victory because they were “uniformly fatal for the party which has to defend them.” He urged Republicans to adopt the portions of the Democratic party plat- form which he said the President had “repudiated.” At Boston, Secretary Perkins of the Labor Department described the re- cently enacted social security act as “perhaps the most useful and funda- mental single piece of Federal legis- lation in the interest of wage earn- ers in the United States.” She called it “a sound and reasonable plan and framed with due regard for the pres- ent state of economic recovery.” Squandering Charged. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., speak- ing at Rockford, Ill., accused the ad- ministration of making “a consistent attempt to subvert our form of gov- ernment and substitute therefore some hybrid importation from Russia, Ger- many or Italy.” In a speech at Oklahoma City, which was unattended by the State's Democratic leaders, Senator Long, Democrat, of Loulsiana, declared that if President Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover are nominated again in 1936 “you're going to have another can- didate.” “e If you set on buzzards’ eggs,” he said, “you're not going to get any- thing but buzzards.” Frank Morrison, A. F. of L. secre- tary, speaking at Madison, Wis., re- viewed the Wagner labor disputes act, the social security, railroad retire- ment, the Guffey coal and the work relief laws. He praised Congress and the President for their enactment. 'MORE RAINFALL FORECAST IN D. C. { Autumnal Chill Grips City—3 Days 10 Degrees Under Normal. Somewhat higher temperatures, but continued light rains, were in pros- | pect today as the city experienced more foggy weather, accompanied by an autumnal chill. | The temperatures 5o far this month | have been 10 degrees below normal. Weather Bureau officials explained that the unseasonal weather was not “influenced by the tropical storms to the south. They attributed the chilly spell to a drift of air from the North and Northwest. The extremes yesterday were 64 and 60, while the tempera- ture today was in the low 60s again. A light rain which fell this morn- ing made treacherous going for traffic and occasional showers are expected tonight and tomorrow. The rain is proving especially beneficial to the grass and late flowers in the c¢ity's parks, weather men said. Generally cool weather extends over the Northeastern section of the United States. Commercial planes here were grounded by the fog today, awaiting & break in the “soupy” weather. Afr- port attaches this morning heard a ship pass over, but they could not see it in the fog which prevented the plane from landing. TWO GIRLS CLAIM TITLE OF ‘MISS PENNSYLVANIA By the Associated Press. : PHILADELPHIA, September 8.— Promoters of a Philadelphia beauty contest found themselves in a dilemma when two claimants of the title “Miss Pennsylvania” appeared with con- | testants for the trip to Atlantic City. One was Margie Godwin, 17, high school senior, who was awarded the title originally in an elimination con- test. Next day she lost the crown to Lenore Pollock after three of the five judges said they thought they were voting for Lenore all the time. A solution was found: The title “Miss Pennsylvania” was declared vacant. Miss Godwin was named “Miss Mayfair” and Miss Pol- lock, “Miss West Philadelphia” and off the two went. GETS 50-YEAR TERM Pal of Late Ralph Hamilton Pleads Guilty. PRENTISS, Miss., September 3 (#). —Ralph Fults, companion of the late Raymond Hamilton, Southwest des- perado who was captured and exe- cuted in Texas for murder, pleaded guilty yesterday in Circult Court here to two indictments charging robbery with firearms and was sentent by Jugige Harvey McGehee to 50 years in the State Penitentiary.