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WEATHER. (U. 8 Weathor Bureau Forecast) Fair and somewhat warmer tonight and probably tomorrow; gentie southeast and south winds. Temperatures—Highest, 69, at noon today; lowest, 49, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page B-5. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 No. 33,376. Entered as seconi elas: matter post office, Wasbington, ;. ah WASHINGTON, ITALY QUITS UNYIELDING BAN ON ALL COMPROMISE; DUCE FIGHTS SANCTIONS £l Would Accept Reasonable Report. RECENT STIFF STAND ALTERED Laval and Eden Are Mentioned as Negotiators. (Copyright. 1035 GENEVA, September 17—The Ital- fan delegation to the League of Na- tions informed the Associated Press tonight that if the League Council's report on the Italo-Ethiopian situa- tion is reasonable it will be made the basis for negotiations by Italy. This was considered of the utmost importance in view of Saturday's Italian communique which declared Italy would not accept a compromise. An TItalian spokesman said the words “no compromise” used in the Rome communique did not eliminate by the Associated Press.) Selassie Holds Arms Call for Geneva Result League Delegates Expect Use of Sanctions. ADDIS ABABA, September 17 (/) —Emperer Haile Selassie decided to- day to po ipone general mobilization of Ethiopian troops until the League of Nations has e:hausted all its ef- forts for peace. The E jan dele- gation at Geneva siror supporied | the decision. The delegates informed the Em- peror that if Mussolini refuses to ac- cept any of the proposed solutions of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, the League powers will apply sanctions, with France participating. Haile Selassie’s anxiety over lack of news regarding the decision of the committee of five was relieved when he was informed that Premier Laval of France had counseled Baron Pom- peo Aloisi, Italian spokesman, LIBERTY THREAT to “think it over before going further.” Sees Danger of Revising Map of Europe. ISSUE IS PUT | UP TO FRANCE Disinterestedness of Great Britain Questioned. | | By the Associated Press. PARIS. September 17.— Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy asserted in an interview published today in the newspaper Le Matin that, “sanctions mean running the risk of remaking the map of Europe.” Nobody now believes that he is playing poker, Il Duce told Le Matin's representative. “No. it is not a game of poker, but nevertheless Italy holds in her hand the card on which her whole existence is written and she will play that | card.” { Mussolini turned his criticism upon “attacks, open or stealthy, of those DS ‘WITH SUNDAY MORN TUESDAY, ROOSEVELT MAPS ROUTE ACROSSU.S. WITH FARLEY'S AID | Careful Study Is Given to Stops and Contents of Speeches. TWO MAJOR TALKS ONLY ONES NOW SURE | Little Notice of Constitution Day Is Taken at Hyde Park, but Poughkeepsie Celebrates. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 17. —With the time for his trip across the continent rapidly. approaching. President Roosevelt today found it | necessary to put aside other business | temporarily to work out some of the | details, | It was indicated at the temporary White House here today that before | the day is over Mr. Roosevelt will be | ready to make public his itinerary. Because of the political aspects of | this journey to the West Coast, and | the opportunity it offers the President | 10 show himself to the people, and to | | recapture what has been referred to | as his waning popularity, Mr. Roose- velt has been giving careful study to | the routing of his special train, the | numb>r of speeches to deliver and the | places at which to deliver them. ING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar SEPTEMBER 17, 1935 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. #%% WOQODMEN. SPA!FF. THAT REE! Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,505 Some Returns Not Yet Received (®) Means Associated P Post Office Department Joins ‘K[]ENEGKE K"_I_E[] Campaign to Curb Traffic Toll Do IN MIDAIR FIGH TWO CENTS. ress. FRESH DEMANDS MADE FOR INQUIRY INTOLONG S DEATH Connecticut Citizens Join Movement for Federal Investigation. FOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN PLOT, SAYS BROTHER Organizer of “Share-the-Wealth” Clubs “Names Names” in Message to Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La, September 17.—Fresh demands for Federal in- vestigation of the destruction of Sen- ator Huey P. Long, administration foe and Louisiana dictator, went to Wash- ingotn today Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, izer of the assassinated leader's sharc-our-wealth” movement, said he “named names” in a telegram to President Roosevelt. ‘The telegram said: “A few days ago we laid to rest our beloved leader, Huey P. Lor-, the vice tim of an assassin’s bullet head of the Share the Wealth ty of America, with 10,000,000 members, I implore you, Mr. President, to use every agency at your command as Chief Executive of the United States to assist our State in locating and bringing to justice the perpetrators of organ- the possibilities of negotiations. Some Points Acceptable. He explained that if there were some points in a plan for the assist- ance of Ethiopia, reported agreed upon by the League’s special commit- | the assassination of Senator Long. Says Plot Long Known. “January last our State authori- ties uncovered a dastardly plot to as- sassinate Senator Long. Since that | time some of the leaders of the plot namely (names deleted) have been who seek through Italy to humiliate To assist him, Mr. Roosevelt had Fascism.” the services today of Postmaster Gen- Won't Forget Insults. | eral Farley, his principal political | He asserted that the rancor aroused = lieutenant, who has just returned, by such attacks would be long-lasting from the Pacific Coast, and Charles with a people appreciative of efforts Michelson, director of publicity for toward friendship, but who have the Democratic National Committee. Third Major Federal Group Merges Ranks, With Commerce and Treasury Plane Pilot and Assistant Personnel Pledged to Safety. | -Reld i Geath of Brpok- : [ lyn Ball Player. SCORED BY HOVER Does tee, which were found acceptable to Constitution Day Talk Cites Italy, there were no reasons negotia- tions should not be undertaken 4 Such negotiations, he suggested, might be entered into with certain members of the League Council such as Premier Laval of France ana An- thony Eden, the British minister for League of Nations affairs. The announcement given to the As- sociated Press by ‘he Italians was understood to have been made also to various delegates to the League of Nations. The possibility a conference among Baron Pomp2o Aloisi of Italy, Laval and Eden elsewhere than in Geneva was not excluded by the as- sembled statesmen. Basis for Optimism. These suggestions were immediately received in informed quarters as con- stituting a basis for optimism. The Italo-Ethiopian Committee was reported to have reached an agree- ment today upon the fundamentals of a plan for the collective assistance of Ethiopia. Premier Laval, one of the members of the committee, told the Associated Press following a meeting of the body: “It cannot be sald we have finished our report.” Immediately afterward the commit- tee went into a private session to dis- cuss financial and economic questisns concerned with the Italo-Ethiopian situation. Another committee meeting wili be held tomorrow, at which time 1t was said a definite report will be drafted An authority stated the committee is convinced this report will be re- Jected by Italy. The committee, composed of repre- sentatives of Great Britain, France, Spain, Poland and Turkey, was said to have dropped all idea of offering extereme concessions to Italy in an effort to prevent her from attacking Ethiopia. Instead, the authority said the com- mittee was working toward a report which will uphold the League’s pres- tige and establish a precedent for fairness and justice toward the small- est nations. Turkey was reported urg- ing strongly for a pro-Ethiopian re- port. The Italian delegation itself put an (See ETHIOPIA, Page 3.) FUGITIVE IN SHOOTING | | terpret those provisions. | clear as the Ten Commandments.” | clared. are in despair, IS SLAIN BY SHERIFFS' I Peril to Rights in In- \ direct Attacks. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, September 17. —Former President Herbert asserted in a Constitution day address here today that some activiti Federal Government are of “Liberty never dies from direct at- tack,” Hoover declared as the con- clusion of 20 years' experience in serving his country at home and abroad dealing “with the backwash of war and revolution.” “No one will dare rise tomorrow and say he is opposed to the bill of rights,” he said. “Liberty dies from the en- croachment and disregard of its safe- guards. less potent from ignorance or desire to find shortcuts to jump over some immediate pressure. Hits Federalism. “In our country, ubdication of its responsibilities and powers by Con- gress to the Executive, the repudiation by the Government of its obligations, the centralization of authority into the Federal Government at the ex- pense of local government, the build- ing up of huge bureaucracies, the co- ercion or intimidation of citizens are the same sort of first sappings of safeguards of human rights that have taken place in othe. lands. Hcre-is the cause of anxiety and concern to the thinking citizens of the United States.” Vital principles of American liberty are embodied in the Constitution of the United States, Hoover told an ex- position audience in his which he had defined as non-partisan and non-political “Our Constitution is not alone the working plan of a great federation o States under representative govern- ment. There is embedded in it also the vital principles of the American system of liberty. the Government may infringe and which we call the bill of rights. “It does not require a lawyer to in- They are as Men throughout the world, he de- surrendering (See HOOVER, Page 12.) Resists Arre;t When He Returns MyADOO AND Hls BR'DE to Scene of Crime in Missouri. By the Associated Press. HILLSBORO, Mo., September 17.— William Nelson Yarberry, hunted | since Saturday for the shotgun| wounding of a deputy sheriff, was killed this morning by authorities when he returned to the scene of the shooting. Sheriff Thomas Lanham of Jeffer- €gon County said he and two other officers trapped Yarberry at a farm | near De Soto, Mo. ARRIVE IN LOS ANGELES Will Remain There Several Days for Rest, Says Senator From California. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 17.— Ending an aerial honeymoon trip from Washington, United States Senator William Gibbs McAdoo and his bride, | the former Miss Doris Cross, landed safely here at midnight. Smiling happily, the war-time cabi- “We thought he would come there,” | net member and his 26-year-old bride the sheriff said, “and we hid upstairs. | declined to discuss their immediate | He came sneaking up to the farm a | plans except to intimate they would little after 2:30 this morning. “He spied us and started shcoting with a shotgun and we have it.” | remain here several days. | “We've had a long trip and all we let him seek is a little quiet and peace,” said | Senator McAdoo. Three German Liners Hoist Swastika in New York Harbor By the Associated Press. Hoover of the re same | sort of first sappings of human rights that have taken place in other lands.” Its destruction can be no speech, | That system is | | based upon certain inalienable free- BY the Associated Press doms and protections which not even | | flag with the hackenkreuz, has be- NEW YORK, September 17.—Their | come the German commercial 1lag. arms outstretched in the Nazi salute, the crews of three German liners roared out a chorus of “heils” today as the swastika was hoisted for the first time in New York Harbor as tne official national emblem of the Ger- man Reich. The ceremonles were carried out with serenity. There were no crowds about any of the piers where the liners docked. The first hoisting was aboard the Bremen. At 6:55 a.m., Eastern staind- ard time, the crew and officers gath- ered on the after-deck. Capt. Adoiph Ahrens, master of the Bremen, step- ped up to a swastika-draped stand snd | emblem on the liners Albert Ballin | declared: “The battle flag of our leaders, the - Comrades, it is not only the oattle | flag, it remains the battle flag, not | only in Germany, but in the outside | world of opposition. “It is dependent upon us German sailors to show the world that the swastika is the flag of our blood. * * * National socialism means concentra- | tion of all strength for the best of our people and the fatherland. Whu- ever among us sailors who is not pledged to this flag is not worthy to serve under it.” | At 6:59 o'colck the swastika was | hoisted to the top of the aft flag staff. A minute later it was run down. This was the signal to hoist the |and the Stuttgart, docked alongside the Bremen, " [ A “never been able to forget insults.” “We are going ahead.” he insisted. | “Understand me. we shall never com- mit an act of hostility against any European nation, but if an act of war is committed against us, well, there will be war. Farley Wants Midwest Speech. | It is known that Mr. Farley is anxious to have the President make a speech somewhere in the Midwest. He has reason to feel that this is vitally important in building up the ! President’s political strength. Dur- The Post Office Department today joined the campaign to curtail the toll of traffic deaths and accidents on the streets and highways of Wz ngton. ‘This is the third major unit of the Federal Government to join with the Safety Council of The Star in the concerted effort to build up a massed public opinion against hazardous driving Distribution of safe driving pledge cards to drivers of departmental trucks and automobiles and to postal em: “Italy does not want it. but she is ing his talk here with Mr. Roosevelt Ployes who own and drive their own not afraid of it. But those who will | |ast week he made a plea to this Cars in Washington was begun today have loosed the catastrophe will bear the responsibility before history. “Does France, whose effor are recognized—{friendly for us and broad ly European—desire these sanctions? That is all we wish to ask her, for I realize she is in a delicate position “But for others, realize that sanctions mean running !the risk of remaking the map of Europe.” Britain's Motives Questioned. II Duce questioned the disinterest- edness of Great Britain’s motives in seeking to avert an East African con- flict, asserting: “We consider it monstrous that a nation which dominates the world refuses us a small morsal of land un- der the African sun.” Every assurance has been given Britain that her interests in Ethiopia will be safeguarded, Duce said, “but the interests for which she en- ters so sharply in opposition to us are other, and she does not say so.” France, meanwhile, looked to its own defenses. Immediate expenditure of 85,000,000 rancs (about $5.610,000) by the air ministry was authorized for comple- tion and equipment of airfields and increasing the effectiveness of flying schools. WHEAT SWEPT UP IN CHICAGO FLURR Futures Reach Dollar for First Time Since May as World Markets Climb. CHICAGO, September 17.—Wheat futures sold at $1 a bushel on the ‘Board of Trade today for the first time since May. Soaring prices in all world markets were reflected in a broad speculative movement in the wheat pit here that shot prices upward almost 4 cents a bushel. Drought conditions in Argentina wheat lands, reported spreading to the accompaniment of locusts, coupled with war talk in Europe, formed the basis of the broad buying in all world wheat markets. Liverpool prices closed more than 3 cents higher. Buenos Aires con- | tinued strong after registering a sharp 6-cent advance yesterday. Rotterdam was more than 2 cents higher and Winnipeg gained 3 cents, the pegged limit for one session. | September wheat at Minneapolis | shot up the 5-cent limit permitted. Safety Broadcasts Today. 3:45 pm.,, WISV—Interview with Ralph Bennett, 12-year-old schoolboy patrolman, who snatched Helen Middleton, 7, from the path of a reckless driver. Helen will tell her ver- sion of the near accident in the interviey, as will her mother, Mrs. Christine Middle- ton, who stood helpless on the sidewalk nearby. 9:00 p.m., WMAL—Interview with Capt. Joseph A. Mayhew of 1 Rescue Squad on the tragedy he has seen enacted as a result of traffic recklessness. No. Tomorrow. 4:30 p.m.,, WJSV—Interview with traffic policeman, broadcast from the corner of Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue, to bring out actual rush- hour traffic violations. 4:45 pm, WJSV—Interviews with passersby at the same intersection regarding their ideas on making Washington streets safer. 9:15 p.m,, WRC—Interview with fire apparatus driver on traffic experiences in Washington streets and what the motorist can do to co-operate, effect The President thus far has let it be known that he will deliver two ! major addresses, one at the dedication | of Boulder Dam on the Coloralo River, in Nevada, and the other at the San Diego, Calif.. Exposition. He let them fully is seriously considering accepting an | building. The invitation he received from the Amer- ican Legion to address its closing ses- | | sion in St. Louis the night of Sep- [ tember 26. 1 It is thought that this may serve the purpose of the Midwestern speech‘ urged by Farley, and if the latter is not insistent on some other spot in the Midwest, the St. Louis speech will be included in the President’s plans. Invitations Pour In. Countless invitations from Demo- cratic leaders throughout the country the President’s train is likely to travel have been received. If he accepted even a small portion of them. either | for a speech or just a brief stopover, his special train would take several weeks to reach the Pacific Coast. Of course, the President wants to make as many brief stops as possible to shake hands with the local leaders and show himself to the citizens, and it is natural to suppose that his train schedule will call for innumera- ble stops of this nature, and that | during some of them he will make brief extemporaneous speeches. Naturally, with the national cam- paign not far away, great care must | be taken in selecting the place for | even these extemporaneous rear-plat- | form talks Pains must be taken to avoid slights, snubs or hurt feelings. | In other words, no votes must be lost. | President Roosevelt's program for today included nothing indicating an | | observance of the anniversary of Con- stitution day, but in Poughkeepsie, | | county seat of Dutchess County, just | five miles away from the President’s | home, the occasion was not going un- | noticed. Court House Decorated. ‘The court house, on Poughkeepsie’s | main street, is built upon the site | of the building in which the constitu- | tional convention of this State, after | two months' debate, voted to ratify the Constitution in 1788. The build- ing has been well decorated with flags and bunting. In addition, a placard has been placed near the main door- way, calling attention to the anniver- sary. Upon inquiry it is learned that | tne county clerk, one of the local Re- ;pubhcan leaders, was responsible for | Poughkeepsie's patriotic reminder. It | was learned also that the New York | State Department of the American Le- gion recently sent out notices to county buildings and to the other public places suggesting that an appropriate Constitution day. Presumably Pough- keepsie's county clerk received his prompting from this Legion reminder. The impression here today is that the President will arrive back in ‘Washington early next Monday morn- ing. During day and Tuesday (See ROO: WALKOUT HALTS WORK ON U. S. AIRCRAFT ORDER Union Leaders Charge Hamilton Co. With Discrimination. Propeller By the Associated Press. EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Sep- tember 17.—Work on Government orders at the Hamilton Propeller Co. and the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Co. was halted today by a walkout which union leaders said was caused by the lay-off of five employes of the propeller concern. ‘The striking employes were num- bered at 1,800 by the Industrial Air- craft Workers’ Union. Axel Benson, president of the union, an independent organization, said the five were laid off because of their union activities. A statement issued by the com- panies said the lay-off was caused by temporary lack of work. * | decoration be made in observance of | through the office of Owen A. Keen, chief clerk of the department. The Post Office Department ini- tiated its safety campaign activity by allocating 1,600 pledge cards furnished by The Star to all divisions and branches in the main departmental department’s work was SPEEDYT.V. A TEST Ll\GREEI] TOBY U. 5. CONST Steps Are Being Pushed for Hearing by the Supreme Court. By the Associated Press The Government agreed today to a prompt hearing by the Supreme Court on constitutionality of another New Deal measure—the Tennessee Valley ! Authority act. It already has sought a ruling on the validity of the A. A. A. The court’s decisions in these cases are expected to have an important bear- ing on the 1936 campaign. Solicitor General Stanley Reed and T. V. A. counsel, in a memorandum filed with the court, agreed to a quick review of the ruling of the Fifth Fed- eral Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans, which held the T. V. A. con- stitutional and approved its sale of surplus power in Alabama. Stockholders Ask Review. The review was asked by 14 minor- ity stockholders of the Alabama Power Co., who previously had won a district court injunction from Judge W. I Grubb at Birmingham, prohibiting the sale of power. The circuit court re- versed this opinion. In its brief, the Government said it was willing to test the issue, al- though it believed there was legal doubt that a minority group had a right to oppese the majority of stock- | holders of the Alabama Power Co. It also argued that the sale of sur- | of national resources.” It added that the Reclaration Bureau | years had been following this method ’nt Federal dams. 'LORTON PRISONER IS SHOT BY GUARD Halted in Dash to Taxicab. Brother and Driver in Custody. Claude W. Bailey, Lorton Reforma- tory prisoner, was shot in’'the leg by a guard today as he attempted to escape to a taxicab in which his brother, John, a Washington World ‘War veteran, was waiting. Capt. M. M. Barnard, in charge of District penal institutions, said John Bailey of Mount Alto Hospital, came to the reformatory in a taxicab and circled the institution. ‘The cab stopped near a plumbing Job on which the prisoner was work- ing outside the walls. Claude drop- ped his tools, Capt. Barnard said, and ran toward the cab. Tower Guard Wick Claggett saw him and called to the prisoner to stop. When he refused, the guard fired two shots in front of him from a high-powered rifle. Bailey kept on running and Claggett shot him in the leg, just below the hip. John Bailey, who has a wooden leg, and the cab driver, Joseph W. Cryer, 3822 Benton street, were taken into custody at the reformatory. They will be held without charges pending an investigation by the Department of Justice. The wounded prisoner, who was serving from 6 to 18 months for 1llegal use of a smoke screen, was sent to Gallinger Hospital. He was sen- tenced last May 14. " lus power was mere ‘“‘conservation | o 14 | Daniel C. Roper is to deliver an ad- for many | confined to the Post Office Department building proper and departmental offi- cials pointed out that the Washington City Post Office will have to hendle the pledging of its own drivers. In joining the safety campaign Post Office Department follows lead of President Roosevelt, who "(See SAFETY, Page 3.) . the the last PAGEANTRYMARKS ITUTION DAY Reaches Climax With Pa- rade Tonight—Political Rumblings Heard. | Washington led the Nation today in | the celebration of the 148th anniver- sary of the signing and submitting tc the States of the Constitution of the United States. With many patriotic organizations holding their own ceremonies in the city during the day, all of them were to join tonight for a parade, pageant and a series of patriotic addresses that will climax the celebration. Nationally, the celebration was not | without its political aspects, with | spokesmen for both leading parties seizing the opportunity to fire early guns in the battle leading up to mext year's campaign and election. | Former President Hoover, Chair- man Henry P. Fletcher of the Re- publican National Committee; Mrs. | By the Associated Precs TORONTO, September 17.—A melo- dramatic fight in an airplane high over the Long Branch Race Track early today resulted in the death of Len Koenecke, 30. outfielder of the Brooklyn National League base ball team. William Joseph Mulqueeney, who was piloting the plane, and Irwin Da- vis, his assistant, who said they killed Koenecke in self-preservation, were charged with manslaughter. Davis and Koenecke were locked in a desperate battle, the fivers stated. Then, with the plane rocking, partly out of control, as the pilot fought to keep one hand on the controls, Mul- queeney struck Koenecke several blows on the head with a fire extinguisher. Koenecke, sent home from St. Louis by the Dodgers, had chartered the plane at Detroit for a trip to Buf- falo. Pilot Tells Story. Mulqueeney gave this graphic story the police: “Accompanied by a friend, Irwin Davis, we left the Detroit Airport about 10 pm. for Buffalo. During the middle of the trip Koenecke be- came restiess and started grabbing at the controls. “As he was seated in the front seat, I advised him to get into the back seat and he did. Davis came to the front seat. Everything went O. K. for a short time. Then he grabbed me by the neck. which in- terfered with my flying. I asked Da- vis to get into the rear seat and try to quiet him. After about 10 minutes he started fighting with Davis and there was quite a com- motion. “Davis yelled for help. I looked back and saw thai Koenecke was fighting Davis. He then tried tc get at me. Davis hit at Koenecke with a re extinguisher. The latter knocked it out of his hand. He again made for me. * “Holding the controls in one hand, to placed on the Federal pay roll. this program of financing potential assassins meet with your approv: & State officials held their own coun- sel on whatever plans they might have for pushing further investiga- tion of the fatal shooting of Senator Long by Dr. Carl A. Weiss | Inquest into the death of Weisc who was shot down by Long’s body guards, was closed yesterday aft Smith refused to respond to question by District Attorney John Fred Odom Smith declared Odjom “has been named as a murder plot conspirator.” Odom branded the charge “a malici- ! ous and deliberate lie.” Jury Returns Verdict. The coroner's jury, after hearing the stories of Loamg's bodyguards, came to the succinct verdict that Dr Weiss' death was caused by *pistol wounds in the head, chest and ab- domen, homicidally inflicted.” Lou- | isiana coroner’s juries do not fix | blame. Smith renewed at New Orleans his charge of “murder conspiracy,’ and announced the appeal for investiga- tion to President Roosevelt. A meet- ing of several hundred persons in Stamford, Conn., adupted resolutions asking United States Attorney Gen- eral Homer S. Cummings, a reside of Stamford, to inaugurate an in- quiry. At De Queen. Ark.. Dr. George Long, brother of the Senator, told a “share-the-wealth” gathering, at- tended by an estimated 3.000 persons that Long died “as a result of a plot.” He said four members of Congress plotted the assassination and de- clared the dead Senator’s influence would be felt in next year's Arkansas elections. At memorial services in New York Capt. George Maines, member of the Federated Share-Our-Wealth Club, said: “The organization is not break- ing up down there in Louisiana. It has been knit closer together than ever.” Smith conferred in New Orleans last night with some of the organization s Robert Lincoln Hoyal, director of the | I picked up the extinguisher and hit | jieutenants who have inherited Long's | women's division of the Republican | National Committee; | president of the American Liberty Jouett Shouse, League; former Gov. Frank O. Lowden, Illinois Republican, and former Gov. Joseph B. Ely, Massachusetts Demo- crat, were among those who have dresses regarded as politically signi- | ficant. All of them were broadcast | to the Nation. Roper on Air Tonight. Tonight Secretary of Commerce dress, also to be broadcast, which is expected to be a statement for the | Roosevelt administration. His topic | 1s “Forward With the Constitution.” f The Washington observance began‘ early today when earth taken from the | graves of members of the committee that drafted the Constitution was placed about Constitution Oak, in| West Potomac Park, in ceremonies | sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Two | girls—Miss Margaret Pierce Hunter and Miss Mary Jo Hall—placed the| soil and sprinkled it with water from a fountain at the Capitol. They were | assisted by James B. Edmunds. The samc organization will sponsor a meeting tonight at the George Washington National Masonic Memo- rial at Alexandria, Va., where Secre- tary Roper's address will be presented. The Daughters of Founders and Patriots assembled about the same time on the lawn at the home of Mrs. John K. Freiot, president, on Observa- tory Circle, and pledged allegiance to (See CONSTITUTION, Page 4.) Readers’ Guide Amusements Cross-word Puzzle - Editorials Finance - Lost and Found | A-14-15-16 Washington Wayside .____A-8 Women’s Features ...B-10-11 ~ 1 | her complaint as a “licentiate and | at Koenecke but hit Davis. I then kit Koenecke two or three times with the extinguisher but he kept on fight- ing so I hit him again. “I circled two or three times and landed in a field. cluding the police, ‘vere soon on the were taken to the police office.” Inquiry Is Ordered. A coroner’s jury to inquire into the death was summoned by Coroner Warren Snyder. E. J. Murphy, Kan- sas City, conferred with Mulqueeney and Davis at the Islington jail where (See KOENECKE, Page 7. LAWMAKER ARRESTED Representative Scott Denies In- toxication Charge. LOS ANGELES, September 17 (#).— eighteenth California congressional a charge of intoxication. “I wasn't drunk and I'll fight this his own recognizance. The Representative was arrested while en route from Los Angeles to his home in Long Beach. Some people, in- | vast statutory powers. What was dis- cussed was not disclosed. | Asked if he had appealed to the State for an investigation, Smith said: | “That is not necessary.” With Long organization leaders un- willing to talk about the appeal to | already used Constitution day for ad- | field and after some little time we the President. Smith was asked if the | State had any invi under way. “The State has a Bureau of Investi- gation which regularly makes investi- gations.” he replied. “Is the bureau investigating Sen2- tor Long's death?” he was asked “The bureau regularly investigat crimes in the State,” he said. Motive Still in Dark. Long's bodyguards, who testified to | shooting the physician down, all as- | serted that Weiss punched a pistol into the Senator’s stomach and fired without any exchange of words or | other preliminary. Attorney General Gaston L. Porterie, gation i | Representative Byron N. Scott of the | vested with broad powers under one of the dictatorship statutes to in- | district pleaded innocent yesterday to | vestigate or prosecute criminal pro- | ceedings, heard all the coroner's | eye-witness testimony, which failed |to a finish,” said Scott, released on |to throw any light on the assassina- | tion motive. He was asked if the | State would pursue the inquiry fur- ther. “I don't know,” he replied. Forced to Observe Fruit Diet, Musician’s Wife Asks Divorce Charging her husband, a well- known musician, had forced her to diet and fast in conformance with the principles of naturotherapy, which he espoused, Mrs. Eveline Jessie Papas, | 4105 Wisconsin avenue, filed suit in | District Supreme Court today for a limited divorce on grounds of cruelty. | The husband is Sophocles Thomas | Papas, who conducts the Sophocles Papas School for Fretted Instruments | and is widely known as a radio ar-| tist. Mrs. Papas described herself in | medalist of the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.” Through Attorney Jean Boardman, | the wife told the court Papas be-| came converted in September, 1934, to belief in naturotherapy, which she cal well-being can be promoted by | a system of dieting and fasting and | that bodily ailments can be cured by said system without the interven- tion of physicians and surgeons.” Shortly after her husband's “con- version,” Mrs. Papas related, he pre. vailed on her to go on a 10-day diet consisting principally of fruit and fruit juices as a cure for violent head- aches and nausea from which she had been suffering. She said her husband became enraged when she tried to eat something substantial after three days of eating nothing but grapes. Finally, after completing the diet “for the sake of peace,” she said, she consulted a physician and was in- described as “a school of thought which believes that mental and physi- 4 formed she had advanced siyg's (S¢e DIET, Page 8.) 7