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A2 = - RIGHT 70 BAR MAIL TOFIRMS DISPUTED Mathod of Compelling Obe- dience to New Deal May Be Tested. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Does Congress have the right to regulate the user of the mails as well 8s the use of the mails? This fundamental question, touch= ing several provisions of the Consti- tution which guarantee the ipdividual against Federal domination, has hgen raised in a number of cases growing out of legislation passed under the New Deal. Thus in the securities act, in the Guffey coal law, and in the public utility law, the Congress underiakcs to prohibit the use of the mails to all companies or corporations or in€i- viduals who do not comply with the compulsory features of these laws. 1If sustained by the Supreme Court, the power to exclude from the use of the mails would be as far-reach- ing as anything that has been sug- gested under the commerce clause or | the taxing privilege. In brief, Con- gress could regulate any business or industry because the use of the mails 18 nowadays absolutely essen- tial to the carrying on of enterprises of all kinds. Mail Fight to Grow. The other aspects of unconstitution- ality have received more emphasis and attention but in the next few months the struggle over what cousti- tutes the limits of congressional power over the use of the mails will be intensified. Exhaustive research covering all the cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States affecting the right of Congress to regulate the use of the mails reveals that there has not been any considerable amount of ad- Jjudication on this constitutional pro- | vision but that most of the cases were decided along the same lines as two leading decisions—one in 1877 and the other in 1892. In each of these the power of Congress to exclude mat- ter from the mails was upheld, but in all cases the exclusion has beem on the ground that distribution of the matter itself would be injurious to public morals, the public health er involve the getting of money under false pretenses. True Test Lacking. Thus limiting the cases to the ac- tual facts, it cannot be said that the right of Congress to exclude anything and everything it sees fit has been upheld. There are, of course, state- ments by the Supreme Court that | Congress may designate what shall or shall not be carried in the mails, and there seems no doubt that Congress may exercise its discretion as to what is or is not an evil. The nature of the matter carried affords the true test. The provisions of the securities act of 1933 and the amendments in 1934 denying the yse of the mails in cer- tain instances may possibly be sup- ported by the views that the Supreme Court has expressed in litigation grow- ing out of lotteries. But this has al- ways been on the ground that the ex- clusion pertains to matters involving schemes to defraud. ‘While this basis might be put for- ward as a means of preventing fraud- ulent securities from being sold across State lines, it can hardly be convinc- ingly used to support the provisions of the public utility act or the Guffey coal law. The coal business is in itself legitimate and lawful. The let- ters mailed by coal companies to customers to whom they sell their product are certainly lawful in them- selves. It would be incredible that & Federal bureau would have the right to open letters from coal companies or from utility companies to de- termine which ones are within and which ones are outside the prohibition of the use of the mails. And yet that 1s what the job of enforcement would be unless the act means that a coal company or a utility company couldn’t use the mails at all unless it complies with the mandates of a Federal bureaucracy on how to con- duct its business. Court Pledges Protection. Tt would seem that the Supreme Court itself warned against possible abuse of the power to regulate the use of the mails when it declared in the famous Rapier case: “But it is said if lotteries can thus be excluded from the mails, Con- gress may exclude anything on the pretext that it is hurtful, and in that way break down a legitimate busi- ness. This is the old argument against a power because it may be abused. “This court is a sufficient protection against an abuse of State police | power. And if Congress shall abuse its police power over the mails, this | court will in like manner correct that abuse. It will neither suffer a State or Congress to invade guaranteed rights under the guise of exercising a police power.” On general principles, therefore, it would appear that the power of Con- gress over the mails, and its inci- dental authority necessary to such power, must be exercised in accord- ance with other provisions of the Fed- eral Constitution, such as those guar- anteeing the citizen protection against the loss of his property and liberty, freedom of speech, etc., just as Con- gress is limited in the exercise of the commerce clause, bankruptcy powers or other powers expressly granted. The conclusion is inescapable that while Congress may regulate the use of mails and determine what is or is not mailable matter it cannot regulate the user of the mails and tell him how to run his business, what wages to pay, what prices at which to sell his goods and generally control industry through the prohibition of the use of the mails. (Copyright 1935) SRR FIREBUG RULED INSANE Father Acts as Son's Attorney and Pleads for Verdict. DENVER, September 18 (#).—War- ren R. Cramer, 17, who started fires in Denver's new city hall and several downtown office buildings, was ad- Judged insane yestérday by a jury, the verdict for which the youth's father pleaded. Dr. Harry R. Cramer, dentist-law- ger of Oakland, Calif, arose as the hearing was about to be postponed because of absence of counsel and volunteered to be his son’s attorney. “will all of you base your verdict solely on the report of the doctors and if they say he is insane will you find him insane?” Dr. Cramer asked, his face tear-stained. Two physi- cians so testified. The youth was ordered committed to the Colorado Barometers Set New Low for U. S. In Hurricane Belt 26.75 Reading Smashes Record Made by - 1926 Storm. By the Associated Press. The hurricane that roared across Florida keys early this month pushed barometers down to a new low for this country. ‘The Weather Bureau said yesterday it had three readings from points at or near the center of the storm track as it swept in from the Caribbean. The lowest was taken from a barom- eter brought in from Lignumvita key—26.75. Two readings at other nearby points were 26.94 and 26.98 inches. ‘The lowest previous official reading for the United States in bureau rec- ords is 27.61, made at Miami, Fla, during the 1926 hurricane. The low reading for the world was made on a Dutch steamer 460 miles east of Luzon, Manila, on August 18, 1927, when the glass fell to 26.185 in a typhoon. 20 NEWSMEN SAlL SOON FOR MANILA | List of New Philippine Com- monwealth’s Guests Announced Here. By the Associated Press. A list of 20 American publishers, editors and correspondents who will cross the Pacific as guests of the Philippine government this Fall to attend the inauguration of the new commonwealth was announced last night here. day became president-elect of the new | commonwealth, and Resident Com- | missioner Francisco Delgado, some of | the newsmen will travel with the group headed by Vice President and | Mrs. Garner, sailing from Seattle on | the steamer President Grant October 16. The list: Clark Howell, publisher of the At- | lanta Constitution: Sevellon Brown | of the Providence, R. I., Journal, with Mrs. Brown and Miss Brown; Frederic Nelson, the Baltimore Sun: William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign writer, now in Washington; Arthur Hachten, Washington correspondent for Hearst newspapers, with Mrs. Hachten. William Allen White, publisher of | the Emporia, Kans., Gazette, and Mrs. White; Erwin Canham, Washington | correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, with Mrs. Canham; Sterling _Fisher, New York Time: Marlen Pew of Editor and Publisher, |New York: George Wright Hawkins, | St. Louis Star-Times. Dean Carl W. Ackerman, Columbia University School of Journalism, New | York, with Mrs. Ackerman; Donald J. Sterling, Portland, Oreg. Journal; | Jack Howard, Washington, D. C. | News, and Mrs. Howard; Ben McKq¢ |way, Washington Star; Burrows | Matthews, Buffalo, N. Y., Courier-Ex- |press, and Mrs. Matthews: J. R. | Knowland, publisher of Oakland, | Calif., Tribune, with Mrs. Knowland; Chesley Manly, Chicago Tribune. | Walter Karig, Newark, N. J., Even- |ing News; Gene Huse, Norfolk, Nebr., (Daily News, and Mrs. Huse; Mark | Foote, Booth newspapers, Michigan, |and president of the National Press | Club, Washington. ITAUAN OILFIELD | CONTROL REPORTED | Shares Acquired in Mosul, Ltd. Company Is an Associate of British Concern. By the Associated Press. enterprise was reported in press as- sociation dispatches early yesterday. The company is an associated con- | cern of the British Oil Development | Co. The reports said Francis M. in the granting of an Ethiopian con- cession to an American company, was | oil company. Rickett returned to London yester- |day from Amroth Castle, his Welsh | home, where he visited his family after his trip back from Ethiopia. Interests in Irak of the Mosul Oil- fields, Limited, extend to within ap- proximately 100 miles of the Kirkuk flelds, in Mespotamia, where Ameri- can, English and French oil com- panies are active. 'CONDEMNED WOMAN SAVED BY MERRIAM California * Governor Commutes Death Sentence of Hus- band Slayer. By the Associated Press. LONG BEACH, Calif., September 18.—Mrs. Nellie Madison, convicted slayer of her fourth husband, was saved from the gallows Monday. Gov. Prank B. Merriam commuted her sentence to life imprisonment. The husband, Eric Madison, a film studio worker, was found shot to death in a Burbank apartment in March, 1934. Mrs. Madison said she shot in self-defense. Almost at the same moment that the Governor commuted her sentence the Supreme Court denjed without comment a writ of coram nobis which would have brought a review of her case upon grounds of alleged error of fact. No woman has ever been executed by California. Gov. Merriam made no public explanation of his action. Mrs. Madison was not immediately informed, as official notice was to be made by Warden J. B. Holohan of San Quentin Prison. Militia Withdrawn. COLUMBIA, S. C., September 17 (#)—The last National Guardsmen were under orders to leave Pelzer after a 60-day tour of duty there, while & coroner’s inquest into a strike killing at the mill town was planned State Hospital. for Thursday. . f Chosen by Manuel Quezon, who to- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935. TARZAN YODELS WHILE LONDON, September 18—An offi- cial announcement by Mosul Oilfields, | ELkm!led, that Italian interests have | | acquired enough shares to control the | Rickett, British promoter who figured | active in the formation of the latter | Editor's note: This is the first of | a series of articles by E. de S. ‘ Melcher, dramatic critic of The | Star, who is in Hollywood to tell you how the film folk work and | play, and to write of the produc- | tomorrow and each day thereafter as long as Mr. Melcher remains in OLLYWOOD, Calif., September 17.—Hollywood has changed. milk-and-egg diet. Garbo is still a myth. The blonds that bounce fore and in 1924. But a calm, & sophistication, a continental whatnot Van Dykes and other gilt-edged celeb- rities can eat—is breaking out with a the world at large that Hollywood knows its grapes, as well as its onions the gates. The town has grown more people, the moving picture capital. I I Shirley Temple still rules the roost. Mae West still along the streets, radiant in trou- sers, sailor blouses and 3 inches has spread over the land. The Trocadero, Hollywood's ultra- public wine cellar, a room of epic pro- portion which, adorning one of the —and that the rough and roaring eras are over, giving place to new more gadgets, and more strange sights are mixed in with the new European | them because they are “Jean Harlow" |and also THE CANNIBALS CAVORT varnish. September, too, is the season for grandmothers. Grandma is here with granddaughter, who, one of these days, she will plunk into school or college, and grandma is having her- self a time. At Levy's Sards or the Brown Derby u may see the gayest grandmas right w in the land. They are tall, square, and they don't walk very well. This is due to their shges, which Miss Zilch, in a department store, has sold models. This is also due to the fact, that grandma insists on wearing silver fox furs when the temperature hovers around 88, that she must strew herself with earrings, bracelets and a hat with some sort of a lace jigger on it. and that she can't help but be tempted by these new Hollywood cocktail bars, which are rife with dashing young men, dressed in blue trousers, red and white striped shirts and all trying very hard to look like Cesar Romero. Grandma is Hollywood's September problem. We ran into grandma as soon as the train pulled into Los An- geles and haven't lost grandma since. Frank Shields, ace tennis player a new M-G-M light, ar- rived with us. No sooner did he land with a thud on Pasadena’s terra firma than a brigade of old women who were there to grab their young off- springs off the train, grabbed Mr. Shields instead, and when last we | saw him were bombarding him with questions, autographs and invitations to dinner. ‘ * % Xy IN SPITE of grandma trouble, Holly- wood has, however, most of its feet on the ground. A subdued first day out here found us dining with the Paul Snells, getting a glimpse of the 818th performance of “The Melcher in Filmland Among the Stars Being One of a Series of Hollywood Chronicles by The Star’s Dramatic Critic. SHIRLEY STILL REIGNS THE BLONDES WE HAVE WITH US ALWAYS | Pranksters Ridicule McNutt by Placing Swastika on Capitol By the Assoclated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, September 18. ~—State employes ripped the swastika from the Indiana Capi- tol Building last night. Unidentified pranksters had placed on the west windows, in swastika design, . 2 feet broad, numerous small stickers bearing the words, “Heil McNutt, fare- well to liberty.” Night watchmen scraped them off several hours before Paul V. McNutt, Governor of Indiana, was due at his office in the State House. LOOPHOLE IS SEEN EYSTON CAPTURES 24-HOIR RECORD Speed in Excess of 140 M. P. H. Sweep of Many Hon- ors for England. By the Associated Press. BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah, September 18 —Virtually every world land speed record of consequence be- longs to England today. Sending his froglike racing jugger- naut over the salt beds where Sir Mal- | colm Campbell recently established his 301-mile-an-hour mark, Capt. G. E T. Eyston last night completed a 24- hour assault against time which mowed down 14 assorted world records for racing machines. INW.PA DEADLINE More Desirable Proposals May Be Substituted for Rushed Ones. By the Associated Press. Although the deadline for filing applications for W. P. A. funds was September 12, officials today saw a | loophole through which they believed HARLOW LANDS ON YHE M.G.M. WATERFRONT Drunkard,” attended by not only|“pub” darts Jean Harlow, smaller, ! grandmas, but a good many grandpas, a swift skirmish with Trocadero, a chat with Spencer Tracy, Harlow's new leading man in “Riffraff”; lunch with Tom Baily out at the Fox Studios where Bill Robinson regaled us with yarns about the new Shirley Temple picture, “The Little Rebel,” and what fun it is to teach Shirley how to dance (he says she can learn a routine and a half in an hour); and then a prolonged afternoon down at M-G-M, where the stars pop out of every cor- ner, where you may see a boat called the Santa Lucas, which was once “Tugboat Annie's” original barge, and where 750 people will work for 30 days, but not on the barge. to pre- pare the costumes for “The Great Ziegfeld.” M-G-M is an odd-looking place at the moment. Another Tarzan pic- ture is in progress and giant Nubian | chiefs, spraved with Nujol and clad | in minimum bright-colored skirts | stroll around the lot, playing games with their mammies from Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Inside lhe‘ studio walls Johnny Weismuller once | again is making love to Maureen O'Sullivan—this time in a bog which they have to stand for hours | while the director argues with the | Nubian boys and tells them what to do. ® ¥ X ¥ FARTHER on down the “line” we come to the “docks’—a quaint cross-section of the world, this time | in imitation of San Pedro, where the | San Lucas is moored, where the squat bleak houses advertise “beds for 15 cents” and where you may get a “bath for 25 cents.” Water-front characters plod up and down the wharfs and suddenly there is a shriek and a hurrah and out of a San Pedro slimmer, trimmer than we have ever seen her before. Spencer Tracy has just thrown a coffee-pot at Miss Harlow—therefore the shriek and therefore she lands almost on our lap. It isn't a bad idea. Smiling and seemingly happy, in spite of the new shadow which only the day before crossed her home life, she asks at once for all her Washington friends, for the Carter Barrons, etc., and vows that she has promised herself a trip East when “Riffraff” is done. M-G-M is not, however, the only place where the gong is striking right now. At Paramount Mae West began today to put her heart and soul into “Klondike Lou,” Claudette Colbert is busy with “The Bride Comes Home"” and out at Warner's Franchot Tone | and Bette Davis are having a workout in “Hard Luck Dame.” R (QTHER items snitched here and there: Shirley Ross is a sensation in the stage play “Anything Goes’ (more about this after we see it to- night)—so much so, in fact, that after the opening night's performance peo- ple stood up and cheered her when many projects developed after that date could be undertaken. They predicted State works progress administrators would be permitted to substitute more desirable werk for | scme of the proposals rushed through she entered the above-mentioned Tro- cadero. Joan Crawford goes East the end of this month. Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDon- ald are up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains filming “Rose Marie,” the first musical film, incidentally, to be filmed mostly out of doors. John Boles sends his regards to Washington. Wini Shaw and Phil Regan send their ditto. Maxine Doyle is nowhere to be found (possibly be- cause she's in the East). And tomor- row, with the beginning of school, most of these hefty grandmas are go- ing back home. Hurray! tion activities in the big studios. | Another article will be published | BY E. de S. MELCHER, Drama of The Star sneaks in and out of the studio on her sturdy feet, bolstered by a of make-up, are still the same blonds that you saw last year, the year be- plush-lined-caviar blistered ‘“nighter: —where only the Mayers, the W. S. eating rooms and entirely visible to the world at large, will also remind California dignity and such continen- | tal whimsies as can be brought within Public Subscriptions Sought to Finance Campaign in Oklahoma. By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., September 18.—The | name of Long may return to the| United States Senate next year on a | share-the-wealth platform—if enough | people contribute funds to finance a successful campaign. Dr. George S. Long, brother of the slain Louisiana dictator and a peren- nial — though unsuccessful — cam- paigner for office in Oklahoma, is planning to run for the Senate in 1936. Frank Rickman, one of the Tulsa dentist’s lieutenants in past political activities, said Dr. Long “will an- nounce for the Senate in two or three days.” Lacks Campaign Funds. Rickman indicated the believers in | the program of the late Senator Huey P. Long would be expected to back the | campaign. “Lack of money is holding Dr. Long | back,” said Rickman, “but the people | will provide that. He already has| scores of letters from all over the country urging him to carry on the fight—and most of the letters had from $1 to $25 in them.” Dr. Long himself said it was “very likely” he would be a candidate. Often a Candidate. As a Democrat in a State normally Democratic, Dr. Long has run for city and county offices on numerous 0cca- sions and three times has been a can- didate for corporation commissioner, but never has he held an elective of- fice or even been nominated by his party. There’s hardly a boulder or aban- doned auto wreck beside an Oklahoma highway that does not bear the words, in ragged white paint, “Geo. S. Long for Corp. Com.” It was Long's favor- ite way .of getting his name before the voting public. The announcement by Rickman in- timated a final healing at Senator Long’s death bed of the intermittent breach between the brothers. Once Senator Long refused to make a speech in behalf of Dr. Long’s can- didacy for the Oklahoma regulatory body and Dr. Long promptly called his brother the “Al Capone of Ameri- can politics.” | Notre Dame Physician Dies. SOUTH BEND, Ind., September 18 (®).—Dr. Francis J. Powers, 62, physi- cian of the University of Notre Dame State Department Promotes 280 Foreign Service Officers More than a score of residents of | Washington and nearby Maryland or | Virginia are included in the list of the 280 foreign service officers, whose | promotions have been announced by | the State Department. In addition, | there are many in the group who are well known here because of their official connections. ‘The prometions, entailing pay raises, | B are the first that the classified officers have received in more than four years. The first «wo classes affected are officers who are—or will be— consuls general or counselors of em- bassy or legations: the next two, con- suls general or first secretaries; the following four, consuls or first or second secretaries, and the remainder, | third secretaries, consuls or vice con- suls. List of Promotions. From this area those advanced were: Class 4 to class 3—Clarence | J. Spiker, Washington: Avra M. War- ren, Ellicott City, Md., and Carol H. Foster, Annapolis. | Class 5 to class 4—James Hugh | Keeley, jr.; Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, Washington, and Robert B. Macatee, | Front Royal, Va. Class 6 to class 5—Herbert S. Burs- ley, Washington, and J. Rives Childs, Lynchburg, Va. Class 7 to class 6—Edwin Schoen- rich, Baltimore. Class 8 to class 7—J. Holbrook Chapman, Carlton Hurst, Joseph P. Ragland, Washington, and Rufus H. Lane, jr., Falls Church. Unclassified (A) to class 8—Dorsey G. Fisher, Catonsville, Md., and Claude H. Hall, jr, Baltimore. Unclassified (B) to unclassified (A)—Kenneth J. Yearns, Washington. Unclassified (C) to unclassified (B)—Theodore C. Achilles, Washing- ton; Reginald Bragonier, jr, Balti- more; Merritt N. Cootes, Fort Myer; Kent Leavitt, McLean, Va., and Wal- ter J. Linthicum and William C. Trimble, Baltimore, Others Given Promotions. Others were: Class 2 _l‘glclus 3 Bovm omas D.Moflatt, Jay P. u_ Bol Norweb, R. Henry Frost. Scotten, Robert M. Huddie. Stewart, James B! Lockhart. Wilson, Edwin C. 3 to Class 2: Class 3 Adams, Walter A, Ballaniine. J. W. Boal, Plerre de L. Cameron, Charles R. Cochran. H. Merls thur C. 3. Kiahr Frank P. Johnson, H. V. Knlben!:‘me, Paul Morris, Leland B. Pinkerton. Lowell C. Reed. Edward L._ Simmons, John Farr ck. S. Pinkney ‘Wadsworth, George " McGurk, Joseph P. Robert aayrd e since 1010, died here yesterday. He recently was strickem with [ ¢ Class 5 Beaulac. Willard L. Benton. J. Webb Blocker, Wil to Class 4 Matthews H_ P Merrell. R N Schoellkopf. W. H. Shantz, Harold Hugh X ward vart, Francis_R. Tewell. ‘Harold 8. Travers. Howard K. Groth Heingartner, R. W, Hobper. George D. MacVitiy. K. de G. From Class 6 to Class 5: Boucher, Hiram A. Kuykendall. C. P. ker, E 8. 2d McKenna James F. ecker, Sydney B. Salisbury, L. E. Schnare. Lester L. Stanton. Edwin P. Sturgeon, Leo D. Warren, 'Fletcher Wiley. Samuel H. Winslow. Rollin R. Class 6 Gallman. W J. Geist. Raymond H. Grummon. S. E. Hawks. Stanley Henderson. L. W. From Class 7 Aldridge. C_W. Atcheson. G.. 'ir Brooks, Russell M. Bruins. John H. Burt. Joseph F. Fletcher C. Paul Goforth, H. W. Hinkle. Eugene M. From Class 8 to Atwood. Franklin B Baker, Roy W. Bickers, Willlam A. Bonnet_ Eilis A Buell, Robert L. Cabot John M Chase. ‘Augustus 8. Coville, Cabot. Cruger. Ferris. Walton C. Flexer. Favette J From Unclassifies Ackerson G. G. .r . Stuart . _John °f. Berry. Burton Y. Bohlen. Charles E. Bonbright. J. C. H. Buffum. David H. Burke, Gordon L. Dorsz. Edmund 1. Edson. Andrew W. Fornes. F. C..jr. Galbraith., Willard Gantenbein. E M. E. to Preston, Au Smale. ‘Willlam Talbott. Sheridan Van den Arend. P. Vincent. John C. Williamson, David. Class 7 Morgan, John Parks, James E. Peck.” William L. Turner, William T. (A) to Class 8: O A L'Heureux. H. Madonne, John H. ady. Thomas J. My Pilcher. James Riddleberger, Graves. George Steyne. Alan N. Gray. Archibald Gufler. Bernard Hall. Monroe B. Hickok, Thomas A. Macdonald. Je Mayer. Lesiie Go: .3 H. Jr. Moreland, W. D.. ir. y B, 8 Newbegin ! Drumright. Everett T.Newton, Joseoh E. Durbrow. Elbridee ~ Oakes. Calvin H. Edear. Donald D. s Penfleld James K. Perkins. Charles B. Richards, Arthur L. Schuler, P. A. J Taylor. Alian C. Taylor, Lawrence W. Timberlake. C. H. Warner. Gerald Worley, Lee ified (C) to unclassified (B): Jr. poincott. Aubrey E. V. Ludden. Raymond P. ‘Walworth = McClintock, R. M. cob D, cCloud. Robert C. Malion, Patrick hn W. Mayer Ernest de W. k M. A Merrill, Gregor C. Connelly,'Bernard C.Mitcheil. Reginald P. per Charles A. ~ Montemat. Hargld E. Shah man T h. Cramp, William M. Davies. John Jr. Donovan, A. E.. 2d owline.” Waltér, ¢, a1 . ing, Prancis L. ns. ncis Stone. John F. ‘Taft. Orray,_Jr. s 1. ium’ P. Lightner. E. A.. ir. ’ rne, W. du B. Wells. H. Bartlett Wells. Mi] %n K Wendelin, Eric O. Woodward, Robert F. KOENECKE DEATH IN PLANE PROBED Attorney for Two Airmen Says Ball Player Evidently Was Trying Suicide. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, September 18 —The at- torney for two Detroit airmen, seek- ing freedom from manslaughter charges after their death struggle in midair with Len Koenecke of the Brooklyn Dodgers, expressed the be- | ments for September had been cut to | before the deadiine. Belief was expressed that the ap- plications which were received by September 12 would be made the basis for allocation of remaining W. P. A money. But apparently, it was pointed out, there will be nothing to prevent later-developing projects from being submitted to Washington for approval and then being substituted for some of the items included in the alloca- tions. Emergency work, such as that which grows out of floods and drought, was outlined as one type which would have little diffict wipning approval whenever it velops. Final word is expected shortly from Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. admin- istrator, on this and other details of the administration’s program to pro- vide jobs by November 1 for all able- bodied persons on relief and end the dole. Hopkins spent yesterday at Hyde Park, conferring with the Presi- dent. A meeting of the Allotment Advisory Committee to set aside the bulk of remaining work-relief funds for the W. P. A. program, in line with Mr. Roosevelt's decision last week, is an- ticipated generally within the next week. The President has announced that he is relying on temporary jobs under Hopkins' jurisdiction to meet the No- vember 1 goal, while giving Secretary Ickes more time to get a limited amount of permanent W. P. A. projects underwa; At the National Emergency Council it was said today that funds already earmarked or allotted from the $4,880,000,000 work-relief fund total $3,463,915,265. The Relief Administration yesterday announced that direct relief allot- | de- $74,916,900, as compared with $97,- 717,382 for August. Vermont was added to Alabama and Wyoming as States which no longer will get Federal relief contributions. LONG IS EULOGIZED AS NEEDY CHAMPION Talmadge Urges Preservation of Constitution in Address Before V. F. W. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 18. | Extolling the late Senator Huey P. Long as a champion of “the cause of the poor and oppressed,” Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia pleaded yester-' day for preservation of the Constitu- tion. The Georgia Governor has been mentioned in some quarters as a pos- sible successor to Long as the presi- | dential candidate of the “Share-our- | wealth” Societies, the late Senator's | national political organization. Addressing the Veterans of Foreign | Wars Convention here, Talmadge waxed eloquent about the State which | Senator Long controlled as a dicta- | tor. “Whatever élse might be said of | Huey Long, he never practiced de- lief today that the big league base ball player had attempted suicide. “Koenecke was deliberately at- tempting to commit suicide and try- Ing to do it in one grand, glorious | CUTINW. finish,” said E J Murphy. He announced he would subpoena Casey Stengel, manager of the Dodg- ers, to testify at the coroner’s inquest tomorrow night as to Koenecke's mental condition, and would call “any one else that is necessary to prove that my clients fought in self- defense.” Spend Night In Jail. Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeney and Irwin Davis, parachute jumper, spent last night in jail. was clubbed to death with a fire ex- tinguisher in the cabin of their ship yesterday morning as they flew from Detroit toward Buffalo. Mulqueeney insisted the base ball player, last year's star outfielder being sent home after hitting a slump this year, had become unmanagable and started to fight. He said it was a case of “one or three.” “Grave Implications” Seen. Although Murphy protested it was “nothing but a tragedy” to jail the fiyers, Attorney General A. W. Roe- buck said “this matter has grave im- plications.” Paralleling the attorney general's in- vestigation was one launched by the Federal Department of Civil Aviation, but this inquiry was concerned solely with circumstances surrounding the forced landing after the fight, Koenecke's body remained at a New ‘Toronto undertaking parlor, awaiting the arrival of the athlete's father and brother from Adams, Wis. the attorney, Woman Dies of Wounds. Dora Pate, colored, 31, 120 Madison court, died in Gallinger Hospital yes- terday from gunshot wounds received on June 10. Police claim she was shos by Lonnie Bradley, colored, 36, of 36 E street, who later committed suicide by taking poison. The shoot- ing occurred, according to the police report, at 130 F street. t Koenecke | ception,” Talmadge said. “Huey Long fought for the cause of the poor and oppressed and I wished that he was here today on this platform to talk to you.” P. A. HOURS SEEN BY JOHNSON Administrator Says He Has Re- ceived Intimations From Wash- ington on Question. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, September 18.—Gen Hugh 8. Johnson, Works Progress Ad- ministrator here, said yesterday he had received intimations from Washington that hours would be thortened while pay remained at $93.50 monthly for skilled W. P. A. workers. This would effect a compromise with labor unions which have caused interruptions in the work by demands for a prevailing wage to displace the security wage in vogue. “I don’t know what adjustment will be made,” Jchnson said, “except thal shorten monthly hours, leaving the pay at $93.50 monthly.” “If I am asked for recommenda- tions,” Johnson said, “I shall suggest cutting hours from 120 to 80 a month. This would raise the hourly rate of pay from approximately 78 cents to $1.17.” He added that he would welcome such a compromise, declaring he had always favored it and that he had ad- vised union officials to concentrate on Washington with their negotiations.” Pythian Leader Dies. PORTLAND, Me,, September 18 (#). —Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hutchinson, 67, past supreme chief of the Pythian Sisters of the United States and Canada and one of the founders of the Pythian Sunshine Girls, died yesterday at her home here following an filiness of several years. | Mrs. Hutchinson was supreme chief _|of the Pythian Sisters 1918-1920. ¢ in broad outline they probably wiil | | _Capt. Eyston and two relief drivers, | C. S. Staniland and Albert Denly, took turns behind the wheel of the “Speed of the Winds,” which resen | bles the face of a frog when view | from the front. | Although the contest board of the American Automobile Association hel | up official announcement of speeds at the various stages of the endurance run, it was ungffigially announced Capt. Eyston and his aldes had cap- | tured the 24-hour record with a speed in excess of 140 miles an hour. Ab Jenkins Record. | Only a few weeks ago, Ab Jenkins of Salt Lake City had established a record of 135.47 miles an hour for the | day and night mace. Jeneins held several records cap- tured by the Englishman, while others were held by John Cobb of London These included records for 10 50 kilometers, 50 miles, 100 meters, 200 kilometers, 2000 kilo- meters, 2,000 miles, 3,000 kilometers 3.000 miles. 4.000 kilometers, 5,000 kilometers, one hour and 12 hours The endurance speed trial was ace complished with little and no motor trouble- to utilization the railroad roundhouse by thi Briton. When motor parts needed arrived from Detroit they w two thousandth’s of an inch and Eyston trimmed them to fit i Western Pacific roundhouse at Wend- over. A. A A officials delayed announce- ment of speeds to double-check t figures and prevent an error such marred Campbell’s run, when an in- correct announcem ted had not bettered 300 m an hour. peeds to Be Announced. als of the Contest Boa mobile Associ nounce exact s the run ted unofficial O the sa It doughty E ing upwa of the Wi Some held by recently John C raced on Jenkins followed and recovered the several others. bb of Lo the salt the B! 24-hour record an! JAPANESE MANEUVERS CLAIM LIVES OF NINE Admiral Osumi Reports 8 Dead in Turret Fire and 1 Casualty in Plane Crash. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, September 18.—The Jap- anese Navy maneuvers in the North- west Pacific had claimed nine lives up to yesterday. | Admiral Mineo Osumi, minister of | the navy, reported to the cabinet that 8 had died of the 41 injured in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara September 14 | The Yokosuka navy base announc that Flight Lieut. Yoshimitsu Oku, assigned to aircraft carrier Ryujo, perished in the sea when his combat plane fell during a night flight. The mancuvers have not yet reached the major battle stage. 5 PEAK CLIMBERS DIE Death Party Is Caught in Snow Storm. | MILAN, Italy, September 18 (#)— | An Italian Alpine club reported last night that five mountain climbers were frozen to death near the to ot Val Masino when a large party of climbers was caught in a sudden snowstorm ‘Two Alpiners were also reported frozen near Bergamo because of sud- den blizzards and freezes. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Alpinists Frozen to as G-Men May Be Hunt- ing Potato Leggers by Winter. POMONA, Calif., September 17.— Everybody was so joyous over Gon- gress adjourning that, during the public dancing in the stre: | overlooked a ¢ hets. Among the great fross of bills that went through at the ‘leventh hour was ore whim- sical little trick | called the pota‘o | control act. We did so well iast year with cotton control, you re- member. Anyhow, s one had e usual congres- sional brevity a mere beggarly 15000 words. But 'twould seem it's loaded with crop reduction rules and what not for che 3,000,000 Americans who, for reasons best known to themselves, go on Lro- ducing potatoes at the customary ratio of 16 to 1—sixteen potatobugs 10 every potato. By Winter, I look for |the G-men to be out running down potato leggers and spud runners. However, having gone on a strict reducing diet in the interests of tre ‘lcung art, I'm remaining calm. The only times I ever taste starch any more aire when licking the button- holes in a stiff shirt. | But I do wish the Government ‘would take up onions next! I pre- | sume the proper place to write is to the Interior Department. Berause I've found onions absolutely uncon- | trollable. | P. 8.—Probably we'd better include radishes, too. (Copyright. 1935.) ti Y