Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1935, Page 8

A8 “SCOTTIE AT 60 LIVED 200 YEARS Famed Character of Death Valley “Had Run for Money.” By the Associated Press. 10S ANGELES, September 20.— Walter (Death Valley) Scott is only 60 years old today, but he boasts of having erammed 200 years of living into that time. The famous Death Valley doesn’t birthdays, he told the Associated | Press in a patiently scrawled letter. “You asked about my birthday,” he wrote. “Have forgotten it I have lived 200 years in 60. If I haved die tonite my last request would say to tell the press tell the world I had a run for my money.” This is the man who at the turn of the century made a record-break- ing train run across the United States and spent money lavishly along Broadway. Who built & castle at what he esti- mated was a cost of $2,381,000 in one of the most forlorn stretches of Cali- fornia. | Who only smiled at desert stories | of his endless supply of gold. Who resented bitterly the invasion of “foreigners” into his domain, now ' & national monument and destined to be a national park. And who lives alone in his un- finished palace, where the tempera- ture sometimes reaches 140. character of Scottie’s letter, although brief, Was|office cares tomorrow afternoon to five pages page was signed wit long. Each his name. i O BOOKLETS TO BE GIVEN With a view to protecting children returning to school this month, the Keystone Automobile Club tomorrow will begin distribution of 50,000 of its bocklets on District traffic regulations. i e distribution will be effected through co-operation of Peoples Drug Stores, whose customers will be fur- nished the digest without charge. The eight-page booklet contains in abbreviated form the more important bother much about | JOSEPH P. KENNEDY. —Underwood Photo. Kennedy (Continued Prom First Page.) education; George F. Johnson, presi- dent of the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Co., and William H. Hecox of Bing- hamton, N. Y. The President tonight will press a button in his study here which will flash the signal for the opening in| Detroit, Mich,, of Detroit's street im- provement dedication exercises. Mr. Roosevelt will put aside his Jjourney to Pawling, N. Y., about 40 miles from here, to root for the cor- respondents ‘“covering” his stay here, who will play a soft ball game with | the team of Lowell Thomas, radio an- | nouncer. Jack Dempsey, former heavy- weight champion, will be umpire. KENNEDY WIDELY PRAISED. No Definite Indication Given as to His Successor. | By the Associated Press. | Joseph P. Kennedy, who came to Washington as chairman of the Se- | curities and Exchange Commission | under a barrage of complaints that Al THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, having won praise from virtually every quarter. The 47-year-old freckled, now smil- ing, now explosive, administrator, had been predicting his own resignation off and on for months. There was no definite indication as to his successor. Commissioner James M. Landis, a young Harvard law professor, has been acting chair- man during Kennedy's numerous ab- sences. Landis originally was boomed in some quarters for the chairmanship when the commission was formed, a little more than a year ago, to regu- late securities exchanges. ‘The commission elects its own chair- man from the five members. Kennedy dropped right into the middle of a fight when he arrived in Washington more than a year ago. Many who supported ‘the securities exchange bill assalled him and Presi- dent Roosevelt for appointing one who, they esserted, had made millions through stock market speculation. Under Kennedy’s mentorship action THE GREATEST BOOK OF OUR TIME ADVERSE THE GREATEST BARGAIN OF OUR TIME | NOW 3290 COMPLETE & ONLY UNABRIDGED DOWNSTAIRS BOOKSTORE quickly was taken to reassure those affected by the bill that every effort would be made to co-operate. More than $2,000,000,000 of new issues already have been floated this year and registered with the com- mission. France Fights Radio Howlers. France is conducting a vigorous campaign against radio “howlers,” people who interfere with their neigh- bors’ radio reception. In one month the French ministry of posts and telegraphs has caught and punished 13,465 howlers. It is an offense in France to hinder radio reception, and the purchase of what is called “anti- parasite” apparatus is obligatory in cases where refrigerators, elevators and similar equipment cause incon- venience. 0. C, STILL ON TENTH FLOOR YIELDS VAST EVIDENCE Tip by Former Representative Igoe Results in Raid by Police and U. S. Agents. By the Assoclated Press. and Federal agents took elevators to | the tenth floor of a Loop office (James | | T. Igoe) building yesterday and raided | a 25,000-gallon distilling plant. 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