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TA=2 G. 0.P. CAMPAIG PLANS TO BE LAID High Command Here Wed- nesday With Chairman- ship Issue Up. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Executive Committee of the Re- publican National Committee meets here Wednesday to make organization plans for the coming campaign. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt, head and forefront of the New Deal Demo- crats, is expected to leave Washington for the West on Priday on a trip that hes many political implications. The | Chief Executive plans to return to| Washington tomorrow from Hyde Park. command is set for 10 am. Wednes- day. the first gathering of the kind since the full committee met in June, 1934, in Chicago. to pick a chairman to replace Everett Sanders of Indiana, | ‘who was resigning. Chairman Henry P. Fletcher, the Pennsylvanian who was elected to suc- eeed Sanders, has a number of plans looking to greater Republican activity which he will lay before the Executive Committee. The very fact he has called the Executive Committee to come to Washington at this time is in- dicative that the chairman believes the time has arrived for more aggressivi | The meeting of the Republican high Mallon to Resume Column Tuesday Paul Mallon is ending his vaca- tion and restming his column on this page Tuesday, September 24. His first articles will present the result of Mr. Mallon's observa- tions, political and economic, dur- ing @ coast-to-coast vacation jaunt. SOVIETS CLAIMING 3BALLOON MARKS Two -Bags " Unreported 17 Days Travel 1,400 Miles From Moscow. By the Assoclated Press MOSCOW, September 21.—The Soviet Union claimed three world balloon records tonight as a result | of spectacular performances by two | gas bags which left Zvenigorod, near | Moscow, September 3, and remained unreported for 17 days. Today officials here received word that the balloons, piloted by B. Ro- manoff and A. Babuikin, had landed near the Kara-Kum desert, in Kazak, | U.S. 8. R, baving traveled | meters (about 1,426 miles) to smash he world distance record of 962 miles 2,300 kilo- | or balloons of the 2,200 meters class. Chairmanship Question. Second Balleon Reported. At various times, Fletcher has been | Tonight a telegram. which took charged with failure to lead a militant | seven days en route from Bat-Bakry, anti-New Deal movement. The same |a settlement on the edge of the kind of charges were leveled at his | steppes in Kazak, reached here stat- predecessor. There still are rumblings | ing that pilots Zykov and Tropin in some Republican quarters and a the second balloon had landed their action. suggestion that the committee replace | bags also in the desert region of that | Fletcher with a more aggressive republic. leader. | They reported traveling 2,200 kilo- There seems to be no real sub- | meters and said they had remained stance, however, to any effort to un- aloft 91 hours and 35 minutes. break- seat the chairman, and apparently he | ing not only the world's record of 51 has no intention of stepping out of | hours for balloons of the 2200 cubic the chairmanship. The name of Col. | meters class, but also the world record John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, former | for all categories of balloons set by Republican floor leader of the House, | the German Kaulen who in 1913 re- has been advanced as a possibility for mained in the air 87 hours in a bal- the chairmanship. Col. Tilson, how- | loon larger than 4,000 cubic meters in ever, denies he knows anything about size. the proposal. ! Republican leaders gathering here | loon near the upper part of the Turgai for the coming committee meeting river September 7, and tramped sev- admit one of their foremost prob- |eral days overland to reach a collec- lems is to find some farm-relief plan tive farm where they hired camels to to offer as a substitute for the New |return for their gas bags. Deal's A. A. A. They say ‘he A. A. A.| The world record of 51 hours was with its processing taxes. scarcity of et by the Americans Lieut. G. W. some food stuffs and higher living | Settle and Lieut. Charles W. Kendall costs is unpopular enough in the East | in the Gordon Bennett international Zykov and Tropin landed their bal- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ROOSEVELT TAKES SHORT VAGATION Callers Barred Over Week End—Will Return to Capital Tonight. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 21. —President Roosevelt began a week end vacation today before returning to the White House tomorrow night. Official callers were not on the list for the first time since his arrival here three weeks ago. Whilc official indulge in a carefree holiday. It was the 81st birthday anniversary of Mrs. Sarah Roosevelt, mother of the President, but the occasion was observed last Sunday at a family re- union when Elliott. second son of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, also had a birth- day. The family did meet again to- day at luncheon with the smiling. gracious Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr. This afternoon the President called | for a motor car to witness the attempt of the White House corps base ball | team to keep a winning margin in {its annual battle with the team of Lowell Thomas, radio talker, and K. | C. Hogate, editor of the Wall Street | Journal, at Pawling, N. Y. ‘The President meanwhile was keep- |ing in close touch with negotiations on the coal wage dispute. Perhaps | he is going to put this issue up to | the new Coal Commission and Coal | Labor Board appointed last might. After church tomorrow he plans to | pack for a return to Washington. He | will speak Monday before a meeting of | o¢ those in charge of the annual | mobilization for human needs. After clearing up an accumulation | of business he expects to start West- | ward on the long-planned trip to the California-Pacific Exposition at San | Diego and a fishing cruise on the Pa- | cific Ocean. WHITE HOUSE TIGERS LOSE. Saints and Sinners Win, 23-16, as Roesevelt Looks On. By the Associated Press. PAWLING, N. Y., September 21 — With President Roosevelt looking on for a few innings, the White House | Tigers were beaten, 23 to 16, by the Saints and Sinners of Pawling today in a seven-inning base ball game. The President, motoring by with Mrs. Roosevelt and Vincent Astor, saw his youngest son, John, and his son-in-law, John Boettiger, star for dutles still trailed him, he sought to| EW YORK Atlant Ocean D. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1935—PART ONE. Mother and Sister Fear for Flyer {Cross of Fire Organization MILLION FRENCH PLANMARNE FETE Called to Glorify An- niversary. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 21.—Leaders of the Croix de Feu, Nationalist veterans’ organization, announced late tonight they had summoned the “miilion members” of the association to mobil- ize at dawn in a demonstration “to glorify the anniversary of the Marne victory.” - Previously considerable mystery had attached to the call. The leaders ex- plained that the plan had been kept secret “to prevent the usual attacks C.OFC.MAYASK NEWN.R.A.LAWS Names Committee to Scan Plan on Principle of Self-Government. By the Associated Press. Proposals for new N. R. A. legisla- tion embodying the orinciple of busi- ness sel{-government may be offered Congress in January by the United Btates Chamber of Commerce. Officlals said yesterday a special | committee would be appointed early | next month to study the subject and make recommendations which prob- | ably will be submitted to a referen- dum of the chamber's 1,500 member units. from anti-patriotic elements.” Purpose Not Disclosed. At its meeting Friday, in which a | study of “the whole field of Federal ic Mrs. Mary Waitkus and Mrs. Antoinette Russell (right), mother and The rank and file of the followers taxation and expenditures” was au- of Col. Prancois de la Rocque, the |thorized, as well as a referendum on man who would be dictator of France, |2 report on “trends in Federal legis- were kept in ignorance of the purpose | lation” which virtually was an indict- of the mobilization. { ment of the New Deal, the chamber’s But the nation’s Communist lead- | directors heard a discussion of the old ers warned their cohorts to “be on|N.R. A. guard,” and the usual Sunday gath- It was led py Henry I. Harriman of ering of leftists in the “red ring” of | Boston and Willlam P. Withrow of sister of Felix Waitkus, who yesterday started flying from New York to Lithuania, shown at radio in Chicago listening for latest reports of the route are shown at left. WISCONSIN RED PURGE IS ASKE Five State Senators Say | Communists Preach Be- liefs on Campus. By the Associated Press | fiyer's progress. Waitkus, his plane at the take-off and his intended k4 —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto. ] Flight | ! (Continued Prom First Page.) | received the well wishes of Kasimir | Daubzvardis, Lithuanian consul in New York, and Paul Zadeikis, Lithuanian Minister to the United States. Slowly the craft, carrying an 8,000- pound load, rose under the power of its single 550-horsepower supercharged engine and disappeared. Waitkus said his route would take him over New- foundland, Ireland, England. Den- , mark and the Baltic Sea to Lithuania. | He chose the Great Circle path. AVERYIELDS AN . MADISON, Wis. September 21.—A | " ypgide the plane were a thousand purge” of radical “individuals and | jeyters to be delivered in Lithuanta societies” from the University of Wis- | yna™ rpyons contributed by cmfl”[ consin was urged today by five State | yipyanian-Americans to be dropped | e | Senators finishing an official investi | on the graves of Darius and Girenas. jesorn Also tucked away, but in easy reach, | The Senators. making their report, | STRANGELY SLAIN 2 Grilled as Coroner Says workers' suburbs around Paris will| scan the highways on the outskirts of the city for any sign of their bit- ter enemies. Leave Homes at Dawn. The Croix de Feu thousands were told to prepare to leave their homes at dawn, when they will be advised of three assembly points. They were | instructed to take enough food for | one day, because they will meet in | open fields far from the villages. They will join in a single huge as- | sembly under Col. de la Rocque later in the day. Whether the mobilization | order covers only the Paris region or | a larger territory was not immediately | known. Pittsburgh, and was described by one spokesman as an “old-fashioned ex- perience recital.” ‘While taking no official action, the directors were reported to have de- termined as a result of the discussion to go ahead with the study of the pos- sibility of & new law. President Roose- velt already has set before Congress the task of framing new N. R. A. leg- islation. Results of Poll on Old Law. In a poll on the old law, the cham- ber's members voted last January that: The N. I. R. A. should be allowed to terminate; prior to its expiration new legislation should be enacted; this should be Ilimited to business “en- 'WHEAT TAX RELEASE T0 RED CROSS URGE 1,200 Millers Asked to Give Im- pounded Sum to Charity if Freed by Court. By the Associated Press. PONCA CITY, Okla., September 21.—D. J. Donahoe, jr.. milling com- pany executive, has proposed to 1.200 millers that more than $50.000,000 in 1 | | | 8aged in, or affecting competition in,” | interstate commerce; each industry should be permitted to formulate and put into effect rules of fair competi- | tion which receive governmental ap- | proval. The governmental agency (a board of tribunal appointed by the Presi- dent) should have only the power of approval or veto; rules of fair com- petition formulated by a clearly pre- | ponderant part of an industry as suit- able for the whole industry should be enforceable against all concerns. New legislation should make clear that collective bargaining is “bargain- already. But they are afraid the farmers of the Middle West and other agricultural sections are too fond of races at Chicago in 1933. Record Set in 1932, The record of 962 miles for the 2.- receiving benefit checks from the Gov- 200 cubic meters class bags was set ernment for not producing this or that crop. The Republicans are giving the matter a lot of attention. It is not expected that the Executir. Commit- tee will underake in any way to formulate party platforms or policies. But the chances are there will be a very considerable exchange of in- formation regarding the political situ- in the Gordon Bennett races in 1932 by Lieut. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell of the United States. So lonely was the spot where Ro- manoff and Babuikin landed. they reported, it took them seven days to reach an inhabited spot. Soviet officials believed this flight would cancel the world record appar- ently established by two Polish bal- ation in the various sections of the loonists, Buzhenski and Vyzotski, in country. Knox Farm-Relief Propesal. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomina- tion, who is making 21l the running just at present in the pre-convention race, has put forv. u a farm-relief proposal that may appeal to a lot of the Republicans. He plans a tariff wall high enough to keep out products the Gordon Bennett race just con- | cluded from Poland. The Poles cov- ered 1,680 kilometers (about 1,042 miles). The Soviet balloon was in the air the “Tigers,” a team composed mainly | declared that Communists were al- | of White House correspondents He shook hands with Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champion, who was recruited by the “Saints and Sinners” team of Lowell Thomas, ra- | dio commentator. Dempsey and “Two- | Gun” James Stringfellow of the Secret Service were umpires Dempsey came here as a guest of Kenneth C. Hogate, editor of the Wall Street Journal, who also played with the “Saints and Sinners.” Mrs. Anne Boettiger watched from 'NEW DEAL SUCCESS HELD U. S. SALVATION 56 hours. A telegraphic report said | they landed September 5 on barren steppes. WDOWN NEAR SHO products in this country. On top of | that, he would pay a bounty to Amer- | that compete with American farm | ON MAR'NE STRIKE | Johnson Lauds Roosevelt Policies in Denying Plan He Guns for Administration. By the Associated Press. Hugh S. Johnson said in a state- ment yestercay that “the salvation of ican farmers who produce for the ex- port market, so as to give them the benefit of domestic prices. In addi- tion, Col. Knox believes much may be done to increase farm income by the utilization of farm products in Znew ways in industry. Some such formula, it is believed, will find its way ultimately into the next Republican national platform. The details are yet to be worked out. .~ In the meantime, the press agents for the Republican and Democratic “parties are rowing over the potato- | Police Patrol San Francisco Bay Cities, Expecting Labor Deadlock. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 21.— Police patrolled San Francisco Bay water fronts as ship operators and | water front employers awaited out- come of a “showdown” today on the troubled marine labor situation. Informed sources predicted that | control act and whether President | within three days the entire water | Roosevelt favored the measure. A | fronts of San Francisco, Oakland, Ala- ‘howl of protest has gone up from |meda and other bay ports would be farmers who do not relish having a | virtually inactive. = potato quota wished on them by the| In a test maneuver, water front em- Government., with the Government | ployers put in a call for longshoremen | . "'.dy to collect a tax on every bushel | to unload the motorship Sutter, loaded = 0: potatoes they grow in excess of that | With Sacramento Valley farm produce. | quota. There is no proposal to pay the ] The stevedores responded, but refused | farmers for not growing potatoes. |to work the vessel on the ground that They are told not to grow more than | by so doing they would be interfering | & certain number of bushels, with the | With the current barge men’s strike. | . threat to punish them through a fine | Longshoremen officials said the Af they exceed that limit. this country lies in the success of the fundamental principles of the New Deal and policies of Franklin D. | Roosevelt.” His statement, issued through his | reiterated plans | Washington office, disclosed in an interview with the Associated Press Priday for a speak- ing tour as a friendly critic of the administration. | But Johnson said it was “simply v to interpret that plan as mean- ing “I'm out gunning for the New | lowed to preach their beliefs on the | *ampus, with “the permission and con- nivance of the untversity administra- | tion, its officers and regents | still they found that while the State | university here was widely known as | an “ultra liberal” institution, this was | “mot a true picture.” | Credit te Majority. The “great mass of instructors,” said State Senator E. F. Brunette, Demo- | | crat, of Green Bay, in the report, | “carried on in spite of un-American influences,” adding that this was true | of the majority of students as well. Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the university, said briefly that the Sen- ators’ reporf contained “nothing new.” The Senators did not aim their re- port at any specific member of the faculty, at any other individual or at any society. They found in gen- eral terms, however, that “meetings of local chapters of national and inter- national Communistic societies” were held in university halls. Regents of the university were urged to maintain constant vigilance against anti-American activities, to restore the university’s name as a “strictly Ameri- can institution of high ideals and purposes.” Declines to Comment. Dr. Prank declined to comment until he had read the report, and said he was “not sure even then” that he would make a public reply. ‘The report also touched upon the | action of the regents in dismissing | Chester D. Snell, dean of the univer- sity extension division, who has Deal.” He added: | charged the daughter of a regent and were a collapsible rubber boat, kites, | a Very pistol and flares. | The flight, a co-operative venture | sponsored by the Chicago Lithuanian He Was Beaten, but Died of Drowning. impounded wheat processing taxes be ing with representatives of all groups given to the American Red Cross if the United States Supreme Court frees the money. | of employes that desire to act through | spokesmen without the right of a minority group to deal collectively or newspaper Naujlenos and the Amer- By the Associated Press. Donahoe said today first replies to | the direct right of individual bargain- jcan Lithuanian Trans-Atlantic Flight | Association shouid requiis’ficn 28 | . 21 IXTOWN, Ex, Scptember 28 his proposal were favorable. The suggestion was based on antici- ing being precluded:” the right of employes to choose their own repre- sentatives is to be “free from coercion to 30 hours, Waitkus estimated. For food. he carried five ham and | egg sandwiches, a quart of coffee, a quart of lemonade, water and fruit. Waitkus, who is a Reserve Army officer at Selfridge Field, Detroit. has been flying for six years and has 1,200 hours in the air to his credit. Edu- two gallons of ‘Tl‘c Allentown youths were picked up tonight for questioning concerning the death of Charles E. Wetzel, Phila- delphia advertising executive, whose | battered kody was found in a creek | here early today under peculiar cir- cumstances. At the same time Coroner Alex- ander M. Peters. completing an ex- amination of the body, said the Phila- pation of victory in the Supreme Court in the millers’ attack on constitution- | ality of the wheat processing taxes | Anti-Trust Laws Superseded. levied by the Agricultural Adjustment | In addition, the members voted the Administration. The taxes are im- | new legislation “should make clear | pounded until the case is decided. | that its provisions, so far as compli- “The consumer is the one entitled | ance with them is concerned, super- to the refund, but he cannot be|sede any other statute which might found,” said Donahoe. Giving it to | appear to conflict.” Anti-trust laws | the Red Cross, he said, would aid “all | presumably, would be included in such from any source.” | cated at the University of Chicago, he joined the Army at Fort Riley, | Kans,, in 1928 and later entered the | flying service at March Field, Calif, D B i o |also said they were holding another | commissio] a second utenant, | wore keeping him | and later opened a ground school ni‘ Say ‘;vf“fl Accosted Them. Brotz. who sub- @ | Kemmerer and Miller were detaine delphian died by drowning. The two held were identified by detectives as Daniel Kemmerer and Roderick Miller, both 22. Authorities d | Americans in distress, whether they be farmers, millers, newspaper men or | plumbers.” 'WADSWORTH LAUDED 'FOR POTATO STAND | superseded statutes. Chamber spokesmen said there is | & considerable differer.ce of opinion in business circles on some phases of the N. R. A, just as coal men have di- vided over the Guffey act providing a “little N. R. A" for that industry The taxation and expenditures study | was authorized by the directors after Fred H. Clausen of Horicon. Wis, | sequently became his father-in-law.| after they told authorities a man they | had presented a report on the new “I feel that a constructive public g married instructor of the Milwaukee criticism of the weak spots of the pxtension Center were guilty of im- New Deal will work for the success of its fundamental principles. “My intense loyalty to the Presi- dent and these fundamental principles prompts me to point out these weak spots as I go along urging public sup- port for the administration.” The Republican National Commit- tee. through its press representatives, .issued a statement yesterday declar- ing “White House pressure forced the potato act through Congress.” It in- | “strike” was unauthorized, and the | DEPOSITIONS OF HULL | result of independent action of the | AND BYRNS SOUGHT | men, adding they could do nothing | | about it if the men elected not to Robinson, Louisville Kidnap Case i Defendant, Would Prove . sists that only the personal interven- | tion of the President at a critical time | in the life of the bill made its pas- | #age possible. The measure was in- Exposition Being Organized. With preliminary plans completed for the Exposition of Progress to be .troduced first as a separate bill by Representative Warren, Democrat, of North Carolina. It wound up as an amend ament iment to the A. A. A. bill, now Supported by President. The Republican Committee state- ment insisted that although the po- tato bill was not part of the Presi- dent’s “must” program, as originally announced, Mr. Roosevelt later got behind the potato bill. The President, according to press reports, indorsed the | j potato bill when Warren called on him at the White House and prom- sed to speak for it to Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Com- mittee. Later still, it was said, there was a “deal” in the House between the supporters of .he potato bill and the Guffey coal bill, backed by the President, whereby supporters of the potato measure would vote for the Gufey bill, provided the administra- + tion was willing to put the potato bill ' @cToss. “;rhz ?e;nocnuc INatmml Commit- put forward its lict Republican charge that the President 1s responsible for the potato bill. “The most recent of the socialistic crimes of which the Roosevelt admin- istration is accused is the passage of the bill including potatoes among the basic farm commodities which benefit by the A. A. A. enactments,” Michel- son said. “It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the A. A. A. amendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. He was not dictating the legislation in Con- gress. Perhaps if he had been, the held at the Wardman Park Hotel, November 30 to December 7, head- quarters have been opened in the Maryland Building, 1410 H street, and a staff under the direction of Alfred L. Stern has already begun organiza- tion work, it was announced yesterday. was accepted by the House, the vote ‘u\‘nod 174 to 165, and that only five Republican House members voted for t. Z * | Michelson, on the other hand, said: tional is a measure that received the vote of Senator Borah, that great con- stitutionalist, whose devotion to the sacred document is his strongest bid for the Republican nomination? In- cigentally, 11 other Republicans— pretty much all in whose States po- tatoes are grown—voteg with Senator Borah.” The potato act seems to be a step- | child of the New Deal, judging from the efforts made to discredit it in administration circles. Secretary of | Agriculture Wallace, declaring he has | no funds to enforce it, seems to be in | a way to let the potato act die. | The Republican regional conference | at Salt Lake City has been set for October 18. There will gather the Republican delegates from the Moun- tain States, from Arizona and New | Mexico on the south to Idaho, Ne- | vada, Colorado and Montana on the north. These regional conferences have been productive of considerabie discussion and party enthusiasm from New England to the Midwest. The Salt Lake City conference, it is be- potato amendment would not have | lieved, will give opportufity for ex- gone through.” Michelson said the President could | not veto part of a bill, so when the | potato act came to him as a rider on the A. A. A. amendment bill, he had to sign or kill the whole bill. He signed. Heuse Vete 174 to 165. The Republican National Committee | pointed out that when the potato act | » |74 pression of sentiment existing in the States farther west. This is the section of the country from which Senator William E. Borah hails, prominently mentioned as a presidential possibility on the Republi- can side of the fence. The Idaho Sen- ator so far has been disinclined to admit that he is a candidate for the nomination. | “I wonder how bad and unconstitu- | Character. By the Associated Press. | LOUISVILLE, Ky. September 21.— | Counsel for Thomas H. Robinson, sr., | Nashville, who will go on trial in ‘Merll District Court here October 4 on a charge of complicity in the kid- naping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, applied today for an order to take depositions of Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull and other prominent Ten- nesseeans. | Robinson, whose son. Thomas H. | Robinson, jr, has been hunted by | Pederal agents as the actual kidnaper | of the Louisville society matron, will Dbe tried jointly with young Robinson’s | wife, Frances. Counsel for the elder Robinson | sought depositions of Huyll, Joseph 'W. Byrns, Speaker of the House of Representatives: Gov. Hill McAllister | and former Gov. Alfred H. Roberts of | Tennessee as testimony to the de- fendant's good character. Judge Elwood Hamilton indicated | he would grant the request. proper conduct. Without discussing the meris of | Snell's statements, the committee held that he had been unfairly treated by the regents and was discharged on | “general principles” after he had called their attention to a condition he considered improper. The report was signed by all five members of the Democrats, one Progressive and one Republican, FALL:WINTER SCHEDULE RESUMED AT LIBRARY| lInln Building at Eighth and K and Branches Announce Change. The Public Library at Bighth and | and Winter schedule of hours, Miss Clara W. Herbert, acting librarian, announced yesterday. The branch | libraries also have resumed Winter schgdules. ‘The central building now is open on week days from 9 am. to 9 p.m. except on Fridays, when doors close at 1 pm. The art and sociology di- visions on the second.floor are open from 9 am. to 9 p.m., while the Wash- ingtonia division closes at 4 p.m. daily. The children’s room daily schedule is from 12 noon to 6 p.m. except on Sat- urday, when it is opened at 9 am. Sunday hours are from 2 to 6 pm., with only reading and reference rooms open. | By the Associated Press. | Full rights of citizenship were re- Ward, former convict who now com- trols a million-dollar corporation in St. Paul. Ward's rise from convict to capital- ist in 10 years attracted attention again as the Justice Department an- nounced President Roosevelt's action, | which took place Wednesday. | In 1920 Ward was sentenced to | Leavenworth for violating the nar- cotic laws. There he met H. A. Bige- low, president of Calendar House, & large St. Psul printing and advertising firm. Bigelow was serving a sentence for income tax evasion. Ward and Bigelow became fast stored yesterday to Charles Allen | | Ex-Convict, Now Millionaire, Regains Citizenship Rights in 1925, and went to work for his old | jail mate. Within a few years Ward had risen to the post of general manager in Calendar House. When Bigelow and two friends drowned in a Minnesota iake a few years ago, Ward inherited $3,000,000 and control of the business, of which he now is president. Ward is known as a philanthropist in St. Paul, and some say he has em- ployed many exconvicts in his plant, helping them to make a new start committee—three | believed was Wetzel, who was adver- | tising manager for the United Gas ._ | Improvement Co. of Philadelphia, ac- | Awaits Radie Reports of Husband's cogieq them on a street corner at | Flight Progress. | midnight Priday night and asked WEST ORANGE, N. J., September ' them to take charge of his car be- | 21 ). —The 23-year-old wife of Pelix | cause he had been drinking They | Waitkus, trans-Atlantic fiver, sat bya ' said they left Wetzel shortly after | radio tonight waiting for reports of accompanying him to a cafe ! her husband’s progress in his flight| Wetzel's body was found partly sub- | to Lithuania. | merged in the Little Lehigh River, a | Mrs. Waitkus, a pretty brunette, | short distance from the municipal in- said she had utter confidence her | Cinerator. The spot indicated a fierce husband would reach his destination | Struggle. ~Wetzel's head was badly safely. bruised, there was a gash over his left eye, his hands were cut and his cloth- REPORTS BROADCAST. ing torn, coroner Alexander Peters id. .| Wetzel's hat, ome shoe and a handkerchief were found behind a Lo s | house four blocks away. Police said DUBLIN, September 22 (Sunday) | an effort had apparently been made to () —The Free State radio station, hide them. They also said Wetzel's after its usual closing hour, broad- automobile was missing. | cast early today a special weather | Robbery Held Omly Motive. report and forecast for Lieut. Felix| Priends of Wetzel could give no ‘Waitkus, believed somewhere over the motive for the attack except possibly North Atlantic on a fight from New | robbery. They said he usually carried York to Kaunas. Lithuania. | large sums of money. His wallet was The radio station at Athlone was found empty. | directed to transmit meteorological Wetzel motored to Allentown from reports to help the aviator during the | Philadelphia yesterday on a business first quarter of every hour. ‘nslt, He was last seen at a hotel It was generally believed the air- | dining room man would arrive over Ireland about| James J. Casper of Philadelphia noon todsy. | found the body. He was held for questioning. WIFE IS CONFIDENT. |Irish Radie Stations Aiding U. S. e — STRONGER DEFENSE |AGUINALDO PROTEST Former Senator Says Uproar of Protest May Force Repeal in Janu By the Associated Press. GENESEO, N. Y. September 21— Representative and Mrs. James W. Wadsworth held open house today for 500 friends and neighbors on the 100th anniversary of Hartford House, the family home, and the 33d anniversary of their marriage. Although purely a social occasion, it was not without its share qf political significance. The neighbors paused in | | 250,000,000 tax law calling parts of it “discriminatory and inequitable," d adding: | “Deep concern must be felt over the adverse effects on business enterprises of national policies which . sist rather than promote employment in private industry.” | The Taxation Committee will make the study, and its report also will be submitted to a membership poll for | approval or disapproval. YEASTIS T | | AXABLE their . .ore formal felicitations to up-| hold the Representative in his fight against the Federal potato control law. | | “The old spud must be more wicked _ than bathtub gin,” the former Sena- | Firm Ordered to Pay $1,500.000 | tor told a reporter. “The penalty is : | e o et in Federal Taxes on Cos- “The uproar of protest may be so| metics Basis. loud Congress will repeal the meas- | By the Associated Press ure in January. I am surprised that| i wWAUKEE, Wis, S 2 A f . September 21 President Roosevelt approves repeal| _yeqst, when advertised as a beauty after signing it, all in five months’|aiq is subject to the Federal cosmetic time. tax, Federal Judge F. A. Geiger rule “The measure is undoubtedly un- o et T IF AID TO BEAUTY | constitutional and I think the Supreme Court will so decide after the first | test case.” Representative Wadsworth said he was “not surprised” at the promised here today He ordered the Red Star Yeast Co. to pay the collector of Internal Rev- | enue $1,500,000 in Federal cosmetic taxes. The yeast company had petitioned | action of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson to|for a temporary injunction restrain- tell the country “what's lousy with|ing the Government from collecting the New Deal.” He declared “others| the taxes. The company officials con- |of the administration would do the|tended that yeast was essentially a IS HELD U. S. NEED to Point of Deterring All Attacks. By the Associated Press. S8AN ANTONIO, Tex., September 21. —Representative Tilman P. Parks, chairman of the Military Subcommit- tee of the House Appropriations Com- mittee, said today that “it is our pur- pose to build up the military defenses | of the United States to the point where other nations will desire to avoid | any sort of armed conflict with us.” The Camden, Ark. Congressman, along with other members of the sub- committee, was here to conduct a sur- vey of building needs of military posts around San Antonio. The committee made a trip through the Panama Ca- nal before coming here. Parks said more and better equip- ment for the Coast Artillery Corps would be one of the first considera- tions of the committee when it makes recommendations for military appro- priations. “Next in line of impartance,” Parks said, “are the present needs of the Air Corps. We need a larger Air Corps. and the corps needs more planes, faster planes and more reliable | HORSES TO TROD RUBBER | | Policeman Begins and Ends Cn-l Policemen’s Mounts to Wear Noise-Resisting Shoes. NEW YORK, September 21 (#).— Porth will ride the city’s mounted policemen on chargers with rubber horseshoes. The city decreed it today. Btll to be dealt’ with & s the CHARGES “FRAUD” | K streets has resumed its usual Fall | Parks Says Nation Must Prepare Philippine Election Protest to President Alleges Partial- ity. by Murphy. By the Associated Press MANILA, September 21—Followers of swarthy little Emilio Aguinaldo— the former rebel chieftain who vowed he was “not through yet” after his defeat for the Philippine presidency— charged “fraud” today in a protest to President Roosevelt. The protest, filed by the National Socialist party which backed Aguinal- do, also asserted Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy showed partiality in last week's election. Although Murphy proclaimed “ab- solute neutrality” in the balloting, the protestants accused him of having permitted department secretaries and executive officials to work openly for the successful coalition candidates headed by Manuel Quezon. “This attitude,” said the announce- ment, “encouraged active intervention of officials not permitted by law, and the commission of threats, coercions and election frauds. “Evidence of frauds cannot be sub- | o3 three years ago as a press-room | mitted to Murphy as we are losing con- fidence in his fairness. Such frauds | are causing general discontent argong | the masses.” LIFE A VICIOUS CIRCLE reer on One Drunk. LOS ANGELES, September 21 (P — Just a quarter of a century ago John North—starting his first day on the police force—arrested one William Tobin for intoxication. North retired yesterday. His last official act was to lock up Tobin, now 6. Tha charge? Intoxication. * same thing if they dared loosen their tongues.” - Myth of Tunnel To White Housels Again Exploded | Treasury Old-Timers Say Report Started as Press Room Joke. | By the Associated Press. The present remodeling of the White House has left that old fiction about an underground passage be- tween the Treasury and White House without a leg to stand on. Any tourist can peer into the shal- low space left when the ground floor’s torn up and tell there’s nothing to it. Capt. E. P. Locke, eingineer in charge of the White House physical plant, said the myth about the tunnel | must have started because of an old pipe passage, big enough to let through & rat or two. the Treasury said the myth was start- joke, and astonished its originators by | being generally believed. There was, this version says, a new But authoritative old-timers over at | | bread raiser. ‘ETERNITY—WHERE’ CAR WRECKED, D. C. TRIO HURT | —— Traveling Missionary’s Wife and Two Children Are Injured in Crash. By the Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y, September 21.— The wife of a travelling missionary and their two children, riding in a housecar labeled with the inscription, “eternity—where?” narrowly escaped serfous injury today in & three-car collision here. The injured, treated in Albany Hospital, are: Mrs. Thomas Lacey, 42, of Wash- ington, D. C., cut on right leg; Nasomi Lacey, 8, her daughter, cut on leg; | Abigail Lacey, 2, another daughter, cut on leg. The housecar was operated by Thomas Lacey of Washington, a missionary, who has been conducting revival meetings in the Adirondacks. The Laceys were on their way to Plainfield, N. J. LONG FLIGHT PLANNED NEW YORK, Beptember 21 (#).— | and green reporter who wanted to in- | Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, noted terview Ogden Mills, then Secretary, | Australian aviator, sailed on the and his colleagues told him Mills wWas | jiner Britannic today for England to evading him by “taking the under-| gttempt what he described as “the ground tunnel over to the White | a5t long flight I hope to do.” e His plane, Lady of the Southern Soon items began to appear here | Cross, was also shipped out today on and there in the papers about Mills | » cargo vessel. It will be sbled g aage er " this UDdET iy “pngland and Sir Charles wil passage. Mills shortly thereafter set out on a flight themv‘n:lht: l‘i’:: thite ;"m',:";fm:fi from London to Melbourne, by way a day, down s private elevator and | Of Athens, Bagdad and Singapore. | across & busy street in full sight of all The aviator said he was organise and sundry, getting wet if it ralned | ing & company to fly this route com- bard enough. merclally. ’ "