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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, SEPTEMBER 22, 1935—PART OXNE. AL : BELGRANO FIGHTS GREENBACK BONUS Legion Head Tells St. Louis Conclave Payment on Merits Is Sure. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 21.—Na- tional Comdr. Frank N. Belgrano, jr., of the American Legion, tonight threw the weight of his office against payment of the bonus through infla- tion of the currency. In a report prepared for presenta- tion at the annual convention Monday, the commander charged that a “Na- tion-wide campaign of propaganda,” directed, by a group in the House of Representatives, “had a most telling effect in the defeat” of the Legion- supported Vinson bill, which did not specify a method of financing the bonus. The Patman bill, which provided for currency expansion, to pay the ad- justed compensation certificates, passed Congress, met President Roosevelt's veto, and could not muster sufficent over-riding votes in the Senate. Inflation Held Reason. “It is my considered opinion, Comdr. Belgrano said in his report, “that had the issue of payment of the ad- justed service certificates been pre- sented to and considered by Congress on its own merits, any bill would have had a fair chance of passage. “But when loaded down with a pro- vision for expansion or inflation of the currency, a question more contro- versial than that of the payment of the certificates, it was doomed from the very beginning. ‘Introduction of the Vinson bill brought sharp and biting critieism and denunciation * * * from a group in the House of Representatives who spon- sored a bill calling for the payment of the certificates through a system of expansion or inflation of the cur- rency. “A Nation-wide campaign of prop- aganda was immediately entered into by this group, attacking the Legion and directing personal assault upon the national commander and the National Legislative Committee. Thinks Its Effects Telling. “Through the long period when the fssue was before the Congress, the attacks continued through every channel of propaganda and publicity. I am not concerned and did not con- cern myself about the personal ma- lignment, but I am vitally concerned about its effect on the pending legis- lation and am convinced that the campaign had a most telling effect | in the defeat of the veterans' cause.” Comdr. Belgrano said that the Le- gion “may look forward with confi- dence” to the enactment by Congress of the Legion’s plan of conscripting “capital, industry, labor and all the | national resources on the same plane with manpower if called upon to serve in another war.” He recalled that the McSwain bill, which would put the plan into effect, pased the House with only 15 dissent- ing votes, but the Senate adjourned before it was able to take action on the bill. The balance of the commander's report of his stewardship concerned itself with internal Legion affairs. Nonsense Reigns Tonight. ‘The Legionnaires doffed their pur- ple and gold overseas caps to St. Louis tonight, gave them a figurative flip | in the air, and opened the highly informal social aspects of their seven- teenth annual convention, which gets around to serious business early Mon- day morning. | Highways and special trains, even the broad Mississippi River, brought thousands of former World War bud- dies back to the bunting-draped streets where the Legion was born | 16 years ago. { Sidewalks resounded under the stac- | eato rap of thousands of smart new | maple walking sticks as the veterans, | most of them rapidly approaching middle age, gave St. Louis an old- fashioned Saturday night. 200,000 Are Expected. Registration booths recorded about 20,000 visitors by sundown and offi- cials said there were many thousands | more who had not got around to the | business of registering. There was| no, doubt about it. Officials estimated | 200,000 would be here by Monday. The Legion will become serious tomorrow with dignified committee meetings, reunions and the annual sermon of the national chaplain. Mon- day the convention will be called to order. But tonight there was street| dancing, a scramble to find accomo- dations already arranged for, and| generally a high old time. | Hamburger stands, freak shows and souvenir booths sprang up like | mushrooms around the Municipal | Plaza. Empty store buildings were | swept out and orchestras set up in corners for the dancing Legionnaires or lay delegates who came along just for the fun. Of course, there was a “Streets of Paris” cabaret. PLANE PASSENGER KILLED, PILOT HURT Howard Fox, Jr., of Hershey, Pa., Is Vietim in Crash at Cecilton, Md. By the Associated Press. CECILTON, Md. September 21.— Howard Fox, jr, 26, was killed today when an airplane in which he was returning to Harrisburg, Pa., with 8id- ney Press, 32, crashed during the take-off. Press, part owner of the Harrishurg airport, was taken to Union Hospital, Elkton, with a possible fracture of his skull and cuts anc bruises. His con- dition, while serious, is not critical. Fox lived in Hershey, Pa., and Press at Hummelstown, a Harrisburg suburb. Press was the owner and pilot of the plane. Andrew Liebold, Cecilton storekeeper and friend of Press for a number of years, was one of the first fo reach the scene after the crash. He sald Press was conscicus when removed from the craft, but Fox was killed instantly, The plane strucs nose first on the beach at Hack's Point and was badly damaged. Witnesses said Press cut the switch before the crash and ne fire resulted. New Chemieal Improves Ink. From the Sclentific American. A new chemical, colloidal aluminum in linoleate, for use in printing inks, 15 said to have advantages in commer- eial printing runs of savings in cost, smoother laying, clearer plates and Jess tendencyto offsét. This chemical is entirely colloidal, without crystalline form and contains a hig] rcentage of chemically fixed & moisture. Barrymore (Continued From First Page.) idea that I have been trying to reach him ever since we quarreled Thurs- | day in my New York apartment and | he was escorted away.” Their trails almost crossed here. | Barrymore and two male companions |left a train from Chicago in North Kansas City, dashed by taxicab to Holliday. Kans, and boarded the Santa Fe Railroad’s California Lim- ited there, going into seclusion in a | locked compartment. Girl Broadcasts Appeal. | Miss Barrie, believing he was some- | where in Kansas City, sped franti-| | cally by car to a radio station and broadcast & personal appeal to Barry- | more—she calls him “Caliban"—to get |in contact with her immediately. | “John, dear, I know you need me | no she pleaded over a Kansas City | broadcasting station. | “My messages to you have not beed | delivered.” | Previously she had sped by plane | from New VYork, overtaking Barry- | more's train at Chicago. He dashed | to a Chicago hotel without her seeing | him. Thinking he took another train | | there later, she boarded it, got ahead of him and doubled back here after | reaching Emporia, Kans. “Ariel” is—or was before Barry- | { more walked out on his young pro- | tege—the film actor'’s pet name for Miss Barrie. Caliban and Ariel are in Shakespear's “The Tempest.” In her hotel, Miss Barrie spoke de- flantly through heavily-rouged lips. She denied it was a one-sided pursuit. Says Actor Is IL “I'm sick and tired of this impres- | sion going about that I am pursuing a man who does not want to see me. John Barrymore does not know that I am near. Those guarding him will not let him know it. If he knew I| was here in Kansas City, he would turn heaven and earth to see me. John is an ill man. I have been try- ing to nurse him back to health for weeks. “Yes, we did have a quarrel. But he didn’t dash out of my apartment. His business manager came and es- corted him away. I have not seen him since. I did make a statement through my attorney that ‘the glam- orous episode is ended,’ but that was a bit premature. I still love him. “Will we be married? I really can't talk about that. It is so difficult to say anything definitely now.” Reconciliation Hopeless. In Hollywood, Barrymore's wife, the former Dolores Costello, who has been reading for weeks about her traveling husband’s interest in brunette Elaine, sald there was no hope of a recon- ciliation—if that's what John has in mind. The actor was described by Elmer Adkinson, the taxicab driver who took him to Holliday, Kans., as a man with two days’ growth of beard, “his hair tousled, his eyes bloodshot.” Said the driver: “That fellow sure didn’t look like a movie actor to me.” New Instrument In Surgery Curbs Idiocy in Babies Boston Doctor Burns Tis. sue in Brain to Check Hydrocephauls. By the Assoclated Press. 5 BOSTON, September 21.—~8uccess. ful use of an instrument which: bores through the brain to the skull pan and burns away tissues producing a fluid that causes hydrocephauls, s condition causing infants to become idiots, was announced tonight by Dr, Tracy J. Putnam of Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard Medics] School. The instrument, which he developed, is in an experimental stage, Spinal fluid, the doctor said, pro duced continuously by thin glandular tissues on the underside of the brain does not drain properly from the skull into the spinal column and thus is absorbed into the blood. The fluid collects until it causes the skull: of babies to swell, and as the pressure increases, the cortex, aor thinking part of the brain tissue, is ‘badly damaged. * The instrument is pped with & light and lenses and two tiny electrodes st its tip. .~ Barrymore Escapes Girl JOHN BARRYMORE AND ELAINE BARRIE. < —Wide World Photo. Commissioner MISSOURI MAN APPOINTED ON COAL GROUP. WALTER H. MALONEY, Kansas City attorney, prominent for 25 years in Democratic politics, was named by President Roosevelt as one of the five members of the Bituminous Coal Commission to administer the Guffey coal act. —A. P. Wirephoto. TAXCIB DRVER HELD NBEATIS Husband of One of Woman Victims Identifies Him as Assailant. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, September 21.—Micaleo Iannella, 24, a taxicab driver, was identified tonight, Deputy Chief of Detectives Walter Storms said, by one of the men whose wives were crim- inally assaulted as the madman whose recent series of sadistic attacks ter- rorized the Western Chicago suburbs. Iannella was arrested in Chicago’s Loop tonight because he answered the description of the West Side degener- ate. Deputy Chief of Detectives Storms said Iannella had in his pos- sessien several clippings of stories of the series of attacks upon women in the Austin district. He was questioned by Storms and then taken to the Austin police sta- tion. There he was viewed by Fletcher Madison, whose wife was assaulted while he, bound, looked on in horror. Says He Is Man. “That’s the man,” Madison told Police Capt. John Stege, “he looks 50 much like the man that I'm actually scared now.” A brutal attack—the fourth attrib- uted to a muttering maniac—spread today. Miss Anna Swanson, 47-year-old employe of the Danish-American Hos- pital, was found near death from a savage beating in a vacant lot early this morning. During brief inter- ludes of consciousness the told au- thorities how a dark-complexioned man accosted her as she walked to work. He struck her a heavy blow on the jaw, she said, and dragged her into the weeds. Descriptions Tally. Her general description of the as- sailant corresponded with that of the madman who battered and assaulted two other women in the district and who was frightened off as he at- tempted to attack a third victim. Dr. Lewis K. Eastman, who attended Mrs. Swanson at the hospital, ex- pressed fear the shock might cause her death. He disclosed she had not been criminally assaulted, but that her face and body had been badly bruised “by a sexual maniac of the worst type who derives satisfaction from seeing women suffer like this.” | *“This man is a sadist—the type which enjoys flogging his victims,” the physician added. “He is very dangerous at times.” | Officlals were uncertain whether the moron has used a blunt instrument as well as his fists. Bride Is Beaten, Detectives believed it was the same madman who stole into the apart- | ment of a youthful bride early Thurs- | day. bound and gagged her husband, | forced the girl to disrobe and lashed | ih" with a lead-loaded quirt. On | August 17 an intruder of the same | description—dark, slender and of me- attack on a woman tenant of the same | maid at & nearby home on August 31 was interrupted by the ringing of a doorbell. Extraordinary precautions have been | taken by police of the Austin district. :!nch night 16 detectives and police- women, aided by volunteers, have patrolled the area, all heavily armed. Capt. Willard Malone told them: “Shoot to kill.” Rome (Continued Prom First Page) Memel (Continued From First Page.) | fled from 6,000 to 10,000 Germans and enfranchised a like number of Lithu- anians in an attempt to gain a major- ity in Sunday week's election. German Preponderant Now. ‘The Germans thus far have held an overwhelming majority in the Legis- lature, as more than 90 per cent of the residents of Memel are Germans. Officials here said voting papers have been taken from Germans, osten- sibly for their verification, but are not being returned. It is charged Lithu- anians are being brought in to vote, although the statutes provide for one year’s residence before participation in the polling. BRITAIN IS REASSURING. Tells Berlin Lithuania Has Pledged Observance of Statute. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, Beptember 21.—The Brit- ish government has sent & reassuring message to Germany regarding the forthcoming Memel elections, it was announced officially here this after- noon. Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, has been instructed to call the attention of the German gov= ernment to the fact that Great Britain, France and Italy (the guarantors of the Meme! state) have made joint representations to the government of Lithuania and have recelved assur- ances that the elections would be con- ducted in accordance with the statute. The statute provides that Memel shall have a measure of autonomy un- der the sovereignty of Lithuania. (Copyright 1935.) FUNERAL OF HARRINGTON TOMORROW IN EVANSTON Northwestern U. Journalism ‘School Head Will Be Buried in Attica, Ind. By the Associated Presy, : CHICAGO, September 21~Funeral services for Harry Franklin Harring- ton, 53, director of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern Uni- versity, will be held at 10 a.m. Mon- day in the First Methodist Church of Evanston. Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, promi- nent Methodist, ¢! n and pastor of the church, will conduct the serv- ices. Burial will take place in Attica, Ind., the home of Dean Harrington's wife's parents. The arrangements for burial have not yet been completed. Dean Harrington, nationally known as a writer of journalism text books, died of a heart attack today in his home in Evanston. He Was a pioneer of journalism as now taught in universities, doing much of his work at Northwestern, where he had been tor since the B;thnl of Jourpalism 'was founded in 1 tion was not directed against any one. After listening for an hour to Benito Mussolini, who holds a majority of a statement rejecting the Geneva pro- posal because it does “not offer a minj- mum basis sufficient for a conclusive realization which finally and effective- ly would take into account Italy’s vital rights and interests.” Political circles were quick to point out the communique was not nearly so drastic as that of last Saturday, which militantly asserted: “Italy does not admit the possibility of a compromise solution after the huge efforts and sacrifices supported by her.” Cabinet Meeting Tuesday. Another cabinet meeting will be held Tuesday in the hope the League Committee of Five may have modified TAX terror anew through the West Side | dium height—perpetrated a similar building. His attempt tc victimize a the cabinet posts, the ministers issued | NOE THREATENS - TOBLTTNET Loufina{né Lieutenant Gov~ ernor Left Out in Cold by Long Faction. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 21.— Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe, an embit- tered lieutenant in the Huey Long po- litical machine, tonight threatened to split the organization by running as an independent candidate for Gov- ernor after he had been rebuffed by the faction’s caucus, which -selected Judge Richard W. Leche as the ad- ministration’s candidate for Governor. Several days ago Noe announced his candidacy for Governor with the as- serted support of Gov. Allen and after the caucus had thrown him entirely off the ticket, he said: “My position is unchanged. I've already announced for Governor on the Huey P. Long share-our-wealth olatform and my announcement stands. I'm going to run. My friends are sticking by me.” Deserted By Smith. But In defying the Long party in his .proposed independent campaign, Noe was deserted by Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, national organizer of the “Share the Wealth” Society, and Wade O. Martin, who announced their support of him when Noe jumped the gun and announced his candidacy ahead of the caucus. Smith, who was credited with get- ting Noe to announce prematurely, said In a statement that he would sup- port the ticket because of their “plate form on the Share the Wealth So- ciety.” Martin said he would support the administration ticket and had ac- cepted the candidacy for the Senate to fill the unexpired term of Senator Long. i Judge Leche, of the Court of Ap- | peals and former secretary of Gov. | Allen, wes chosen as s compromise | candidate because of the rivalry be- | tween Noe and Allen Ellender, Speaker | of the House. Punishment for Noe. Ellender was appeased by being put forward as the candidate for the full Senate term beginning in Janu- | ary, 1937, and Noe was punished by being taken entirely off of the ticket | | because he attempted to jump ahead | of the caucus. While the Long factionists were | battling in the caucus, Congressman | Cleveland Dear. announced himself as | 8 candidate for Governer on the antj- ! | Long ticket on a’platfofm of restoring “local self-government. fo Louisiana, | bringing about peace and harmony | | with the National Administration and | | repealing the dictatorial laws which | | have wiped out local self-government.” | | The anti-Long cnly announced the candidate for Governor with a com- plete slate expected within a few days. Selection of the Long machine tick- | | et came after 24 hours of wrangling among the leaders from the parishes, | + with Gov. Allen striving frantically to | briog harmony among the warring groups. 4 Long’s Brother On Slate. He finally sacrificed Noe and made up a slate including Earl Long, brother of Huey Long, for Lieutenant Gover- nor Ellender for the regular term for United States Senator, Wade Martin | for Long's unexpired term, A. P. Tug- | well, chairman of the State Huhwny; | Commission, for State treasurer, and | the remainder of the incumbents mi | State offices for re-election. its proposals by then. so as to perrmt‘ the cabinet to consider the new pro- posal. | A government spokesman said: | “Italy’s position continues to be that | if the Committee of Five will change its proposals considerably, Italy will | consent to accept them as a basis for discussion.” | Another element of conciliation was ioflered today when a government | spokesman sald the forthcoming | mobilization of approximately 10,000, | {000 Fascists, adults and youngsters, is | to be interpreted as an internal exer- cise, not a manWestation of hostility. This was a distinct change from | declarations made in recent days by Italian newspapers that mobilization would be an effective answer on land | to Britain's naval concentration in| the Mediterranean. Race Pools Hit. Scotland is warring on dog racing pools. PAYING TIME If additional funds are needed for taxes, in- terest, insurance or other obligations come in and talk with any of our officers—we are always glad to make while purposes. If your working hours is not convenient for y: loans for such worth- — of iof | N e $720 $60 $780 365 $840 870 $900 $75 And Up are so arranged that it ou to come to the bank, we will be glad to mail an application to you; just write or telephone—it will be mailed the same day your request is received. 700 in Toba cco Pageant Preparations Under Way for First National Festival. ETHIOPIAN TROOPS AWAITING ATTACK Selassie Hoping Anglo-Ital- ian Differences May Halt Mussolini. By the Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, September 21— Ethiopia is ready with sufficient troops at vital points to offer the stiffest resistance should Mussolini follow his rejection of the Geneva peace plan with hostilities, Emperor Haile Selas- sie told the Associated Press tonight. The little ruler said he had hope that the increasingly grave rela- tions between Great Britain and Italy might halt Mussolini in his threatened Ethiopian campaign. | Italy's action in refusing the plan caused little surprise here. Ethiopia, it was explained, has accepted the pro- posals in principles, but telegraphed Geneva for clarification of certain pro- posals, especially those giving the League the exclusive right to appoint a chief supervisory delegate over the various expert commissions and also suggestions that the entire civil popu- | lation be disarmed. Arms Point of Honor. This proposal would be difficult to | fulfill, because in Ethiopia, where | “every man is a soldier,” the question | of arms is a point of honor. Haile Selassie was encouraged by i ¥ 4 ‘This smiling yuunt,‘vomnn wearing a frock of tobacco leaves is Miss Harriett Crews of South Boston, Va. tobacco pageant to be held there She’s trying her costume for the soon. Inset shows Miss Westwood Byrd, daughter of Senator Byrd, who is queen of the first national @ tobacco festival. OUTH BOSTON, Va. (#) —With money jingling in the pockets of Georgia tobacco growers, North Carolina growers taking a rich harvest to market and Virginia planters rubbing their palms in anti pation of golden returns, plans are being rushed here for the first national tobacco festival September 25-27. A pageant, “The History of To- bacco,” depicting the story of the golden weed from the day the white man first found it in Virginia through | its various stages, will require about 700 actors. It is being written by Harold Southgate of New York with T, Beverly Campbell of Richmond col- laborating. Growers should be in festival mood, with bumper crops and good prices prevailing. Virginia markets open a week after the festival. Rehearsals for the huge pageant are under way with Virginia belles attired in costumes made of tobacco leaves. Over all will reign the first national tobacco queen—Miss Westwood Byrd, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Harry F. Byrd, who was chosen from a host of beautiful girls. Various communi- ties are selecting their maids of honor and attendants for the queen’s court. An old square dance will be a| feature of the festival, with fiddlers | Insured Buying! THERE'S a way of insuring your buying against wasted money and unsatisfactory merchandise. And that insurance costs you not a penny. It is always paid up to date and in full force. native to the tobacco belt furnishing | the music. | Tobacco has been an important crop in the Old Dominion since Colonial days. It is now one of the South's most important money crops. — e HERO OF AIR CRASHES WEDS IN SACRAMENTO Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley Was in Akron and Macon Disasters. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 21.— Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. 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