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- PERIL TO COURTS SEEN IN POLITICS Democrats Find Reply Easy to Legal Points Raised by Liberty League. BY DAVID LAWRI E. There can be no greater danger to- day to the future of constitutional government than to drag the courts into politics. Since the enemies of the Supreme Court— those who have been bitterly critical of its recent decisions —have started on that path, the re- grettable truth is the friends of the Constitution have now perhaps unin- tentionally joined them. The publication by the National Lawyers’ Committee of its report on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Wagner labor act has been received with widespread criticism, not because of the merit of its contentions, but be- cause of the vehicle through which its views were given to the public. For, irrespective of the best inten- tions of the American Liberty League to sustain the impression that it is a non-political organization, it is never- theless so viewed by large sections of | the press and will continue to be so | regarded as long as it is dominated | by men who have been active in politics. Easily Discredited. If the bar of the United States | wishes to resist by a public campaign all assaults on the Constitution, the vehicle for such expression is the State | and local bar associations or the public forums for the leaders of the bar. The Democratic administration here will find it easy otherwise to attribute lawyers' reports such as came from the American Liberty League as being prompted by partisan considerations. And if the viewpoint of the Liberty League is not political, it becomes, in | the minds of labor leaders, the pleader for class interests opposed to labor. That's why William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, denounced the lawyers’ report, saying not a single labor lawyer or liberal lawyer was on the panel and that instead only corporation attorneys were consulted. Likewise, Francis Gor- man of the textile workers denounced ! the report as ‘“‘unethical” and im- pertinent, as did also Secretary Ickes, who wisecracked about an “unofficial Supreme Court.” Objections Answered. Noted Stage-Radio Comedian Dies William de Wolfe Hopper shown in birthday photos taken last March, At the right is his famous charace terization of Casey at the Bat. Hopper “Hopper Headed Own Company | To Present Operas in Capital (Continued From First Page.) his weakness which he thought was only temporary. Word of his death was sent to the actor's widow, Mrs. Lilian Glaser Hop- per, a singer of Oakland, Calif. She was_his sixth wife. Now the truth is neither Mr. Green | nor Mr. Gorman could name 58 law- yers in the whole United States who | tested being put to bed as a sick | had shown themselves competent by winning at least three cases on con- &titutional law in the Supreme Court of the United States or in the Circuit Court of Appeals, who were not at | one time or another in their careers employed by corporations. And as for unethic al or impertinent eonduct, this is the kind of argument that will appeal only to people Who do not know that liberal lawyers would be the first to chailenge the | theory that they have the right | publicly to express their. viewpoint on | legal doctrines of the day only when they are not employed in a particular plece of litigation to give advice to | & client. Just why it is impertinent or un- ethical for 58 lawyers who have had experience with constitutional ques- tions to give their views to the public and it isn't unethical for Mr. Roose- velt to tell 200 newspaper correspond- ents what he thinks of the Supreme Court of the United States, after it Protested Being Put to Bed. Trooper to the last, Hopper pro- man. “Tell them I'm resting, not sick,” boomed the tall, gangling man. He sat, fully-dressed. on the edge of the hospital bed at 11 o'clock last night, smoking his pipe and reading a newspaper. “’See you tomorrow, Doc,” he said. “I never sleep until 3 am. anyway. Run along, while I see what the Cards did." He beamed at the pretty nurse. Hopper was put to bed later and slept fitfully. After dawn he seemed to have trouble getting his breath. The nurse called an interne. When he reached the bed Casey had struck out. “His heart was gone, he was a sick body with a mind and spirit that would not admit it,” said Dr. H. P. Boughan, Once Studied Law. As one of the great comedians of the American stage, Hopper achieved fame in a profession other than that had unanimously decided the Schech- ter case against him, is bound to remain a mystery of the present era | of growing intolerance in political partisanship. Powell's Article Recalled. | for which he was intended by his parents. His father was a lawyer and was ambitious that some day his son might the fession. That plan met with | approv ther Nor will it be forgotten by those :ZZ:U‘B’EM":(, }“:‘kf:"purwe b o ;1):; f‘gfi’:fl:z‘“fi ;::;;;‘;5 °; }th_:s ]3:1: | of America’s most illustrious lawyers. = 4 Joseph H. Choate, a warm personal ’Ao“:;:,lBj;fi:"!m{r;?e'“‘::{;"sv “l;ri:; | friend of the Hoppers and godfather s T 3 h fispring. Thomas Reed Powell of the Harvard °f telr offspring i Law School, an associate of Prof. Felix |, _De Wolf Hopper went through with Frankfurter, the White House coun- | the Plans so far as his preliminary sellor on constitutional law. In that | education was concerned and :; the artice Mr. Powell waxed critical, and | eXtent of spending six montl ‘m even sarcastic, about the Supreme | Mr. Choate’s office. About that time Court, and he had a right to do so, | D€ took part in an amateur perform- join him in the practice of that pro-| and both | In the September issue the same mag azine printed a symposium of other lawyers who gave the grounds on which 7 out of the 10 acts passed by the Roosevelt Congresses, and which have not yet been before the Supreme Court, probably will be de- clared unconstitutional. It ien’t unethical for lawyers to express themselves in magazines aof general circulation, or in their bar journals. But the trouble arises when they identify themselves with political organizations or with organizations that are so regarded by a large sec- tion of the electorate on the eve of & presidential campaign. They have e right to do so, but they impair nce of “Conscience” at the old Four- | teenth Street Theater, New York. After that he manifested a restless- ness and distate for law and his | distinguished gadfather advised his | parents to give the boy a chance in | the theater. It was not long after that De ‘Wolf Hopper’s father died and with | money received from the estate, the | | son organized his own theatrical com- | pany. It was called the Criterion Comedy Co., with which Hopper made | his professional debut at Talbot | Champneys in “Our Boys” at New Haven, Conn., October 2, 1878. The venture proved a failure, but Hopper emerged from it with some THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto, BY JOHN J. DALY. About this time 10 years ago, the De Wolf Hopper Comic Opera Co. was flourishing on the boards of the | old Poli's Theater on the south side | of Pennsylvania avenue, between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets. At that time, he was in his sixty- seventh year and celebrating his “advent into second childhood.” as | he expressed it. All his later life he had been ambitious to have his own company. | “Why I can't fail” he told his ' sponsors. “If only my ex-wives come to the performances we’ll have packed houses always." The Gilbert and Sullivan operas appealed to the old time clown-actor. | and his favorite role was that of “The | Pooh-Bah” in “The Mikado.” Once the announcement went out that Poli's was to be the scene of De Wolf Hopper's “foolishness,” the S. R. O. sign went up almost imme- | diately. For eight solid weeks in one season, 1925, the operettas were pro- nounced successes. Though Poli's was | a barn-like structure, with some 3,200 seats, the management managed al- ways to “sell out.” | Armed with this success behind him, De Wolf came to town again | luncheons, the next year, but that season was not to be compared with the first, so | he left at the end of the third week | for Broadway. | While in Washington, De Wolf Hopper appeared at many noonday | always reciting his per- ennial “Casey at the Bat.” He once told an audience he had given this £bout 37,000 times. So many, in fact, that most people gave him credit for authorship. Later, it was learned the author was Ernest L. Thayer, known to his friends in his home town of Wor- cester, Mass.. as Phinney Thayer. He was a San Francisco newspaperman at the time he wrote this verse. | It also Cceveloped later that a | Washingtonian, Dan Casey, was the hero of the base ball epic. ! “I never did claim to be the writer | of ‘Casey,’” De Wolf said, afterward. | “All I said was the reciter.” | And what a reciter. With his bull- | like voice he “put everything he had | in that one piece,” and though he | rated himself as an actor and comed- | ian with a tendency always toward | | | clowning, the theatrical world always | will remember De Wolf Hopper as the | man who madg “Casey” famous. | ber of the chorus of the McCaull | Opera Co. These two marriages had been contracted and dissolved by di- | vorce before Hopper had passed hns" 28th year. His third union, with ! Edna Wallace, a noted actress, con- tinued from 1893 to 1898, and the next year he married Nella Reardon Bergen. The fifth Mrs. Hooper was Ella Furry, whom he married in 1913 and who obtained a divorce in 1924. A year later Hopper married, | | for the sixth time, Mrs. Lillian Glaser, | |a singer of Oakland, Calif. The | comedian was the father of two sons, one by his second wife and one by his fifth. 'ROOSEVELT COMMENDS QUEZON ON ELECTION Victory Fitting Culmination of Patriotic Labor, Says Presi- dent’s Note. By the Associated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., September 23. —President Roosevelt yesterday sent congratulations to Manuel L. Quezon, president-elect of the Commonwealth government of the Philippine Islands. ‘The message read: “My most cordial congratulations | ormal Weather Greets Fall Here; Cooler Tonight Autumn Comes Officially at 6:39 P.M. Toda Temperatures Typical. Fall arrives today with typical weather, and a forecast of cooler tem- | peratures tonight and a warmer day | tomorrow. _ Scientifically, the “autumnal equi- | nox,” when the sun stands directly over the Equator, takes place at 6:39 p.m. today, marking the end of Sum- mer, so night and day are practically equal the world over. The Fall season starts in the Northern Hemisphere and Spring begins below the Equator. The temperature at 8 am. today was reported at the Weather Bureau to be about normal for the season, at 60 degrees. Washington was more favored with pleasant weather than the Northern section of the country, as reports showed a wave of cold air sweeping | down from the Hudson Bay region to | | police to have attacked more than 100 | port the attacks to police,” Police Capt. | FRENGH FAGTIONS RESUME CONFLICT Croix de Feu Mobilized as Peasant Front Clashes With Reds. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 23.—A return to the “fighting line” by French political leagues reminded the government to- day that the Italo-Ethiopian crisis was only one of its worries. Headed by a huge test mobilization of Croix de Feu Nationalists through- out the nation yesterday, Right and Left forces went ahead with plans for ‘Winter campaigns to gain power. The mobilization, which massed thousands of Croix de Feu followers | of Col. Francois le Rocque, who is| awaiting the ripe moment to attempt to take control of the nation, was dis- turbed by a clash with Communists at Caen. Twenty-one persons were hurt. Clash With Communists. Farmers of the Peasant Front, leav- ing a meeting of 4,000 of their num- ber at Blois, also clashed with Com- munists in & fight which became vio- lent when several hundred gendarmes charged the crowd. Several persons were hurt, including Henri Dorgeres, leader of the Peasant Front. | Former Premier Edouard Daladier | called on his Leftist followers at Orange for a “fight against Fascist mobilization.” Both Daladier and De la Rocque, representing extreme opposites of French political opinion, told their | I followers: |8 “France's internal affairs must be | settled before she can play a strong | part in international affairs.” Each, however, advcoated suppres- sion of the other’s power as the only way to achieve settlement, Da Ladier called for a strong stand | against the ambitions of Italy in Ethiopia and told his followers: “Re- main faithful to the League of Na- tions.” | after her fleeing Romeo. CHNESE CHLRCH 5 OPENED HERE Officials Attend First Serv- ice in Mount Vernon Place Building. arly 200 Chinese and many Amer- icans assembled at the Mount Vernon Methodist Episcopal Church South yesterday afternoon to hear the gospel f Christianity preached at the open- ing service of Washington's first Chi- nese community church. The Rev. Ching Chong Hung, who is pastor of the new church, preached his sermon poth in Chinese and Eng- lish. Among those present were Sec- retary of Commerce Roper, Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Ambassador; Dr. Pak-Chue Chan, director of Central Hospital at Canton, China; the Rev. Benjamin W. Meeks, director of the Washington Federation of Churches; | the Rev. William L. Darby, executive | secretary of the federation; the Rev. Eddy L. Ford, director of religious edu- cation in the Foundry M. Church, end the Rev. W. Angie Smith, pastor of the Mount Vernon Place Church. Crisis Is Ignored. De la Rocque did not discuss the Italo-Ethiopian crisls, “France alone cap be the mediator in international affairs today,” he said, “but she finds herself torn by internal factional fights. “Until factional fights are settled France cannot be a mediator and Europe will lose France's power as such.” 14 SADISTIC MANIAC | SUSPECTS ARE HELD| 100 Women Believed to Have Been Attacked by Chi- cago Man. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 23.—Four- teen suspects were held tcday as, police hunted a maniac believed by | women. | “Many of the victims did not re- | John Stege said, “but I understand | they will be ready to identify him.” Some of those under arrest were | former inmates of insane asylums. Others were arrested on “tips.” A man believed to have been the same maniac who beat and criminally | assaulted four West Side women this month yesterday tried to attack a The End of the Chase ELAINE BARRIE, Young protege of John Barrymore, alighting from a plane at the Newark Airport on her way back to New York following a frantic, but futile chase » A-3 MISS BARRIE BACK; BARRYMORE WINS Screen Idol Victor in Cross-Nation Dash to Elude Girl Who Pursued Him. | By the Associated Press. | NEWARK, N. J, September 23.— | True to the tender, pet name “Ariel” bestowed upon her by John Barry- | more, Elaine Barrie, the screen idol's 20-year-old protege, has flown back to Newark Airport—but not on the wings of love | It was, in fact, a quiet, discouraged “Ariel” who alighted yesterday from a Transcontinental-Western Air Liner without the handsome “Caliban” in quest of whom she rushed by plane and train as far as Emporia, Ka Questions as to her future moves in the frantic attempt to effect a re- | conciliation with Barrymore, who now speeding westward, were met | with silence. GALLUP, N. Mex., September 23 (#)—John Barrymore, in a game of hide and seek with pretty 20-year-old Elaine Barrie, left & Hollywood bound train here yesterday and took to a hotel room. | Neither Barrymore nor his com- panion, C. D. Commonie, who registered with him, was available for comment. Shortly after taking quarters they left the hotel. Turn your old trinkets, jewelry any watches into MONEY at— A.Kahn Jne. 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London Tower Officials Say Miss- ing Weapon's Value Is $1.25. | LONDON, September 23 (#).—Excite- ment created by a report that an old sword was missing from the Tower | of London's Armory ebbed yesterday | when a tower official disclosed its | value—about 5 shillings ($1.25), The officials revealed, besides, that it wasn’t much of a relic. It had not belonged to a king, nor even to a knight. It was just one used by a| drummer at the time of the Georgian | Stuarts. Its loss had been reported | to police as a matter of routine, the | official said. | Organization of the church was SWORD NOT IMPORTANT || brought about largely through the ef- forts of Dr. Chan. Coming to Wash- ington late last year to continue med- ical studies begun at George Wash- ington Unriversity, Dr. Chan said he found a need for a Chinese church. He interested officials of the Church Federation, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. and enough money was raised through subscriptions to pay for use of a temporary church and the alary of a Daster. Until the congregation raises enough money for a church of its own, serv- ices will be conducted at the Mount Vernon Place Church each Sunday afternoon. Social functions will be! held monthl On Tuesday and Thursday e ings Chinese men will be taught business English, check| writing, draft writing, etc. Mrs. Hung will conduct cultural classes on other evenings. Veteran Drivers. New Zealand's first members of the | Company of Veteran Motorists, the | eatrance qualification for which is 10 years without a conviction, were two women who had been driving re- spectively for 21 and 15 years. CALL DISTRICT 0744 HESSICK'S COAL Autumn Begins Today Be prepared for Autumn’s chill or Winter's cold with a full bin of Marlow’s Super-cleaned Famous Man has never discovered office Within the gift of the Filipino| degrees at White River, Cntario, and | | people. 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Lin- Don’t warte “ins DEAL. with 25 years' com 8200, . “One Hundred Wives,” the stranding of which ended his career as a man- | ager. Began Voice Culture, He then was engaged by Edward Hartigan for a part in “The Black- bird,” at the conclusion of which he began training his bass voice with | the idea of entering grand opera. That was interrupted when Daniel | Frohman engaged him in 1884 for | the Madison Square Theater Co., for | which he played in “Hazel Kirke" |and “May Blossom” He resumed his vocal training until the Fall of 1885, when he joined the McCaull Opera Co., with which for several }seuans he shared honors with Digby | Bell and Jefferson De Angelis. Called upon to play an important role on short notice, he did so well that “he was immediately made the principal comedian of the company. Thereafter he continued to enhance his reputation and by 1890 was recog- nized as one of the brilliant stars of the comic opera stage, apearing that year as the star in “Castles in the Air.” The comedian, whose full name was William De Wolf Hopper, was born in New York, March 30, 1858, the son of John and Rosalie De Wolf Hopper. His paternal grandfather * | was Taton Hopper, & famous Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist. On his mother’s side he was descended from the widely known De Wolf fam- ily of Colonial times, which traced its lineage back to the eleventh cen- tury. Married Six Times. ‘While achieving fame as a comedian and comic opera star, Mr. Hopper continually attracted attention by his marital experiences. He married six times and figured in five divorces. His first wife was Ella Gardiner, 8 cousin on his mother’s side, and his second, Ida Mosher of Boston, & mem« - e POLES PLAN CAMPAIGN - {TO RE-ELECT ROOSEVELT An aggressive campaign for re-elec- tion of . President Roosevelt will be carried on by the Poles throughout the country, it was announced today | by Edward C. Rybicki, president of the New York State Council of Polish Democratic Clubs. Organization plans for the cam- paign will be made at a national meet- ing here November 17 at the Willard Hotel, it was decided at a two-day convention which terminated yester- day with the adoption of a resolution praising the Roosevelt administration. The committee for the campaign meeting includes J. Wotkowik of Penn- sylvania, Stanley Kowalski, Illinols; Martin Zemborak, Massachusetts; John | Kowalik, Michigan, and Felix Gu- towski, Ohio. PLAN NEW AIRLINE NEW YORK, September 23 (#).— Albert Plesman, managing director of the Royal Dutch Air Lines, arrived yesterday with a group of aides to discuss with officials of T. W. A. and Pan-American Airways a ’round-the- | world service he predicts will be oper- ating within four years. . 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