Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1935, Page 9

MURPHY NAMED HEAD OF LEGION lowan to Lead Fight for Immediate Payment of z Soldier Bonus. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 27.—A tu- multous convention of the American Legion ended late yesterday with the election of J. Ray Murphy of Iowa to lead the World War veterans in a re- newed fight for immediate cash pay- ment of the bonus. Today spgcial trains speeded in all directions from St. Louis, and high- ways were crowded with motor cars, as the tired rear guard of the thou- sands who attended the seventeenth national meeting turned homeward. In = colorful closing session, featured by booes, cat calls and marching, standard-waving delegations, the vet- erans called on Congress to consider the bonus question without reference to “issues of Government finance or theories of currency with which the Legion does not intend to become in- volved.” Patman Bill Disapproved. The action, strengthening the de- mand made by the Legion at its Miami, Fla., convention last year, was an em- phatic disapproval of congressional passage of the later vetoed Patman bill, which provided for bonus pay- ment through the issuance of new currency. The author of the bill, Represent- ative Wright Patman of Texas, a Legionnaire, provoked & stormy 45- minute debate when he appeared on the floor to speak against the reso- lution. His remarks barely audible in a chorus of booes and rhythmic hand- clapping, the Representative pleaded with the delegates to leave the method of bonus financing to Congress. The convention was in a frenzy, its delegates milling on the floor, when Representative W. M. McFarlane, also of Texas, arose and launched into similar argument. Wielding his gavel so vigorously that he broke a table, National Comdr. Frank N. Belgrano, jr., was unable to maintain order as the heated debate reached its climax with the plea by Representative Charles Halleck of In- diana not to “tie inflation or expansion around the neck of the bonus.” . Shout Bonus Approval. With a deafening roar, the 1207 delegates. lustily aided by non-dele- gate Legionnaires, who crowded the 3,600-seat hall to its doors, voted ap- | proval of the bonus demand The adopted resolution asked for im- mediate cash payment of adjusted compensation on certificates, cancella- tion of accrued interest and refund of interest paid. The controversial gection, subpect of the debate, read: “We request the immediate favor- able action of the Congress, and the approval of the President of the United States, upon this clear-cut and single issue, without having it com- plicated or confused with other issues of Government finance or theories of currency with which the Legion does not intend to become involved.” The bonus stand taken completed & well defined, broad Legion program for 1935-36 In action at previous sessions of the four-day convention, the organization voted vigorous opposition to com- munism, including a demand for withdrawal of United States recogni- tion of Soviet Russia; asked Congress to carry forward and extend meas- ures for more adequate national de- Legion Heads ELECTED AS CONVENTION COMES TO CLOSE. MRS. MELVILLE MUCKLESTONE. Murphy, resident of Iowa, was elected national commander of the American Legion at the closing session in St. Louls yesterday. Mrs. Mucklestone of Chicago was elected president of the national auxiliary. —Wide World and A. P. Wirephotos. fense, and commended the Govern- ment for its efforts to collect out- standing war debts “without further extension or reduciion.” Murphy Beats Five Candidates. Murphy won on the second ballot over five opposing candidates, Harry W. Colmery of Topcka, Kans.; Mau- rice Devine, Manchester, N. H.; Frank D. Rash, Louisvillz, Ky; Vilas H. Whaley, Racine, Wis, and Earl U. Cliff, Ortonville, Minr. Then the delegates named Ray- mond A. Gates of Willinantic, Conn.; W E. Whitlock of High Springs, Fla.; Whitney F. Godwin of Suffolk, Va.; Oscar Worthwine of Idaho and Lou ‘Prnhst of Wyoming as national vice | commanders. Rev. Thomas D. Kennedy of St. | Louis was elected national chaplain. MINISTER CANNOT SUE | ‘ Take Action for Back Salary. MARION, Ill, September 27 (#).— A minister of the Southern Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church cannot, under conference rules, sue his congregation for back | salary. | A resolution making such a move | possible was rejected yesterday at a meeting of laymen who are in at- the conference. | | {M. E. Pastors Not Allowed to| tendance at the annual meeting of | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SHERMAN TAKES STAND AT TRIAL State Rests Case After “Other Woman” Tells of Infatuation. ‘WORCESTER, Mass., September 27 (#)—Newell Paige Sherman, burly scoutmaster charged with drowning his frail wife that he might pursue his love for another, took the witness stand this afternoon to begin his fizht to escape the electric chair. Defense Counsel William Buckley | summoned the 240-pound choir singer to the stand as the first defense wit- ness shortly after the afternoon ses- | sion began. Buckley indicated Sherman would | deny he confessed drowning his wife | and would testify she drowned acci- dentally after their canoe had over- | turned July 20 at Lake Singletary, in | | nearby Sutton. | Defense counsel indicated Sher- man’s elderly mother and neighbors | who knew him all his life would be | among the other witnesses. Esther Magill, 18, who, the State charges, was the unwitting motive for the crime, testified for more than two hours during the morning session and admitted numerous clandestine affairs with Sherman, in which highball drinking and automobile petting were prominent. Throughout the entire questioning she refused to answer “on the ground it might incriminate me” whether she had more intimate relations with Sherman than hugging and kissing. An automobile ride, & visit to an inn, “a couple of highballs,” and a stop in the car at a side road was the usual itinerary, her testimony indi- cated. She said Sherman offered to get a divorce if -she would marry him, but that she told him she would not. e RETIRED PRINTER DIES Julius P. Militzer, retired employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, died of a heart attack yes- terday at his home, 4500 South Da- kota avenue northeast. He was 71. Funeral services will be held at 2| pm. tomorrow at the residence, followed by burial in Glenwood Cem- etery. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. | Frank P. Glancy, and two. sisters, | Elizabeth and Katherine Militzer. “Moko” Is Tattoo. Tattoolng is “moko” in New Zea- land. {MRS. GEORGE W. JOY, 72, DIES IN LEONARDTOWN Services Are Held for Wife of St. Marys Banker at St. Aloysius Church, Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., September 27—Requiem mass was held this morning in St. Aloysius Roman Catho- lic Church here by Rev. Father Joseph Sheridan Knight for Mrs. George W. Joy, 72, who died early vesterday at her home, Town’s End, after a linger- 1ing illness. 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