Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1935, Page 2

A—2 &% THE EV. NG S | open to considerable debate, especial- The ex-President’s personal outlook | cannot be known officially. He gives | not show a material change, com- f Maior Rol Hodver’s Secret Political harge of Major Role : Charg ] Machine a Myth, But in Kidnaping. ence traveled in the social circles of | Mr. Hoover is not a candidate St. Louis. today steeled herself to and will not be one. What he Kelley, wealthy St. Louisan. His friends say he has retired, but, | Prosecutors concluded yesterday of course. he has not. Even he may | argued in vain to demur the State's not in the sense that Calvin Coolidge case out of court, so today the red- | sat down on his Northampton porch, but indicated Mrs. Muench, pictured What has happened to Mr. by the State as an alternate companion | Hoover is that he has become thing of importance that was going Pross T. Cross, of defense counsel.| o, "o jikely to go on, in the world. gaid it was likely Mrs. Muench would Muench, sister of a State Supreme Court justice, sat in on underworld formation necessary to the abduction. It was testified she was present at habits, and that, during the time Dr. Kelley was held by abductors, she en- | no publishable interviews. But he talks freely with many friends, and | they know that the view from his CHALLENGING PLEA President May Have to De- pend on Loyalty of Party Conservatives. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Roosevelt's appeal to all “liberals” to stand united is bound to revive the controversy as to what is really meant by being “liberal.” The Webster International Diction- ary speaks of a liberal person as being | “open-handed” and as not being nar- rowly restricted “by pecuniary con- siderations” and as “bestowing in a large and noble way” bounteous and | generous. The liberality of the Roosevelt ad- ministration with taxpayers’ money has been unprecendented. The es- timates of expenditure for the three years from 1933 to 1936 have been given as $24,000,000,000, which is just about equivalent to the sum that it took the Federal Government from 1789 to 1913—from the administration of President Washington to President Wilson—to spend. The question of whether it was nec- essary to spend all this money will be ly since the unemployment figures do pared with what they were in the TAR, WASHINGTON, REPRESENTATIVE WARREN, Who charged today that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has “nuls lified” the potato control act ~—Harris-Ewing Photo, Potatoes om First Page) (Continued D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935. DIES IN TENNESSEE High Episcopal Churchman Was Dean of Clergy and Ex-Chancellor. By the Associated Press. SEWANEE, Tenn, October 3.— Right Rev. Thomas Frank Gallor, eldest bishop of the Protestant Episco- pal Church in this country and chan- cellor of the University of the South, died here early today. He was 79 years old. ¥ Death resulted from a stomach dis- order. Bishop Gailor received every post of | honor the church could confer, except that of presiding bishop. But as president of the national council of the church through two terms, 1919-1925, he occupied what was equivalent to the executive head of the organization as he was chosen for the post prior to the time that the office of presiding bishop was made | elective. Previously the presiding bishopric was a matter of seniority and honor, and it was indicative of church lead- ership of the front rank when Bishop Gailor was chosen to organize what amounted to the first real national | ““B[RAI_WWMWMMM Craig Named New Chief o Building Up Air Corps‘ and Infantry Among First Tasks. Veteran of Two Wars Now Head of War College. By the Associated Press. A husky 61-year-old cavalryman, a veteran of two wars, took command today as the new chief of staff of the Army. s He is Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, now commandant of the Army War Col- lege, to whose lot will fall the task | of enlisting more than 25,000 men in | the ranks and building up the Air | Corps to a full fighting strength of 12,500 planes. Craig was selected by President | Roosevelt yesterday. The new Army leader succeeds Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur, now en route to the Philip- President-elect Manuel Quezon. Gen. Craig was sworn in this morn- ing without any ceremony. He merely wallkeed into the War Department and quietly remarked that he was ready to take over. f Staff of Army my temper, and conduct myself A8 | executive post in the history of the | | GEN. MALIN CRAIG. THOMAS ASSAILS POLICY ON SILVER |Brands Administration Pro- gram ‘Failure’ and Threat- ens to Leave Bloc. | By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 3.—Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of Okla= homa, leader of the Senate awrren sy inflation forces, last night flatly chare acterized the administration silver policy as a “failure” and forecast his | desertion from the Western silver bloc unless a definite stand is taken fox monetization of silver. Coupled with his warning of a cols lapse of the silver purchasing program, Senator Thomas announced the de= termination of throwing his full sup- port behind the congressional bonus | bloc as an alternative method of achieving higher commodity pricq levels and a measure of inflation. He intimated a ‘“show down" on Craig came into the Army through pines to become military adviser to the West Point route. He was bom‘ |on August 5, 1875, and graduated from the academy into a second lieu- tenancy in 1898. Immediately after- ward he saw service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and in | June, 1900, participated in the China a gentleman” the North Carolina Autumn of 1933, The President, in his speech on study window toward the world of | the Pacific Coast appealing to the Senator replied, “but that does not { mean that as an American citizen and | representative of the people that I politics is substantially this: “liberals” to stand together, gave the 'gshall take orders from any one what- What’s What 'I' n[] AY Behind News He Knows a Lot. By the Associated Press. MEXICO, Ohio, October 3. —Attrac- BY PAUL MALLON. fight in Circuit Court here a State | I is, and will be in '36, is a mssertion that she was “fingerwoman” | political and economic leader, an in- | what they contended was an authentic assume that he has retired, but it | recital of Mrs. Muench’s part in the is physically impossible for a man of | haired defendant prepared her story.|ordered some good cigars and, with The dozen defense attorneys de- | his feet on the rail, watched the world | of society and the underworld, would | again the man he was as Secretary take the stand in her own defense. of Commerce, when, unworried and testify, but added: “She is in a highly nervous state and we can’t tell now.” conferences where the kidnaping of Dr. Kelley was plotted, suggested him as| & fashionable dinner party where Dr. and Mrs. Kelley were guests of honor,; tertained in her home Angelo Rose- grant, later convicted in the kidnap- impression that ‘reactionaries” was the proper term for those who op- | posed liberalism. Actually, a more | accurate term would be ‘conserv tives” because the Webster dictionary defines the word “conservative” as meaning one who “conserves,” that is to “keep in a safe or sound state” or to “preserve from destruction.” Hint of Friction. In Capital Steels Self to Fight State tive Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, who ALO ALTO, Calif., October 3.— in the 1931 kidnaping of Dr. Isaac D.| fluential one. gociety kidnaping. Her attorneys | his temperament to do so. At least elined to reveal their defensive plan, go past. “In Highly Nervous State.” alert, he knew practically every- State witnesses testified that Mrs. a victim, and agreed to obtain in-‘ ostensibly to ascertain the doctor’s ing. Unmoved by Charges. Throughout the testimony Mrs. Muench, central figure in two court room dramas in widely separated parts of Missouri, took without signs of ‘White House, he never had been out of a pressing administrative or execu- | tive job. He carried his troubles to | bed with him and arose to face them | again in the morning. Now, for the emotion the mounting accusations of | .t time in his life, he has no trou- ! State witnesses. | bles. He can go fishing whenever She is being tried here on a change | . vanis to, and he can play. of venue. In St. Louis County & “rpe white House to him is a house Pennsylvania servant girl has claimed | b nieq with troubles and man-killing as her illegitimate son an infant who._ie responsibilities. No man of his posi birth Mrs. '\Zuerfcfh ":“g%?.ced SIX tion, in his right mind, would ever “Pf‘fi g0 A 3‘8‘ t “;m_! Contended | WANU to give up the enjoyment of The servant, Anna 4 life and return to them. of the “liberals,” and he, no doubt, | was using the term in its political | | sense, which is | thus: | “Not bound by authority, orthodox tenets, or established forms in politi- cal philosophy, inclined to welcome | new ideas, friendly to suggestions, or experiments of reform in the consti- tution or administration of govern- ment.” The political definition of “con- servative” is a party which “favors the conservation of existing institutions given in the dictionary soever.” Act Declared Mandate. Insisting on proceeding, Bailey told | the A. A. A. official that “I am going to argue somewhere, to somebody, that | the Warren act is a mandate upon the | | Department of Agriculture from Con- | gress, a superior power, and that it | | church, He was Bishop of Tennessee from 1898 on and was chancellor of the University of the South at Sewanee since 1890. Of late years he was also president of the university’s Board of Trustees. Held High Civic Posts. Aside from his clerical offices he was a former vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, represented Tennessee in the national The new chief of staff took his relief expedition made necessary by oath of office from the acting adjutant | the Boxer outbreak. | After service in various Army posts !in this country, Craig, on American entrance into the World War in 1917, was assigned as chief of staff of the 41st Division and sailed with that outfit for France. Later he became chief of staff of the 1st Army Corps, serving in that position until the |armistice was signed. Then he marched into Germany as chief of hlafl of the Army of Occupation. general. Cavalry to Be Mechanized. One of the first tasks facing Craig, who assumes the rank of a full gen- eral, will be mechanization of the cav- alry in which he served for many years. His immediate plans, however, were not known. He was playing golf yesterday when word of his selection reached Washington. Friends say that is his favorite sport. Craig served in the Spanish-Amer- | Mr. Roosevelt hinted, of course, that For 23 years, before he left !ht‘thcre was friction inside the ranks | must be enforced. If you will not hear me, then there will be those who will.” As Bailey proceeded, Nye swore him | Pt = 2 in and insisted that he address him- |Sion and of “the Committee of 48 self to the questions then before the |On foreign relations and national de- meeting, concerning the prevailing | fense. price of potatoes and conditions within | Bishop Gailor was born in Jackson, the potato industry. | Miss., September 17, 1856, his parents The Senator resumed by saying being Frank Marion and Charlotte that “there isn't an idiot who doesn't | Moffett Gailor. The elder Gallor was | know” that the price of potatoes was ' editor of the Memphis Avalanche, a lower than it should be. He called | predecessor of the Memphis Com- | upon every farmer in the audience | mercial-Appeal. | who knew the price was below a “fair | broke out he enlisted in the Confed- exchange value” to raise his hand. | erate Army, became colonel of the | several union labor disputes, a mem- | that practically every one in the au- | divorce congress, was an arbiter in | ber of the Tennessee Coal Commis- | When the Civil War | At the Senator’s request, Nye recorded 33d Mississippi Regiment and was killed in the battle of Perryville, Ky, in a habeas corpus proceeding that her son was being held by Mrs. Muench and her husband, Dr. Ludwig | O. Muench, with the intention of “palming it off on the public as their | own.” The Muenches were childless | through 22 years of married life. LORTON MAN DIES OF ESCAPE WOUND Shot by Prison Tower Guard Is Fatal to Claude W. Bailey, in Dash With Brother. Claude W. Bailey, 42, Lorton Re- | formatory prisoner, died yesterday in | Gallinger Hospital of complications | resulting from a bullet wound in the | leg inflicted by a prison tower guard | on September 17, when Bailey tried to escape in a taxicab in which his brother, John Bailey, was sitting. According to Lorton authorities, the prisoner made a dash for the cab when it pulled up near a plumbing job where he was working outside the prison walls. The guard, Wick Clag- gett, called to him to halt and when he failed to do so first fired two shots from a rifle in front of the prisoner. | As Bailey continued toward the cab, | the guard then fired a third shot, . which hit him in the leg. , John Bailey and the cab driver, Joseph Cryer, were detained by Lor- ton authorities and later the case was turned over to the Department of Justice for investigation. Subse- quently, it is said, the taxicab driver | was found to have had no part in the planned get-away. Claude Bailey had been serving since last May on a sentence of from ., 9 to 18 months for illegal use of a * smoke screen. Elwood Street, public welfare direc- tor, said the guard acted in line of duty and no investigation is contem- plated. Langer Injured Again. BISMARCK, N. Dak, October 3 (P —Former Gov. William Langer | suffered minor bruises in his second | automobile accident within Tecent weeks, it was disclosed yesterday. His - car struck a horse last night and was Vindication might be sweet, but life | and forms of government” and “op- is sweeter. | posed to change or innovation.” Information His Hobby. On the last point, the opponents of The secret of Mr. Hoover which the | the New Deal are divided, too. There country does not understand is the | 8¢ many who do not want a return type of playing he has chosen to to old methods that have been proved enjoy. Before he entered the White harmful to the Nation, but only & House, he had one hobby. He amused | Preservation of the methods and insti- himself by trying to find out every- | tutions that have built it up. thing that was going on in economics, | _AS for the “liberals,” there are many dience raised his hand. | Bailey then asked all those who felt the prospects for a fair exchange val- ue next year would be no better un- less the Warren act were enforced to | raise their hands. | Cheering Again Follows. | Again virtually all hands were raised 1 amid cheering and applause. Nye soon had a clash with another | had lines out everywhere, finance and business. As Secretary of Commerce he was the best news source in Washington. | He could tip you on what development was likely to occur next in Russia, in the coal strike, in Wall Street. He personal contacts extended beyond those of any other man in the ccuntry. His home and office were open forums for people who knew what was going on. ‘When he entered the White House he changed all that. The responsi- bilities of immediate duties closed up the old avenues. These have been reopened. To- day Mr. Hoover is again one of the best informed men in the coun- try. He knows what is going on nearly everywhere. And he has who favor new ideas and changes, but member of Congress. Representative they do not wish reckless experimen- Brewster, Republican, of Maine tried tation or unsound policies to be kept | to ask a question, but the presiding ter their ineffectiveness has been officer insisted that the witness then | proved. speaking be permitted to proceed. | 'Today there are “liberal” publica-| “Do you mean you refuse a citizen tions like the Nation which are at-|the right to ask a question?” Brewster tacking the New Deal on many counts, | asked. pointing out some of the unworkable “You will have a chance later,” laws that have been passed and the Nye replied. disillusionment which is coming when The Representative angrily took his it is found that social security is more A seat, muttering that the procedure | of a slogan than an achievement. | was “absolutely futile.” Conservatives Not United. ‘Warren said he had often contend- But the President's idea that the ed the A. A. A. was the only hope of “liberals” should unite is sound | the American farmer and could only poitically and his complaint about | be destroyed by court action or the | their disunity would be echoed by those | farmers themselves. | of the opposite school of thought, too.| _“Today,” he continued, “I add a Are the conservatives united? By no | third. I say it can be wrecked and af means. They are to be found in the destroyed by those who are in charge | dd 1 iy e e T [meoubiicanituna parties, and recently there has been There probably are more erroneous much talk about & fusion or coalition stories going around the country about which would enable them to come in the Democratic | of its administration. “They can wreck it and tear it to pieces even more than the farmers who are co-operating with them.” Warren did not mention Wallace by | Mr. Hoover than "about President together in a party that would be con- | Roosevelt. The latest is that he has |structive and forward-looking and yet | Dame. but was obviously referring to set up a gigantic political organization, | sound from a fiscal standpoint, a party | the Secretary’s statement yesterday secretly, and, when the right time that would not waste the taxpayers’ comes, he will emerge as the next Re- money or continue borrowings to pi publican standard bearer, Nothing annual expenses. could be sillier. Were such a fusion brought about, the difference between the “liberal” and ‘“conservative” viewpoint would turn largely on governmental expenses and the high cost of living. President Rocsevelt, in the period of his ad- ministration when he was urging economy, uttered in a single sentence the most penetrating comment on liberalism that has ever been pro- nounced. It was in his message to both Houses of Congress on March 10, 1933, shortly after his inauguration. | He said: “Too often, in recent history, liberal governments have been wrecked on the rocks of loose fiscal policy.” Reciting the deficits of each pre- ceding year, Mr. Roosevelt added: “For three long years, the Federal Government has been on the road to Any one traveling across the country, talking with Republican and Demo- cratic leaders, will fail to find any evi- dence of a Hoover political organiza- tion. There is none. Even Mr. Hoover's best friends are talking of other candi- dates. He has contacts, but not ag- | gressive personal support. An Unskilled Politician. | that he did not want to enforce the potato control act and his additional | blunt statement that “I'm going to do | | all T can to avoid enforcing it.” Earlier Gov. L. J. Brann of Maine pleaded for some control of the i potato problem, but did not flatly de- | mand enforcement of the Warren | Gov. Brann testified Maine had | been forced to maintain schools which | the counties had not been able to keep open because of potato prices. | “We feel that something must be | | said. “We are looking toward this hearing for some way to take care of it.” Before the hearing really got start- ed, E. W. Hunt of Lambertville, N. J,, protested on constitutional grounds against the rules under which the hearing was being held preventing argument, done to relieve that situation,” he| Farmers Declared for Enforcement. Furthermore, Mr. Hoover is one cf overturned. He suffered severe in-|ipe worst politicians who ever sat in Jjuries recently when his car was forced off the highway near Aneta. Irvin S. Cobb Says: Roosevelt May See Country Only Over Orators’ Heads. HOLLYWOOD, October 3.—Prob- ably California was no worse than any other section, but I'll bet Mr. Roose- velt uttered a silent cheer when he pulied out on a commodious and uncrowded ocean with only the sea lions to listen to, instead of the spouting orators of America. ‘We elect a man to the highest office — and the fpoughest: job on earth—and then Kandshake him and flag - wave Bim and speech- make him to ‘death. He goes Jorth to see how fares the country and “ean’t see the country for the reception committees. He has a private car to travel in and spends his time on the back platform. He goes back home to do his work and all the visiting fire- men in the land come to be photo- .graphed with him on the White douse Tawn. (Note—the exhausted gentle- man crouched in the middle is him.) : A President of the United States +has no more privacy than a—a Presi- «ent of the United States. Fooled you ‘goldfish fanciers that time, didn’t I? . It's as though we hired the exclusive ‘services of Michelangelo and then sent ‘him out to take orders for enlarged «crayon portraits. the White House. He never ran for a public office, except the presidency. Es- sentially, politics is not his game. To get the background of the Palo | Altoan you have to get a glimpse of his study. It has wide windows like a showcase, looking out over the Stan- ford campus and at the brown moun- tain ridge beyond, the peak of which is fireplace into which Mr. Hoover casts cigar stubs. His desk is clean. No let- ters lie around from day to day. The incoming mail is large. Farmers and other people who do not know him ‘write of their experiences and troubles, Prominent business men and politicians communicate with him also and always look him up when on the coast. They are served orange juice and @ cigar. They find him looking 10 years younger than when he left the White House, warmer, more friendly, smiling, and, believe it or not, taking a humorous view of some situations. None of these visitors, and, in fact, been told what he intends to do in the next campaign. But if he has any- thing in his sleeves it certainly does not rattle, (Copyright. 1935.) CONFERENCE FAVORED World Session ' of Missionary Council Wins Support. EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass., Octo- ber 3 (#).—Sentiment in favor of a world conference of the International Missionary Council in 1938 similar -to the Jerusalem conference in 1928 was voiced at a business meeting of the council here yesterday. The council met this week to con- sider problems that face the mission- ary enterprises ‘of the Protestant Church throughout the world. Sixty delegates from 28 nations came here for the meeting. The Japanese delegation has asked that the conference be held in that !(Copyright. 1935. by the North American < Newspaper Inc.) country. E Mount Diablo. There is a large ston: | no living person here or elsewhere has | bankruptcy.” Deficits Continuing. But the deficits have continued; and, during the current fiscal year, | when Mr. Roosevelt once promised | to have a balanced budget, the indi- | cated deficit, officially predicted, is in | the neighborhood of $3,000,000,000. ‘This is why the term “liberalism” will no doubt produce a challenge and a tendency to apply it in the sense in which Mr. Roosevelt himself used it in his address of March 10, 1933. If all the “liberals” would rally to one banner and all the “savers” and economical-minded persons who have to pay the tax bill would rally to the opposite, there might be a real divi- sion, irrespective of the old-line parties and labels, and America would have a chance to choose on the basis of principles and not personalities a program looking toward fiscal sound- ness, or its probable antithesis, the “road to bankruptcy.” But political ties are hard to break and Mr. Roose- velt is probably counting on the fact that the conservative Democrats may not break away from their party and that he will hold all the “liberals” intact, | (Copyright. 1935.) — TWO LIVE IN CASCADES IN PRIMITIVE STYLE Survive Month in Mountain Wil- derness With Bows and Arrows, Fish Lines andl Knives. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, October 3.—Sargent H. Copeland and E. V. Flick, returned yesterday from the Cascade Mountains which they entered a month ago, equipped only with bows and arrows, fish lines and hunting knives and wearing only trousers and tennis shoes. They came out of the wilderness at Diablo+ Dam, near the Canadian border. They entered it at Summit, Snoqualmie Pass. “I wouldn’t want to do it again,” said Copeland, as they sat down to & square meal, Both were in, good condition, al- though they dost weight, Contending 75 per cent of those farmers hearing him wanted the law enforced, Warren asked whether it was possible that the department's attitude was influenced by “that great friend of the farmers, the American Liberty League.” Attacks on the potato tax law have come from the Liberty League and also the Republican National Com- mittee. Referring to the department’s con- tention that no money was available for enforcement of the potato law, Warren read a letter written to him by Controller General McCarl Sep- tember 16 saying he had received no application from the A. A. A. or any other agency for funds to carry out | the act. “When they tell you they can't get the money and that their attempts to |do so have been rejected,” Warren shouted, “I tell you it is absolutely untrue.” His statement was greeted by applause. 200 Farmers From Eastern Shore. More than 200 farmers left their Eastern Shore, Virginia, homes before dawn and rode to Washington in trucks to urge the Farm Administra- tion to enforce the potato act. “They want the whole bill, title 2, with its tax features and all” said B. D. Ayres, spokesman for the dele- gation. They were followed by more than 200 growers from North Carolina. At his press conference yesterday, Wallace served blunt notice that “I'm going to do all I can to avoid en- forcing the potato control bill.” “I don't want to enforce the act,” ‘Wallace emphasized. “We've tried to use common sense at all times.” Wallace sald no funds had yet been found to collect the tax, and that un- less funds were available the law prob- ably could not be enforced. The tax control plan would become effective December 1. First Administration Expression. ‘Wallace's remark was the first open statement of the administration’s opposition to tax control of potatoes, though it has been conceded privately in the Agriculture Department ever since thelaw was passed. He indi- | October 8, 1862. | After this tragedy Mrs. Gailor, who belonged to an old Irish family which | for many years was identified with | the Church of Ireland, devcted every | effort toward educating her 6-year-ol | son for the priesthood of the Epis- copal Church. He graduated from the public schools of Memphis, then went to work. Attended Racine College. After a few years his savings were sufficlent to take him to Racine Col- | lege at Racine, Wis. He received his bachelor of arts degree there in 1876 and his master's degree in 1879. The same year he won his theological de- gree, 8. T. B., from the General Theo- logical Seminary in New York. He then returned to Tennessee where he was ordained to the dia- conate in May of 1879 and to the priesthood on his birthday, September 17, 1880. In later years he was given honorary doctorates by Oxford Uni- | versity, England: Trinity College, Co- | lumbia University, Oglethorpe Univer- | sity and the University of the South. Bishop Gailor was a prolific writer on church subjects, was noted as a| | lecturer and pulpit orater and was & | close personal friend of President Cleveland and of President Taft. One of his daughters married Richard Cleveland, son of the former Pres- ident. She resides at Baltimore. Bishop Gailor was married Novem- | ber 11, 1885, to Miss Ellen Douglass Cunningham of Nashville. A son and two daughters were born to them. Their 46 years together ended in tragedy in 1931 when Mrs. Gailor died of injuries sustained when she fell down the steps of their Summer home. TOMATO CROP SAVED CHICAGO, October 3 () —Farmers of the Chicago vicinity had won a race with jack frost, it was indicated yesterday. No matter when freezing temperatures arrive, they will have harvested the largest tomato crop on record for the territory. Many truck farmers were reported getting $20 a ton for the fruit, with | the yield in some cases running as high as 20 tons to the acre. cated, however, that the administra- tion expects to provide some form of aid for the commercial potato pro- ducers. “We want to get their judgment,” Wallace said, “they're in real trouble. The price of potatoes is less than half of parity.” Many conferences have been held to find a way of helping the potato proposals have been made. Referring to his comment upon the | potato law, Wallace added: “I've merely indicated my own atti- | tude” | The Secretary's statement came un- expectedly after several minutes’ dis- cussion at a press conference. A reporter said the Secretary could settle a lot of questions by “simply telling us whether or not you intend to enforce this law.” g Wallace Smiles. Wallace laughed and gave his reply almost instantly. He declined com- ment on the Republican National Committee criticism, but said “It is interesting to know that the Repub- licans want us to enforce the potato act.” Funds for erforcement of the tax provisions of the law—$5,000,000— were included in a deficiency appro- priation bill which failed to pass on the last night of Congress. The law seeks to clamp an iron- bound system of compulsory control on potatoes. It provides for quotas for potato growers, with a prohibitive tax on production in excess of quotas, and is armored with jail penalties for will- ful buyers or sellers of bootleg po- tatoes. Critics of the New Deal seized on the act as a prize issue, citing it as an example of “regimentation” to which they said compulsory crop control logically points. The American Liberty League called it “another step toward Socialism.” The Republican National Committee’s publication, Facts and Opinions, said the legislation was the “logical result” of A. A. A. policy, but that President Roosevelt, con- fronted by “open revolt and defiance” amr.mmwuma. ican War and was chief of staff of the 1st Corps during the World War. He received the Distinguished Service Medal for his service in France as well as decorations from France, Eng- land, Belgium and Italy. He is a native of St. Joseph, Mo., and has a son, Malin, jr, who also is an Army | officer. During MacArthur's regime Con- gress authorized increasing the en- listed personnel of the Army from 118,000 to 164,250. To date approxi- mately 17,000 new men have been added to the rosters. 5-Year Plan Proposed. Just before he left, MacArthur rec- | ommended a five-year plan to mod- ernize, mechanize and motorize the Army to make it more mobile and increase its speed. HARVARD TEACHER DEFIES NEW LAW Dr. Mather, Celebrated Geologist, Refuses to Take Oath of Allegiance. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October 3.—Massachusetts’ new “teacher's oath” law was defied last night by Dr. Kirtley F. Mather, | celebrated Harvard geologist, who de- clared he would refuse to take an oath of allegiance to the State and National Constitutions. Dr. Mather, also director of the Harvard Summer School, said he was convinced that a compulsory oath, such as the last Legislature prescribed for the State’s 40,000 public and private school and college teachers, “violated his constitutional rights as a citizen and a teacher.” “I do not know what will be the consequences,” said Dr. Mather, of his announced refusal, but coincidentally it was admitted by the State commis- sloner of education, Dr. Payson Smith, that the law contains no penalties. Enforcemens, Dr. Smith observed, was a matter for school principals and local school committees. Passed Over Oppesition. The law was passed at the instance of veterans' and patriotic organiza- | tions, although virtually all of the Eslate's college heads and principal | educators opposed the bill at often dis- | orderly hearings. | Dr. Mather, who announced his de- | fance of the oath law at a convoca- | tion of the Boston Center for Adult Education, explained he had no ob- | Jection to swearing fealty to the State | and Federal constitutions ‘“under | conditions which make such an oath appropriate,” and in fact had previ- | ously taken such oaths as a Federal Headed War College. On his return to the United States in 1919, Craig served as director of the Army War College during 1920-21 &nd as commandant of the Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kans., in 1921-23 In 1924 he was promoted to major general and made chief of Cavalry for two years, and then assigned as assistant chief of staff for an addi- tional two years. Since that time he has commanded the 4th Corps Area at Atlanta, the Panama Division, the Panama Canal Department and the 9th Corps Area at San Francisco, until last January | when he was assigned as commandant of the War College. Maj. Gen. George S. Simonds, who frequently was mentioned with Craig as a possible successor to MacArthur, will remain as deputy chief of staff, ES IN DAYTON | EXPIR Social Leader and Philan- thropist Was Sponsor of | Westminster Choir. By the Associated Press, | DAYTON. Ohio. October 3—Private funeral services for Mrs. Harold E. Talbott, 71, social leader and philan- thropist who died last night, will be | held tomorrow. Tl since last Saturday. Mrs. Talbott suffered a fatal heart attack at the dinner hour last night. Although interested for many years in social activities in Dayton. her in- terests centered mainly in the further- ance of art and music. Herself a choral singer and musician of note, Mrs. Talbott saw the need for development of a choral group, inter- esting herself in the Westminster Church Choir of Dayton. Under the direction of John Finley Williamson, it came into national and interna- tional prominence. She personally conducted two tours of the choir to 30 States in this country, Canada and 12 countries in Europe. The organ- | ization received high praise from music critics abroad. A third tour this Winter to China and Australia is | planned. Several years ago, the Westminster Choir and Choral School was moved to Princeton, N. J., where it is now located. Mrs. Talbott had continued to give the organization her moral and financial support. Her home at Runnymede was the setting for many conferences of State and national music organizations. Her charities to the needy were many. The Berry School, near Rome, Ga., an institution for moun- tain children of Georgia, received many of her gifts. MRS, AL £ TALBOTT Government silver policy would come at Salt Lake City October 12, when a special Senate Committee headed by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, nominal leader of the silver group, meets to investigate Treasury silver policies. Thomas is a member of thiy committee. Sees Passage of Bonus. from the bonus, Thomas asserted the only “reasonabit alternative” to remonetization of silver as an inflationary program was that of managed currency, “like that now employed in Great Britain.” On the question of the bonug Thomas made direct reference to thy forthcoming presidential elec “elemental political psychology,” the size of the bonus forces in predict. Ing passage of a measure authorizing immediate payment, “If the President vetoes the bonus' he said. “we can and will, in my opin. ion, pass it over his veto. “No power under Heaven can stog 8 bonus bill—any bonus bill—fron Passing at the next session of Con. gress in January.” Diverging briefly from his principa topic—. er price levels tt creased m. circulation Aside Senator d their inception iy decision on thy and governmenta, > he said. held n¢ be awarded unless dam. of the bond hat been shown. In the light of this Thomas asserted “the administration had not been able to “cheapen” thy dollar at home without incurring damage possibilities. “When the new law becomes effec. tive in January,” he added, “it wil outlaw all damage actions and give the Government a free hand in cheap. ening money. When that time comes you will see the dollar slump—not tog much, I hope.” Thomas, en route through here t¢ Salt Lake City, said he planned 1 stop off at Detroit on his way West t¢ “discuss” matters with Father Charles E. Coughlin, the “radio priest” of Royal Oall, Mich. “I want to talk with him on som¢ of his ideas,” Thomas said cryptic: iy declining to expand on this lopic “You know he starts soon on a year ;fi broadcasts, and perhaps I can nelp age to Confers With Baruch. ‘Thomas disclosed that while in Ney York he had discussed silver matter| with bankers and financial leaders among them Bernard M. Baruch “None of them took issue with me.” was his only comment. Intimation of a break with the silver leaders at Salt Lake City way made when Thomas said a report og questionnaires sent out by the coms mittee “may conflict” with a reporl he expects to make on questionnaireg he has circularized personally. i “I am going to lay down the props osition,” he said, “that unless they remonetize silver I have no furthej interest in the program. It will be a failure and the administration mus| be responsible “There’s going to be a change o} administrations—if not now, som{ day. In all probability the new ads minisgration would reverse the presen| silver program. The first thing would be that domestic miners, now on s subsidy, would be placed on thy world price. The next order would be to stop buying and the price would swoop down. As a result, all the sile ver we already have on hand would | be held at a loss. | | officer y ooy aud axiaiclty oliclal Mrs. Talbott and her late husband,| “I'm not going to be a party Not Official of Government. Harry E. Talbott, for many years a | that. I'm getting out while the gettinj “In each instance,” he said, “I was Prominent contractor and engineer |is good. I'm going to place the re to perform an appropriate function as | here and at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., | sponsibility on the Western Senators— | producers, Wallace said, and many | | pacity as a member of the faculty of | Harvard University, I am not an | official of the Government, and never should I be so considered.” The taking of such an oath as was lrequlred by the law, the geologist | continued, | ceptance of the *“idea that as a | teacher of geology in Harvard I am an officer of the Government.” Dr. Mather declared that similar legislation in 13 other States con- | stituted “an entering wedge in | America for additional legislation | which would eventually regiment all | schools, churches and cultural insti- tutions in obedience to the orders of whatever State officials happened to be in power.” . FACES MORE TROUBLE. Father of Youth Who Refused to Take Oath Accused. LYNN, Mass,, October 3 (#).—More trouble loomed today for Carleton B. Nichols, whose 8-year-old son re- fuses to salute the flag, and who faces a charge of disturbing a school room. Yesterday Clarence A. Charles, 78, agent for the Old Glory Club of Boston, filed application for com- plaint against the elder Nichols for disrespect for the flag. Willlam A. Kelley, assistant clerk of Lynn District Court, sald he would issue the complaint, but not until testimony in the case now on the books is completed next week. Nichols and Edward H. James, at- torney of Concord, who has joined Nichols’ cause, were charged with trespassing and disturbing the peace Monday when they visited school. They refused Principal Willlam F. Pashby’s request to leave the build- ing and were arrested. Young Nichols has refused to salute the flag on religighs grounds. was tantamount to ac- | "noeeflu and fuel, | greater Miami, in Florida. ‘ WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL. { Mrs. Talbott Twice Brought West- minster Choir Here. | Mrs. H. E. Talbott, who died sud- | denly at her home in Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, was well known in Wash- ington, having visited the city twice |in recent years in her capacity as| | sponsor for the Westminster Choir. | At the beginning of the Hoover | administration, the choir was pre- | sented at the White House as the first “entertainment” of the new first | family. That was in March, 1929, | The choir returned here in November, | 1931, and Mrs. Talbott presented it at | Constitution Hall. She was also well known here in social and philanthropic circles. Mrs. Talbott had a number of relatives here, being a cousin of Mrs. Frank B. Noyes and Fleming Newbold, business | manager of The Star. COUNTY PAYS RENT BILL TO SAVE MAN OF 114 By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Nebr.,, October 3.—The threat that Solomon Rickner, 114- year-old St. Paul man who is regarded here as the oldest person in the United States, might be forced to move de- spite his illness, passed yesterday when the Howard County commissioners voted to pay the past due rent on his home and keep up the payments in the future. Rickner, who recently surprised phy- sicians by recovering sufficiently from illness' to be taken from a hospital to his home, was overjoyed by the news. The commissioners voted also to continue an allowance to him for | dollar. | a Government official, but in my ca- | Were interested in the community of (SO far as I can. “My whole incentive is to raise thi price level—to get more money inty circulation. “But if we can't have a metallij base for our currency, we must havi a managed currency. We must rais prices.” Senator Thomas said that by res monetizing silver, he meant forcin| the price from the current 65 cent an ounce to $1.29 an ounce, whicl would make a silver dollar worth ony The inflation resulting. hy estimated, would be approximatelj one-half a billion dollars. “It's a mistake,” he asserted, “t( pay high prices for silver to be useq only as token money. We might jud as well mint an attractive coppe dollar worth about 5 cents.” WILL AID DEALERS Assis| in Solving Distribution Problems ST. LOUIS, October 3 (A).—Definity improvement in factory and dealer re. lationships in the automohile industry was reported yesterday by F. W. A Vesper, president of the Nationa) Automobile Dealers’ Association, at g meeting of the organization’s board of directors. Vesper declared automobile manuy facturers had turned their attentiop from the production end of the in+ dustry to aid dealers in solving probe lems of distribution. Auto Manufacturers to Clipper Flight Postponed. ALAMEDA, Calif,, October 3 (#).— The flight of the clipper to Guam Island was postponed yesterday, Pans American officlals announced, becausq of further tests to be made on navie gation_ instruments. ‘The first hop of 2,400 miles to Hon- ) olulu will begin in about two dl?.