Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness with slowly rising temperature today, followed by some snow in the afternoon or at night probably turning to rain. Temperatures—Highest, 24, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 14, at 7 a.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-12. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. () Means Associated Press. No. 1,605—No. 33,472. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. he iy Stae WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION " WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNI G, DECEMBER .22, 1935 —110 PAGES. MUSSOLINI DIGS IN FOR LONG WAR AS HOPES FOR SPEEDY PEAGE DISAPPEAR Ethiopia for Italians and Freedom From Economic Siege Are Two Goals as Proposals Are Spurned. BRITAIN SCANS ROME’S REACTION TO MANEUVER Disorganized London Government Plunges Ahead With Precau. | tionary Measures—Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and France Agree to Back Britain. BACKGROUND— “Strong man” of League of Na- tions, Britain took early lead in urging ecomomic pressure against Italy, at same time concentrated powerful fleet at Gibraltar and Suez. Later, Britain joined with France in submitting proposal for peace negotiations. Involving land ces- sions to aggressor, suggestion aroused storm of criticism climazed by resignation of Foreign Minister Hoare. Last week, Prime Minister Bald- W heat Producers Of Kansas Bolt Quota of A.A.A. Largest Crop Forecast in History Stirs Politicians. Byt Assoclated Press. TOPEKA, Kans, December 21.— Kansas political leaders as well as farmers today weighed and reweighed the Agricultural Department's esti- mate of wheat planting for an ex- planation of the largest sown acre- age in the State’s history. - Agricultural Department experts estimated 14,103,000 acres were planted to Winter wheat in Kansas this Fall, an increase of 1,045,000 acres over 1934 and 1,288,000 acres above that set by the A. A. A. Dan Casement, Manhattan, Kans., farmer and bitter foe of the A. A. A, asserted the crop report was a “warn- ing sign of failure for the crop con- trol program ™ “The A. A. A. simply won't work,” he declared. “The report shows it isn't working. Given normal weather conditions, Kansas may harvest the (See WHEAT, Page 6.) ETHIOPIA CLAIMS TONNS RETAKEN 10 Tanks Reported Seized. Italian Losses Large in Recaptures. BACKGROUND— Italian invasion of Ethiopia win admitted peace plan mistake. On Friday, Britain sought pledges of military and naval co-operation Jrom Mediterranean members of League. In Rome, Mussolini called Jor increased war-time vigor. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 21.— Premier Mussolini defiantly threw into the discard tonight any thoughts of a quick peace in Ethiopia, and dug in for a continued war. He turned his back disdainfully on | the moribund Franco-British plan to | settle the Italo-Ethiopian dispute— & proposal already shelved by the League of Nations and the British | government—and redirected the at- | tention of Italians toward his | “goals.” | Has Two Ambitions. They were: Ethiopia for Italians, | and freedom from economic seige for | Italy. To accomplish the first ambition, | Fascist sources said, Marshal Pletro | Badoglio, chief of Mussolini’s armies in East Africa, was given a free hand in the campaign—and was told to get results. In the matter of economic siege | Fascists asserted the sanctions ap- | plied by the League of Nations | against Italy would revive Italian in- dustry by increasing the home mar- ket, inasmuch as Italians may not buy many articles in foreign coun- | tries. 11 Duce did not bother even to re- | ply formally to the Franco-British | peace formula. The statement of | the Fascist Grand Council, following | its meeting last night, was Italy’s | only answer, said an official | spokesman. Political Situation Examined. The council merely said, in con- | hection with the plan, that it “ex- amined the political situation as it has been determined since the repudi- ation by the British of the Paris pro- Pposals, borne of French initiative.” The power of Italy's fight against sanctions was shown, Fascists as- serted, by the declaration of Count Guiseppe Volpi, grand councillor, who said Fascist agricultural and indus- trial confederations were consoli- dated more strongly under sanctions than before. Count Volpi declared producers were making Italy more independent economically. BRITISH GOVERNMENT ANXIOUS | Studies Rome Reaction to Precau- tionary Measures. - LONDON, December 21 (#).—An anxious British government, with war talk in the air, studied Rome's reac- tion tonight to its swift efforts to in- sure aid from other nations if his majesty’s fleet in the Mediterranean is attacked. Official quarters hoped the effect of Britain's sudden maneuver to try tp check a possible act of desperation (See ROME, Page 4.) . STATE-WIDE W. P. A. STRIKE IS VOTED 75 Representatives of New York Labor Organizations Demand Prevailing Wage. By the Associated Press. SYRACUSE, N. Y, December 21.— Beventy-five representatives of up- state labor organizations voted tonight to call a State-wide strike on all W. P. A. projects employing skilled labor unless their demands for payment of the prevailing rate of wages is met. Ousting of upstate W. P. A. Adminis- trator Lester W. Herzog also was de- manded in a resolution adopted by the conference. Before calling the strike the labor representatives will seek conferences with Gov. Lehman and President Roosevelt to press their demands. Labor organizations in Buffalo, Ro- chester, Syracuse and Albany were directed to appoint one member each for the committee to call on the Gov- ernor and President. ‘The motion was presented by Henry ©O'Connell of Rochester, chairman of the meeting, after various speakers had assailed Herzog and after James Burke, representing the Bricklayers’ Union of Rochester, had declared that “Roose- velt is being advised by communists or started in early October. Slowly, troops pressed southward from Eritrea, northward from Somali- land, their objective the railroad Jjrom Addis Ababa to the sea. Despite small opposition in early weeks, progress was so slow as to bring shake-up in Italian com- manding personnel. Most notable Italian “successes” thus far have been occupation of Aksum and bombing of Dessye; most vigorous engagement that in Takkaze River area during past week. Ethiopians took initiative in this engagement, inflicted considerable damage be- fore being repulsed in three-day battle. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, December 21.—Re- capture of two Northern Ethiopian | towns previously held by the Italians, and the seizure of 10 Fascist tanks were claimed today by the government. An official communique said troops leading the forces of Dedjazmatch Ayele took Enda Silasi, 30 miles west of Aksum, and Dega Shah on Decem- ber 15, and that “Italian losses were considerable.” Enda Silasi and Dega Shah are about 35 miles northwest of the Takkaze River, scene of a three-day battle at the beginning of the week. The Italians asserted more than 500 | Ethiopians died in that encounter, and placed the Italian dead at 272. Aksum Victory Reported. occurred simultaneously with the Takkaze River fighting. (Dedjazmatch Ayele, one of the most prominent of Ethiopia’s northern war leaders, announced in a message Thursday to the Addis Ababa govern- ment that his men had overcome the forces of Premier Mussolini in a “major engagement near Aksum.”) ‘The government’s announcement of the retaking of the two towns re- counted that “our forces also captured 28 machine guns, two trucks, two auto- mobiles and seven Italian prisoners.” Three foreigners charged with esplonage and pro-Italian activities were expelled from the country today. Escorted to Frontier. Five soldiers escorted them to the frontier by train. They are Josef Hinterzatz, correspondent of the Frankfurter Tagezeitung; his wife. and Ladislas’ Pharago, Hungarian di- rector of a bank in Addis Ababa. The government confiscated Hinter- zatz’s automobile, which had a radio transmitting set. In an attempt to conserve meat needed by the army, millions of Ethiopians will begin a diet of cereals and water on December 23 and con- tinue it for one week. RENO COURTS OPEN Prepared for “Business as Usual” During Holidays. RENO, Nev., December 21 (A).—As courts at Denver and other cities de- clared a divorce moratorium over the holidays, Reno approached Christmas week today prepared for “business as usual.” Christmas day only will close the court room doors. If the usual De- cember average prevails, between 30 and 40 divorce decrees will be granted during Christmas week. Santa’s Visit to D. C. Children To Be Broadcast Tuesday Night There will be music in the air when Santa Claus comes to town Tuesday night to distribute the thousands of toys collected for underprivileged chil- dren in The Star-Warner Bros.-N. B.C. toy matinee held in 11 Washington theaters December 14. Last night arrangements were being completed by the National Broadcast- ing Co. for a round-the-city broadcast of Christmas eve activities, covering the wanderings of Santa Claus. It will represent a joyous finale for the toy campaign which began some time People of communistic tendencies, like Rexford G. Tugwell.” B | Department. however, that this did not 103 NEW BOMBERS ORDERED BY ARMY [0 BUILD UP FLEET Contracts Awarded for Planes of Swiftest, Mod- ern Type. DOUGLAS AND BOEING ARE FIRMS NAMED Pursuit Ships to Be Acquired Next as Dern Program Is Pushed. BACKGROUND- y In $400,000,000 Army appropria- tion bill approved last Spring was provision for about $23,000,000 pur= chase of new airplanes. First con- tract, for 26 training ships, awarded on July 4. On December 9, Secretary of War Dern recommended Army avi- ation program of purchasing 800 planes per year for five-year period. Air Corps strength should be 3,000 combat planes, he said, as com- pared to less tham 900 mnow available. At present, Army has 1,196 planes | of all types in service, 839 listed as combat ships. Dern program esti- mated to cost $70,000,000 annually. By the Associated Press. The Army ordered new reinforce- ment for its fighting air fleet yester- day—awarding contracts for the purchase of 103 multimotored bombing planes of the swiftest modern type. The Douglas Aircraft Co, Inc, of Santa Monica, Calif, was given an order for 90 all-metal, low wing, twin- engined monoplanes, costing a total of $6,498,000. Thirteen giant, four-motored “sky | cruisers” were bought from the Boeing | Co. of Seattle. The price for the | Boeing craft was not given in the formal announcement issued by As- sistant Secretary of War Woodring. The official statement indicated, however, that the Boeing planes wer. | of the same type as that which crashed | at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in late October in the course of Army tests. | An Army investigating board attributed the accident, which resulted in two fatalities, to locked controls and ex- onerated the plane from any structural or mechanical defects. Boeing Bombers Bought. Shortly after the report was made the commanding officer of Wright Field announced the Boeing Co. had been eliminated from the Army’s com- petition for quantity purchases of bombers. It was explained at the War {Said to Have Registered at N BN ANYHOw, I'M NOT SO0 FAR IN THAT | CANT GET OuUT! MILNE IDENTIFIED S HOTEL GUEST Chester 3 Days After Abduction. BACKGROUND— Informed by telephone that his wealthy Philadelphia grandfather was seriously ill, Caleb Milne, 4th, socialite actor-author, left his New York apartment a week ago Sat- urday to see “Dr. Green of Gracie Square.” Last Sunday, his brother received ransom demand. New York police and Federal agents entered case during week. Thursday morning, victim was found in roadside ditch near Doylestown, Pa. Bound, blind- folded, gagged, half-conscious, he was able to tell little until that eve- ning; described hypodermic tor- tures. Investigators on Friday an- nounced yesterday that $20,000 had been demanded, nothing paid. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 21— preclude Army purchase of some Boeing bombers for “experimental | field work.” | Less than a week ago the depart- | ment contracted for 100 speedy at-| tack planes from the Northrop Corp. | of Inglewood, Calif. Contracts for a | large number of pursuit ships are ex- | ‘The victories of Dedjazmatch Ayele's | men reported today west of the Holy | City of Aksum, which fell before the | first major Fascist invasion, apparently | pected to be announced soon. The new purchases are being made | under an appropriation by the last Congress. Approximately sn,ooo.om!‘ (See ARMY PLANES, Page 6.) GIRL, 18, IS JAILED, HER FATHER SLAIN| Farmer, Shot in His Bed, Ob- jected to Daughter’s Date With Friend. By the Associated Press. ANADARKO, Okla., December 21.— An 18-year-old farm girl, who re- sented paternal objections to her having a date with a boy friend, was charged with murder today after her father, Harry Willis, 45, died of shot- gun wounds. The farmer apparently was killed while asleep. Haskell Pugh, assistant Caddo County attorney, said evidence showed: ‘The girl, Emma Willis, sleeping witi four other children in the little three- room cottage, arose about 5:30 a.m. and took a shotgun from behind a door, Her 14-year-old sister, Leona, at- tempted vainly to wrest the weapon from Emma. Leona then ran into the kitchen, where Mrs. Willis was pre- paring breakfast, and told her mother. As Mrs. Willis started into the room where her husband was in bed she heard a shot fired. Willis died soon afterward. girl was brought to the county jail here. Pugh said she admitted firing the shot and told of an argu- ment last night with her father over her “date.” “Emma cried a little this morning when I was questioning her,” said Pugh, “but she has been dry-eyed since.” The girl is a sophomore in a country high school. of John J. Payette, are new toys and the new Star each day receives | to affirm or deny the Record's story. The Record, in a copyrighted story, says Federal agents today questioned the clerk of a Chester hotel, who re- lated that a young man he believed to | | be Caleb J. Milne, 4th, asserted kid- nap victim, stopped at the hotel last | Tuesday night. | ‘The clerk, Philip McMahon. on night uty at the hotel, said the man was lone and apparently well when he registered as “Harry McLaughlin of Buffalo, N. Y.” Tuesday. That was | three days after Milne disappeared | from his New York apartment and 24 hours before his bound. gagged figure was found in a roadside ditch near Doylestown, about 40 miles from Chester. | Harold O. Nathan, G-man in charge | of the squad of Federal agents, refused di Asked if his men had questioned the clerk, he hesitated momentarily, then said: “I can’t comment on that.” The Record says McMahon told the | Federal agents a young man, “ex- tremely nervous and excited, registered at the hotel at 11:45 o'clock the night of December 17.” “Two Federal agents, after question- ing McMahon at length, tore the page (See MILNE, Page 4. Readers’ Guide PART ONE. Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-6. Changing World—A-3. Washington Wayside—A-T7. Lost and Found—A-13. Death Notices—A-13. Educational—B-4. Sports Section—Pages B-7-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles—Pages D-1-3. Editorials and Editorial Fea- tures—D-2. Civic News and Comment—D-4. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5-6. Cross-word Puzzle—D-5. Veterans’ Organizations, National | Guard and Organized Re- serves—D-6-17. PART THREE. - Society Section. Society News and Comment— Pages E-1-12. Well Known Folk—E-4. Barbara Bell Pattern—E-11. Vital Statistics—E-11. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1-3-6. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old Washington—F-2. “Those Were the Bagpy Days,” by Dick Mansfield—F-2. Books—F-4. Art—F-5. Stage and Screen—F-T. Music—F-8. Radio News and Programs—F-9. Automobiles—F-10. Aviation—F-10. : Children’s Page—F-11. ition to toys and cloth- Highlights of Hixwry—!'—}l. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. d Financial News and Comment, Stock, Bond and Curb Sum- maries—Pages G-1-4. Stam -5. flemm—-d-l Classified ~ Advertising — Pages G-6-11. A Helena Earthquakes Train Bulldog in Seismograph Role By the Associated Press. HELENA, Mont, December 21.—When a window breaks at the laboratory of the Montana Live Stock and Sanitary Com- mission, it's a sure sign of an- other earthquake—but the quake doesn't break 'em: Bing does. The first'thing the laboratory's bulldog mascot does when the earth trembles here is make a dash for the nearest window and jump through it. Bing is marked with jagged cuts about the neck, legs and shoulders as a result of the frequent tremors which dam- aged Helena recently. DEATHTHREATENED INNAZI MILK DRIVE Farmers Warned Violation of Regulation Is Act of Treason. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 21.—Possible death or imprisonment was threatened today to farmers failing to observe Nazi milk marketing regulations. One peasant already has been taken into protective custody as a warning. Producers’ withholding milk from the market, or selling milk whose but- ter fat is too low, were admonished through the official news bureau that this constitutes “treason” against the | people’s nourishment and, therefore, | against the people of the Fatherland.” Punishment for treason may be de- capitation or varying prison sentences. Secret Police to Act. The news bureau added: “Whoever tacitly, or openly, resists the regula- tions or transgresses against public order and security * * * secret police will therefore proceed determinedly on the basis of instructions against those disregarding current needs or dis- obeying the orders of institutions (the Reich Nutritive Guild), established by the administration for the common good.” This was the first public disclosure that all is not well with the marketing associations. Heretofore these groups have been described by Nazis as unex- celled insurance against developments like the current fat shortage. German agricultural leaders re- cently claimed the new market regu- lations had resulted in & 40 per cent reduction in the spread of milk prices ‘| on the farm and in markets. Community Benefits. They claimed that this meant dairymen get more for the product, consumers pay stabilized prices and “the whole community benefits.” Marketing set-ups were established for grain. meat, eggs, sugar, fish, beer, potatoes and fruits and vegetables, as well as for dairy products. Unofficial lard ration ca~ds appeared in some sections of Berliu today. The Butchers' Guild distributed cards, each of which contained 20 numbered coupons. The guild in- structed the butchers to tell buyers they were entitled to one-quarter pound of lard per person weekly, FARES TO RUSSIA. Nazi Official Will Send Unconveried Communists Back. NURNBERG, Germany, December 21 (#)—Julius Streicher, a leading Nazi, offered tonight to pay the trans- portation to Russia of any “uncon- verted” Communists in Germany who applied within 10 days. The offer was made at a surprise dinner at the city hall to 15 former Communists released from Dachau concentration camp at, Streicher’s in- stigation. The chief Nazi “Jew baiter” ex- plained: “I have sympathy with men in jail, for I have been there. It is no longer necessary for workers to organize, as the state takes care of “No doubt all former Communists are now converted, but if any remain their place is Russia and I will pay their fares back if they apply within 10 days.” (Rudolf Claus, German Communist leader, who remained “unconverted,” ‘wis beheaded last Tuesday after Relchsfuehrer Hitler refused to grant him clemency.) o 3 SNOW IS FORECAST FOR GAPITAL AREA Winter’s Official Beginning Finds Missions Taxed to Care for Needy. Winter begins officially today with the outlook for a white Chrisumas doubtful. | . Snow is expected this afternoon or | tonight, after slowly rising tempera- | tures this morning. But the Weather Meant he was opposed to the nomina- | organize * FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE Professor Races Barefoot in Cold To Win $1 Bet By the Astociated Press. FAIRMONT, W. Va,, December 21—Dr. J. Francis Shreve of Fairmont State Teachers’ College smiled at his students, shivering from the cold. ‘The professor said: “Why, I used to rise at day- break in the ald days ande run about in the snow in my bare feet.” Two other faculty members heard it and challenged: “One dollar you haven't the nerve to run from the college building to the gymnasium in your bare feet this morning.” Dr. Shreve won. FIGHT OVER BORAH THREATENS 6.0.P. Rift Looms in New York Re- publican Ranks; Lan- don Stronger. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Preliminary rumbles of the battle which is expected in the Republican National Convention next June fol- lowed yesterday in the wake of the announcement by Senator Borah of Idaho that “if, in any State or dis- | trict, the liberal forces think that it | will help the liberal cause to pledge | delegates to me, I shall co-operate | fully with that plan.” From New York came word that the C. Eaton, was unwilling to join the former State chairman, W. Kingsland Macy, and Representative Hamilton Fish in their drive for Borah-instruct- ed delegates to the national conven- ing firm for an uninstructed New | York delegation. New York will have | the largest delegation at the conven- tion, 90 in number. When Eaton was asked if this Republican State chairman, Melvin | tion. Eaton announced he was stand- | WAGNER ACT VOID BY EXCESS POWER OVER COMMERCE, U 3. JUDGE RULES Otis Grants Writ Against Labor Relations Board in Controversy Over Employ- es’ Wage ‘Bargaining. HOLDS UNION DISPUTE {DOES NOT AFFECT ISSUE Individuals Treated as “Recently Emancipated Slaves” by Meas- ure, Says Jurist in Caustic Cri- ticism — Says Manufacturing Involved Is Purely Intra-State. BACKGROUND— Throughout New Deal adminis- tration attempts have been made to establish new basis of employer= employe relationships. First such eflfort came in section 7(a) of N. 1. R. A., by which labor’s right to organize and bargain col- lectively was proclaimed. Enforce- ment power was lacking, however, in National Labor Board, named to administer section. In June, 1934, Congress jammed through compromise resolution em- powering Labor Relations Board to hear and determine cases of in- dustrial dispute; still there was no granting of enforcement power. Last Winter Congress took up new legislation; on July 5, 1935, Wagner-Connery act became iaw. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, December 21.—The | Wagner labor disputes act, New Deal measure, giving employes the right to and bargain collectively Bureau believes the rise will continue tion of Senator Borah, his reply, ac- | without company interference, was until the snow turns to rain tomorrow, | €0rding to the Associated Press, was: | held unconstitutional tonight by Fed- Last night's bitter cold again taxed the missions of the city and by early evening the Central Union Mission, Salvation Army and Volunteers of America had greater demand fcr sleeping quarters than they could Central Union Mission, said all his beds were assigned before 8 o'clock and the chapel and halls wers thrown l open to men who could find no other | places to sleep. A similar policy was | adopted by the Volunteers of America, who allowed homeless men to occupy the benches in the chapel. Women Given Ledging. At the Salvation Army’s emergency home, three women with children—ali | of them from nearby Maryland—were | given lodging for the night. After yesterday morning's record low of 14 degrees—the coldest since last February—the temperature rose to a maximum of 23 degrees at 2 p.m. Then began a descent that the bureau said would reach 12 degrees before this morning. From 3 o'clock in the after- noon until 9:30 last night the mercury dropped steadily until it had reached 15 degrees shortly before midnight. The first official day of Winter, which, of course, is the shortest day { of the year, will have only 9 hours | and 25 minutes of sunlight, and prob- | | ably no sunshine at all. Sunrise was timed at 7:24 am. and <inset will come at 4:49. Winter will begin at 1:37 p.m. But the forecast said the day will be increasingly cloudy as the tempera- ture rises, and relief from the clouds was not in sight last night. One Death in Capital. One death here late yesterday was | indirectly attributed to the dold. Den- nis Murphy, 55, said to have been retired soldier, was found dead in a one-room frame house at 469 L street BANK CAN P.AY NOW; $103,000 GOES BEGGING Depositors’ Clamor for Money When They Couldn’t Get It Subsides to Indifference. By the Associated Press. LIBERTYVILLE, Ill, December 21. —The tidy little sum of $103347 is going begging, at least temporarily, because: “People want things when they can't get them, but when they can have them, they don't care.” The explanation wes given by an assistant to the receiver for the First Lake County National Bank. ‘The money represented the final 12'; per cent payment to 3,000 de- positors whose $1,009,379 was tied up when the bank closed during the 1933 moratorfum. Depositors were asked to “come and get it,” but didn’t. By the Associated Press. 21.—Awakened from a four-year sleep, Victor Cleave said today he and his family would celebrate on Christ- mas what his friends call his “com- ing.back from the dead.” Cleave, a rallway employe who was sufferirg from shell shock in the World ‘War, began to doze over his meals in 1931, ‘Then he fell asleep. Doctors, un- able to rouse him, had to inject nour- ishment into his bogdy. The; beating of his heart was one of the few evi- dences that he continued to live, ‘Waking recently, Cleave did not recognize his own children. “I had no dreams, no thoughts, no feelings,” he explained. “The four years have been no more than a blank in my life.” nammmhmmwa. after long confinement in & tal. Cleave now is 40 years old, but his meet. | John 8. Bennett, director of the “If you want to take It that way.” Macy Heads Progressives. | Maecy., who was ousted from the | State chairmanship not so long ago. is heading a “Progressive Republican | State Committee” in New York. A prominent New York member of Congress said here yesterday that he | did not see how the Republican party | could get back of Borah for the pres- idency in the light of his support of the silver purchase law and his advo- This Republican member of Congress did not wish to be quoted at this time, however, regarding presidential pos- sibilities. In Maryland, there were rumblings, , which were not encouraging to the Borah candidacy—if the Idaho | Senator makes an active bid for the nomination. The Maryland delega- tion, unless the preferential primary upsets the plan, will go to the con- vention instructed for Gov. Harry W. Nice. But prominent Republicans in the State say that after voting for the “favorite son” candidate, Gov. Nice, the Maryland delegation will swing to Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas. Maryland’s preferential pres- idential primary takes place May 4. Landon Talk Grows. Landon, as yet an unknown in the East, is looming larger and larger in the talk of Eastern Republicans about the presidential nomination. Some of the New England members of the Re- publican National Committee, when they were in Washington for the meeting of the committee last Mon- day, declared they had heard much favorable comment in their States re- | garding the possibility of nominating | the Kansas Governor. Members of Congress from the West, however, who have arrived in ad- vance of the opening of the session January 3, were inclined strongly to give support to the Borah boom. They did not take much stock in the criti- cisms of the Idaho Senator because (See BORAH, Page 14.) imw of other inflationary measures. | ICE IMPERILS 60 LIVES BAKU, U. S. S. R., December 21 (%) —The lives of 60 persons aboard a tug and two oil barges were endangered tonight by ice in the Caspian Sea near the Pechne Islands. The steamer tug Asia reported its hull had been cracked by the ice and was in danger of breaking up. Planes sent to aid the vessel were forced to return because of a blizzard. . Col. Charles H. Morrow Dies. FORT NIAGARA, N. Y., December 31 (#).—Col. Charles H. Morrow, commandant of the Regular Army post here, died suddenly tonight of heart disease while reading in his library. Awakened From 4-Year Sleep, Englishman Seems Re juvenated friends say he seems younger than before his sleep, although his eyes look very tired. - Pretty Patricia Maguire of Oak Park, IIl, hes been asleep for nearly four years. She is now 30 years old and 25 pounds heavier than when her strange malady developed. She has survived an attack of pneumonia and & minor operation during her long sleep. At Rochester, N. Y., this week Dr. George Packer Berry, professor of bac- teriology, and Dr. Jerome T. Syve: ton, both of the University of Roches- ter School of Medicine and Dentistry, announced they successfully propagated the encephalitis virus. Dr. Berry desgribed their experi- ments as a “first step,” and said that there now remains to be developed a vaccine. Associates of the doctors described their work as & sig- nificant development toward combat- ing “sleeping sickness.” A eral Judge Merrill E. Otis. The opinion was the first Federal Court ruling on the legality of the law enacted by the last Congress. Judge Otis granted the Majestic Flour Mills of Aurora, Mo. a tem- porary injunction against a National |Labor Relations Board complaint, which cited it for alleged refusal to | bargain a wage and hour agreement | with a union of its employes. Declaring Congress had exceeded its constitutional right “to regulate com- | merce with foreijgn nations, and | among the several States,” the judge | said, “the conclusion is that the whole act is unconstitutional.” Caustic Criticism of Law. At times caustic in his criticism of | the act which President Roosevelt de- | scribed as an “important step toward | the achievement of just and peaceful | labor relations in industry,” Judge | Otis said it treated the individual as | & “recently emancipated slave.” | The act gives employes the right to organize unions to carry on wage and hour negotiations. It prohibits em= ployers from interfering with the for- mation of such unions and created the Labor Relations Board to mediate disputes growing out of contracts be- | tween labor and employers. In asking the injunction the mill pleaded the citation by the Labor Board laid it and its officers open to | punishment by a $5,000 fine, imprison- | ment for one year, or both. | The ruling was made as the United | States Supreme Court considered cases | testing constitutionality of the Ten- | nessee Valley act, A. A. A., and the | Bankhead cotion production control |law, all important New Deal legis- | lation. Judge Otis said the heart of the ‘Wagner act was contained in a single sentence of section 10: “The (Labor | Relations) Board is empowered, as hereinafter provided, to prevent any | person from engaging in unfair prac- | tice (listed in section 8) affecting commerce.” | Dispute “Has No Bearing.” Holding that the Aurora Mills’ dis- pute with its employes had no direct bearing on the “stream of commerce,” Judge Otis declared, “Congress has no power to regulate that which merely ‘affects’ commerce * * * There is no way in which any of the specified | unfair labor practices in any business, whether mill or mine or factory or store, conceivably can directly affect * * * commerce.” The injunction suit here arose when | the Regional Relations Board ordered officials of the mill to appear at a hearing in Springfield, Mo., to answer to a complaint which grew out of pro= longed disputes with employes. The board accused the mill of refus ing to bargain collectively with its or- ganized workers and charged the com- pany with the “offense” of “dealing with said employes individyally.” In his opinion, Judge Otis said the mill “is a relatively small establish- ment * * and is engaged ex- clusively in manufacturing which (See WAGNER, Page 5.) TALMADGE SAYS STATE CAN PAY OFF DEBT By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, December 21.—Gov. Talmedge announced today that Georgia has the money to pay off her floating indebtedness, leaving the State with only a funded debt of $4,187,000, brought over from Recon= struction days. ‘The Governor issued an order setting aside moneys which reverted to the general fund July 1 of this year, six months after the close of the 1934 fiscal year, to pay the floating debt which amounts to $1,651,809.03. The floating indebtedness accumu- lated from the excess of appropriations by pest legislatures over the State's income. Georgia put a stop to this procedure when Richard B. Russell, jr., now junior United States Senator, was Governor by enacting a State budget law. When Talmadge came into of- fice the fioating debt was $7,523,853.82. ‘The bonded indebtedness is being paid off at the rate of $100,000 a year. i