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A—2 waw PLATFORM ADDING NEW DEAL WOES Question of What Shall Be Said Begins Undersur- face Friction. . BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Three and a half months from to- day and the New Deal party will be assembled in convention in Phila- delphia to nominate President Roose- velt for another term, but really to thresh out the most difficult problem the New Deal has yet faced—a fight within its own ranks on platform. It might seem to the cynical ob- gerver that it wouldn't matter very much what is written into the New Deal platform because the last plat- form whick President Roosevelt ac- cepted 100 per cent has been criticized as having been in large part disre- garded. But leaving aside the bombardment which will come on this point, the fact vemains that even among the foi- Jowers and supporters of~President Roosevelt, the question of what to say in that new platform is already becoming troublesome. Will it be a platform written by the intellectuals some times referred to as the brain trust”? Will the platform be written with the ideas furnished by Secretary Ickes, Secretary Wal- Jace, Undersecretary Tugwell and Sec- retary Perkins? Or will it be the work of Secretary Hull, Secretary Roper, Attorney General Cummings and Postmaster General Farley? Court May Figure In. It would hardly seem possible that the platform would be silent on the alleged usurpation by the Supreme Court or that nothing would be writ- ten in the platform about the im- portance of constitutional revision to give agriculture and labor the recog- nition their special groups have been seeking. The moderate wing of the party, of course, would prefer to say very little if anything on the Supreme Court or the Constitution and the compromise may be silence on that point in exchange for a rather vigor- ously worded plank on natural re- Jgources and the importance of Gov- -ernment development thereof. It is easy enough to say that Presi- “dent Roosevelt will write the plat- form in advance and hand it to the delegates for formal ratification. But some of the ambitious delegates who €0 to political conventions to get their names in the newspapers and who stand up before microphones nowadays and discuss and debate whilst Nation-wide networks carry their voices across the continent will not be content with mere ratification. The minority report boys will be | active and they will have to be heard. | ‘The big prize in each State delega- tion is membership on the Resolutions | Committees and it would seem that certain States will surely have dele- gates hostile to the brain trusters. All this will lend zest to the Demo- cratic convention and plenty of in- terest to the observing Republicans, | who will be taking note of what pro- | posals from the moderate wing are | turned down. The Republicans, of course, will have held their convention a couple weeks before, but this will not prevent the Republicans from making issues out of what the New Deal platform | contains or omits. There is some pos- #ibility of a plank advocating an | eamendment to the Constitution to elarify the meaning of “interstate commerce” 50 as to leave it to Con- gress rather than the Supreme Court to determine. The Republicans would probably like nothing better than an issue of this kind, for it would imply the revival of the N. R. A. inasmuch as the Blue Eagle left a residue of antagonisms. Likely to Claim Credit. Incidentally, most reliable figures show that since N. R. A. both money ‘wages and real wages are higher than they were when the N. R. A. was in- ‘validated by unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. The New Deal platform will probably claim credit for this on the general theory that Government spending “primed the pump.” While the New Deal party will un- doubtedly ratify whatever platform Mr. Roosevelt may decide upon, this does not mean that interesting debate will be curtailed. Rather it would indicate the whole dramatic value of the forthcoming convention will be ‘handling of the platform and the prob- able attempt of the regular Democratic Jeaders to have their ideas inserted in the platform. The latter group will argue that this is the way to recap- ture conservative voters that have been driven away by the Ickes-Hop- kins-Tugwell philosophy, which at heart is just as distasteful to the regu- lar Democrats as the “laissez faire” point of view of the old-line Democrats is irritating to the “brain trust” wing of the New Deal party. And when the platform is finally written and adopted the query will arise whether it shall be regarded as binding or whether like platforms of old in most conventions subject to change without notice as the suc- cessful candidate begins his own in- terpretation in the light of concrete conditions that arise long after plat- form planks have been laid away in the pigeon holes of past political lit- erature, (Copyright. 1936.) " HITS MEXICAN POLICY XK. C. Official Pledges Continued Fight in Persecution. NEW YORK, March 16 (A — Francis J. Heazel of Asheville, N. C., supreme director of the Knights of Columbus, yesterday pledged the or- der to continuance of its efforts to “bring about a recognition of the rights of persecuted Catholics in Mex- ico.” Heazel told members of the order’s What’s What Behind News in Capital Windy City Politics Still Windier—Big Bill Is Back. BY PAUL MALLON. HICAGO, March 15.—The wind is always windier out here and so is politics. There is an ancient belief that the re- freshing breeze blows off the lake, while the political situation is gen- erally scented as having come in from the West through the abattoir district. Just now, as usual, both are coming straight up out of the pavements in whirls, Men behind the bellows are jamming away at their work as lustily as in the old days when Big Bill Thompson used to spear the King of England nightly, and, in- cidentally, the sweep has even blown Big Bill out of the downtown hotel room in which he has been in retirement for years and brought him forth again as a political fig- ure, if only in favor of an attorney general who will guarantee “clean elections.” Imagine that after all these years. Note—Bill still rides down to the foreign quarters occasionally and calls the men and women voters off the stoop for a chat. He always calls them by any first name which hap- pens to be most common in that par- ticular district and he never fails to get a response from more than one of the perpetual stoop sitters. He has friends, but no organization. He prob- ably will not be a figure in presiden- tial politics, being interested only in his candidate for “clean elections.” Kelly and Horner at Outs. More indicative of the gusty swirl of politics is the increasingly painful disagreement of Democratic Mayor Kelly and Democratic Gov. Horner. Said Mr. Kelly of Mr. Horner the other day: “As a Governor he is a good hod carrier.” Said Mr. Horner of Mr. Kelly: “I will carry Boss Kelly's Cook County by 250,000, even if they steal another 250,000." The general consensus of the better judges here is that Gov. Horner over-esti- mated his own ability and under- estimated Mayor Kelly's. All seem to suspect that Horner cannot roll up enough downstate to offset what the efficient Kelly-Nash Chicago roller will roll up against him up here. Note—The Kelly-Nash roller com- pany is still a closed corporation and, ultra-efficient; it will roll along with President Roosevelt in the election, which does not augur well for the Re- publicans. Borah-Knox Fight to Flare, ‘The Borah-Knox contest for Repub- lican presidential delegates has been all under the surface so far. It will not be long. Senator Borah is com- ing here for a couple of speeches. Col. | Frank Knox will take a swing down- State next week. He will cover the State thoroughly before primary day, April 14, but the subsurface arrange- ments for delegates have developed a situation equally as interesting as the Democratic one. For instance, a Borah leader has withdrawn as a candidate in one important district, apparently on the assumption that the opposing delegate would also be for Borah. The opposing candidate, whose slection mow is uncontested, ap- parently has @ different idea. At least, his spokesmen have indicated that Borah will be the last man he will vote for when he goes to Cleveland. Not only from this incident, obut from others it is evident that some of the candidates are going to be fooled when the roll call starts at Cleveland. Dual Allegiance Widespread. The truth is this matter of dual al- legiance among prospective delegates is s0o widespread through the Middle West that the primaries may not mean what the tabulations will seem to in- dicate, For instance, one of the popular county leaders down-State has an- nounced that he will support any one his people want. He knows his par- ticular section is for Borah. He will, therefore, go to the Cleveland con- vention as & Borah delegate, but, personally, every one knows he is not a Borah man. How long he will stick to Senator Borah depends largely on his conscience. It will certainly not be more than two or three ballots. The same situation prevails to some degree within the Wisconsin slate of Borah delegates. Thus, the man question may turn out to be not how many delegates Borah will get, but for how long. G. 0. P. Spreads Out. Most astounding change in Chi- cago during the last six months is in Republican headquarters. Last September you could hardly find it. Now it occupies the entire sixth floor of the Palmer House and will take another half floor shortly, under guidance of alert Harrison Spangler. The dark horses you hear men= tioned out here are Glenn Frank, New York State Council at a meeting here that Mexico's political leaders were “a gang of culprits,” and the United States should assure free speech and worship in Mexico. A G. W. HILL, JR., TO WED Bon of Tobacco Magnate to Marry Gretchen Uppercu. NEW YORK, March 16 (#).—An- nouncement was made last night of the engagement of Gretchen Uppercu, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Inglis Moore Uppercu of Rumson, N. J. to George Washington Hill, jr., son of the president of the American To- bacco Co. Miss Uppercu made her debut in 1931, Hill was graduated from Yale Uni- versity in 1931. No date has been set for the wed- ding. president of Wisconsin University; Attorney General Bricker of Ohio, Senator Dickinson of Iowa, and even John Hamilton, clever young campaign manager for Landon. Democratic leaders are squawking privately to Washington about the order curtailing W. P. A. rolls from 200,000 to 157,900. However, the cur- tailment will not be effective for three and a half months yet, and by that time the demand for farm labor will probably have absorbed most of the 42,000 who are slated to go. The most prominent thing to catch the eye in the lobby of the hotel which houses the Republi- cans is a flaming portrait of Dem- ocratic Senator J. Ham Lewis, with pink whiskers in color. The most famous remark of the week was that of Dr. Frank Murrah, collector of campaign contributions from those W. P, A. directors down= ) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936, Ice'and Flood Waters Play Havoc in New England PERILTOU. 5. SEEN IN BIRTH DECLINE Need of Culture Stressed by Edward Wiggam at Town Hall. A prediction that weak and unin- telligent portions of the population will inherit America unless the lead- ers in our national life are willing to “make personal sacrifices and repro- duce brains” was made at the Town Hall of Washington last night by Albert Edward Wiggam, author and lecturer. “It is leaders who make culture,” Wiggam told his audience at the Shoreham Hotel, “and the sections of the population which have produced the greatest number of leaders in past generations are rapidly vanish- ing.” He advocated birth control and sterilization as a means of preventing the “lower classes from contributing more than their share to the popu- lation.” “‘One-half of the American people is dying out—they are simply a vanish- ing species of animal from the face of the earth,” Wiggam asserted, “and it is chiefly the half that has made America what it is and given it its culture and ideals.” Rural Population Gains. Declaring there is a definite trend toward an increase in the proportion of inhabitants in rural areas, Giggam said: “All the large cities in America are having too few children to re- place the present population, and un- less they are recruited from the coun- try they will in time become merely the empty monuments of a vanished race.” The speaker praised the efforts of educators and the Government to raise standards of country life. “Since our future population is going to come largely from the small town and farms,” he said, “nothing is more im- portant than that our country life should be kept at & high level of cul- ture.” > One member of the panel, Oliver Baker, ecnomist in the Department of Agriculture, supported Wiggam's con- tention regarding population trends with figures gathered by the Depart- ment of Agriculture. He disagreed, however, in the problem of birth con- trol. “To circulate birthcontrol in- formation among the so-called lower classes at this time,” Baker said, “would result only in extending to them the questionable ideals of the middle classes.” He argued the cul- tural advancement in the United States depends largely upon the su- perior classes. Would Convince “Brains.” Children's Bureau, who also partici- pated in the panel discussion, declared herself heartily in agreement with | Wiggam's argument that “brains pro- | duce brains.” “Our essential prob- | lem,” she said. “is to encourage brains to have children.” Answering a question propounded by Representative Brooks Fletcher of | Ohio, Wiggam insisted the “steriliza- tion laws now ready for use in 22 States should be applied diligently.” He said he agrees with Hitler's pro- gram on sterilization in Germany. “Hitler got his ideas from reading American books on eugenics while con- fined in prison in Austria,” the speak- er added. Approximately 1,000 people heard the address and open discussion which followed. Huston Thompson, chair- man of the Town Hall trustees, pre- sided. . Lobby (Continued From First Page.) Hearst telegrams obtained from the wire companies. When the flurry caused by entrance of the deputy marshal had subsided, Schwellenbach continued with the in- terrogation of Smith, Senator Schallenbach charged that Smith prevailed on Congressmen to invite their colleagues to Smith’s home “on the pretext of meeting some ‘Western Congressmen.” When these members of Congress accepted the invitations, Schwellen- bach asserted, they were not told that Smith was “a lobbyist paid by the power companies.” Smith, bald and florid, objected strenuously to picture-taking by the photographers. “Am I here to pose for the photog- raphers or testify?” Smith demanded. The photographers retired. Smith was asked to specify some of the members of Congress he had enter- tained. Calling for a congressional directory, he first named Rep- resentative Zioncheck of Wash- ington, Ekwall of Oregon, Costello of California, Murdock of Utah, Chavez of New Mexico (now a Senator), Greenway of Ariggna, Knutson of Minnesota, Christianson of Minnesota, Ferguson of Oklahoma, Fuller of Ar- kansas, Gregory of Kentucky and Dirksen of Illinois. Later he added the other names al- ready listed. Smith testified that prior to forma- tion of the National Conference of Investors last year he was with the National Securities Owners’ Associa- tion on the Pacific Coast. Meanwhile, in another section of the Capitol, a morning-long session of the Communications Commission drafted a report to the Senate on its activities in aiding the Lobby Com- mittee procure copies of telegraphic messages. . Revamping Report. The commission apparently was re- vamping a tentative report prepared by a special committee. Commissioner Norman Case, head of the committee, said the report might be forwarded to the Senate late today or tomorrow. The report, ordered in a resolution by Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, is expected to detail the com- missions activities in designating em- ployes to work with Lobby Committee investigators in the office of Wash- ington telegraph companies. This assistance was authorized in & commission resolution last Septem- ber. setting out that the messages were to be made available “in the name of the Federal Communications Commission.” State. When interviewed about the W. P. A, protest sent to Washington against his shake-down activities, he said: “Relative to these men who signed & telegram to Hopkins I will say: Don't bite the hand that's feed- ing you." Katharine F, Lenroot, chief of the | Flood waters carried this frame house down the Farmington River at Hartford, Conn., and into the Bristol “cut-off” bridge, west of Hartford. Pressure of the object threatened to weaken the bridge. Mildred Endersby (nearest camera) and Valerie Crockett go canoeing in their own back yard at Mountain MANPUT INJAL INHUTTON THREAT Son of Countess Barbara Named in Alleged Kidnap Hoax Note. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, England, March 16. —Alfred Molyneux, 31, of Lancashire, was jailed today on a charge of at- tempting to extort £200 ($1,000) from Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- Reventlow by pretending to reveal a plot to kidnap her new-born son. Police said that Molyneux had ad- mitted writing & letter during “mo- ments of depression” offering to dis- close the “plot.” He was remanded in custody for a week. The prisoner was trapped by police when he went to keep a rendezvous with a “messenger from the countess.” He told the police that no kidnap plot existed. " Molyneux was arrested last Satur- day. The letter went into details as to how contact between Molyneux and an agent from the countess should be made in Manchester. Reply Specified. It ordered: “Let your messenger be outside the long bar at the Gaumont Picture Theater March 14 at 7 pm., and let him have a red silk handker- chief in his left hand. “He will be asked, ‘Daily?’ and must reply, ‘No, weekly.' “If you intend to heed this, put an answer in the personal column of the Manchester Evening Chronicle March 12" Detective-Inspector Forster told the | Police Court that the Countess gave | the letter to her lawyer, who informed the police, whereupon the requested advertisement was inserted in the newspaper. On Saturday, the inspector said, a detective carrying a dummy package stood outside the theater while other detectives watched. arrested when he appeared at the stated time and received the package from the detective. The inspector said Molyneux told the police: “I admit I wrote the letter knowing perfectly well that I know of no such plot or any persons who in- tended to kidnap the child. I wrote it in moments of depression as I am without money and with a wife and two children to support on 30 shillings ($7.50) a week. “I sincerely regret my action and hope I have not caused the Count and Countess any worry or anxiety.” Molyneux did not testify at today’s hedring, saying he had nothing to add to the statement given to the police.” The Haugwitz-Reventlow baby was born February 24 and, by the fact of birth, became heir to the estates of his Danish father, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, and to the for- tune of his American mother's side which is estimated at $20,000,000. The mother’s fortune is part of the Wool- worth estate. 5 At the time of the child’s birth, he British press printed reports that the count and countess would make their home in England on the grounds that they feared kidnapers in the United States. The count, however, denied these reports and said the child would be taken to the United States in the near future. Shortly after the boy's birth the countess became seriously ill and, for & time, her life was in danger. FALSE FIRE ALARMS CHARGED TO THREE Two Soldiers and Georgetown U. Student Are Arraigned Before Judge I. R. Hitt. ‘Three persons, two soldiers and a Georgetown University law student, today were arraigned before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court on charges of turning in false fire alarms. The two soldlers, who identifled themselves as Earl E. Campbell, 23, and Edward E. Dennison, 27, both members of Headquarters Company, 1800 C street, were turned over to Capt. R. W. Minckler of the United States Signal Corps for action. They entered pleas of not guilty to the charge of turning in a false alarm at Nineteenth street and New York avenue early today. The case of Joseph F. Meglen, the Georgetown University student, was continued until April 4. He was charged with turning in a false alarm at Thirty-sixth and N streets early today. ‘When the student’s case is called April 4, Judge Hitt will be in another Molyneux was | TRAFFIG INJURIES FATALTOD. C. MAN Waiter Hit by Car Is Year’s 19th Victim—Two Are Killed Nearby. Winnie Horton, 50, a waiter, of 2505 Champlain street, died in Emer- | gency Hospital at 8:45 am. today. He was the nineteenth traffic victim of the year, Horton was struck March 4 on H street between Vermont avenue and Sixteenth street by a car operated by Francis Shipman, 20, of 1001 Twenty- third street. He was taken to the hospital, where it was found he was suffering from, possibly, a fractured skull, fractures of both legs and in- ternal injuries. Shipman was charged at the third precinct station at that time with reckless driving and released in $1,000 bond. He was booked again today, pending action of the coroner. ‘Two other persons were killed yes- terday in traffic accidents near Wash- ington. Aubrey Breeden, 19, of Brentsville, Va.,, was killed near Fair- fox, Va, and an unidentified white man about 50 years old died in Washington Sanitarium. Takoma Park, after being struck by an auto- mobile on the Colesville road, near Silver Spring, Md. Breeden was pinned beneath ecar which overturned when it collided with another machine on the Cen- terville-Manassas road. His three companions were taken in serious | condition to Georgetown Hospital. They are Kenneth Breeden, 23, & brother; Emery Cornell, 19, and Ralph Cornell, 19, all of Brentsville. Joseph N. Yearwood, colored, of the 600 block of T street, driver of the car involved in the Colesville acci~ dent, was charged with reckless driv- ing and released in $500 bond. Six other persons received minor injuries in traffic mishaps yesterday, according to police reports. The victims included two children, Emil Leucher, 4, of 634 Farragut street, who suffered cuts on the lips and face, and James Mallas, 9, of 818 First street, who was taken to Sibley Hospital with a broken leg. Fireman Edward J. Barnowsky of the Boulevard Heights (Md.) volun- teers was thrown to the street from a firetruck when the apparatus suddenly rounded & curve on the way to a fire at Nicholas avenue and District line southeast. » Barnowsky suffered & sprained ankle, Other victims included Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell, 1222 Jefferson street, who suffered cuts and bruises when their car overturned on the Baltimore Boulevard near Berwyn, Md., and Ralph and Emory Cornwall, brothers, ‘who were shaken up in an accident on the Lee Highway near Fairfax, Va. TWO DIE IN CRASH 8t. Louis Physician and Attorney Are Victims. ST. LOUIS, ;March 16 () —Wil- liam P. Donovan, 39, a physician, and Thomas F. O'Hanlon, 40, an attorney, both of St. Louis, were killed yesterday in the crash of a National Guard plane near here, The ship was piloted by Donovan, & captain in the National Guard. The cause of the crash was unknown. Debates whether to consider changes in stockyards act. Lobby Committee hears Robert E. Smith of the National Conference.of Investors. Banking Committee studies housing legislation. 3 Finance Committee analyzes pro- posals to change liquor tax laws, House: Considers private bills. Appropriations Committee meets on four-department (State, Justice, La- bor, Commerce) appropriation bill. ‘Ways and Means Subcommittee con- tinues study of tax legislation. Special committee meets to start work investigating Townsend old-age pension plan. TOMORROW. Senate: Will debate motion to take up packers and stockyards bill if War Department supply bill is disposed of. Interstate Commerce Committee meets at 10 a.m. on anti-basing point bill House: Considers private calendar. Patents -Committee resumes hear- ings on copyright bill, 10:15 a.m. Committee on post offices and post~ roads considers star routs bill, 10 a.m. Special traffic subcommittes of District Committes resumes traffic study, 10 s, 4. D. C. Deposits Hit 310 Million Mark, Highest on Record ‘Total deposits in Washington's 22 banks on March 4, 1936, ag- gregated $310,026,900.93, new all-time high mark, it was learned today following the call for con- dition issued by the controller of the currency. This is & gain of $16,333,374.30 over the total re- ported two months ago at the end of December, 1935. (Details in Financial Section.) SUICIDE'S DEPOSIT OF §13.500 FOUND Stocks and Cash Discovered | in Safety Box of De- troit Official. By the Associated Press. | DETROIT, March 16.—Stocks val- {ued at approximately $10,000 and $3,500 in cash were found today in | the safety deposit box of Harry M. | Tyler, assistant ecity controller, who | | killed himself Thursday night a few hours after a $349.000 embezzlement of city pension funds was disclosed. Examination of the box came short- | ly after Controller William J. Curran said he had participated in a number of stock speculations with Tyler. Cur- | ran said he also was a heavy stock- holder in the Detroit Cripple Creek Gold Mining Co, of which Tyler was president. Much of the stock in Tyler's strong box consisted of shares in the gold mining company, city officials said. Among leading developments in the investigation was the announcement by William G. Comb, chief assistant Federal district attorney, that James J. O'Shea, assistant vice president of | the National Bank of Detroit, would be questioned by agents of the De- partment of Justice. Mayor Frank Couzens and other city officials issued a statement Sat- urday charging that the bank was re- | sponsible for the loss, and declaring | that O'Shea had “shown lack of judg- ment” in approving Tyler's with- drawals from the trust account, COMMUNIST LEADERS OUSTED BY PARAGUAY Red Leaders Are First to Feel ‘Weight of Decree by New Government. | | By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, March 16.—Re- ports from Asuncion today disclosed that Communists are the first to feel the weight of the new" Paraguayan government’s decree declaring Para- guay a totalitarian state. Several Communst leaders were ar- rested in Paraguay over the week end and deported to Argentina. They in- cluded Oscar Cryedt, former student leader. The Communist party long had been banned from Paraguay, but when Col. Rafael Franco overthrew the Ayala government by revolution last month the Communists resumed their activities. As President, however, Col. Franco benned all political activities exeept “those eminating from the state and the liberating revolution.” The Franco government was recog- | Mayors View, N. J,, to hang out clothes. LESS THANBILLION RELIEF PLEA SEEN Byrns Hints Roosevelt Re- quest May Be Held to 7-Month Plan. By the Assoclated Press. A hint that President Roosevelt's forthcoming request for relief appro- priations may fall short of $1,000,000,~ 000 was given today by Speaker Byrns. Replying to questions at his press conference regarding the relief mes- sage, expected by Thursday, Byrns said of reported plans to limit the rellef extension to seven months: “I didn't hesitate to say to the Pres- ident that that would be the wise thing to do; there is no way of telling what the revenues or amount of em- ployment will be, making it hard to plan too far in advance. “I don’t think it (the relief request) is going to be nearly as large as some of you expect. I don't say that it will be well under a billion, but it may be.” ‘The Speaker was of the opinion that y efforts to earmark the relief funds “probably will be for the C. C. C,, as there is considerable sentiment for that.” He referred apparently to petitions that have been circulated in the House requesting Mr. Roosevelt not to cut the C. C. C. to 300,000. Asked if there would be much of a fight on the relief question, he replied dryly: “That depends on how big it is.” *It is a good thing to send it up | here now,” he said, “to let the country | know what it is and so the committee | can get to work on it. There is no reason why it shouldn't come up this | week if the President is ready.” The Speaker said that personally “I'd hate to see the C. C. C. camps abandoned, because they have been a wonderful thing.” Mayors Ask $2,340,000,000. ‘The United States Conference of renewed its drive for a $2,340,000.000 appropriation to con- tinue the Works Progress Administra- tion, in making public statements by heads of more than 60 cities presenting “a unanimous opinion” that “W. P. A. must continue, at least on the present basis of employment, throughout the next fiscal year.” Most of the statements defended W. P. A. projects against recent criti- cisms. All agreed that the cities must have Federal help to provide for the unemployed. Paul V. Betters, director of the mayors' conference, said the appeals were made regardless of party and that administration of city affairs was largely “non-partisan.” He announced that mayors of New England and the Northeastern States would meet in Boston Friday and Saturday to go over relief conditions. Pacific Coast mayors, he added, will meet in San Francisco April 20. PLOT TRIAL OPENS VIENNA, March 16 (#).—Thirty So- cialists went before a Vienna court to- day, charged with a revolutionary plot. Socialist leaders of many European nations sent protests against the trial. The British Labor party sent an ob- server. The high treason charges against the Socialisty were based on allega- tions that they attended party meet- ings in Czechoslovakia and Austria. British Net Star Divorced. LONDON, March 16 (#)—The Di- vorce Court granted Edmund Owen Farnlev-Whittingstall a decree nisi against the former Eileen Ben- nized by various nations, including the United States, last Saturday. nett, international tennis player. The suit was not defended. The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH HERE is a rush of “parleys” President leaves for his fishing trip. our destinies are parleying to tie up loose ends before the The powers that control on housing, on W. P. A, on the efforts to revive N. R. A. being formulated by the industrial co-ordinator, Mr. Berry. Mr. Harry Hopkins’ sister has resigned her W. P. A. job in order not to émbarrass him. It is general opinion that Mr. Hopkins' embarrassment would be still more relieved if Gov. Pinchot and Senator Holt would stop talking. The willingness of the House to vote $50,000 to investigate the Townsend plan shows a marked change from its recent reluctance to explore that curious scheme. ‘Mr. Hearst, backed by the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, has filed suit to restrain Alice Longworth. the Senate Lobby Committee and the Federal Communications Commission from making use of his messages that they compelled the telegraph company to hand over. Every ring in the big show is (Copyrisht, 1936. going full tilt ) NEW DEAL TEST INOHID AWAITED Primaries Also to Be Ba- rometer of Contest in G. 0. P. Ranks. (Editors note—This is the first of a series of Associated Press dis- patches presenting a grassroots view of State political situations as they affect the national pre- convention scene). By the Associated ®ress. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 16.—In- dustrial and agricultural Ohio, pre- senting a balanced cross-section of urban and rural voters, will supply the Natfon through its May 12 primary with both a test of New Deal popu- larity and a vigorous contest between Republican liberals and party reg- ulars. Democrats will have an oppor- tunity to register their stand on the Roosevelt administration’s acts and policies when the President and Col. Henry Breckinridge of New York, out- spoken New Deal critic, clash in the normally impotent presidential prefer- ence primary. Roosevelt Victory Assured. Regardless of the outcome, however, Mr. Roosevelt is assured of the State's 52 delegate votes in the Philadelphia convention. Breckinridge will not con- test in this division and the preferen- tial primary result does not bind the delegation. Democratic chieftains are planning a drive for a large vote in the “pop- ularity comtest,” intent upon citing it s a barometer of New Deal sentiment. President Roosevelt polled 1,301,695 Ohio votes in the 1932 elections, a plurality of approximately 75,000 over Herbert Hoover. Sharing the Ohio spotlight with the Roosevelt-Breckinridge fight is the pattle between Senator Willam E. Borah of Idaho and the Republican State organization for control of the Buckeye delegation to the Cleveland convention. Borah entered the Ohio fight in the Tace of a settled plan by the State leaders to choose a “favorite son” or uninstructed delegation as a means nf avolding factional strife. The Idahoan and his backers contended, however, that the organization's program would not give Republican voters an oppor- tunity to express their actual choice of candidates. Borah argued that all candidates should enter the primaries and let the voters decide between then:. Landon Gets Majority. The State Committee countered | with a State-wide poll of party mem- bers which gave Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas @ clear majority—56 per cent—while Borah polled less than 21 per cent. The Kansas Governor and other Ppotential candidates declined to ente: against Borah and the State Cois mittee, led by Chairman Ed D. Schorr | reverted to its originel plan to selec uninstructed delegates by the “favorin son™ route. Robert A. Taft of Cin cinnati, son of the late President W::+ llam Hovard Taft, was selected fo: the honor. Borah will come to Ohio with suc: backers as former United States Sen- ator Roscoe C. McCulloch, Daniel E Morgan, former Cleveland ity man- ager, and John S. Knight, Akron pub- lisher. Some influential leaders, who indicated friendly interest at the out- set, have failed thus far to give the Idahoan their active support. Borah's entry was regarded as broader in purpose than securing the pivotal Ohio delegation. Liberal ele- | ments described his candidacy as an effort to crystallize sentiment against present Republican leadership through- out the Nation, and argued than an Ohio victory would work toward lib- eralization of the G. O. P. | In such a maneuver, the State or- | Banization'’s decision helped to draw | tighter the liberal-regular issue. In Ohio it will be Borah “against the field.” The organization slate of delegate- candidates includes representatives of most of the other potential presi- dential candidates, with friends of Gov. Landon predominating. Bid for Conservative Support. On the other hand, Borah's selec- tion of Frank E. Gannett, Rochester, N. Y, publisher, as his “second- choice” candidate was regarded by many here as a bid for conservative support. Organization leaders have termed Borah a “radical,” and have contended that he advocated “soft money” and supported many New Deal measures, Leaders of the party regulars have refused to concede Borah even an outside chance to win any substantial number of delegates, and argued that he will show strength only in a few industrial districts. Borah backers now maintain that presence of Walter F. Brown, Post- master General in the Hoover admin- istration, on the “favorite-son” slate means it will e under his influence to support the former President. State leaders deny this, citing the commit- tee’s action in turming away from Hoover last December when the com- mittee decided to support an unin- structed delegation. Chief State interest in the primary centers around the opposition to res nomination of Gov. Martin L. Davey, an avowedly consistent supporter of President Roosevelt, but at serie ous odds with the relief administra- tion, - FORD EXECUTIVE SPEAKS Compares Economic and Social Progress to Advance of Army. DETROIT, March 16 ().—Com-= paring the economic and social prog- ress of the Nation to the advance of an army by salients, William J. Cam- eron said last night that when critics “attempt to prevent advance because the entire line cannot be thrust fore ward at the same time, they are re- actionary—they attack from the rear.” “We are as free as ever to make progress,” the Ford Motor spokesman said in his regular Sunday radio ad- dress, “but if we would keep what progress Wwe have, we must make more.” —_— KIBITZER IS JAILED LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 15 (®).— While Coast Guardsmen dragged the Ohio River here for his “body” yes- terday, Talbot R. Allen, 26, sat on the bank and watched them, even of- fering advice. Tiring, after nearly an hour, Allen walked to his automobile, on which several hours previous police had found a suicide note pinned. Allen, denying he had written the message, was arrested on & charge of drunken- ness and disorderly conduct. ¢