Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1936, Page 2

A—2 &% LIBERTY LEAGUERS AIDED ROOSEVELT Raskob and Du Pont Gifts to Democratic Party Cited by Hastings. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Data furnished to the United States Benate show that President Roosevelt at one time accepted whole-heartedly the work and the financial support of some of the very men who today con- stitute the American Liberty League. Revelations put into tne official rec- ords by Senator Hastings of Delaware are to the effect that the Du Pont family and their associates, among them John Raskob, contributed to the Democratic party huge sums. Mr. Raskob, for example, contributed $375.000, entirely apart from ‘“large loans he personally made and other loans personally guaranteed.” In :mei instance it is revealed that one of the Du Ponts contributed $5,000 even after Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated. Mr. Hastings with true partisan zeal was attempting to answer the impres- sion that the Liberty League is a Re- publican organization, or at least that 1t has sprung from Republican parent- age. His main contention is that the Liberty League is managed, supported | and ir large part made up of members of the Democratic party who broke | with the Roosevelt administration be- cause the latter violated the Demo- cratic platform of 1932. He pointed to What’s What Behind News in Capital Sanctions On Italy Put Money In U. S. Pockets. BY PAUL MALLON. HE value of trying to preserve peace by economic force may now be measured in dollars and sense. The figures are not being announced here, possibly because they raise an embarrassing question. But if you will go into the records of the League of Nations, you will find just what has happened under the sanctions trade embargoes adopted against Italy last Pall. After all President Roosevelt said in his appeals to American business to hold down on trade with Italy, after all State Secretary Hull threatened to do to exporters caught shipping to Italy, after all the hullabaloo here about American co-operation—against Mussolini— the figures show that Uncle Sam was the biggest profiter from the sanctionist peace drive. He did not make very much, not enough to be called a profiteer, but he made practically all the profit there was. He took the markets England and France formerly had in Italy, and if he had not done it, someone else would have. The result of the whole transaction THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936. NEW DEAL HINTS GURB ON PUBLICITY Press Agents Told to Hold Down Output of Hand- Outs. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. In an effort to keep Washington off the country’s front pages as much as possible, orders have gone out to the horde of New Deal press agents to hold their output to the minimum. It is a part of the administration’s strategy, it is understood, to main- taing the calm which has come over the city and which )as become so pronounced of late the correspondents’ pouts cause them to resemble & young- ster who sucks his thumbs. In addition, a taboo is understood to have been placed upon the wise- cracks and other pronouncements which used to make headlines, such as that of Harry Hopkins that Gov. Lan- don balanced the budget “out of the hides of the people.” It does not mean that the thinkers concentrated here are not thinking just as hard as ever, but they are not saying as much about it. The change is noticeable not only in the press conferences, but in the reduction in hand-outs with which the correspondents’ offices formerly were flooded. Until about the time that Mr. Roosevelt went off to Florida, it was with some difficulty that one moved, about the twelfth floor of the | Press Building, where a number of the two men who won the party nom- | was detrimental to the peace advo- correspondents have their offices. ination for the presidency in 1924 and 1928, respectively—John W. Davis and Alfred E. Smith—who are prime; movers in the Liberty League. Roosevelt Talk Cited. Mr. Hastings read into the record the remarks of President Roosevelt, delivered in Chicago just after he was | nominated, when he was addressing | the Democratic National Committee: “I had hoped to get here while my old friend, John Raskob, was pre- eiding. I want to tell you all of the very splendid work that has been done | for the party by the retiring chair- man. It was his conception three vears ago that gave to the party a permanent, active headquarters in Washington. “Mr. Raskob spoke to me at that time and we went over the plans. As you all know, my old friend, Jouett Shouse, was made chairman of the Executive Committee, and another old friend, Charlie Michelson, was placed in charge of the publicity. They made the country realize that the | Democratic party alive. was very much Praise for Shouse. cates, only A minor annoyance to the | belligerent, and profitable to outsiders. | It shows what usually happens when any one Or any group tries to play Big Brother to the world. | A trustworthy unofficial estimate is | that, from the time sanctions were in- voked, United States trade with Italy has increased about $4,000,000. England’s Exports Drop. } The League official figures afford | months of sanctions, November, De- | United States trade with Italy in- period of the previous year. trade dropped from $2,742,000 to $22( 000; France's from $1,389,000 to $159,: “I am interested that my Republi- can friends, after 1928, raised the old question, ‘Is the Democratic party dead?’ The answer Mr. Shouse and Mr. Michelson gave to that resulted | in 1930 not only in the election of a Democratic House, but in the election of more Democratic Governors and local officials than in any year since | These gentlemen deserve the | 1921. gratitude of the party.” Mr. Hastings then asks: “When did Mr. Shouse and Mr. Raskob become such a thorn in the flesh of the New Deal? When they refused to follow the New Deal into the morass of socialism and when it | deliberately violated every Democratic principle for which all good Demo- crats stood when Mr. Roosevelt was nominated in 1932.” S Importance of Disclosure. + The importance at this time of the Qisclosure of Mr. Roosevelt's indorse- “‘gnent of Messrs. Shouse and Raskob is that it appears he fully realized how the money and work furnished by Mr. Raskob and his associates laid the foundation for the present suc- cess of the Democratic party. Also Mr. Roosevelt did not turn down the | supposedly “tainted money” of the Du Ponts even after he was inaugu rated. In fact, the Democratic party, it is apparent, received more money from these same Liberty League sources than did all the farmers’ coun- cils, Leagues to Support Southern Con- stitutionalism, Sentinels of the Re- public and other anti-New Deal or- ganizations put together. Indeed, the support given to the Democratic party probably exceeded the amounts furnished to the Liberty League itself. Mr. Hastings reveals the record: “On September 12, 1928, Mr. Ras- kob contributed $50,000 to the Demo- cratic National Committee. “On October 3, three weeks later, he contributed another $50,000. Loan to Committee. “On November 14 he loaned the committee $100,000 and during Octo- ber and November the Democratic party borrowed $1,500,000 from the County Trust Co. of New York upon the indorsement of Mr. Raskob. “On April 25, 1929, after the elec- tion was over and the Democratic party apparently was dead, Mr. Ras- kob contributed another $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee. A little later that year on two occae sions he loaned the committee in the eggregate $40,000. “In 1930, an election year, he Joaned it $180,000, in 1931 the sum of $122,000 and then as they approached the campaign of 1932, when Mr. Roosevelt was the candidate, Mr. Ras- kob canceled two loans of $50,000 each, amounting in the aggregate to $100,000, and on October 21, 1932, Just before thie election, he contributed $25,000. Total Raskob Gifts. “If you make a summary of these contributions and cancellations of loans, you will find that, between September 12, 1928, ,nnd October 21, 1932, Mr. Raskob contributed to the Democratic party the huge sum of $375,000. This, in addition to the large loans he personally made and other loans personally guaranteed.” The foregoing means that Mr. Ras- kob practically financed the publicity campaign carried on by Mr. Michel- son and also the activity of Jouett Shouse, which consisted in no small part of a “smear-Hoover” barrage, of which Mr. Roosevelt was ultimately to be the beneficiary in votes in No- vember, 1932. But lest it be believed that Mr. Raskob was trying to get the nomina- tion for his friend, Gov. Smith, it is to be noted that Mr. Raskob contrib- uted $25,000 after the nomination went to Mr. Roosevelt, and also that the man who now is chairman of the Liberty League, Irenee du Pont, sent 8 check of $5,000 to the Democratic National Committee on April 4, 1933, ‘which was about a month after Pres- ddent Roosevelt was inaugurated. Du Pont Denations. ‘There are records showing that Pierre S. du Pont gave 350,000 to the Democratic National Committee be- fore Smith was defeated and $25,000 afterward to help the Democratic party stay alive, and he gave $15,000 000; indicating that, as far as they | were concerned. they really put the | embargoes into effect. Other gainers besides the United | States were Austria (increase $1,500,= 000) and Germany (increase $940,- 000). One of the wisest of Washing- ton business men returned to Washington recently with convinc- ing proof that Mr. Roosevelt would be defeated for re-election. He says 95 per cent of the big shots in Wall Street are convinced that Roosevelt’s re-election is certain and they have never beem right about anything yet. The head of the Democratic con- | gressional campaign is Pat Drewry of | Virginia and that of the Republican is Chester Bolton of Ohio. They were chatting in the lobby when a member came up and asked them about Post- | master General Farley's statement that this is going to be a dirty presi- dential campaign. Praise Without Laughs. “No, sir, not as far as we are con- { cerned,” replied the Democrat. “I | have the highest respect for Mr. Bol- ton.” “No, indeed,” chimed Bolton. | “Mr. Drewry is the highest type you | could place in such a position.” They looked at each other without laughing, ard then went to their re- spective offices—probably to O. K. bit- The unusual tiff between the Senate and the House about paying Senator Black’s law partner a $10,000 fee is spreading on the inside. It may cause some real personal trouble involving other legislation. The House leaders have indirectly sent work to Black that unless he changes his tactics on the lobby bill there is not going to be a bill. What made them angry was the fact that Black ditchbed the House lobby bill by sending it to a Sen- ate Committee. The usual prac- tice required him merely to disa- gree with it and request a confer- ence with the House so that differ- ences between the House bill and his might be straightened out. Now the Senators say they will tack the $10,000 fee on a general appropri- ation bill so the House will not dare to kill it. The House crowd says if the Senate does that it will give Black another punch in the nose by a vote of the House. Thus it may be a big fight, but not necessarily a constructive one. Life is a lottery for the W. P, A, workers in a Pennsylvania coal region, if for no one else. They say they were given books of chances on an automobile to be given away three days before the Pennsylvania primary. The bosses passed out the books, each containing $1 worth of chances, with Instructions that each W. P. A. worker must sell the chances or pay for them i pea; (Copyright. 1936.) party a total of at least $95,000 and Mr. Hastings said that he did not have all the records. Said the Delaware Senator: “Mr. Farley made no complaint about the Du Pont brothers and Mr. Raskob so long as they continued their large contributions to the Demo- cratic party. He made no complaint about Mr. Irenee du Pont when he sent Mr. Farley a check for $5,000 Jjust & month after Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated.” Gifts of the Wealthy, If it be assumed that contributions from wealthy men have ceased so far as the Democratic party is concerned, the coming campaign will reveal that money from the executives of big corporations is accepted as quickly by the New Deal as by its arch opponent, the Republican party. As for public offices, the party that during 1932, Judging from these figures, the Du Pont family has given the Democratic I wins out, of course, makes, as a rule, a “preferred list” from the list of cam- paign contributors. (Copyright, 1086.) Hand-Outs 2 Inches Thick. Outside of each door was piled hand-outs 2 inches thick, telling what the Federal Housing Administration, the P. W. A. and W. P. A. and nu- merous other alphabetical agencies were doing. The W. P. A, bundle de- in many instances 4 inches thick. For some time the correspondents never gave these releases a second | look, but some of the more enterpris- ing ones laten developed the practice | of taking a particularly funny project each day and sending it to their pa- | pers under the heading “Today's Boondoggle” This came to be a daily feature in several of the metropolitan papers. ter publicity attacks against nchl The housing administration’s daily budget contained not only a narrative 2 | of how it was getting along, but “fea- | Vention in Maine April 2. only a comparison for the first three ge! 3 . | zather & complete job on the Roose- | | cember and January. For that period, neWwspapers telling the housewife how | Velt administration in that speech, tures” for the women's pages of the | she could put the bureau in another and it would make all the difference In the same official period, England'’s | in the world, and funds coulds be | secured under the housing adminis- tration’s loan plan to do this with. | Security Board Continues. | The only releases which seem to come regularly now are those from the Social Security Board seeking to ex- plain the social security law and oc- casionally telling of a State having | enacted legislation to conform. A | steady stream of releases also come | from the Democratic National Com- | mittee, but they are mostly of speeches, “column” which Charlie Michelson, Democratic publicity director, tributes to the country newspapers and which he wittily calls “dispelling the fog.” But to a large extent the cor- | to the old reliable output of the For- | eign Policy Association, the American | Federation of Labor, the National ! Economy League and the like. The New Deal's press agents are | under instructions to cease “making news” about their departments; that | is, for each to cease vying with a compatriot in an effort to show the work his particular department is doing. The word-of-mouth campaign between the publicity men of Secre- tary Ickes and those of Hopkins still is continuing. In fact, it has taken on new vigor with Ickes' effort to get | $700,000.000 of the $1,500,000,000 re- | lief fund. Country Publicity Maintained. The understanding is that there has |been no great curtailment in the distribution of publicity out in the country, particularly on the part of the Housing Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration. The R. E. A. is conducting an intensive campaign to educate the people on the uses of electricity. It has sug- gested, for example, that a cow will give better milk if the radio is playing music. It has just received a very critical reaction on Bulletin R. E. A. 48745—Special No. 18, which among other things said: “Ducks are very timid and afraid of the dark. Modern duck farms use all- night electric illumination to keep their ducks from stampeding.” A citizen signing himself “Safety First” wrote in to commend the R. E. A. in satirical vein. He once had a terrible time with a duck, he said, that became frightened in the dark. GREEN PREDICTS MARRIAGE BOOM Labor Official Urges Passage of ‘Wagner Housing Bill to Advance Loans. By the Associatec Press. The Senate Labor Committee today considered the statement of William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, that & boom is due in the marriage market. Green used this prediction as an argument for immediate passage of the $786,000,000 Wagner housing bill, which would establish a system of loans and grants to local housing au- thorities over a four-year period. More marriages are a need for more homes, he said. The A. F. of L. “gives unqualified approval” to the measure, Green told the committee yesterday, shortly after Secretary Perkins had indorsed the legislation. Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, author of the proposal, declared in a radio speech last night that “thousands (of families) are living like medieval serfs in hovels.” He added that 10,000,000 American fam- ilies are denied safety and sanitation in their homes. ————— Election Trains Arranged. Plans for special railroad accommo- dations to the primary elections in Pennsylvania next week will be an- nounced at a business meeting of the Pennsylvania Democratic Club of Washington tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. in the bamboo room of the Willard Hotel. Train reservations may be obtained at the Pennsylvania Absentee Voters’ Bureau, 1406 G street, it was an- nounced todsy by Joseph F. Quinn, chairman of the club’s Executive Com- mittee. \ scribing boondoggling projects was | STEIWER KEYNOTE T0 RIP NEW DEAL G. 0. P. Leader Is Likely to Ask Liberalism at Same Time. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. * Benator Frederick C. Steiwer of Oregon, the newly selected keynote speaker of the Republican National Convention, is expected to handle the Roosevelt New Deal without gloves and at the same time to give more than a hint of liberalism on the part of the G. O. P, The action of the Committee on Ar- rangements for the Republican Na- tional Convention in Cleveland yes- terday did not come as an entire sur- prise to the Oregon Senator. He had been sounded out on the matter sev- eral days before by Ralph E. Williams, national committeeman from Oregon and for years a vice chairman of the National Committee. 5 The decision of the committee to make Steiwer keynoter and temporary chairman of the national convention was well received by Republicans here. ‘The published reports that the forces back of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas for the presidential nomination would demand the appointment of C. Way- land Brooks, newly nominated by the Republicans of Illinois to run for Governor, had caused a little resent- ment in certain quarters. That the Landon people did not make a drive for Brooks at the Cleveland meeting has tended to allay this feeling. Definite Rebuff Seen. Despite the statements to the effect that the Landon people are satisfied with Steiwer, the failure of the com- | mittee to pick Brooks has been inter- preted in some quarters as a rebuff to the Landon candidacy, justified or not. As a matter of fact, the selec- tion of a keynote speaker has nothing whatever to do really with the contest | for the presidential nomination. How- ever, had the Brooks appointment gone through it would have been said that the Landon forces already con- trol the machinery of the national organization. campaign, candidates, managers and the public are all catching at straws, , blowing. and once a week, of course, comes the | dis- | | respondents’ “mail bag” has dwindled | Senator Steiwer was the keynote | speaker for the Republican State Con- He did ; which was very well received by the creased $2,347.000 over the similar Corner of the room, repaper the walls | Maine Republicans and others outside | the State. In the course of his address Steiwer | said: | at this time may be stated in one ques- |ton: ‘Is the retention of the so- | called New Deal. as distinguished from governmental administration by either the Republican or Democratic parties, a good thing for America?' " He charged President Roosevelt with | having built up a huge bureaucrac and with having minimized the powe! of the people’s representatives in Con- | gress and with having concentrated that power in the hands of executive agencies. “The incumbent national administration,” he said, “was inaugu- rated with Tammany's benediction. | The Tammany creed has permeated the organization set up for the relief of the destitute. In many cases where | political support is wanting the admin- istration has threatened Congressmen | | and whole communities with reprisals and withholding of benefits.” May Broach New Plan. | Steiwer, in his keynote speech at the national convention, is expected to | deal particularly with the administra- tion of relief and to offer a more | satisfactory and a more permanent { plan in place of what he considers | temporary makeshifts. He is expected | | also to hit hard at the reciprocal trade | agreements, which he considers have been unfair to American agricultural | and forest industries. As he pointed out in his address in Maine, Senator Steiwer believes that steps must be taken to make agricul- ture self-sustaining. In this connec- tion he said: “The following program, as an ir- reducible minimum, is justified: “l. A Nation-wide land-conserva- tion plan which is both permanent end practicable. “2. A guarantee that the American producer shall enjoy the American market to the extent of his ability to supply that market. “3. Government aid in disposing of farm surpluses. “4. Lower interest rates on ferm mortgages. “Let it be our effort to imsure that the Republican Party will meet these problems sincerely. They can be solved and ought to be solved with- out violation of the Constitution; without any program of scarcity and destruction; and without any process- ing tax to add to the cost of bread and meat.” Oregonians For Borah. ‘The Oregon delegation to the Re- publican National Convention will be instructed for Borah in the primary which takes place May 15. However, there has been no report that the Borah people were active in demand- ing that Steiwer be made the key- noter. Indeed, the reports from Cleve- land are that the committee meeting was rather dominated by the Old Guard, which is distinctly hostile to the Borah candidacy. Steiwer himself has been mentioned now and then as a possible presiden- tial or vice presidential nominee. If the convention should nominate Lan- don or Borah, it is reasonable to sup- pose that the East would be given the vice presidential nomination. This is not necessary, however. The last Re- publican national ticket was taken from California and Kansas. ——— CARD PARTY PLANNED Orphans to Benefit From Event at Willard Hotel. A benefit card party will be given at the Willard Hotel tomorrow at 8:15 pm. by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Proceeds of the affair will be used to finance the high school education of orphars. ‘The guest speaker will be the Rev. John Cartwright, pastor of the Church of the Inwmaculate Conception, who will outline plans for establishment ‘| of the educational fund for ambitious orphans unable to continue their own education after leaving an asylum. Proposals for such a fund were first made by Right Rev. Msgr. John O’Grady. Film Actor to Retire. WOOD, Calif., April 22 (#). yesterday he would retire in when he finishes “Early to Bed.” would go to his home at Ridgefleld] N. J. His career stretched QveF more (hag 50 years, he eaid, actor, In the pre-convention | hoping to tell which way the wind is | “The paramount political issue | Cuban President-Elect Arrives Secretary Hull and other officials shown yesterday at Union Station as they greeted Presi- J dent-elect Dr. Miguel Mariano Gomez of Cuba. As the Cuban national anthem was played. left to right: Admiral Joseph R. Defrees, Gomez and Secretary of State Hull. —A. P. Photo. W.F. WHEATLEY EXPIRES AT HOME Native of District Was Em- | ployed at City Post Office ~ for 40 Years. William F. Wheatley, for 40 years died at his home, 711 Otis place, yes- | terday after a long illness. Mr. ‘Wheatley retired from the Gov- ernment service five years ago, after having been granted two ex- tensions. Mr. was born in Wheatley this 1863, the son of the late William G. and Mary Teresa Wheatley. His father for many years oper- ated fuel yards in the southeast sec- tion of the city, one on the site of the present House Office Building and the other at Fifth and G streets southeast. He was educated in St. Peter's Paro- hial School and in the public schools here, and entered the postal service as a letter carrier in 1893. He as- sisted in the inauguration of automo- bile mail collection service in this city. Mr. Wheatley is survived by his widow, Mattie L. Bosse Wheatley: two sons, William J. and G. Raymond ‘Wheatley, and two sisters, Mrs. F. Edward Mitchell and Mrs. Katherine M. O'Connor, all of this city. Funeral services will be held at his late residence at 8:30 a.m. Friday, followed by solemn requiem mass at St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church at 9 am. Interment will be in Glen- wood Cemetery., BEER BARON ‘SLEUTH' IS HELD IN CHICAGO “‘Spike" 0'Donnell to Face Grill- ing on Fees Received From Contracting Firm. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 22.—Edward “Spike” O'Donnell, former beer baron who was recently pictured as an ama- teur sleuth, was the ‘“guest” of his professional contemporaries today. He was held without charge at the detective bureau pending a scheduled interrogation by Chief John L. Sullivan. O'Donnell, his 6 fobt 3 inch frame dreped In impeccable attire, was dis- playing a new cane on a Loop corner yesterday. Sergt. Marshall Pigeon drove up in & squad car. “Get in, ‘Spike,’ " said the officer. “Here, here,” O'Donnell protested. “Don’t you guys ever read the papers? You can't arrest me. I'm a detective, t00.” “Come along to the bureau” the sergeant replied. “We'll see who's a detective.” At a chancery hearing last week, John M. Bransfield, head of a con- tracting firm, testified he pald O'Don- nell $16000 for detective work. He said O'Donnell was employed to find out why the concern had received no city or county paving contracts. PHIL KENNAMER BACK IN OKLAHOMA PRISON Son of Federal Judge Returns Alone After Losing Fight to Gain Freedom. By the Associated Press. MCcALESTER, Okla., April 22.—Phil Kennamer, 20-year-old son of a Fed- eral judge, was back in the State Penitentiary today serving out his 25-year sentence for manslaughter. Loser in a year’s fight to keep his freedom, he arrived alone at the prison last night, fully 12 hours ahead of the time he had been ordered to surrender. “Well, I've come back to stay a while,” he told Warden Roy Kenny. He was assigned No. 31420, the same one he had last Spring when he served 40 days of his sentence before being released on a $25,000 appeal bond. Mo- tions for a new trial were denied twice by the Criminal Court of Appeals. Kennamer was convicted in Feb- ruary, 1935, for the slaying of John F. Gorrell, ir., a student dentist, in Tulsa, Thanksgiving night, 1934. SPANISH STRIKE ENDS MADRID, April 22 (®)—Miners throughout the Province of Huelva returned to work today, ending a 24- hour strike. Witliam F. Wheatley. demnity to men discharged for lack of work. . The strike was ¢onducted poscetully, 4 | an employe of the City Post Office, | city November 27, | Promoted REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. PYE. REAR ADMR. PYE * GIVEN PROMOTION {Chosen by Standley to Be Assistant Chief of Naval Operations. Rear Admiral William Satterlee Pye, in charge of the War Plans Division, | office of the chief of Naval Operations, | will be the next assistant chief of Naval Operations. | This was announced today by Ad-' miral William H. Standley, acting Sec- retary of the Navy, who said the present assistant chief, Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, leader of the first | group of American destroyers overseas during the World War, will leave Washington about June 1 to com- Battle Force. Admiral Pye has been attached to the War Plans Division since April, 11935, when he left the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. Born in Minneapolis on June 9, 1880. he served on various ships and stations, and for the Navy Cross. He was attached to the war plans head of the United States Naval Mis- sion to Peru in February, 1929. Later, and then was appointed chief of staff | of the commander of the Scouting | Force, prior to going to the War Col- lege. Admiral Taussig, who has been as- sistant chief of Naval Operations since May, 1933, holds the Distinguished Service Medal for his World War duty, stroyer Wadsworth, as well as the grst division of destroyers sent abroad, and later commanded the destroyer Little. Prior to coming to Washington, he was chief of staff of the commander in chief of the United States Fleet, e LEECH CUP EVENT OFF The Leech Cup tennis matches, that | have been played here in previous | years, have been canceled this year. The Bureau of Navigation announced this today in revealing that Admiral William H. Standley, Acting Secretary of the Navy, has agreed to a proposal of Secretary Dern that, beginning in 1937, the matches take place during each alternate year. The War Depart- ment head informed the Navy that “it will not be practicable for the Army to participate in the Leech Cup tennis matches this year.” The of the soundirg board of and A. A A offensive. It telling issues which people and attentive The sooner mand a battleship division of the I his World War service was awarded | division shortly after the war and was | he commanded the battleship Nevada, | during which he commanded the de- | 8 ARE INDICTED INDISTRICT COURT of Avalon, to Be Tried for Embezzlement. Making its first return since the United States Court of Appeals ruled Government workers were not qualified Jurors, the District grand jury today returned 58 indictments and ignored charges in 7 cases, Included among the indictments, most of which charged petty offenses, was a charge of grand larceny and embezzlement against Frederic H. | Birdseye, former student manager of the Avalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut avenue. Birdseye, according to the indict- ment, took $1472 from a safe in the theater office last February 24 and then spent the money on a tour of the country. According to police, he left Wash- went to California, New Orleans and Cleveland, Ohio where he surrendered. | Investigators told the grand jury he admitted taking the money and said he spent in on “wine, women and song.” He had 11 cents when ar- rested. Others indicted. with the charges against, them, were Charles F. Stewart, Frank Boyce and William Clyburn, robbery, Blake Dentzler, Frank Boyce, Eugene Mar- shall, Robert Lynn and Kenneth Fletcher, housebreaking and larceny; | Edward R. Dodd and Waiter M. Childs, housebreaking; Robert L. Cummings and Richard E. Simmons, housebreak- ing and robbery; John L. Brenner and | | Arthur Gilbert Hurley, grand larceny; Birket L. Frazier, receiving stolen prop- erty; Arthur Gilmore, Marvin Wood, John A. Lancaster, James Arrington and Bennie Marinari, assault with a dangerous weapon: John Lee Holloway, carnal knowledge; Lettie King Hick- man, abortion, and Clarence Turner, Louis O. Gatewood and Howarc G. E. Brown, joyriding. Samuel Ponds, Edward T. Magruder, | John R. Parker, Emanuel Warsing and James E. Braswell, grand lar- ceny and joyriding; Richard M. Spear, | Thomas F. Broderick, Lawrence M. Sparshott and Samuel Gill, grand | larceny; David Rhodes, housebreak- | ing; Robert E. Lawson, Jack L. Kelly, Marion Melvin Chavin, William C. ‘Wright, Johnny Brooks, Charles H. Franklin, Edward Johnson and Alfred Glascoe, housebreaking and larceny; Joseph B. Brown, Clarence Daniels, Raymond O. Harley, Robert R. Taylor and Nathan Powers, robbery; Marvin Dent, Christina McLendon and Wil- weapon; George T. Burke, assault with intent to commit carnal knowl- edge; William Spangler, Roger W. Simkins and Mary Jones, violation of section 863, District of Columbia code; Wil- liam Bell Salsbury, Lawrence Peden and Emilo Ramon Towres, violation of the Harrison narcotic act; Leonard ‘W. Shoemaker and Louis Miller, il- legal use of smoke screen and violat- | ing liquor-taxing act; Leo Joseph Huff, 'vmlluon of the white slave traffic act; ! Nicholas J. Forte, violating the na- tional motor vehicle theft act, and Prances Giaquinto, forgery tering. ‘The jurors clesred the following of charges indicated: Wilbur P. Brown, grand larceny; Raymond E. Johnson, Joseph W. Wil- kinson, Edward Jones and Richard E. Martin, Robert S. Curtis, assault with a dan- gerous weapon, and Maggie E. John- son, violating the liquor taxing act. and ut- Baby Buggies “Parked.” East Moseley, England, will have & parking place for baby buggies. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH THE opposition has never made so little use in an election year Congress. The success of Senator Vandenberg's attacks on Passamaquoddy, the Florids® canal crop control payments shows how much can be accomplished by a determined also shows that one of the most of the campaign will be New Deal waste and extravagance. That is the thing to really react and give immediate hearing. the anti-administration politicians learn that there is profound popular interest and rapidly mounting alarm at the rate and volume of Government spending, the sooner they will concentrate on the wholesale squandering of the taxpayers' money, Every one recognizes that the agarian problem Alice Longworth. can't be ignored, and that unemployment relief must be continued. But an increasing number of people are becoming deeply distrustful of the way these matters are being handled, and any sound alternative would attract an enormous following. It's up to the opposition to be insistent, consistent and convineing. (Copyright, 1036.) | Birdseye, Former Manager| ington by plane for New York, then| liam Smith, assault with a dangerous | Le Roy Higgs, Ralph Higgs, | joyriding; Cupid Hamby and | U.S.RESTSCASE AS REAGUER S0BS Defendant in Murder Trial Breaks Down at Mention of Dead Son. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER. With the defendant weeping con- vulsively, the Government rested its case early this afternoon in the mure der trial of 57-year-old William H. Reaguer, Culpeper, Va. undertaker, accused of the brutal slaying of Mrs. Willie Mae Wood, 21, in & hotel here, October 12. Reaguer broke down completely for the first time since the trial began Monday. He burst into tears at the mention by a witness of his dead son, Earle Reaguer, and of his two daughters and wife, now living. Detective Sergt. Aubrey Tolson of the homicide squad had told Jus- tice Oscar R. Luhring and the jury in District Supreme Court that Rea- guer identified a double-barreled shot- gun found in the rear compartment of his eutomobile as having belonged to his son. Registered as “H. L. Thomas.” The automobile was parked in the Washington Garage after Reaguer brought Mrs. Wood, a bride of but 17 days, and her cousin, Miss Annie T. O'Cannon, 18, from Culpeper to this city where they registered et the hotel as “H. L. Thomas and party, Richmond, Va.” As the prosecution closed. Reaguer's chief counsel, James A. O'Shea, re- vealed that he will attempt to prove | that the defendant was of unsound mind at the time of the slaying and that his condition was aggravated by heavy drinking. Throughout his cross-examination of Government witnesses, O'Shea has endeavored to show that Reaguer's ac- tions were abnormal and that he was drunk when Mrs. Wood was slashed to death, Dr. Thomas Christensen of the Emergency Hospital staff, who re- sponded to the ambulance call and | later treated Reaguer for self-inflicted | wounds, todey testified the undertaker blamed the killing of Mrs. Wood on | her husband, Herbert R. Wood, young Virginia Highway Commission em- ploye. Doctor Quotes Defendant. “When Reaguer was brought into the hospital he gave the wrong name."” said Dr. Christensen. “After I got | him on the table I asked him who | killed the woman. He replied ‘Wood | did it | “One minute he would say he wanted to die and the next minute would say ‘take good care of me.'” Under cross-examiration by O'Shea | the physician said that Reaguer’s | speech was thick and there was a dis- tinct odor of liquor about him. His mental condition. somewhat cloudy when he was brought to the hospital about 5 am, had cleared to & con- siderable extent by 8 o'clock, Dr. Christensen asserted, adding that he did not think Reaguer was intoxicated. Policemen on Stand. Three police officers told of the’scene in the room where Mrs. Wood was slain at the time they arrived. They were Sergt. Eslie Williams, Lieut. Wal- ter T. Storm of the Traffic Bureau and Detective Sergt. J. E. Kane of the first precinct. Storm said Reaguer | seemed dazed. Wood was the principal witness | yesterday afternoon. He followed on | the stard Mrs. Wood's sister, Miss | Margaret Fletcher, and their cousin, Miss O'Bannon. The youthful husband hotly denied that he suspected his wife of going out after their marriage with Reaguer. Reaguer had threatened to kill him, | he said. NEW DEAL INDORSED BY SECOND FACTION Joseph Wolf Democrats in Min- nesota Meet After Ryan Convention. By the Associatec Press. ST. PAUL, April 22.—Blanket in- dorsement of the New Deal and elec- tion of 26 national convention dele- gates pledged to support President Roosevelt for renomination were unanimously voted by the State meet- ing of Joseph Wolf Democrats yes- | terday. ‘Wolf, national committeeman, plead- ed for party harmony in the face of action taken by another wing of Min- nesotz Democrats who two months ago held their own convention, elected na- tional delegates pledged to Roosevelt | and planned to pick a slate of State candidates. The Wolf convention, where most of | the 3,042 seats were occupied, and the opposing assembly, led by Represent- ative Elmer J. Ryan, John Regan and Joseph Moonan, each has insisted the other was meeting “illegally.” The national convention will be called upon to determine which groun | of 2€ delegates shall be seated at | Philadelphia in June. |SUPERVISORS APPOINTED Secretary Ickes has appointed su- rs for the 48 States and the District of Columbia for the national survey of vocational education and guidance of Negroes to be carried out by the Federal Office of Education Thomas E. Batson will have charge of the survey in the District. The work in Maryland will be under direc- tion of Victor H. Daniel of Balti- more and in Virginia by Constance C. Pisher of Richmond. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: | Debates alien deportation bill. g Foreign Relations Committee studies Panama treaty. House: Considers conference report on In- terior Department appropriation bill. ‘Townsend Old-Age Pension Plan Investigating Committe holds hearing. TOMORROW. Senate: May take up unanimous consent calendar if immigration bill is dis- posed of. House: Begins general debate on 1936 rev- enue bill. Banking and Currency Committee begins hearings on legislation pro- posed by the controller general's office, 10:30 am. Committee begins hearings on nae tional safety and accident prevention bill, 10:30 am. ¢ Interstate and Foreign Commerce =