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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair today and tomorrow; somewhat warmer; gentle northerly winds. Temperatures—Highest, 79, at 1:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 62, at 9 p.m. Full Associated Press News and Wirephotos Sunday Morning and Every Afternoon. i yesterday. Full report on Page B-3. (#) Means Associated Press. No. 1,630—No. 33,647. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. FIGHT GREATEST IN PARTY HISTORY, LANDON DECLARES Struggle to Retain Constitu- tional Government Is Cited by Nominee. MILITANT CAMPAIGN WILL START SOON Priends Expect Governor to In- vade East—Elaborate Itinerary Is Mapped for Knox. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURG, Kansas, June 13— Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican nominee for. President, stated to- night, “To me the fight is on” in the “greatest struggle for retaining a con- Etitutional government since the birth of the Republican party.” The Governor dispatched a message | to a celebration here in honor of his nomination and it was read by his former secretary, Will G. West. The message: “It is with profound appreciation | that I send greetings to my loyal friends of Crawford County. The nomination of the Republican party for President of the United States carries with it a great honor and, at the same time, a tremendous re- sponsibility. “If I have had any measure of Suc- cess as chief executive of this great State, I owe it to the loyal support that I have received from its citizens. If I am to achieve success as the nominee for the party as Chief Execu- tive of the United States, I shall need the loyal support of the citiz:ns of every State. The position of nominee of the Republican party carries the responsibility of rallving the people to the battle ground of the greatest struggle for retaining a constitutional goternment since the birth of the Re- publican party. To the acccmplish- ment of this end I pledge my utmost efforts, “I ask from the people of Crawford County their help and moral support and their prayers. To me the fight is on. I am firmly convinced that only through Republican victory this Fall may fair prices be restored to agri-| culture, fair wages to labor, a suffi- cient market to industry, with pros- perity and security for all.” MILITANT DRIVE PLANNED. Campaign May be Opened Within Next Ten Days. ‘ CLEVELAND, June 13 (#).—Plans | for a militant and whirlwind opening of the Republican campaign to defeat | President Roosevelt, possibly within | the next 10 days, tonight were mapped ‘here by members of the party’s high | command. Among the rear guard remaining here after the Republican National Convention it was tentatively decided that the spearhead in the earlier cam- | paigning would be John D. M. Hamil- ton, energetic new chairman of the National Committee. Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the standard bearer, also will take a hand and become increasingly active in be- half of his own call for a “fighting campaign” as the election nears. Lan- don men said both he and Hamilton would travel extensively and turn to the radio frequently. Friends of the Kansas Governor, disclaiming that they spoke for him, said they expected him before long to invade the East as well as the Far West. They spoke of a Landon “pilgrimage” to spots in Pennsylvania ke knew as a boy. A possible swing into New York and other Eastern | States on the same journey was | mentioned. To Make Final Plans. Final plans, including an elaborate ftinerary for Col. Frank Knox of Chicago, the vice presidential nominee, will not be made until Landon, Knox, Hamilton and some members of the Republican Committee sit down to- gether at Topeka next Tuesday. Knox already has made plans for going into New Hampshire, possibly soon after his departure from Topeka. He has a home in Manchester, and Republican leaders there have named a Reception Committee to welcome kim. Any immediate directing of Republi- can fire against the New Deal would open up the campaign before the Democratic forces have finally mapped the course of their own. The Demo- cratic National Convention, at which the renaming of the Roosevelt-Garner ticket is scheduled to be soon over with, will open 10 days from today in Philadelphia. The interest of many in that con- vention wilk center upon the drafting of a platform. Whether the Demo- cratic planks will go beyond those fashioned here, and call for a wage and hour law amendment to the Con- stitution, has stirred much specula- tion. In any event, the shaping of the Philadelphia platform will more clear- 1y reveal the course of the campaign. To Open Office Here. Plans were formed here today to place the principal Republican head- quarters in Chicago. Hamilton will start many of his travels from there. Other headquarters will be opened in New York, Washington, Kansas City and in some Far Western city, under present plans. In addition to a wide reorganization »f the Republican National Commit- tee, the arrangements included the quick installation of press facilities and establishment of a press relations man in Topeka. Landon men had under considera- tion today the naming of C. B. Good- speed, Chicago banker and present as- sistant treasurer of the Republican Committee, as treasurer. A money- raising drive already is in formation. Priends of the Kansas Governor made known that his-managers up to now had insisted that no single con- tributions larger than $2,500 be ac- cepted. There was & disposition today, however, to relax this rule. Up to last Saturday night, it was magazine writer of long experience ters in the series, appearing daily (Copyrighted, 1936, by the North ship of the Republican party. once it took months, a book, a play comes quickly and is first-hand facts on the career of Mr. Landon. Ihe 3 WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Y Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1936—118 PAGES. ## Governor No Rabble-Rouser, He Says in Introduction to Story of Nominee’s Life. William Allen White, the famgous Emporia, Kans., editor and writer, has written this introduction to a biography of Gov. Landon, Republican nominee for the presidency, by Richard B. Fowler. Mr. Fowler, staff member of the Kansas City Star, is a mewspaper and and has had opportunities to gather There will be 12 chap- and Sunday in The Star. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. American Newspaper Alllance, Inc.) ‘The presidential boom which began as a mild courtesy-mention of his name a little more than a year ago has swept Alf M. Landon into the leader- Its swift acceleration, rising from the grass roots and sidewalks of America, is a new phenomenon in American politics. ‘There have been times aplenty when comparatively unknown men have emerged from convention conferences behind closed doors to head their party’s ticket. But the Landon forces went to Cleveland with their candidate already the popular choice of the rank and file of his party. There was nothing the men behind the closed doors could do about it. The Landon boom’s swiftness in gathering is somewhat the result of the new machinery of the modern age, which has telescoped space and so reduced the time element in any political movement. The radio, the great press serv- | ices, the long-distance telphone have made it possible for all America to re- | ceive one idea, to become one unified consciousness in the spacg of hours where Lincoln Took Six Years to Grow. Effervescent songs sweep over the country through radio in a few weeks; universally acclaimed. It took “Uncle Tom's Cabin” vears to do what a best seller does now in weeks. It took Lincoln | six years to grow to the proportions that Landon has assumed in six months. The powers that be, which assume that people should be governed rather (See STORY OF LANDON, Page A-3) TIGKET 15 WEAK, * FARLEY DECLARES Landon Is Termed “a Syn- | thetic Candidate” With- ! out a Record. By the Asscciated Press. NEW YORK, June 13.—Terming Gov. Alf M. Landon “a synthetic can- ! didate” for President, Postmaster | General James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Commit- tee, issued a statement tonight calling the Republican selections “the weak- est ticket ever nominated in the his- tory of the party.” “The Republicans,” his statement said, “should adopt ‘Lose with Landon” as their campaign slogan. “His (Landon’s) confession of guilt on the part of a bankrupt Republican party. In effect, the American people are asked to per- form the dangerous experiment of turning over the reins of government to a man whose record has been con- cealed, whose views are a mystery, | and whose career in public life is| without a single achievement to indi- | cate that he is equipped for the exact- ing duties of the White House. “No one knows what he stands for, what he wants, or what he proposes to do.” Farley, declaring he wondered how the Republican leaders “kept from laughing out loud,” said that “first they denounce President Roosevelt * * ¢ then they nominate a man who advocated policies far more drastic than the Chief Executive ever thought of attempting.” “Dodging the Issue.” Charging the Republican party with “dodging the issue,” Farley said: “Every single Republican who had a part in shaping party policies for the past generation was passed over in favor of a man who 18 months ago was unheard of by 95 per cent of the American people.” His statement referred specifically to Hoover, Vandenberg, Knox and ‘Wadsworth as those “passed over.” The Republicans’ plan, Farley said, was “to offer one part of the country an imitation New Deal and at the same time offer other elements in the party a return to old-fashioned reac- tionary Republican principles.” “If they really believed the New Deal was destroying the country,” ‘he said, “why did they turn their backs on the reactionary principles espoused in the 1932 Republican platform?” Second Assault of Day. Farley's statement was his second assault of the day on the Republicans. At the laying of the corner stone of the new Bronx Post Office, he said in a speech: 4 “When I read the howls and moans of the so-called Liberty League, the spokesmen for the -special interests, and the old guard Republican leaders about how the Roosevelt administra- tion ‘is destroying the American in- stitutions,’ ‘wreck the American sys- tem’ and ‘establishing a despotic dic- tatorship,” I naturally look around to see what these howls and moans are nomination is & LANDON WILL SEE LEADERS 15T TIME Fletcher Among Committee- | men Who Never Have Met Republican Nominee. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, who has been America’s No. 1 mys- | tery man for months, will hold his | irst powwow as Republican presi- | dential nominee Tuesday with the | men and women who are to have part |in his campaign—a special commit- tee of the Republican National Com- mittee headed by its new chairman, John Hamilton. Col. Frank Knox,| | his running mate, will be there also | It is an amazing thing, for example, that a Republican National Conven- tion has chosen for its presidential candidate & man who was not per- sonally known to the retiring chair- man of the Republicap National Committee. Yet, Henry P. Fletcher, who has just relinquished that post and who is going with the special| committee to Topeka, has never yeti met Landon. There are other mem- bers of the group who will lay eyes| on the nominee for the first time, too. | Gov. Landon, who has stood more | as a symbol of the progressive West | and of thrift to the vast number of American people during the pre- convention campaign, has already taken one big step toward dispelling the Landon mystery—his telegram to the national convention giving his stand on important issues just before he was nominated. New Chairman is Master. Landon and his campaign manager Hamilton, the Republicans have reached the conclusion, in the light of the convention just closed, are a pair to tie to. The new chairman of the Republican National Com- mittee showed himself a master of tact and political strategy. And if there are any sore spots left, they are not so great as they might have been. The set-up of the Republican na- tional organization will be the par- ticular work of the conference in Topeka between Landon and the members of the National Committee. It is significent that the candidate himself is insisting upon having a hand in these details, including the election of the new Executive Com- mittee and the other officers of the National Committee. The Republican party already is taking on a new flavor—a flavor largely of the West. Its national ticket has been selected from Kansas and Illinois. Both the presidential and vice presidential nominees were followers of Theodore Roosevelt and part of the Bull Moose party in 1912. In the selection of the officers and the Executive Committee of the na- tional organization, new faces are likely to crop up, some of them from the West. This does not mean that the East is to be ignored. But the younger Republicans may be expected to have a prominent place in the picture. There has been a plan on foot to place the Eastern headquarters (See FARLEY, Page A-12) (See G. O. P. MEETING, Page A-12.) John Hamilton BY the Asscciated Press. FORT MADISON, Iowa, June 13. —*“Another home-town boy made good,” Fort Madison agreed tonight, with John D. M. Hamilton choice as the new Republican national chair- man. But outside of his kindergarten teacher, Mable Albright, and a few of his cousins, not many Fort Madisonites remembered personally the progressive, red-haired, Topeka (Kans.), attorney who yesterday took white-haired Henry P. Fletcher. But it'’s an old Iowa cuftom—born an Iowan, always an Iowan. So even though John Hamilton went to Kan- sas with his parents when he was 8, he’s still a “Fort Madison” boy said, $9' had been spent in the (Bee LANDON, Page A5.), . .’(u' the Santa Fe Rallroad. Above Average, America’s Average Man Says “Hale* Hamilton, John's ~older brother is better remembered here. Hale made good as a movie actor. He now lives in Hollywood with the boys’ mother.” , Fort! Madison residents were mildly surprised when John Hamilton first started making good for them as a Republican. His relatives still living here, are mostly Democrats. “But,” Cousin J. M. C. Hamilton, a district judge and stanch Demo- crat, commented, “It’s every man to his own politics. He's made good. That's the ‘main thing.” Roy L. Gray, Fort Madison cloth- fer, doesn't remember John Hamil- ton. White Pays Tribute to Landon ' A Konocs Pragrecsibaiiaitics PITTSBURGH HEAD HELD ON CHARGES OF BALKING JUDGES McNair Freed on $5,000 Bond Pending Grand Jury Action. POLICE BEWILDERED BY CONFLICTING ORDERS Court Order for Probe Starts Row. Arrest Puts Chief Executive in Serious Mood. By the Asscciated Press. PITTSBURGH, June 13.—The may- or of Pittsburgh, versatile William N. McNair, was arrested today and held for the grand jury on charges of | halting the machinery of the law and preventing magistrates from send- ing prisoners to jail. Deputy sheriffs served a warrant upon McNair at city hall and haled him into court, where Judge Ralph E. Smith set his bond at $5,000. The warrant charged misbehavior in office. McNair went home tonight after | his bond was furnished by Michael Grogan, a citizen, at the request of the Police Protective Association. Police Bewildered. The mayor's arrest climaxed a day of turmoil starting after Judge Smith ordered a grand jury investigation of the police department, already be- wildered by contradictory routine or- ders.from McNair and Safety Direc- tor Thomas:Dunn. Judge Smith Sheriff Frank I gency guardian of the public safety until the situation in the police de- partment is cleared up. Officers charged McNair met the order for the grand jury inquiry with counter instructions to all magis- trates to cease hearings, because the investigators were seizing their rec- ords. Mayor in Serious Mood. The usually happy McNair, who spent an hour in jail only six weeks ago on another charge, later dis- tonight appointed missed, went willingly to court, but he was in a serious mood. Judge Smith asked him if he issued the orders stopping hearings by the magistrates, and McNair replied: “That's up to the individual mag- istrate’s discretion.” The judge asked ‘if he ordered the city’s 13 police stations to make no arrests. The Mayor’s reply was: “I issued no orders at all” Judge Smith said that any magis- | trate who refused to hold a hearing | would be liable to arrest. The warrant for McNair was sworn | out after he sent four men, arrested for intoxication, to Judge Smith’s court room. Police Lieut. Walter Mullen took the men there. He said McNair told him: “I wonder how he (Judge Smith) will like that.” Judge Orders Warrant. Judge Smith, ordering the warrant, said: “It seems evident he is deliberately violating the law, is directing its vio- lation with the consequent breakdown ing the police department and a men- ace to public safety.” > Later, outside the court room, he said: “McNair revels in confusion. I won't be confused. It's time for a showdown. The mayor is at the end of his rope.” Judge Smith ordered the grand jury investigation after a magistrate re- leased four of five men arrested for robbery and held the fifth. He wanted to know why the four were let go. McNair and heads of the police de- partment have been at odds for weeks. Yesterday the mayor ordered Safety (See McNAIR, Readers’ Guide PART ONE Main News Section. General News—Pages A-1, B-5. Washington Wayside—A-2. Lost and Found—A-3. Death Notices—A-10. Educational—B-5. Sports Section—Pages B-6, B-11. Boating and Fishing News—B-11. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial Articles — Pages D-1, D-3. Editorials and Editorial fea- tures—D-2. - Civic News and Comment—D-4. Women’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Activities—D-5. Véterans’ Organizations, Na- tional Guard, Organized Reserves—D-6. Resorts—D-7-8-9. PART THREE. Society Section. Soclety News and Comment— ages E-1, E-10. Well-Known Folk—E-T7. - Barbara Bell Pattern—E-9. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News Features—Pages F-1, F-4. John Clagett Proctor’s Article on Old_Washington—F-2. SL Days,” F-2. F-| . “Those Were the Ha by Dick Mansfi Radio News and Stage and Screen—F-5. Automobiles—F-6. Aviation—F-6. .| Children’s P: F-T7. High Lights oi History—F-T. Stamps—F-8. ‘PART FIVE. Financial News ekt stoek, Bogd‘ lndoculr!i‘ Sum- maries—Pages G 1- Puzzle—G-5. Gollmar as emer- | SH FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS EN CENTS ELSEWHERE ‘ ; £ LOVES ME- SHE LOVES JAPANESE TROOPS LAND IN FUKIEN i Naval Squadron Waits Near Canton Where Thousands Parade for War. ! BACKGROUND— | From the stature of a bandit chief, Gen. Chiang Kai-Shck rose to the role of guardian angel (in uniform) of the Nanking Central | Government. Lesser bandit chiefs | he drove to distant provinces Some in the north have already | been intimidated by Japanese polilical and commercial emis- saries. Chiang has décided a large, unified army, properly financed, is impossible now, suspects the Canton wuprising is spurred by ulterior motives that include his own banishment. A collapse of the Nanking Army would open the fleld to the tribute-eracting war- fare that has gripped all China for decades. Chiang is attempting to forestall a civil war by a show of resistance in Hunan Province. | By the Assoctuted Press. | HONGKONG, July 14. — Japanes> | warships and Japanese marines came to South China today. | While .Cantonese, massed in the | crooked streets of that city, asked anew for resistance to Japan, Chinese reports stated a Japanese naval| squadron had landed bluejackets at | Amoy, Fukien Province, on the cost a few hundred miles to the north. The marines ostensibly were landed to protect Japanese lives and property, but the commander of the vessels said they were ready to steam toward Can- ton at a moment’s notice, if they are needed. (Dispatches direct from Amoy said one cruiser and six destroyers had anchored there, and that Japan ap- parently was watching the South Chinese developments closely. The Amoy advices also quoted unconfirmed reports of skirmishing on the Southern Fukien border between Nanking (Cen- | tral) government patrols and troops | of the Kwangtung (South China provincal) Army. Nanking Ship Diverted. (From Foochow, the Fukien capi- tal north of Amoy, other dispatches state 15 light cruisers and gunboats of the Nanking government had drop- ped a practice cruise and were pro- ceeding northward under emergency orders. (Nanking advices told of new Cen- tral government troop concentratio®s in Southern Hunan Province, just north of Canton territory. General- issimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the National dictator, was represented, nevertheless, as still striving to keep the peace with South China.) The great mass meeting held at Canton yesterday brought forth these resolutions: 1. For a telegraphic demand to Nan- king, asking immediate action to resist | Japanese “aggression.” 2. For a nation-wide order to mili- tary authorities to mobilize their (See CHINA, Page A-2.) OHIO STEEL PLANT” DAMAGED $1,000,000 Firemen at Defiance Save Tanks Containing 40,000 Gallons of Gasoline. By the Associated Press. DEFIANCE, Ohio, June 13.—The most disastrous fire in this city’s his- tory destroyed the plant of the De- flance Pressed Steel Co. today with & loss estimated at. $1,000,000. ‘The flames threatened to ignite 40,000 gallons of gasoline in nearby tanks of the Defiance Hi-Speed Oil Co. before firemen of Defiance, Napo- leon and Holgate brought them under control. H. F. Hadley, superintendent of the steel plant, who estimated the loss, said the fire apparently was caused by spontaneous combustion in a warehouse containing rubber hosing. Only one small structure of the plant’s six 1-story brick buildings 200 employes next week. Hadley said the company would de- ummtm % ¢ & F reaic Crash Kills Man and Boosts Traffic Toll to 40 Victim Is Wedged Into Sewer, Broken by Cars’ Collision. A colored man was fatally injured | last night in a freak automobile col- lision which broke the top from a | sewer at South Capitol and L streets and hurled him the under- ground conduit. The victim, Percy Parker, 37. of 115 K street southw-st, was found into | wedged into the sewer after a search by police. He was extricated and | he died shortly after arrival. Parker's death was the fortieth as a result of traffic accidents in Wash- ing this year. Two companions, Maurice Foggie, 29, 310 N street (See TRAFFIC, Page A-2.) THREATS OF STRIKE BACK GUFFEY BILL Miners Warn of “Shut- Down” in Soft Coal Indus- try If Measure Fails. BACKGROUND— Labor troubles developed in bituminous coal mining jfor past half century prompted Senator Gufley of Pennsylvania to write bill calling for Federal control of the industry through penalty tar. The bill became a law last Sum- mer after President Roosevelt sug- gested immediate enactment and settlement of constitutionality problem later. The Supreme Court last month ruled the Guffey act invalid. Substitute legislation has been drafted, but remains to be acted upon by Congress. By the Associated Press. A blunt warning from the United Mine Workers they intend to “shut down” the giant soft coal industry if the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill fails to pass at this session and wage cutting ensues, brought Senate hear- ings on the measure to a close yes- terday. John L. Lewis, leader of the miners’ union, told the Interstate Commerce Committee his organization would re- sort to “our only weapon” if operat- ing groups go ahead with plans he said they had ready for use in event the proposed legislation failed of en- actment. Lewis' threat climaxed a:day in which opponents of Federal regula- tion of the industry contended the (See MINERS, Page A-5.) N ‘&\\\\\\\‘ \ BOLT KILLS TWO - NEARBY FARMERS | {Young Marylander Struc While Playing With Dog. Other on Birthday. | ‘Two nearby Maryland farmers were | killed by lightning at the height of an electrical disturbance that fringed the thunderstorm in the District yes- | terday. Clyde Haywood Frazier. 22, of Tra- vilah, Montgomery County, was hit while playing with a dog in the yard k | taken to Providence Hospital, where of E. T. Foster shortly before 5 p.m. Frazier, who was employed on the farm of Luther O. Foster, is survived by his widow and infant child. The ! Rockville Rescue Squad failed in efforts to revive him. | _The other victim was Sterling Mills, | 47-year-old father of four children, who was struck near Clarksburg, also in Montgomery County, while he was fastening turkeys in a coop. Tragedy on Birthday. Yesterday was Mills' birthday. His | body was found about two hours after the storm. Members of his family heard the crash of the bolt, but did |not know Mills had been struck | Property damage caused by the storm here and in the suburbs was negligible, but anxiety was felt by har- bor precinct police as the skies dark- ened while scores of small craft were afloat in the Potomac. The police boat ran the course of ashington Channel several times, warning small boats to put in. No | mishaps were reported in the river, | however. Canoe races that were held at the Washington Canoe Club in the afternoon were concluded just before the storm broke. The Weather Bureau had recorded .33 of an inch of raih up to 8 o'clock Ilut night. The wind velocity was less than 25 miles an hour. Fair and Warmer Forecast. The forecast for the week end was generally fair and somewhat warmer. Comparatively heavy rainfall: was reported in some sections of Virginia. Lee Highway at Falls Church was inundated a distance of about 90 feet when Four-Mtile Run overflower. Traf- fic was backed up a mile in either di | rection when the water reached a | depth of nearly two and one-half feet. &t receded after an hour. RS SR Rains Damage Cuba's Crops. HAVANA, June 13 (#).—Torrential rains throughout the western end of Cuba caused considerable damage to crops and flooded the lower section of one city today. No loss gf life was reported. Airline schedules were in- terrupted and heavy seas hampered shipping. The San Juan and Yumuri Rivers, in Matanzas Province, sent flood- waters into Matanzas City, causing the collapse of several small buildings in the lower areas. Flyer Who Sav ed Jesse Jones In.Crashing Plane, Succumbs Py the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., June 13.—Co-pilot Eugene Schacher, 32. died today—a hero of a flaming dive which saved the lives of his passengers, including Jesse Jones, chairman of the Recon- struction Finance Corp. Burns he suffered in the 7,000-foot plunge near Ferris yesterday proved fatal. Jones, former Gov. and Mrs. 'W. P. Hobby and Joe Toomey, passen- gers, all proclaimed his bravery in battling the blaze. His death came less than three hours after his passengers, leaving Dallas for Houston, paid a farewell visit to his hospital room, wished him well and thanked him again for his cool-head- edness. Ed Hefley, pilot of the plane, cred- ited Schacher with the highest courage. “When we smelled gasoline, the plane caught fire and we started div- ing, I ordered Schacher to warn the passengers of a hard landing” he said. “He went back to the cabin from our compartment and he could have stayed there, but he didn't. He came back into that blazing little space and fought the fire while I landed the ship. “It's not hard to stand pain when you have responsibility, but when you're just sitting there with your clothing burning off, it's tough., He had what it takes.” Hefley minimized his hmmn‘umn own courage 275 miles an hour to the ground and bringing it %o a rough but safe landing in a plowed field. He was stiff and sore today, and one eye was black from a bump he received. Jones boarded a private railway car for his trip to Houston, nursing a bruised chest, but otherwise uninjured. Mrs. Hobby was uninjured and Toomey received a slightly cut lip. Visibly shaken by Schacher’s death, Jones tonight issued a statement at Houston, in which he said in part: “You stuck to your post in a veritable furnace with the white heat literally burning your clothes off your ‘body. You did this notwithstanding Pilot' Ed Hefley begged you to leave the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door, going back into the furnace. Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch, and went back into the fiery pit. But when it seemed the fight was winning, and that the plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane when the landing was made. You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. * * * I pray God for the knowledge to understand for e what purpose He saved my life by the pit to him. When the door into | BOND DELIVERIES START TOMORROW T0 WAR VETERANS {Ceremony to Attend First Presentation at Walter Reed Hospital, {GENERAL DISTRIBUTION TO BEGIN AT 5:30 P.M. 23,000 Envelopes Ready in City Post Office—Average Value Is $550. BACKGROUND— World War veterans’ bonus de- mands were first made by the American Legion in 1920. Presi- dent Harding vetoed a cash bonus bill and was sustained. but in 1924 a _compromisc measure calling for adjusted compensation certificates was enacted over President Cool= idge's veto. It provided for pay- ment in 1645, with interest added for 20 years. In 1930, President Hoover vetoed a bill aliowing veterans to borrow up to 50 per cent on their bonus. This veto also was overridden, as was President Roosevelt’s veto last Spring of #he bill providing for the payment which begins this week. BY HAROLD B. ROGERS. | Payment of the World War vet- | erans’ bonus begins tomorrow mo: | here and throughout the Natio | Ceremony will attend the first de- livery at 9 am., at Walter Reed Hos- pital, where a high official. not yet | disclosed, will hand personally to | chosen veteran a big brown envi | full of bonus bonds, and a ch This will be followed by delivery to eight other military po and hos- pitals throughout the Di: i the day. Delivery to veterans generally here, however, will not begin until 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, when all regular mail car- riers will start from their stations to | begin delivery in person to veterans at their homes throughout the city. | Work Through Night. Last-minute announcements and plans were made over radio stations last night by several public officials, | while the Division of Loans and Cur< rency of the Treasury Department, and the Post Office, worked through the night to prepare for delivery of as many bonds as possible.” Postmaster Vincent C. Burke, sure prising the local veterans, announced | he already had in the local office, ready for delivery here, about 23,000 envelopes. The average value is about $550 each. The estimzted num= ber of veterans eligible for the bonus here runs somewhere over 27.000. so it was apparent last night, that by far the large proportion of the local envelopes have been completed and will be ready to hand to the men to- morrow and tomorrow night. The Treasury Department an- nounced that “original goals” had been exceeded, and that up to mide night Friday, 2,670,514 envelopes, con= taining 28,094,875 bonds of $50 de- nomination and checks for odd amounts had been turned over to the Post Office Department. In view of the fact the Veterans’ Administration had delivered approximately 3.000.000 certificates, this was considered a good showing. 3,517,600 Due to Benefit. The total number of veterans throughout the country estimated to be entitled to payments was placed at 3.517,600. The bonus was discussed over the radio last night by Postmaster Geucral James A. Farley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs Frank T. Hil Postmaster Burke and representati | of the three leading veterans’ organi- | zations. Locally, most interest centered on | Postmaster Burke's plans for delivery of the big brown manila envelop | tomorrow, and plans for helping the | veterans turn the bonds into cash The first men to be able to turn their | bonds into cash will be those who are | visited at the nine hospitals and |itary establishments tomorrow mory |ing. The carriers and special clerk who will carry the envelopes to thes veterans will be empowered offi- cially to act as certifying officers. Aid to Il Arranged. This arrangement, Postmaster Burke explained, will enable a veteran sick in bed, for instance, to receive his biz manila envelope, nge out the bonds and make arrangeménts through the same carrier who delivered them to have them surrendered for a check. The carrier or clerk will assist the veteran to “certify” his bonds for payment, will take the bonds, give the veteran a receipt and see to it that he receives in the mail, prob- ably within 24 or 48 hours, a check for the bonds. The nine places where delivery will take place tomorrow will be Walter Red Hospital, Army Medical Cen- ter, Mount Alto Hospital, Chevy Chase Sanitarium, Tuberculosis Hospital, Naval Hospital, Soldiers’ Home, Ma= rine Barracks and Army War Col- lege. ‘While promising to deliver every bonus enyelope in the hands of the post office here without delay, Post- master Burke issued warnings to vet- erans that not all of ‘the bonds have been received, and therefore can not be delivered. & Requests Patience. “Any veterans who do not receive their bonds on June 15 or 16, should be patient,” he said, “as delivery will be made to them as soon as the bonds are received in the post office. It is requested that veterans refrain from making inquiry regarding non-receipt of bonds, as the post office will have no information concerning them until they have been placed in the mails for delivery.” After the delivery at the nine mili- tary institutions tomorrow morning, and the home delivery tomorrow night, the postal carriers will continue with delivery Tuesday during the day. Bonds addressed to veterans in Gove ernment departments will be delivered (See BONUS, Page A-4)