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. ARMY AIR CORPS - CHANGES FAVORED Senate Expected to Adopt Nomination of Six Generals. To meet new conditions in & re- organization of the officer personnel of the Army Air Corps, the Senate 1s expected to confirm, before Con- gress adjourns, the nominations of six commanding generals forwarded tonlt Yesterday by President Roose- velt. This was the first step in a drastic shake-up under newly enacted legis- ulation providing that seniority shall govern the selection of officers for temporary promotions in rank in that branch of the service. Five of the officers recommended for temporary promotion are to have the rank of brigadier general and one is to be a major general. With President Roosevelt’s signa- ture of the bill authorizing the change, all Air Corps officers holding temporary promotions automatically reverted to their permanent rank. Included among those was the chief of the highly important General Headquarters Air Force—Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews. Renominated by President. In meeting these new requirements, the President sent the Senate the nomination of Andrews, whose per- manent rank is colonel, to be re- commissioned temporarily as major general. He also named Cols. Henry C. Pratt, commanding the second wing of the General Headquarters Air Force at Langley Field, Va.,, and Gerald C. Brandt, commanding the third wing at Barksdale Field, La., to be promot- ed again temporarily to brigadier gen- erals. Likewise named for temporary brigadier generals were Lieut. Col. Delos C. Emmons, now commanding the 18th composite wing of the Afr Corps at Fort Shafter, Hawaii; and Col. Barton K. Yount and Lieut. Col. George H. Brett, students at the Army ‘War College. Col. Yount formerly was commander at Bolling Field. At the same time, Secretary of War Dern recommended to the President the temporary elevation of 252 other officers on the basis of seniority— 12 lieutenant colonels to be colonels, 36 majors to be lieutenant colonels and 205 captains to be majors. Past System Haphazard, The reorganization was held neces- sary to meet the needs of an expand- ing army. Due to the shortage of the Air Corps officers and the require- ment that no strategic command posts can be held by those below a certain rank, it has been necessary in the past to give temporary appointments to higher grades. Previously, promotions had been made at random, Wwithout regard to the permanent rank ©f the officers involved. JOINT RITES TODAY FOR CRASH VICTIMS Coast Guard Flyers’ Bodies Given Naval Escort to Arlington Cemetery. By the Associated Press. Joint funeral services for three Coast Guard fiyers who lost their | lives Monday in a crash in Tampa Bay, Fla,, were set for 2 p.m. today in Arlington National Cemetery. The bodies arrived in the Capital by train from Florida at 12:30 pm. A naval escort accompanied the cortege to the cemetery. Lieut. Comdr. Joseph H. Brooks con- ducted the services in the cemetery chapel. The crash victims, Lieut. Charles Martin Perrott, Radio Operator Walter ©O. Morris, and Mechanic William D. Eubanks, were killed in a patrol of the storm area off St. Petersburg. e LOST. BAG. biue, zibper. contalning change purse and cosmetics, vicinity H. bet. 10th a 11th n.w. Return to Ebbitt Hotel. o BILLFOLD. between 14th and W and 1450 Girard, or on 14th and Decatur street car. $25 reward if returned to chairman of The Evening Star composing room, Sth floor. Star_Building. BOSTON near 1 Call Po [ULLDOG—Female_ play _toy: lDll’l aln;lns‘unl, sts. n.w.p llewl?‘;. ‘(“Ch;mnk. rising & little at & time to & | ‘Killer Elephant Pays Penalty game rifles at him. supervised execution. BY RICARD B. FOWLER. N JUNE, 1908, Independence, Kan- sas, had passed the boom and l lawns surrounded completed homes. The paint was dry on busl- ness signs along the main street. Men and women in dusters gingerly manip- ulated motor cars on paved streets. a crackling new sheepskin and a membership in the Kansas bar, looked around on opportunities and chose, of all things, to be a bookkeeper in a bank. The day he told his father about it, John Landon chewed his cigar and looked out the window. He disapproved, but he wouldn't interfere. From “Uncle Jimmy” Green came & letter of protest. Why throw away & law career? And Alf Landon was not able to answer. Three years he worked with figures Commerce and the First National salary of $75 a month, Saw Behind Business Scenes. In a country bank he discovered what many older men could have told him, that such work was more than a college education in business. He saw behind the scenes in the business community. He saw who was suc- ceeding, who was failing, and why. The penalty for mismanagement was written in the records and stamped on the faces of men who came into the bank pleading for more time on their notes. By the end of the three years he had taken a share in several drilling projects, all from his savings, and had accumulated more than $2,000. The fact that his first $200 investment turned out to be a dry hole had no weight with him. He hated the con- finement of a desk and the bank job had already served its purpose. So he stepped out to make his fortune in the open spaces of Kansas and Oklahoma. His principal partner was A. H. Black, & man with such a big, rugged frame that he looked thin at 200 pounds. Black had built up a large business in the gas and oil flelds, a qualified teacher in the school of hard knocks. Alf Landon stepped into the oil business with his feet already on the ground, an unimposing looking young man with a nice smile. Within & few months he had plotted out a good lease in the Cherokee country of Ok- lahoma, a barren undeveloped land, the last frontier of America, Indian and outlaw country. Landon, in his early twenties, took hold of a respon- sive business, responsive to good judg- ment or the lack of it. In ojl, a man . | had to be right or a pauper. DOCTOR'S BLACK HANDBAG, containing feld siasses. | camera. e agcolomens , June 13 Reward. 308-8, Star office. i W EYEGLASSES, either on 11th or You t nw. Call 1912 Girard st. n.w. Adams PRATERNITY PIN—Si ha Eps (SAE): lost Tues. June 16. Cabl Wis. 34y Chevy Chase. M e, roueh, red coat, C driver please re- turn. Small reward. Distri 6350, = sion 4618, Ask for Finley, - o00- EXen PEKINGESE. small. red. female: lost Sun- day afternoon, 22nd and K sts. n'w. Peebles, 8. Re: 1909 Pa. ave. n.w. Phone Met. - ward. : PLATINUM PIN. small diamond, and % bone bracelets. ~ Will thi d R HERE Il the party who found nn’s lost or Apt. 1 m’c.‘{L,'SE Fis) e ward. POLICE PUP—Black Belgian, 6 months old: small white spot on chest. Liberal rer ¥Afd, 305 D st. n.wg(in basément). 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Young Alf Landon that day, as one of his partners remembered it, simply went around greasy-handed, half smiling and watching' the results. When the oil came roaring up and sprayed down from somewhere above the derrick, older men yelled and threw their hats away. Landon stepped back out of the oil rain, smiled and said it looked good. In Kansas and Oklahomsa, young Alfred Landon made a reputation for being a careful trader, fair but in- sistent on his rights to the last nickel. One man who drilled with him de- scribed it, “He never left any part of & deal unfigured. If there was a dol- lar coming to him, he insisted on it. If there was a dollar going to you, he saw that you got it.” He paid high contract prices, but drilled for half the cost of the large companies. There was no waste. He figured cloeely, shopped around. He had learned his banking lesson weil. Indifferent to Society. As a young bachelor in Independ- ence he was a disappointment to peo- ple who had known him at the Univer- sity of Kansas. He was indifferent to social life, He built up a good M- brary in his father’s home and usually stayed there in the evenings. With a few friends his association was en- tirely easy and informal. But many considered Here is the execution of Wally, former circus and movie ele; Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco. settled into prosperity. Trimmed | Alf Landon, home from college with | behind cages in the State Bank of | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, Two police marksmen, b hant, for killing a keeper at the 3 n_foreground, are leveling big A moment later a copper-nosed bullet pierced his brain. A big game hunter —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. The Story of Alf M. Landon Chapter V—A Man in Boots. < Alfred M. Landon, the schoolboy, at age of 8. main streets with his eyes on the pavement, seeing nobody. Independence was torn wide open by two factions. According to the popular story it started when the wives of two leading bankers, close personal friends, many years ago went to Europe together. In Paris they fell out over the pronunciation of a French word and returned sep- arately. The town split along a di- vision that went all the way through its financial as well as its social rela- tionships. Landon thought the whole thing was ridiculous and said | 80. He took a moderate activity in civie affairs, was a director of the Cham- ber of Commerce and held offices in other organizations; but he seldom went to meetings except when some- thing important was to be decided. After his mother died, Alf and his father gave a memorial organ to the new First Methodist Church. Those who knew the family best said it was & gift entirely for her sake—they knew she would have been delighted to make such a contribution. Neither Alf nor his father could have beén called “a pillar of the church.” Known as “Man in Boots.” Alf became known to a large part of Kansas and Oklahoma as & man in boots, khaki trousers, leather jacket and a greasy hat. Whenever % he spent the night in a farm house he visited with the family, growing into the easy way of getting along with people that one day would put him in the Kansas State house. His courtship of Miss Margaret Fleming, whom he met one Summer at Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., was the beginning of a few happy years which were to end in tragedy. They 'were married in 1915 and settled down in Independence to the easy home life Landon always had wanted. Their daughter Peggy Ann was born in 1917. In 1918 Margaret Fleming Landon died. Alf Landon seldom speaks of that period. A few weeks after his wife's death he left his baby daughter with a housekeeper and went into the Army as a first lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service. He was stationed at Lakehurst, N. J., until his discharge after the armistice. From all appearance after Landon’s return to the ofl business he would spend his life as a smart, hard-work- ing business man, with a constant curiosity about many subjects unre- lated to oil and a liking for ideas and books. A little too serious, perhaps, but a good companion. As & member of the liberal group in the party he and his father were both on .the Roosevelt side in the Bull Moose split in 1912, John Landon be- ing a Roosevelt delegate to the 1912 convention, and Alf the Progressive county chairman in 1914. Before go- ing into the war he had been the youngest of & group of men to build up sentiment for the election of Henry Allen as Governor of Kansas. The election was won while Landon was in the Army and the candidate still in France. His acquaintance over the State spread to hundreds of new polit- fcal friends. For a time he substituted as the Governor's secretary; and was seen in Topeka as a capable young man but not a politician. He was not & back slapper, not & public speaker. His chief interest was the job of rearing a daughter. Although Peggy Ann was in the care of an understanding house- keeper, Miss Teresa Cahill, called “Nanny,” she grew up with her father. A pretty child, brown-eyed and so- clable, Peggy Ann went along with Auto Painting ||a|¢y’s 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley’s Do It Right! Bad Breath Comes from Constipation Don’t try to cover up bad breath: Remove the cause. Get rid of constipation and your breath will become fresh and sweet: Even more important, you will notice immediate improvement in your health and spirits. Coastipation is dangerous for anybody. Nujol is safe for every- body. It does not affect the stomach and is not absorbed by the body. Medical authorities approve Nujol because it is so safe, so gentle and so natural in its action. 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More important, it would permit the Federal Trade Commission to fix the point beyond which discounts for quantity purchases could not go. The commission would be instructed to prevent discounts for purchases so large that competitors would be un- able to match them, thus creating monopoly. The basis of the bill were measures introduced early in the session by Senator Robinson, Demccrat, of Arkansas, and Representative Pat- man, Democrat, of Texas. To it, however, was attached the Borah-Van Nuys bill, embodying some of the anti-monopoly theories which Sen- ator Borah of Idaho advanced to the Republican Platform Committee in Cleveland. ‘The Borah-Van Nuys amendment would not rely alone on the Federal Trade Commission, but would permit prosecution of violators in the Fed- eral courts, with penalties of a $5,000 fine or one year in jail. A business man, feeling he had been the victim of unfair price discrimina- tion, would be able to take his case into Federal Court in his own State instead of coming to Washington and working through the Federal Trade Commission. Exemptions from the operation of the law would be granted in the handling of perishable foods and in other emergencies. him to the oil fields, much as her father had lived as a child in Ohio. Because he wanted his daughter to enjoy some of the delights of his own childhood he spent evenings reading to her, especially historical novels. Peggy Ann would have much preferred a picture show. As she grew older she and her father increased their companionship, leading to the future time when she would be his principal driver while he campaigned over Kansas. The Landon life seemed very set- tled. It was a fairly satisfactory household that lived well and al- ways set a good table. One of Alf Landon’s strongest preferences in food was a powerful cheese, called “Pennsylvania stink cheese,” which he advocated above limburger or any- thing else. His daughter remembers particularly a week when he was in a bad humor because some kind of odor, probably gas, was escaping into his office. He was properly sheepish when a little package of the Pennsylvania cheese was discovered in a lower drawer of his desk. Landon tended to his own business, | shouted over the telephone when ke | lost his temper, got along well wlth‘ the men who worked for him, and | seemed to have a good time generally. | People unconsciously called him “Alf” and, without thinking much about it, | he found the shorterned term more | easy to sign and convenient to use. ‘What neither Landon nor his friends realized at that time was his capacity for growth. As he turned 40, an age when most men think their habits are definitely settled, he was not distinguished for much besides consistently meeting his pay roll on time and producing results for himself and his associates. i (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) I SOMETHING WORTH ““Putting on Ice’’ Phone us to leave you a quart of pure, healthful Bireley’s Orangeade with the milk tomorrow morn- ing .. . or tell our driver. We bottle this natural orangeade daily in our own dairy from genuine vacuum-packed orange juice. Hollywood loves it «+« 30 will your family. erages are sold. Quart NHome Use— Phone ATlantic 0070 Bottles for 15e JANTITRUST BILL |DELEGATES ARRN Democratic Advance Guard on Hand as Chiefs De- bate Platform. B the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 19.—Flag- draped Philadelphia extended the hand of welcome to the advance guard of Democrats today while speculation over the platform to be adopted by the party’s national convention next week intensified. Leaders of the New Deal were closeted in Washington, drawing up suggested statements of policy on such controversial issues as farm aid, money and relief. ‘There was no authoritative indica- tion as to the planks to be submitted on some of these issues, but word from the Capital said Secretary Wallace may seek to have the convention’s Resolutions Committee approve & farm plank embracing four features. The plank would indorse: The present A, A. A. sdll conserva- tion program with subsidy payments to farmers. ‘The principle of crop production control within constitutional limits. The present reciprocal trade agree- ment policy. Some plan for commodity loans to farmers, Leaders Are Doubtful. The question in the minds of some administration leaders, it was re- ported, is whether the Resolutions Committee will approve the sugges- tions advanced by Wallace and his aides, This question was raised, it was said, because some leading Democratic members of Congress have opposed crop control and other A. A. A. meas- ures. ‘Wallace is expected to arrive here | Monday for conferences with party leaders. While the four principal “features were expacted to comprise the bulk of the administration’s farm plank suggestions, it was indicated that aid to co-operative associations would be suggested. The plank also is expected to urge continued research into industrial uses for farm products. Delegates Arrive Early. Delegates to the convention, which opens Tuesday, began arriving as early as yesterday. 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