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Union Party May Sink G.O.P. Platform Possibly Will Prevent Return of Anti-Hooverites. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. THIRD PARTY in the national political contest this year, backed by the forces of Father Coughlin and Dr. ‘Townsend as well as the former sup- porters of the late Senator Huey Long and his share-the-wealth organiza- tions, is a much more important development than in any other campaign in which third par- d ties have ap- peared. The effect of the third party may not be as fa- vorable to the Re- publican cause as might seem to be | the case on first impression. It all | depends on| whether the new party will draw more heavily from the cities than the agricultural centers. The program of the Union Party, as 1t is to be called, is such as might ap- peal to agricultural States where the bulk of the vote has been Republican. ‘The appeal to labor, on the other hand, may not be strong enough to woo Dem- ocratic votes from President Roose- velt. Also the hold of the administra- tion on the city voters through the large political machines built up with the use of W. P. A. personnel is rather gtrong and is not as vulnerable to the Union Party's attack as might have been the case in other years. The result might well be that the | new party would not draw much from the cities, but from the country dis- tricts, in which case the Republicans would not recover as much of their 1932 vote as they have been hoping. May Draw Dissatisfied. But it is questionable whether the New Deal party will get as many of the Hoover votes of 1932 as they have been counting on. Many of the Republicans who voted for Hoo- ver in 1932 have said they approved | of the Roosevelt policies—at least the | Literary Digest poll showed that rather | definitely. So the effect of the Union | Party may be to give a place of refuge for those who are dissatisfied enough | with the Republican offering to go | back to that party and yet who are disappointed that the New Deal has Dot gone far enough in the so-called “left” direction to please them. The final outcome, of course, may show that the Union Party heiped to elect the Republican nominee because if there is to be a close contest, the | new party may win a sufiicient num- ber of votes from the Democrats as to enable the undivided liberal-conserva- tive bloc for Gov. Landon to get a plu- rality but not necessarily to exceed in totals the combined Union Party | &nd New Deal party vote. | Such an eventuality, however, can- | not be looked for unless the Union | x| can make more definite inroads ies than is to be anticipated | from a reading of the new program or platform offered. Spoils May Be Factor. Thus the inflation issue is not par- ticularly popular in the cities, though | it does have an appeal to farmers. Establishment of a central bank and of all inte -bearing will hardly be attractive to the laboring elements of the country be- cause it will be condemned by the | opposition as dangerous to the pay envelopes. The protection of small business and industry, the increasing of Federal work projects on natural resources and the argument against | foreign entanglements hardly seem to have in them the advantages of a concrete issue that can pull votes away from the Roosevelt-Farley ticket, though the attack on spoils- manship may be the most effective | plank that the Union party may de- velop for an appeal to city voters. Obviously, the Republican leaders will rejoice over the entry of a third ticket. This is because they think | the New Deal party would naturally | acquire the left wing vote this year and that in all probabilities the Re- publican ticket would not have a chance to get it. In other words, the anti-Republican voter, if presented with but one alternativé, would natur- ally accept the New Deal party. But | faced with the opportunity to express | his protest through the Union party | ticket, the Republican leaders here figure that this will be a “natural” | for the believers in the planks of the ! Union party. This would mean less | votes for Roosevelt. Union Campaign a Factor. It has long been assumed here that | the Literary Digest poll, which showed a majority of the voters expressing disapproval of the New Deal policies, was an accurate reflection of national opinion because left wing disapproval | was lumped in with right wing dis- | approval of New Deal policies. If this disapproval vote can now be sepa- rated into two parts, the combined vote of both the Republican and the Union party tickets could be a ma- jority of the total vote cast and yet not be enough to defeat the New Deal. It is much too early to know how- ever, how intensive will be the third party campaign. Funds will have to be raised to buy radio time and to carry on warfare against the two major parties and it is dcubtful whether any of the business interests of the country will be found contributing to the third party cause. Father Cough- lin and Dr. Townsend make a power- ful combination and the effect of their entry into the campaign may not be felt in the presidential contest as much as it will be in the election of Senators and Representatives to the next Congress. (Copyright, 1936.) AGED FARMER’S DEATH IS DETERMINED SUICIDE B » Staff Correspondent of Che Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 20.—A sui- eide certificate has been issued by Dr. W. 8. Murphy, acting coroner, in the death of Adam H. Robertson, 88-year- old retired farmer, who was found de- capitated by a shotgun charge at his home near here Wednesday. Robertson’s partly clothed body was found lying across his bed when his daughter, Mrs. A. E. Roberts of Rock- ville, and her friend, Mrs. Mary Bowers, called at the Robertson home on the Travilah road near Rockville. Beside the body was a .16-gauge shotgun with one empty shell in the chamber. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances, and it was learned that Robertson, a widower, had been brooding over infirmities. A David Lawrence. ‘ THE EVENING Behind the News Congressmen Show Dislike for Conference Secrecy and Only Two Keep Mum on Tax Bill. BY PAUL MALLON. HAT the mild-mannered Chairman Doughton really said about ‘ N ; the news leaks from his secret tax conference was that “some damned scoundrel” among his colleagues was giving out the news, He was mistaken. He should have used the plural. It will be denied, of course, but only two of the corferees liked the icea of drawing the shades and barring the door for the rewriting of the tax bill. Even these two probably did not like it, but they are the only two who have kept their lips entirely sealed. The others generally have rebelled, off the record, if not on. The rule requires secrecy, but there are some things bigger than rules in the opinion of many self-respect« ing Congressmen. One is public in- terest. The strategy of handling the diffi- cult bill, of course, was to get rep- resentatives of the House and Senate into a smoke-filled room for the purpose of rewriting the most im- portant parts. Then, at the last minute, with adjournment of Con- gress at hand, the newly changed bill could be rushed forward and slapped through both Houses. No widespread opposition could get started. No opportunity for reflection would be given. PR The explosion of Mr. Doughton came because the news had leaked out that he had compromised on the House corporatfon tax provisions. ‘The reason he was justly angry was that those who favored the House provision naturally deluged him with protests. It is true that congressional conferences are generally on a basis of barter and trade of one section of a bill against an- other. Leaks often break up the deals. However, tarpayers will hardly be impressed with that possibility. Within an hour after Mr. Doughton had read the riot act to his comrades in secret session, the news of all that had occurred in that session was published, even including details of the riot act. .. Senator Copeland probably had more reasons for walking out on the Democratic National Convention than Al Smith, only hé did not choose to mention them. Abut 24 hours after Dr. Copeland let out the news President Roose- velt sent to the Senate the names of two New York judges. The proper sequence of these two events should be reversed if you want to get the right extent of Senator Copeland's agitation. That is, he is supposed to have been informed that the nominations were coming next day, and he also knew that they were Farley-Wagner-Tammany appointees, not his. It is nothing new for Senator Copeland to be surprised with short advance notice of New York appointments. His last previous surprise was the appointment of Senator Wagner's brother to an important New York post. The estrangement of Senator Copeland and Postmaster Gen- eral Farley really dates back to the time when Mr. Farley wanted to oppose Copeland’'s campaign for re-election. Mr. Farley speaks freely in press conferences. In one held at that time he indicated that he would like to get rid of Copeland but that the good doctor had been giving medical advice to so many mothers and others in New York for so long, it would probably be unwise to oppose him. Mr. Farley prefaced his statement with the remark that what he said was “just within this room,” but apparently someone left the wine dow open. LR Italian censorship has managed to keep everything in and around Addis Ababa looking serene to the outside world. The Italians, for example, have never let out the fact that thousands of disorganized black African warriors are yet roaming the hills within striking distance. Word of their presence has, however, come to official quarters here. Another thing which the Italian censors desire not to stress is the the point that Ethiopia has never surrendered. Yet authorities here know it very well. Those -two considerations have contricuted to a general opinion near the top here that haste should be avoided in lifting the arms em- bargo against Italy. Nobody be- lieves that any successful insurrec- tion of the blacks is possible or that the war will continue. As the same time they are perfectly willing to let Britain and che League take the leadership in abandoning punitive ac- tions against Italy. The inside word here is that we will follow along leisurely after them, perhaps waiting a week or two. e s e A news office here received a telephone call the other day, heard a voice at the other end of the wire asking: “Can you tell me who is the Republican candidate for Governor of Texas?” A search of the files failed to disclose the desired inférmation, but the newsman suggested that the information might be obtained from the Republican National Committee, whereupon the voice responded, touch- ing with futility: “This is the Republican National Committee.” STAR, WASHINGTO Science Adds to World’s Surpluses And Humans Don’t Know How to Use (Copyright, 1936.) MMURPHY ARRIVES WITH ISLES DATA Philippines Commissioner May Join Campgign for Roosevelt, Presumably prepared to campaign for the re-election of President Roose- velt, Frank Murphy, United States high commissioner to the Philippines, returned to Washington today. Political observers believe Murphy will be either a candidate for Gov- ernor of Michigan or a campaign cpeaker, but in any event he will re- | main in this country until after the elections. This morning he went to the White House to report to the President on | Philippine conditions and to estab- lish an office here to prepare for a Philippine-American trade conference. Trade Conference Plans. Discussing the proposed conference, Commissioner Murphy said: “I have a job cut out for me in ‘Washington in effectively keeping alive the propcsed trade conference and making adequate and thorough prep- aration for it, in addition to other duties. Unless the conference is pains- takingly prepared and its deliberations marked by an earnestness on each side to_ deliberate in the light of what shBuld be best for the public interests in the United States and the Philip- pines, it will be difficult to make a success of it. “Special encouragement must be given in Washington to the view that this is not a mere commercial arrange- ment to be made between two govern- ments. This is one of those rare situ- ations where appropriate emphasis can justifiably be given to large moral and sentimental aspects of our rela- tionships. We must want independence to be a success.” Early Action Desired. Although there is no need for the conference until November, 1939, a year before the taxes on Philippine exports to this country go into effect, Commissioner Murphy, in agreement with Philippine leaders, wants it held as early as possible so the Pilipinos will know what to expect from the United States on trade matters. Murphy, a member of the Philippine delegation to the Democratic Con- vention, will leave for delphia next week. J. Weldon Jones, a mem- ber of his staff, is acting high com- missioner during his absence from the islands. . Poland Sentences 99. KATOWICE, Poland, June 20 (#).— Charges of subversive activities against 113 persons were answered today by court sentences varying from 18 months to 10 years and by 14 ac- quittals. The defendants were ac- cused of membership in a secret Nazi organization which had as its goal Convention (Continued From First Page.) | the country, he said, but the Demo- cratic nominee for Governor of New York would win, no matter who he was. Where John D. M. Hamilton claimed 42 States for Landon, Farley claimed 48 for Roosevelt. TALMADGE UNDECIDED. Georgia Governor to Attend Conven- tion “If Needed.” ATLANTA, June 20 (#).—Gov. Eu- gene Talmadge offered yesterday to go to the Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia if he can be “of serv- ice” to his party or the country. Talmadge, anti-New Deal Demo- crat, who has pledged support to the nominees and platform of the Phila- teeman from Georgia. He has a personal hotel reservation in the convention city but has not re- served transportation on the railroad which will carry the 84-member Geor- gia delegation north to cast 24 votes for President Roosevelt. CLUBS HEAR TALK BY MISS LENROOT Labor Official Tells 4-H Members to Promote Better Health Conditions. Delegates to the annual National 4-H Club Encampment here were urged today by Miss Katherine Lenroot, chief of the Children’s Division of the Labor Department, to investigate health and sanitary conditions in their home communities andenlist the aid of her department where necessary steps have not been taken along these lines. She also explained the work of her department and social security legislation at the morning session. Yesterday, the third day of the en- campment, was devoted to various ac- tivities. There were trips to the White House, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. Afterward, there were descriptions over the radio as to why the various delegates had been chosen and a talk by Dr. H. C. Oberholser of the Bio- logical Survey. A round table discussion of “4-H Activities on Conservation of Wild Life” was held. Leaders were Tom McGuire, Greenbrier County, W. Va.; Mae Briggs, Seward County, Nebr.; Fred Elliott, Pembina County, N. Dak.; Harold Garrison, Mecklenburg County, N. C, and Carolyn Hubatch, Lang- lade County, Wis. The day was closed by listening to a radio description of the Louis- Schmeling fight. Sultan Election June 27. MANILA, P. I, June 20 (#).—Over the vigorous protests of her outstand- ing rival for dominance of Moroland, Princess Dayang Dayang Hadji Pian- delphia gathering, is national commit- | What We Have. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. HE news is disquieting. While we are busy girding ourselves for our quadrennial festival of mutual abuse, an airplane be- longing to the military intelligence service of an unnamed Western power has been circling at dizzy heights over the North Sea and the Baltic, photographing with especially sensi- tized plates the maneuvers of the German fleet. Experts, it is reported, are now of the opinion that air defense together with ex- tensive mine fields covering the approaches to Helgoland will make any repeti- tion of a German blockade impos- sible, while the Norway seacoast will furish a base for offensive opperations and Germany will, in a future war, be able to cut Britain off from Scandianavia and keep the run of the North Sea. The news is noted in London. Dr. Schacht, taking a turn around Central Europe, announces in Buda- pest that his visit is purely economic and financial. Dispatches reveal that Germany has been liquidating Bul- garia’s debt to Italy by furnishing Italy in Bulgaria's name with arms, while Bulgaria goes further into Gar- many’s debt by large armament orders for herself, and for the construction in Bulgaria of a new and powerful radio station. Great Britain has decided to take Dorothy Thompson continuance of Italy. Eden prepares to explain that Britain’s course is a logical continu- ance of her fundamental policy. Mus- solini magnanimously agrees not to demand an apology from the league for mistaking him for the aggressor when Ethiopia attacked Italy, Otto Climbs. Otto of Hapsburg is sitting at the gates of Austria waiting to be called home to establish order. The Little Entente has said for 16 years that the return of a Hapsburg to the Austrian throne would be a casus belli. Now some of them are wondering whether an Austrian restoration would be bet- ter or worse than a Nazi Austria. Nobody who is telling knows what, if anything. Mussolini said about it when he met the Austrian chancellor re- cently. | True, there is probably a military alli- | ance between Germany and Japan, |and true, the Nazi activities in Fin- | land are especially intense, but diplo- mats report both are less afraid of war than of the peace that would follow it. What It Leads Up To. All this news deals with the attempts of men to affect the control of matter. Mussolini, by the expenditure of much matter in the form of gold, goods, flesh |and blood, has added to the Italian empire hundreds of thousands of square miles of fields, mines and black men—more matter. | The idea seems a happy one to all peoples who consider that an insuffi- ciency of certain varieties of matter exist within areas, which on the map, are painted pink or green. Their plight is only slightly more (or less) painful than that of other peoples who, in other areas, have too much of other or wheat, or tobacco. These people divide into parties and the lead in Geneva in opposing ‘he | sanctions against | Russia notes a lessening of tension. | mountains, | kinds of matter; cotton, for instance, | D. U, SATURDAY, hold conventions to decide what to do with this superfluous matter. Some say it ought to be plowed under, de- stroyed in embryo, and others say that foreigners ought to be paid to cart it off. But the foreigners insist on pay- ing to haul the ‘garbage, saying that otherwise their ecomomies are de- stroyed. Either system of dealing with the problem is advanced as maintain- ing the price level and assuring pros- perity. Then the Atom. In practical life, it is clear, matter is solid stuff. Ycu eat it, wear it, spend it, are it. The business of the world consists of holding on to it, exchanging it, adding to it, fighting for it, and occasionally sharing it. This is the concern of practical men. But there is on the planet a strange race to whom matter has a different aspect. This too, too solid A world, animal, vegetable and mineral, is to them but an aggregation of hypo- thetical bodies called atoms. And these men peep at us out of the pages of the news, too. They are engaged in waging a war against datoms. The fortress they would take is more incredibly forti- fied than any frontier. For the nuclei they would assault in the miniature solar system of the atom are protected by electrical particles against which other electrified particles bounce off as against armor plate. Then they discovered neutrons which passed through the electrical fortifications of the atom like ghosts through a solid wall. To charge the walls they have pulled down lightnings from heaven and marshalled projectiles }of radium. And the walls are waver- ing, already the enemy is inside. Already, by atom-splitting methods, the active properties of radium can be given to a range of common el- ements. What was yesterday the most precious element on earth, present in microscopic quantities in certain ores—of which Belgium had practi- cally a monopoly—will be available tomorrow in its essential properties from many sources and the knowl- edge of the experimental physicists combined with the knowledge of the physiologists may work to make over mankind. Incidentally a monopoly will be broken—without a plank in | any platform. | Laymen Ignore It. The Curie-Joliot findings have been | front-page news, along with British | rearmament and Italian conquest, but | the layman passes over it, only| vaguely comprehending. For such news reads like a dispatch from Mars. ‘Who are these men and women who slowly make over the world? Do they | meet in convention, sing “Dixie,” and listen to “The Road to Mandalay?” They are perhaps the last true *and functioning International. Their names are Rutherford and Cockroft, Walton, Oliphant, Bothe, | Szilard Goldheber, Curie, Joliot, Ros- | setti, Rocenblum, Gamow, Heisenberg, | {Pegram, Urey, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Leitner, Lawrence, Rabi. They are | English, French, Italian, German, | American, Russian. They are Chris- | tains and Jews. They are male and; female. They work in democratic | | America, Soviet Russia, Naz Ger- |many. They engage In an interna- tional conspiracy for the search after | truth. They speak an Esperanto un- intelligible except to the initiate. If you doubt it, try to read “The Physi- | cal Review.” | War Against the Gods. | They work in passionate competi- tion and sublime collaboration. While little men with the busyness of ants try to organize the world to serve their | own interests, they are exploding the universe in a quiet war against the gods. Nobody puts them in prison as dan- gerous revolutionaries. They have | never been denounced by the D. A. R. | But they are the most dangerous as- | | saflants of the social order. For from | time to time they cast into the laps | of ordinary people, like you and llke‘ | me, new sources of energy, new mines { |of wealth, and open peep-holes | through which our eyes, fascinated | | and disturbed, glimpse a new world. | And we do not know how to use what we already have. (Copyright. 1936.) §1,000 DEMANDED OF ROGERS WIDOW Threat to Expose Hushand as Cattle Rustler. By the Assoctated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 20.—An aged, ex-cowboy, Joseph E. Snyder, was questioned by Department of Justice agents today on an alleged attempt ‘Will Rogers by threatening to expose the actor-humorist as a cattle rustler. The 76-year-old suspect was taken into custoday yesterday and turned over to Federal officials after police had booked him. Unshaven and long-haired, the for- mer cow hand was arrested at the Los Angeles postoffice by Detective Lieut. L. W. Lyons who had kept vigil there for three days, since Mrs. Rogers turned over a threatening let- ter to police. “You can't arrest me,” Detective Lyons quoted Snyder as saying. “I haven't done anything crooked. I just made Mrs. Rogers a business proposition. I offered to sell her a manuscript.” Mrs. Rogers received the letter June 12. The writer said he had knoWn Rogers well in Oklahoma in the years between 1889 and 1898. “Rogers started stealing cattle, for which he was notorious in 1892, the letter said. In 1892 Rogers was 13 years old. The author of the letter said he had written a manuscript telling of this, and offered Mrs. Rogers a reasonable length of time in which to consider his price of $1,000 for the manuscript. He threatened to have his story pub- lished if a money order were not forth- coming. BEINECKE IS ELECTED CHIEF OF U. S. REALTY By the Assoclutea Press. NEW YORK, June 30.—Edwin J. Beinecke was elected president and chairman of the board of United States Realty & Improvement Co., operating in New York and Boston, to succeed Richard Gordon Babbage, who re- signed on his seventieth birthday an- niversary. Henry C. Von Elm, vice chairman of the board of Manufac- turers’ Trust Co, was elected a di- rector. Kemberly Reports Meteorite. Kimberly, South Africa, reports that the union of upper Silesia, Poland, |dao announced today the new Sultan | a meteorite fell recently from a height with Germ: > of Sulu will be elected' June 27. ¢ in the vicinity of Jupiter. 1 |Former Cowboy Accused of | |to extort $1,000 from the widow of | HERRING TODELAY GARNER POST BID Action to Hinge on Parley: With Party Heads, lowa Governor Says. By the Assoctated Press. | DES MOINES, Iowa, June 20.—/ Gov. Clyde L. Herring said today | he would take no action on sugges- tions that he seek the Democratic vice presidential nomination until he discussed the proposals with puny‘ chieftains at the national convention | in Philadelphia next week. Boarding an early morning plane | for Chicago and Philadelphia, the | Governor asserted: | “I wouldn't want to do anything | which my good friend, Vice President Jack Garner, would not approve.” Tells of Wires Received. The Iowa executive, a personal friend of President Roosevelt, dis- cloged yesterday receipt of telegrams and letters urging him to be the Pres- | ident’s Tunning mate. | He made public one telegram from | J. R. Files of Los Angeles, a leader |of Rgqosevelt forces in California, | which read: “In the event the nomination for the vice presidency should become open I sincerely hope you may permit your name to be presented. “No living man could dim the prestige of Landon (Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, Republican presi- dential nominee) so well as yourself. Comparisons of records would become an invited and inevitable challenge. Count me in should the contingency arise.” Is Iowa Delegate. Gov. Herring is one of Iowa's 44 delegates to the convention. In his recent successful campaign for the senatorial nomination, Herring stressed his tax reduction and economy record. He also turned his fire on Gov. Landon and declared the Iowa tax cuts had been effected “without closing schools.” INDEX OF PRICES PAID TO FARMERS DECLINES By toe Associated Press. The Department of Agriculture’s index of prices received by farmers in mid-May declined to 103 per cemt of the -war average compared with 105 in April and 108 in May last year. Little change was shown in prices paid by farmers with the result that the ratio of prices received to prices paid dropped from 87 in April to 85 in May, the same as for the like month last year. 1 1 JUNE 20, 1936. Landon and the Press The “Newspaper Boys” Expect Genial Atmosphere to | Continue If He Wins—or Loses. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. NOTHER New Deal reform which Gov. Landon intends to embrace, A but which neither the platform nor he, in his message to the con- vention, mentioned, is the cordiality toward what former Senator Fess called the newspaper boys. Already the reports drifting back from Topeka describe how the Landcn. sr., and the 15 or more newspaper men already on the scene are just one happy family. And it is a fact that all but two of the writing gentry who have had to do with the Governor have been carried away by his personality. The two exceptions were Walter Davenport of Colliers whose business it was to write critically of him be- cause Colliers is a supporter of the New Deal, and Frazier Hunt, who got mad because the Governor wouldn't answer all the questions Hunt sub- mitted to him. But as evidence of the regard which the other fellows have for him, there is quite a squabble on as to which one was the first to mention his presidential possibilities. Arthur Sessions of Senator Capper’s Topeka Capital seems to have been the first to give publicity to that “he balanced the budget” story, but right here in our midst we have a writer who went to considerable pains to show that while he might not have been exactly the first, he was right out there in front. ‘The Governor keeps up a fairly steady correspondence with some of the boys here. In fact, one columnist sends him a copy of his column daily and the Governor writes back that this gentleman certainly has a clear grasp of things. One of the Governor's greatest assets is said to be his ability to get along, to harmonize differences. Nothing got Senator Vandenberg’s goat more than when sev- eral weeks before the convention Mrs. Robert Bacon gave the Landon candidacy considerable of a boost by announcing that he was the choice of the greater number of New York delegates. The Senator couldn’t understand why she would do such a thing as this without knowing “how the Governor stood on the vital issues” ‘Well, many weeks before that, the Governor had asked Gasper Bacon, Mrs. Bacon's brother-in-law, to come to Topeka and give him the benefit of his counsel The “harmonizer” picture was the first one that was painted at Cleveland. “He's no dictator or boss type.” his friends would buttonhole you and say. “He is the harmonizer type. He believes in teamwork.” Then when he sent his telegram to the convention saying we should return to gold standard as soon as we could do so without causing any harm, his friends were saying: “Isn't that courageous? It takes a leader to do that.” Whereupon several of the friends of Roy Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star and one of the foremost Landon makers, cornered him and pressed: “Now make up your mind. Is forceful man or is he a harmonizer?” i With a twinkle in his eye, Roy replied: “He seeks advice from every scurce and then when makes up his mind, he is as stubborn as they make 'em You really can't beat that. To use a New Deal term, he is grated” candidate. your candidate another he an “inte- * &+ The development of the cordiality toward newspaper boys business began, in so far as this writer can trace it, with Mrs. Harding. who used to serve them coffee on late assignments. Then Mr. Coolidge every now and then would take them down the river on the Mayflower and give them stationry on which they could write to their friends. Mr. Hoover initiated the practice of hav some of the journalists to the White House for dinner. This was considered to be evidence that he didn't know the psychology of the S| . because it would give the “lower flight” fellows no appe- tite at all and the “upper flight” gontlemen had to spend considerable of their time watching to see when one of their number was a guest. Mr. Rooseveit began at the lower flight and worked up and he also initiated the practice of calling them by their first names. It is doubtful if the boys ever have been so social-minded as they have in the past “three long years.” And although he has said nothing publicly about it, there is assurance that there will be no “turning back” if Gov. Landon comes in. It's a New Deal structure that would await him and he will take it to his bosom. It's the Republicans will keep. one of the good features of the New Deal which It's what is known as “evolution in gov ernme Douglas Had 6 Cents in 1922 S. E. C. Member Came to New York in Box Car. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON, NEW YORK, June 20.—William Or- ville Douglas, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, wheeling into Congress a massive study of the obligations of cor- porate trustees, with $36,000,000,- 000 at issue, ar- rived in New York in 1922 in a box car, with 6 cents in his pocket. Early in 1935, Jos- eph Kennedy, | head of the S. E | C., lured him from Guffey TEXAS GASE CITED (Continued From First Page) | contained in the original Guffey act invalidated by the Supreme Court, but does not embrace labor provisions held unconstitutional. INHOSTAGE DEATH Success Doubtful. By an agreement reached early this morning, a motion to take up the bill was to be put before the chamber at 3 pm. Doubt was expressed in some quarters as to whether enough votes could be mustered to get the bill up. However, other legislators, includ- ing Senator Clark, Democrat. of Missouri, said that although opposed to the bill they would vote for its con- sideration for reasons of principle. Shortly after midnight, Neely made a thumping attack on objectors to the | bill, calling them “gas bags” and “warts on the ship of progress.” Alluding to Borah's statement of objection, the West Virginian said “he isn’t afraid of monopoly; he's just | afraid.” Neely Hails Measure. Neely warned he would not con- sent to adjournment of Congress until the bill is passed. He said it would save the wives and children of “a third of a million coal miners from starvation” and “thousands of coal operators from bankruptey.” Some Senators said they were con- sidering a filibuster against the vital $992,000,000 Treasury-Post Office ap- propriation supply bill as a means of coralling votes for the coal measure. The bill would levy a 15 per cent excise tax on the sale price of coal at the mine, with a provision for a 131, per cent rebate to operators who complied with code stipulations. S FRAUD CHARGE IN HOUSE “SALE” By & Staff Correspondent of the Star. ROCKVILLE, Md,, June 20.—Burke Cissel, 40, of Kenwood, Md., was at liberty under $1,000 bond today on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses brought against him on a complaint by Mrs. Marion T. Saw- telle of 6200 Connecticut avenue, Chevy Chase. State's Attorney James H. Pugh said that Mrs. Sawtelle told him Cissel sold the Chevy Chase woman a home which he neither owned nor for which he was the authorized agent and col- lected an initial payment of $1,500 on the residence. Mrs. Sawtelle, Pugh said, told him Cissel took her on an inspection of a house in the 100 block of Spring street, Chevy Chase, upon learning she was interested in purchasing a residence and offered to sell her the house for $3,000. Cissel, he declared, then accepted a check of $1,500 as a payment and arranged to obtain a second for a similar amount to close the deal after a contract had been drawn up. $20,000 VERDICT STANDS RALEIGH, N. C, June 20 (&) .— Judge M. V. Barnhill yesterday refused to set aside a jury's verdict against Rev. Eckie T. Gattis for alienation of Mrs. Paige’s affections. Judge Barnhill ordered him to post a $100 appeal bond and a $20,000 stay of execution bond. Under the jury verdict rendered, judgment may be levied against the person of Gattis, by imprisonment. Paige sued for $40,000, charging the minister broke up his home. 4 to Usei Virginia Official Parallel in Indictments of Eight Convicts. Br the Associzted Press RICHMOND, Va, June 20.—Com- | monwealth’s Attorney T. Gray Had- | don peinted to a Texas case as pre- cedent for the murder indictments he | is drawing against eight Virginia con- ! victs whose thwarted escape attempt, resulting in the death of a guard, will be studied by special grand jury. Judge Julien Gunn agreed to call the jury in Richmond Circuit Court on June 29 to consider the proposed indictments. Haddon said circumstances in which Powhatan Bass, penitentiary guard, was killed by bullets fired into a truck in which the felons were hold- ing him as hostage paralleled those in which a railroad engineer met death after being sefzed by a Texas train robber. A murder conviction was upheld by the Texas Supreme Court, Haddon said, though the fatal shots were fired by a passenger while the engineer | was held as a shield by the bandit. Bullets that killed Bass were fired by C. H. Smith, a fellow guardsman, who was unaware that Bass and R. G. Reams, another officer, were in the | machine which the convicts drove to- | ward a gate. Four of the felons were | wounded, as was Oscar Fields, Negro | trusty seized along with the two | guards. “The theory is that if a man puts a man’s life in jeopardy, he is just as guilty of murder as the man who kills him,” Haddon said. | “If they are indicted for murder | and found guilty, the State statutes | provide only one penalty, death in the electric chair.” The official said he would ask for dismissal of a technical murder | charge against Smith, should one be | brought. The guard has been com- | mended for his action by Supt. Rice | M. Youell and the State prison board. | VENEZUELAN HEAD | PREDICTS NEW ERA 8y the Assoctated Press. CARACAS, Venezuela, June 20.—| Venezuela faces a mew era, President‘ Lopez Contreras predicted yesterday. because the successor to the late Juan | Vicente Gomez is “unalterably op- | posed to dictatorship.” “I am whole-heartedly Zfor democ- racy,” President Lopez Contreras de- | clared, “and my entire effort will be toward that end.” | Briefly, but with vigor, the man credited with holding the crack Venezuelan Army “in the palm of | _ his hand,” outlined his governmental | “LEG. theories, which differed with those of | o5 the late dictator, who ruled with an iron hand for a quarter of a century. “If democracy exceeds the bounds of law and order I shall meet force with force,” he said. “I shall main- | tain my position. I depend upon the | army, and I know the army.” \ ‘The people of Venezuela, Lopez Centreras asserted, have learned from the recent general”strike “they can- not use such a weapon su':~ts<.l.'lyl against society and the governmeat.” 1 | the Yale faculty | to survey the en- | tire guaranty sys- tem. While thus engaged he suc- |ceeded Mr. Ken- W- O Doustas. nedy on the commission. His report, offered as an S. E. C. document charges bad faith and inadequacy in | safeguarding the widows and orp | and recommends stringent control ov | all trustees. At 37, Mr. Douglas has enough rust- |iing and scratching behind him to 1ound out a dozen ordinary life- times. The son of a Presbyterian min- ister in Yakima, Wash., he helped sup- {port his widowed mother by selling papers, running a junk business, prun- | ing and spraying trees and working as a harvest hand. He saved enough money to buy a second-hand bicycie and pump his way to Whitman College in Walla Walla. Finishing with a Phi Beta Kappe key, he taught English and Latin two years in the Walla Walla High School and then made his box | car trek to New York | In Columbia Law School, he odd- { jobbed his way along for a few months |and then went back to Yakima, to re- | build his finances. Returning to Nev York, this time on the cushions, he had 30 cents and a bride—his former child | hood sweetheart. Tutorinz and ed: ing a law review got him through Co- lumbia. He spent two ye: corporation lawy then joined t | Columbia law facu Yale took !over as professor of commercial and corporate law, and, in 1928, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the Univer- of Chicago, tried to entice him {from Yale, characterizing him “the outstanding professor of law in America with a firm | David Jones, blond, handsome, smil- ing young giant, formerly of Columbia advances America’s chance in the Queens Club tennis tournament at | London, vanquishing easily his Fren | opponent. This is the same Davi | Jones who, in 1932,.played through a Cornell-Columbia basket ball game | with a broken bone in his fo poofed | the doctors and two or t da; later played through another contest wich Princeton. | Just casually he had become inter- collegiate tennis champion, but said | he wouldn't spend any time on tennis, | after finishing college, as it would interfere with his business career. He was president of the student board, and active or specially honored In pretty nearly all branches of sports | and scholarship. In May, 1932. he {won a scholarship which gave him two years' study in England He is 6 feet 3': inches tall and weighs 191 pounds—the son of Mr. and Mrs. David N. Jones of Brooklyn. «Copsrisht. 1936 » NICE ASKS STUDY OF PRISON REPORT Recommendations of Convicts' Use for Road Work Going to Legislature. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, June 20 —Gov. Harry W. Nice has asked 10 copies of the report recommending a prison con- struction program and use of pris- oners for road and reforestation work in Maryland be sent to all members of the Legislature The report was drawn by the Prison Industries Reorganization Ad- ministration, a Federal group headed by Judge Joseph N. Ulman. The report on Maryland prisons was the first on any State penal system. The Governor also asked Charles J. Butler, chairman of the State Board of Welfare, to request that Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor draft legislation incorporating the commission’s recommendations. The report and the proposed legislation will be submitted to the 1937 Legis- lature. The commission recommended the prison building program to alleviate present conditions of overcrowding and the road and reforestation work to remedy present idleness of pris- oners. Gov. Nice said of the report: “I'm not recommending anything. I'm just sending it to them for study.” —_— Rites for Luray Man. LURAY, Va, June 20 (Special).— Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. from the Methodist Church for G. A. Coffman, prominent Luray resident, who died yesterday at his home here. Mr. Coffman had been ill some time. He is survived by his widow and two children, Mrs. Mae Emerson of Luray and Robert Coff- man of the Bureau of Public Roads, Roanoke. RESORTS SUM. 3905 Ventnor Ave..A| SEASO ot. 4. Atlantie City N.J. Phone 32965 3 (Atlantie City) o 21 T WILDWOOD, N. | -RM. BUNGALOW. i 520 & $28; 2 blocks to board: it co 139 and 141 E_Andrews a Apt. 2. 2007 O st. n.W.) 2 Inglee Apts., (D. C. addres % RIDGE SU: i COTTAGE Tooms, 7 Opposite golf course and swimming ol Also smaller furnished - cottases. 8§15 Hamilton_Terrace_Baitimore. Md. baths oy & Allconveaiences. Mrs. B. F. Diehl OCEAN CITY, MD. 'AGES A°™S RENT. $£200 TO $7. FURNISHED HOUSEKEEPIN 0 Parking Space. RS. 1 Private Baths Speeial rates until July 25 CHAS. LUDLAM,