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A—2 w HELVERING LEADS FIGHT FORKANSAS Democrats Name Him to Di- rect Battle, Hint Promo- tion if He Wins. BY REX COLLIER. Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of internal revenue and formerly a lead- ing Democratic politician in Kansas, has been commissioned by the ad- ministration to win Gov. Alf M. Landon’s own State for President Roosevelt—with hints of a “promo- tion” in’ the New Deal family if he succeeds and Mr. Roosevelt is re- elected. Just what the reward would be 4s closely guarded in official circles— although rumors have it that a post of cabinet importance would be found for the astute Kansan fuses to discuss the matter at all in public. If there are any vacancies in the Roosevelt cabinet, indications are that Helvering would be given gerious consideration for appointment. Reports that Helvering plans to leave the Internal Revenue Bureau have been current for some weeks in official quarters. but these reports probably have their origin in the fact the revenue commissioner will go on leave this Summer to stump Kansas in behalf of President Roose- velt's re-election Knowledge of Plans Denied. It was said at the Treasury ¥ terday that nothing was known of any intention of Helvering to resign. al- though offici him to make “several” New Deal in the Sunflower within the next several months. At headquarters of the Democratic National Committee there was con- firmation of the fact that Helvering would be an administration “wheel- horse” in the campaign in Kansas Although he is not given to oratorical the commissioner has ability as a convincing speeches for the State is popular with Kansas who elected him from the -third, Sixt Congresses. congressional service he of the powerful Ways his Was Highway Director. He formerly was chairman of the Btate Democratic Committee and at one time was State way director. Although active in Kansas politics g period, Helvering shelved he became head of the e Bureau. He issued any display of andling of bureau llv in connection with income tax d Democrats and Republicans alike have felt the heavy hand of income tax ctors and have been subjected to the impartial scrutiny of tax gators Internal strict orde gettlement Future Plans Discussed. ive return to activit; a naturally has given on as to his future Helvering’s name has been linked to several cabinet posts in connection with rumors of impending resignations in the Presi t's official family, in- ciuding the Agriculture and Interior portfolios. The only hitch in these rumors is that neither Secretary Wal- lace nor Secretary Ickes appears i clined to resign. Airlines (Continued From rst Page.) satisfactory by Farley after advice from ttorney General Cummings that “in his judgment, the offers should be ac- cepted.” A summary of the settlements Northwest Airways. Inc., had sued for $531.378 and settled for $51.365 accrued earnings and return of $12,000 performance bond. Western Air Gets Western Air Express. Inc.. for $774.435, and settled for accrued earnings and return of $24,000 performance bond, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. had sued for $2.684,280, and set- tled for $183.865 accrued earnings and return of §100.000 performance bond American Airways, Inc., had filed two suits totaling $4.851.000, and set- tled for $315.568 accrued earnings and return of $260.000 performance bonds. Officials sald settlement was “un- likely” in the 10 other suits brougit by airlines, totaling $6.483.319, since the money available for such & settle- ment would be returned to the Treas- ury on June 30. After that, settlement of the suits would take an act of Con- gress, they said Letter From Cummings. A letter from Cummings to Farley. fapproving the Northwest Alrways sei- tlement, said in part: “The reports of the inspectors of the Post Office Department and other available data relating to this and other mail contracts has been fully examined. There can be no reasonable doubt that the arrangements, under- standings and agreements, out of which the Toute certificate subsequently grew, were highly irregular, and interfered with the freedom of competition con- templated by the statutes. “These circumstances and irregular- ities were such as to impel you to cancel the route certificates as a ne- cessary preparatory step to the put- ting of the airmail system of the country upon a more wholesome basis, and one that would work both for the better development of air transporta- tion and the more economical hand- ling of the mails by such means. While the course pursued by you in this respect was amply warranted, it is our opinion that the irregularities referred to are not such as to jus- tify or require criminal prosecution. Such irregularities would, however, be pertinent and vital factors in the event of further litigation. Sees Compromise Appropriate. “The controversy is, therefore, one which, in the exercise of a sound dis- cretion, may appropriately be com- promised. * * *" Farley’s sudden and broad scale cancellation of airmail contracts early in 1934 followed a Senatorial investi- gation of contracts made under the previous administration. The Army took over the job of fiying the mail until private contractors were Tre- turned to the task. Col. Carl Ristine, St. Louis lawyer, has been studying the legal aspects of the contracts and their cancellation for more than a year, as special as- sistant to the Attorney General. Jus- tice Department officials said they “presumed” the Attorney General’s opinion to Farley was based on & re- port from Ristine, Helvering re- | s there were expecting | investi- | Random Observations for men only—the one your Knowing the editors’ antipathy for They kept the manuscript for some 1 “Dear Michael,” it began, *“your “Ten years from now.” Michael says, DOG NOTE. gence, or possibly both, for on a PAST. N be in existence printed during the mack Packet first appeared in Febru George Washington for New York Washingt Waysid ¢ of Interesting Events and Things. IMMATURE. CERTAIN national magazine A woman friends are always quoting—is being laughed at, in a refined way, by one of Wash- ington’s more talented woman writers. woman writers, she turned out a piece for the magazine recently under a | masculine nom de plume. ‘“Michael” | was the first name. time, rolling it around in their thor- oughly masculine minds, but finally it | came back with a sweetly, patronizing note: manuscript has merit, but it also shows a quality of immaturity. Ten years from now, Michael, when you are more mature-—etc.” “I'll be a decaying old lady at the| age of 62, living on the memory that at 52 I was called immature.” * % % x The janitor of an apartment house near the corner of Fijteenth and L streets either has great faith tn publicity or in canine intelll= piece of Jawn about the area of @ tablecloth appears a crudely let- tered sign reading “Dogs Keep Off.” * x %X x THE Library of Congress, Te- pository for millions of publica- tions, is a single copy of the first local | newspaper: the only copy known to first two years of the life of that publication. Established before Washington City was founded, the Times and Potow- ary, 1789. The copy in the libra is dated April 23, 1789, and apparently was preserved because it contains an | announcement of the departure of to take the oath of office as President Several 1791 copies of the paper are ‘m the library of Harvard University. OGH? putes. | | The Library of Congress also has | five issues of the second local paper, | the Georgetown Weekly Ledger. estab- | lished in March. 1790. Both of these newspapers are thought to have passed out of existence prior to 1793. x o % % DIME. OMEBODY came out of church a few Sundays ago a dime richer than when she entered | Sounds funny, doesn't it? It really happened, however, and might have been a great deal more embarrassing than it was for the person who was | responsible for the transaction ' It was this way: When the collec- | tion was taken up the dime loser was | overlooked. Reaching for her pocket- book to replace the coin intended for the collection basket, she inadver- tently picked up her neighbor's purse and dropped in the overlooked dime. Discovering her mistake, there was nothing to do but become suddenly devout and let it go at that. But she has been wondering ever since if the }o!her person was anyway mystified. * x> { INSPIRED. A SHREWD knowledge of where & fares are likely to be may guide | the daily lives of most taxi driver: but not one encountered by an op- erative last night. He depends en- tirely upon pure inspiration, the kind that poets use. “I get feelings.” the driver said. “The other day I had a feeling I | ought to be at Fourteenth and K | streets, went there and picked up a | fare immediately. Things like that always are happening to me. I get a hunch to go some place, I go and |usually I find a guy that wants to go to Alexandria or some paying | place like that.” R GROWING. Alezandria’s 5,000th telephone has recently been installed. The first 2,500 were put in during the 42-year period from 1881 to 1923, while the other 2,500 have been placed in service in the past 12 years. The Virginia city’s first phone ex- change was opened October 28, 1881, with five lines in operation. In less than a month there were 26 lines to the switchboard, and two years later the mumber there was 83 subscribers. Now there are 25,000 calls daily, requiring 46 op- erators. Strange to say, 24 of Alexandria’s first 100 subscribers still have the same phone numbers. * ok o % SHOPPING SERVICE. LAST week an addicted bargain hunter came upon a smart black hat reduced from $7.95 to $1. The hat was not becoming to her, but did that deter the shopper? Not at all. That evening, she brought the bar- gain with her to a bridge party, where she offered it at the reduced price. Eight young ladies lined up before a mirror and successively tried on the chapeau. It looked best on a visitor from Chicago, who gladly paid the dollar and kept the hat. The bargain hunter now has seven re- quests for similar shopping service from the seven other guests at the party. —_— Ushers Wrangle. When John McCormack recently appeared with the Dublin Philhar- monic Orchestra in his own Dublin, Irish Free State, wrangling between ushers and seat-holders so delayed the opening that the conductor had to speak from the stage to restore order. ] THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, HEAT AGAIN TS | DROUGHT SECTION Soaring Temperatures Fol- low Scattered Showers in West. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 27.—One hundred degree heat returned to sections of the drought belt today after scattered showers brought a brief respite from the crop-withering sun. Forecasters here indicated readings of 100 or more would be recorded in South Dakota, Missouri and Kansas stations following yesterday's soaring marks, which climbed to 108 at Con- cordia, Kans., and 107 degrees at Lo- gan for Jowa’s hottest day of the year. Two Wisconsin deaths were attributed to the heat. ‘The showers cooled South Dakota communities as much as 30 degrees in an hour. Pierre, with 103 degrees, was the warmest place in the State before they arrived. They brought as high as quarter of an inch moisture to parched fields in Eastern North Dakota and Western Minnesota, but | the substantial benefit was slight. The mercury in those States today stood generally between 85 and 90 degrees. For next week, the Weather Bureau | forecast local showers for the Upper Mississippi Valley and generally fair with intervals of showers for the Ohio Valley—both areas in which some of the most severe moisture deficiencies of the May-June period have been ex- | perienced. But State and Federal authorities, realizing that wide areas of the Spring wheat belt will have no crops, speeded provision for relief. In Washington, | President Roosevelt conferred on the situation with Secretary Wallace and | others. Joseph L. Bailey, director of | rural rehabilitation, was en route to the stricken Dakota territory. Because of the Federal conference of W. P. A. officials and representa- | tives of States in St. Paul Tuesday, Gov. Walter Welford of North Da- | kota postponed the five-State drought conference he had summoned for Mon- day. Federal authorities indicated that the drought continued to spread and said the Ohio Valley was approach- ing a critical stage in respect to soil moisture. | LIVE STOCK IMPERILED. North Dakota Farmers to Use This- | tles to Feed Cattle. STEELE, N. Dak., June 27 (#).—The danger of starving live stock hovered over the heart of North Dakota's | seared drought region today as farm- ers pinned hopes for Winter feed on the lowly Russian thistle. | For a long overdue grain crop they looked stoically ahead to next year. “If we only can ge. a harvest of thistle,” said Farmer Adam Leno. “We learned how to make palatable live stock feed from it in 1934, if we cut it before the briars come out on the stalks.” “Not a bushel of cash grain crop | in the whole of Kidder County,” de- spaired County Agent M. C. Alten- burg. Last Rain July 10, 1934. | “The last real rain we had in the Steele vicinity was July 10, 1934, and that holds for most of the county.” Kidder, located south centrally and among the most critical of the 40 counties beset by rain shortage, is a bleak picture of undulating prairie carpeted with yellow, parched grass. small grains choked in powdery soil and wind-eroded fields flecked with sand dunes. “It's more a matter of human relief than crop relief right now.” Altenburg added. “But through it all one thing is certgin—these farmers can take it and they're not licked. They're plan- | ning for next year already.” Northward through Kidder County over dusty roads lie scorched prairies, | | headed rve in thin stands 10 inches high, thin cows and horses browsing loose in wilted flelds. some corn fields | hanging on but rain sorely needed, | | black bottoms of dry lakes and pot- holes, wheat stunted like dried-up {lawn or headed prematurely at 6 to | 10 inches high. “Typical Farmer” Cited. On an isolated prairie knoll stands the farm of R. S. Craig, cited by Al- tenburg as a “typical farmer.” There is a modest, weathered frame house, a barn, a garage and a yard full of rusted farm machinery. “We're banking on the thistle to tide us through the Winter,” said Craig, good-natured, middle-aged | farmer on the place since 1922. “Right now, though, it's too low to cut.” “Anything like this before?” Craig smiled. “We had it exactly the same in 1934 and years before and since to some degree,” he said. “So we're used to it. Back in 1928 we had our last | bumper crop. In '31 I had a won- | derful rye yield but the price was 4 | cents a bushel—cheaper to burn it for | fuel.” Drought ___ (Continued From First Page) damage in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennesse and parts of Kentucky, Ala- bama, Mississippi and Arkansas. . Regional Parley Planned. Bailey planned to meet W. W. Alex- ander, assistant resettlement adminis- trator, in Lincoln, Nebr., tomorrow for a conference with regional officials be- fore both departed for a tour of the Dakotas. W. P. A. Administrator Hop- kins called a meeting of regional W. P. A officers and State and local authori- ties at St. Paul for next Tuesday. Wallace said 8,000 to 10,000 tons of mill feed had been made available to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. for distribution to live stock produeers in the North Central drought States. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion -already had authorized railroads in those areas to reduce freight rates on shipments of live stock out to good pastures and eventually back again. Wallace assured the railway companies his department would co-operate in seeing that stock shipments originated on drought-stricken farms. The Weather Bureau said last night there was a possibility of light scat- tered showers in Northern North Da- kota within the next 24 hours. Pros- pective showers, it said, failed to ma- terialize yesterday over the arid regions, SRR T King Embarks for Denmark. AKREYRI, Iceland, June 27 (#).— King Christian X of Denmark and Ice- land embarked tonight for Denmark at the conclusion of a four-day auto- mobile trip during which he visited Iceland's spectacular volcanic area and viewed ‘the eountry’s snow-clad peaks. [ N | crats, | President 'PARAD EARLE DISCUSSED AS "0 NOMINEE Former Republican, Now Governor, Sees Roosevelt Carrying State This Year. By & Staff Correspondent o1 The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Waving 2 Roosevelt banner and shouting like & man gone mad down in front of the speaker's stand here today is one of the strangest political actors in this strangest of all shows. A Republican four years ago, George H. Earle is now Pennsylvania's first Democratic Governor in 40 years. A product of Philadelphia’s old aris- tocracy, Gov. Earle has cast in his lot with the “common people,” and so great has been his success in the Key- stone State that already he is being mentioned as the Democratic presi- dential nominee in 1940. ‘There is nothing in the nature of & campaign being made in the Gov- ernor’s behalf, but his name is sug- gested frequently by delegates from various States as a likely prospect four years hence. The local Democratic paper, editorially and in its news col- umns, is stressing his qualifications, and Senator Joseph Guffey is reputed- 1y behind him. All this, however, is not distorting | the perspective of the Governor him- | self. Questioned concerning his own opinion of his 1940 chances, Gov. Earle replied “I have never believed in nursing one chance in a million.” Member of Old Family, The Governor is 48 years old, and a member of an old Philadelphia fam- ily. His Quaker ancestors came to this country on the Mayflower and the Welcome. He numbers Benjamin Franklin among his ancestors and is a grandnephew of Gen. “Mad An- ' Wayne. vania, this is strange soil for & Democrat to spring from, and in discussing his allegiance to the party, the Governor said: “Four years ago I was a Republi- can. All my life I had been a Repub- lican. My father was a Republican. | His father, Thomas Earle, was the vice presidential candidate of the Liberty party, out of which the Republican party grew, “I left the Repyblican party be- cause it no longer represented the principles and ideals of its founder, the immortal Abraham Lincoln. I left the Republican party because its leadership was controlied by the forces of predatory wealth; because it no longer represented those prin- ciples of representative government in whiclt 1 believed.” Hit Economic “Slavery.” When he went over to the Demo- the Governor attacked with vigor what he considered the funda- mental weaknesses of the Republi- cans. Basing his campaign on the issue of economic “slavery.” he flayed the Republican industrialists in State and was swept into the Gov- efnor's mansion by a comfortable majority. Gov. Earle, described by his friends as “moderately wealth made his money in the sugar business in Chi- cago as a representative of his fam- ¥'s company, the Pennsylvama Su- gar Co. A graduate of Harvard, he served with the Pen vania ational Guard on the Mexican border, and during the World War enlisted in the avy While serving as a junior lieutenant on a submarine chaser he won the Navy cross for exceptional bravery in extinguishing a fire aboard ship The Governor is an ardent sports- | man and is a member the all- Philadelphia polo team. An avia- tion enthusiast, he was granted his pilot’s license only three wecks ago. and now pilots his own auto-gyro. Gov. Earle decided to Roorevelt in 1932 when urged to do so by his close friend. William Bullitt, Ambassador to Soviet Russia. During that year he cam- paigned for the President and, after the election, he was named Minister to Austria—a post he resigned in the Spring of 1934 to begin his cam- paign fo- the governorship. Measure Sponsored. He has had the benefit of a Demo- cratic House, is Republican. Despite this handicap, however, he has pushed through child labor legislation and obtained passage of a bill regulating the activi- ties of coal and iron police. The Governor believes Pennsyl- vania will go for Roosevelt in No- vember by 250000 votes. He be- lieves the working people in the State regard the President’s policies as their only hope of acquiring a decent living. “They will support him” he de- of | clared, “rather than run the risk of returning to the terrible conditions | that prevailed here during the Hoover regime.” He also expressed the opinion that the adverse Supreme Court decision of the Guffey coal bill would solidify Roosevelt support in the mining dis- tricts. The Governor, who is married and is the father of four children, said: “This year history is repeating. On November next we will give the candidates selected by this conven- tion the vote of that erstwhile rock- ribbed Republican stronghold—the State of Pennsylvania.” WILL OPEN CHURCH CARNIVAL Legion Posts in Georgetown Area Will Participate in Event. A large parade, headed by the Amer- ican Legion posts in the Georgetown area, will open a carnival tomorrow night at Wisconsin avenue and S street to raise funds for the improve- ment of Holy Trinity Church. The week's program, closing Sat- urday night, will include band con- certs, a boxing exhibition, a fireworks display and all of the other things which go with a “regular old-time carnival.” . The parade will assemble at 7:30 pm. tomorrow on Prospect avenue, near Wisconsin avenue. All the Le- gion posts, together with their bands and drum and bugle corps, will be headed by District Comdr. Joseph Malloy. The parade will cover the main streets of the area before it reaches the carnival grounds. Thére will be band concerts each night, with the exception of Wednes- day, which will be devoted to ath- letics. A star of this event will be Marty Gallagher, local heavyweight, who will give an-exhibition boxing match with one of his trainers. the | support | but the State Senate | Sparse Audience Applauds JUNE 28, 1936—PART ONE. | yesterday after his nomination for Vice President. Garner Between rows of almost empty seats, demonstrators for John Garner staged a parade —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. GARNER, RENANED. TAKES USUAL NAP “Just Another Day” for Vice President—Takes a Walk, Too. Pt the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA. June 27.— John Nance Garner. lo g iIn a comfort- able chair his hotel, listened by ra- dio to the booming “ayes” by which the Democratic convention unani- mously renominated him today for the vice presidency. then pulled off his coat and took a nap. Senate, over which in session, Garner nap. Still in his self- man who does Texan had nothing itics nor of his renomin: To him it was just another day. despite that the Democrats once more | had chosen him for the second high- est honor they could offer. He did not go to the convention hall, be- cause his only public appearance was to be at the gala ceremonies at which | President Roosevelt and he will be notified formally tonight of their re- | nomination. To Meet Roosevelt. Garner arranged to meet his chief at the train and then go directly to Franklin Field for the climax of the convention week. He had risen early as usual—a bit later than he does in Washington, because nocturnal noises incident to the big convention kept him awake— to have breakfast served by two fidgety, giggling waitresses who left little doubt that they unever before | had seen such a national dignitary. | They were distressed because he in- | sisted on putting the exact amount of sugar and cream in his coffee by himself. Then for 10 blocks he took a walk to sort of settle a huge lamb chop, fried potatoes and cantaloupe. A | biilky policeman, with a caulifiower |ear and an Australian accent, kept | pace with him, relating proudly how he had shaken hands with Garner four vears ago when the Vice President passed through town. Garner Eyes Picture. The officer, Thomas Clifford, pulled out a picture showing two cups he had won as a middleweight boxer in England and Australia. Garner stop- ped in the middle of the sidewalk, took out his glasses and gave the photo a proper inspection. A smile wrinkling his ruddy face, Garner spoke cheerfully to nearly every one he encountered on his brief stroll. Back at his hotel, he chatted with two Texas friends who convinced a Secret Service man and another po- liceman that they should be admit- ted, looked over some mail and news- papers, then decided to read his short acceptance speech. By that time he was on No. 8 of the series of cigars which he keeps in his mouth almost constantly. He says he smokes far too many, 15 to 30 a day. Extortionists (Continued From First Page.) who attempted to get the package. Called on to surrender, the men opened fire on the officers and sped away. The officers pursued the car and fired repeatedly at it, but were hampered by traffic and were outdistanced. None of the officers were injured. Pinding of the bullet-riddled car led to the arrest of Mowbrey yester- day afternoon. In his home, F. B. I officials said, was found the typewriter upon which the note to Mrs. William- son was written. Creighton, it was announced, has admitted complicity in the case. Garner Text Pledges Loyalty to Roose- velt and New Deal. Et the Associated Press, | PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—The prepared text of the speech by John | Nance Garner of Texas accepting the Democratic nomination for Vice Presi- dent Mr. Chairman. {riends: My wo shall be as few as they shall be fervent and sincere. I am a soldier and my duty is to follow where the commar leads. I accept the rules of w form. I am not insensible of the honor which has been conferred upon me. This confidence which my fellow countrymen have reposed in me I accept as a solemn trust. And I am not unm ul of the responsibility which goes with that trust. I gladly accept the nomination for the vice presidency now tendered to me for the second time. The sense of personal satisfaction in this honor is enhanced and heightened by the thought that I am again to be on the ticket with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I shall stand with him in the months ahead as I stood with him before the voters of this country in 1932—as I have stood in sharing with him since March 4, 1933, the obliga- tions and duties and responsibilities which the Constitution imposes. Roosevelt Is Leader. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is my | leader, my commander in chief. In this presence, before this multitude and with the stars of heaven to bear witness to my covenant, I renew the pledge of fealty I gave four years ago. In Franklin Delano Roosevelt the hopes of a Nation have been reborn Despair has given place to confidence. v for happiness. Laughter again is heard in the land. our course. which have been accomplished to | much remains to be done. ‘There must be no return to old con- ceptions denominated as the Old Old Deal? We mean a political sys- giving special privilege to a few favor- many. By the New Deal we mean sim- the country so that the greatest good will come to the greatest num- ber—the protection of the rights of the vast majority of our populace, men, women, and children—to whom the Old Deal meant want, hardship, despair and degradation. Loyal to New Deal. Our people have not forgotten the wretchedness to which these sins of omission and commission of 12 years of the Old Deal had plunged the country when the New Deal was ush- ered in on a March day in 1933. But the dawn of a new day was at hand. The time for a change had come. now to the loyal support of New Deal corded in Congress by certain of our friends of the opposition. With voice and vote many brethren of the Repub- lican persuasion have shown how they could, in time of national peril, rise for help of a stricken country. We still ask for the support of all those who believe as we do that the function of Government is to protect the many from the selfishness of the few, to guarantee to all the means of livelihood and participation irt the things that make life good and noble end worth the living. That is our platform. Upon that platform I stand and I am proud to stand with our leader—a leader who has never faltered in his course and never once lost faith that in the sovereign will of the American peo- ple rests true wisdom in Government and the way to security, peace and happiness. In that faith I put my trust. In that faith I pledge anew my allegiance to Pranklin Delano Roosevelt. ’ as laid down in the plat- | Despondency and gloom have made | We are now, as it were, midway in | Great as are the things | bring order out of chaos in which we | found the country in March, 1933, | Deal. And what do we mean by the | tem which fosters an economic order | ed ones through the sacrifices of the ly and adaptation of the laws of | 24 2 s O | able assistant, as is Miss Josephine The country welcomed & new leader. | And I cheerfully bear witness here and | measures and principles ac- | above partisanship and heed the call | PART OF DEMOCRAT WOMEN LAUDED Senator Caraway Cites Achievements in Talk to Southern Workers. BY WILL P. K EDY, By & Staff Correspondent of 1ne & PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—"The Democratic party has been making history,” with two most important objectives, Senator Hattie W. Caraway told the women of the South at a work conference today: “1. For the first time a real con- certed effort has been made to pre- serve to the underprivileged the right to work for adequate wages “2. To try to strike a balance be- tween the producer class and the in- dustrial class.” She explained that “neither can ex- ist without the other, nor can peop find employment when the produc class finds cost of production prohib- itive. “The Democratic party has recog- nized also the potentialities of the women of the country,” she empha- sized. Pioneered in Many Ways. “This administration has pioneered in many ways, not the least of which has been in placing women in high positions,” said Senator Caraway. “Mrs, Ruth Bryan Owen is the first woman to be sent as Minister to & foreign count “Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor, sitting at the council table with other cabinet members, advising the Presi- dent on matters of state. “Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, who is making such an able director of the mint. “In the new Social Security Board a woman, Miss Jane Hoey, has been made director of the Board of Public Assistance. “While Mr. Wilson was President he set a precedent by appointing Mrs. Helen H. Gardner as a civil service commissioner. Mrs. Lucille McMillin of Tennessee serves on that commis- slon now. “In the Treasury Department, Mrs Marion Glass Banister of Virginia worthy sister of Senator Glass, one- time Secretary of the Treasury. is an Roche of Colorado. Women Aid in Relief. “In all the relief work in the States women have had appointments as assistant directors. “Each State has a national Demo- cratic committeewoman and the Na- tional Democratic Committee has a woman’s division under the very effi- clent direction of Mrs. James H. Wolfe. “Six women are representing dis- tricts in four different States in the House of Representatives of the Na- tional Congress. Mrs, Norton, New Jersey; Mrs. Jenckes, Indiana; Mrs. Greenway, Arizona, and Mrs. O'Day, New York, are Democrats. Mrs. Kahn, | Caiifornia, and Mrs. Rogers of Massa- | chusetts are Republicans. They have been re-elected many times, which is proof positive that they have loyalty, courage and brains. “What I most wish to see is men and | women working together on an intel- lectual plane with mutual respect, mu- tual interests, safeguarding the insti- tutions of our Government, our coun- try, and protecting our aged, our youth, and to preserve agriculture and the rights of the small wage earner so that there will not be an extreme low in the living conditions of our country.” An Olympic Mix-Up. Miss Doris Carter, high-jumper on the Australian team for the Olympic games, has received a letter telling her to include “boxing shoes, trunks and singles” in her traveling kit, and by the same mail Les Harley, Olympic heavyweight boxer, was asked to send measurements for “a white frock.” ¢ CONVENTION SEEN SIGN OF DEFEAT It Adds Up to Victory for Landon and Knox, Observer Says. BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE, Bpecial Dispatch to The St PHILADELPHIA, June most blatant, highly mechanized, elab- orately specified and vociferous, vertiginous voluble week of political exhibi this country ever saw has now to a clamorous end It is all over as eve person in the United for two years it woul and in exactly in the ranged and scheduled ano Roosevelt has been re-n for President by the Democ John Nance Garner re-nom Vice President. Mr. taken his last ride up Broa his glory exemplified by the s sirens of 27 motor cops ulate delegate L the microphone listeners for or 1 | puny eminence. The lips of th | men are swollen and c their continuous bl that the “Halil, the Ga The delegates have | hoarse frazzl m: Fra mob, ican political lunacies | to its bedlam end And to wh | person in the U |add two and two c the comic strips with of what “zam” and “zow a person who can assi: a and habitates of from then up to comprehension stead of “I done” to the super strata | of our intelligentsia who look upon the Ame scene 8s in e and consciousness who has not e his unprecendented in in the congressional el d be re-nominated by accl | tion in 1936, as he has been here, A Suave Platform, There has been no secret those who know what politics means, and is, and politics is all that Govern- ment means and is, that the platform would be as suave language as it is e the polite greeting of & | courtier, but that in it would be the continued implication of the plan to resolve this country into a paternale istic Nation run by the bureaucrats at Washington to the glory and incre- tmnr.? of the ideas of the frankfurter professorate, and with the acquiesence of the President himself. It has been well enough known, among those who know T | affairs, that t was to be the oute | come of all platform back and ‘\f ing, and hugger-mugger an | pocus. and it is. But they had to put | on a six-day ballvhoo to make it easy to take, to sugar the pill, and they did There have been a t paper report special writers vention and 1as been that th he noise. Sure eno the only apparent the rest of it has be pre-arranged, blue-p: still there has been one piece of here news earlier in the week and I am ¢l n of that ident among d newse news becat al piece of nev this nd nox will Behind Landon Prediction. I make that statee | paper and m | vears, and for I make because of opin partisanship, but went to the Grass Roo i in Springfield, Ill, a year ago and saw the beginning of the movement that will reach its culmination next November. Since then I have been in every State in the Union. and have talked to thousands of people in all walks of life, and of every shade of political prejudice, purpose and opinion. | I was at the Cleveland convent | that nominated Landon and saw t | it was the organized beginning of th great crusade started in a diff a year ago this month in Sp a crusade to re-Americanize Ame | for Americans. The details are superfluous. The great motivating. basic idea is to des | feat Roosevelt. The symbol is a Kan= san. He could as well have been & man from Michigan, from Iowa, from any Mississippi Valley State, but al ways he would have been a symbol— a symbol set up by the people of this county as a rallying point, a leader, for the battle that is now joined. and for the reclaim of the United States, | from the machinations and manipus | 1ation of the economic theorists, the | sociologist poseurs, the exponents of collectiveism, the proponents of cene tralization, the half-baked idealists and the self-seeking pay roll patriots | who now control it (Copyright, 1836.) SLAV FARMERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH POLICE Fight in Old Montenegro Capital Results Prom Monarchy Plea. By the Associated Press. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, June 27— Gendarmes, fighting with 200 mon- archist farmers in the former kingdom of Montenegro, were reported today to have killed two and wounded 16. The fight occurred near the former capital of Cettinje after the farmers had demanded that the 27-year-old | Prince Michael, heir-presumptive t0 the non-existent throne, become their ruler. . (Michael, reported to be in England, is the grand-nephew of King Nicholas, who was deposed in 1918. His uncle, Prince Danilo, abdicated in Michael's favor on March 7, 1921 (Montenegro is now a part of Yugo= slavia.) Today’s demonstration was said to have started as a prot agsinct the trial of 14 farmers accused of kiliing five policemen last Aprik 4