Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1936, Page 5

ROHNEY LALDED FORIONGHEG AD “Just Stepped in to Do What | Thought Best,” He Says. 1If House Sergeant at Arms Kenneth Romney had any doubt that hir handling of “L'affaire Zioncheck’ would meet with approval, a sheaf >f congratulatory telegrams and a stesdy stream of telephone calls yesterday and today dispelled them. Seated at his desk again after s day spent in recuperating from the ¢Tects of dealing with a battalion of assorted police, District officials, newspeper re- porters, photographers and aiewsreel camera men, while at the ssme time making arrangements for getting Representative Zioncheck off to Seattle, Romney read over the tele- grams from Senators, congressmen and even former Congressmen. One from former Representative Up- shaw of Georgia, read: “Bravo, Ken- neth, princely job you did for Zion- check. Bully stuff.” “Nobody seemed to have any idea on what to do, so I just stepped in to | do what I thought was the best thing | for all concerned.” Romney said. “I thought things kad reached the point | where Zioncheck was being persecuted and the best thing to do was to get him home among his friends. I'm glad 50 many members of Congress mmk‘ I did the night thing.” Always Close to Mother. Zioncheck, Romney pointed out, has always been very close to his mother, | who lived with him for several mont during the first session of the present Congress, and the only time during the day he broke down was when he | learned she was in a Seattle hospital in a nervous condition as a result of reports on his adventures here. When Romney stepped into the breach Monday afternoon, it was not the first time he has assumed the role of protector for a member of the House. But it was the first time, per- haps, that he has assumed the role of diplomat with the spotlight of pub- licity full upon him. He prefers to work behind the scenes. How many Congressmen Romney has extricated from embarrassing cir- cumstances, how many situations in- volving names that would have made news he has smoothed over without ever getting into print during the 22 years he has held his present job. only Romney himself know.s And Romney is not communicative man, comes to the private affairs of his particular charges, the members of the | House of Representatives. “All I can say is that Zioncheck is not the first—well, let’s say, man in public life, who has driven his car up the sidewalk” the sergeant at arms | said with a smile. “I didn't believe | he got a square deal all around, and I | wanted him to have one.” Took Charge Completely. All who spent Monday on the Zion- check case, however, will readily agree that when Romney decided to take | ch , he took charge. When Zioncheck. worn out from his spectacular escape from the Shep- pard and Enoch Pratt Hospital at ‘Towson, Md., had barricaded himself in his suite at the House Office Build- ing, it was Romney who placed a guard of Capitol police at the doors and prevented District police from arresting him on the assault warrant sworn out by the Representative's for- mer landlady, Mrs. Benjamin Scott (Pamela Schuyler) Young. It was Romney who told two Bal- timore police officers, who came here to “persuade” Zioncheck to return to the institution from which he had Just escaped by jumping over an eight-foot fence, that, in effect, they were wasting their time. As they emerged from Romney's office, they admitted laconically, “No, we didn't get him,” and went back to Balti~ more. It was Romney who then went to Zioncheck's office and had a long talk with the Representative, whom he had known only since he first came here a year and a half ago, although both are former students of the University of Washington, and soon gained his | confidence and persuaded him the best thing to do was to return to Beattle. That battle won, it was Romney who convinced officials in the district attorney’s office that he would keep Zioncheck in his office, outside their Jurisdiction, all Summer to prevent his arrest, if necessary, and won their consent to permit his protege to cross the strip of non-Capital property between the House Office Building and the Union Station without being molested. when it THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Zioncheck Set for Ride He Didn’t Take Representative Marion Zioncheck waving to airport cro before he was scheduled to depart on his journey g however, since police took a hand in routing his destination, and placed him aboard a ome, St. Paul train bound for his home State. League (Continued From First Page.) power was involved, said Danish For- eigh Minister Peter Munch, suggests the League's real hope of achieving world peace lies in promoting con- | ciliation between powers rather than | arranging future combinations against an aggressor. | Efforts to revive world trade to “end | | & state of commercial war” would con- | tribute to such political conciliation, he declared. | Dr. Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland, | urging the abandonment of sanctions, | alluded to the United States, Ger- | many and Japan and declared no ef- | fort should be neglected to achieve | League universality. “If this universality is impossible,” | | he said, “then we must seek new forms | of collaboration with the great states | outside the League if the League | would hope to achieve its ideals.” July 10 Change Mentioned. Assembly circles mentioned July 10 |as the date on which the lifting of | sanctions would be effected. | League circles conceded generally the net result of the sanctions cru- | sade, launched almost nine months | ago to rescue Ethiopia from Fascist “aggression,” would be: 1. The war penalties will disappear. 2. Italy will remain in Fascist- asserted control of the East African | kingdom. | 3. The League will refuse to recog- | nize Italy's annexation of Ethiopia. i Swiss authorities, urder pressure to restore some degree of the League's shattered dignity, expelled eight Ital- ian newspaper men who cursed and shouted at Emperor Haile Selassie Monday. After spending a night in jail. the Italians were instructed at 10:30 o'clock last night to leave the canton by midnight. They motored to Cop- | pet, caught a train at 11:50 p.m, and | began their journey to Italy. | Charges of “creating a scandal” in the League Assembly meeting were re- | ported quashed in view of the expul- |sion order. The newspaper men were accompanied by the Italian Minister ,at Bern and several friends. Officials predicted their League press cards would be canceled as a result of the | outburst. BRITISH ALLIANCES OPPOSED. | i Conservatives Request No More Mili- tary Commitments. LONDON, July 2 (#).—Avoidance of government declarations pointed to- ward British alliances with France and Russia was urged by Conservative members of Parliament today. More than 50 members of the House of Commons signed a motion request- ing no military or other commitments be made which might be construed as leading to future accords. They expressed a desire for closer relations between Great Britain, | France and Germany in conformity with the views expressed recently by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The prime minister returned to Lon- don today prepared to answer per- sonally queries in the House of Com- mons as to whether he had been “mis- led” on the rate of Germany's re- armament in the air. The isolationist newspaper, the Ex- press, summed up the foreign policy iprobleln with a terse editorial warn- | ing: “A pact with France means a pledge to police all of Europe. If you do not want to be bumped off, keep out of hell's kitchen.” | | Lewis & Thos. Saltz Inc. PRESENT APPROVAL THE NEW PALM DRAPE ‘I;)e smartest Palm Beach Suits we've ever wide shoulder, snug becoming waist- line, slightly longer coat and high rise pleated trousers. The extra full- ness at the chest and shoulder héad are the last word in male fashions. IN CRISP WHITE & DARKER SHADES $16.75 LEWIS&TH°S.SALTZ INCORPORATED 1409 G STREET N.W. NOT CONNECTED WITH SALTZ BROTHERS INC. FOR YOUR BEACH seen . . . straight, LANDON AWAITING TRIO OF ADVISERS = Charles Taft, Editor Taylor and Economist Robey to Confer Today. Av the Associated Press. ESTES PARK, Colo,, July 2.—Gov. | Alf M. Landon of Kansas turned his attention today from sightseeing, fish- ing and “just loafing” to the serious business of mapping campaign stretegy for the Fall election. Three members of the presidential nominee’s campaign staff—Charles P. Taft, son of the late President Taft; Earl H. Taylor, former associate editor of the Country Gentleman, and Ralph | West Robey, Columbia economist—were expected here from University | wds from Seattle-bound airliner just The projected flight never started, C.M & —Wide World Photo. Politics (Continued From First Page.) with specific problems,” Hamilton said, “there is a comprehension, a Spirit and s confidence in the piat- | form of the Republican party for| which one will look in vain in Mr.| Roosevelt’s personal document.” On the other hand, Secretary of | Agriculture Wallace, in a letter to an Towa farmer, hammered the Repub- lican farm plank as contradictory. It made, he said, “conflicting com- | mitments to Eastern capital and Western agriculture.” | “By its reference to the ‘restrictive | and coercive A. A. A’ it denounces | the principles of production adjust- ment,” he said. “The monopolistic industrial groups, which are back of the American Liberty League, were eager that it should, despite the fact that they have exercised, and still do | exercise, rigid control over their own | production.” | Roper at Chattanooga. Anotker administration leader, Sec- | retary of Commerce Roper, was heard |in a speech in Chattanooga, Tenn., | | in which he appealed to business men Topeka, Kans, about noon. They were to go direct to the Governor's Summer home 5 miles west of here on their arrival. Returning late yesterday from drive over the Continental Divide— the last real day of vacation—the | Governgr went into conference with Senator Robert W. Carey, Republican, of Wyoming. In addition to cam- paign plans, they discussed reclama- tion problems of the Western States. Priday the Governor will entertain Colorado Republican leaders and W. D. Bell, New York, chairman of the Republican National Finance Com- mittee, at a luncheon conference, Women’s P rojects | At Alexandria Seen By Mrs. Roosevelt By 8 Staff Correspondent of i'ne Star, ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 2.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came here to- day to inspect work being done by women in Alexandria under direction of the Works Progress Administra- tion. Meeting State and local W. P. A, officials at the Parker-Gray Colored School, she first visited the colored day nursery, where 33 colored chil- dren are being cared for in the base- ment of the school while their moth- ers work during the day. ‘With her party, the President’s | wife spent a half-hour and suggested to Mrs. Bertha Tancil, matron in | charge, the advantage of having the children’s mothers witness the daily | routine their infants are put through. Mrs. Roosevelt then went to the Old Alexandria Poor House, where the W. P. A. conduc's a sewing project to give employment to 34 needy women. The | sewers, dressed in lLght blue smocks, were not told in advance of her visit. She spent 15 minutes at the sewing center before leaving for Washington. A salute to Independence Day—and hail to the smart, cool comfort of Mode Toggery. Our complete stock of distinctive Summer Suits, Sports to help make “the presidential cam- paign one of discussion and educa- tion, rather than one of prejudice | and vituperation.” With the two major parties clear- ing the decks for action, the Union party presidential candidacy of Rep- resentative Lemke of North Dakota | was linked with a bitter internal row in the National Farmers’ Holiday | Association meeting in St. Paul. After an argument over voting strength in the organization's con- vention, some delegations described as | favoring indorsement of Lemke bolted. | However. almost all returned when a | compromise voting plan was ad- vanced. National President John Bosch said most of the temporary bolters were Lemke supporters. | Later the convention avoided any threat of & breach by omitting from resolutions adopted all refererce to either the Union party or & Farmer- Labor party, favored by some mem- | bers. Conference With Borah. An effort to convince Senator Bo- ! rah that the aims of the new Union | party are the same as his was made at Chicago by Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith of the Townsend old-age-pen- sion movement. After conferring with | Borah, Smith said he had tried to | impress the Senator “that he ought | | to raise hell with Roosevelt.” Other political developments: ‘Tammany invited Attorney General Cummings, Senator Wagner and Sen- | ator Copeland to speak at its sesqui- centennial Saturday. Cummings and | ‘Wagner are New Dealers; Copeland is | not so warm toward some adminis- | | tration policies. | The independent coalition of Amer- | ican women, newly organized at To- | ledo, announced it would undertake a | house-to-house canvass throughout the United States to get out the vote for Landon and Knox. o Electricity Use Extensive. Ninety-six per cent of the people ot‘ France now use electricity. D. C., THURSDAY, SILENT WELGOME AWAITS ZIONCHECK “Prisoner’s Song” May Be Sole Musical Greeting at Seattle. BACKGROUND— During the period that Repre- sentative Zioncheck was undergo= ing mental treatment at Gallinger Hospital and the sanitarium at Towson, Md., it was believed that he would not take part in the po- litical campaign this Fall. As a result, mearly a score of candidates of bcth parties entered the race for the seat which Zione check now occupies in the House. Yesterday, however, he an- mounced he would run again and that he would make things pop. Ey the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 2—In sharp con- trast to his boisterous send-off to Washington, D. C., last February. all signs today pointed to & quiet welcome home tomorrow . for Representative Marion A. Zioncheck. But Spokane’s Athletic Round Table planned to call out a ball room orches- tra tonight to greet the fence-jumping Congressman with “The Prisoner's Song” and invite him to bear the club’s colors in the Olympics high jump event, Zioncheck’s close friends said they planned no welcome for him in Seattle. Postmaster George E. Star, State Democratic chairman, announced the party’s headquarters would not wel- come the Congressman whose odd behavior in the National Capital landed him in a Maryland mental sanitarium from which he escaped Monday. Apparently the Welcoming Commit- tee will be his brother-in-law and close friend, Willlam J. Nareau. Seven months ago hundreds of friends and admirers surrounded and cheered Zioncheck as he boarded a train for Washington. As Zioncheck sped Westward, his mother, Mrs. Frances Zioncheck, lay ill in a sanitarium, suffering from a nervous breakdown. Zioncheck, on the train at Aberdeen, S. Dak., said he “didn’t care if 1,700" ran against him, when told 17 candi- dates, including one woman, sought his office. “I hadn't planned to seek re-election until this thing (his arrest and con- finement in the mental hospital) came up,” he said, “but now I'm going to show them.” RUMORS BOOST RATE Insurance 30 Per Cent Against King's Betrothal Announcement. 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