Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1936, Page 2

WHEAT CONTROL VOTED BY FRENCH Socialist-Sponsored Reform Bill Passes After 28 Hours’ Debate. BACKGROUND— The Leftist government of Leon Blum, first Socialist premier in history of French Republic, has been faced with serious financial dificulties and “folded arms” atrike of workers. Following concessions to labor, such as 40-hour week, the “Croir de Feu.' militant Rightist group, became more active in opposition to Blum. Meanwhile, the Socialist premier seeks means of checking growing budget deficit. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, July 4—Premier Leon Blum's government pushed the wheat control bill to passage today after 28 hours of continuous debate, The vote was 357 to 215. The bill, A Socialist-sponsored re- | form measure. prohibits temporary ad- mission to France of foreign wheat for reshipment to other countries and virtually suppresses trading in wheat futures. Determined opposition to Rightist attempts to kill the measure kept the Leftist-controlled Chamber in ses- sion throughout the night Premier Blum's forces voted down a series of Rightist motions for ad- Jjournment and counter-proposals to keep the bill setting up a grain con- trol agency before the legislators. The government forces refused to table the bill, which drew Rightist attacks as being too expensive to| |'HERE had been a few small| administer and leading to what was called “controlled inflation.” Midnight Vote Balked. Georges Monnet, minister of agri- culture, sought to bring a midnight vote on the measure, but was met with this comment from Rightist Deputy Pierre Pitois ‘We are not yet under a Soviet re- | gime.” Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PURPOSE. NE Senator has made up his mind about both the Demo- cratic and Republican plat- forms. “They're just as the railrond con- ductor said,” he explained. “The con- ductor was in charge of a local train made up of day coaches, and he was pretty much bothered by a stubborn pasenger who insisted on riding on | the platform of one, refusing to come inside. He was afraid the recalcitrant one might tumble off. After repeated | admonitions the latter inquired: “‘Isn't A plaform made to stand | on | “'No you fool' retorted the con- ductor, ‘it's made to get ir on."" Obviously. the Senator won't | his name be used. let * x % % CHARM. A hair a sixteenth of an inch thick from the tail of an African elephant is the good luck charm of the Zoo restaurant manager. Na- tives of Africa wear the hairs about their arms above the elbow to ward | off evil spirits. The local restaurant man believes his amulet wards off rain on Sun- days, when a lot of hungry tourists are in town. | | | £ % % BREEZES. breezes, but nome of tornadic | proportions, so an official of a local insurance company was startled jon & recent balmy day when his | stenographer came in breathlessly and inquired: “Did you see a table blow out the | window?" He declared he had not. a question- | ing expression on his face. The Chamber then began consider- ' ation of article. the proposal, article by Governmental attention earlier had been turned to two problems—Ilabor | strikes at home and disorders in the Nerth African territories. A statement issued by Raoul Au- baud, undersecretary of the interior, after a conference with Governor General Le Beau of Algeria, said: All important questions affecting our territories overseas have studied and solutions envisaged for each “The labor situation in Algeria continues to show a marked tendency for improvement. Strong sentiment of essentially political character con- tinues to be manifested .at several points in Algeria and might be capable of arousing new troubles. African Crisis Pondered. Officials pondered the situation in hoth Alberia and Tunisia, where labor and anti-Semitic rioting has broken out recently. Moslem assaults on Jews at Sousse and Gefsa in Tunisia brought a speedy demand for troops yesterday. Order was restored at Sousse after attacking Mohammedans forced Jewish mer- chants to barricade themselves in their shops. One Moslem was killed at Gafsa in & ciash after a policeman arrested a native for fighting with a Jew. At home, Labor Minister J. B. Lebas | announced 120,322 workers were still away from their jobs as the “folded arms” strike continued. Government arbitration commissions were established for each department under Lebas’ supervision. Strikers occupying Marseille news- paper offices were ousted by police. Eighty unemployed seized the town hall at Londes Les Maures near Hyeres and held the building until the council, meeting at the mayor's home, raised the dole payments. Fresh strikes in Paris closed shops ef two grocery chains. — “RED" TEACHIN CHARGE DENIED Director Answers Allegation Com- munism Was Favorably Discussed. By the Associatea Press. NEW YORK, July 4—Marc A, Mc- | Closkey, director df the National Youth | Administration for New York City, an- | ewering an American Legion County Committee’s accusations that com- munism was favorably discussed at a | FPederal girls’ camp in Bear Mountain Park. N. Y., said yesterday: “We are not teaching propaganda of any sort there.” The camp. operated under direction of the New York administration of N. Y. A., cares for unemployed girls, most of them, McCloskey said. former in- dustrial workers. As to charges that American pa- triotic songs were parodied at the camp—an assertion which the Rock- land County American Legion's Reso- lutions Committee coupled with that respecting communism — McCloskey said “If such songs are being sung. they are being sung by a very small mi- nority, and they are not found in any official camp song book. “We have classes at the camp in current events—in which we use the dally newspapers and Government publications as texts—and in eco- nomics, for which we use the social #ecurity act as text. Communism un- doubtedly is mentioned objectively, as an existing form of government, just as is royalism and capitalism. The girls all are over 21, and it is not our right to question them as to their beliefs as a requisite to entrance.” Puncturer of Tires Was Paid 25 Cents On Each Repair Job By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 4.—Octerious Parker, 17-year-old colored youth, accused of punc- turing 108 tires on about 50 auto- mobiles Thursday, had a co-de- fendant today. The oiher man in the case was booked by city detectives as Ed- ward Beckman, 19, white, a filling station employe. Chief of Police Ray Bryan said the pair admitted a “blsi- ness” relationship under which Beckman offered Octerious 25 cents for each tire repair job brought to the flling station. been | “Too bad. I spent a long time compiling those figures.” she said. ik e o SIMPLE LIFE JUST beyond the District Line. in *" Maryland. a vouthful minister has A small but well-meaning congre- | gation. Lately arrived. he had been feted and dined out of all proportion to his charge While being honor guested at chicken dinners in humble ! surroundings he could not help but wish that his collection plate might be passed in at the same time After a fair round of elaborate dinners, what was his delight to be | invited to one home where he partook ‘ol what his hostess had promised— “a simple meal,” In fact, he was so | lavish in his praise that the word flew | around the neighborhood. Now he is on a new round of evening meals— but this time on very simple fare! * x * % COWS. (COWS are really wonderful animale but a small Washington girl | doesn’t think so. She was taken to New York State recently. where the dairy industry is a great one. When she saw the cows being milked. she shrank back, and ex- | claimed, “Oh, mother. it is terrible!” Upon returning to Washington, she | refused to drink milk. { N | She grew thin. | Finally. in desperation, her mother explained: “Why, that is the way they get milk | in New York! That is New York milk, my dear. Here in Washington it comes from a beautiful clean place all shin- | ing glass and tile!™ The little girl is growing fat again. | * ok LISP DODGER. An operative who always is look- ing for comstructive items for the column, comes up today with the | story of a woman who is making a valiant effort to overcome the | handicap of a lisp. Words begin- | ming “th” are the worst she en- | counters. so she has developed a | consideradle artfulness in dodging | them. Nothing she ever has purchased, for instance, ever cost 30 cents. In | her world all such items cost 10 | plus 20 cents.” | That's the way the system goes in case you want to work it out. * x % x STARS. A WASHINGTON girl whose favorite natural phénomenon is a star (celestial, not Hollywood) recently visited New Orleans. On a night when the stars were larger and brighter than usual, she sat out under the heavens explaining member of the family she was visit- That was all right so far as the youngster was concerned, but the maid listening in on the conversaton finally reached the breaking point in curiousity. “Parden me, Miss,” she interrupted, “but don’t you have any stars in Washington?” —— MRS. B. L. PRIEDE DIES, NATIVE OF GERMANY Special Dispatch to The Star UNITY, Md. July 4.—Mrs. Bertha L. Priede, 74, died here Thursday at the home of her son, Herman H. Priede, after a brief illness. A native of Germany, but & resident of Montgomery County for 31 years, Mrs. Priede is survived by two daugh- ters, Mrs. David Gready of Glenmont and Mrs. James A. King of Silver Spring, and four sons, August and Herman of Unity, William J. Priede of Baltimore and Prederick C. Priede of Bethesda. Bervices were held at the son's home today and burial is to be in the Mount Carmel Cemetery. Rites were conducted by Rev. Howard D. K. Sturgis, pastor of Mount Carmel M. E. Church. this star and that one to a younger | ing. She could talk of nothing else. | THE EVE TESTIFYING FAGS FORMER AGTRESS Miss Crawford Denies Indis- cretions in $300,000 Alienation Suit. Py the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, July 4.—The Inde- pendence holiday gave Kathryn Craw- ford a respite from a persistent cross- examination on her sassertion she never committed indiscretions with Lewis E. Mallory, 3d. Her former husband. James Edgar, | ir., of Detroit, is suing Mallory for $300,000 on charges that he seduced her and alienated her affections at a Miami Beach hotel last March. “I can’t stand this much longer—I can’t stand it,” the former actress | cried after two hours of questioning yesterday. She denied that she kept | midnight trysts with Mallory in his | room, as Edgar and other witnesses | charged, or that Mallory ever made love to her. Dinner After Divorce, “Now, when you obtained your di- vorce in Detroit last week, where did you have dinner that night?" asked Fred Botts, counsel for Edgar, on cross-examination. “I don't remember,” Mrs. Edgar re- | plied, tossing her head. “Wasn't it at the Wonder Bar?" “Yes, it was." “Who else was there?” “Mrs. (8. Arthur) Glickstein, Mr. (William J.) Dunn, Mr. Mallory and Mrs. Landis.” Glickstein is her attorney, Dunn is Mallory’s. Mrs. Landis was not fur- ther identified “Was it at that time that arrange- ments were made for you to come here and testify?"” “What do you mean?" “I mean, were arrangements made with you then to testify here?" “I thought it was my duty to come down here and protect my reputa- tion.” NING 1 Reputation Concern, . “Didn’t it occur to you, Miss Craw- ford, that when you were at the Deau- ville hotel with Mr. Mallory was the time to have thought of your reputa- | tion?" A thunderclap outside the court room and a booming objection from John M. Murrell of Mallory's counsel interrupted simultaneously. INVENTOR ACQUITTED IN WOMAN’S DEATH | P. E. Dettra Held Not Guilty of Practicing Medicine Illegally. P. E. Dettra. inventor. was acquitted vesterday by a Fort Lauderdaie. Fla., jury on charges of practicing medicine illegally in administering artificial heat treatments to Mrs. William J. OLeary of Chevy Chase. Md. who died in the Florida city last Mav fol- lowing a treatment. according to an Associated Press dispatch. Mrs. O'Leary was the wife of an offi- cial of the Bureau of Public Roads here. Dettra. who invented an artificial fever-producing machine, was held on & temporary manslaughter charge | after & coroner's jury found Mrs. O'Leary died of severe burns. The charge subsequently was dismissed Mrs. O'Leary was taking the heat treatments for arthritis, NOE “ARREST” STIRS LOUISIANA SENATE Brought Into Session “Like Criminal.” s (he Ascociated Press. BATON ROUGE. la. Julr 4.— State Senator and former Gov. James A. Noe. opponent of some of Gov. Richard W. Leche’s policies, today was “arrested.” as he expressed it, and cocmpelled to take his Senate seat. al- !though he said he had been granted a leave of absence. [ 1 The action precipitated heated de- | bate on the Senate floor. Noe was brought into the chamber by Joe Messina. chief personal at- tendant of the late Senator Huey P. Long. and Senate sergeant at arms. The former Governor that he “had been arrested like a criminal” while about to participate | {In a caucus of the Veterans of For- | | ¢ign Wars, of which he is & national | | officer. | Words flew back and forth, with | Noe shouting “dictatorship.” Lieut. Gov. Earl K. Long and Seml ator Harvey Peltier. administration leader. contended the Senate had | agreed that all members would be | | present to vote upon Gov. Leche's bill reducing the 5-cent oil refining tax to 1 cent. l - Hotels Barred From Park. Hotels have been barred from fa- | Africa, | Sizteenth street. The road road, a three-year relief project. Former Governor Protests Being protested | teenth street and north of Sprtufs STAR, FEDERAL PROBERS STUDY AIR DEATH Seek to Learn Cause of Fatal Acocident to Noted Aviatrix. (See Picture on Page A-1.) Bs (he Associnted Press. OMAHA, Nebr., July 4—The flam- ing airplane death of Mrs. Ruth Bar- |ron Nason, 25, noted aviatrix of Rochester, N. Y., was investigated to- day by Government inspectora. The small racing craft piloted by | the woman fiver burst into flames and crashed late yesterday near the mu- nicipal airport. A Federal Air Commerce Bureau of- | ficlal from Kansas City assumed charge of the attempt to ascertain | what caused the accident. ’ Mrs. Nason was dead before res- | | cuers could reach the tangled mass of | wreckage. They labored almost two hours to extricate the body. It was | 80 charred that tentative identifica- | tion had to be made from salvaged pictures and papers. But, later, in- | vestigators sald information from Rochester that the plane involved was | the one in which the aviatrix left | there Wednesday convinced them the | victim was Mrs. Nason. | She was en route to Denver, Colo.. o compete in air races in conjunction with the national balloon race. Omaha fivers said the ship circled over the field about 800 feet up. Sud- | denly the motor sputtered and died and flames enveloped the craft as it nose-dived to earth. | INACTIVE SEVERAL MONTHS. Thrill-Seeking Aviatrix Had Not Flown for Some Time, ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 4 (#.— Ruth Barron Nason, killed tn an air crash at Omaha, Nebr, left here for Denver on Wednesday. | Her abrupt flying departure, to par- ticipate in the national air races at Denver, followed a period of sev- eral months during which she showed | no apparent interest in flying and had not been near her plane at the municipal airport. Always & daring, thrill-seeking flier, Mrs. Nason took her plane to the Cleveland air races last year, but was grounded for stunting. | She began her flying career at her home here and, although only 25, was already a veteran of the skyways. Her flving instructor was Lieut. Otto | Enderton, World War pilot. At 18 she already was doing commercial and stunt flving in Hollywood. In 1930 she won applause of fiyers by landing A racing plane safely in the Arizona Desert during the women's air derby. She was in close third place when forced out of the race. In 1931 she left her Hollywood work and with Capt. Thomas Ash went 10 Toklo, determined to be the first wom- | an to fiy the Pacific. Plans were laid but the pretty, 20-year-old miss met and married William Pranklin Nason. then American consul in Kobe, and the flight was abandoned. Much of her reputation was built upon her dexterous management of many forced landings. Last Summer she thrilled crowds with stunting here at the centennial air show. A vear ago she purchased from Jack Wright of Utica the special racing monocoupe plane that carried her to her death. Wright had flown the plane in the London-Australia air derby. He | failed to place among the winners but completed the long flight. | LOFTIN NOT TO SEEK < ELECTION TO SENATE to Trammell Fletcher to Be Nominated At Special Primary. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE. Fla. July 4— United States Senator Scott M. Loftin of Florida said today he would not Successors and terms of either the late Senator Park U. Pletcher. Loftin was appointed to succeed | Trammell temporarily and sat in the Senate during the Iast few days of the recent session. Florida's second Senator. the veteran | Fletcher. died a little more than a | month after Trammell's death. Wil- | liam L. Hill. Fletcher's secretary for nearly 20 years, was appointed tempo- rary successor this week. Florida Democrats will nominate successors for the two deceased Sena- | tors at a special primary election Au- | gust 11, ENLISTMENTS OPEN Applications for enlistment in the Army Air Corps now are being a cepted at Bolling Field. Only graduates of accredited hl[hi schools, 18 years old or more, who can pass the required physical examina- tion will be accepted. The recruiting officer at Bolling Feld will furnish mous Kruger National Park in South | prospective applicants with full infor- i and free will and for the safeguard of my own person.” mation concerning enlistments. Without ceremony, park officials yesterday afternoon opened a new Branch from Arkansas avenue, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth s Rock Creek Park, The photograph shows the section of the new road under t gives direct access to Rock Creek Park from the road, avoiding conflict with Sirteenth stre. regarded as an important auriliary to t from the morth dorder of the District to the Potomae, [ P \ WASHINGTON, D. NAVY SPY FACES seek election to fill out the unexpired ' | Trammell or the late Senator Duncan | C. 15 NEW GENERALS SOONTOBENAMIED Vacancies Due to Retire- ment Must Be Filled Be- fore Next January. By the Associated Press. Appointment of 15 new generals before next January—changing some« what the face of the Army's upper crust—lies ahead for President Roosc- velt and his military advisers Some of the holes to be filied have not yet appeared, but will in cominz months due to retirements for aze among high ranking officers. amonz | other reasons The officers—4 major generals and 11 brigadier generals—will be selected | from among the senior eligible officer of their grade on recommendation b: Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff hold their rank pending confirma by Congress Engineers to Be Renamed The first appointment to be m | War Department officials said ve: | day, would be the designation of brigadier gencral to act as assistan | chief of engineers This Emergency Hospital ambulance was overturned by collision with a sireet car at Con- necticut avenue and H street today. taken to the hospital escaped with minor bruises. Z0-YEAR SENTENCE Former Yeoman Convicted of Selling U. S. Secrets | to Japanese Agent. { B the Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, July 4—Twenty years in prison was the possible pen- alty Harry Thomas Thompeon faced 'today for selling his country’s naval secrets to a Japanese agent for a | few hundred dollars. Conviction of the former United States Navy yeoman yesterday in one of the few peace-time espionage trials in the Nation's history. came less than two weeks after the Gov- ernment made public details of a long-rumored Navy spy case. | It took a Federal Court jury only five minutes to decide the 30-year- old ex-yeoman was guilty of con- spiring with Toshio Miyazaki, as- serted lieutenant commander in the Japanese Imperial Navy, to violate the espionage act. A 20-vear prison term iz poesible for Thompson, who will be sentenced next Monday Judge Leon Yankwich congratu- ed the jury | “The verdict you have rendered i i the only one that could be arrived at upon fair review of the evidence.” he said. “The quickness of the ver- | dict attests to your appreciation of that. “1 also wish to say that the de- fense offered by the defense was pre- posterous and an insult to the jury | or the court. Actually, there it no defense for a crime of this sort, par- | ticularly when it was done for gain— as in this case.” After & slow prelude. & two vears' investigation of the prisoner's activi- ties, the Government moved with | celerity and precision. | i It presented it case speedily. | | putting on the stand comparatively | few witnesses in its effort to prove ! that Thompson, disguised as a naval | petty officer, boarded United States | warships during 1934 and 1935, ob- | tained confidential information con- cerning the fleet's tactics and sold them to Miyazaki, who then was sta- | tioned at Stanford University as an observer, | The chief Government witness was Willard Turntine, 18, Thompson's | former roommate. Turntine, who re- | . potred Thompson's activities to the | Naval Intelligence Bureau, testified he accompanied the defendant on | tours of the battleships, saw him | take confidential documents, saw | him deliver them to a “Mr. Tani" and receive money for his work. “Tani,” the Government said, was Miyazaki. Turntine further quoted Thompson' as declaring he was in the employ of the Japanese Government. A pretty Japanese girl, Janet Ono, waitress, testified that when Thomp- son, her friend, was arrested and placed in jail she delivered a message for him to the Japanese Consul in Los Angeles. Placed in evidence was the photo- | stat of & letter Thompson wrote to | Miyazaki in which he tendered his resignatoin “from the service of your country.” The letter, which the defendant said he wrote but did not mail, read that | the resignation “is of my own doing | park highway along Piney treets, tho‘ g‘e:ch drive, in er Bridge on section east of Siz- et traffic. The new he new park highway —Star Staff Photo. Spy and Aide HARRY T. THOMPSON, Former yeoman. convicted in Los Angeles ursterday of sell- ing U. S. Fleet information to a Japanese secret agent. JANET ONA, Japanese waitress who testi- fied she delivered messages for Thompson. —A. P. Photos. ATTORNEY WHEELER DIES IN WISCONSIN Served With Railroad Adminis- tration and Practised in Washington. William G. Wheeler, about 75. an attorney with the Railroad Admin- istration during the World War and later a practicing lawyer in Washing- ton, died yesterday in Janesville, Wis., his home for the last four years. it was learned by frends here today. While in Washington. Mr. Wheeler and his wife lived at the Wardman Park and Shoreham Hotels. He was & member of the Congressional Coun- try Club. Mr. Wheeler practiced law here until the time he returned to his native State in 1932, He is survived only by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Wheeler. Funeral serv- ices and burial are to be in Janese ville Monday. TWO MEN STAGE BATTLE. CROWD BLOCKS STREET Policeman Finally Subdues His Antagonist After Call From Restaurant. With his white shirt turned red | and white from bloody wounds on his | scalp, J. M. Robbins, 39, of the 1200 block of O street, was hurried off to & police station at noon today with a policeman he fought to a finish in a sidewalk battle. The policeman, J. W. Hanrahan, was summoned by D. K. Demetriow, proprietor of & store at Eleventh and O streets, who complained that Rob- bins had struck at him with a piece of | iron pipe. Hanrahan and Robbins tustled for minutes before a throng, which packed O street and blocked automobilists, who honked their horns while the two men grappled. Robbins at length was counted out. Demetriow, mean- while, went to Emergency Hospital. University President Dies. MASON CITY, Iowa, July 4 (#).— Rev. Joseph J. Boyle, 54, president of the University of Portland, Portland, Oreg., died last night at the home of | his sister, Mrs. P. H. Hughes of Mason 'l City. The driver, physician and a pneumonia patient being taft Photo. Traf fi;- (Continued From First Page.) 35. his wife. fractured jaw, broken leg and cuts; Katherine Seabury, 38, of 1101 Massachusetts avenue, cuts; Paul Lowry. 13, of 811 Anacostia road southeast. cuts. and Philip Bridgett 14, of 3320 G street southeast, cuts. Pneumonia Patient Escapes. Dragged from an Emergency Hos- pital ambulance which overturned after being struck by a street car to- day, a pneumonia patient escaped with minor bruises and was taken to the hospital in a police scout car. A hospital physician, who extricated the patient, and the ambulance driver | also received oniy slight bruises. No | one on the street car was hurt. | According to witnesses the ambu | lance, operated by Ernest Yates, col- ored, had its siren open when hit by the street car at Connecticut avenue and H street. Doctor Rescues Patient. After the emergency vehicle had turned over Dr. M. D. Rosenberger. who had answered the call. rescued the pnenmonia patient. Harvey Pate, 1129 Seventeenth street The street car, operated by Motor- men Hilleary W. Arnold. 617 Seven- teenth street, was proceeding west on H sireet and carried three passengers The ambulance, which had picked up Pate at his home, was going south on Connecticut avenue. Arnold said he was two-thirds of the wav across the intersection when the ambulance reached H street. He denied that the siren was blowing be- fore the emergency vehicle reached the intersection | Policeman William J. Dubuskey | third precinct. who witnessed the acci- | dent. said his attention was attracted by the siren some time before the | crash, No one was arrested. Dubuskey say- ing responsibility for the mishap would be decided in Police Court Monday. Four persons were injured in traffic accidents here and are spending the | holiday in hospitals Billy Barret. 603 Decatur street, spent part of his eleventh birthday yesterday in Sibley Hospital, under treatment for a fractured hip he re- ceived when he fell from the rear | of a truck on which he was taking a | ride near his home. | Policeman W. J. Kearns, 57, of 935 |G place was knocked down while walking his heat at Florida avenue and First street, when a cab skidded into him, fracturing his left shoulder. Howard Hildbert, 49. of 3520 Tenth street was listed as the driver of the car. | Colored Persons Hurt. Jesse Davis, 33, New York, one of eight colored persons in a taxicab which collided with a Greyhound bus At New York and New Jersey avenues early today. sustained a fractured hip and was taken to Freedmen's Hospital for treatment. The others escaped with scratches. The cab was operated by George W. Turner, | colored, 3338 Sherman avenue. Mow- [fird Bennett, 1407 New York avenue, | was the driver of the bus. Mary E. Easton, 29, colored, 1228 Howison street southwest, knocked down by a Capital Transit Co. bus, Wwas taken to Providence Hospital suffering from cuts on the right leg and possibly a fractured pelvis. The accident occurred in the first block of M street southwest. Police listed Herbert R. Stroman, 34, of 2147 o | Atreet, as the bus driver, Births Reported. Raleigh and Julia Shifflet i‘:f’x‘x'x: -::"Flr-nceé xnuxé.h;;v | At nez | Nicholas ‘and Mary Sematiy, Dot Harry and Elsi s Columbus ana Edna: Wilic ! Major and Lubunner M George and Sarah Clark. The o5 illiams, girl cCray’ girl boy. Recognizing the sharp increase ir | of the Nation-wide constructio: gram now in progress vided for another assistant Gen. E. M. Markham. chief of gineers Gen. Markham, now on an i tion trip. is expected back near future and the new appointmer is slated to be made soon thereafte from among the senior colonels in Engineer Corps. Brig. Gen. George B. Pillsbury, now | assistant chief, will retain his rank and duties. Four Will Retire. | The four major generals to ret in the near future are Frank Parker commanding the 8th Corps Area at San Antonio: Frank C. Bolles, com- manding the 7th Corps Area a: Omaha: Lytle Brown. now en rou‘e from Panama, and Charles E. Kil- bourne, commanding the 6th Corp Area at Chicago. Their successors generals of those areas will the senior major genera signed to less important posts New brigadier generals, to come from the eligible list of colonels, w be selected to succeed the four brig:- | diers who be moved up to be major gene and six brigadier who will retire before the year's end They are Hamilton | the 1st Cava Tex.: Casper manding the Lewis, Wash.: Schofield Barracks S. Lincoln, recently sistant chief o afl. Er Fort Hoyle, Md., and Arthu Boston Coast The ranking brig with adequate time to s promotion req Hu to Ma en- | nepr | as commandinc Hawkins, commandir Iry Division at Fort Blis H. Conrad com- 3d D1 at For Jame Gower Hawaii: Charle lieved &s as- ., comm Fo Stone, Fo E. Merril ppi uttman, Staff School. worth. Kans: David I Snelling. Minn.. Thomas Schofield Barracks, Hawai T. Smith. on duty in the Phi and Joseph P. Tracy, Fort ) LANDON HEADING BACK TO TOPEKA “I Feel Fine,” Governo: After Rest—Work on Speech Pushed BY the Associzted Press ESTES PARK. Colo.. July 4 Alf M, Landon celebrated the Fou: of July by ending his 10-day ranci vacation and heading back to h home State of Kansas The Republican presidential nom nee arrived here June 25 inten resting. fishing and “getting awa: from it all” with his family in the wmnountain retreat, but the major por- tion of the past few davs has been devoted to political conferences on the coming campaign Nevertheless he looked much rested and said “I feel fine. I had a good rest Since Mrs. Landon and the chil- dren are remaining for the Summer. the Governor hopes to return later He might t her again the last of this month or in August He is taking back to Topeka with him. marked “completed.” the mes- sage he will deliver to a special Kansas legislative session July T. Landon conferred late last night with W. B. Bell of New York. chair- man of the Republican Finance Com- mittee. and three of his campaj aides. Charles P. Taft. son of the President Taft: Earl H. Taylor, farm expert, and Ralph W. Robey. Columb:: | University economist | At intervals he also has worked o: | his July 23 formal acceptance addres¢ ! Landon jestingly told newspaper men | vesterday he was just a “horse and buggy candidate.” The description came when he was told that while in Grewey today he would drive through | that town in a horse-drawn vehicle used by the late “Baby Doe™ Tabor. Regarding his conference with Bell | the Governor said: | “We discussed general things and got acquainted. It was just the usual political talk that goes on sround & corner grocery store.” Says National Scene ENATOR HARRY F. BYRD Democratic la New Dealers, He is no None of these old traditions. to carry their convictions. “~ BY ALICE LONGWORTH calls for an aroused national senti- ment against further wastage of the public funds. The exigencies of the Virginia election laws obliged him to retain the bel. But when he talks about ex- travagance he is a heretic in the eyes of the more of & New Dealer than Gov. Smith, Gov. Ely or Senator Jim Reed of Missouri. men has ceased to be a Democrat. But all of them have united in opposing the political philosophy that has transferred the Democratic party into something ailen to its A great number of voters agree with these leaders who condemn the present trend towards a Federal bureaucra wanton spending. The outcome of the election may well de- pend upon how far these voters are willing bolstered by (Copyrright. 1936.)