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Minority Party aFactor Only If Poll Close But Influence May HaveBearing on Con- gress Line-Up. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HIRD parties in the history of American politics have been of two kinds—those which really split - the major parties and those which trailed along as minor parties gathering very little of the total vote. It may be disconcerting to the fol- fowers of the Lemke-Coughlin-Town- = send combination to be adjudged a minor party at this stage of the campaign, but looking at the convention this week and the method of organ- ization for the campaign, it is difficult to attrib- ute any particular importance to the movement as a whole in affecting the national re- sult this awtumn. Third parties require money. In- tensive organization to bring out the vote for a third party costs a good deal. It is only when a split off in the regular organizations of one of the two major parties occurs that a large vote is cast and even then as in 1912 it takes an “angel” from some financial district somewhere to foot the bill. Thus the late George W. Perkins David Lawrence. helped with many hundreds of thou- | sands of dollars to finance the Bull Moose party in 1912. There are no signs that the Lemke- Coughlin-Townsend party have any funds for the brass tacks work that has to be done in political organiza- tion. They will of course get on the radio and plenty of publicity and wili appear to be making a considerable dent, but when the votes are counted the totals will be negligible. As a matter of fact, Norman Thomas and his Socialist Party have more to fear from the Cleveland aggregation than do the major parties. Small Pluralities Important. This is not saying that individual Representatives and Senators will not feel the lash of the Lemke-Coughlin- Townsend vote. But it takes only a handful of votes in each district in | order to defeat a candidate on whom | such opposition is concentrated. In between 50 and 100 districts, for in- stance, in Congress the majority by | election was won is | less than 5000 or thereabouts. By | which the last distributing their strength in certain districts or rather by making a strong campaign in some districts and neg- lecting others the third party groups can do considerable damage and achieve a sort of balance of power. This might be done with less than | 100,000 votes. The Roosevelt administration is, of course, somewhat nervous about the affair at Cleveland. Unquestionably some of the pro-Roosevelt delegates in | the Townsend convention went there | for the specific purpose of heading off some of the attacks on the New Deal. There are Republicans, too, who are hoping to derive some benefit from the Townsend movement. But the fact remains that the whole thing has ‘been overemphasized and it would not be surprising if the final tally shows half as many votes as the late Robert LaFollette obtained in his progressive movement of 1924, which was about 4,000,000. Discord in the ranks of the Town- sendites is also significant. It may affecc the final result. The defection of Gomer Smith, vice president of the | Townsend movement, who favors | President Roosevelt, does not appear | 10 be incidental. It looks as if Gomer | Smith may head an old-age pension | movement of his own and thus at- tempt to disrupt the whole thing. Such a break-up would \mquesunn-‘ ably diminish the total vote cast and reduce the opportunity for an effect on the electoral voting. Broadly speaking, the real question of what the effect of the Lemke- Townsend-Coughlin movement will be 15 related to whether there is to be a close race between Gov. Landon and President Roosevelt. Those who be- lieve the election is in the bag, as for instance Chairman James Farley, ean hardly be concerned—at least outwardly—about the third party movement. Judging by what Chair- man Hamilton is saying about the certain and overwhelming election of ‘Gov. Landon, it is difficult to see why eny Republican should worry either. Persons who disbelieve partisan predictions about the result this year will be inclined to the opinion that the defeat or re-election of President Roosevelt will not be materially af- fected by the third parties or the minor parties and that the true significance of them all lies in the battle for con- trol of Congress in January, 1937. (Copyright, 1936,) GUARDSMEN SKIRMISH IN GEN. CUSTER’S STYLE Ride Over Wyoming Hills for Movies—Two Troopers Hurt ‘While “Playing Indian.” By the Associated Press. LARAMIE, Wyo.,, July 18.—The rough riding 7th Cavalry of Gen. George A. Custer—personified by Na- tional Guardsmen—returned to the hills of old Wyoming yesterday. With sabers flashing and the hoofs ©of their horses drumming across the | rolling plains, the 200 Cavalrymen | were not thinking of tactics to out- wit the Redmen. | They were only playing Indian for the movie cameras. Yesterday's skirmishes for the movies resulted in two casualties. Two troopers were thrown from their mounts. SO PR TRUCK WRECKS HOUSE Knocks It 20 Feet—Three Are Injured in Crash. SYLVIA, N. C,, July 18 (#).—A motor express truck ploughed into a three- room house near a highway here yes- terday, knocked it 20 feet, and left its two occupants and the truck driver injured under a welter of household effects. * Neighbors dashed to the scene on the heels of the detonating crash and pulled from the wreckage Mrs. J. L. ‘Thompson, who had been asleep in her bed, her husband, busied with fire- building, and Ernest Waters, the driver, who hurtled into the family circle, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Behind the News BY PAUL EW some cases, buy something of valuc, say, @ cricket but the slickest way of It was evident to the recipient workers enjoying a larger his bureau had received a numbered the book had gone up to $100. market in a campaign year. .o is gained. However, two conclusions expensive for amy corporation companies to pay out about 6 remaining ajter the 15 per cen general 60 per cent distribution. * X what a change the new tax law wil Distribi Corporation oil - None Burroughs Adding Machine__1007 Big business is due to slide during the next 60 days, but it will not be attributable to the political situa- tion or the drought. The technical condition of some of the major industries will cause if. The key business index of industrial production, prepared by the Federal Reserve Board, will probably drop as much as 10 per cent. It will be due largely to substantial curtail- ment in steel and autos. ‘This decline will come after a except two, since then. Nearly all the political campaign may develop * % invited himself into jail. Short of funds, he went to a and .nat he wanted $20.000. stead of $20,000. But the newsmen than anybody else. (Copyrig! uted as Dividends 1935 One recent spy suspect can blame only himself for his troubles. Subtle Touch Seen in Campaign Solicitations—Books Offered Through Numbered Letters. politicians would think of blackjacking contributions out of Fed- eral employes in this enlightened age, at least not with a blackjack. It just is not cricket, and furthermore, there is a lJaw against it in But there is mo law against inviting Federal employes to book or even a blank sheet of paper, from a political organization. That would nmot only be raising campaign funds. Consequently, one low-salaried Federal employe was not surprised to receive the other day an unusual letter from a campaign committee. It offered him the Philadelphia Demo- cratic convention book for the mod- est sum of $2.50. There was nothing particularly strange about that, but significantly stamped on the letter was the number, 4,931, or one near that. The letter informed him that, for the purposes of solicitation, he had become No. 4931 in the files listing subscribers to this genuine, hand-made, well-ilflustrated book. He would please refer to that num- ber in sending In his $2.50. The same number was stamped on a return card, and even on the outside of the envelope containing the letter. that he could not escape. They had him numbered. He forwarded his check by return mail. The willing subscriber was somewhat amazed that the screws had been applied to him for no more than $2.50. He inquired among his fellow Ao Federal salary and discovered that an official of letter. But in that case the price of It only helps to show what violent fluctuations have seized the book The complete effect of the confusing new tax bill has been difficult to gauge. It will apply differently to each corporation. Consequently the results as & whole cannot be ascertained definitely until some experience seem justified: (A) It will be to retain more than half of its net income, and (B) the tendency of the new law is to jorce 0 per cent of their net income t nmormal tar. That is, the rates are so adjusted as to warrant the expectation of a * ¥ A table prepared by an outstanding private tax authority illustrates 11 make in some corporation policies, while it may not influence others at all. The tzble supposes that the new law was in effect on 1935 earnings distribution policies. Here it is: Earnings Reduction in Earnings as Result_of New Tax 20% 18% 12% 1% 0% jew Tax ogmr MR 15% 157 157 157 28% 19% 16.2% 16% constant business improvement since the textile strife of September, 1934. The index has ricen every month. the authorities believe it will in all probability be followed by a sharp Fall expansion. The only doubt in their minds concerns the vague possibility that along disturbing lines, Nobody now believes that it will, but there is always a chance. * * He Washington news bureau to sell his News~__a got the idea that it would be entitled: “How I Became a If true, the story probebly would have been worth about $200 in- rightly concluded that if it was worth anything it was worth more to the United States Intelligence Service They gave the tip to the proper authorities for nothing. ht. 1936.) MARYLAND DEFICIT REACHES §754,14 Controller Gordy Says Fig- ure Is Normal for This Time of Year. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, July 18.—The State of Maryland had a deficit of $754,- 144.59 at the close of business June 30, the monthly balance sheet, issued by William S. Gordy, jr., State con- troller, shows. The State had $1,815,292.99 in its special fund account, but showed a deficit of $2,569,437.58 in the general fund account, making the current sur- plus account $754,144.59 in the red. Joseph O’C. McCusker, chief deputy a “normal condition at this time of the year.” a slack period for receipts so far as the general funds are concerned. “We expect considerable funds at the end of this month and the first of next,” he said. “Interest on taxes begin on August 1 and many taxpay- ers square their accounts before that time. “This year under the budget it is contemplated that transfers from gas- oline taxes and motor vehicle revenue of $2,350,000 will be made into the annuity bond fund. Any excess re- maining in this fund at the end of the fiscal year, September 30, after all bond and interest charges are paid, will go into the general treasury.” The annuity bond fund stood at $2,067,161.28 on June 30. The State has $46,675,000 in bonds outstanding. ‘The State started June with a deficit ‘of $2,057,014.77 in its general funds. During the month $1,057,026.28 was collected for the fund, but $1,829,- 727.70 was spent. There were $4,409 - 365.62 in uncollected taxes outstand- ing on June 30. e {ONLY 3 TYPHOID CASES FOUND IN MONTGOMERY Health Officer Attributes Drop to Improved Sanitary Conditions. Srecial Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 18.—Only three cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Montgomery County so far this year, Dr. V. L. Ellicott, county health officer, has announced. Dr. Ellicott attributes the drop in the typhoid rate to a steady improve- ment in the county’s sanitary condi- tions. Carelessness in selecting drinking water and food is most apt to lead to typhoid, to Dr. Ellicott. In that connec he said: “Many a case comes from drinking water from & spring or stream which, though clear and cold, may be heavily infected with typhold germs. It will be a long time before sanitation in the rural areas is good enough to make our streams and springs safe from con- tamination. In the meantime, we must ‘play safe and drink no water which is exposed to surface drainage. If it is necessary to drink water of un- All were expected to recover from thelr cuts and bruises. known safety, boil it beforehand.” 7 State controller, said the deficit was | He pointed out that it was | |Pied Piper of Bees Needed by Family f In Calvert County {Honey Gatherers Quick, But Girl Is Quicker as Room Becomes Apiary. Special Dispatch 1o The Star. PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. July 18—When a swarm of bees is set on the choice of a new home site, they are not lightly swayed from their pur- pose and are notably callous to any disapproval their movements might occasion, as the family of John B. Gray of Prince Prederick, and more especially his daughter, Miss I. Mar- guerite Gray, can abundantly testify. When Miss Gray went to her room to retire last night she found almost too late that her bed was already fully occupied by s swarm of very active bees. The honey bee, as is well known, | is about as celebrated for its quickness of movement as its sting, but it can be said to Miss Gray's credit that | none of her unwelcome visitors was as quick as she in leaving that bed or the room. She suffered only one sting, and that when she stepped on one bee which was crawling along the floor. This morning it was found that the bath room, kitchen and other parts of the house were liberally occupied by other bees, which had become sep- arated from the main swarm during the night. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the swarm had evi- | dently first settled under the eaves | near the roof and, after an indeter- | minate stay there, undoubtedly dis- | satisfied with the location, they de- cided to move in on the family, gaining access to the interior by means of a pipe leading inside from the roof. Now Gray and his family, especially Miss Gray, wish there was some sort of Apoidéan Pied Piper of Hamlin or some other place who could lure those bees away to a spot where they might be more welcome. [PAGE COUNTY SCHOOLS OPEN SEPTEMBER 21 Contracts Mailed to More Than 100 Teachers—Ome to Be Placed at Ida Valley. Special Dispateh to The Star LURAY, Va., July 17.—Page County schools will open for an 8-month ses- sion on September 21, according to contracts mailed to more than & hun- dred teachers yesterday. The con- tracts, mailed by newly appointed Di- vision Supt. Cecil Graves, confirm teacher appointments made by County School Board following death of Supt. Harry Hanger. They were sent to members of the faculties of high schools at Stanley, Shenandoah and Luray, graded schools at Rileyville and Grove Hill, three colored schools and a number of small white schools. One teacher is to be placed at Ida Valley as has been customary in the past. However, should Shenandoah National Park families be moved into Tariff Plan of G.O.P. Hit by Writer Reciprecal Trade Pacts of Administration Are Upheld. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. WOULD like to hear the tariff l question debated on the air during the present presidential cam- paign between a representative of the administration—one might sug- gest Mr. Prancis B. Sayre, who has ably defended the administration posi- tion in a small pamphlet—and a spokesman for the Republican plat- form, who s ‘wholeheartedly in sympathy with 1ts tariff principles. One thinks im- mediately of Senator Vanden- berg or Mr. George Peek. I say a spokesman for the Repub- licans who s wholeheartedly in p sympathy with this plank. For not all Republicans are. For instance, unless I have mis- interpreted a speech which Col. Knox made in New York prior to the con- vention, I should be surprised if it completely satisfied him. Although we are overwhelmingly engrossed with domestic affairs, ani questions like the balancing of the budget, the administration of relief, labor and industrial relations, and government regulation of business will play the largest part in the cam- | paign, nevertheless it is probable that | within the next four years the ques- ition of our relations with the rest of the world will become of prime im- | portance. At the heart of that issuc ;is_oux foreign-trade policy. And I | think that of all the planks in the Republican platform the one most open to serious criticism is the plank on the tariff. In contrast it seems to me that the policy which has been pursued by Mr. Cordell Hull as Secre- tary of State is the least open to criti- icism of any major program under- i taken by the present administration. Post-War Policy. Dorethy Thompson | years following the war seems to e indefensible. Furthermore. the bank- ers, who are generally blamed for the | whole debacle of the depresson, them- selves seem in some ways to be more enlightened than the industrialists oc their lobbyists in Congress. Our at- tempt to assist in the rehabilitation of | Europe with loans got outside of ail | bounds. But what made it a futile. | dangerous, and fantastic policy was | that while we were lending money | abroad in vast quantities we erected [tariffs which practically prohibited the importion of foreign goods, thereby frustrating the purposes of the loans, and contributing to the ruin of our creditors. It is, indeed. arguable that our tar- iff policy centributed as much as did any single factor to the immense growth of economic nationalism in Europe, which is a non-commitant of the Fascist movement, and of all other expressions of state dictatorship | over the economic life. It is always dangerous and inaccurate to try to |find a single scapegeat for all the | world’s woes. But I believe that a | majority of the world's ablest econo- imis!.s would agree that the most seri- 'ous single cause of present-day un- | employment, dictatorship, unrest, ex- | cessive armament and drift toward | war is the attempt of ever-increas- shut themselves up in geographical ! nations by tariffs, quotats, embargoes, unbalanced indebtedness and fluctu- ating currencies. Given economic na- Our trade policy for the twelva, ing numbers of sovereign states to | compartments, separated from other | tionalism, no argument in logic or common sense can be made against any nation which seeks to extend its territory by force of arms in order to necessary raw materials. For, given the thesis that raw mate- rials must be found inside areas which a single state can control, there is tion would work detriment to the wage earner and the farmer.” I am no defender of the administration. But I doubt very much whether that statement can be substantiated. If it can be, I have never seen it done. 1t is easy to appeal to demagogic feel- ings by pointing out that we have imported agricultural products when there was plainly an agricultural overproduction, and leave out of ac- count the drought which would have had disastrous results whether we had plowed crops under or not, but the only way that a general indictment can be proved is in terms of our total trade, not of any one thing. There seems to be no realization on the part of the public that every bit of money spent for foreign goods imported into this country must eventually, by how- ever round-about a process, be spent in this country. But the United States, as Mr. Raymond Gram Swing brilliantly pointed out in an article some months ago, has a debtor-na- tion complex. We were one for so long that we got used to it, based our attitudes on it and simply do not know how to behave as a creditor na- tion. So successfully have we repelled even the thought of our superior posi- tion that we are gradually drifting back comfortably into the position where we owe the world, instead of the world owing us. | Group Pressures Assailed. The Republican platform condemns “the secret negotiation of the trade treaties, without public hearings or legislative approval.” The world “se- | eret” overreaches the facts. But that the tariff should be taken out of Con- gress and made an administrative function seems to me a step in pre- cisely the right direction. It is im- possible to have any consequential foreign-trade policy at all, any policy which has the total economy of the nation in mind, as long as it is sub- ject to group pressures. If our de- mocracy has proved anything at all, it has proved that the sum of all group pressures is not the public weal What Mr. Peek wants is not foreign trade but barter. That is the sort | of foreign trade which Germany has | gone in for—not, be it said, Pecau: her leaders think it desirable in prin. | ciple but because, the German cur- | rency situation being what it is. that | | is the only sort of forelgn trade which | | she can have. What Mr. Hull is !ry-? ing to do. and, inch by inch, has| | soméwhat succeeded in doing, even in | these distressing times, is to push! | open again the economic frontiers of | the world. | I think that history will prove that | economic nationalism must resuit, in | the long run, in planned national ! economies and in war. Perhaps that | is the way the world is going; per- | haps the tendency cannot be stemmed; | perhaps that world will have its vir- | tues, too. But certainly the Republican party does not welcome such a direction, | and the whole tariff plank seems cu- | riously out of place in the platform. | Fortunately it has, in the third para- | graph, something like an escape clause. | (Copyright. A Correction. In Miss Thompson's article of Thursday, July 16, about the Ameri- | can Youth Congress in Cleveland, the word “not” was inadvertenily omit- ted from the fourth sentence. The ) sentence should have read, “But it/ was clear, first, that the congress was dominated by what is usually called | a radical spirit, although it was not | captured by the SocialiSts who, in- | ’deed. threatened to withdraw and} | form a separate organization of their | | own.” = | EDWARD URGED 10 STOP STROLLS Pressure on King to Be More Careful. | By the Azsociated Press. LONDON, July 18.—Scotland Yard officials, torn between a desire to please their sovereign and their duty to protect him, decided today King Edward would have to be induced to change his habits. An authoritative source, reflecting public anxiety over the attempt on the King Thursday, indicated pres- sure would be brought to induce Ed- ward to give up his strolls on the streets. George Andrew McMahon, who dis- | turbed the Empire with his attempt | against the King on Constitution Hill, | was questioned again following medi- cal attention. It was understood he stuck to his story that he never intended to shoot the King but that he hrew his re- volver at the mounted monarch as “a protest.” Summoned by a public call for wit- nesses of the incident, a long stream of people, mainly women, poured into Scotland Yard. With King Edward's coronation less than a year away, authorities deter- mined to remove all danger of future incidents similar to that on Constitu- | tion Hill. ‘The chief constable of Buchingham- shire—who is not under the control ! of Scotland Yard—ordered the imme- diate strengthening of patrols at the country residence of the King's brother, the Duke of Kent. SOMERSET A;’PROVES $6,000 PAVING PLANS Specta. Dispatch to The Star. SOMERSET, Md., July 18.—Con- tracts were let this week for a $6,000 paving project in the town of Somer- set. Plans approved at a meeting of the Town Council call for resurfacing of Dorset avenue from Wisconsin ave- nue to the entrance to Kenwood and for necessary repairs to all streets and curbs in the community. The expense of the paving will be met from funds provided in the 1936-7 budget with no increase in the town tax rate. Work on the streets will be begun within the next two weeks it was announced by T. M. Cremins, chairman of mittee of Somerset, U.S. HELP SOUGHT INPOLYGAMY WAR by Colony Operating on Utah Border. | B the Associated Press. | KINGMAN, Ariz, July 18.—A re- quest for Federal assistance in stamp- ing out the allegedly polygamous colony of Short Creek was considered today by County Attorney E. Elmo Bollinger after a visit to the remote settlement on the Arizona-Utah border. Nearly a year ago Bollinger’s inves- tigation of the colony resulted in the conviction of two men and a plea of guilty from a woman on cl “open notorious cohabitation.’ | The convictions, Bollinger reported on his return last night from Short Creek, apparently have not deterred members of the cult from practicing plural marriage, which they declare is part of their religious belief. “They are going ahead with their plans and bringing in new members,” he said. “Only last week 30 women and children arrived. I believe they are from California.” He said men in Short Creek were keeping their plural wives at a com- munity center, just over the Utah line, thus rendering' Mohave County au- thorities helpless to prosecute. Because of this, Bollinger said he planned to ask the assistance of the United States Attorney ‘General. “These people are determined to establish a polygamy colony,” Bollin- ger declared. “If they are permitted to continue it will place a great bur- den on Mohave County. They have no visible means of support and there is no method by which they can make a living in that region.” —_— MT. RAINIER CHURCHES PLAN UNION SERVICES BY 8 Staff Correspondent ot The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., July 18.— ‘Under auspices of the local Protestant churches, & union service will be held on the lawn of St. John's Episcopal Church at 7 p.m. tomorrow. First service of its kind to be held here, the ceremonies will be contin- ued throughout the Sumimer. The combined adult and boy choirs of St. John's will lead the congregal singing. Dr. Pryce Gailin, pastor of Mount Rainier Baptist Church, will preach, and the Rev. Walter P. Plum- ley, vicar of St. John’s, will conduct the service. SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936. Wisconsin G. O.P. Busy Party Shows Signs of Rejuvenation Although Lacking Conspicuous State Leadership. BY CHARLES W. HOLMBURG. Speciai Correspondent of The Star. ADISON, Wis.—The Republican party of Wisconsin, discouraged by two consecutive defeats in 1932 and 1934, is giving many ap- pearances of a rejuvenation since its State convention last week was stirred to fever pitch by the address of John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee. ‘The Republicans of the State are squared off for the campaign, how- ever, without what is regarded as conspicuous leadership. The State con- vention at Milwaukee indorsed Alexander Wiley, 52-year-old Chippewa Fails attorney, virtually unknown outside of his home community, as the official G. O. P. candidate for governor. Indorsed with him were George Bowitt, Milwaukee; Charles Hawkes, Horicon; John Jardine, Waupaca, and Herman Runge, Sheboygan, for the offices of lieutenant-governor, secretary of State, State treasurer, and attorney general, respectively. None of these outside of Jardine, who was defeated in & previous campaign for State treasurer, has any kind of a State reputation. State Republican leaders, however, refer to the rebirth of their party and maintain that the candidates represent a type of leadership far re- moved from the old guard “stalwarts” that were close to past Republican national administrations. The enthusiasm demonstrated at the Milwaukee convention, despite the 100-degree heat in the convention hall, spoke well for the determination of the party to rouse itself from the lethargy of the 1934 campaign. S * An unlooked for feature of the convention was the almost complete de- sertion by the party of John B. Chapple, fiery Ashland editor and arch foe of the La Follettes. Chappel's name was the first placed in nomination for governor, but roll-call vote showed he had received only 36 of a total of 740. Subsequently Chapple sought the indorsement of the convention for secretary, only to re- ceive an even smaller vote. The Ashland editor, whose book “La Follette Road to Communism,” was circulated free to all delegates, took no active personal part in the convention. He was twice indorsed as his party's can- didate for United States Senator in 1932 and 1934, but failed of election. Only one serious threat shadows Republican unity, and that is in the person of former Gov. Fred R. Zimmerman, Milwaukee, who is considering & campaign for the G. O. P. nomination with the support of Tcwnsendites and supporters of Father Charles E. Coughlin, of which groups there are an indeterminable number in Wisconsin. One of the reasons the Republicans stuck to the policy of former years and nominated specific candidates was the fear that if they permitted an open primary, Zimmerman would most certainly be a candidate. Even then, it was only by a margin of a score of votes that the dele- gates agreed to make specific nominations The State platform adopted by the convention put Wisconsin Repub- licans squarely behind the Landon and Knox candidates and behind the national platform adopted at Cleveland. Continuous boosts given in- dependent ovations by the delegates left no room for doubt that the Re- publicans will make Landon a big, if not the biggest, issue in the State campaign and will spare no opportunity to denounce the New Deal. Wiley, the gubernatorial candidate, referred to himself modestly as “a mere channel” to aid in a Landon victory. - ‘The flat refusal of former Gov. Walter J. Kohler to run again left no well-known State figure in the field, and the choice narrowed down to Wiley and Julius P. Heil, Milwaukee manufacturer. Heil and Wiley were withi 10 votes of each other on the first ballot, and on the second Wiley came through with the necessary majority. . As expected, State Senator William J. Carroll of Prairie du Chien has publicly announced that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomina- tion for the governorship against Arthur W. Lueck, Beaver Dam attorney, who has the official indorsement of the Democratic State convention held a month ago. Carroll. who led Lueck on the first convention, said he was vielding to the demands of friends that he make the race because a “stronz candidate” was needed. Lueck, like Wiley, is little known in the State political arena. As a sequel to Carroll's announcement came word this week that M John J. Blaine, Boscobel. the widow of the late United States Senator from Wisconsin, who authored the constitutional amendment providing for pro- hibition repeal, would seek the State Senate seat occupied by Carroll. If elected, Mrs. Blaine would be the first woman to serve in the Wisconsin State Senate. Her announcement attacked Carroll's record and his cam- paign of attack against the administration of Gov. Philip F. La Follette. Carroll led the coalition of Republicans and Democrats that killed major Progressive party legislation supported by Gov. La Follette. Interest is high among local Progressive party leaders, although the State scene is relatively quiet. Scores of local candidates throughout the State are announcing their intention of running in the Progressive primary for sheriff, county clerk. clerk of court, coroner and other offices. Pro- gressive leaders point to “change-overs” on the part of local candidates from the Republican column to the Progressive party column as indicating a strengthening of the State party founded only two years ago. O Gov. La Follette has not as yet begun his campaign for re-election, although he has been active in addressing numerous local groups through- out the State. Since his return from a short vacation trip to Central America the Goverhor has had before him the problem of what attitude to take toward the Farmer-Labor-Progres- sive Federation, an organization uniting nine political, farm and trade union groups in the State. The “F. L. P..” as it is referred to, indorsed Progressive candidates for all offices except Governor, leaving this open in case Gov. La Follette shows a willingness to join the fede- ration and become eligible for its support. This, as yet. he has not done. Meanwhile, both State Democrats and State Republicans are attacking the F. L. P. as a coalition of radicals and declare the Progressives have gone over to the Socialists and their platform. This “radical” label and the fact that the F. L. P. constitution contains an undefined “production for use” plank are given as reasons why Gov. La Follette has delayed his decision on joining the organization. Only this week did Wisconsin begin to feel the effects of the drought and temperatures well over the 100 mark left their destructive mark upon the feed crops that are so essential to the State's vast dairying industry. it is apparent that immediate Federal assistance will be needed to save Scotland Yard to Exert Arizona Prosecutor Balked| many farmers who have been hardest hit. GASE LOAD DROPS Only 68 Received Public SERVICE ORDERS ARMY ORDERS. INPRINCE GEORGES oz=-x s | Corps, to be retired July 31. Close, Maj. Emort J. Engineer Corps, Miami, Fla, to active duty in office of the Chief of Engineers Au- gust 2. . Gilchrist, Maj. Hugh C. Infantry, Hawaiian Department, to Fort George G. Meade, Md., on completion of pres- ent tour of foreign service. Heap, Maj. Theodore P., Quarter- | master Corps, office of the Quarter- | master General, to Langley Field, Va Assistance Funds in June, Report Shows. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, July 18— | Prince Georges County relief cases | receiving general public assistance | funds dropped to 21 per cent of the January total last month, according to figures released by the County Welfare Board here today. Statistics showed 324 cases were obtaining financial aid at the end of January, while only 68 money re- cipients were listed on the June rec- ords. Sharpest reduction occurred during April, when the total dropped from 243 to 65 cases as funds were temporarily exhausted and relief to employables was discontinued. Present public assistance funds are being supplied from the county’s gen- eral tax fund in expectation of re- imbursement from the State’s collec- tion of luxury taxes, started April 1. When general Federal relief grants were halted in November funds were taken from the surplus of the now defunct State gross sales tax. Actually, 146 cases received some form of relief during June, but 88 of these cases were handled through “gervice grants” rather than actual financisl aid. Involving no disburse- ment of money to cases, such services as investigation of insurance status and job finding were given by the board. Officials explained that many of the cases dropped during April were absorbed in private and Federal proj- ect employment and in Spring plant- ing. Other June figures released to- day showed 91 families were receiving financial assistance under aid-to-de- pendent-children grants, 156 persons were obtaining old-age funds and 7 were obtaining aid-to-blind funds— all under the Federal social security Half the old- | August 15. Anderson, Capt. Henry P.. Infantry, Fort George G. Meade, Md., to the | Philippine Department, January 8. McAller, First Lieut. John H., Pan- | ama Canal Department, to Fort | Howard, Md., on completion of pres- | ent tour of foreign service. NAVY ORDERS. Abrahamson, Ensign Raymond L. gust 28; to instruction Naval Finance and Supply School, Navy Yard, Phila- delphia, Pa. Detweiler, Ensign Louis M. de- tached U. 8. S. Chicago, about Au- gust 28; to instruction Naval Finance and Supply School, Navy Yard, Phila- delphia, Pa. Kearns, Ensign John W, detached U. S. S. Williamson, about August 28; to instruction Naval Finance and Supply School, Navy Yard, Philadel- phia, Pa. Long, Ensign Thomas A.. detached U. S. 8. Concord, about August 28; to instruction Naval Finance and Supply School, Navy Yard, Philadel- phia, Pa. Robbins, Ensign Willlam I, de- tached U. S. S. Tennessee, about Au- gust 28; to instruction Naval Finance and Supply School, Navy Yard, Phila- delphia, Pa. O'Connor (M. C.) Lieut. Comdr. James J., Detached Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, T. H,, in August or Sep- tember; to instruction University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. detached Radio Material School, Naval Research Laboratory, Bellevue, D. C., about August 26; to duty as Officer in Charge, Naval Radip Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Spare, Chief Pay Clerk Louis J., de- tached Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va,, in August; to U. 8. 8. Vega. 4 detached U. S. S. Childs, about Au- /| Cook, Radio Electrician Auust B, | Headline Folk and What ° They Do Juan T.Trippe Example of Ultra-Modern Busi- ness Diplomacy. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. MONG prevailing challenge and dissent, unusually plentiful just now, is the conjecture that finance capitalism has come to the end of the trail, with the expansion era over with, world mar- kets glutted and rabid and danger- ous nationalism r.sulting. Certain recent events might allay such fears. The expansion era hgs turned out not only new machirks but new men, as unlike the olg- line entrepreneur as this type- writer is unlike a quill pen. They are young meh, advar cing new techniques, three of them riding the headlines this week: Floyd B. Odlum, merging vast American and British util- ityinterests; Alexander Korda. bringing Holly- wood and Londan together in an in- ternational film deal, and Juan T | Trippe, fashioning and annealing the | tusion of operating interests by which | the Imperial Airways and Pan-Amer- jcan Airways will establish their | Bermuda air service, as a possible preliminary to trans-Atlantic service. Mr. Trippe is a shining example of the ultra-modern business diplomacy which seems to be overshadowing po- litical diplomacy. Pioneering com- mercial aviation, he worked wonders in South America, getting his air lines ! established against stiff European com- petition and making headway in the Latin-American countries where Dis more insular compatriots had been thrown for a loss. One thing thgt helped him a lot was his habit of taking two or three hours for lunch. They like that in Scuth America, and ! again, he didn’t mind waiting around a few weeks, letting nature take its course, when he had a business deal on. He is a new type of genteel inter- nationalist in business. His carcer seems to have been en- tirely premcciated and assays & lov content of chance or accident. Years ago, he. Charles A. Lindbergh and Andre Priester sat up all night, mapped the world and set it aside as their oyster. South America came first. Mr Trippe managed that nicely with his first big clipper ships. Then came China, with a similarly deliberate and methodical conquest. And now Burope His ancestors were sea captains, who knew how to veer and tack, but keep on going. John Trippe, his great great grandfather, was commander of the Viven against the barbary coast pirates and was awarded a medal and a gold sword by Congress. One of the famous rum chasers of the prohibition era was the U. S. N. ship John Trippe In Yale when the World War began. Juan Trippe joined a naval aviation unit, which stimulated his life interest in flying. Returning to Yale, he or- ganized the Yale Flying Club, finish- ing in the class of 1920. In Wall Street he was schooled in banking, and is one of the few leading aviation pioneers thus to combine highly spe- cialized technical and financial train- | ing. In 1926 he organized the Colonial Airways, flying between New York City and Boston, and in 1927 he, C. V. Whitney, William H. Vanderbilt and | William A. Rockefeller organized the | Aviation Corp. of America, with a | capitalization of $200,000. This be- came the holding company of Pan- American Airways, capitalized at $22.- 000,000, In 1928 he married Mis Eliza- beth Stettinius, daughter of the late Edward Stettinius of Morgan & Co. Like many deliberate and thought- ful men, Mr. Trippe is a pipe smoker He likes to lounge in his cottage at East Hampton. Long Island. and figure things out with regard to long-range probabilities. | There have been hints, but no defi- nite news, that Col. Lindbergh has |been taking a hand in the British | negotiations. Britain does not hold her Bermuda air base lightly, and the | conclusion of the agreement for the new service is regarded as highly im- portant in its bearing on America’s prospect for a transatlantic southern route in the near future. | These moves seem to leave the fu- | ture northern route to Germany, whose outreach in the air has been an im- | portant off-stage consideration of the rapid charting of the world air lines, | which has been going on for the last year or two. Germany's aggressive- ness is not to be discounted, but it is clear that, at this stage of the game young Mr. Trippe and his allfes have | not allowed her to steal the show. | (Copyright, 193v.) FARM ELECTRICITY EXHIBITION SET ’ Juan T. Trivve. | Ickes and Peery Invited to Dem- onstration on Ante-Bellum Place in Virginia. Ry the Associated Press. Gov. George C. Peery and Secretary of the Interior Ickes have been in- vited by the-Rural Electrification Ad- ministration to witness a demonstra- | tion of what can be done with elec- | tricity to an ante-bellum Virginia farm | on July 22 | While the R. E. A. is not calling it | as such, the farm is an exhibit place | for the World Power Conference. It | is owned by J. M. Hughes, who, under | an agreement with the Virginia Publie | Service Co., the R. E. A. and others, | has thrown his farm open to visitors during most of the day. Not all the modern electrical farm appliances are in use on the place, but R. E. A. officials say more appliances are in daily use there than “most farmers ever will get.” The farm has 212 acres and is worked daily by Hughes and his sons, who, with their families, live in regu- lar farm fashion on the place, which has been under cultivation since the 1700s. It is located in the Herndon- Draneaville section. EET S Dignity Before Comfort. ST. PAUL (#).—With the merg fighting for a top s=pot in the taer- mometers and the State counting its heat deaths in the hundreds, Clinton Hackert, new chief of police, issued this order: “All officers appearing in court shall appear in a neat condition, They shall at least wear collar and tle and inot have their sleeves rolled up.”