Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1936, Page 2

WAGEHOIR LAV N EFET SON Miss Perkins Announces U. | S Regulations Begin Sept. 28. ROUND— i BA%!’fmGe invalidation of the na- tiomal industrial recovery act, the Zabor Department has becn seek- ing legislation to impose wage and hour standards on that part of in=- ?fiu:iry dealing with the Govern- ent. 'f'"‘or months, the proposed law was smagged in the conservative- minded House Judiciary Commit- tee, but as the last session neared its close the bill came out and was approved with modificgligns in the House. On the final night-it was called up for concurrence in the Senate and was slipped through without a record vote. A few minutes later, reronsideration was asked. but @ point of order from the majority leadership blocked the move and tie Walsh-Healey bill was.on its way to presidential approual.and the status of law. 5 By 1L Associated Press. Secretary Perkins announced last night that the Walsh-Healey act im- posing wage and hour restrictions on firms contracting with the Govern- ment would go into effect Septem- ber 28. : At the same time the National As- cociation of Manufacturers said in a bulletin to its members that the act wcould be applied only within very narrow limits” and cited the clause excepting goods which “may be bought in the open market” as a channel for numerous exemptions. The new law provides that manu- facturers or dealers in bidding on Gov- wrnment contracts must agree to estab- Psh an 8-hour day and 40-hour work week, ban convict and child labor, and provide sanitary "and safe working conditions. The act also requires the contractor to_ pay minimum wages prevailing in the locality. Secretary Perkins said the rate of the minimum wages would be determined only after public hear- ings. “As a matter of practice,” she added, “the first industries which will bf studied with a view to fixing the nimum wages will be those in which the minimum wages are kno%n by | practical experience to be below & decent standard of living.” < Administrative Unit. ‘Announcing that a special adminis- | teative unit would be set up in the Labor Department to administer the 1w and that a panel of industrial and labor consultants would be named to eid in making decisions, Miss Perkins said: “Shortly before September 28 the Department of Labor will promulgate regulations in the draft of which the principal contracting agencies of the Government will participate. These regulations will provide uniform pro- cedure so that there will be no delay in the normal procurement activities of other departments, but will enable both the contracting officer and pro- srcti\-e contractors to know in ad-|other evening George Plitt. former | vance their respective obligations un- | president of the board, happened to Wwoman's der the act. . “The prevailing“wage provisions will not produce delay, since no wage stip- ulation is required until the applicable : Washington | Wayside Random Observations of Interesting- Events and Things. BREEZE. N ERRANT breeze sighed through Georgetowns ancient trees last evening, mischiev- ously slammed a door behind & couple of girls living in & flat out there and caused no end of a furore before its naughty work was undone. The girls, pretty stunning when you see them on the street or at a party, happened to be clad only in slips, that being the correct garb when you.are young, female and engaged in moving a trunk into a storage room. The door that slammed left them locked out of the apartment and with no auxiliary key this side of Heaven so far as they knew. ‘What did they do? - Well, they went through all the mental anguish you would expect in such a case until they thought of taking a hammer lying sround there (the place is being re- modeled and the carpenters leave their ' tools) and knocking a panel out of the _Tht panel was mighty tough and the girls quite unskilled in such work, but they finally made it. You might think | that ‘was the end of the story, but it was not. The third girl living in the flat came home about 1 a.m., saw the | broken panel and the hammer and | came instantly to the harrowing con- | clusion that her co-dwellers had been | murdered by a hammer slayer. They had left a note saying otherwise hang- | ing on the door knob, upon which her | eye fell just before she fell into a faint from terror. | All told, it struck the three of them as a pretty ill wind. * x K x | FIZZ WATER. ’ Yau may be swimming these days in the equivalent of soda pop. You may have heard it called soda ash. 1 It seems that a swimming pool large enough to contain 600.000 gal- lons of water will use about 100 pounds of soda ash per day in the purifier. No, not to softén the | water, as you might think. The chlorine, so familiar to you, when it meets organic matter, cre- ates hydrochloric acid. It is the acid that hurts the eyes, not the chlorine. The soda neutralizes the acid, and there you are, bright-eyed and happy. { * ox x i CHECK-UP. AT A meeting of the Administrative Council of the Board of Trade the | remark that his son and his two, sons- in-law each is mamed Geébrge—four | Georges in the family. Somebody else commented that THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 19, 1936—PART ONE. GUMD REQUESTE LN STRAE Sheriff 'Asks Governor for Ready Troops in Case of Qutbreak, By the Associated Press. STERLING, 111, July 18.—A request that Tllinols National Guardsmen be kept ir. readiness to subdue possible violence in a strike at the North- western Barb Wire Co. plant was sent to Gov. Henry Horner tonight by Sheriff A. E. Hamilton of Whiteside County. The sheriff said he communicated with the Governor by telegram after 11 men had been sent to jail on charges of rioting and warrants had been issued for the arrest of 8 others. He said the Governor had not yet replied. 30 Deputies Sworn. ‘Thirty deputies had been sworn lnl and were guarding the plant, where clashes between workers and picketing strikers on Thursday and last night led to the arrests. Company officials, who said they were determined to resist the strikers’ demand for & closed shop, blamed the rioting on strikers who, they said, pursued workers and beat them. ‘The barb wire plant was involved in the Nation-wide campaign to unionize the steel industry, although Amalgamated Steel, Plate and Tin Workers' Union did not enter the picture until some time after the strike was called July 7 in demand for a closed shop and collective bargaining rights. Van Bittner, Western regional direc- | tor of the union movement, sald the Northwestern company workers had joined the amalgamated, and leaders | of the latter had expected to end the strike peacefully soon. | To Retain Open Shop. | | ‘The company, in a paid advertise- | ment, announced its willingness to | meet representatives of employes for HATER OF JULEPS But Clyde Hoey, Next Gov- ernor, Otherwise Is Perfect “Stage” Southerner. Erecial Dispatch to The Star CHARLOTTE, N. C, July 18. (N. A. N. A)—North Carolina, through a Democratic primary tantamount to election, has just chosen for her next Governor a suave, frock-coated,long- haired and rose-lapeled politician of 58 who's an astonishing epitome of everything a Southern statesman ought to be. save in his profound dis- taste for mint juleps and Carolina corn. Clyde Roark Hoey of Shelby, Cleve- land County, in the heart of the cot- ton belt, is the candidate nominated to excoriate the Republicans in a few gestures of Democratic wrath this Fall and to preside after the first of the year in Raleigh’s mansion, the ex- ecutive privilege of Democrats since the reconstruction. Able, experienced, he possesses & flowing gift of speech which is the very flower of what we mean by Southern oratory. He will probably be the most picturesque and the most colorfully costumed figure the State ever has had for a governor. He should be, for he started practicing for the governor- ship at least 50 years ago. Was Boy Orator. Old-timers recall how the piney, eroded slopes near Shelby used to echo no audience then save the cotton stalks and the jaybirds. In the even- ings, in his nightshirt, he would ha- rangue his younger brothers and sis- The Hoeys were not then one of the first families, and a university educa- tion was out of the question for the boys. Young Clyde picked up his learn= ing by listening to North Carolina political speeches, by reading all he could, and by working in a country | collective bargaining, but declared its | intention to retain open shop. | City and county officials declared | existence of an emergency, and adopted resolutions authorizing police to add 100 men to the force. Sheriff Hamil- ton said, however, his appropriation for that purpose was almost gone. Today 625 of the company's 1.400 workers were on the job, guarded by the deputies and special police of the ‘Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. TWO DIE IN CRASH OF PLANE IN WEST Dorothea Canfield, Pilot, Famed for Hunts by Air for Coyotes. Be the Associated Press. NOONAN, N. Dak., July 18.—Mrs. Dorothea Busse Canfield, member of | Western North Dakota's famous air- plane coyote hunting pair, and a pas- senger were killed today when the | gathered for an old settlers’ picnic here. Albert Lee. 35, of Noonan was the { passenger who met death. Mrs. Can- minimum wages have been ascertained | George might be a popular name, but | field was taken to a Noonan hospital, by the Secretary of Labor for a given industry or group of industries. Until guests at the meeting, and the sug- | the plane, its motor stalled at 200 feet | this factor has been determined and furnished to the various departments it will not be necessary for the con- tracting officer to consider this phase of the act. “It is not expected that the eight- hour day and 40-hour week provisions will create any undue burden. There are very few industries today which generally exceed these limits. Under the authority of the Secretary of La- bor to allow reasonable limitations, variations, tolerances and exemptions, the regulations may provide for over- time, subject to the payment of the overtime rates prescribed by the act. As these will be the same for every employer bidding on a specific con- tract or class of contracts, all bidders will be put on equal footing in this respect. : Special Consideration. ¢ “In fixing the amount of the over- time rate, the department will give cpnsideration to conditions in contin- uous process industries or industries of ah extra hazardous nature, seasonal peak production periods, flat weekly or onthly wage scales. The same con- sideration will be given to emergency cenditions. any inquiries have been received with respect to floor warehouse and yard stocks. The regulations will probably provide for the purchase of floor stocks without going behind the actual and bona fide seller, when such stockd are in the dealer’s possession when he submits his bid. The Gov- ernment will not permit goods manu- factured specifically for a Government contract, however, to become ware- house or floor stocks in order to evade the purposes of this act. The clause relating to goods purchasable in open market indicatés that Congress in- tended to keep in effect present stat- make purchases in the open market without advertising, under certain conditions, ang also intended that the | existing limitations upon such pur- chres should not be affected by this act.” Various Opinions. The manufacturers’ association basged its opinion that the act could be’applied only “within very narrow limits” on various opinions handed down in interpretation of a 1912 law which it sald sought to impose an 8- hour day on Government contractors. Among them was an opinion by Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law School. i The association cited. 65 articles which it said had been excepted in application of the 1912 law. Among them were airplanes, bricks,” canvas, clothing, engines, machinery gen- erally, linseed oil, printing and struc- tural steel. The association assumed, it said, that the precedents it cited “will be accorded the respect to which they ! are entitled” in administration of the act. Austrians Of to Berlin. VIENNA, July 18. (#).—An Aus- trian military and economic commis- sion traveled to Berlin today, a source close to the government said, to work out practical details of the new Austro-German agreement. No mm announcement of the trip was e. Subsidy M‘ Effective. Germany's new export subsidy fund is r::owm; results in increased ex- po not as popular as John. There were 30 gestion was made that the first nam of those present be listed. The *poll was taken, and the “Georges” won. There were five of them—George | Graham, George Keneipp, George Of- futt, George Plitt and George Shinn. The “Johns” came in second. with John Saul, John J. Esch, John Remon and John Victory. There were only two “Bills"—W. W. Everett and W. W. Wheeler. But there were three | “Bobs”—Bob Fleming, Bob Cottrell { and Bob Swope. | _Those in the “lone wolf" class were | Harry Blake, Edgar Morris, Arthur | Heaton, Odell Smith, Fred Smith, | Marcy Sperry, Granville Gude, Hay- | ward Marshall, Ben McKelway, Claude Owen and Curtis Hodges. | Oh, yes, there were two “Law- | rences"—Larry Williams and Col. Law- rence C. Crawford. What's in a name, anyhow! * x ¥ *x | EXPLAINED. | POLITICS is not the only manifesta- | tion of Midsummer madness af- | flicting the National Capital. Take inow these “fox-tails” that are flying “trom eountless automobile radiator | caps. : To begin with, they are not really fox-tails, confirming a suspicion that | there could not be that many followers {of the hounds nor the number of | | brush-bereft foxes the display would seem to indicate. They are really fur | scraps from the manufacture of fur | coats fashioned into the form of tails, {80 the fur industry may be credited | with having hit upon this method of prott\ubly disposing of what had been waste, When the motor accessory stores first put these tails in stock, they had | the idea that they might be useful as fender guides in parking, but ap- | parently no one wanted to buy two. ‘The highest price they have reached in jone accessory chain is 9 cents, and a | special sale this week dropped . the | price to 2 cents. 1 So it looks as though Capital motor- jdom will be plentiously befurred this hottest of all Summers since the last | hottest Summer. | Xk kX INCIDENT. Patrons leaving oneof the down- town movie shows at the close of a midafternoon perjormance this week witnessed a little comedy sketch wherein _there probably lurked the elements of tragedy. The ubiquitous sidewalk snapshot operator took the picture of a young and presentable couple and handed them the usual order blank. After reading the card as they walked along, the same thought seemed to occur to each one, und they abruptly halted for a hurried conference. . 1t didn’t last long, and the young man hurried back to the snapshot artist and thrust a bill into his hand, while those in the lmme(lqu vicinity overheard lnnmctlo:i o “be sure and send the film witi print.” Eyewitnesses supplied their own ezplanation—the more romantic ! where she died a few minutes after in a take-off, had nose-dived into a field. crash. | Mrs. Canfield. 27, and her husband | arrived here today on an annual barn- storming exhibition. i Mrs. Canfield, dark-haired, brown- {by airplane on Western North Da- kota prairies and during the Summer | !traveled over the State with two | planes. | While his wife guided the ship, | Canfield operated a swiveled shotgun which blazed away at fleeing coyotes with each swoop of the plane. The pair's hunting exploits covered the | western half of the State, where the Canfields were widely known. $200,000,000 SEEN T0 STOP ROOSEVELT ! Clements Says “Moneyed Inter- ests” Are Ready to Spend That Amount. Br the Associsted Press. | CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 18.—Rob- jert E. Clements, co-founder of the | Townsend old-age pensions plan, who | recently iesigned from the organiza- tion, said tonight that “moneyed inter- | ests” were ready to spend “as high as $200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt.” The former Long Beach, Calif., real estate operator, here as “unofficial ob- | server” of the second national Town- 1send convention, said the “interests” hoped to achieve their end by launch- ing a third party which would deflect enough liberal Democratic votes to elect the Republican nominee. “I was approached by a representa- tive of a New York trust company just after the Townsend convention in Chicago last year,” Clements said. “I| was given to understand that finan- cial interests were willing to spend as high as $200,000,000 to stop Roosevelt and that a considerable portion would be used to finance the third party.” Declining to name the representa- tive, Clements said: “I was told that | the plan would have to be carried for- ward with- the utmost secrecy, that the club members were to be made to feel that it was their own spontaneous movement. “It was my understanding that no officials of the Republican party were behind the scheme, but moneyed in- terests who feared the re-election of Roosevelt. Naturally the offer was refused on the spot,” he asserted. —_— assuming the young folks had been jorbidden each other’s company; others their own cynical thoughts. * ok K ox ENGLISH. 'HE lure of the Orient, according to & Washington man who has just returned from a business trip there, consists primarily of the Chinese deal- Her husband witnessed the | eyed mother of two small children, | | earned fame with her husband as the | | team which in Winter hunted coyotes | print shop. In formal education, he probably never went past the sixth ! grade. Which largely explains why to- day the problem nearest his heart is ! how to expand the State public school system and rescue the teachers from | the poverty of salaries next to the | lowest in the Union. | In the old days, when the boy ora. | tor of the State was Shelby’s Tom | Dixon—he later wrote “The Klans- talent a politically-minded young man could develop, and Clyde Hoey developed it as assiduously as Demosthenes did with his pebbles. He spoke everywhere. In neighbor- ing Lincoln County he made his speeched against an audience armed | with guns to shoot him down. Elected at 21, He ran for the Legislature and was elected at 21, deserting for only & | vear the little courtry newspaper of which he had become editor at the | age of 16. He became. as an ambi- tious young man had to become in | He adopted | | those days, & lawyer. the long hair and the long coat be- | cause that was the costume of his profession then, and he has clung to plane fell before crowds | it despite changes in style, because,y | first of ali, he really seems to like it, and because the garb is to him a { symbo! of an achievement. | he learned the names and lineage of | every country family as he trundled by buggy over the clay roads seeking | subscriptions. The files of his paper, 25 years ago, reveal that he was one with the oratory of the lanky and en- | ergetic young Clyde Hoey. There was | ters from the rostrum of a bedpost. | Henry Varnu fits and Microscopes. m Poor Will Equip-Agents With Field Radio Out- Depicting some phases of the work of the famous G-men, a mural by Henry Varnum Poor, when developed from the “rough sketch,” illustrated here, is to decorate one of the alcoves at the entrance to Attorney General Cummings’ reception room. YMBOLIC G-men, equipped with field-radio outfit, microscopes and other paraphernalia, are to be posted at the entrance to | Attorney General Cummings’ recep- | tion room in the Department of Jus- tice. | These G-men will not be J. Edgar | Hoover’s. They will be Henry Varnum Poor’s. Poor is the noted New York artist, {who has been commissioned by the | Section of Painting and Scuipture | of the Treasury to decorate with | murals the alcoves outside the At- torney General's office. Keeping company with the F. B. T. agents will be a group of silk-hatted | industrialists, depicting “big business™ in its worst implications; enlighten- ed farmers of the Tennessee Valley, | depicting T. V. A.; a lawyer—pre- | sumably Cummings, although there | Rold-clause cases before the Supreme | Court. and a man handling a crate |of frightened ducks, representing. Poor explained, “the poultry racket.” Eagle Will Preside. Over all will preside the majestic a background of marble columns. a shield. a flaming torch and an un- balanced pair of scales. is no facial resemblance—arguing the | @ | With evident pride, Poor has dis- played the sample murals to Ed- {ward B. Rowan, superintendent of |faction of the newsmen whether these | the Section of Painting and Sculp- | | ture and several Department of Jus- | | tice officials. They appear to be awed. { | The artist explained the drawings are just “rough sketches,” created 'to see how the finished product wxll} look in the panels prepared for them. The mural to be placed over the door opposite the Attorney General's office shows G-men engaged in a variety of activities, the nature of which was not entirely clear to in- artistic newspaper men. Four or five | agents in what apepars to be a glass- | incased room are listening with head | phones to & radio broadcast. Autos and Planes in Scene. | Beyond the room can be seen an au- | tomobile heading toward a bleak | light. | the ju the other carries a limp body from a shed. It was not settled to the satis- men were G-men or gangsters. The T. V. A. panel shows a valley resident, armed with an axe, and his wife, standing on the front porch be- neath a brilliantly shining electric At the bottom on miscellahe- een *“Norris,"” th a dynamo ous documents. can be and “Muscle Shoals,” lying alongside. Addresses Spectators. ‘The gold clause panel shows the lawyer with his back turned to several black-robed justices and holding a paper in one hand. while he gesticu- lates with the other. He seems to be addressing the spectators instead of ices. Beneath is a bag of gold and othe: nbolic article: The high: vackground of ducks sts form a h the crate Poor stretch of land resembling shell-torn s No-Man's-Land. Above the automobile a plane is |soaring at a precarious angle, as | though taking off in a sharp bank. ‘Two men in the foreground are en- man“—the gift of gab was the highest | figure of the American eagle against gazed in some grim business—the ex- act nature of which was a matter of | speculation to reporters. One of these | men appears to b2 holding a rifle while Borah, 7Chasing Idaho Votes, Keeps Campaign Plans Secret By tte Acsoc'ated Press. | BOISE, Idaho. July 18.—Willlam E. Borah, United States Senate dean, is combing the Idaho sagebrush these days in a single-handed drive for votes he needs to send him to the National Capital for a sixth term. He is shaking—by the hundreds—the gnarled hands of men and women who have turned the desert wastes into verdant oases; he is mingling with ! the farmers; posing for pictures with | their sons and daughters, and chat- | think are the issues. | But he is delaying announcement of his actual campaign plans. Told by a friend recently that he may injure his own cause by failing | campaign until after Gov. Landon's July 23 acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination.,” said Frank ‘Burmughs. a friend of the Senator. | Sources close to the veieran Re- | publican recalled he made a vigorous pre-convention campaign on several | lssues. | “He feels” they said today, “that he lwm]d be wholly ineffective in the coming campaign unless he is in a po- 1!!!1011 to urge those issues in his sup- | port of Gov. Landon.” As the editor of a country paper | ting with the people on what they Within a week he drove 200 miles to Belleville, a little mining commu- |nity in the scenic Sawtooth Moun- tains to chat with the community's l'lnk and flle at the home of his friend, | former State Senator I. E. Rockwell. of the first editors hereabouts to know | openly to declare his willingness to| From there he journeved a hundred | the value of pictures. In a day when | take an active part in the campaign, ; miles ever difficult roads to mingle | cuts were expensive he jampacked paper with local heads and { shoulders, and he never stinted an | adjective when a lady's bridge part might thereby be socially enhanced. But he did not run for political is why the county and the State knew many years ago that Clyde Hoey was walting, always in training, for his chance to be Governor. He toured the 100 counties of North Carolina | for 30 years, campaigning for other men, accepted an oppointment to Congress, filled out the term and de- clined to run again. He even declined a seat in the United States Senate a few years ago when his brother-in- law, former Gov. O. Max Gardner, offered it to him. Ever-Present Rose in Lapel. ‘To get the full savor of the man, you must have been on Shelby's Court House Square a hundred Saturday | afternoons. This is a typical coun- | try cotton town; population, 15,000 A tall, stooped, granite-haired man in dark, long-tailed coat, striped trou- sers, high shoes, blazing red four-in- hand with stickpin, coat lapet notch- ed, with a fresh rose, descends the rusty iron stairs of a small two-story ! red brick office building. On the street and sidewalks the county has come to town; buxon-cheeked country girls, ambling farmers in store clothes, am- ple farm wives in bonnets, strong bucks of the cotton patches with | roving eye, business men, substantial landlords. They all know- the tall man and he knows them and their grandpar- ents. They regard the costume as calmly as the inevitable sunset. “Hi, Mr. Clyde!” His response is never legs than a cavalier flourish and he gets the names right. He proceeds half a block to the corner drug store and offers to buy the drinks. He spins stories. The crowd loves it, asks his advice, borrows his money, admires him. This is his home town, but there is hardly a crossroads village in the State wherein he might not stage almost the same performance. Drinks and Votes Dry. Still, the camaraderie of the rela- tion seems never to be marked by downright familiarity, for Hoey has been a special person too long, his manners are almost too good, he has been so long set aside for the gover- norship—and he is a personal and po- litical dry. North Carolina’s dryness is a joke, even here. The State votes for pro- hibition and would do it today if given a chance, but neither the young men nor the old ones stint themselves on aloohol. Hoey is paradoxical—he votes dry and drinks that way. But when Al Smith ran, Hoey campaigned the entire State for him, because he re- gards the Democratic party as a holy cause. His recent campaign, in which he ing with the English language. He finds American English uninter- esting now and doesn’t bother to read signs. “We gather baggage and send it in all directions™ is one Shanghal adver- tising slogan, he says. A notice in a tailor was opposed by 33-year-old Dr. Ralph McDonald, a college professor, was arduous. McDonald was wet, anti-sales tax, good-looking, forceful. For months the two battled it out in speeches and in print,.and McDonald, in the end, received enough votes to have elected s governor, in most ces. But “Hoey fopped him by by sticking to G:- old the won- | he said: | “If it injures me. it cannot be |helped. I want to know precisely | campaign.” “Borah will make no further an- | with a group of picknicking cattle breeders and their wives. Then miles | through the desert heat to dine with y | where I am going when I start in the members of a men's club at Castleford. He posed with a farm girl and her pony. spoke briefly and opened the effices. That was curious, and that nouncement as to his part in the meeting for questions from the floor. |LEMKE CANDIDACY | Pilot of Union Party Says Farley and Hamilton Are “‘Whis- tling in Dark.” By *Ec Associated Press. pilot of the Union party's venture into | national politics, declared today there was an “amazing response” to the presidential candidacy of Represent- ative Willlam Lemke of North Dakota. and that campaigners were at work in every State. whistling in the dark,” Nystul said, re- ferring to the campaign managers of the Democratic and Republican drives. Lemke, who was in Chicago for a campaign conference, nodded his agreement. Nystul, who has left his insurance bus- | iness in Fargo, N. Dak., temporarily to direct the Union perty’'s efforts. “In most States we have to get on by peti- tion, and we have petitions in circula- tion. “In some others we may use the | names of parties already established. Those things are being decided. ,In a few our name has been pre-empted, | but we’ll get on regardless.” Lemke said his party, founded with the blessing of Father Charles E. Coughlin, leader of the Social Justice group, would support all Congressmen who voted for the Frazier-Lemke mort- gage refinancing bill in the House. derful costume and by tuning his or- atory to concert pitch. The major charge against him was that he was a puppet of the “ma- " that he represented the “in- and that he was rich. He de- nied there was any such thing as a “machine,” showed where he had op- posed the Duke Power Co. more times than not, and, as for his wealth, that charge isn’t true. As one of the most formidable attorneys in the State, he has made considerable money, but it is a fact that he has spent most of it fiancing Democratic: campaigns over the last. quarter of a century, and has given the rest away. - Recently, when he was out of town, this sign appeared on ‘his office door: “This is not the relief office. If you need help, go around the corner to the W. P. A.” That was the idea of & junior law partner. On Mr. Hoey's return, he snatched the sign down; and continued to compete with Federal relief. On the Sunday morning that the returns came in, showing he had won the nomination, he taught his Sunday school class as-usual., It is the largest in the State he mpissed it but once during the eqnuh:'i’ _He's a staunch (Copyright, 1036, by the North American Alllanos Ine.) RESPONSE CLAIMED CHICAGO, July 18.—John Nystul. | “Both Farley and Hamilton are| “We're at work in every State,” said | vHollywood Fans Cheer Stars at | Base Ball Game Comedians and Leading Men Play Hilariously at Charity Event. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, July 18—Seven- | teen thousand fans howled themselves | hoarse and the game of base ball took an awful beating today when Holly- | wood movie stars staged their annual | diamond charity game. Lined up as the comedians and the | leading men, the game started off | with a riot when the fun-makers stormed into the park on wheel chairs, crutches, wheelbarrows and a police patrol wagon. The heroes, all dark and handsome, | | put Walter Abel on the mound to| start. By the end of the second in- ning, one hour later, the comedians had used up four pitchers and were still going strong. Jack Benny, with a cigar in his mouth, managed to reach first base on a walk. There Georgle Jessel and Benny Fields served him with beer and sandwiches—and Benny was al- most lapped on a race around the bases when Vic Orsatti slammed a home run inside the park. Accompanied by a caddy, Buster Keaten walked to the plate, selected a club the size of & young oak tree and thrilled the customers by dump- g down a perfect bunt. The entire comedian team suddenly sprawled out on the ground after its outfielder, Lucien Littlefield, caught & long fly with ease. A mo- ment later the comedy team of Mitchell and Durant, after turning respective body flips over a grounder, lit into each other in one of their famous “fights.” | Director Mervin Leroy, Andy De- vine and Harry Ruby were the first | pitchers for the comedians. Unverified reports had the come- dians ahead in the trivial matter of — CONCERTS ANNOUNCED Frank T. Gartside, acting superin- tendent of National Capital parks, yesterday announced that the follow- ing band concerts will be given at the District of Columbia World War Memorial in West Potomac Park this week: $ Monday, United States Army Band; Tuesday, United States Navy d: Wednesday, Washington Gas Light Employes’ Band, and Thursday, United States Marine Band. The concerts will be given from 7:30_to pm. - |slim beauty, | today, saying her daughter was mar- ried May 28 to her “first and only | r mura of mod “Miss America” Of 1935 Marries Her First Beau HenriettaLeaverOnce in Dispute QOver Nude Statue. HENRIETTA LEAVER. By the Associated Press. MCcKEESPORT. Pa. July 18.—Hen- rietta Leaver, “Miss America” of 1935, who objected strenuously when & sculptor produced a nude statue of her last Winter, has married her girlhood | playmate and gone to Oklahoma to | live Mrs. Cecelia Leaver. mother of the disclosed the romance beau,” Johnny Mustacchio, at Wells- burg, W. Va. “She was sick of notoriety. Johnny was going to Oklahoma to find a job. She couldn't bear to see him go alone,” explained the mother. Miss Leaver professed great indig- nation during the Winter, when Frank Vittor, New York sculptor, ex- hibited a nude, life-size statue of th Atlantic City beauty pageant winner. She protested that she had posed wearing a bathing suit, and for a time the statue was withheld from publ\c.‘ view. Previously she had turned down stage offers because she didn't want | to bare her legs, but she later did ap- pear on Pittsburgh stages. Mustacchio, 24, and Miss Leaver had been chums since childhood. COLOMBIA QUAKE TOLL IS ESTIMATED AT 100 By the Associated Press. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 18.— Reports received here tonight said more than 100 persons were estimated unofficially to have perished in yester- day's earthquake at Tuquerres, Co- lombia. Survivors fleeing from the quake area were said to have found their way impeded in many places by enor- mous cracks. ) A dispatch from Quito, Ecuador, stated strong shocks were felt at Tul- can and San Gabriel, and that many residents fled into the countryside. The astronomical observatory at Bogota was reported to be investi- gating the cause of the quakes. BARUUNA EI.EGTS Artist to Post G-Men at Cumming’s Door lflSSES REV[M.H] BY CROP SURVEY Hopes Retained in Some Drought Belt States. Others Gloomy. By ‘he Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, July 18.—The close nf another week of widespread drought brought the following late reports to- day on crop conditions: South Dakota—Spotted rains in the last few days were of no material ben- efit. Heat was very decrimental to crops of all kinds and pastures. In limited sections of Southeastern South Dakota the corn looks fair to good, but needs good rainfall immediately. The State crop report this week said small grains were virtually lost in all except Southeastern South Dakota Nebraska—Hopes for corn and other crops still held, if rain comes soon. Deterioration continued during week of extra high temperatures, however Towa—Weather bureau today said the heat wave probably was not vet broken, despite scattered showers over the “tall corn State,” giving relief last night and this morning. Corn de- terioration this week, estimated by Charles D. Reed, Federal meteorol- ogist, at rate of bushel an acre a dav. Reed said cloudy weather today re- duced materially yield losses, which he | totaled at 30,000,000 bushels for last three days. Mlinois Corn Loss Heavy. | Tlinois—Heavy crop damage re- ported in East Central section, W. P. A. survey finds. Some estimates in the area said the corn crop deterioration was 25 per cent, with 50 per cent ex- pectable if no rain arrived over the week end. J. H. Lloyd. assistant direc- tor of agriculture, said corn had been | hurt more by heat than by drought, but offered no estimate pending reports from field men sent into every county to sfirvey conditions. The report was scheduled to be compiled Monday. Texas—The week saw imgprovement over conditions seven days ago because of rains which omitted hardly any section. Ranges in the State were de- scribed as about equal to the 10-year average, cotton condition average to good. The Panhandle wheat sect however, is estimated to produce ol between 7.000.000 and 10,000.000 bush- els,.about a third of normal New Mexico—Cotton making aver- age progress, Oklahoma—Federal Crop Statis- tician K. D. Blood said: “The situatio much worse than a week ago b° e of intense heat and lack of ure. It is impossible to estima:e e damage.” Wisconsin—A good rain was be- lieved to have saved the corn crop in Rock County, but general outlook con- bad. according to experts. Rains have been far too light in most sections to bring appreciable improve- ment. Insect infestation spreading, State Entomologist E. L. Chambers, reports. Ohio—A break in the heat wave In Ohio failed to spare Buckeye Stale farmers’ crop losses expected to reach at least $10,000,000. Thirty-four Southwestern counties have had no material rainfall in over six weeks. A generally good wheat crop is in prospect at profitable prices, but Ohio’s corn crop may be no more than 75 per cent of the normal yield, pos- sibly 50 per cent, or even a comrlete | failure. Indiana—Scattered rains in the last | few days have failed to shake the , drought’s hold on Indiana, although cooler temperatures prevailed today. Agricultural observers at Purdue Uni- versity believe the ‘State’s wheat crop to be nearly normal but have pre- dicted a $12,000.000 loss in the corn crop, although they say the crop is not a feilure. Oats are expected to show less than half the normal yield. Pastures are burned almost beyond redemption for live stock grazing. Missouri Retains Hopes. Missouri—E. A. Logan. Federal agri- | cultural observer, said 40 per cent of the Missouri corn crop could make a comeback if rain fell immediately, although each rainless day {urther reduced prospects. He said he was surprised at how well corn had reld up under drought conditions, rar- ticularly in southwestern counties. Recent rains have aided corn in Southeastern Missouri. North Dakota—Federal Meteorol- ogist O. W. Roberts said deterioration of all crops continued rapidly since a week ago. Corn, which was in fairly good shape then, is much poorer now. he said. Minnesota — Slight improvement over the outlook a week ago noted with harvesting of small grains re- ported as generally “better than ane ticipated.” Paul Kirk, crop stati cian, said corn prospects were a: mented by rains in Southern Min: sota. But in communities where rain received corn is nearing critical stage. ONE HELD, 3 SOUGHT ! IN NIGHT FLOGGINGS Masked Riders in Mining District Hunted—Arson Charges Filed. By the Associated Press. WHITWELL, Tenn., July 18. — Sheriff T. E. Coppinger said tonight | he had arrested one man and held | warrants for at least three others for floggings and property destruc- | tion 17 masked night riders in the | coal mine district here. Coppinger ad<ed he understood some 5 participated in floggings reported |to him today as having occurred | Thursday night. | The sheriff said the man arrested | was booked as Al Rollings and had | been released under $15,000 bond on charges of arson and conspiracy to | Inflict corporal punishment. Sheriff Coppinger said Tom Guffey, | 53. an employe of the Black Diamond Mining Co. here, complained he was whipped by a masked band and that he swore out warrants yesterday. Guffey, the sheriff said, told him he was accused of “going to Chattanooga to deal with the company.” Some union miners of the Black Diamond Coal Mining Co. had been on strike since April 29 despite the fact the United Mine Workers of America has signed a contract with the company. The Whitwell local has ignored orders of the international president, John L. Lewis, to return to work. Sheriff Coppinger said the masked men also visited the Wagon Mine of Lawrence McCullough on Cume berland Mountain, 8 miles from here, blew up his hoisting engine, soaked the mining shack with gasoline and set it afire, and then whipped an employe. Additional arrests are expected the tl\el‘lfl sxid. b the <