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A—2 % LEOPOLD DEBATES WITH U. . AGENTS Parole Prediction Called Science by Killer, in Joliet Prison. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) JOLIET, Ill, August 10.—Nathan Leopold, one of America’s most notor- fous criminals. was engaged today in an argument with the U. S. Depart- ment of Justice over his standing as a scientist The brilliant student-killer carried | Police Court Building. on his end of the debate from the Ii- linois Penitentiary cell where he must | the well will have a temperature of the rest of his life for the|around 60 degrees, some 20 or 25 de- slaying of wealthy | grees lower than that taken from the spend “perfect crime” Bobby Franks, 12 years ago. Bone of contention was a system he | there will be a very considerable sav- Had helped develop as a prisoner to | ing in the amount of air-conditioning predict which of his fellow convicts | equipment which will be used in the would go straight if they were freed | new building. on parole. Leopold contended the system was | depth of 135 feet, quite a bit below accurate enough to be classed as a | sea level, but it will have to be still nce. Ray L. Huff. parole executive of the brard of parole of the U. S. Depart- ment of Justice, took an opposite view. The unique debate was carried on in the pages of the Journal of Crimi- nat Law and Criminology. a North- W stern University publication issued a* Evanston, IIL Leopold started it late last year, be- fore his partner in crime. Richard Ioeb, was slashed to death in a prison bath room by a fellow convict who resented Loeb's advances. Writing under the pen name of Wil- lam F. Lanne, Leopold told of the work he had done in the office of Fer- ris F. Laune, prison parole actuary | who was experimenting with perole -ediction. Prediction methods on which some Btate parole boards now base their mmendations include only items ch appear on the prisoner’s record: environment at his age, his sentence, and so forth. ne’s system, Leopold explained, was based on the assumption that con- victs knew more about their prison feilows than an outsider could possi- bly learn. If these opinions could be sorted into factors and tabulated, it | was contended they would be a more | accurate basis for predictions than records alone would be. Business (Continued From First Page.) Iast month, but the department said | “the active market for both passenger and commercial cars has held produc- ton to & high level. consideration being given to the lateness of the season.” The report said the high light in consumer goods industries this Sum- mer had been in cotton textiles, where rapidly mounting sales prevented the usual seasonal decline. Rayon out- put has been maintained near ca- | vacity levels, it was said. but the silk goods output remained low. The drought was described as the “principal adverse factor in the pres- ent situation, aside from the con- tinuing 1large volume of unemploy- ment.” ¥ “For the present.” the department said, “the major effects of this de- velopment, are seen in rapidly mount- ipg prices of numerous farm prod- ucts, @ movement which has been sccompanied by rising prices of food &t retail.” Itvin S. Cobb Says: Congress Candidates Need Views of People on Alien Evils. ANTA MONICA, Calif, August 10.—No matter which party controls Congress, watch at the next term for this; A campaign for legislation opening the doors 5 to millions of aliens now bar- red out under the quota laws, which also would legal- ize the presence here of a great mass of the for- E eign born, some of them crimi- nals, some misfits and malcontents, some avowed en- emies of our Gov- ernment, some paupers on Fed- eral rellef, who slready are bidding against us through wholesale smuggling in, through fraudulent immigration pa- pers, through carelessness—to use a gentle term—on the part of public servants charged with the duty of guarding at the gate. In the years betore us it will be a sufficiently heavy burden to care for such of our own worthy home folks, whether native or naturalized, &s otherwise would go destitute. And in the years behind us, when we called this country an asylum for the peoples of all nations, regardless of their qualifications for citizenship, the melting pot brewed some mighty unsavory messes, didn't it? If only realy Americans would quit being sloppy sentimentalists and po- litical partisans for long enough to ask their candidates for House or Senate how these gentlemen stand on this issue, and, at the polls, be governed accordingly — always re- membering that, while in an indi- vidual selfishness is despicable, in a nation it often is an admirable thing, based on self-preservation and com- mon sense. (Copyright. 1936, by the Nortn American Newspaper Alliance [nc.) will start at once. the time of ar-| T Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. WATER. HAT well being dug in Judiciary Square, if you have wondered about it, is to provide water that will be used in the air | this way: | certain brand of liquor to her. But | | bed room contains an air-cooling | the heat by crouching for hours next conditioning equipment of the new Water which will be drawn from taps of the city system. As a result, So far the well has been dug to & deeper to assure an adequate reserve for all conditions. It is estimated by District officials that 500 gallons of water per minute will be pumped by the air-cooling ap- paratus. * x ok x HE KNEW. A taxi driver tells this story: He picked up a passenger at Union Station, who instructed him to take him to the “House Office Building.” The driver asked which one, new or old. The pussenger said he was going to see Representative Flor- | ence Kahn of California. “Mighty nice lady,” commented the tariman. “Every ome likes her.” “Thanks,” replied the out-of- towner. “I like her, too. She is | my mother.” * ok X X CONFUSED. BERNADINE POORE of the Greater National Capital Committee was astounded the other day when for a | minute she thought her brother had taken to drinking. It came about This brother is a golf professional and is connected with a country club in Pennsylvania. Bernadire drove up to visit him over the week end. When she arrived he ran out to greet her with the following exclamation: I6eT ThaT 695!, ) “Listen, Sis, I got that 69 today.” Sixty-nine was just the name of & soon she understood. He had been trylng to break 70 for a week or so and that was the day he had accom- ! plished the feat. * % X ok SCOFFER. A raven at the Zoo has learned to mock the harsh cries of the pea- cocks which parade their fine feathers in front of his cage. The homely fellow seems to be making fun of the dudes. * x X % A. ML MERICA'S high standards of liv- ing, with frigidaires, washing machines, “a car in every garage” and whatnot, have invaded the ani- mel kingdom. Goofus, a great, awkward, shaggy | dog, has the good fortune to be the pet of a young local gentleman whose | unit. The pup seeks surcease from | to the rumbling apparatus. \ With the recent relief from 100- degree temperatures here, Goofus, | paradoxically enough, began a long | siege of barking in seemingly illogi- | cal complaint against the cooley weather. His master was puzzled until he found the source of pro- test—a discovery made by astute ob- | servation, When the mechanism was running, Goofus was at peace. When it was inactive, the dog's barking be- gan anew. His master has taken the problem philosophically. Of course, electricity costs money, but Goofus’ little peculiarity has become a stub- born habit yielding neither to coax- ing nor more forceful measures. Be- sides, his master hates to see Goofus unhappy. The machine will prob- ably run all Winter. T TIME'S FLIGHT. ERHAPS this sudden jump in the occurred if Postmaster General James A. Farley had not been on leave from the Post Office Department. Then again it might have. At any rate, one of the Washington banks received a letter recently clearly postmarked “Washington, D. C., Au- gust 21, 1936, instead of July 21, 1936. The advance date caused consid- the letter wondering if his vacation “Tempus fugit,” he said to himself. Swedes Buy Super-Whaler. BREMEN, Germany (#).—Claimed to be the biggest whaling ship afloat, the Terje Viken, 18,500 gross register River for a Swedish firm. As “mother ship” to nine smaller whalers, she will begin operations in the Antarctic | next Fall, Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City ® Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY s‘l‘A.R-—do-uverefl by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and servics march of time would not have | 3e% osto erable surprise, the banker receiving | ghap had gone by without him knowing it. | < tons, was launched on the Weser | Lo THE SVITHSONIAN HAS 07H ANNIVERSARY Laudatory Messages From Roosevelt and ickes Received. Ay the Associatea Press. Celebrating its ninetieth anniver- sary of its founding, the Smithsonian Institution today was possessor of laudatory messages from President Roosevelt and Secretary of Interior Ickes. Writing from his Hyde Park, N. Y., home to Dr. Charles G. Abbot, sec- retary of the institution, President Roosevelt said: “I cannot allow this anniversary to pass without assuring you and, through you, your devoted associates of my sincere appreciation of the work which you and they are doing. “The Smithsonian Institution, through nine decades, has abundant- ly justified the hopes and expecta- tions of its founder, James Smithson, who in his will provided for an ‘estab- lishment for the increase and diffu- slon of knowledge among men.'"” Smithson was an English student of chemistry and mineralogy. Ickes said “the halls of Smithsonian contain exhibits which tell more forcibly than words the enormous advances of sclentific achievement during the lifetime of the institution.” | He added: “It is significant to me that the institution, with all this panorama of the past, has prepared an exhibit on power for the benefit of the Third World Power Conference which is to meet in Washington shortly. To me, this is proof that the contrib tions of the Smithsonian today are | as vital as they were in that distant day 90 years ago.” BOTTLE DISTRESS NOTE IS BELIEVED “FAKED” ‘“Help—All Drowned but Three of Us,” Says Message, but Ad- dress Is Not Real By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 10.--Coast ' Guard officers investigating a distress note found in a bottle floating off Brigantine, N. J., said tonight that a | Los Angeles street address mentioned | in the note had proved fictitious. | ‘The note read: | “July 11. Help. Ms. Morris down | McIntosh alive. | | Notify Mrs. Eberhart, 331 Johnson | street, Los Angeles, Calif. Send this | to sea reserves.” | The bottle containing the note was picked up by Edward Sorenson, a life guard. i THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Showers to- fiht and probably tomorrow morn- ; somewhat cooler tomorrow: mod- erate shifting winds, becoming north- erly. Maryland and Virginia—Showers tonight and possibly tomorrow morn- ing: somewhat cooler tomorrow. West Virginia—Thunder showers this afternoon or tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy with moderate temper- ature. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear today. Report for Last 48 Hours. Temperature. Barometer Saturday— Degrees. Inches. 4 pm. 30.21 Mo 3020 Mi 3049 ‘guflb- 2353733 erday to noon today.) 4 p.m. yesterda: {’nr . at ¢ am. today. Year d Temperatures This Year. st. 105, on July 10. Lowest. 0. on January Humidity for Last 21 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 95 per cent. at 6 a.m. today. mlax:v’rm. 33 per cent. at 1:45 p.m. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Cosst and Geodetic Surves.) T4 jets. Sun, today !. 10 Sun. tomorrow 708 Moon. today. 158 p.m Automobile turned on one-half hour af Precipitation. Monthly precipitation In Capital (current month to df Month, PLITIL TS Jpe—— Febryary eoee.l 3 March 1ng at ober November December = Weather in Various Statiops. Abilene, Tex . Albany. N. Y__ 2988 8 Atlanta. Ga - Atlantic Cif altimore. Md irmingham k. N | s167,186. the local and federal unions last Au- | Since then, | RR 04 .93 " 94 82 le Helena, Mont_ 29.06 90 66 Cloudy Huron.'§. D 9% 96 66 ___ Cloudy Indianapolis 94 70 Cloudy Jacksonvil 80 74 0.74 Cloudy Kans, City. Mo 74 _ _ Clear s An 2 68 Loutsvil 73 Miami. 78 Minnea 2 New Orl 7R New Y 62 Ok! RO Omaha, Nebr 2 74 Philadelphia 2 62 Phoenix. Ariz 4 a6 60 62 66 68 78 - Clear 2 68 " Cloudy 58 0.02 Cloudy 78 ~208a 98 78 - Clear o wan 30.08 RO g6 1 gienr Spokane. Wash.20.08 92 82 ~~ Cloudy Tamps Fla'' 2002 90 76 0.08 Clear WABHINGTON 2004 86 66 _.. Cloudy romeiy. 7 . y.! seatione ORIk SeTature: Weather. inndun. ¥n¢lnfl B8 Cloudy B e g riin Cloudy Cloudy Elouay EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 2 Georgians Enter Contest for Office That Doesn’t Exist By tne Associated Press. ATLANTA, August 10.— Two Georgians are running for an office that doesn’t exist. The post is that of Lieutenant Governor. De Lacey Allen, for- mer State American Legion com- mander, and State Senator J. El- lis Pope are the candidates. Democrats will choose one nominee at the September 9 pri- mary, but the winner will not know whether he has gained an office or an empty honor until voters in the November election act on creating the position. A.F.L FACESLOSS OF NEEDED FUNDS Expulsion of 10 Insurgent Unions Would Seriously Reduce Revenue. Expulsion by the American Fed- eration of Labor Convention in No- vember of the 10 insurgent unions suspended by 1ts Executive Council Jast week would strike the A. F. of L. in a vital spot—the pocketbook. Analysis of the financial statement of the federation from the last re- port available, that of August 31, 1835, indicates, surprisingly that the insurgents might well expect to find themselves better off financially than their opponents. A combination of increased organi- 2ational activity and falling revenue made it necessary during the past year for the Executive Council to tap a resource heretofore always held inviolate in trade union practice ex- cept in event of extreme emergency —the defense fund of the local and federal unions directly affiliated with the federation. To_carry on its regular functions, the Executive Council shortly after the Atlantic City convention last Fall transferred $100,000 from the defense fund of the local and Federal unions, ordinarly used only for strike bene- fits, into the federation’s general fund for current expenses. Transfer to Be Reported. President Willlam Green has re- vealed that the transfer would be reported to the November convention in the regular course of business, to- gether with the reasons therefor, | Saturday. All drowned but three of H&nd that the federation constitution |us Small land off Cuba. East end. | gives ample authority to the counctl | Eberhart, O'Boyle, to perform the transactich. The balance in the defense fund as of August 31, 1935, the convention re- port shows, was $587,578. In addition to the $100,000 transferred to the general fund for current expenses, Green said, another $150,000 has been | paid out during the past few months | in benefits to striking employes of the Remington-Rand plants, reducing it to about $337,000. The defense fund will be increased | by receipt of a portion of the local and federal union per capita tax, 125 | cents per member a month, but by only a fraction of the receipts from that source during the previous year, The total membership in gust was about $111,000. two international unions have been formed from the federal unions, the International Rubber Workers and the International Automobile Workers of America, comprising probably two- thirds of the total. Importance Is Cited. The importance of the local and Federal unions in the financial scheme of things in the federation can be realized when it is seen that their membership pays in more in per capita taxes to the federation treasury than all the other members of the federation combined, a total of $2.- 933,000. The reason for this is that mem- bers of local and Federal unions pay a per capita tax of $4.20 a year at the rate of 35 cents a member a month, a total of approximately $466,- 000. The other federation members, all of whom belong to one of the craft or industrial unions, pay only 12 cents a year, or 1 cent a month, per capita tax, a total of $352,000. The difference in tax rate can be explained by the greater need for organizers and other expenses inci- dent to building up unions affiliated directly with the federation because the local or Federal unions are not yet large enough to be organized into a national or international union. Nevertheless, the need for organizers and general “overhead” expenses, so far as the A. F. of L. is concerned, goes on regardless of the number en- rolled in local or Federal unions, and will probably increase if the insurgent unions are expelled. As a matter of fact, this source of revenue already has diminished be- cause of the suspension. One of the rights and privileges which the sus- pension will deny the 10 unions in question is that of paying per capita dues. Furthermore, in anticipation of the suspension, several unions have withheld payment of per capita dues | for several months, paying only enough to keep in good standing, which is not more than three months in arrears, Revenues Curtailed. While Green foresees no difficulty in eventually returning the $100,000 to the defense fund of the local and Federal unions, built up over a period of several years, it is plain that fed- | eration revenues have been consider- ably curtailed, first by the formation of the two new international unions, which will reduce, according to esti- mates, the revenue from the local and Federal unions from about $466,000 an- nually to about $155,000, and, second, by suspension of the 10 insurgents, | which will bring down per capita taxes from all other unions from about $852,000 annually to about $250,000. The federation’s total receipts for the year ending last August were $1,032,- 475, of which the per capita taxes were the largest single item, more than $£15,600. With the 10 insurgent unions—all memsers of the Committee for Indus- trial Organization—suspended, how- ever, two others which, it is conceded, would follow the lead of those with which they already are associated in the C. I. O., would bring the seceding membership down farther to about one-third of the federation's total, and reduce the revenues propor- tionately to about $230,000. Moreover, the local and Federal unions remaining after the formation of the internatonal unions for auto- mobile and rubber workers, would more than likely side with the C. I. O. Practically all of them are favorable to the industrial form of organiza- tion and voted with the industrial blec in Tth&-hn,mvenuon at Atlantic City. "his group represents approximately mo-'-!fl bt the membership and the b D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936. F00D PROBLEMS OF TROOPS TALKED National Guard Officers Con- fer on New Method for D. C. Men. BY WILLIAM S. TARVER, BStaff Correspondent of The Star, INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa., August 10.—Col. John W. Oehmann, com- mander of Washington's 121st En- gineers, encamped here with the 29th Division. planned to confer today with Ma). Gen. Milton A. Reckord, division commander, in an effort to obtain permission for his regiment to abandon the standard menu prescribed for the entire camp. Compliance with fit, Col. Ochmann sald, has caused his men to be short of rations on several occasions, He explained this is the first period of active tratning in which all units of the division have been required to co-ordinate their messes, s0 that eac will be serving the same meal at the same time. “There has been no real food shortage,” he declared, “but there have been times when, for instance, men who were supposed to get three- quarters of a pound of meat aplece at a meal would get only a half- pound.” Heretofore, Col. Oehmann said, each company in his regiment has prepared its own menu and sent in its requisition to the regimental supply officer, who would purchase what was | needed. Mess difficulties this year are not due in any sense to an inadequate ration allowance, he continued, the allowance being 50 cents per man, | considerably in excess of that in many military organizations. Field Maneuvers Changed. Because of the dissatisfaction of several nearby farmers with the treat- last year, the division staff has been forced to change the site of one sec- tion of the fleld maneuvers next week from ground north of the camp to an area to the south. Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, divi- | slon adjutant, explained that last year some officers cut trees for fences, and, ] without authorization, promised to pay for the damage. In one case, he said, ? regiment chopped down almost 200 rees. were in camp this morning. Only the 58th Infantry Brigade of Mary- land had not arrived. It is expected to pull into Indiantown Gap Wed- nesday after two days of range firing | 8t Cascade, Md, where the Mary- {land State military reservation is located. ginia arrived late last night after the long trek from Front Royal, Va., where it spent Saturday night and The movement was conpleted with- clent trucks prevented the entire brigade traveling together. Officers said military records show it was the first time since Gen. Long- street took his corps to Gettysburg that Virginia's troops had marched across the Potomac River ‘into Penn- sylvania. Special Troops Busy. The 20th Division Special Troops, | commanded by Maj. William T. Ray, which includes some 300 Washing- | tonians, were busy today in camp ad- | ministrative and police work. Cascade was the scene yesterday of a review of the 58th Brigade by Gov. Nice of Maryland, probably the last review of the brigade while under the command of Brig. Gen. Washington Bowie, who will be retired in Novem- | ber. Gov. Nice pinned service medals on veteran members. Approximately 5.000 persons from all sections of | ceremony. Gen. Bowie recelved a 45-year medal; and Gen. Reckord, adjustant general | of Maryland. was given a 35-year | medal. A 30-year medal was to have commanding the 1st Infantry, drawn in large part from the Washington suburban area, but the officer had not arrived in camp. Gov. and Mrs. Nice were honor guests at the home of Gen. and Mrs. | Reckord at Cascade. guests were Brig. Gen. John Philip HII. assistant adjutant general of Maryland; Col. Grant A. Hancock, commanding the 5th Infantry; Col. Daniel M. Cheston, Regular Army in- structor for the Maryland National Guard: Col. Amos W. W. Woodcock, | | retirement; Speaker Manuel Gorfine of the Maryland House of Delegates; State Senator Mary E. W. Risteau of Harford County; W. H. Blakeman, | director of the Maryland budget; Col. | A. P. Kommiskey, officer in charge of | National Guard affairs for the Third Corps Area, and other division officers. Medals for winning the chief of the National Guard Bureau's indoor rifle match were presented to two 5th In- fantry privates, Robert Murphy and William Sullens. Members of the 1st Maryland In- |'fantry recelving service medals were: Maj. Henry E. Flook, 15 years: Capt. George D. Todd, 10 years: Capt. Carl S. McCleary, 20 years; Capt. Ward W. Caddington, 15 years: Capt. David A. Parsons, 15 years: Capt. George W. Trout, 15 years; First Lieut. John P. Clague, 15 years; First Lieut. Thomas C. Hopkins, 10 years: First Lieut. Michael O'C. Pugh, 15 years; First Lieut. Allen M. Seeger, 15 years; Sec- ond Lieut. John C. Golden, 10 years: First Lieut. Harold T. Perkins. 10 years; Master Sergt. Raymond S. Wach- ter, 15 years; Master Sergt. Ward P. | Burdine, 15 years; First Sergt. John | H. Saunders, 15 years; First Sergt. Richard P. Marks, 10 years; Staff Sergts. Joseph H. Jones and Frank J. Keefer, 15 years; Staff Sergt. John W. Martz, 10 years; Sergts. Leroy H. Brown, Ernest W. Reeder and Robert B. Price, 15 vears; Sergts. Reymond W. Griffith, Merrill D. Golden, Her- man F. Hinze, George N. Fringer, Jesse L. Nusbaum, Murvel L. Fincham, Randolph V. Collier, Samuel M. Smith, Andrew S. Deming, Louis C. Luber, Charles E. Deibert, Robert F. Dudrow, Clarence Latham, jr., and Clarence E. Wilkinson, 10 years; Corpl. Charles L. Hiett, 10 years; Pvt. Roy W. Clem, 15 years; Pvts. Powell F. Havener, Charles R. Gearinger, Howard B. Tay- lor, 10 years; Pvts. Eugene H. Colburn, Clifton J. Lewis and David C. Bus- call, 10 years. revenue would approximate $155,000 annually. If to this is added the per capita tax of the C. I. O. group, about $120,000, total revenue would amount to - $275,000 an- nually, as compared with the federa- tion revenue of two-' hm present per capita tax +international { unions, about mo'.'fi : 43 Iy ment accorded their land by troops | { Almost all units of the divisions The 91st Infantry Brigade of Vir- | was reviewed yesterday by Gov. Peery. | out mirhap, although lack of suffi-| Maryiand and the District viewed the | | een presented to Col. D. John Markey, | Among the ! who will succeed Gen. Bowie on his | | fish she caught in Pierce Pond in ! this season. MRS. ANNA ROOSEVELT DALL BOETTIGER, | Daughter of the President, proudly displays the record-sized -r— —————-————-——1————&-—_—_—_—__———_—_———*__ Lands Largest Trout SURVEY REVEALS N.R.A.LEFTGAINS Business Prospects Linked to Spending Curb by Com- merce Bureau. By the Associated Press. Death of the N. R. A. at the hands of the Supreme Court, the Commerce Department reported tod: did not wipe out the ‘“real gains” achieved under its minimum wage, maximum hour and child labor code provisions, Citing that invalidation of this vast piece of New Dea! machinery had eliminated codes affecting 20,000,000 workers, the report added that “there is little evidence that the decision led to immediate economic repercussions of great consequence.” The report, & survey of world busi- ness conditions in 1935, also discussed the interrelation of business prospects with the size of the public debt, say- ing: “Future business prospects are in & degree conditioned upon the possibility of bringing expenditures more in line with receipts and thus eliminating, partially at least, the uncertainties prevailing in connection with future taxation and other budgetary prob- lems. Despite a substantial increase in the national revenues, it said, the public debt “has continued to mount rapidly.” This was attributed to emergency expenditures springing “from the root of unemployment.” As to the N. R. A., the report said limited data available and other fac- | tors precluded adequate appraisal of | effects of its invalidation. But it cone tinued: “Generally speaking, the real gains achieved have been mdintained.” Discussing Government expendi- tures in relation to business progress, | | Caratunk, Me., while vacation- ing. The 5-pound l4-ounce trout was the largest caught there —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto Text of President’s Letter Br tne Associated Press. | "The text of President Rootevelt's letter to George L. Berry, president of Labor's Non-Partisan League, read at, the league’s first national convention | today, follows: My dear Maj. Berry: It gives me real pleasure to extend a word of greeting through you to Labor's Non-Partisan League upon the occasion of the meeting of its State chairmen in Washington I am certain that you and your asscciates are coming to Washing- | ton to join in & thorough consider- | ation of the vital issues of the time and to consider how best to co-oper- ate in the great task of promoting national progress and of enlarging the sphere of human rights through democracy of opportunity. | It is fully realized by all of us that you are gathering to support a politi- cal cause, but that merely makes it the more certain that you are de- termined to enlarge the scope of human welfare in our Nation. I should like to have you know" that I am sincerely proud that you | are gathering in support of my can- | didacy. Thid could not be the case | if you did not know. out of the ex- perfence of the past three years, that the present administration has en- | deavored to promote the ideal of justice for the great masses of Amer- | ica’s wage e=rners and to make that ideal a reality. | | We all know that our country has | been going through profound changes and that these changes have necessi- | tated special reconsideration of the| problems of the wage earners and the | farmers. Automatic machinery, the | device of corporate ownership and | | management, the monumental accu- | mulations of capital—these are some | Message to Head of Labor’s Non-Partisan League Read at First National Con- vention. of the factors that have made it nece:- sary for our country and its Govern- ment to look at men and measures from a new point of view. seeking new means for the restoration of equality | of opportunity. During the past three vears, we have endeavored to correct through legisia- tion certain of the evils in our eco- nomic system. We have sought to put a stop to certain economic practices | which did not promote the general welfare. Some of the laws which were enacted were declared invalid by the Supreme | Court. It is a notable fact that it was not the wege earners who cheered when those laws were declared invalid. I greet you in the faith that future history will show, as past history has | s repeatedly and so effectively shown, | that a return to reactionary practices | is ever short-lived. Having tasted the ‘ benefits of liberation, men and women | do not for long forego those benefits. | I have implicit faith that we shau‘ find our way to progress through law. | Your support is a priceless contribu- ton toward continued faith in that | outcome. } What is of vast importance at this | critical time is the fact that we have | common heritage of principle and that we are bound, with millions of our feliow Americans, in a common determination to preserve human free- dom and enlarge its sphere and to prevent for ever a return to that des- | potism which comes from unlicensed | power to control and minipulate the | resources of our Nation, and the des- | tiny of human lives. | In extending to all who attend your meeting my hearty felicitations, I am heartened by the conviction that we are all working for the same fdeal— the restoration and preservation of human liberty and human rights. Qlympics (Continued From First Page.) | Flanagan was runner-up to another ' son of Japan, Shozo Mankino. A third Japanese ace, Shumpei Uto, |set & new Olympic record of 4:45.5 in winning his heat. Medica, c'ocked in 4:559, won his heat and qualified | | with Macionis and Flanagan. In diving, however, American pros- | pects looked bright as Dick Degener of Detroit, Marshall Wayne of Miami and Al Greene of Chicago placed first, sec- | ond and fourth at the end of the com- pulsory dives of the springboard event. i In water polo, the American team | suffered its second defeat, bowing to | Belgium, 4-3, and was eliminated from | the competition. | Holland captured the monotype gold medal and Germany won star class| | honors as the first two of four Olym- pic yachting divisions were decided | The 6-meter and 8-meter champions await the result of tomorrow's races. | The United States, the 1932 Olympic | yachting champion, made its best | showing in the star class where Wil- liam Waterhouse and Woodbridge | Metcalf of California finished fifth. | A German girl, Gisela Arendt, led Miss Mastenbroek by almost a length at the halfway mark of the 100-meter race, and then the Dutch star and | J&het Campbell of Argentina caught aer 20 meters frcm home and fought it i out between them with Miss Masten- | broek hitting the finish line inches in | front. Miss Arendt was third. For the second time Miss Masten- | | broek lowered the Olympic record as | she was clocked in 1:05.9—five-tenths of a second faster than her time in yesterday's semi-finals. Miss Camp- bell and Miss Arendt also broke Miss Madison's former record, timed in 1:06.4 and 1:06.6, respectively. Neither Miss Rawls nor Miss Mc- Kean ever were in front, although they kept up with the leaders almost to the turn and were only 1 meter be- hind the pacemakers halfway down the home stretch. The Americans dropped back rapidly when Miss Mas- tenbroek and Miss Campbell started their duel. Degener and Wayne, competing in separate diving groups in the Olympic Stadium under a warm sun cooled by slight breeze, led their rivals at the completion of the opening tests. Degener, who finished third in the 1632 Olympics, topped his sivals in \ all but the last dive, the front jack- knife with a half twist, in which he placed second to Japan's Shibahara. The Detroiter’s performances: Front somersault, 15.30 points; back dive, 15.13; running front gainer, 17.29: cutaway, 13.98; front jack knife with & haif twist, 13.86. ‘Wayne's performances: Front som- ersault, 14.22; back dive, 14.79; run- ning front gainer, 16.72; cutaway. 13.60; front jack knife with a half twist, 13.14. The crowd raised a big ruckus when Wayne failed to re- ceive a higher score on his last dive. With Masanori Yusa, Shigeo | Sugiura, Shoji Taguchi and Shigeo | Arai swimming in that order, the| Japanese lowered the 800-meter relay | record of 8:58.4 set by the 1932 Japa- | nese team in the Olympic final at Los | Angeles. Yusa swam the third leg four years ago. The flashy victory carried the Japanese foursome to & 30-meter | triumph over the Germans, who were clocked in 9:21.4. The | vanas the report contended that the out- lays “have had an influence in manyv directions—for example, on retail sales, on farm income, on the growth of bank deposits and on the prevail- ing level of interest rates.” Recovery in the past three years the document declared at anothe: point, has been substantial, though it still leaves business “far from a con- dition in which it gives full employ- ment to labor and utilizes productive eqi‘ment to its maximum.” kstimating the gross Federal debt at $30,557,000,000 at the end of 1935 the report said this was 7.5 per cent above the total for 1834 and about double that for 1930. It added that “the gross debt of State and local governments, however, has changed but little during the past three years.” State and local debts were listed at about $17,500,000,000 for 1830, in- creasing to $19,900,000.000 in 1932 and remaining practically unchanged since, Berry (Continued From First Page) tives of 25 State league organiza- tions. Before the convention was over, | Berry said, every State in the Union would be represented. Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textilé Workers; David Du- binsky, president of the Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers, and Harvey Fremming, president of the Oil Field and Re- finery Workers, were among the gath- ering of between 100 and 200 persons at _the convention. Berry appointed a Committee on Resolutions which met while Hill- man elaborated on the league’s objec tives to say the campaign issues transcend old party lines. “We know from the decisions of the Supreme Court,” he said. “that unless we have a Government sym- thetic to labor. we have no other way to work out problems like unem- ployment.” To Demand “Decent Wages.” “No matter who is elected, we pro= pose to demand, after November, leg= islation outlawing the sweat shop and paying decent wages in industry. “The only way to solve technologie cal unemployment is by such legislae tion. We know the President’s posi= tion, and from the Democratic plat= form that maximum and minimum | wages must be the concern of Gove ernment. We also know that the Re publican candidate—chosen by men organized against everything decent, the National Manufacturers’ Associa=- tion, the Chamber of Commerce and the misnamed American Liberty League—what will happen to this legisiation if Landon is elected. “They call such legislation ‘regimen« tation’ because it would interfere with their liberty to oppose liberal and humanitarian legislation, which is the | record of the Roosevelt administrae tion.” The delegates interrupted Hillman with applause when he demanded minimum wage legislation, despite the action of the Supreme Court in invalidating the New York minimum wage law. Before today's session Berry spoke of the union band the league had lined up for the convention. “In this connection,” he said, “at Gov. Landon’s acceptance ceremonies at Topeka, Kans, last month there were no union bands in the parade preceding his address. “In fact. one of the most notorious anti-union organizations in the State of Kansas had one of the loudest in the Kansas Governors parade.” National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. EVERLY HILLS, Calif, August 10.—Of course, the Democrats who oppose the New Deal will not form a party of their own to fight Mr. Roosevelt. The only reason why any such possi- bility was ever by such promi Senator Reed, who might hav Mr. Roosevel makes it not Democratic op; determine to ¢ party. The theories Alice Longworth. anism of Lincoln. The Democrats a course of action are not deserting their party. suggested is that they are headed inent, important and loyal party men as ex-Governor Ely, ex-Governor Smith, ex- Mr. Colby and Col. Breckinridge, e been reluctant to support the his- toric opposition. It himself, and his co-innovators, are solely responsible for the situation which only possible but inevitable that ponents of the New Deal should ast in their lot with the opposing of government formulated by the Brain Trust have no more relation to the Democ- racy of Jefferson than they have to the Republic- who have met in Detroit to chart It is Mr. Roose- velt, elected on & Democratic platform, who has gone overside, and with his little coterfe of theorists run up a flag of his own. (Copyrigh t. 1036.)