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A—2 xx» KANSAS LABORITE ASSAILS LANDON' Charges Governor “Con- " trolled” by School Book and Power “Trusts.” By tr'e Associated Press. Alf M. Landon's record as Governor of Kansas was the subject today of criticism and praise from oppozite ~ gides of the campaign fence. Leslie Doud, official of the pro- | Roosevelt ~ Labor's Non - Partisan | League, asserted the Landon admin- | istration is “‘controlled” by the *school book trust and the light and power trust.” while Oscar Stauffer, Kansas | editor, said in a speech under Repub- lican auspices that Landon changed a deficit in the Kansas Highway De- | partment into a surplus while reduc- | ing automobile license taxes. | Maj. George L. Berry, president of Labor's Non-Partisan League, made public a report which Doud submitted | to him. Doud, who is editor of the Kansas Labor Weekly at Topeka, was quoted as saying “The Landon administration in | Kansas is controlled and dominated | by two outstanding interests—the | school book trust and the light and power trust. Of the two, the school | book trust is the most rotten, and the stench of it reaches to the high heavens. The light and power trust reaches into other business groups, however, and is the direct alliance be- tween Landon and the ‘big business’ of Kansas Link With Trade Group Seen. : "Dean Ackers. general manager of the Kansas Power & Light Co., is president of the State Chamber of | Commerce and the direct link be- tween the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Landon Staie ad- | ministration. Landon selected Ackers | to head the Kansas Emergency Relief | Administration and through him has been exercised a control over the ex-/ peaditure of all relief funds in Kansas. “Thus Landon has had his finger right in the expenditure of the Fed- | eral Government's money in Kansas, | without which today Kansas would be in the most desperate plight it has | ever known sance the days of Sockless Jerry Simpson.” | Doud said the State prints its own | school text books, “but there is a| heavy royalty allegedly to the owners of copyrights, so that if the | State prints these books at approxi- mately 40 per cent less cost than they can be turned out in a commercial | shop, it sells them to school children | at from 25 to 40 per cent higher than | the same books sell to children in | other States.” | “The allegation is,” Doud added, “that the State is in the grip of a! ring of school book representatives, | who are splitting the royalty fees.” Holds School Children Suffer. Turning to other school matters, | Doud contended “Landcn economies have been accomplished at the ex- pense” of school children. Stauffer, who is editor of the Ar- kansas City, Kans,, Traveler, said the | “economies have in no way adversely | affected the educational system.” “The Kansas common schools,” he #aid in a broadcast last night on the radio series being conducted by Wil- liam Hard, “are directly and wholly under the supervision of local school boards. The Governor has no juris- | diction over them. ! “It is, nevertheless. to be noted that | & larger percentage of the local Kan- | gas tax dollar is now spent on schools | than before the depression. “It is also to be noted that Gov. Landon successfully resisted an effort to put a fixed limit on local expendi- tures by means of a State constitu- | tional amendment. On this point | the Kansas teechers have frequently | expressed their gratitude to him.” Auto License Tax Reduced. Speaking of Highway Department finances, Stauffer said Landon con- verted a deficit of $1,600.000 to a surplus of $500,000 in 18 months, “while at the same time he reduced the tax on an automobile license from & minimum of $8 to a minimum of $i” Stauffer asserted the influence of Landon on local expenditures has been -*mainly through the ‘cash basis’ or | “'pay as you go’ law He said this | forbids communities “to spend money | Wwhich they do not have.” “Kansas property taxes,” Stauffer | eoncluded, “have been reduced 32 per cent since 1929.” He said the Governor was not trying to “monopolize” credit for this and had attributed it to efforts of “thou- sands of local officers.” MRS. MEANS VISITS HUSBAND IN PRISON His Condition Reported Improved After He Refuses to Sub- mit to Operation. By tne Associsted Press. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., August 12. =Mrs. Julie Means, who came here because of the serious illness of her husband, Gaston B. Means, in the Federal prison hospital, said she visit- ed him twice yesterday. Mrs. Means said any information on her husband's condition would have to come from prison officials. She arrived here early yesterday after an airplane trip from Washing- ton to Kansas City. Officials of the Bureau of Prisons said Means, suffering from a serious ebdominal infection, apparently was improving. He had refused to submit to an operation. Means is serving sentences totaling 15 years imposed in July, 1933, after his conviction on charges of swindling Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean of Wash- ington out of $104,000, with which &he hoped to obtain recovery of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. . Washington . -Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. IMPULSES. DELIVERY truck driver in Chevy Chase yesterday proved himself to be a man of sound instincts, even though the instincts—following in quick succes- sion—were a complete reversal one of the other. It happened this way: A small dog ran barking at the truck’s front wheels. The driver, a humane per- son, stopped quickly. The speed of the stop toppled a case of bottles out into the street. The driver, an angry person this time, leaped out of the vehicle, picked up the only bottle that remained unbroken and hurled it at the retreating form of the dog. It missed. And it broke. LEEE HOUSES. Have you ever contemplated how this word “house” gets around? An operative who digs into such things reports that it ramifies far beyond a mere dwelling place, a commodity in which real estate people deal, or even the institution which bartenders once gave drinks “on.” The employes of all Washing= ton’s larger stores, for instance, always refer to the establishment as “the house.” Hotels, too, are just houses to their stafls. Even banks are sometimes so called. Newspapers, in case you are in- terested, mever are houses. * x % ox TUMBLING ACT. JARREN FRANCIS, Washington correspondent for a Western newspaper, has a rather sad habit of | months ago | sleepwalking. Several he strolled to the top of the steps in his home and tumbled down, cracking three ribs. A month ago he moved to a new home. The hardwood steps and floors were waxed and slippery. Two weeks after moving in the correspondent’s | wife fell down the steps. Then, a week later, the maid took a tumble on the steps. Several nights ago, the wife was awakened about 2 am. by a terrific bumping in the direction of the stairway. Terrifled, she glanced at her husband’s bed. and was much relieved to find him in it. \ ~BMPeanG '(»m} Baron, lying in a heap at the foot. He looked a bit sheepish, but was unhurt. * % ¥ % THE LAW. | NE of Washington's most dignified | ™ garden dining rooms, where food reminiscent touch of the old speak- easy atmosphere these days. Strolling down the steps to the dusk-lighted tables the other evening an operative reports that his mood was ruined when the hostess whis- pered in his ear, “Will you want drinks?” Guests immediately were consulted about the matter, although they hadn't given alcohol a thought be- fore. it being that kind of a party. When it was determined that cocktails were desired the management moved a table into a sheltered corner, rather passing up a number of pleasantly situated and unoccupied tables. It called for an explanation, so our man made some discreet inquiries. the charming ladies who run the tea room, the law has been after them. The garden is mostly on residential property. where alcohol may not be served lawfully. Patrons desiring a martini to whip up jaded appetites, therefore must be seated on business property, comprising a comparatively small portion of the garden. * Xk ¥ x WHY, SLIM. ing conversations between other people. reports this exchange between a fair Washington lass and her grand- mother last Saturday afternoon. The dirigible Hindenburg was roar- ing over the city and grandmother, who was upstairs, shouted to grand- daughter, who was downstairs: “What is that?” “The Von Hindenburg.” “Lindbergh?" “No, No, The Von Hindenburg.” “Did you say Lindbergh? Flying one of those things?” “No, no, granny. Von Hindenburg.” “Well, I'm glad he's come back, even in that.” grandmother. * ok ok ok MOSS MAN. Moss off the backs of the Zoo's big water turtles is being studied and classified by a young scientist from the University of Virginia who is on the track of primitive plant types. He took samples from the backs of various species and even per- suaded a keeper to corner a croc- odile and scrape a little moss from his tail. Anywhere i Base Ball Scores, Race Results, will start at once. Night Final Delivered by Carrier n the City Full Sports 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 S8PORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service | stair and saw their German shepherd, | iherem{are has been the thing, has a | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ROOSEVELT VISITS MARYLAND RALLY Assured State Is “Safe.” Starts Flood Inspection Trip Tomorrow. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. With strong assurances from Demo- cratic leaders in Maryland that he will carry that State next November, President Roosevelt will leave Wash- ington tomorrow for a three-day in- spection tour of flood areas in Penn- sylvania and New York before going to his Hyde Park home, where he will devote the greater part of the next week or 10 days to conferring with party leaders regarding the con- duct of his campaign. The news regarding Maryland was given to the President during a party “pow-wow” which Mr. Roosevelt at- tended last night at the country es- tate of Sumner Welles, Assistant Sec- retary of State, on the banks of the Potomac River a short distance from Oxon Hill The President’s participation in this Maryland meeting came as a surprise, as word that Mr. Roosevelt would make the journey to the Welles estate and take part in the meeting was not revealed in advance. The secret was kept from most of the Democratic leaders participating in the meeting. President Talks. During the discussion of his party's prospects the Presideni heard reports of conditions in various parts of the State from those attending and then | gave an extemporaneous talk himself, which has been described by listeners as a “Democratic pep talk.” Chairman Farley of the Democratic National Committee, who is now giv- ing all of his time to getting the party | organization in battle formation, said after a conference with the President at the White House earlier yesterday | that he had arranged to confer with virtually every State leader within the next two or three weeks. | He intimated that some of these | leaders, following their conferences at the New York headquarters, would | journey to Hyde Park to talk with | the President during his stay there | prior to embarking on August 26 for | his inspection trip through the drought areas. | There is reason to know the Presi- dent and his principal political lieu- | tenants are eager at this early date to get an actual first-hand report on the true situation in each State before putting the finishing louchts! on the general campaign plans, par- | ticularly as they affect the personal participation of Mr. Roosevelt. The | high command is feeling its way care- fully before determining in just what sections of the country the President should make his personal campaign. Meeting Arranged Hastily. The Oxon Hill political gathering | is understood to have been called somewhat hastily. Welles, it was learned, arranged the President's participation during visits at the | White House Monday and yesterday. Among those who sat about the table in the living room of the palatial Welles home, besides the President and the host, were Senator Radcliffe, chairman of the Roosevelt Maryland Campaign Committee; Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore, National | Committeeman Howard Bruce, Joseph | P. Healey, treasurer of the Democratic | | State Camapign Committee; Kent R. Mullikin of Laurel, Democratic floor | crowded with other guests, strangely | He learned that, to the distress of | A CHAP, who has the habit of hear- | | leader in the Maryland House of Dele- | gates; E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring, | former leader of Montgomery County, and State Senator Stedman Prescott, present county leader. Senator Tydings was absent. vacationing in the Maine woods. Radcliffe Calls. Senator Radcliffe called at the White House today to check up Dn[ several matters in which the President was interested. He expressed en- | | thusiasm over what was accomplish- ed at the gathering at the Welles home. | Radcliffe said he and several other State leaders would go to New York Monday for a conference with Chair- | man Farley at Democratic headquar- | | ters. He said he would be able to tell Farley the Maryland organization is in good shape and that what few fac- tional differences now esist will be | subordinated during the campaign, because there are no State issues. When asked why yesterday's meet- ing was cloaked with so much secrecy. Senator Radcliffe said he could not answer that as he did not arrange it. After this meeting, which lasted about two hours, the President was understood to have expressed him- self as well pleased with all he heard about the situation in Maryland. No “burning question” was brought up at the meeting, Senator Rad- cliffe said, terming it a general dis- cusion. The President, said the Sena- tor, took a “keen interest” in party affairs in Maryland, inquiring “about the trend” there. Campaigning Starts Early. Radcliffe said the President was told that ordinarily in Maryland, ac- tive campaigning was not started until after Labor day, but that this year it was begun immediately after the meeting about two months ago of the Democratic State Central Committee. The Maryland Senator said, “I was very much pleased with the Presi- dent’s general attitude toward the committee and the campaign.” Mr. Roosevelt motored back to the White House in the evening, reaching here shortly before 8 p.m. Before.motoring to the Welles es- tate, President Roosevelt visited Sec- retary of War Dern, who has been ill for a long time from the effects of influenza at Walter Reed Hospital. Mr. Roosevelt will leave on & special train tomorrow morning, his first prin- cipal stop being Johnstown, Pa., which suffered severely during the Spring floods. From Johnstown he will go to Cleveland, where he will visit the Great Lakes Exposition Friday morn- ing. He will then travel through West- ern New York, and Friday night at Chautauqua he will deliver the only major address scheduled for the trip. From there he will return to Pennsyl- vania, visiting Scranton and Wilkes- Barre Saturday morning before start- ing for his Hyde Park home. He is to reach there about midnight Saturday. The President arranged to see a score or more visitors gduring the day. Among these are Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, Acting Secretary of the Navy; Leo Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.; D. W. Bell, acting director of the budget; Dr. Rexford Tugwell, head of the Resettlement Administration: Undersecretary of State Phillips; J. F. T. O’Connor, controller of the cur- rency; W. 1. Myers, chairman of the Farm Credit Administration; John W. Studebaker, commissioner of ed- ucation; Mayor Willlam Wilson of Philadelphis, and Charles Politti of the legal staff of the Governor of New York, who will present a group He is | who are going to Italy for & visit, | Cesano; | Henry CITIZENS TURN OUT AS ROAD BUILDERS Residents Along Abandoned Railway Decide to Do Work Themselves. B a Staff Correspondent ot The Star. GREAT FALLS, Va, August 12.— Work of removing old ties from the abandoned roadbed of the Wash- ington & Old Dominion Railway was under way today between McLean and Great Falls, with residents either hir- ing laborers or doing the hauling themeselves in an effort to provide a makeshift Toad for their automobiles. Although their request for permis- sion to use the roadbed as a tempo- rary highway was denied last week by the Fairfax County Board of Su- pervisors, residents are cleaning sec- tions of the roadbed, which will give them access to already improved roads, on their own initiative. Here the roadbed is being cleaned for more than 1 mile to permit its connection with the Georgetown- Leesburg pike at Elkins Station. At McLean, the workers are to proceed westward for 2 miles to give resi- dents along the railway right of way a connection with the State highway through McLean. In addition to the two groups working at these points, individual property owners are to re- move ties from in front of their property by Saturday. Work in the two sections is under the direction of Oswald Carper of McLean and Albert Schmidt of Great Falls, members of the new Great Falls-Old Dominion Road Associa- tion, organized recently in an effort to have the State Highway Commission take the roadbed into the State's sys- tems of secondary roads. As soon as tles are removed the roadbed will be graded, Carper said today. He said that the residents are attempting to fix the roadbed roadway for their own use, and that they and any others will use it at thelr own risk. Their request for permission to use | the roadbed was officially denied by the County Board because it has no Jurisdiction over highways. The Road Association will hold its next meeting Monday night at the Chesterbrook School at 8 p.m. LECTURER TO DIS Cuss WATER GATE PROGRAM \ Miss McCullins to Broadcast Talk. New World Symphony on Tonight's Concert. Miss Frances McCullins. Philadel- phia lecturer, was scheduled to discuss compositions on tonight's Water Gate | concert by the Summer Symphony Or- | chestra, in a broadcast over WMAL {at 3 pm. The orchestra will be under direc- jtion of Fabien Sevitzky. The pro- gram includes four American composi- tions, three of which have not been played before in Washington. The program: “Suite in E,” Arthur Foote; “Dirge.” | Mary Howe; “Negro Heaven," Otto “Indian Ritualistic Dance." Hadle; “New World Sym- phony,” Dvorak. COEFIELD WILL DIRECT G. 0. P. LABOR DIVISION Union Leader to Assist William Hutcheson—To Begin Duties Next Week. Word of the appointment of John Coefield. a vice president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and head of the United States Association of Jour- neyman Plumbers and Steamfitters, as Eastern director of the Republican National Committee’s Labor Division, was received at his office here today. Coefield, however, was out of the | city on a vacation and is not expected to take up his duties until his return, in about two weeks. He will assist William Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters’ Union, and also a vice president of the Federa- tion, who has been named head of the Republican labor division. RIOTERS HUNTED NICE. France. August 12 (#).—Po- lice sought today rioters who partici- pated in a street fight between Leftists | ;nd Nationalists truck drivers Mon- ay. Four drivers were slightly injured during the clash in which a fusillade of shots was fired. Officials said the quarrel started in a cafe during the afterncon, was re- sumed in the street in the evening and broke out again in a hospital where the wounded had received treatment. Center of Mob Attack Three men were shot as the aftermath o] tempt to abduct the babd: attempt. P o d—- O\ Y Mass. per John Rhyn. D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1936. Skipper Launched Very Neatly GREENBELT HIRING METHOD DEFENDED Project “Not a Quota Job for Maryland Alone,” Officials Say. Charges of *“inequitable distribue tion" of employment on the Resettles ment Administration’s low-rent house ing project at Greenbelt, Md., made by Representatives Gambrill and Cole, were answered today by administra« tion officials, who termed the develop= ment a “Federal project, not a quota job designed for- Maryland alone.” The legislators had complained against use of labor from Washington in preference to unemployed workers of the State, especially in Howard County. They also quoted R. A. fige ures revealing employment of 710 Prince Georges County residents in contrast to 22 skilled artisans from Howard. Citing statistics, compiled at the end of July, showing that 2.805 of the 4,375 workers then employed cama from Maryland, R. A. officials de- clared: “In the first place, this is a Federal, This is how the launching of a new 72-foot auxziliary ketch turned out yesterday at Quincy, When the starboard launching cradle broke, it became a race between the boat and Skip- The boat reached the water slightly ahead of Rhyn, whose new uniform was the only casualty. Boat, owned by Harry E. Noyes, was undamaged. Note skipper’s friend at left be- ide World Photo. ALABAA TROOPS CURB MOB SPRIT 'Colored Man Held for Firing on Posse—Wife Tells of Hanging Threat. By the Assoctated Press. ANNISTON, Ala.. August 12— Threatened racial strife brought 100 State soldiers into Calhoun County today while a colored man accused of shootinz three white possemen was | jailed in Birmingham for safe keep- ing. Two companies of National Guards- men were stationed at Jacksonville, 11 miles from here. | Art Bush, colored. wanted in the shooting of Pat Hicks, Albert Hicks and Forney Martin. was quoted by | Chief Deputy Sheriff N. L. Summers which came to his house near here Monday night. Pat Hicks and Martin are in critical condition in a hospital. Albert Hicks was not seriously wounded. Last night was one of apprehension | through the Annison district, which has seen troops called out five times | since July 13, when Mrs. Joel Hill, farm wife, was attacked. Feared Hanging Threat. | Bush's wife told authorities she had been threatened with hanging | unless she told an armed group the | names of other Negroes thought by | her questioners to have been in her | | house Monday night. She said she was afraid her house would be burned “with me and my | children in it."” The Bush barn burned ! yesterday. She and her five children were placed in Annison Jail. | Weary from more than 24 hours | of marching, armed posses which | roamed the countryside yesterday and last night had virtually dispersed early today. but officials feared they would | reassemble within a few hours. | Bush was captured by State patrol- {men and hurried away from the trou- ble zone before civilian possemen were aware of the arrest. Details of the capture were withheld. | Judge R. B. Carr, who presides over | the circuit, which includes Anniston, | said “armed men are running around all over the country.” Col. John T. | Moore, commanding State troops, | watched through the night. | Kidnap Attempt Reported. The shooting at Bush's cabin fol- lowed a report that an unidentified colored man had attempted to kidnap the 2-month-old child of Mrs. Geneva Williamson. Mrs. Williamson said she frightened | who was not injured. Posses quickly formed. went to the Bush house. ing followed. Aroused by the wounding of the | three possemen, the countryside turned out. Gov. Bibb Graves, informed of the | situation by telephone, concentrated 37 State highway patrolmen in the area, and ordered Bush taken to a “safe place” when captured. One group The shoot- reported at- of Mr, 3 shi of New York citizens of Italian birth, | here with his parents. The :Qound:m ‘werwc in :‘?r’gu tai'lpa’; went to the home of a colored man bdficfion —C of the ai 4. P, Wirephoto. as admitting he fired into a group | |the man and he dropped the child, | ing stood on his head by the sudden movement. Slapped Old |Elder J. B. Carter on | Weird Adventure Story. BY PHILLIP N. JOACHIM. Elder J. B. Carter, Seventh Day Adventist missionary in India for 16 |years, knows a woman who was “slapped off her feet” by the devil. Seated in a garden at No. 6 Roanoke | avenue, Takoma Park, Md., where he is living temporarily with friends. El- der Carter yesterday told his story. He was as convinced of its truth a: listeners were of his sincerity. | “It was more than 10 years ag the missionary began, “when, after | giving medical aid to the natives of | inland India, four years, I received an invitation from the priest of the vil- lage of These, near Kalayn. to come | there and preach. I quickly accepted this opportunity to enlighten these | natives about the true God You | know they worship the devil in India, | through fear. | “So, with my native teacher. I went | to These and presented myself to the priest. I was told there was no place for us to live. My wife and voung daughter were with me. Finally. though, I got the priest to tour the village with me and truly enough all the houses were occupied except one. Inquiring about this, the priest shook his head solemnly declaring piace to be ‘possessed of the devil Superiority of God. ‘This. Elder Carter explained, was Just what he wanted. |7 “I explained to the priest that my God was even greater than his, the |devil. I said further that the true | God always overcame the devil; that evil could not live where there was | “Almost in defiance of my state- | ment, as if to ask who was I to under- rate his god, the priest granted us | permission to use the ‘hut.’ Not, however,” Elder Carter declared. | “without having first warned us that every man, woman and child formerly iiving there had died with the excep- tion of one aged man, who ran away to save his life.” Here the missionary broke off to Drought From First Page) , at his press conference yesterday as to whether the 25-cent-a-bushel tariff on com imports might be reduced, in view of the short domestic crop. He said he knew of no plans for such a | reduction. Another development was a request | by Dr. A. G. Black. chief of the Bu- | reau of Agricultural Economics, that | farmers save red clover and alfalfa Missionary Tells How “bevil” Woman in India | Return to U. S. Brings [ ELDER J. B. CARTER. state he investigated this story later and found it to be true. “We took up residence in the ‘haunted hou however,” Elder Car- ter continued, “and were avoided by the natives almost as if we were poi- sen. They seemed to be waiting for us to die. About dusk one evening an old lady hobbled near the hut on her bamboo cane. Later she told us she surveyed the house and couldn't resist a peek in to see how we live with the devil spirits. “It was while she was peeking in that the devil ‘slapped’ her, she told us and knocked her to the ground. In answer to her screams the whole vil- lage ran out. She told her story and the next day all of the villagers. headed by the priest, came as one to accept the God which was greater than the devil and his imps.” ‘The good had proved itself stronger than the evil. as the missionary put it Work Begun in 1920. Elder Carter is superintendent of missions at Kalyan and the only missionary to work the fi r of that country. His work began there in 1920. Since then he has made but two short trips to the United States. “We love the Indians” he said “and they have learned to love and accept us and our God. I am re- turning there as soon as possible.” Asked about the weather in Wash- | ington, the missionary said that in India during the extreme heat sea- son he and his wife ani daughter went up into the hills for weather as cool as our “hot™ days. On one occasion at Delhi, Carter said, it was so hot (122 degrees in the shade) that his shirt caught fire from a spark that had blown from a train and he didn't know it until a Hindu began beating him to put it out. In that land of mystery Elder | Carter has had numerous thrilling ex- non-quota project set up to absoro | some of the relief cases which besieged | the Government for help. Because | the project is located in Maryland, | some feel that only Maryland labor | should be used. This is not entirely | logical. since there are unemploved | other States, and there is no reason | why Maryland labor should be used in | discrimination against labor of other sections. “However, we have employed what we consider a fair share of Marylal workers. Anyway, the men are certi- fied to us by the Works Progress Ad- ministration through the Emplo:- ment Service. We can merely hire those men after certification.” | | hes for us to plan a happy married Lif together. With this realization would infinitely prefer to termin our blessed relationship at this ‘ralher than when we marrie | Socame the official end to the tranc- continental romance that bloo: | in Manhattan in the Spring of | between the two who harked | Shakespeare for their exchange | endearing names, Caliban and Ariel. That romance found a turbulent climax in a New York quarrel which ended in Borrymore speeding W | by plane and train, followed as as Kansas City by Miss Barrie. It definitely withered last Jul when Barrymore, between conf ments in hospitals, declared, | nu was engaged to her.” A man can't get along with a gal like that,” he added Last week an affidavit was dis- closed in a Los Angeles court by which Elaine stated she and Barr more were “purely platonic friends,” as of June 18, 1935 Another affidavit, signed by Elaine's mother, Mrs. Edna Jacobs, vouched for such a relationship. | The affidavits, contained in the ac- tor's confidential papers. which he sued to recover from a former confi- dential secretary. were made prior to his divorce from Dolores Costello Ba rymore. They preceded. too, the cross-country darby, in which Barry- | more outspeeded Elaine westward. Elaine swore before a notary pub- lic: “With regard to the personal re- lationships between Mr. Barrymore and myself, I state most emphatically that they have been and are of a platonic nature and only on the basis of the professional artistic relationship indicated by the fact that we have already made a radio appearance together and are plan- ning to do theatrical work in the fu- ture.” The 8!;-carat diamond which Bar- rymore bestowed upon Elaine in the Spring of their first meeting—she is reported to have flung it at him dur- ing their quarrel—eame into her pos- session last month on her 21st birth- day anniversary. When a messenger delivered it to her from the Chase National Bank of Wew York, she announced she would wear it ‘“on that certain fourth | finger.” “I think I'll keep the ring,” smiled Elaine today. Her sole interest now, she said, is her career. Barrymore introduced her to the studio where she is under contract. 'NEW SOVIET MISSION (Continued Prom First Page) to He said the drought had reduced | supplies of grass seed and that the soil | conservation program had increased demands. periences with snakes, particularly | TO STUDY U S- PLANTS cobras. On one occasion as he looked | By 'ne Assoctated Press. beneath a table a cobra “spit” in his | ye MOSCOW, August 12.—A new Rus- p = Had it been irritated the poison sian mission was en route today for ,n?,:,'::f‘:'fl‘mf"mflb,?zm‘;ei;’:d{ would have killed me.” Carter said. |the United States on what e supplies—a proposal on which previous | Pointing out that in parts of India | derstood to be an extensive survey discussions were discontinued when | there were no snakes, in other parts, | of American industrial methods. officials reported inability to find ways | he said, they were 5o thick you could | Heading the mission was Anastas I. to finance purchases—Capt. Power | hear them cst_chm: frogs outside your | Mikoyan, commissar of food, who re- said it was possible the Commodity | *indows at night. cently advocated study of American Credit Corp. would handle the mltte“ Eld_er Carter said he awakened one | food production methods. Nine en- 193¢ Sealing Plan Recalled. morning to find that during t”he night | gineers of the commissariat of the He recalloq thes the seed sor prob. | & Snake had shed its “skin” on the | food industry accompanied him. lem of the 1934 drought was met | Ooy POSt of his bed. | It was believed the mission also through commodity loans on corn | The Seventh Day Adventists have might arrange purchases of equipment Salediint el Ovners sibie: | 101 organized churches m.Indm, with | in the United States. quently sold seed u;m pusogesgr-soh about 4,439 members; 274 sabbath | Mikoyan recently announced *“we holdis Rirned Hov (e Conay | Schools, with about 8651 pupils: 17|must watch the latest achievements e, Ox tarn) over to the Com- | poarding schools, 78 day schools, 7 and industrial technique abroad and ;""""‘y Credit Corp, for resale to| hospitals and 1 sanitarium, in addi- | boldly introduce everything new to our Lo | tion to a number of dispensaries. The | own industry.” ‘There {s no immediate reason the | Adventists have been working in India| It was undisclosed what purchases 1934 seed corn program could not be about 40 years, he said. | might be made. repeated,” Power said, “and be broad- | The National Scene ened to include Spring wheat seed, of | BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. which there threatens to be a serious shortage.” He said it was too early to estimate VERLY HILLS, August 12.—The idea of a conference be- B tween the President and the Governors of States in the drought area is an excellent one and Gov. Landon ime the amount of seed corn and wheat the Government might have to acquire. mediately signified his approval of the project and his intention of attending. Nona.of the holdings, he said, would A candidate for the presidency, or a President- be supplied to farmers as gifts. “Those who will need assistance in elect, should at least be on conference terms with the President, whom he may or will suc- obtaining seed are hard up,” he added. | “but they will be able to pay for it, | and any seed provided through the Government will be sold on a cash basis.” ceed. If Mr. Roosevelt had accepted Mr. Hoover's invitation to confer in the Winter of 1933, bank failures that wiped out the savings of millions of citizens might have been averted. Conference between the President and his leading opponent will set a wholesome precedent, but the immediate results in dealing with the drought and its consequences are the really ime portant features of the forthcoming conference. Gov. Landon has had a life time of experience in a State peculiarly subject to lack of rainfall. This experience placed at the disposal of the present administration may prevent a repetition of such agricultural blunders as have characterized the New Deal regime up to date. (Copyright. 1936.) H. M. DAWES SURRENDERS Gives Bond in Connection With U. 8. 0il Indictments. CHICAGO, August 12 (#).—Henry M. Dawes, president of the Pure Oil Co. and & brother of former Vice President Charles G. Dawes, has sur- rendered to United States Marshal Willlam H. MeDonnell in connec- tion with his indictment with 83 other indviduals and corporations on charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust law. Dawes was released in $5,000 bond by United States Commissioner Edwin K. Walker, pending hearing, August 14, on removal proceedings to Madison, Wis., where the indictments were re- | mfl.w I Alice Longworth.