Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1936, Page 3

LANDON ITINERARY WEST ANNOUNCED 15 Platform Appearances Added to 30 on His East- bound Swing. Br (ke Associated Press. “ESTES PARK, Colo., August 15.— Gov. Alf M. Landon issued today an {tinerary of the return leg of his first presidential campaign tour, adding 15 platform appearances in Illinois and Missouri to more than 30 scheduled for the eastbound part of the trip. ‘The Republican presidential nomi- nee will board a train for Topeka, Kans,, the night of August 26, shortly after completing his Buffalo, N. Y., speech, the last of three billed for the initial trek of his campaign. Arriving in Chicago after an over- night ride, the candidate will make 11. appearances in Illinois and 4 in Missouri August 27, winding up at Topeka shortly before midnight. First Speech August 22. Landon will make stops in Cole- rado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and ©Ohio on his way East for his first speech August 22 at West Middlesex, Pa., his birthplace. His second speech will be made at Chautauqua, N. Y, August 24. As on the eastbound leg of the eross-country trip which he will start August 20 no appearance was plan- ned at Chicago. Taking a south- ‘western course through Illinois, the Kansan will make a 40-minute halt at Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln was buried. Aides said the stops, with the exception of Springfield, Ill., would average three minutes. Virtually rid of a slight cold he con- tracted at Topeka last week, Landon looked forward to next week, when he planned to devote some time to his favorite sports—fishing and horse- | back riding. Attend Shakespearean Plays. Last night the Governor and Mrs. | Landon drove to Estes Park to attend ; a presentation of scenes from Shake- | spearean plays directed by Mrs. Henry | Doorly, wife of the publisher of the | Omaha, Nebr.,, World-Herald. The return itinerary: Leave Buffalo at 10 pm., Eas(ern" standard time. August 26: arrive | Joliet, TIl.. 9 am.: arrive Dwight, 9:48 | a.m.; arrive Pontiac, 10:14 am.: ar- rive Bloomington, 11:02 am.; arrive Lincoln, 11:40 am.; arrive Spnng-‘v field, 12:13 p.m,, and depart at 12:53 | p.m.; arrive Virden, 1:28 p.m.; arrive | | portion of every 24 hours in the Ev ine Associated Press. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y, August 15.— Following is the text of President Roosevelt's speech last night As many of you who are here to- night know, I formed the excellent habit of coming to Chautauqua more than 20 years ago. After my inaugu- ration in 1933, I promised Mr. Bestor that during the next four years I would come to Chautauqua again; it is in fulfillment of this that I am with you tonight. A few days ago 1 was asked what the subject of this talk would be; and I replied that for two good reasons I wanted to discuss the sub- ject of peace; first, because it is eminently appropriate in Chautaugua and, secondly, because in the hurly- burly of domestic politics it is im- portant that our people should not overlook problems and issues which, though they lie beyond our borders, may, and probably will, have a vital influence on the United States of the future. . Many who have visited me in Wash- ington in the past few months may have been surprised when I have told them that personally and because of my own daily contacts with all man- ner of difficult situations I am more concerned and less cheerful about in- ternational world conditions than about our immediate domestic pros- pects. I Hopes for New Tide of Peace. 1 say this to you not as a con- firmed pessimist but as one who still hopes that envy, hatred and malice among nations have reached their peak and will be succeeded by a new tide of peace and good will—I say this as one who has participated in many of the decisions of peace and war before, during and after the World War, one who has traveled | much and one who has spent a goodly | study of foreign relations. Long before I returned to Wash- ington as President of the United States I had made up my mind that pending what might be called a more | opportune moment on other conti- nents the United States could best serve the cause of a peaceful humanity by setting an example. That was why on March 4, 1933, I made the follow- ing declaration: “In the field of world policy I| would dedicate this Nation to the| policy of the good neighbor—the | neighbor who resolutely respects him- Carlinville, 2:01 pm.; arrive Alton, 2:38 pm.; arrive Granite City, 3:01 | p.m.; arrive East St. Louis, 3:21 pm.; | arrive St. Louis, Mo., 3:55 p.m.; ar- | rive Washington. Mo., 5:10 pm.; ar- | rive Jefferson City, 6:25 p.m.; arrive | Sedalia, 7:55 pm: arrive Warrens- burg, 8:23 pm.; arrive Kansas City, 10:13 pm.; arrive Topeka, 11:45 p.m. HAMILTON SPEAKS TONIGHT. Promises to “Go Into the Issues” at Hollywood Bowl. By tne Associated Press. | LOS ANGELES, August 15.—John Hamilton, Republican National Com- mittee chairman, promised today to “go into the issues” of the presiden- tial campaign at Hollywood Bowl | tonight. It seats about 20,000. | Before the bowl rally, Hamilton will lead an old-time torchlight parade down Hollywood Boulevard, the film colony’s main street. Crash self and because he does so re- spects the rights of others—the neigh- bor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agree- ments in and with a world of neigh- bors.” We Seek no Conquest. ‘This declaration represents my pur- | pose; but it represents more than a | purpose, for it stands for & practice. To a measurable degree it has suc- | ceeded; the whole world now knows | that the United States cherishes no| predatory ambitions. We are strong: | but less powerful nations know that | they need not fear our strength. We| seek no conquests; we stand for peace. | In the whole of the Western Hemis- | phere our good neighbor policy has produced results that are especially heartening. ‘ The noblest monument to peace and to neighborly economic and social | friendship in all the world is not a | monument in bronze or stone, but the boundary which unites the United | States and Canada—3.000 miles of friendship with no barbed wire, no THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. “I hate war.” There were Text of Roosevelt’s Chautauqua Speech President Reiterates Good Neighbor Policy and Denounces .Makers of War and Breakers ¢f Pledges in Appeal for Peace. the words being spoken slowly, solemnly by President Roosevelt when this photograph was snapped in the Chautauqua, N. Y., amphitheater last night. was a bitter end—In the work of the general disarmament conference. When it failed we sought a separate treaty to deal with the manufacture of arms and the international traf- fic in arms. That proposal also came to nothing. We participated—again to the bitter end—in a conference to continue naval limitations, and when it became evident that na general treaty could be signed because of the objections of other nations, we con- cluded with Great Britain and France a conditional treaty of qualitative lim- itation which, much to my regret, a ready shows signs of ineffectiveness. We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars; we avoid connection with the political activities of the League of Nations; but I am glad to say that | we have co-operated wholeheartedly |in the social and humanitarian work | | at Geneva. Thus we are a part of the | tunately, their views would get wide | world effort to control traffic in nar- | publicity—that if they could produce | Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. it produces disaster. It was the pros- pect of war profits that made our farmers in the West plow up prairie land that should never have been plowed, but should have been left for grazing cattle. Today we are reaping the harvest of those war C, JEALOUSY BLAMED FOR GIRL'S DEATH Slashes Throat and Plunges From Window After Hit- ting Man With Ax. ¥y it Associated Press. WESTMINSTER., Md., August 15. —Police blamed jealousy for an ax attack on & man and the death of & girl in a 49-foot plunge yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Waiter Shipley said the man, John Hyde, told him Miss Grace Lippy attacked him with the ax, attempted to hang herself, cut her throat and dropped from the fire escape of her own apartment. Naming the motive as the girl's Jealousy, Deputy Shipley added: “That's what the man told me. He said he'd been paying attentions to this girl and he stepped out on her with another lady and she found it out.” Dr. Clifford Taylor sald Hyde had a fractured skull. He sent him to & Baltimore hospital for further treat- ment. Shipley said the ax was a new one, apparently bought a few hours before the tragedy. With the ax wrapped in paper, he said, the girl phoned Hyde, operator of a quarry, from a confec- tionery store. Ann Voght, clerk in the store, said Miss Lippy appeared “in a daze” when the clerk noted the wrapped object and asked her if she were going o play tennis. Over the telephone the girl asked Hyde to come to her apartment. He said that when he arrived she asked him to open & window. While he was at the window, Shipley said Hyde told him, the girl struck him with the axe, knocking him unconscious. When he recovered, the deputy quoted him as saying, Miss Lippy was hanging in| | the doorway from a short length of | sash cord. He told Shipley he cut| | the body down and went to get aid.| { Throat Was Slashed. | ‘The policeman said that when Hyde’ returned, he said he found her with | her throat cut. profits in the duststorms which have devastated those war plowed areas. It was the prospect of war profits that caused the extension of monop- oly and unjustified expansion of in- dustry and a price level so high that the normal relationship belween debtor and creditor was destroyed. Nevertheless, if war should break out again in another continent, let us not blink the fact that we would find in this country thousands of Americans who, seeking immediate riches—fools’ gold—would attempt to break down or evade our neutrality. They would tell you—and, unfor- ask aid. When he returned. he found | | the girl was gone. She lay on the | ground 40 feet below the window of | her apartment. | | Shipley said the girl died a few | seconds after he arrived on the scene. | He saw that her throat was cut and | climbed the fire escape leading to her apartment. The rooms were blood- | spattered but empty. At the door, the deputy said, he saw Hyde, covered | with blood, climbing the steps on his | | hands and knees. | | The girl, 26, was an employe of a | | shoe factory here. Her family live on | the outskirts of the town. Hyde, 45, | was & widower. Magistrate Sherman E, Pllnlnnt‘ cotics, to improve international health, | and ship this and that and the other | ¢MPanelled a coroner's jury, which | to help child welfare, to eliminate double taxation and to better work- ing conditions and laboring hours throughout the world. Not Isolationists. We are not isiolationists except in 50 far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must re- member that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the nation which most ardently | desires peace may be drawn into war. I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors | gun or soldier, and no passport on the | of & regiment of 1,000 that went for- (Con tinued From First Page.) whole frontier. | Mutual trust made that frontier— to extend the same sort of mutual ward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate when a friend shouted an invitation ' trust throughout the Americas was War. to ride home by automobile. hot witness the accident. He did our aim. | The American Republics to the I have passed unnumbered hours, 1 shall pass unnumbered hours. think- Joseph Richot, who owns & garage south of us have been ready always|iNg and planning how war may be near the crossing, was the first 0 to co-operate with the United States | kept from this Nation. reach the scene. He organized a crew | on a basis of equality and mutual | 1 wish I could keep war from all of rescue workers, and aided by the | respect, but before we inaugurated the | Dations; but that is beyond my pow- train crew and police, pulled many ' good neighbor policy there was among | €f- I can at least make certain that bodies from the wreckage. The injured were taken to the | Three Rivers Hospital, 15 miles east | of Louiseville. Dr. Thomas Caron, coroner, began an immediate investigation. 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Don't C: cars. assistants 1400 Chapin 11th | days I had learned many lessons in them resentment and fear, because certain administrations in Washing- ton had slighted their national pride | and their sovereign rights. i In pursuance of the good-neighbor | policy, and because in my younger the hard school of experience, I stated that the United States was opposed definitely to armed intervention. Abandon Platt Amendment. We have negotiated a pan-Ameri- | an convention embodying the prin- ciple of non-intervention. We have abandoned the Platt amendment which gave us the right to intervene in the internal affairs of the Republic of Cuba. We have withdrawn Ameri- can Marines from Haiti. We have signed a new treaty which places our relations with Panama on a mutually satisfactory basis. We have under- taken a series of trade agreements with other American countries to our mutual commercial profit. At the request of two neighboring republics, I hope to give assistance in the’final settlement of the last serious bounds- ry dispute between any of the Ameri- can mnations. ‘Throughout the Americas the spirit of the good neighbor is a practical and living fact. The 21 American republics are not only living together in friendship and peace; they are united in the determination so to re- main. To give substance to this determina- tion a conference will meet on De- cember 1, 1936, at the capitol of our great southern neighbor, Argentina, and it is, I know, the hope of all chiefs of state of the Americas that this will result in measures which will banish wars forever from this vast portion of the earth. Peace, like charity, begins at home; that is why we have begun at home. But peace in the Western World is not all that we seek. It is our hope that knowledge of the practical application of the good- neighbor policy in this hemisphere will be borne home to our neighbors across the seas. For ourselves we are on good ‘terms with them—terms in most cases of straightforward friendship, of peaceful understanding. i Must Respect Pledges. But. of necessity, we are deeply concerned about tendencies of recent years among many of the nations of other continents. It is a bitter ex- perience to us when the spirit of agreements to which we are a party is not lived up to. It is an even more bitter experience for the whole com- pany of nations to witness net only the spirit but the letter of interna- tional agreements violated with im- punity and without regard to the simple principles of honor. Perma- nent friendships between nations as between men can be sustained only by word. In spite of all this we have sought steadfastly to assist international movements to prevent war. We co- ste “insurance money." th 25 years' experience. Lin- b(openml to the bitter end—and .At no act of the United States helps to produce or to promote war. I can at least make clear that the conscience i of America revolts against war and that any nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States. Many Causes for War. Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent fron- tiers, the ‘legacy of old, forgotten, far- | off things, and battles long ago.” There are new-born fanaticisms, convictions on the part of certain people that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right. A dark old world was devastated by wars between conflicting religions. A dark modern world faces wars between conflicting economic and political fanaticisms in which are intertwined race hatreds. To bring it home, it is as if within the territorial limits of the United States, 48 nations with 48 forms of government, 48 customs bar- riers, 48 languages and 48 eternal and different verities, were spending their time and their substance in a frenzy of effort to make themselves strong enough to conquer their neighbors or strong enough to defend themselves against their neighbors. In one field, that of economic bar- riers, the American policy may be, I hope, of some assistance in discourag- ing the econcmic source of war and therefore a contribution toward the peace of the world. The trade agree- ments which we are making are not only finding outlets for the products of American fields and American fac- tories, but are also pointing the way to the elimination of embargoes, quotas and other devices which place such pressure on nations not possess- ing great natural resources that to them the price of peace seems less terrible than the price of war. We do not maintain that a more liberal international trade will stop war, but we fear that without a more liberal international trade war is a natural sequence. Congress Has Given Power. The Congress of the United States has given me certain authority to provide safeguards of American neu- trelity in case of war, The President of the United States, who, under our Constitution, is vested with primary authority to conduct our international relations, thus has been given new weapons with which to maintain our neutrality. Nevertheless—and I speak from a long experience—the effective main- tenance of American neutrality de- pends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment occupy the offices of President and Secretary of State. It is clear that our present policy and the measures passed by the Con- gress would in the event of a war on scrupulous respect for the pledged | some other continent reduce war profits which would octherwise accrue to American citizens. Industrial and agricultural production for a war mar- ket may give immense fortunes to a few men; twflumu,:whnh | article to belligerent nations the un- employed of America would all find work. They would tell you that if they could extend credit to warring nations that credit would be used in the United States to build homes and factories and pay our debts. They would tell you that America once more would capture the trade of the world. Hard to Realize Penalties. It would be hard to resist that | clamor; it would be hard for many | Americans, I fear, to look bevond— | to realize the inevitable penaities, the | inevitable day of reckoning that comes from a false prosperity. To resist the | clamor of that greed, if war should come, would require the unswerving support of all Americans who love | peace. If we face the choice of profits or peace, the Nation will answer—must answer—"we choose peace.” It is the | duty of all of us to encourage such a body of public opinion in this country | that the answer will be clear and for all practical purposes unanimous. | With that wise and experienced man | Who is our Secretary of State, whose statesmanship has met with such wide | approval, I have thought and worked | long and hard on the problem of keep- ing the United States at peace. But | all the wisdom of America is not to be | found in the White House or in the | Department of State; we need the meditation, the prayer and the posi- tive support of the people of America who go along with us in seeking peace. No matter how well we are supported by neutrality legislation, we must re- ‘member that no laws can be provided | to cover every contingency, for it is impossible to imagine how every future event may shape itself. In spite of every possible forethought, interna- tional relations involve of necessity a vast uncharted area. In that area | safe salling will depend on the knowl- edge and the experience and the wis- dom of those who direct our foreign policy. Peace will depend on their day-to-day decisions. At this late date, with the wisdom which is s0 easy after the event and so difficult before the event, we find it possible to trace the tragic series of | small decisions which led Europe into the great war in 1914 and eventually engulfed us and many other nations. Most Singularly Blessed. | who watch and decide have a suffi- ciently detailed understanding of in- ternational affairs to make certain that the small decisions of each day do not lead toward war and if, at the same time, they possess the courage to say “no” to those who selfishly or unwisely would let us go to war. Of all the nations of the world to- day we are in many ways most sing- ularly blessed. Our closest neighbors are good neighbors. If there are re- moter nations that wish us not good, but ill, they know that we are strong; they know that we can and will defend ourselves and defend our neighborhood. ‘We seek to dominate no other na- tion. We ask no territorial expansion. We oppose imperialism. We desire re- duction in world armaments. We believe in democracy; we believe in freedom; we believe in peace. We offer to every nation of the world the handclasp of the good neighbor. Let those who wish our friendship look us in the eye and take our hand. ARMY AND NAVY CLUB EMBEZZLING CONFESSED Hartford, Conn., police said yester- day a man identifying himself as Charles F. Daley, 28, walked into police headquarters Thursday night and con- fessed he embezzled $1,600 last year from the Army and Navy Club here, according to the Associated Press. Daley reportedly said he had been employed as a bookkeeper at the club and took the money on October 28, 1935. For the past three months, he bhad been employed as a clerk at a Hartford hotel, he said. AS the Army and Navy Club it was said the loss had been covered by insurance. % o | We can keep out of war if those | viewed the body before releasing it | for burial. The formal inquest will not be held until Hyde is sufficiently recovered to attend. | { | , Accidents | | (Continued From First Page.) ' | ’Nalionl] Capital Junior Lodge of Odd | Fellows and was an accomplished | | musician. | | His father is with the estimating | and planning division at the navy | | yard. His grandfather, John Windsor, | | retired navy yard employe, is at | | the Nicholson street home, while the | grandmother and parents are at their Summer cottage. | In another fatal highway accident vesterday, Margaret Magruder, 15, | colored. Rockville, Md., was killed on | | the Rockville Pike by an automobile | | police said was driven by John M. | | Franks, Easton, Pa. She died of a | fractured skull in Montgomery Coun- | |ty General Hospital, Sandy Spring, | | Md, a few minutes after the Rock- | ville fire rescue squad took her there. iwunm told police she had walked | from behind & truck into the side of | Franks' car. Other suburban accidents yesterday |and early today resulted in injuries :!o Horace W. Daniels, 19. Berwyn, | { Md.; Effie Jones, 39, of 115 Fifth | | street southeast, and Edward Chaney, 131, of 1417 North Carolina avenue | northeast. Daniels’ car was in collision with one driven by Michael Bosma, Ber- | wyn, in front of the Hyattsville High School. The youth received severe cuts on the right elbow and chin, He was treated at Providence Hospital. Chaney and Miss Jones received head cuts in an automobile accident |on the Marlboro pike, east of Upper Marlboro. They were taken to Casualty Hospital. Three Minor Accidents. In the District, meanwhile, only three accidents were reported, none of them serious. One victim was Grant Bigham, 67, of 21 Rhode Island avenue northeast, who was hit by a street car on Pennsylvania avenue near Fifteenth street late yes- terday. The car was operated by I. C. Burnett, 55, of 1609 D street south- | east. Bigham was treated at Emer- gency Hospital for scalp and back injuries. Kenneth L. Heflin, 5, of 205 Ninth street southeast, received a disiocated right shoulder when struck by an au- tomobile last night in front of his home. He was treated at Casualty. James R. Corly, 34, of 1824 Third street southeast, was the driver. The third accident, at Anacostia Toad and G street southeast, injured two small colored children and a | young colored woman, passengers in an automobile driven by Jerome War- ren, 35, of 2001 Rosedale street north- east. Warren and the other driver, Horace S. Rodgers, 17, of 100 Fourth street northeast, were uninjured. The colored trio, treated at Gallinger Hospital for cuts and bruises, were Lenore Wilson, 24; Julian Lee Roman, 2, and Theodore McDuffie, 11, all of 4021 Benning road northeast. Virginian Wins Debate. George K. Brandt, 4402 North Six- teenth gtreet, Arlington, Va., has been announced as winner in the contest sponsored by Leeth Bros., tire dealers, to determine whether the best tires on a car should be placed in front or back for. safety's sake. He argued that the best tires should be in front. WHERE TO DINE. SATURDAY, 'AUGUST 15, | pool. 1936. Dies in Plunge GRACE LIPPY. —A, P. Photo. GREWS KEEP GRIP ON FOREST FIRES Flames Generally Under Control, After Sweeping Minnesota Area. By he Associated Press. ST. PAUL, August 15.—Work-worn fire fighters generally held the upper nand in their Jong battle against for- est blazes today, but at several points flames raged out of control. A conflagration raged unchecked near McGrath, Minn. It swept over 7.000 acres of countryside which Deputy State Forester A. E. Oppel described as “desertlike” and with- out rain for months. Father north another fire was re- scenic Isle Royale, 20 miles out in Lake Superior, four planes directed a force of 1800 men against flames that have ravaged more than 27,000 acres, but favorable progress was re- ported. Fires that had sped swiftly along the tops of trees were chiefly confined to the ground in the wake of a light rain. Light to heavy showers—with more predicted—provided a welcome breath- ing spell for the thousands of men on the Minnesota fire lines. : Merger (Continued From fir;t Page.) may be augmented by some of the stafl of the Racquet Club, it was said. The University Club, in assuming the liabilities of the Racquet Club, also will take over an option on the out- standing bonds on the building. These bonds run until January 1, 1945. Reorganized Year Ago. A year ago the Racquet Club was reorganized under Section 77B of the bankruptcy act, which reduced the interest rate on $540,000 of outstand- ing bonds from 6'; to 3 per cent. These bonds at present are being of- fered at 40 per cent of face value and it is understood the University Club option is at this level. There is a mortgage of $103.000 on the University Club building. This mortgage is in the name of the Uni- versity Club Building Corp., 75 per cent of the corporation stock being held by the club. The five-story stone club building is to be offered for sale at $400,000, it is understood. The Southern Rail- way is understood to have offered $625.000 for the property in 1827, at the time it was acquiring land for its new building. It is said that the Gov- ernment has tentatively offered to lease the building at a rental of $32.- 000 & vear. The building was erected in 1914 and provides 28 sets of living quarters. The much larger and newer Racquet Club building probably will undergo remodeling as soon as the merger plan is voted upon. The Uni- versity Club has a ladies’ dining room and lounge and these features will be | in the Racquet Club, | incorporated which has always been a men's ath- letic club. Dining room facilities will be enlarged, a ladies’ vided on the first floor, and a cafeteria installed on the second floor. A small lbrary probably will replace one of the four squash courts. Many Athletic Facilities. The Racquet Club has swimming bowling alleys, gymnssium, steam rooms and other athletic facili- ties. It is a seven-story building with 104 bed rooms. it.is to have 96 bed rooms, eight of the present number being converted into offices and storage - space. The University Club now has 525 resident members and is expected to gain about 100 members from the | | Racquet Club. ‘The merger plan is to come up be- fore the University Club for vote next | Friday and before the Racquet Club membership at about the same ttme. “We expect some criticism and per- haps there may be some minor changes in the plan,” it was explained by officials of the University Club, “but there is every assurance the main features of the plan will be sdopted.” It is hoped moving of the Uni- versity Club to its new quarters may begin by September 15. ON THE BEACH AT GLEN ECHO CRYSTAL POOL YOU CAN GET YOUR SUN TAN. SKYLAND SUNDAY EXCURSIONS 32 Mi of Mountain Scenery Across the Shenandoahs Going—Leave BUS CENTER 8:30 AM. Returning—Due BUS CENTER 7:25 P.M. Round Trip Fare, $3.50 ~jekets and Information BUS CENTER 609 Penna. Ave. N.W. Dlistrict 4224 %3 A3 COUNTY TO CHECK | SPLIT DECISIONS SURPLUS WORKERS Arlington Board Hears of, Plans to Drop Unneeded | Employes. 87 ¢ Staff Correspondent of The 3tar. | ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., | August 15—A complete check of all county departments and their person- nel will be made in a move to elimi nate all unnecessary employes from | the county’s pay roll, County Manager Frank C. Hanrahan advised the| County Board at its meeting yesterday. In a discussion led by Board Mem- land Chew, it was pointed out that the county could save money by re- ducing its forces where possible. Ames called attention to the fact listed on this month’s pay roll. Chew said he was opposed to the | of paying employes hired by depart- has been approved by the county | manager. County Manager Hanrahan said ;hh check will determine the status of all present employes as to whether their positions are permanent or temporary. He also announced he will hold weekly conferences with the ing September 1. False Alarm Rewards Offered. The board voted a standing reward of $50 for information leading to | the arrest and conviction of any per- |son wilfully turning in a false fire l;alarm, fter its attention was called !'to faci that & number of false alarms ;hn\e been reported recently. | In line with a petition signed by property owners near Thrifton and | the recommendation of the Zoning | Board of Appeal, the County Board | denied the request of the Washington | & Old Dominion Railroad to rezone 1135 acres of its right of way near He went again to | ported out of hand near Skeybo. On | Thrifton Station for light industrial use. The board voted to install a com- | plete oil-burning heating system for the court house and its new annex | at a cost of $11,500. Contract for the work was awarded the Colonial Fuel Oil Co. Present boilers in the old court house will be used. | Parking Authority Approved. new ordinance which gives County Manager Hanrahan and Sheriff Howard B. Fields authority | to make general and specific regula- | tions for the parking of automobiles | in_the county was adopted The monthly pay roll of $57,509.62 | was approved. | A report was received from County Treasurer Charles T. Jesse, which showed that $64,251 of delinquent 1934 real estate taxes has been collected to date this year, leaving an uncollected balance of $56.085.45. The treasurer's report also showed he has collected $473,667.77 in 1935 real estate taxes to date from the total levy of $583,552.81 | Members of the board commended the treasurer for his report and promised co-operation in any plan to force further collections of back taxes. bers Willlam P. Ames and F. Free- | there were more than 200 employes | practice that has been carried out | ;mem heads before their employment | heads of all county departments start- | INMICHEAN VAR “Reds” and “Blues” Claim Victory as High Command Sifts Opinions. By the Associated Press, ALLEGAN, Mich., August 15.—As spirited an argument as ever followed a split decision in a close base ball game raged today among the 150 um- pires assigned to the West Michigan war games, ‘The second Army’s high command sifted opinions of its 150 arbiters in &n attempt to discover who “won” the first extensive engagement between the “red” and “blue” armies. The general outlines of the “battle” remained the same, with the 32d Division firm in its position on the northern sector and the 33d striving to reorganize its interior elements to the south. On the “red” side, horse Cavalry con= tinued to attack on tie northern flank: Infantry, backed by artillery, pressed against the center, and the mechanized Cavalry made numerous raids from its Selkirk Lake quarters against the southern flank. ‘These points were agreed upon by th= umpires: That there was action all along the front line from Swan Lake to Diamond Springs, that the “Red” mechanized units swept the right flank of the 33d Division and worked havoc with its service of sup- ply and that “somebody” theoretically blew up the Allegan Municipal Power Dam. There the agreements ended. The “Reds” claim they captured the 6th Corps headquarters at Fenaville, whereas the 6th Corps claims it turned all its weapons on the armored cars and theoretically annihilated the “enemy.” “Blues” contend they theoretically dynamited the Allegan Dam to im- pede the “Red” advance, the “Reds” say they captured the dam and then blew it up and a third school of thought holds that a “Blue” detach= ment blew up the dam by mistaze. Tallest Physician. Dr. Med Dpierenburg of Rotterdam, Holland, is believed to be the talle:t physician in the world, his height be- ing 6 feet 9!, inches, BLAN BOOKS E. Morrison Paper Co. 1009 Pa. Ave. Phone NA. 2945 When you need Blaic Books, run right to Morrison’s. We have them. All prices, AL SHEA AND NEW YORKERS A AT Boulevard Farms 7 COURSE CHICKEN DINNER $'| VA. STYLE MT. VERNON BLVD. 5'. MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDRIA. ‘ Houses W ANTED For Sale or Rent—Furnished or Untfurnished SH it with us. 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