Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1936, Page 2

A2 THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936. PRESIDENT MAPS | [Woashington] [GREENURGESDRIVE - CAMPAIGN TALKS Due.to Make First Major -Political Address at Syra- ~-guse September 29, BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Now that President Roosevelt has - peturned from the drought area and given a personal accounting of his ob- servations to the people of the Nation, he s expected to turn his attention this week to making out a definite program for his personal activities between now and election day. It is known that Mr. Roosevelt has & fairly good idea of the nature of his campaign plans, but he has been s0 busy with other problems he has not had time to work out details. According to an authoritative source, the President has tentatively fixed September 29 for a major political ad- dress before the Democratice State Convention in Syracuse, N. Y. This has not yet been formally announced by the Wnite House. The President will hit the road again tomorrow night for a brief journey into the South, primarily for the purpose of addressing a gathering gt Cherlotte, N. C.. Thursday. He will not travel directly to Charlotte, but will go to Knoxville, Tenn., and moter from there to Charlotte. Non-Political” Talk at Rally. Mr. Roosevelt contends the Char- lotte gathering has no political as- pects. Those in charge of it have billed it as the “green pastures rally,” and have invited organizations from six States to participate. This prob- ®bly will be Mr. Roosevelt’s last op- portunity to deiiver a major address in the so-called Solid South during the remainder of the campaign. The President will return to Wash- ington Friday and will address the more than 3,000 delegates to the ‘Third World Power Conference here. ‘That night or Saturday he again will «leave Washington, this time for a . brief stay at his Hyde Park, N. Y, homae. Mr. Roosevelt will go to Cambridge September 18 to attend Harvard's | tercentenary celebration and make -an address. He will return immedi- ately afterward to Hyde Park and ~remain there until the convention in « Byracuse, E To Cross Country. » Prom Syracuse the President is ex- .pected to start on his tour across the _country, which will carry him into »Pacific Coast States and virtually Levery State in the West and Middle West. * Mr. Roosevelt appeared in splendid health when he arrived at the White “House yesterday from his 6,000-mile “drought-inspection trip. He was especially gratified today “by the tone of the many telegrams he received from all parts of the “country congratulating him on his “radio address last night. “DRUG FIRM’S TRAIN * IS ON EXHIBIT HERE B s Latest Features of Transportation Reported Embodied in Equipment. A 12-car train embodying the newest features in transportation will reach +Washington tomorrow on a 29,000-mile Jrip through the United States and Canada and be opened to the public at Union Station. The visiting hours ‘will be from 10:30 a.m. until 12:15 pm. and from 2:30 to 9 pm. Louis K. Liggett, president of the United Drug Co., conceived the idea | of the tour, which is taking place of the customary convention of the 10,000 United agents. It permits gatherings at 109 cities, instead of bringing all the dealers together at one site. New York Central equipment is being used, the train being made up of articulated cars and pulled by an Joil-burning 350-ton-streamlined loco- -motive. This bears little resemblance to the regulation engine, being fash- doned rather along the lines of those used on the new-style electric trains in the West. Four cars are carrying exhibits and two are used for lectures. These latter, with a lounge car, are cleared at night for dancing to music fur- nished by the orchestra the train is carrying. g Pedestrian Robbed. Robert C. Dinslow, 3133 Connecti- eut avenue, was attacked by two colored men, dragged into a dark doorway and robbed of a $15 watch early yesterday while walking in the 1300 block of U street. Itvin S. Cobb Says: At Last I've Found a Sure Way to Re- duction. SANTA BARBARA, Calif.. Septem- ber 7.—Ever since the day when I was known among rfiends as Thyroid Deficiency Irvy, the human detour, I've fought the losing fight against over- ‘weight. 1 tried dieting and became the “best friend the “American spin- “ach industry ever knew. yet had only to turn my head to brag and T regained, prac- tically mstantan- taneously, what T'd lost. I exer- cised until I had ‘the fjitters, but “when I'd taken off half a pound it ‘bounced right back while the doctors “were reviving me. < I'd get rid of one extra chin—the #hird one from the bottom—and then 4f I relaxed vigilance for one week 'd be so plumped out again that only Bebby Jones could go around me in 4Lour strokes without using the mashie aiblick. So flinally I said, what's he use of resisting fate (the “e” sil- ent)? ~ But now I've found the absolutely goértain cure for reduction. It's Morking in a moving picture with dittle Jane Withers. When she sets Ahe pace you can track yourself back Jome by your own perspiration. An- pther engagement with Janie and I Jould be rented out as my own liv- ‘ng_skeleton. Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. PENNIES. HAT not all of the bookkeeping done by Uncle Sam is in bil- lions is revealed by informa- tion from. Treasury officials that over 700 checks for exactly 1 cent have been mailed to veterans as bonus payments. These bookkeeping oddities result from the complex formula governing bonus payments. Veterans are paid with $50 bonds, odd amounts over or less than that sum being paid by check. Thus, if the Government owes a veteran $50.01 he receives a bond and a check for 1 cent. According to Treasury officials most of the veterans cash these checks, | although some frame them to keep as souvenirs. Occassionally other debts paid by Uncle Sam have amounted to the same sum. The most famous recipient of a 1-cent check was Grover Cleve- land. The check was sent to him in 1898 after his second term in the White House when it was discovered that through a bookkeeping error the former President had been under- paid by that amount. The check was never cashed, and today 1t is in the hands of the Cleve- land family. The entry may be read on the Treasury’s record book of outstanding claims for that year. The figure “10” cluttered up the life of @ Washington scribe in an odd way the other night. It was his tenth anniversary, and he and his wife went out to cele- brate. The celebration, however, was cut short rather early in the evening, because they simply had to get home to give the mewest baby its 10 o’clock feeding. ® ox x x MISLAID. An artist whose absent-mindedness has provided about 30 per cent of the amusement in the lives of his asso- ciates for the last couple of decades hit a new high in mental mistiness | the other day. | His wife, who plays the role of the woman he calls up to say he won't | be home to dinner, gave him quite & | start when she failed to answer the 10 CONTROL HOURS Calls for New Campaign to Increase Purchasing Power of Nation, By the Associated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., September T—Willlam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, last night called for a new national effort to regulate hours of work and increase purchasing power. Emphasizing the “mental and moral deterioration” caused by unemploy- ment, he declared in a Labor day ra- dio address that there was an “ines- capable duty of so organizing our production plans and rules that no one shall be crowded out of normal employment.” “Substantial progress had been made toward this end under the na- tional recovery act until that prog- ress was halted by the Supreme Court,” he said. “New ways must be found to accomplish this purpose along the lines of regulation of the hours of work and increasing purchasing power for the lower income groups so that production can be expanded to a scale that would provide the comforts of life for all.” Ignores Rift in A. F. of L. Green made no mention of the rift in the American Federation of Labor over issues raised by John L. Lewis. He spoke mostly of things needed to aid labor in general. He urged “Government assistance for low-cost housing, both as an in- vestment in national welfare and as & method of putting building trades- men back to work.” Proclaiming a need for *social se- curity,” Green asserted that although “present provisions may be inade- quate and incomplete,” they repre- sented an important advance on the part of labor. He added: “The passage of the social security act authorized the development of income reserves to provide against emergencies likely to happen to all wage earners. Gradually these pro- visions must be strengthened and ex- panded.” | The labor leader termed the right | to collective bargaining “the only key | to those fundamental liberties that | mean ownership on one's own labor | power.” Free Unions, Free Speech. “The degree to which there is free- dom for wage earners to organize in | unions of their own choosing and that phone. “That’s funny,” the artist said, turning from the phone to the man | at the next board. “Mighty funny. | She's usually home." The associate suggested the artist think of other places the wife might be. The latter did. He began to call | the homes of other relatives and | friends, finally locating the wife at the home of her father. “That’s funny," $e said to the as- | sociate at the end of the phone chat, “I should have remembered that. I took her over there this morning, myself.” ' x x | CLOPPETY-CLOP. }IAV! you ever noticed that some street cars hum (in the sense of noise, not speed) while others go along just making the standard noises of such vehicles? The humming kind gets that way | from a block of emery attached to | the wheel, the emery serving to grind | the wheel back into round as the car goes about its business of taking ‘Washingtonians hither and yon. It is much simpler to correct a flat wheel that way than any other the street car company has found; simpler and a lot less expensive. Now, perhaps you'd like to know just what it is that flattens out street car wheels. Almost invariably, it is due to the sudden application of the brakes. It has been figured out, very scien- tifically, that the cloppety-clop of & flat wheel is harder on the human ear than the hum of a wheel to which an emery block has been attached. Now you should know all about street cars. %k QUESTION. POLICBMAN A. STANLEY. MOREAU knows that the “show ; me” quality still lives in people from Missouri, A car bearing Missouri tags came to a stop beside Moreau yesterday. Its occupants obviously wanted to ask directions. Moreau went over. o wweerd e G M “Officer,” began the Missourian, “I'm a stranger here and I'd like you to direct me to the Federal Building.” “The Pederal Building,” countered joreau. “Sure,” said the stranger, “the one where the G-men hang out.” * ok ox % 37 VARIETIES. When you set a record, keep the news to yourself, or it is sure to be M freedom is accepted by employers and { the agents of organized society, to that degree has fundamental freedom | been established in the country,” he | “Where there are free unions, free- | dom of speech and press are also un- molested. If labor would be free, there must be freedom for all and demo- cratic freedom that makes possible {the greatest opportunity for the greatest number.” Demanding that “adult education opportunities should be freely avail- able to wage earners,” Green declared that “no cleavages are quite so irre- | trievable or o basic as those founded | | on differences in educational oppor- | tunities.” Landon (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) not serious, as yet. B It would be tragic it should become serious. The It is made up of men of all been, the great war taught us to like and respect each other, as good sol- diers and good Americans. We are, therefore, in a position and we have the responsibility to oppose every move to capitalize intolerance, to break up the country into hostile groups. Also, we must insist upon the ican freedom, and above all the free- dom of expression. So long as we have freedom of expression, and a free exchange of deas, many of our most themselves. We of the Legion must stand today, in peace, as we stood yesterday, in war, for one flag—one united Nation. Secondly, I want to emphasize the duty of citizenship—citizenship in its broadest sense. Traveling about Kansas I get a lot of satisfaction when I find men of the Legion tak- ing influential positions in the farm- ing communities, in the trades unions, in the chambers of commerce, in other common life. We always take pride in the fact that one of our comrades is leading & charities drive or a child welfare movement. We went into the army to save America. The men who make up the American Legion made the safety and welfare of the Nation a matter for each man’s own personal concern. And now that we are back in civilian life we must continue to make the welfare and safety of the Nation our personal concern. But this goal cannot be attained by individual effort alone. Achievement in this instance must come from unity, just as success in the World War came by united action. I, for one, am sorry to see the re- cent split in the ranks of labor, and hope that it will be speedily healed. The great gains made by labor through its organizations wre in dan- ger so long as this division exists. Here again unity is requisite for“prog- ress and achievement. Apathetic Management. ‘The prodding by labor unions in the past has frequently awakened apathetic management to the need broken, the single ezception to that statement which occurs at the mo- ment being Mrs. Dionne. There was a story here the other day, for instance, about an official whose name is always being mis- speiled seven different ways. Now Mr. Joel E. M. Leadbeater of War- renton comes jorward with the mews that in the past three years his name has not only been spelied incorrectly, but apparently mis- understood in 37 fashions, all of interest to psychologists who prate about association. A few of the names correspondents have evolved from Leadbeater are Eggbeater, Lipreader, Leapstreeter, Silvereater, Brassbeater, Pigeater, Feedeater and Setbetter—the list is long. Perhaps Mr. Steelbeater is always doubdtful if his correspondence is meant for him. Held in Fatal Shooting. KINSTON, N. C., September:7 ¢P).— Willlam Tyodsll was ahot to desth in s brawl yesterdey at a filling station nesr here and officers arrested his for improving conditions. All labor will be In a stronger position if it eliminates the cut-threat competi- tion of cheap labor in the sweat shops. Low living standards for some of our people in this competitive age are a continuing threat to the standards of workers in other sections more for- tunately situated. It is to be hoped that organized labor may continue in its part in the struggle for higher living- standards. And to be really effective, it must remain united. It is our job to help safe, to keep it on the lin progress. Whatever have a duty in honor we wore. That duty is to worl stantly for better government local communities, in the United States. i §sateh B $is of us who were in the service, «Ceryright. 1936, by the Norih American | cousin, Newton Taylor, and held him | ciate in a way . Newspaper Alliance nc) [ under §1,000 bond. t utter futllity of war. & American Legion is a cross section of | i America. stocks and creeds. But, however dif- | ferent our original stock may have | organizations that help our | Mrs. Markham Rests After Ocean Hop happily. Note small wound on jorehead, sustained in crack-up. lyou of its waste, its meaningless | cruelty. You know. The Legion has worked for years for legislation to | take the profit out of war, and in | the event of war to put everything the Nation possesses in manpower, industry and resources on an equal footing. T believe we can do much by in- telligent legislation to lessen the dan- ger of being drawn into a war with which we have no real concern. But after all the spirit of America must be our main reliance in staying out of war. We must have the strong will for peace. We must be ready to sacrifice short run profits. We must be prepared to stifie the natural affection that we have for the lands of our ancestors. We must keep our heads. In all this the Legion should be prompt to take leadership. Yes, a heavy responsibility rests upon the men who were the Nation's first line two decades ago. They will meet that responsibility in the future as they met it in the past. As Americans we shall go forward. We shall make America a better land year by year—an example and an in- spiration to the world. with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fleeson { and a visit with friends and supporters at a local hotel. preservation and protection of Amer- | serious problems will solve | 1 He planned to be back in Topeka by nightfall. On the Legion speaking program with him today were Verne Marshall, Cedar Rapids, Towa, publisher: Col. | Walter K. Wilson, chief of staff of Dudley, the Legion's national re- habilitation fleld representative. The | convention was addressed last night by Ray Murphy, national commander. 'EIGHT BURGLARIES | REPORTED T0 POLICE Houses and Autos Are Looted by Week End Thieves. Eight burgiaries, three of houses and }nve of parked automobiles, were re- | ported to police yesterday. The homes of the following were robbed while the occupants were out { of town: Diller F. Groff, 3900 Ingomar | street, silverware, jewelry and a coin | collection; Mary C. Grayson, 3755 Jocelyn street, silverware and a re- Aside from his address, Landon’s | volver, and Raleigh A. Stanton, 3432 to escape s falling tree. Wichita program included breakfast | Connecticut avenue, a watch, ring and | bracelets. Electrical sound equipment, tcols | and clothing, valued altogether at $250, Survivor and Victim of Crash the 7th Corps Area, Omaha, and H. E. | were stolen from the automobile u(y Sterling H. Shultz of Danville, Va., an R. C. A. technician, while it was parked at Twentieth and F streets yes- terday. Toni Mendez of New York City re- | ported his car was robbed of jewelry | and clothing valued at $200 while parked in the 1000 block of G street. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Optimists’ flower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Club, May- Luncheon, Civitan Club, Mayflower | Hotel, 12:30 p.m. | Meeting, Ladies’ Aid Society of Eleanor Ruppert Home, 2 p.m. Meeting, District of Columbia Feder- ation Federal Employes, Bureau of Engraving Local No. 105, Willard | Hotel, 8 pm. | Meeting. New York Democratic Club, | | 1110 P street, 8 pm. | B.nnsr Into Trouble. MANSFIELD, Ohio (#).—C. M. Mc- | Henry, Richland County farmer, ran He tripped over a root and frac- | | tured his leg, a limb then struck him | on the head and knocked him un- conscious. No. 1—Wreckage of plane that crashed and burned near Pittsburgh Saturday night with loss 10 lives. ; No. 2—Linda McDonald, only survivor, shown in Mxttal No. 3—John A. Powers, 18, of Miami, escort of Miss McDonald. ' bed, recovering from shock. He was durned to death. ~Copyright, 4. P. Wirephotos. A Nose buried deeply in 6 feet of mud near Baleine Cove, Nova Scotia, Mrs. Beryl Markham’s small monoplane, Messenger, is shown after it cracked up when it ran out of fuel on her daring solo flight from England. Inset shows the flyer resting and smiling —Copyright, A. THREE AIR CRASH INVESTIGATIONS ON Ten Dead in Pittsburgh Had Been Promised Thrill or Money Back. BY the Assoctated Press. PITTSBURGH, September 7.—A triple investigation began today into P.Wirephotos. | the crash of a tri-motor sight-seeing plane in which the pilot and nine passengers died late Saturday night and were almost cremated. The lone survivor, Linda McDonald, 17-year-old Miami. Fla. blond, was to be visited by Federal, State and county authorities at the hospital where she was reported recovering from shock. The slender high schoo! graduate saw her “best beau,” John A. Powers, young University of Miami student, and four friends enveloped by the flames after she had fought her way out of the ship. A. H. McDonald, her father, said she told him she was the only one to fasten on a safety belt and that this likely saved her life. The ship fell on an isolated farm at 10:15 p.m. (Eastern daylight-saving time), a few minutes after the pilot, Erick Beckley, 35, had risen from the Allegheny Airport after promising the passengers: “A thrill or your money back.” One of the many reports to be studied was that the faflure of s motor caused the tragedy. That the pilot had turned back toward the air- port, his ship tilted and two motors running full speed, when it struck one tree, then bounded to another. Col. J. Carroll Cone, Federal in- vestigator, said he is not convinced this version is correct, however. In addition to the pilot and Powers, other victims were: Bradley Welfer, 17; Marcia nison, 16; Andrew R. Wibmer, 45; his wife, Mrs. Blanche Wibmer, 41; Ruth Ellinger, 16; Phelan W. McShane, 19; William Leahy, 38, all of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ruth Sliter, 22, of Utica, N Y. The coroner’s office said Mrs. Sliter, a sister-in-law of the pilot, died from the shock of the crash, not the flames. Other bodies were too badly burned to determine the exact cause of death. In addition to Cal. Cone, the in- vestigators included Russell Young, inspector for the Department of Com- merce; Meade Cunningham, repre- senting the State Department of Aercnautics, and Coroner W. J. McGregor. The officials halted all sight-seeing trips, pending their investigation. Den- | MRS. MARKHAN RESTSINGOTHAM “Blondie” Given Rousing Welcome After Solo Flight From London. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 7.—Mrs. Beryl Markham, a society matron to London, but just plain “Blondie” to New York, put down sleep and shop- ping today as the objectives of her first full day in the United States. The trim, genial woman, who be- came the first of her sex to fly solo westward across the Atlantic in a trip deéscribed as almost incredible, took care of the sleep first. “Terribly delighted and happy to be here” but obviously fatigued by the strain of her flight through fog and rain from England to the Nova Scotia village of Louisburg, she retired early last night and left word not to be disturbed until 10 am. today. She had had only four hours’ sleep since her take off Friday. “I only wish I could have come in my own machine” was her lone re- gret, voiced serveral times in the bustle and cheers of yesterday'’s Man- hattan welcome. -But she expressed pleasure that the blue monoplane, still mired in the bog where it landed Saturday, was not damaged beyond repair, as had been thought at first. Clothes First Concern. Clothes were the immediate concern after she awoke today. “I haven't got a change,” she said, pointing ruefully to the gray slacks, silk checkered shirt and buckskin shoes which she wore during the flight, the leisurely plane jaunt from Canada down the coast yesterday, and the first enthusiasm of New York’s welcome. “And my friends here wear sizes that don’t fit me,” she smiled. Lady Carberry, who, with her hus- | band, Lord Carberry, represented the | Kenya Colony, Africa, backers of the flight, were expected to supply the 33- year-old visitor's needs. Beyond the civic welcome which New York extends to its visiting heroes and heroines, scheduled for tomorrow, | Mrs. Markham's plans were indefinite, | Wants to See Everything. “Oh, I want to see everything America can show me; I'm going to have some fun,” she said shortly after her borrowed plane landed at Floyd Bennett Field amid the cheers of sev- eral thousand eager admirers, but she had only a vague idea how to go abeut it. Her representatives described a sug- gestion of a national tour as “possible, but remote.” A strip of adhesive plaster across her forehead and a taped finger were the only mementoes of her narr(&’ escape in landing, out of fuel, in a boggy Canadian fleld. Her little single-motored ship bucked head- winds most of the 2,600-mile flight that ended 800 miles short of the goal. Mrs. Markham would like to see her son, Jervis, become an aviator. “He's only 7 now, but some day he will be a fiyer,” she predicted proudly. But as for her trying to conquer the Atlantic a second time: | “Never again!” France (Continued From First Page.) planes for Spain” to aid the Madrid government. | Communists, meanwhile, charged | the Pascist plot threatened the na- | tion. The Communist newspaper | L'Humanite laid plans for an upris- ing to the Prench Social party, a political organization headed by Col. Francis de la Rocque, which arose | from the dissolved Croix de Feu Vet- erans’ League. The newspaper asserted De La | Rocque, at a secret meeting of 30 | “regional chiefs” yesterday. issued orders for the organization of “shock troops” and “outlined a plan for eivil war.” The party leader and his lieutenants made detailed plans for seizing control of various provincial cities and, the paper declared, told his aides to: “Keep in contact with active re- serve army officers, particularly those in charge of guns, so we can place our hands on arms and ammunition at the desired moment.” De ia Rocque also ordered his aides | to buy all possible supplies of guns | from private sources, L’'Humanite re- ported. The newspaper, regarded as an offi- cial organ of the Communist party, strengthened its attack on the “block- | ade against the Spanish republic” and urged the metal workers to carry out their planned strike. Premier Blum earlier refused to yield to pressure to revise his gov- crnment’s neutrality program and faced down a patriotic mass meeting which chanted “Airplanes for Spain." He asserted there was no competent proof for the Communists’ theory Italy | and Germany were aiding the Spanish | Fascist rebels, rising to the positive | declaration: “My reply today, as yesterday, is The Communists were declared “ab- solutely faithful” to the People’s Front political coalition, which swept the Blum government into office, said Vaillant Couturier, a Communist Deputy. The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. EW YORK, September 7.—The conference of self-styled pro- gressives that is to meet in Chicago on September 11 to indorse the candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt calls attention to the growing absurdity of the use of the Democratic label by the New Dealers. Senators La Follette and Nor- ris are to be commended for discarding the Re- publican designation that for years has had no real meaning Mayor La for them. Guardia has completed a triple play, from Socialist to Republican to New Dealer. A new line-up under Mr. Roosevelt and the brain trusters is emerging. It expresses the desire an obvious opportunity to say “I told you s0." of politicians to capitalize discontent, agrarian and urban. It is the same motivating force which has brought to birth so many spectacular but impermanent Alice Longworih political movements. This move- ment differs from its predecessors in that it has 1t has at its command the organization of a great political party. The Populists, Know-Nothings and Greenbackers labored under the handicap of having to build their own machinery. Mr. Roosevelt nherited his, all olled and greased, from Thomas Jefferson. (Copyright, 1936