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A2 wxw ROOSEVELT SPEECH President Leaves Capital {Tonight—100,000 Expect- } ed for Rally Thursday. f BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Preparatory to leaving tonight for & two-day trip into the South, Presi- dent Roosevelt was busy today clear- ing his desk of routine business, con- ferring with departmental and emer- gency heads, and working on the speech he will deliver Thursday night to a seven-State rally at Char- lotte, N. C. The President will leave Washing- ton late tonight on a special train for Knoxville, Tenn. Reaching that city before noon tomorrow, he will remain there about an hour, and then wili motor to Asheville, N. C., where he will spend the night. This motor ride will afford the President an op- portunity to view the scenic beauties of Great Smoky National Park. Ar- rangements have been made for a picnic luncheon along the roadside in the park tomorrow afternoon. The President has not yet decided whether he will make the journey from , Asheville to Charlotte by automobile or train. He is scheduled to start speak- ing at the huge rally in the latter city at 5 p.m. Thursday. This gath- ering has been advertised as a “Green Pastures rally.” It is anticipated that more than 100,000 persons will be on hand to hear the President speak. Mr. Roosevelt several times has said | that the speech he will deliver in| Charlotte will be of a non-political nature and that his understanding is that the rally itself will be non-| partisan. The President will leave Charlotte shortly after speaking for Washington, where he will arrive Fri- day morning. He will make an ad- dress that afternoon before the World Power Conference, After that the President has no speaking engagement before Septem- ber 18, when he will be one of a group to address the ceremonies in- cident to the Harvard University Ter- | centenary. This, too, the President | has insisted will be a speech devoid of political aspects. Mr. Roosevelt does not expect actually to start on what he calls his personal campaign for re-election before September 29, when he will go to Syracuse, N. Y., to address the Democratic State con- vention there. Although he has not vet completed his campaign plans, the impression is the President will continue on from Syracuse across the continent. MRS. HAMELE DIES; WIFE OF ATTORNEY Funeral Services to Be Held To- morrow at All Souls’ Uni- tarian. Mrs. Martha Z. Hamele, wife of Ottamar Hamele, attorney with the general counsel's office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, died Sunday in Emergency Hospital after a weeks illness. Mrs. Hamele, 60, was born in Boston, N. Y., spending most of her early life in Springville, N. Y. She had lived in the District since 1916, her resi- dence here being at 3504 Thirty-sixth street. She was a member of All Soul's | Unitarian Church and the Women's Alliance there. Her husband was chief counsel of the United States Reclamation Service during the Hoover administration, | representing the Government in much | work preliminary to construction of Boulder Dam. Besides her husband, Mrs. Hamele is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ben D. Bolt of Freewater, Oreg. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomor- tow at All Souls. GAS RANGE EXPLODES, KILLING AGED WOMAN | Mrs. Ella Haugh, Mother of Bal- timore Newspaper Writer, Dies of Shock. By tre Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 8 —Mrs. Ella Haugh, 64, dled of shock and suffocation today in the explosion of & gas cooking range at her West Balti- more street home. The concussion blew out part of the rear wall of the house. Fire Capt. John Crandall, hearing the explosion, rushed into the house. With his hands | he beat out the flames on Mrs. Haugh's | night clothing and called an ambu- | lance. Mrs. Haugh died at a hospital | shortly afterward. Hospital attaches | said the burns were not serious enough to cause death, but attributed death to shock and suffocation. Mrs. Haugh was the mother of Gael Haugh, a horse racing writer, who Uses the name “Gaby,” on the Balti- more News-Post. He was not at home at the time. His wife, Mrs. Geraldine Haugh, was awakened by the explosion. Cause of the blast was not deter- mined. Capt. Crandall found Mrs. Haugh sitting before the gas range with her night clothes burning about the neck and shoulders. | COUNSEL IS NAMED LONDON, September 8 (#).—George Andrew McMahon, oharged with alarming King Edward VIII July 16 when he brandished a revolver as the monarch rode by in a military parade, ‘was assigned two defense lawyers to- day. The date for the trial may be set tomorrow. McMahon is held in Brixton Prison, where his attorneys will visit him to- .morrow to prepare his defense when the case is called in Old Bailey Court. McMahon has denied he intended to harm the King, insisting he intended his act merely as a “protest.” Night Final Deli Anywhere in the City [ ] Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service will start at once. Washington Waysid ’ Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. DIET. WASHINGTON woman lately returned from Kentucky brings a story which has been rating some success at julep time these vaporous afternoons. The tale treats of a ponderous grand dame she met down there, a lady weighing no less than 300 pounds and famed for her talents as a trencherman. Placed on a rigorous diet by her physicians, she makes a habit of con- suming a few steaks, plates of het bread, dishes of vegetables and pies and then crying lustily “Bring on the diet.” This habit did not so impress her visitor, however, as a remark made one evening during a discussion of va- rious fine foods. “Now a turkey,” said the gifted gour- mand, “is & most unhandy bird. A trifle too big for one and scarcely big enough for two.” * o ko BARGAINS. It was at a clearance sale of Summer stock in the bargain basement of a large store that a familiar voice observed: “Aren’t these just the cutest hats? I'm going to have a couple.” There was nothing unusual about the remark—except that it had come from the lips of the pro prietress of a decidedly exclusive chapeaur salon elsewhere in the city. * k% % HITCH HIKERS. EMBARRASSING incident in the life of a fireman: The alarm sounded in the fire sta- tion opposite an uptown theater re- cently, and out sped the boys in their red automobile, followed at a little distance by the hook and ladder truck. No sooner had the automobile got in | front of the theater than it went dead. It was guided into the curb at an awk- ward angle. Hasty work with the starter brought no regults. veY ““".":ffl € = n € % e — ‘The two occupants just had time to the hook and ladder truck as it went screaming by. They got to the fire, all | right. * % x x CONTEST. OVERHEARD in a country club locker room. “Say, Red, looks like you're getting a little stout, taking on a few contours on the corners.” “Yep,” said “Red” Banagan, as- sistant golf professional at Columbia. “I'm putting on a little weight. hot to play golf, but I'll get it off when it gets cooler. But you aren't so far | from being overstuffed yourself. How | much do you weigh?” “Oh, about 205" said W. Carlton Evans. Evans. on our weight a month from now.” “That's a bet.” said “Red.” is on. either, so they say. * x * x PAST AND PRESENT. WHEN Mrs. Louise Thaden of 2024 F street flew into Los Angeles the other day to win the $15,000, Bendix Trophy race and cross the | continent from east to west faster | than any other woman has ever done, she said she was surprised to learn | she was first. She may have been, but | some individuals in town who “knew | her when” weren't. | “In 1926, when she was Miss Louise | McPhetridge,” one of them said, “we | had a journalism class together at the University of Arkansas. She didn't start flying until a year later. One| day the entire class was to go from Fayetteville to Fort Smith, 64 miles | south, to put out one day's editions of the Fort Smith Times-Record. Louise volunteered to take three of us in her car. “The fine, wide concrete on U. 8. 71 wasn't there then. It was a good gravel highway, but some of it hung rather precariously on the sides of the Ozark scenery. Eighty-degree turns were moderate ones. “We made the 64 miles in about 70 minutes. Louise driving all the way. The rest of us weren't very much use the rest of the day.” * x * x DISCRIMINATION. The customer at the Connecti- cut Avenue Post Office branch shoved back the Susan B. Anthony stamp. “Lady,” he said, “this letter's going to Georgia. I don't want that abolitionist stamp. Let me have one with George Washington.” He got one with George Wash- ington. Lynching Is Fifth. TUSKEGEE, Ala., September 8 (#).— Dr. F. D. Patterson, president of Tuske- gee Institute, said yesterday the lynch- ing of A. L. McCamy, colored, of Dal- ton, Ga., Sunday brought the South's 1936 total to five. vered by Carrier Complete Market News of the hop out and hurl themselves aboard | Too | “Tell you what I'll do,” said | “You weigh 270, give or take | a pound or two. Let's both try to take | it off, and I'll bet you a dollar a pound, | And | so the great weight-reducing contest | They don't bar newcomers | | Juliana. She studied the technical | fected her \strokes with the help of | Holland's best men players. | tivities of a club for woman students, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1936. CHARLOTTF AWAITS §4.55,142 FREED BYICKES FOR JOBS Four of 104 Smal! Projects Under P. W. A. Are in Virginia. Administrator Ickes today awarded $4,855,142 to finance 140 small public works projects approved by the Presi- dent. These will have a total con- struction cost of $10,936,233, and iA each instance P. W. A. will contribute 45 per cent of the cost. ‘With his $300,000,000 fund appropri- ated by Congress still withheld by Mr. Roosevelt, Ickes is meeting the cost of these projects out of unex- pended funds from last year's pro- gram. They comprise the second list of allotments during the new fiscal year, $22,000,000 having been approved last July. Virginia, which was omitted from the previous list, was allotted $213,198 for small projects in four commun- ities. These will have a total con- struction cost of $473,773. Neither Maryland nor the District received any allotments today. Thirty-one States and Hawali and Puerto Rico received Federal grants. Out of the amount made available today, Ickes is lending $950,100 to 12 communities. The Virginia grants were: Tappa- hanock, $5,318 for municipal build- ing and $26,182 for a water works and sewer system; Bland County, $16,425, school; Waverly, $43,464, sewer sys- tem, and $121,909 for a Roanoke County sewer system. —_— JOHN CLARK, RETIRED U. S. WORKER, DIES Was Head Gardener of Propaga- tion Gardens of Department of Agriculture. John Clark, 76, retired head gardener of the Propagation Gardens, Agricul- ture Department, died yesterday aften & short illness at his home, 4906 Forty- sixth street. Mr. Clark retired five years ago after serving about 16 years with the | department. A native of England, he came to this country many years ago. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Caro- line Clark, and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Hurley, this city; two sons, Richard and Clarence Clark, both of Los An- geles, and five grandchildren. He also leaves several brothers and sisters re- siding in England. | Funeral services will be held at 2| p.m. tomorrow in Chambers’ funeral | home. 1400 Chapin street. Burial will | be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Juliana (Continued From First Page.) years older than the nobleman who s to become her prince consort, fre- quently has been the object of solici- | tude for Dutch matchmakers. !Man in Richmond Hospital Iden- SIDEWALK SIGNS PUZZLE POLICE Yellow Triangles Advocat- ing “Safety” Sponsored by Business Concern. ‘Triangular yellow signs painted on the sidewalks at several downtown intersections t6 warn pedestrians to cross carefully, but bearing in letters almost as large as the warning the name of a business firm, were causing some scratching of heads in the Police Department today. Police agree that painting of adver- tising signs on the public sidewalks, even though they advocate such a commendable thing as safety, is against the law. In fact, Capt. H. G. Callahan of the first precinct is of the opinion that it constitutes “defacing public property” and is going to confer with corpora- tion counsel this afternoon about it. The illicit painting, it seems, has been going on since the wee small hours Sunday morning. Greeted with the bright yellow warnings at daybreak, first precinct police made an intensive search for the painter during the day, but in vain, and finally decidedethe painter was doing his work at night, to permit his handiwork to dry before the feet of the pedestrians he was designing to aid tracked it into an unrecognizable mess. Police kept a special lookout Sun- day night, or Monday morning, but again in vain. They finally issued a warning to the firm advertised, the Zlotnick Co., to stop. Painting of the signs has stopped, apparently, and Samuel D. Zlotnick, sr., who explained today that his in- terest was only in safety for pedes- trians, announced he would seek a permit from the District Commis- sloners. “I didn't know it was against the law, but I asked a policeman about it yesterday and he said it was, so we aren’'t doing it any more.” Capt. Callahan is of the opinion that there is ground for charges against some one, but whether the painter must be caught in the act is a problem. As for the signs which have been painted already, Inspector L. I, H. Edwards says something will have to be done about them, or soon the whole city will be filled with advertising signs. “Maybe just painting out the name of the advertiser will be enough. But I'm sure the District ought not to have to do that. I think it ought to be up to the advertiser to paint out his own name.” AMNESIA VICTIM CAPITAL RESIDENT tified as Person Treated Here for Injuries. f‘Listening In” at Power Conference Delegates from all parts of the world as they listened to speakers at the World Power Con- Jerence, meeting in the Government Auditorium today. An elaborate set-up of translators and earphone networks enables the delegates to receive the speaker’s words in four languages, Eng- lish, French, German and Spanish, the official languages of the conference® —Star Staff Photo. Text of Hull’s Address Secretary of State Delivers Plea for Peace by International Co-operation in Welcoming Power Delegates. ERE is the text of the address of welcome delivered last night by Secretary Hull to the the Congress of the International Commission on Large Dams: It is a great satisfaction to me to be able to welcome in the name of the Government of the United States the distinguished members of the Third World Power Conference and the Sec- ond Congress of the International Commission on Large Dams. I assure you that it affords us genuine pleasure to have you as our guests in the Na- tion's Capital. The subject of the development and | p, use of power, the harnessing of the forces of nature to make them work for man, is of tremendous and increas- ing importance. Your meeting here in Washington is convincing proof of that assertion. World War Conference and | | changed in the recent past. From the | end of the World War up to a short | time ago those who labored to bring about the settlement of differences among nations by peaceful means | were termed impractical idealists. The | realists were those who put no faith | in those efforts for the peaceful settle- ment of international disputes. They | refused to believe in the possible effec- tiveness of this work for peace and | held that it was futile to attempt to settle differences between nations ex- | cept by the judgment of the sword. Must Repair Peace Fabric. But today the true realist in inter- ational affairs knows that in the face | of present threats our efforts to devise ways and means of preserving the | peace must be redoubled. The true | realist is he who knows that the fabric | of peace has been worn perilously | thin; that if it is again torn asunder | Engineers in every specialized fleld, | by the bloody hands of war it may producers of fuel, operators of plants and distributors of power and promi- | nent Government officials have come ences and opinions. Power represents one of the largest never be repaired. I spoke a moment ago of the great responsibility of governments and | here from more than 50 nations for peoples to preserve the peace. In all | the purpose of meeting together to ex- | history the weight of that res) | change technical knowledge, eXW“', bility has never been so great as at ithu hour. The world has countless times in the past known the horror An amnesia victim in a Richmond | Single factors in any nation’s economic | and destruction of war. In each case They linked her name romlnncllly‘ | —for a time—with that of King Ed- | | ward VIII of England as one of the | five princesses “eligible” to wed the | British monarch. But Prince Bernhard and Princess | Juliana met and fell in love during the Winter Olympics early this year in Garmischpartenkirchen. Going to Switzerland with Queen Wilhelmina | recently, Juliana saw the German nobleman again. | He proposed: She accepted. i Some coyrt sources believed the | wadding would be in the Spring. | It was learned Prince Bernhard had | been living in The Hague since the first of the month, when he was trans- | | ferred here by the German dye trust which employs him. | Juliana follows the example of her | mother in marrying a German prince. Her father was Prince Hendrik of | Mecklenberg, now dead. | Prince Bernhard is well known in Berlin and Paris soclety. He finished school at the University of Berlin last year and became affiliated with the dye trust, serving in Paris as a sort of apprentice, without salary. His father died in 1934. His mother is a member of the Von Cramm family, related to the German tennis cham- pion. The Netherlands public, which has heard the name of its only royal prin- cess linked speculatively with numer- ous other of Europe’s eligibles, in ad- dition to Edward, was surprised by the announcement. It was not generally known in the | Netherlands that Juliana and Bern- hard were even acquainted. Tall, round-faced and plump, Juli- ana is extremely popular everywhere in Holland, and particularly in the young court set. She was brought up in most serious fashion under the watchful eye of her mother, who, now 56, has ruled the Netherlands for 46 years. Carefully equipped for the role which she will assume as Queen, she has, nevertheless, maintained a lively interest in people and in sports. She entered the University of Ley- den when she was 18—incognito, treated much lke any other pupil. She emerged & thoroughly modern young woman. When a little girl she was fond of ice skating. Later she took up tennis, the first of the House of Orange to try the game. ¢ It was more than a pastime for | side of the game intensely and per- At the university, honestly fond of learning for its own sake, she studied law, philosophy and theology, as well as economics, literature and history. In 1930 she won the degree of doc- tor of philosophy and literature ho- noris causa. Produced Own Play. But, despite her arduous studies, she participated wholeheartedly in the ac- wrote a prize poem and produced her own play, “Bluebeard.” Juliana’s serious side is ascribed to the influence of her mother.” This is tempered by the geniality of her late father. She is regarded as more democratic than Wilhelmina, A ‘The Princess Royal also is an excel- lent dancer. She is fond of music, having studied both voice and the violin. » Charles Godfrey Peter. The princess is Jullana Louise, Emma Marle Wil- helmina. The prince, it is belleved, will as- sume the title of Prince of the Nether- lands after he is wed. Today's court nique came on the heels of , Wkich, however, were officially that Queen Wil- . depend 0| it has labored back to th ity of hospital who thought he lived in |Structure, for upon power | it has to the sanity o Wuphmgton was mimm today as & large extent industry, transportation, | pegce, sometimes quickly, sometimes James Montgom- | cOmmunications, and, to & growing de- | only after long, dark years of struggle. ery, 32, of 235 8ree, agriculture. And the the uses of | Byt the wars of the past, with the Eighth northeast. street power are extended to millions of peo- ple throughout the world, the influ- exception of the world conflict which | began in 1914, give us no basis for Piecing togeth- | €NCe upon society of this great expan- | judging the effects of a war of the er scattered items | 3ion must have the careful considera- | fyture. If war comes upon us it will of the man's story, poHce‘ learned he had | been * taken tion of us all. Mechanics and Peace. Those of you who are concerned to with the development of power tech- | Airplanes, Emergency Hos- | nology and those of you who are modern fighting equipment of which | | be fought not alone by uniformed armies and navies, but by the entire population of the countries involved. poison gas and other pital June 11 with | interested in the organization and use | Wwe can only conjecture would make & back after an ambu- | lance was sum- ! "t | Montgomery. was released June 17, E! from the believed his name was James Gordon. He remembered being a salesman for a Washington wholesale plumbers' supply firm. His story was that he had been hit | on the head in a fall here about 10 days ago. had gone to a hospital and subsequently motored toward | Richmond. Two men attacked and Tobbed him near Charlottesville, tak- ing his car and $114, he said. He could not recall how he got into the Richmond hospital. Police notified Montgomery's wife | here. The couple has two children. R o PAUL MAHONEY DIES OF HEART ATTACK Deceased Was Member of Legal Staff of U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Paul Mahoney, 30, of the Legal Divi- sion of the United States Chamber of Commerce, died Sunday of a heart at- tack in Alexandria. He had been con- nected with the chamber for six years. A native of Brookline, Mass, Mr. Mahoney received his elementary edu- cation from private tutors and the Huntington Preparatory S§chool in Boston. Later he received his A. B. and M. A. degrees at Stanford Univer- sity. Shortly after graduation, he was awarded a Milton Fellowship at Har- vard University, which involved a 10,000-mile trip throughout the United States to investigate local aviation problems. As a result of this study, Mr. Mahoney collaborated with Dr. Miller McClintock in the authorship of a book, “Transportation and City Planning.” While connected with the Chamber of Commerce he attended George ‘Washington University Law School, receiving his degree in 1935, and was admitted to practice in the District soon afterward. Private funeral services will be held here tomorrow. Named Campaign Aide. COTTAGE CITY, Md., September 8 (Special). —Mrs. H. Edna Pitts of this place has been notified by the Republican National Committee of her appointment as a vice chairman for Prince Georges County. helmina was planning to abdicate after her daughter married. At the time the court said the rumors rose apparently because of a proposed constitutional amendment which would provide s separate in- come of 200,000 florins (approximately $136,000) & year for any future prince consort, The sum would be from helmina, almost for great service to mankind. unlimited oppertunities of good things. But they also are capable of produc- ing machines of destruction—engines of war. Unfortunately, a vastly dis- proportionate share of the skill and energy of scientists and statesmen alike is being devoted now in many parts of the world to the creation and or- ganization of forces of destruction. Shall we allow this application of genjus and energy to be dissipated in the agony of armed conflict, or shall we insist with all the determination at our command that they be employed objectively in the pursuit of peace? Shall the brains of the world be used to lighten the burdens of man, or shall they be used for the grim purposes of war? The responsibility of maintaining peace in a world fraught with suspicion and fear and torn by dangerous ambi- tions and conflicting political philoso- phies rests not upon governments alone. This responsibility rests to even greater degree upon the shoulders of the thinking people of each land; peo- ple such as you who meet here to con- sider important matters common to every country. You meet in a spirit of friendly co-operation with no thought of chauvinism or political jealousy. You thus not only make progress in your own fleld of endeavor; you also advance the cause of peace. And the cause of peace is the cause of civilization. Religion, science, culture and social betterment only go forward in a world without war. World Holocaust Seen. Every war of the past has retarded the progress of civilization in direct proportion to the vigor with which it was pursued and the number of days, months or years it has endured. Yet we find today a lamentable absence of appreciation by many responsible and influential statesmen that these pres- ent warlike tendencies can only lead to & world holocaust. Are we in this supposedly enlightened age so stupid that we cannot read this awful les of history? I refuse to believe that we are. Iam convinced that once this lesson is fully learned by the people of the world the 'unanimity of their re- sponse will secure to us the blessings of permanent peace. And it is your duty as well as mine to teach this lesson. The people of the world must learn that war is a cruel mill whose stones are the misled hope of national aggrandizement and the selfish ambitions of lous persons. The oil and fuel of that mill are furnished by the fear and hate which' come from distrust and sus- picion. The grain for that mill is the valiant, patriotic youth of the affairs, to deal with injury | of power resources, have before you | the world a veritable inferno. | A general war now would set loose Inventive ' forces that would be beyond control— | Mexico. moned to Ninth|and engineering genius have brought | forces which might easily bring about street and New!many of the luxuries of two decades | a virtual destruction of modern politi- | York avenue. He|ago within the reach of all today.| cal thought, with all its achievements, hospital | Power and mechanical appliances con- | and possibly a veritable shattering | ceived and produced by men of your of our civilization. Our one hope is | Montgomery said in Richmond he | training and experience are able to that the governments and peoples of | Warsaw. | provide an even greater abundance the world may fully realize the solemn responsibility which rests upon them all and that realistic envisaging of the inevitable consequences will pre- | vent their flying at each other’s throats, no matter how great may be | their impulses and the fancied in- centives. Opportunity for Peace. | There exists today an unparalieled ‘l opportunity for those nations and | groups which look forward with clear vision to bring about an early return to sane perspectives and relationships based upon full comprehension that the members of the family of nations | must live together amicably and work | together in peace or be broken in an utterly destructive misuse of the power and the instruments which, properly used, bear beneficial witness to the | amazing constructive capacity of man- | kind. | I cannot too strongly urge that, | with the great capacity which you possess and the influence which you | can wield, you, the members of this congress and your assoclates in every |land, bend your efforts unceasingly toward perfecting programs of meth- ods for the preservation and promo- tion of peace. I urge that you insist that che products of your constructive lthought and efforts be devoted to constructive ends. , Power (Continued From First Page.) efforts be devoted to constructive ends.” ‘War Responsibility Placed. Responsibility for preventing the holocaust of war was placed by the Secretary upon such individuals as his listeners, the leaders in science within their respective countries. *“You meet,” the Secretary said, “in a spirit of friendly co-operation with no thought of chauvinism or political jealousy. You thus not only make progress in §our own field of en- deavor; you also advance the cause of peace. And the cause of peace is the cause of civilization; religion, sci- ence, culture and social betterment only go forward in & world without ‘War. “Unfortunately a vastly dispropor- tionate share of the skill and energy of scientists and statesmen alike is being devoted now to the creation and organization of forces of destruction. “A general war now would set loose forces that would be beyond control— forces which might easily bring about & virtual destruction of po- litical thought, with all its achieve- ments, and possibly a veritable shat- peoples of the world may fully realize the solemn responsibility which rests upon them all and that realistic en- of the inevitable consequences ent their flying at each other’s ponsi- | their impulses and the fancied in- centives.” Pirst sessions of the conference were held yesterday afternoon when two GUNMAN FORGES VICTIM TO PRAY Man Tells of Assailant’s Re- turn for New Attack. Convict Is Sought, By tre Associated Press. LA CROSSE, Wis., September 8.— Prom his hospital bed a La Crosse business ieader last night told how a gunman forced him to kneel and pray in a lonely wood, shot him and then returned a half hour later to empty his pistol at the helpless victim. A hunt was launched immediately for an escaped convict on the theory he was the assailant of the business leader, James H. Furber. Furber mumbled from his bed a story about his assailant who he said compelled him to drive to the isolated spot and then ordered: “Kneel and say your prayers as I am going to finish you.” In the struggle that followed Furber was snot in the face. His assailant fled but came back about a half hour later, Furber narrated, and fired five more shots at him. Only one struck him. Furber told police that during the enforced ride in his automobile, the man said “Don’t drive so fast. I got three ribs broken in an auto smash Saturday night over in Minnesota.” Police said a man believed to be George Hall, wanted in connection with the shooting of Ernest S. Gal- lagher in Detroit September 2, drove here after an accident at Preston, Minn., Saturday night. Furber told police he noticed a scar over his assailant’s left eve. The De- groups considered organization of the | production, processing and distribu- | | tion of coal and coal products and of | petroleum products. Among a host | | of technical discoveries reported to| | these sessions was the development | of & high-octane gasoline, particularly | | adaptable to war-plane use, declared | to be 30 per cent more efficient than {any previously produced.” This de- | velopment was reported by Dr. Gustav | Egloff, research director for Unx\'erul“ Ol Products. | Split on Coal Regulation. | In discussing problems of the coal | industry, C. F. Hosford, chairman of the National Bituminous Coal Com- mission, urged renewal of Federal | regulation of the coal industry in the | | United States. Howard N. Eavenson, consulting engineer of Pittsburgh, disagreed. Last night's session was opened by by Dr. Julius Dorpmueller of Ger- | many, president of the Reich rail- | roads, and acting president of the con- ference. Interviewed upon his arrival in Washington during the afternoon, Dr. Dorpmueller declared possibilities of a | European war remote. | “A war would be the stupidest thing that could possibly happen to this world,” he said. “I don't think any nation is foolish enough to want one. We Europeans have already = seen enough fighting.” The German delegation to the con- ference, he explained, have come “as technicians, not statesmen nor military men. We are going to talk power, not politics.” | Dr. William F. Durand. California scientist, served as chairman of last night’s session, taking over after Dr. Dorpmueller opened the meeting. Dr. Durand welcomed the delegates in the four official languages of the con- ference—English, French, German ani Spanish. Brief Addresses Delivered. Brief addresses of weicome were made by Dr. Charles Camsell, deputy minister of mines of Canda: Rodoifo | Ballester of the University of Buenos | Aires, representing the Argentine Re- | public, and Jose Colomo of the minis- try of industry and commerce ol The following speakers responded to the welcome: Carl Krecke, chair- man of the German national com-' | mittee, representing Germany; S. J. Zowski of the Polytechnic School of . representing Poland: L. Van Wetter of the ministry of public works, ' | representing Belgium: H. H. Blache, | chairman of the Danish national com- | mittee, representing Denmark: Jurgis | Ciurlys, manager of the Lithuanian state railways, representing Lithuania: and Professor Giancarlo Vallauri. | vice president of the Royal Academy | of Italy, and chairman of the Italian delegation, representing Italy. jPower Conference 1 Amplifying Device Much Like Babel | Headphones for Transla- . | | tions Get Tongues All | Mixed Up. Add embarrassing moments: When amplifying arrangements at & conference of world power experts | 80 awry. | It happened yesterday at the open- | ing sessions of the world power con- | ference. Headphones had been in- | stalled at each seat so delegates might | listen to translations of speeches in their own tongues. But German and Spanish, Spanish and French, French and’ English got all mixed up. Rxperts who gathered around a con- trol board backstage, where the trans- lations originated, had two theories. One was that the translators sat too close and talked too loudly, so that| their microphones picked up each others’ speeches. The other was | crossed wires. impatience with American reabsorb the unemployed. it in the class put an end to to re-employ t! period to hire to work. troit police description of Hall ine- cluded such a scar. Police said Hall escaped from the Joliet, Ill, prison. Dr. G. F. Malin said he thought Purber would recover. LEGGETT IS NAMED T0 EXECUTIVE POST Former Newspaper Man Appoint- ed to Emergency Council Position. President Roosevelt today appointed Eugene 8. Leggett, formerly a news- paper correspondent, to the post of acting executive director of the Na- tional Emergency Council. Leggett, who has been serving as special assistant to the director of this agency since its inception near- ly three years ago, will fill the va- cancy caused oy the recent resige nation of Lyle Al- verson. Leggett will assume his new duties at once. Before joining the New Deal in 1933 Leggett was Washington correspondent of the De- troit Free Press. He is a native of Canada, but a naturalized American citizen. On Mr. Roosevelt's recent trip through the drought area Leggeti acted as press relations contact man and it is believed he will be borrowec for the same purpose during the Pres- ident’s campaign swing across the continent. E. S. Lezsett. F. A. JONES DIES Retired Rail Employe Father of Capital Resident. Frank A. Jones, 79, veteran retired employe of the Southern Railway and father of James I. Jones, 1007 Taus- sig place northeast, died Saturday in Richmond at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Edna Johnson, according tc word received here. Besides the son and daughter, Mr Jones leaves another son, George E Jones of Richmond. Mr. Jones' fath- er was the late Gen. James I. Jones U. 8. A, of Boston. Mr. Jones' se! ice with the Southern covered years. »P‘ortugal y (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) the destroyer Dao and part of the crew abroad the sloop Alfonso de Albuquerque revolted, and authoritiss ordered the nearby fortresses to fire. Both ships were damaged, then towed to shallow water, beached, and the crews arrested. Six sailors were killed in the bom- bardment of the Alfonso de Albu- querque and nine wounded, severa critically. The last were removed from the ship and taken to a hos- pital. Both warships carry four 4.7-inch guns. The Dao is of 1,620 tons full load displacement and the sloop, 2,423 tons. The government placed Lisbon un- der a state of “precaution” mov- ing troops through the city to occupy strategic points, but the rest of the country was declared to be quiet. Strong guards were posted at al ministries and other public buildings while all remaining troops were helc in readiness in their barracks. (There were indications that censor- ship was delaying details of the revolt, including word as to whether the re- bellion was connected with the Span- ish civil war). . The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. EW YORK September 3.—The President has often expressed business for its supposed failure to It is a little bit dificult to com- prehend just who is being scolded and why. Every business employs &5 many people as it needs for a workable production program. To employ more would put of W. P. A. and very soon would the business. As for the farmers, how can they be expected he labor that the New Deal crop curtailment forced them to discharge? ‘The Government may be able for a limited men with the taxpayers’ money to boon-doggle, but private industry cannot pass on its deficits to future generations. By no sophistry can the President conceal the fact that the New Deal has failed to put the unemployed back (000’":2'» 1936.)