Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1936, Page 2

L4 . ;A—z ¥ MURPHY ASSISTS NEW SERVICECHEF -], Wilson Takes Moran’s ~“Chair as Latter Begins Long Vacation. Joseph E. Murphy, recently demoted m“:mstn.nt chief of the Secret PBervice for “spying” on J. Edgar Hoover's G-men, was back at head- quarters today to assist his successor, Frank J. Wilson, during the absence Pt Chief William H. Moran. ™ Becretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau announced that Murphy would be held here temporarily because of his familiarity with Secret Serv- ice administra- tion. Wilson, ap- Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. JURISDICTION. HAT happens to you when you are being a bad boy about the traffic regula- tjons on the Mall depends upon which way you are traveling and what kind of a policeman is watching you at the moment. Although a lot of citizens do not know it (enough to justify its being told here) jurisdiction over the streets there is divided. East-west thorough- fares are under the eyes and thumbs pointed assistant chief yesterday, automatically be- came acting chief today with the departure on va- cation of Moran. It was ex- plained at the Treasury Murphy | will aid Wilson to conduct af—‘} Vi fairs of the| F. J. Wilson. ey Gntis latter. a newcomer to the Secret Service but a veteran in Treasury in- Vvestigative circles, becomes better ac- quainted with his new work. Moran to Take Vacation. Murphy's return here was brought #bout by Decision of Secret Service Chief Moran to take a long vacation, Morgenthau explained. Moran, long in ailing health, is sald to have suf- fered a setback by recent disclosure that some of his men had been con- ducting an unauthorized and “ill-ad- vised” investigation of Hoover's agents. Moran at first denied reports that Murphy, on a visit to the West this Summer, had launched inquiries by 'Becret Service agents in St. Paul and | - Chicago into gunplay by G-men in the Dillinger case. When the Jus- ‘tice Department supplied proof of such inquiries, Morgenthau ordered an investigation that ended in apolo- - gles to Attorney General Cummings and announced demotion of Murphy and Grady L. Boatwright, Secret Service agent in charge of the St. Paul office. Murphy was to have been made superintendent of the Western division. Shifts Effective at Once. Morgenthau disclosed the reten- | tion of Murphy at Washington head- | quarters in connection with formal announcement of appointment of Wil- son as acting assistant chief of the Secret Service, effective at once. The Treasury Secretary is said to have consulted with Attorney General Cum- mings before placing Murphy tem- porarily in Moran's post. Wilson long has been prominent in activities of the Intelligence Unit. He first hit the front page for his investigation of Al Capone’s income taxes. He was in charge of the in- quiry which resulted in Capone’s im- prisonment. When the Lindbergh baby was kid- naped and there were rumors the | Capone gang was involved, the Treas- ury offered the services of Wilson to Col. Lindbergh. Irey, Wilson and a fellow-agent, A. P. Madden, closely advised Lindbergh during the ransom negotiations and subsequent thereto, ‘Wilson’s most recent assignment was the income tax inquiry in Louisiana, where many of the late Huey Long's associates were indicted. Wilson has been connected with the Intelligence Unit since 1920, with the exception of a six-month period in private business. He resides in Baltimore. In St. Paul Boatwright and a fel- low-agent questioned a number of | witnesses to the shooting of Eddie | Green, Dillinger gangster, by a raid- ing squad of the Federal Bureau of | Investigation. Irvin S. Cobb " Says: | | Good Luck in War Now On the Side With Best Airplanes. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., September 9.—What I just saw at the National Alr Races in Los Angeles set me to thinking. It's a dangerous thing— thinking is—and nearly always upsetting to the peace of mind. I'm thinking that no longer is the Navy our first line of de- fense nor the Army the second line. I'm think- ing that the chief peril—and the chief security from that peril— is in the air now. And of all the great powers, we are the most woefully behind in the matter of airplane protection. It would take us two years to make our air force as strong as it was four Yyears ago. It would take infinitely longer than that to make it as strong as the present footing of any country ‘Which conceivably might attack us. Well, we could always lock the stable after the horse was gone—if the stable hadn't been blown flat. Before, when war came, we somehow always managed to get the horse back, reasonably intact. But that wasn't always due to good sense. It was good luck, more than once. And you can stretch your good luck out too far. (Coryright, 1936, by the Nortn American Newspaper Allianoc, Inc.) Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere i [ Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. What- ever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and service of the Metropolitan force; north- south of the Park Police. Actually, it is not as happy as it sounds. You could not escape arrest, say, by swinging around a corner to flee the jurisdiction of whatever kind of policeman happens to be on your trail. It seems that the division of jurisdiction does not work out that way. Any policeman can arrest you anywhere and, in final analysis. it probably makes but little difference which variety functions in any par- ticular case. * % ¥ x MISTAKE. In bold letters, on a bulletin board beside its bank of elevators, a Washington department store proclaims, “We Advertise Today.” The other day, beneath the cap- tion, was a page from The Star containing a full page ad of a rival store. A woman shopper, who noticed the mistake, also noticed that the two stores had full page ads on opposites of the same page, and concluded that the messenger or whoever hangs up “We Advertise Today” carelessly tacked the wrong side to the board. She called an employe's atten- tion to the error but he made no effort to correct it. “I think we'll let it stand—give them a little free advertising,” he said magnanimously. * % ox X ARTISTE. IF A CERTAIN youngster of 12, who lives in Chevy Chase, ever thould | become an accordion maestro the world is going to be treated to some- thing new. All through the Summer his par- ents have insisted that he keep up his practice: a not illogical attitude on their part since he insisted upon a most expensive accordion. Was the boy beaten? He was not. Closing the door of his room, he would arrange the pillows on his bed for a nice reclining position, pick up his accordion and pump away. not easy work at first, but it is now the only position in which he can play the thing. His parents are a bit puzzled that | he can play better in the privacy .f his room than when he is forced to make public appearances, * ok X % RITES. A YOUNG man about town, whose official duties required him to at- tend certain memorial services re- cently, was bound only to go as an | escort 50 far as the church. There he was free to do what he liked until he should act as escort again at the | end of the sermon. Being of a rest- less frame of mind and in no mood to sit still, he wandered off into the dimmer recesses of the church, re- appearing promptly at the door when | needed. A bit later one of his friends asked him, “Where were you all the time? Didn't see you until you popped up at the door.” “Oh, I walked around,” said the chap, lacadaisically. “Went back in that little room where the minister dresses. Funny thing. His silk hat was in there. I tried it on. It didn't fit.” * k x % SIDESHOW. WASHINGTON was in a gay mood Labor day evening. At least that part of Washington attending the performance at the local “barn” theater, out on the Rockville*pike, was in a happy state of mind. The cash cusfomers were having & lot of fun with the play all evening, hissing the villain, cheering the heroine and whatnot, but the high light of the night occurred during a scene change. A man in the front row sneezed. It was truly a sneeze among sneezes and the entire house burst into applause. Solemnly the sneezer got to his feet, turn around, bowed, and sat down. LI PLAIN. Weather Bureau teletype opera- tors must have displayed on some occasion a proclivity for man- handling the accepted language in these parts. That such was the case is indicated by the printed forms listing points to which storm warning advisories are sent. “To be sent in plain English,” is the specification. n the City It was | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936, LANDON, 9TODAY, | COLLADAY FAG MAPS MAINE VISIT} WINS G. 0. P. FIGHT Changes Plans to Partici- pate “in First Fighting New Deal Repudiation.” By the Associated Press, TOPEKA, Kans, September 9.— Gov. Alf M. Landon rushed prepara- tions today—his 48th birthday anni- versary—{for a dramatic dash to Port- land, Me., where, he said, an address Saturday night will mark his partici- pation “in the first fighting repudia- tion” of the policles of President Roosevelt. “I am going to Maine,” the Repub- lican presidential nominee said in an unexpected one-sentence announce- ment last night, “to help rededicate that State to the good government for which it has always stood and to participate in the first fighting re- pudiation at the polis of the kind of government this country has had for the last three years.” Landon’s address will close the Re- publican State campaign in Maine. The election, first in the land this year, falls on Monday, September 14. Address to Be Broadcast. The Portland address, the only for- mal speech scheduled for the New England swing, will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co.'s red network at a time to be announced later. Nine rear - platform appearances were planned en route to Portland from New York City, as follows: Connecticut—Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven and New London. Massachusetts — Worcester, Lowell and Lawrence. 3 New Hampshire—Dover, Maine—Kennebunk. Leaving Topeka tomorrow night on the regular Santa Fe train at 8:25 o'clock (Central standard time), Lan- don was scheduled to arrive in Chi- cago Friday morning, continue via the New York Central to New York City, and there board a special train for his New England campaign. The anouncement came as a sur- prise. His campaign trip into Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois late this month had been projected as his next major foray. The decision auto- matically canceled, for the time being, a scheduled national conference here Friday of Young Republican leaders. National Chairman John Hamilton predicted at Chicago that the Repub- licans would carry Maine, “all down the line, in excess of 50,000.” May Not Talk to Hoover. Whether Landon would see Herbert | Hoover, now in New York, was not | known. Previously Landon had said | he hoped to confer with Hoover as the former President returned westward from New York. Jesse Owens, colored athlete, was an early caller. Accompanied from his train by a large group of colored Re- publicans, he met the Governor and | in a statement said: “I feel as I never felt before the | vital issues and the necessity of safe- guarding our form of Government.” Minority groups in European coun- | tries he had visited tnis Summer, Owens added, “no longer” are pro- tected by the constitution and the | courts. | Landon observed his birthday anni- | versary at the office. A big three-tier | | ness Women's Leagues.” The battle for Landon’s present post opened in Kansas last night. At Sa- lina Walter A. Huxman, the Demo- cratic nominee for Governor, accused Landon of letting local municipali- ties and the National Government bear all the relief burden and of failing to adequately support the schools. At McPherson Will G. West, the Republican nominee, praised the “wise leadership” of Landon and pledged “the same economical conduct of State affairs.” TO CO-ORDINATE ACTIVITIES. Py the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, September 9.—Organiza- tion of a National “Policy and Con- ities of the Republican Service League was announced today by Col. Han- ford MacNider, national chairman of the league. The Eastern area was placed under Col. William J. Donovan of New York and Buffalo, the area including Penn- sylvania, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Dis- trict of Columbia, Virginia, Ohio and Florida. Col. Frank C. Lowe of Portland, Me, was named committeeman for New England, including Maine, Ver- mont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The Middle West number one area of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, In- diana, Kentucky and Tennessee was set up under Edward A. Hayes of De- catur, Iil, and the Middle West num- ber two area, including Montana, under Tom Whalen, St. Thomas, N. Dak. Raymond Field, Guthrie, Okla., was placed in charge of the Southwest area of Arizona, Colorado, New Mex- ator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon was named to head the Western area of Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. & > . - Carvings (Continued From First Page.) vs. Madison, although this opinion was rendered some nine years prior to Story’s appointment on the bench * * +” A companion panel, he said, de- picts King John “signing Magna Charta, although John probably could not write, and at any rate the great seal, affixed by the chancellor, was, adequately.” At the same time Prof. Corwin re- ferred to “Senator Borah's speech last Pebruary 22, in which Washington is represented as delivering the farewell address in the new Capital named after him some four years before said Capital was open for business.” Criticism of the carvings as his- torically incorrect was called ‘“unjus- tified” today in New York by Cass Gil- bert, jr., a member of the firm of ar- chitects which designed the building. Referring to allegations that & door panel pictures Chief Justice Marshall handing to Justice Story the former's opinion in Marbury vs. Madison, al- !;mthh opinion was rendered e years prior to Story's ap- tment on the bench, Gilbert said: “The panel does nothing of the sort. It pictures’ Marshall and Story to- gether, and they served together on cake, decorated with a sunflower, was | presented by 26 State “Landon Busi- | tact” Committee to co-ordinate activ- | ico, Oklahoma and Missouri, and Sen- Victory Is Complete With Formal Recognition of D. C. Group. ‘The victory of the Colladay group of District Republicans at the party's national convention in June became = complete yester- day when formal recognition was accorded the Re- publican State Committee in and for the District of Columkia, headed by Chairman James C. Wilkes and Secretary Clyde D. Garrett. The split which occurred in the ranks here lest Spring resulted in the sending of two delegations to the Cleveland convention, one sup- porting Edward F. Colladay, who has been national committeeman in the District for a number of years, and the other backing former United States Attorney Leo A. Rover. The Colladay delegates won the contest before the Credentials Com- mittee and were seated. Colladay then introduced & resolution at a meeting of the national committee, proposing formal recognition of the Wilkes com- mittee as the party organization in the District. As the convention adjourned, this resolution was referred to the ex- ecutive group of the national commit- tee, which adopted it at a meeting in Chicago yesterday. Wilkes Asked to Run Campaign. Earlier in the Summer, National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton had written to Chairman Wilkes, asking his committee to direct Republican campaign work in the District pending action of the Executive Committee. Colladay appeared in support of the recognition resolution at the Executive Committee session yesterday. “The course adopted by the Na. tional Executive Committee, throug! | what we expected, is most gratifying,” | said Wilkes, on learning of the action | taken in Chicago. “It is in line with | Chairman Hamilton's direction to us |to carry on the party work here, as | we have been doing through our cam- | paign club and Voters’ Bureau at 1413 H street northwest, and it will serve to | settle any technical details of the rec- lord as to our committee’s being the | offictal branch of the national party | in this district.” The seating of the Colladay dele- gates at Cleveland was followed by re-election of Colladay as national committeeman and of Mrs. Virginia | White Speel as committeewoman. The | other delegation was supporting Rover for national committeeman, but both | groups were for Mrs. Speel to remain | as national committeewoman. Rover Had No Notice. Rover said today he did not have | notice of the Executive Committee meeting in Chicago yesterday, adding that if there had been an oppor- | tunity he would have presented the claims of his supporters. Regardless of their local differences, | however, both sides are supporting the Landon-Knox ticket. Rover has made some speeches in Maryland and plans to speak in other States, under auspices of the National Committee. 'THIRTY NEW BUSSES T0 BE BROUGHT HERE | Utilities Commission Grants Capi- tal Transit Co. Permission for Purchase. Permission was granted the Capital Transit Co. late yesterday by the Public Utilities Commission to pur- chase 30 new 41 passenger busses to James C. Wilkes. cared for without auxiliary car lines. At least three of the new cars will be used to replace double-deck busses on the Sixteenth street line. The rest will be distributed along the lines which were tied-up by heavy snows last Winter. The new equipment will cost $336,- 000, and under the authorization order, will have to be delivered for service on or before December 1. It was understood—though not specifically set up as a requirement of the purchase—that many units of the antiquated equipment of the Washington Transit Co., now a part of the Capital Transit Co., will be re- tired from service. Veteran Bay Pilot Fatally Stricken At Wheel of Ship Ry the Assoctated Press. CENTREVILLE, Md., September 9. —Capt. Harry Dill, who sailed the Chesapeake Bay for 33 years, died last night at the wheel of his two-masted schooner, the Sarah C. Wingate. Capt. Dill was nearing home at the time. A heart attack seized him and he slumped to the deck. The schooner went aground and remained there to- day, awaiting the tide to free her. The veteran 60-year-old pilot was en route to Centreville from Baltimore with a cargo of fertilizer. There was only one person on board with him, Charles Barnes, colored. As the boat approached Town Point 4 miles from here in the Chester River, Capt. Dill asked Barnes to go below and bring him a drink of water. thought to serve such occasions very | Bornes returned to find the pilot dead. Barnes rowed ashore at Pioneer Point and walked 7 miles overland to inform the pilot's widow, Mrs. Mar- garet C. Dill, of her husband’s deat Undertakers removed Capt. Dill's body from the Sarah C. Wingate early today. Capt. Dill had not been well for some time, but had kept up his regular sailings between Baltimore and Cen- treville. He was a familiar figure among the Chesapeake Bay skippers. For several years he piloted the schooner Australia, a prize taken from the British in the war of 1812 and re- putedly the oldest schooner afloat on the bay. Its owner, Capt. Charles H. Batchelor of Chestertown, died in July. Another of Capt. Dill's ships, the Capt. Dill 18 survived by his Widow, William Dill, of Oentre- & sister, Mrs. Robert B. R1L [ ] be used to augment their service now | $30,000,000 Penal Investments! Lack Proper Fire Protection | One Piece of Apparatus Serves Both Lorton and Occoquan—Machinery in Shops Depr This is the fourth of a series of stories describing over- crowded conditions and problems at the District’s penal in- stitutions—the reformatory at Occoquan. prisoners. BY JAMES E. CHINN. A $30,000,000 investment of the Lorton and Occoquan, Va., would be at the mercy of a serious conflagration. | Buildings, some of them of flimsy, frame construction, are umeredf over 2,700 acres of Fairfax County's rolling hills. One piece of fire appara- tus—a small pumping unit manned by inmates—is the only equipment on the reservation for protection against fire. The apparatus is quartered at the reformatory at Lorton, where nearly all of the industrial shops are locats narrow country roads—are the buildings at the Occoquan work house which also depend on this lone pumper against disaster by fire. Long have penal officials recognized the seriousness of the lack of adequate | fire-fighting equipment and have re- | peatedly called it to the attention of | District officials. They also have | stressed the need of a modern fire- alarm system which the reservation | lacks. The Federal Fire Council, after a survey of the situation, recommended a minimum of three complete fire- fighting units. But penal officials still wait for the equipment. | Fortunate So Far. Despite the lack of adequate fire- fighting apparatus, the penal institu- tions have been fortunate so far in not having any serious conflagrations. The lone fire company, though it is composed of inmates, has demonstrat- ed its efficiency in the few blazes that have broken out on the reservation. Recently these prison fire fighters es- tablished a record in making a run to a fire at Occoquan, 2 miles away, and getting into action in eight minutes. Buildings at the institution which constitute the most serious fire hazards include the women’s dormitories, the work house hospital, a temporary tu- berculosis sanatorium and stables and cow barns—all old frame buildings, partly rotted by age. Not only have the reformatory and work house been denied funds for fire fighting equipment, but they have suffered likewise in having pleas for appropriations for other necessary purposes ignored. For instance, the machinery in the productive industrial shops which are turning out valuable equipment for the District Govern- ment at a saving to taxpayers, are wearing out in service with no re- placements in prospect. Make Auto Tags. ‘These shops handle thousands of pleces of laundry every year for Dis- trict and Federal departments, pro- duce all of the District's automobile tags, traffic signs and markers, manu- facture castings for the water and sewer departments, clothings for the prisoners and inmates of other institu- tions, brooms and brushes for the street cleaning department and various other municipal agencies, and even make coffins for the morgue. In the last fiscal year ended June 30, these shops yielded a net profit of $135,964. Yet, when new machinery is needed to carry on the various industrial activities, funds for its purchase are not forthcoming. One striking illus- tration is found in the print shop, where a cylinder press of the vintage of 1878, had to be abandoned because its work was unsatisfactory. In the clothing factory, the manufacture of shirts had to be stopped two days recently while a sleeving machine was repaired. There was no auxillary sleever to put into service. Similarly, automotive equipment is wearing out. Most of it is obsolete, having been in use since 1916. The most modern trucks are 1934 models and there are only two of them at the institutions. In fact, there is not a new truck or bus at either the re- formatory or work house. The repair shop, of course, is always jammed with disabled vehicles. Large Bus Worn Out. A large bus, the only means of transporting prisoners t0 and from the District Jail, has aboiit completely worn out from its 3,000 trips. No ap- propriation has been made to repiace it, although its services ;thus far have saved. the District about $20,000 in transportation 1 The stories are based on an erhaustive survey at the institutions and interviews with both officials and eciating Fast. Lorton and the work house at District in the penal institutions at ed. Two miles beyond—a run over train. Statistics kept by Lorton offi- cials show the bus has covered 100,- 000 miles and has carried 66,074 pris- Mechanics have disclosed that the life of the bus might be extended by a complete overhauling and a new body. The original body has nearly rotted away and is about ready to fall off the chassis. The job will take two months, but there is no auxiliary bus to use while the repairs are being made. A bus company in Washington has offered to transport the prisoners at the rate of $50 a trip. For 60 days that would cost the District & mini- | mum of $3,000, because sometimes two trips a day are necessary. That is| about half of the original cost of the bus. Rail transportation might be a little cheaper, but the raiiroad has declined to revise its schedule to accommodate District prisoners for a short period of 60 days. Thus, officials will be in a dilemma in event of a complete break- down of the old bus. Another striking illustration of the failure to provide adequately for the institutions is found in the central heating plant at the reformatory. Four boilers, with a rated horsepower of 950, are required to furnish a demand load of 2,000 each. The constant load in Winter averages between 1,400 and 1,500 horsepower each. In case of a breakdown the situation wouid be seri- ous. There are no auxiliary boilers. NOISE EFFECTS RESCUE | NEW YORK, September 9 (#).— There is no emergency the police emergency squad cannot meet.’ Called out yesterday to rescue a gray squirrel that had clung to the top of a 40-foot clothes pole for 24 hours, too frightened to descend, the emergency squad shook the pole and banged it with iron bars. ‘Thus they set up such a din they scared the squirrel down. Reorganization (Continued From First Page.) outrun their usefulness” the paper continued, “ * * * until a compre- hensive plan is developed and adopted by Congress. Seeks Aid of Congress. “For the present this policy is being pursued largely through the practice of failing to fill vacancies where they occur in these various establishments. “In some cases,” the Times said, “workers actually are being dis- charged, but-for full fruition of his general plan the President feels he must have the action of 3 either sancitioning the reductions he proposes to make by executive order or itself passing laws reducing, regroup- ing or deleting some of the Govern- ment bureaus.” The Times said the President has been considering a shake-up in ad- ministrative establishments since last Fall. He is reported to have arrived already at tentative conclusions, the paper stated, as to the form a general reor- ganization should take, and included is a plan to rearrange many bureaus, both permanent and emergency, on & “functional” basis. P S Under such a plan, for example, might be in 1033. estat e | o 8. D G WEDVESOAY, GRPTENDER bW NION/[ Fiimsy Lorton Buildings a Fire Hazard TREASURY'S ISSUE - 1S CALLED SUCCESS $400,000,000 in Bonds Oversubscribed 9 Times, Morgenthau Says. BY the Assoclated Press. Secretary Morgenthau estimates the Treasury offering of $400,000,000 of 20 to 23-year 2% per cent bonds has been at least nine times over-sub- scribed. Closing the books, he de- scribed the financing as a ‘“great success.” Morgenthau told a press conference this over-subscription was estimated on the basis of preliminary figures. Final figures, which may place the over-subscription even higher, and allocations of the securities probably | Saturday, Upper: A temporary tu- berculosis hospital on the District reformatory reserva- tion at Lorton, Va. This and other buildings of frame con- struction depend on one fire engine for protection against destruction by flames. Lower: Scene in the Lorton' industrial shops where 1937 District automobile tags are manufactured. Machinery in many of the shops is wearing out with no replacements in prospect. LAWYER INDICTED ON FORGERY COUNT To Face Trial on Charges of Larceny After Trust of $1,500. James J. Laughlin, Washington at- torney, was indicted by the District | grand jury this afternoon on charges of forgery, embezzlement and larceny after trust, involving $1,500 he is al- leged to have received from three clients. The clients, two of them now in the District Jail, made the complaint against the attorney, who was ad- mitted to the District bar May 13, 1930. Shortly after the arrest about the first of June of Walter C. Johnsen, Edward R. Dietrich and Erma Miller on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, Laughlin was employed by them to obtain their release fro mjail on bond, the trio told the district attorney's office, Details of Charges, It was alleged that Johnsen gave Laughlin three checks drawn on Chicago and Miami banks in amounts of $1,500, $716 and $785 to provide cash bail, United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, however, refused to allow the release of Johnsen and Dietrich, since Florida authorities had asked that they be held to face a charge there. Erma Miller was set free on $500 bond. ‘The woman told authorities Laugh- lin took the bond money from the pro- cteds of the $716 check and gave her $193 cash. The attorney in two indictments charged with forging a $1,492.50 re- ceipt and with embezzling $1,500. Complain to Bar Group, Simultaneously with their complaints | to the District attorney, Johnsen, Die- | trich and Miss Miller wrote the | Grievance Committee of the District | , " | Bar Association, which also is investi- | L1¢ Constitution. gating the case. Miss Miller, Johnsen and Dietrich and a Bureau of Standards hand- writing expert testified before the grand jury. The receipt Laughlin is charged with forging purported to be for the attorney said he turned over to Miss Miller after the release of Johne sen and Dietrich had been refused. Assistant United States Attorneys Charles B. Murray and John T. Fi- }mlly Presented the case to the grand ury. The trio of complainants were al- leged to have obtained money from Washington department stores. The Florida charge against the two men involved a similar case. The allega tlons against them have not yet, been presented to the grand jury. WILL RACE 21 DAYS —_— CINCINNATI, September 9 #).— Edward Strong, general manager of River Downs Jockey Club, successor wzfodney Island, announced yesterday 8 21-day race meeting wor - ki g8 would start Oc Minimum purses each day will be $600, with the feature race carrying $800 daily except Wednesday, when the feature purse will be $1,000, and when it will be $2,500, Van Zandt Is Speaker. James E. Van Zandt, national com- mander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be one of the speakers at the opening session of the four-day American Expeditionary Forces, reun- fon in Dallas, Tex., tomorrow, it was announced here. Comdr. Van Zandt will diiscuss national defense. will be made public Friday. Along with the offering of $400,000,- 000 of bonds for cash to provide the Treasury with new money, Morgen= thau also had offered up to $514, 066,000 of the same obligations in exchange for a like amount of 1.5 per cent, two-year notes maturing Sep- tember 15. No figures on the amount of notes ~ offered in exchange were made public, but practically all are expected by Treasury officials to be converted. | Books for the exchanges will be closed at the end of business tomorrow. Morgenthau said subscriptions for the $400,000,000 cash offering placed in the mail before last midnight would be considered as having been entered before the close of subscrip- | tion books. Likewise, notes offered in exchange may be placed in the mail {up to midnight tomorrow, Asked regarding Treasury policy in substituting long-term obligations for the maturing notes, Morgenthau said he thought it was “good business from the standpoint of the Treasury” to distribute debt maturities “over fairly long periods.” “The investing public has come to the point where they now feel anxious to buy 20-year bonds,” he said, “and we felt it a good time to sell them 20-year bonds.” He added that the Treasury sought to avoid having maturities fall too heavily in any one year. The heavy over-subscription was viewed by the Treasury chief as dem- onstrating “that this issue was well- | priced and fairly-priced.” He reiterated previous statements | that “constantly-growing confidence” in Government credit had enabled the Treasury to float a 20-23 year issue at 1234 per cent interest. During the past |year the Treasury has successively lengthened the terms of its bonds without increasing the interest rate, D. A. R WILL HONOR U S. CONSTITUTION 149th Anniversary of Completion to Be Observed by D. C. Unit September 17, The District of Columbia Daugh- ters of the American Revolution will observe the 149th anniversary of the | completion of the United States Con- stitution in a grand salute of homor at Memorial Continental Hall Sep- tember 17 at 8 o'clock. Joined by patriotic and veteran or- ganizations and representatives of the women’s clubs the D. A. R. will pay tribute to the leaders who for four months met in convention and proe duced the Constitution. Judge James Quarles will speak on There will be music by the Jewell Downs Studio Quartet and a solo by | Charlotte La Fond, contralto. Erna Embrey, accompanied by the Marine | Band Orchestra, will close the pro- gram with “The Star-Spangled Bane ner.” Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig, | money advanced by Johnsen which | State regent, D. C. D. A. R., will pre« side. There will be no tickets issued. The public is invited. France (Continued From Pirst Page.) countries expressed regret that Portu- gal's seat was vacant, but, neverthe- less, waded into the problem of making neutrality effective. A foreign office commurique dis- closed the group had christened itsel? “The International Committee for Ap- plication of the Agreement Regarding Non-Intervention in Spain.” William Morrison, financial secre- tary to the treasury, was elected chair- man and given a free hand to call the next meeting. No date was set, how- ever, for that session. Viscount Cranborne, parliamentary » undersecretary for foreign affairs, also | represented Great Britain, which, with France, was exerting every pressure to induce Portugal to participate in the proceedings. While the committee was sitting it was learned an undisclosed number of airplanes had been impounded at Croydon Airdrome by the Board of Trade because they were reported pur- chased on behalf of Spain. One plane, grounded today, was owned by Air Dispatch, Ltd. The com- pany asserted it merely used the plane to transport newspapers between.Lon« don and Paris. The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. EW YORK, September 9.—Even the most flagrant “economic royalists” have been taught to believe that labor is not a commodity, but that doctrine has thus far not penetrated to the politicians. Labor, in terms of its vote, is one of the most tmportant commodities in which they deal. Among the most inveterate politicians sre some of the labor leaders. John L. Lewis and George L. Berry, president of labor's Non-Par- tisan League, publicly propose to deliver the labor vote to the New Deal. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, however, proclaims that his organization will remain truly non-partisan, This difference in policy emphasizes the deepening rift among the labor chieftains, Another difference of opinion between labor Alice Longworth. experts appears in the press. Secretary of Labor Perkins says that eight and a half million haye been put to work since March, 1933, while Mr. Green states that ten million are , still unemployed. While the doctors disagree, who knows but that the patient may go out and vote as he chooses? (Copyright, 1936.)