Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; gentle northerly winds, becoming variable tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 69, at 9 pm. yesterday; lowest, 63, at 6 am. today. Full report on page A-10. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 136,552 Closing New York Markets, Page 14 No. 33,744 4 FEARED LOST IN' VESSEL SAVED AS STORM SWINGS QUTTO SEA A Seven Known Killed and 24 Are Still Hunted—Damage to Property in Millions. 100-Mile Wind Recorded. CONNECTICUT ESCAPES FULL FORCE OF BLOW Shipping Lanes Cleared as Mari- ners Hug Seacoast—Zeppelin | Hindenburg Expected to Have Clear Weather Rest of Voyage. Part of Warnings Lowered. Photos from hurricane path on page A-7. ACopyright. 1936, by the Assoclated Press.) NEW YORK, September 19.—One ©f the worst hurricanes in history swung out to sea northeast of New York today—with all vessels warned to get out of its way. Despite its violence over 1,000 miles of Atlantic Coast line, only seven | persons were known to be killed. | Twenty-four more, however, Were missing. | A death toll estimated at 46 was drastically revised shortly after dawn, | when 34 men feared lost from tne 8. S. Long Island in Delaware Bay were rescued. Four men of the Long Island crew were still missing. One person was killed in Maryland, three died in New Jersey and three were killed in Pennsylvania. Disrupted communications pre- vented an accurate estimate of prop- erty damage, although preliminary reports indicated millions lost. As the great storm, with accompany- ing winds of velocitles as high as 100 miles an hour, circled northeastward, Connecticut apparently escaped dam- age. The winds and rains which swept that State throughout the night abated with daylight. Hurricane Shoved Eastward. Elsewhere in New England the coast ‘was whipped by heavy rains and gales, but damage was reported small. A high pressure area, moving out to sea from its point of origin over the great lakes, was shoving the hurri- cane to the East. The interior of New | England did not even receive rain. | Ships caught along the New Eng- land coast clung to the shelter of the shore. New York City was deluged by heavy rains throughout the night, but the dawn broke with clear, blue skies. The flying weather report was “ceil- | ing unlimited, visibility unlimited.” The Weather Bureau ordered hur- Ticane signal flags lowered, announc- ing: “Warnings down, 9 am. (Ealtern standard time), Atlantic Coast from north of Virginia Capes to Point Ju- dith, R. I. Coast storm apparently centered 8 a.m., east of Nantucket, | Mass., moving northeastward.” Clear Weather for Hindenburg. Attaches of the Weather Bureau said the Zeppelin Hindenburg, coming down the East Coast and due at Lake- hurst, N. J., about 6 a.m. tomorrow, would “probably complete her trip | here in clear weather, all the way in.” Shipping lanes off the Nation's northeast coast for the most part re- mained clear. Vessels hugged New England harbors to ride out winds attaining a velocity of 75 miles an hour. The backlash of the hurricane, fol- lowing a period of calm, again swept beaten coasts from Cape Hatteras, N. C, to New York with attendant high waves and gales threatening | lives and property. | Volunteer workmen, Works Progress Administration employes and stafls | of the American Red Cross set about | the gigantic task of rehabilitating ! stricken areas. Roads Being Reopened. Communication lines to Southern areas isolated by the blow were being restored and roadways that were washed out by high tides and tor- rential rains or blocked with debris ‘were reopened. Coast Guard headquarters in Mass- achusetts and Rhode Island reported mountainous seas. Their craft were zeady to effect any necessary aid. Storm warnings were hoisted as far north as Nova Scotia. The Ca- nadian meteorological service issued a warning to all the maritime prov- inces. ‘The Maritime Exchange accounted for the 37 survivors of the foundered fishing steamer, and said three bodies had been recovered and four men were missing. ‘Thought to have perished, 33 were (See STORM, Page A-2.) 5,000,000 Gallons Of Free Wine at All-Reich Party W hole Nation Invited to Dispose of Surplus Beverage. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, September 19.—All Ger- many was invited today to a week- long party to drink up 5,000,000 gal- lons of German wine. An official command ordered “All Germans: Drink and be merry.” Procewjens of gaily-costumed “wine through Rhenish towns the fermented grape bevérages were offered freely fo every one in an effort to dispose of surplus wine- left over from the last two vintages. At Speyer au historic stone foun- tain in the public square was filled with wine for the first time in g A4 years, | Ethiopia is no longer a “self-govern- again this afternoon to discuss sub- mitted proposals to reform or amend Entered as second class matter Ppost office, Washington, D. C. McLean Leading g Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936—FORTY PAGES. #» Fischer, 2 Up, After 18 Holes in Golf Final Scot Wins 4 of 6 Holes. Ohioan’s Injured Ankle Handicap. Ey the Associated Press, GARDEN CITY, N. Y., September 19.—Jack McLean, 25-year-old Scotch whisky. salesman, rallied sensationally on the incoming nine to become 2 up on Johnny Fischer, American Walker Cup star from Cincinnati, after 18 holes of their 36-hole final match for the United States amateur golf championship today. McLean, firing Britain's foremost challenge since Harold H. Hilton won the title 25 years ago, won four of the last six holes of the morning round to make up a two-hole deficit and gain a sudden advantage over the American, who had led through the early stages, A gallery of 1,500 spectators cheered the Scot as he dropped a 9-foot putt for a birdie 2 on the eighteenth green to double his margin, after being con- ceded a birdie 4 by Fischer on the seventeenth. McLean, finishing the incoming | nine in 36, even par, had a medal score of 75 for the round. Fischer was 39--41—80. Fischer Limps Slightly, Fischer, limping slightly from a sprained left ankle, twice gained and lost two-up leads. The Cincinnati law student turned his ankle yester- day, going into a trap, and apparently twisted it slightly again on the in- coming route this morning. Whether he was affected by this, Fischer nevertheless finished poorly after making a brisk start. The American outhit his Scotch rival con- JOCK MCcLEAN. sistently, but was unable to match McLean's sensational short game. McLean, who squared the match at the eighth and again at the four- teenth, saved himself with long putts at the eleventh and twelfth. He dropped putts of 20 and 10 feet on these two holes at a time when he was two down and strictly “on the spot.” Thus fortified, McLean won the thirteenth with a birdie, negotiated a partial stymi€ to square the matca on the next and outshot the American on the last four holes. Fischer halved the fifteenth and sixteenth, but sliced a shot against the wire fence bounding the ccurse, on the seyenteenth, and (See GOLF, Page A-10.) LEAGUE ROW DUE OVER ETHIOPIANS Split of Powers on Plan to Bar Selassie Envoys Is Threatened. £y the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 19.—Large and small countries in the League of Na- tions threatened to split today over the question of admitting Ethiopian delegates to a League Assembly session Monday. The League Council, which met in preliminary discussion yesterday, ten- tatively approved a proposal to wel- come Italian diplomats but te shut the door in the face of 'Emperor Haile Selassie’s representatives. (Italy, seeking to have Ethiopia's League membership canceled because ing” country since annexation by the Rome government, has declared she will hold her diplomats at home rather than have them seated at the same table with the Ethiopians.) The Council action, dominated by the larger powers, was defended on the ground European security—Ital- ian collaboration in Europe’s pesce efforts—is of greater consequence than the position of Ethiopia inside the circle of nations. But representatives of the smaller powers, apparently preparing to ob- Jject when the Assembly convenes next week, professed to see in Ethiopias fate an example of what might hap- pen to them. (Informed circles in Geneva have described the tentative council pro- posal as a compromise arrangement which would permit Italy to join the League debate but which would, at the same time, avoid any official ac- tion on Ethiopia’s membership. (Any official action on the right of the Negus’ delegates to appear at the session would, in the opinion of some international diplomats, lead to the serious problem either of accepting the Italian annexation of East African territory or refusing to grant Italy's request with subsequent absence of the Rome delegates.) The council was summoned to meet the League covenant in an effort to bolster international security. After the session, the council was expected to adjourn until next Thursday to permit the assembly to meet Monday. TEXAS RAIL STRIKE DELAYING MAIL Train Movement Suspended as 500 Quit on L. A. & T. Line at Greenville. By the Associated Press. GREENVILLE, Tex., September 19. —Five hundred railroad workers on the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railways went on strike today. Approximately 500 engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and switchmen quit work. Chief among “several pending un- settled disputes” leading “big four” brotherhood members to strike was & complaint the carrier failed to rein- state agreements in effect on the L A & T. for engineers, firemen, hostlers, conductors, brakemen and yardmen which recognized standard rates of pay, rules and working con- ditions. The railway abrogated the agreement in 1933. s The Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas branch of the railway operates from McKinney, Tex., to New Orleans and the Louisiana & Arkansas from New Orleans to Hope, Ark. PRINTERS UNION SUPPORTS .10, Moral and Financial Support Voted Lewis Faction in Labor Split. By the Assoclated Press. The John L. Lewis “rebels” who were suspended from the American Federation of Labor received pledges of support from two sources today. The International Typographical Union, meeting in convention at Colorado Springs, sent a promise of “moral and financial support” to the Lewis Committee on Industrial Or- ganization. Meantime, the California State Fed- eration of Labor voted unanimously to support the C. I. O. It formally op- posed the action of the American Fed- eration of Labor's Executive Council in suspending 10 unions affiliated with the C. L O. for “rebellion.” The suspension followed an internal A. F. of L. quarrel over organization methods. The Lewis Committee wants to organize all workers in each mass production industry into one big in- dustrial union, blotting out craft lines; the dominant A. F. of L. faction be- lieves many workers should be or- ganized according to their separate crafts. L T. U. Not Suspended Union. The International Typographical Union was not one of the 10 suspended unions, because it was not formally affiliated with the Lewis Committee, although the I T. U. president, Charles P. Howard, is secretary of the Lewis group. However, at the time of the suspen- sion order, the Typographical Union came in for some critical attention from the A. F. of L. Executive Coun- cil. The council directed William Green, federation president, to ask Howard by what authority he had participated in the Lewis committee’s ‘work., Green went to Colorado Springs and addressed the Typographical Union convention Thursday, pleading for unity within the federation. He asked that Lewis and his supporters employ “the true democratic method” by abid- ing by the federation’s stand until the next federation convention, at Tampa, Fla. Howard Upholds C. L. O. Howard replied that opponents of the Lewis committee “wilfully forgot to mention” that the sole aim of the committee is to bring new members into the federation. Yesterday the typographers passed & defiant resolution accusing the fed- eration’s executive council of “usurp- ing power specifically reserved to reg- ular conventions of the A. F. of L. It instructed the union’s officers to “protect” the union’s rights “as an affiliate of the A. F. of L.” ‘Thus the Typographical Union re- mains in the American Federation of Labor, but becomes an ally of the suspended unions. What punitive action A. F. of L. leaders may take, if any, was not indicated. Membership of the union, officers said, is “almost 80,000.” The resolution was adopted by a voice vote. Woodruff Randolph, secre- tary of the convention, estimated it carried by a vote of 20 to 1. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN IS FOUND ILL OF DRUG ° An unidentified woman was found Mail was delayed at Greenville and train movement was suspended, but it was said the railway was rushing in replacement crews. e NEW AIRPORT DEDICATED FORLI, Italy, September 19 (#).— Premier Mussolini dedicated today a new military airport accommodating 250 planes. He was accompanied to the cere- monies by Gen. Giuseppe Valle, under-secretary for air, Achille for emergency treatment. She was unconscious conditions was reported i i i LOVALISTS KILL 800 PEBEL HOSTAGES, GENERAL CHARGES Slayings Precede Fall of City, Insurgent Officer Declares. 1,200 BELIEVED DEAD IN ALCAZAR FIGHT Fierce Fighting Still Rages in Historic Fort—Infantry At- tack Next Move. BACKGROUND— The ancient Alcazar at Toledo, which is in ruins, began its history as an Arabic lookout position more than 1,200 years ago. The ground has been held by Romans, Hebrews and Nordic ‘invaders in a series of occupations. As the procession of peoples trooped through, each left its mark on the fortified palace which began as a fortified lookout. Succeeding rulers took over the former residence of their predeces- sors and each added buildings or decorations to the structure. Under Napoleon, Toledo fell into the hands of the French, who turned the structure into barracks Jor troops. The Spanish gasernment took over the buildings and established a military academy. BULLETIN. BURGOS, Spain, September 19 (#).—The Fascist Junta announced today its northern and southern armies had moved into the last phase of their drive to encircle Madrid, preparatory to a “final” attack. Insurgent troops of the north, the Junta announced, penetrated the Lozoya Valley south of the Guadarrama Mountains which guard Madrid, after heavy fight- ing with government troops de- fending the capital's principal water reservoir. By the Assoclated Press. ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Sep-| tember 19.—The Fascist general, Gon- | zalo Queipo de Llano, today accused | Spanish government forces of killing 800 hostages at Ronda, on the road | to the southern seaport of Malaga. ‘The Insurgent general, in a speech over the radio from Seville, said his troops had succeeded in identifying the bodies of 512 of the alleged vic- tims, ‘They were mowed down by rifles and machine guns before the Fascists occupied the town, he declared. Gen. Queipo de Llano also an-| nounced the insurgent forces of Col. | Arranda, long besieged in the northern | mining capital of- Oviedo, had cut| their way out of the city and dug| in at a point 10 miles distant. An insurgent column, coming to Arranda’s aid, was only 8 miles from the new position, the general said. Fascists Claim Gains. Other announcements by the Seville station: ©On the Toledo front: Government | forces left nearly 4,000 dead on the! field between Maqueda and Toledo. On the northern front: The Fascists | are “advancing methodically” on Bilbao. The Fascists said they had occupied | the entire town of Orio on the way to Bilbao, that they had routed the government at Penarroya and had captured Villa Luenda. At Burgos, headquarters of _the Fascist forces, announced the troops of Gen. Emilio Mola had captured Zumaya, government stronghold in the province of Guipuzcoa, following the fall of San Sebastian. HARD BATTLE RAGES. (Copyright, 1936, by tne Assoclated Press.) ‘TOLEDO, September 19.—Socialist shells crunched viciously into the blood-spattered Alcazar today. Gove ernment gunners sought to demolish fragments of the Fascist refuge where 1,200 insurgents were estimated to have met mutilating death by ex- plosion. Four government cannon rained steel into the battered fortress throughout the night and early morn- ing as militia commanders awaited arrival of new supplies of ammunition in preparation for an infantry assault over the heaps of crushed masonry. Militiamen who charged into the gaping wreck which once was a royal palace declared 1,200 of the 1,700 Fas- cists—men, women and children—who voluntarily imprisoned themselves in- side the Alcazar died yesterday when two mines were touched off. Dead May Reach 1,200. “We, of course, have no exact fig- ures,” explained Jorge Cabrera, one of the assaulting militiamen, “and the figure 1,200 may seem high, but & truly ghostly sight faced us when we went over the top. “Through stumps of masonry a&nd wrecked cellarheads spattered with blood we had to trample over torn limbs and hideously broken human remains.” The staccato blast of Fascist ma- chine guns beat a deadly tattoo from the torn fortress where nests of in- surgent gunners concentrated their fire on government soldiers from be- hind jagged wall segments. Fascist bullets claimed more than 70 casualties among the Socialist troops as the slugs mowed down the advancing lines which quickly fol- lowed the yesterday. Most of the government militiamen suffered (See SPAIN, Page A-2.) LANDON CONSULTS 30 FARM EDITORS Last-Hour Overhauling of Des Moines Speech Given by Kansan. Text of Gov. Landon’s ad- dress before Young Republi- cans yesterday is on page A-5. By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., September 19.— Gov. Alf M. Landon summoned ad- visers yesterday for what aides termed a last-hour overhauling of his Des Moines, Iowa, speech on agricultural problems. The Republican presidential nomi- nee’s consultants at the executive mansion were Representative Clifford R. Hope of Kansas, head of the Re- publican National Committee’s farm division, and Earl H. Taylor, his as- sistant. - Landorr will speak in Des Moines Tuesday night—his first major talk on farm matters. This subject was discussed by the Governor with more than 30 editors | of agricultural journals at a luncheon given by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, and which aides said had been suggested by Hope. Both before and after an address to a national conference of young Republicans yes- terday, the Governor attended the meeting. Listens to Discussion. Relaxing in his chair at times, and then leaning forward as if to catch every word, Landon listened to the discussion for well over an hour. Twice he talked—both times “off the record.” For clues to the candidate’s own position, headquarters officials would refer only to past statements. In his acceptance address, Landon advocated benefit payments and stressed what he called “the loss of markets, both at home and abroad.” Traveling toward Topeka from his Portland, Me. ad- dress, he urged a “far more ag- gressive” Federal-State program for water and soil conservation. Near home, in a Ft. Madison, Iowa, rear-platform talk to farmers, he said: 5 “Your rich lands are capable of producing more than they have been permitted to. Why shouldn't they have a chance to? And why have the markets been thrown away for even the present crop?” Landon was presented a variety of views by the farm editors. = Control Deemed Answer. C. V. Gregory, the prairie farmer, Chicago, who returned recently from a European trip, saw “no answer to the immediate problem except control of production and control of mar- keting.” Saying, “We have made it impossi- ble for foreign nations to buy our (See LANDON, Page A-2.) U. S. BUREAU ASKED TO HELP TRACE MAN Jersey Prosecutor in Alleged Mur- der Case Seeks History of Suspect. Bj the Assoclated Press. 5 TRENTON, N. J., September 19.— Prosecutor Erwin E. Marshall of Mer- cer County said today he had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to aid in tracing the history of Ramon Cota, held on charges of slaying his wife and burying her in the cellar of their home. Marshall said he submitted to the Bureau'’s field office in Trenton a let- ter received at Cota’s house and asked them to check on the sender. The erence to the crime with which Cota is charged, Marshall said he wished to find out all he could about the 45- year-old musician’s background and connections. ; i f Politics Is Vital To Postmasters, Howes Warns Bv the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, September 19.—Wil- |liam W. Howes, acting postmaster general, closed the National Associa- tion of Postmasters’ Convention last night with a statement that “I don't expect to tell any one in the postal service how to vote.” “I might as well say at the start I'm for Roosevelt, but every one should be the captain of his soul,” asserted Howes. “Youre not supposed to be in- terested in politics at all” he said. (See POSTMASTERS, Page A-3.) HOOVER DEFENDS WORK OF G-MEN ‘Record Refutes Critics of F. B. L, Director Tells New York Meeting. ‘Without mentioning the recent Secret Service “spying” incident, J. | Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today deliv- ered a scathing attack on ‘‘certain sources” which, he declared, were guilty of “maliciously untrue state- ments” regarding gunplay by his G-men. In a New York address, carried to Washington listeners by radio, Hoover told the third National Convention of Holy Name Societies of “forces of belit- tlement” that have attempted “to undermine the efforts of an efficient organization.” “We have heard that it was a shame to kill a ‘nice young man’ like John Dillinger,” Hoover asserted. “We have recently heard from certain sources, which should be aligned unal- terably with the forces of law enforce- ment rather than lending aid and comfort to the foul hordes of crime, that the special agents of the F. B. I. have a habit of running wild, of shooting men on sight and of issuing orders to kill this, that or the other person. Nine Slain in Three Years. “There is only one way to answer such maliciously untrue statements and that is to look at the official rec- ord. * * * In only nine cases in three years have we found it necessary to shoot and kill dangerous criminals— and then only in the protection of our own lives. “Of these nine persons practically every one was wanted either for mur- der or kidnaping. At least four of them had a previous record of having murdered from one to several police officers. All but one had a previous record of having shot their way out of the hands of law-enforcement offi- cials who had attempted to arrest them, and all but one had a record of having escaped jail or prison. “We make no excuses for the kill- ing of these persons, but we do have the greatest reverence for our own five special agents who died on the field of battle, shattered by bullets from guns in the hands of desperate gangsters.” (Two Secret Service agents were demoted recently by Treasury Secre- tary Morgenthau for unauthorized in- quiries apparently intended to show (See G-MEN, Page A-2.) U. 8. Sailor Injured In Bombing of Kane, He Writes Mother By the Assoclated Press. EL PASO, Tex., September 19. i VP) Means Associated Press. “ CHARMAN Democratic | NATIoNAL i CAMPAIGN NEW Yoy HEADQUARTERS Hllll.\l - JANITOR QUIZZED INTYPIST KILLING Requests Police Use Lie De- tector—Probers Are Balked. After & night of intensive work, police today were still holding a col- ored janitor for questioning in con- nection with the murder of Mrs. Florence Goodwin, 43-year-old Gov- emment typist, found beaten and choked to death yesterday in her fash- ionable boarding house at 1102 Six- teenth street. Investigators admitted, however, that they had made little progress. The janitor, Carl D. Chase, 25, of the 900 block of W street, underwent an all-night grilling at the third pre- cinct, stoutly maintaining his inno- cence. Determined to check every possible angle, however, police sent his trousers to a chemist to be ex- amined for possible blood stains and ordered a chemical analysis of the material under his fingernails. Asks for Lie Deiector. During the grilling, according to Detective Sergt. Joseph W. Shimon, the prisoner said: “TI tell you that I am not the right man. Why don’t you use a lie detec- tor or give me some of that truthserum —that will prove what I say.” Detectives searched Chase’s room last night, but found nothing except a number of detective story magazines. An autopsy performed by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald disclosed that Mrs. Goodwin had been struck on the head five times, instead of four, as first reported. One of the blows split her skull from ear to ear. A blood-stained iron furnace shaker was found lying across the grates in the furnace at the boarding house | and police believe the slayer used this | as a weapon. | The autopsy also resulted in dis- covery of several scratches on Mrs. Goodwin’s throat, presumably made while her murderer was choking her, but it did not reveal definitely whether she had been criminally attacked. A search was being made for an- other colored janitor, discharged some time ago, but he had not been taken into custody today. Operated Boarding House. in the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department since 1931. She also operated the boarding house, which was formerly the Venezuelan Legation. Senator Capper’s former home is next door, and the Russian Embassy across the street. The woman's body, clad in under- clothes and a bath robe, was discov- ered by Mrs. Alphonzo, Billups, a roomer, about 11 am. yesterday. Sur- prised when Mrs. Goodwin failed to appear at her regular time, Mrs. Billups investigated and found the body, the head buried under a pillow. She called Chase, who, in turn, notified police. Mrs. Billups said the door to Mrs. Goodwin's spacious bed room was partly open when she went to the room. The room was not disordered, how- ever, leading police to believe Mrs. Goodwin must have been struck the first blow while she was lying qu the bed. There were blood spots on the wall several feet away. There is a back stairway leading from the hall just outside Mrs. Good- win’s room to the ground floor, and police expressed belief the killer prob- ably used this avenue of escape. Robbery Motive Probed. Possibility that robbery may have furnished the motive for the slaying was being investigated, since Mrs. Goodwin had a large sum of money in her pocketbook when she went to a (See MURDER, Page A-3.) JUDGE GRANTS BAIL FOR EDITH MAXWELL @irl May Be Freed Under $6,000 Bond Pending New Trial, He Rules. By the Associated Press. BIG STONE GAP, Va. September Mrs. Goodwin had been employed | (Some returns not, yet received.) TWO CENTS. 'ALIEN ISSUE DRIVE! ON ROOSEVELT HIT BY WHITE HOUSE “Planned Attack” by “Cer- tain Notorious Publisher” Assailed by Early. ARTICLES HELD FRAMED FOR POLITICAL MALICE Denies President Wants Aid or Votes of Organizations Hos- tile Toward U. §. By the Associated Press. In a sharply worded statement, the White House said today it had learned of a “planned attempt led by a certain notorious newspaper owner” to give the impression that President Roosevelt “passively accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the American form of Gove ernment.” The statement, issued by Stephen T. Early, a presidential secretary, die rectly denied that this was so. The newspaper owner was not named. The President had been back in the White House less than two hours, after returning from the Harvard University tercentenary celebration to the bede side of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is recovere ing from an attack of grippe, when Early summoned newspaper men and issued the statement. Text of Statement. The text of the statement follows: “My attention has been called to & planned attempt, led by a certain notorious newspaper owner, to make it appear that the President passives ly accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the Amere ican form of Government. “Such articles are conceived in malice and born of political spite. They are deliberately framed to give a false impression—in other words to ‘frame’ the American people. “The President does not want and does not welcome the vote or support of any individual or group | taking orders from alien sources. 4 “This simple fact is, of course,§: obvious. <l “The American people will not! permit their attention to be diverted from real issues to fake issues which no patriotic, honorable, | decent citizen would purposely in- Ject into American affairs™ Early signed the statement. He declined to amplify it except to say the articles about which he had been informed had not, as yet, appeared in print. Defers Hyde Park Trip. The President came here from Cambridge, Mass., aftet abandoning earlier plans to go immediately to his Hyde Park, N. Y., home, because of | Mrs. Roosevelt’s illness. The President's secretary said Mrs. Roosevelt had shown a slight, but continued improvement. He added the President’s departure for Hyde Park depended entirely on her cone dition and that it might be Monday night before he could get away. The President had no engagements for the day except a brief morning conference in the White House with Secretary Morgenthau. He planned to stay away from his office and complete the naming of the Maritime Commission, which will administer the new direct ship subsidy law. Early said announcement of the personnel of the agency was being held up pending the settlement of questions arising from Army regulae tions. This was taken to mean that an Army officer would be among those named. Marvin H. Mclntyre, a secretary, said the Chief Executive would leave with Mrs. Roosevelt, when her condi= tion warrants, and hoped to be with the President’s mother at her Dutchess | County home on her 83d birthday ane niversary. Mrs. Roosevelt’s fever was said to have lessened and her general cone dition is improved, but it was uncers tain whether she will be well enough to go to Hyde Park tomorrow. The presidential special traveled nearly all night in a driving, cold rain. It was halted for several hours on a siding in Maryland to time its arrival here shortly after breakfast. The rain was nothing new for the trip. Except for a few minutes, it poured during the President’s entire eight-hour stay in Cambridge, Mass, yesterday and marred an otherwise colorful celebration of his alma mater’s 300th birthday anniversary, TRUTH THEME AT HARVARD. Roosevelt Braves Two-Hour Rain at Cambridge Rites. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., September 19. —Amid the historic halls and shaded (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.) Readers’ Guide Wamen! Features .......B-8