Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1936, Page 2

EDITOR DEFENDS KANSAS SCHOOLS Educational Facilities: Held Improved Under Landon Administration. Special Dispatch to The Star. EMPORIA, Kans., September 23— Attacks on the Kansas school system which have occured since the nomina- tion of Gov. Alf M. Landon for the presidency have brought a response from William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette. Discussing the situation in his pa- per. White declared: “Kansas most properly has a right to be proud of her schools. And Gov. Landon has helped our common schools more than the average gov- ernor. The best piece of State school legislation in recent years is the Lan- don cash basis law. It requires boards of education to stop issuing time warrants. Befors that law was passed, many, a considerable number, sometimes a majority, of the Kansas Boards of Education were issuing time warrants to meet pay rolls. The School Board in a prosperous Western Kansas city which was booming 10 years ago {ssued cash warrants only about four months in the year. When taxes were distributed after the June period, these warrants would be taken up and cash warrants issued dunng July, Au- gust and September. Then the schools would go back to time warrant basis. When the taxes were distributed in JaJnuary, after the December tax period, the warrants again would be taken up and cash warrants issued for a month or two, when the schools would again be on the time warrant basis. These time warrants drew 6 per cent interest. destroyed that soft® snap for the bankers. And now, when a tax- paver pays a dollar in Kansas school taxes, it all goes for schools. Whereas, before Landon's cash basis law came, at least 4 per cent of every tax dollar went to pay interest on time warrants. Report Made In 1927, “Take another second-class city in Kansas. It has & school budget of $200,000, and it had at one time out- standing time warrants amounting to $250,000, drawing 6 per cent interest. When the cash basis law came along, the board had to stop issuing the time warrants. They increased the levy. but every dollar from the taxpayer's pocket went for schools and not to the bankers. Kansas school men had been protesting for years about the evils The bankers liked | them. But the cash basis law has | Washington Wayside of Interesting Fvents and Things. DISTINCTION. : ELAWARE is the only Sta D airmail service, according to Maj. Charles P. Graddick, superintendent of the division of air- mail service for the Post Office De- The Post Office has offered to au- thorize a stop at Wilmington if proper facilities are provided, but Delaware doesn't seem to be much intere: portant cities it can afford to ignore things like bringing Chicago and San Francisco closer to Wilmington. Put an airmail stamp on a letter in San and it speeds across the continent by air to Philadelphia (or perhaps New York), and gets into Wilmington on a train in a hurry anyway. are in no special hurry about their correspondence, it appears. * &k ¥ ¥ EGG STORY. rural highway near Washington is keeping a Wayside operative awake these qights. He can't fig- ure out just how the thing would self to death that he did not drop in and indulge in a bit of spirited bidding. % % * % LOST CHORD. A ently was chosen to act as a judge in a bathing beauty contest at Ocean City, Md. After Miss Maryland was selected event at Atlantic City, the judge thought it would be appropriate to have the orchestra play “Maryland, My Maryland,” as the successful can- Random Observations in the Union without direct partment. The State is 5o close to s0 many im- Francisco for some one in Delaware And besides, persons from Delaware The sign “Egg Auction” on @ work, and is fairly fretting him- SHINGTON newspaper man rect | to represent, her State at the annual didate appeared on the stage. THE EVENING ST AUSTIN RELIEVED AS FLOOD DROPS Texas Capital Fears No Se- rious Damage Now From Colorado. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex, September 23— Flood waters of the Colorado River rolled on toward the Gulf of Mexico today with the force which devastated upper reaches of the stream somewhat diminished but still carrying a threat to low-lying areas. The capital breathed easier, believ- ing the crest that swept to record heights upstream had flattened out and serious damage was unlikely. A detachment of Coast Guard fiyers from Del Rie soared over areas down- stream, dropping fiotes to bottomland farmers warning of the approaching waters. To theéif activities and those of city, county and State agencies was ascribed the small loss of life. ‘Two persons have been drowned and damage estimated at $50,000 caused by the Colorado. A flood on the north, middle and south Conchos to the northwest previously inflicted between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 damage in the vicinity of San Angelo. Austin authorities advised residents in some houses along the river to leave. A number packed their belong- ings and were transported in muni- cipal trucks to higher ground. Others were ready to move out on a mo- ment’s notice. WOMEN GET ALMOST EVEN JOBS BREAK Civil Service Figures Show 6,895 Men and 5,605 Women in New Deal Agencies. Women have received almost an even break with men in employment in the New Deal agencies here—ex- clusive of works program activities— the semi-annual report of the Civil Service Commission shows. In this group, as of June 30, there were 6.805 men and 5,605 women. In the old-line establishments, the fig- ures were 52,438 and 33,457, and under works program, 10,772 and 7,936. Outside of the District, the New Deal employment was divided: Men, AR The Colorado River, on a rampage after heavy rains, swept a Winchell, Tex. Heavy damage WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936 “Colorado Tears Out Texas Bridge to crops and property resulted. TWO STORM DEAD WASHED ASHORE Bodies of Engineer and Mem- ber of Foundered Ship’s Crew Recovered. By the Associated Press. CHINCOTEAGUE, Va., September 23.—The sea yesterday gave up the bodies of two more of the fve men drowned when the fishing steamer Long Island foundered off Oberfalls Light, in Delaware Bay, during the tropical hurricane last Friday. man of Kilmarnock, Va, who was easily identified by Coast Guardsmen of the North Beach station on Chin- coteague Isiand by the initials “L. J. C.” tattoded on his right arm. He was second engineer of the Long Island. The body of the second man was that of & colored man, three of whom died in the wreck. The 200-pound, 6-foot colored man had on a life preserver from the ill-fated boat. The two bodies, first discovered by & fisherman, were turned over to the John Burbage funeral home at Ber- lin, Md. Ewing Easter, 2 resident of New Jersey, saw the body of Conklin while he was fishing for drum in the surf two and a quarter miles south of the North Beach Coast Guard station. Coast Guardsmen recovered the body. Easter had hardly resumed his fish- ing at a point a quarter of a mile south of the station when the waves piled the other body up on the beach in front of him. Coast Guardsmen re- .. all way this railroad bridge near . DOESPOPESWILL, COUGHLIN ASSERTS |Political Priest Says Encycli- cals Urge End to Evils of Capitalism. | By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 23.—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin asserted last To Wed Count CHAUNCEY OLCOTT'S DAUGH- TER ENGAGED. CROPNSURANEE AN PROMISE Program to Be Ready for New Congress, Confer- ence Indicates. BY the Associated Press. Plans to have definite data for 'a' Federal crop insurance program on covered it and notified the district commander. All 39 members of the Long Island's crew were at first believed to have perished in the storm, but a barge picked up 34 of them and took them to safety. Of the five others, Capt. Romnev George of Foxville, Va.. master of the vessel, was known to have drowned. Drummer (Continued Prom First Page.) strains of a dozen piccolos, came the hardy victors over age. As they turned off the Avenue, Ira Wildman of Mich- igan told a story: “This is some different from what it was when I rode along here in 1865. That was a parade, two days of it. But what a street—every minute you'd One was L. J. Conklin, elderly sea- | IT'S HAD ENOUGH, LEGION INFORMED Hines Tells Veterans to Con- sider Nation Before De- manding More. BULLETIN. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 23 (/). —New York was unanimouss 1y named the 1937 American Legion convention city today. | 8y (ke Associated Press. CLEVELAND, September 23.—Gen. Frank T. Hines, Veterans’ Bureau ad- | ministrator, warned the American | Legion today against pressing im- mediately for further veterans’ benefits, while William Green, American Fed- eration of Labor president, urged | Legion support for neutrality legisla- { tion against “foreign entanglements.” | Asserting disabled veterans and de« | pendents of those who died in the service “have had reasonably adequate | compensation,” the Veterans’ Bureau chief added: “In the consideration of future pro= posals for the enactment of addie tional legislation beneficial to veterans and their dependents, due recognition | should be given to existing benefits |and care exercised to avoid the pose | sibility of claims of injustice to none veteran groups.” Asks Country Be Considered. Describing the non-disabled vete erans as “once more members of the great civillan population,” Hines urged Legionnaires to consider before special benefits the general prosperity of the country. “It seems to me that it is of the first importance,” he said, “that we think of all veterans as citizens first and yield not to the sympathy which we would extend to the entire group by class or special legislation, but see to it that we are able to extend assistance to all groups or classes who in an emergency may need the helping hand of their Government.” The administrator branded as “with= out foundation” reports that the bue reau planned to reduce veterans' bene efits. Green Urges Neutrality Laws. | The A. F. of L. chief pleaded with | the Legion to join forces with labor | in demanding “strengthened” neutrale ity legislation. “The American Legion and the | American Federation of Labor, stand- ing together, will constitute a mighty force against any attempt which may 25863, and women, 9.391; old line, | sink up to your knees in ud hole. ne Ul e P a mud hole. | be made to inveigle the United States hand by the time Congress convenes | and you had to kick sows suckling | into any of the controversies and war in January, developed yesterday from | their pigs out of the way so you could | activities of European couniries,” an organization meeting of adminis- | 89 On. Green said. night that he was actively engaged in the current political campaign “be- cause the encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pjus XI contain a mandate Imagine his surprise when he was told that the leader of the musicians | .4 40 368 did not know the plece. s This made the aggregate: And what was further amazing 10| ges5353. women, 158.906. of this time warrant system in school finance. When the School Code Com- | ynission drew its report in 1927, the | | cash basis Jaw was a major demand. | Men, | “Those were grand days, though. I| No one paid heed to that demand until Landon came to the State House. | | learn was that the membership of the orchestra had been recruited from to every priest to seek the eradica- o | The old-line employment shows .., ¢ ne evilsof modern capitalism.” tration leaders named by President Roosevelt to explore that subject. was in Gen. Custer's corps. There The Legionnaires were tired toda; having marched more than 11 how more than 37,000 women in Treasury, | Navy and Veterans' Administration here, and in excess of 55,000 in the | | fleld in Treasury, Post Office and | Veterans' Administration. “I prefer as & priest to do as | never was anything like it Pius XI ordered me to do.” he said in an address to a Missouri rally of the National Union for Social Justice and other of William | I rode | yesterday in a colorful spectacle A. G. Black, acting chairman of the | along with a fellow named Foster.| which National Comdr. Ray Murphy special committee in abeence of Sec- | We were chums, but I never saw him described as “the greatest parade in retary Wallace, said representative | After the review. So you can imagine | the history of the Legion.” “Moreover, the Landon provisions. which put teeth in the Kansas budget law. required a definite educational | budget submitted to the people before | around Salisbury, Md. k% % GUM. UM, the chewing variety, which the taxes were levied by school boards. Under the budget law, high-pressured salesmen can’t come along after the budget s adopted and outtalk school | boards and principals to buy frills and gets. The board must stay inside of its budget, again demonstrating the fact that Kansas school taxes go for Kansas schools. “Certainly Kansas gives no State aid for common schools. That has been a Kansas policy since Kansas came into statehood in 1861. Gover- nors have tried time and again to get State aid. All Landon could get to help the common schools was the cash basis law and the budget law with teeth. But even though we do not give State aid to schools and even though we are the forty-eighth State in State school aid, nevertheless {n Kansas, a rural State, the statistics show that more farmer boys and girls are attending high school than in any other American State. More- over, Census Bureay figures show that Kansas has more college gradu- ates in proportion to her population than any other American State. If anything seriously was wrong with the Kansas schools, these two dis- | tinctions would not come to Kansas. | You can't have the highest percentage | of boys and girls in high school and the highest percentage of college grad- uates in a population composed of 85 per cent of Americans with American- born parents unless you have good schools for everybody. Reasons for Closings. “Now about the closed schools. It may be safely asserted that no child in Kansas is denied school privileges. Byt the school statistics show that eight thousand children are not in the schools in their districts and | that those district schools have closed. Why did they close? They closed in | some cases to Join consolidated | schools. They clpsed in other cases| because the population had moved | away. In Far Western Kansas, in the dust bowl with less than five pupils to a district, schools closed be- cause the patrons preferred to move their children to other districts rather than tax themselves to main- tain achools for a few students. This would mean a high tax rate. There are records where Kansas teachers have been employed and paid wages ! for a full term of achool out in West- ern Kansas in the dust bowl, where not a single pupil was errolled dur- ing the entire year. During the Lan- don administration he backed the passage of the Rees co-operative school law, which equips weak dis- tricts to co-operate in the education of children. In this co-operation, where school houses are abandoned and children are cared for outside the district, will be found most of the agony which is squeezing tears out of the Democrats about Kansas schools. The school houses are closed, of course. But the children are cared for. “But the big thing that Landon did for education was in the appointment to the State Board of Education of men and women of high quality. Dur- ing his administration and under his leadership, qualifications for teachers and administrators both in class A and class B high schools, as well as La colleges, have been raised, and more colleges and secondary schools have met the requirements of the North Central Educational Association, the stahdard Western test for institutions of higher education, than were put in under any recent administration. In March, 1934, he urged the State Boatd of Education by a special message to use all authority vested in the board to meet the recommendation of the school people as expressed by the four- point program of the Kansas State Teachers’ Association. The Kansas State Teachers' Association backed his election officially in his first term and has-been with him ever since. “Ransas common school teachers’ wages are too low. But the Governor has nothing to do with the wages of has been giving theater people a lot of trouble for a long time, bothered | & mother in an uptown movie the ! other afternoon. She was breaking in her young son in the greatest of American pastimes, movie-going. when all of a sudden she discovered he was learning too fast. Looking at him, she say him ¢hewing away on a piece of gum. “Where did you get that?” she de- manded. “Under the seat,” swered. The horrified mother made the | child get up, march out of the theater and deposit the gum in the drinking fountain. The usher told us about it—and | how the mother lectured him on keep- ing the theater more sanitary! the boy an- In the New Deal units, local em- | Supporters ployment of women is heaviest in | the Agricultural Adjustment Admin- istration, and in the fleld Home Own- | ers' Loan. | N WATCHMAN SLAYING | SUSPECT IS HELD Prisoner at Jessups, Md., to Be Questioned in Death of Virginian. A man under arrest at Jessups, Lemke, Union party candidate for | the presidency. Preceding Father Coughlin on the program, Lemke asserted that his first act as President of the United States | would be “to fire the brainless trust and the bureaucrats that have been living on the taxpayers and tell them | to go earn an honest living.” | “When I am President of the United States,” he went on, “Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith and | the heads of farm and labor organi- zations will all be welcome in the ‘White House, and we will work with Congress and this will once more be & Government where all will have Mad., is to be questioned today in con- nection with the murder September 5 of Marion J. Riley. 55-year-old * x x % 1 ! | is FREE MUSIC. EVERYTHING isn't as free in thi land of the free as a Washing- | | ton woman shopper thought, not ! even during commercial celebrations. | The woman was one of the many | customers who thronged a downtown shoe store that was celebrating its | enlargement with fanfare and music by an orchestra. One of the attractions of the en- largement sale was a pair of atock- | ings given free with every purchase | of & new pair of shoes. | | The lady had bought her shoes and | received her stockings, but she puz- zled the salesman by asking, “Where is that music you are giving away?” “We're not giving away any music, madam,” the salesman said. “Where did you get that idea?” “Prom the sign in your window. R says ‘Free music.'” * * % % BONUS. The ingratitude of republics ap= parently is in the air its youthful citizens breathe. Not otherwise, @ Chevy Chase father has concluded, could his daughter have asked with reference to the G. A. R. reunion: “What are they here for, daddy, their bonus?” * %ok % HAVEN. ESTERDAY was moving day for some tenants in a house at Thir- teenth and H streets. The moving men, as they always have and always will, piled all the furiniture on the street and then proceeded\fo tuck it into the van. The owner of the furniture was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw next to the last piece put into :)e“ van—there was enly one chair Suddenly his attention was diverted by the shriek of a taxicab's brakes, which pulled up alongside the moving van. A dignfiled looking man who obviously had had one drink too many, alighted from the cab, walked not so straight across the sidewalk and set- tled himself comfortably in the chair. It took the combined efforts of the moving men, the taxi driver and the owner of the chair to persuade the man to get out of it. his budget, and under the law there could be no item in his budget even remotely affecting the Kansas common schools. The Democrats have unfairly taken the facts about consolidated schools and statistics about closed school houses and have twisted their meaning. “You can’t have the high rate of literacy, the highest rate of farm chil- dren attendance in high schools, a far higher per cent of literacy than the American average and also the highest number of college graduates in pro- Kansas school teachers. It is outside of his prerogative. He couldn't help it if he wanted to. He did not balance the budget at the expense of the Kansas schools. There was-no item in portion to population in Kansas far beyond that of New York or the sea- | baard States, and with all these things have anything seriously wrong with the Kansas schools.” ! watchman at the James coal yard in nearby Virginia. Arlington County Detective Harry Woodyard and a member of the Wash- ington Detective Bureau left this morning to interview the prisoner, | who is understood to have lived near the coal yard. It was not revealed whether the man is white or colored or what he is suspected of knowing about the case. Riley, father of eight children, was beaten to death some time before dawn by robbers who broke open the coal company’s safe. A number of suspects have been questioned, but investigators so far have been without definite clues. Peanuts (Continued From First Page.) corner after he had been ordered away, During the following year, Steve, in & newspaper interview, said pros- perity had returned because of the Roosevelt policies. His closest contact with the White House was during the Coolidge administration. President Coolidge habitually took early walks and almost every morning stopped to munch a few peanuts and chat with Steve. In time, according to the President's friends, the peanut vender came to take the place of the famed village shoemaker in Massachusetts — the President’s informal “contact man” with tHe masses. When Steve's case was called in Police Court today Judge Robert E. Mattingly ordered a continuance to September 30. LR Reform Club to Celebrate. Stately Reform Club of London will shortly celebrate its centenary, mak- ing 17 clubs in the West End a century or more old. The INCINNATI, September 2 ® Administration supporters Colliflower | National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. an opportunity to make a living, and let live. That's the program of the Union party.” Asserting that many had questioned whether his quotations from the en- | cyclicals of the Popes were accurate, | Father Coughlin called for a copy of the Quadragessimo Anno, the 1931/ encyclical of Pope Pius XI, and read | from it at length. The priest asserted it and other | encyclicals called for the payment of | “a llving annual wage” in the mass| | production industries, “with pay in- | creased commensurate with the in- creased production of modern ma- chinery and the abolishment of what he termed “the private issuance and control of money.” Lemke told reporters he was sure of carrying 13 States. “And all the rest of the Nation is battling ground,” he said, ‘“except Vermont. The Republicans or the Democrats will carry it.” e DRIVER SERIOUSLY HURT IN MILK TRUCK CRASH Frederick Man Injured as Vehicle | Overturns in Effort to Avoid Collision. Special Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING. Md., September 23.—Marshall Flook, 24, Frederick Md., milk truck driver, was seriously in- jured yesterday when the truck over- turned as Flook was attempting to avoid colliding with another car on the Colesville pike near Sligo parkway. Extricated from the wreckage by pass- ing motorists, he was taken to the Washington Sanitarium by the Silver Spring rescue squad. Police said the other car was oper- ated by Miss Marie N. Cornell of the 600 block of Fifth street, Washington. She and two companions were unhurt. Miss Cornell was charged with reckiess driving. Flook was driving 650 gallons of milk from Prederick to a Hyattsville dairy. His injuries include a broken feg. i 3.—An entertaining departure in political humbuggery is the “non-political” eampaign speech. solemnly announce that Mr. Roose- velt is going to limit himself to a mere handful of partisan speeches. The object seems to be to present the pi cture of a statesman going about his business and letting his record speak for itself. Mr. Roosevelt's jaunt of thousands of miles throughout the Nation, his hundreds of personal appearances and scores of addresses are labeled non-political. flimsiest bits This is probably one of the of minor political deception that has. ever been attempted. It is particularly silly, because Ever since it doesn’t fool any one. his renomination, as s matter of fact, since his nomination four years ago and for some time before that, neither he nor his Alice Lengwerth. ‘Why all the pretense? . Jollowers have Ilh‘.“h move without first taking into consideration its political ‘effectiveness. The pussle is: (Copyright, 10360 JANET OLCOTT. SARATOGA, N. Y. September 23 () —Miss Janet Olcott, daughter of Mrs. Chauncey Olcott and the late noted actor and singer, will marry OCount Phillippe de Montaigu of Paris. The date has not been set. Mrs. Olcott, who is at her Summer home near here, announced the en- gagement after the arrival of the count, on the Zeppelin Hindenburg. Prgminent in New York City So- clety, Miss Olcott is & member of the Junior League a linguist and pianist. The count, an automobile racer and airplane pilot, is & member of one of the oldest Prench families. His father is Marquis Hubert de Mon- taigu, munitions manufacturer who resides in Messillac, Brittany. W.P.A.IS ACCUSED OF POLITCS, GRAFT [Pay Roll Padding and In- timidation Also Charged by G.0.P. By the Associated Press. The Republican National Commit- tee, citing afidavits, accused the W. P. A. last night of “inefliciency, graft, pay roll padding, intimidation and po- litical diserimination” in New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and | Michigan. The statement said “the conditions complained of in the organization fos- tered by President Roosevelt are not confined to any single locality, but are typical of the W. . wherever it has squandered the taxpayers' millions.” “Three aides of Victor Ridder, for- mer district W. P. A, director in New York City, remained on the adminis- tration’s pay roll,” it said, “despite their figuring prominently in the Stryker relief investigation there last year and evidence that they had boosted their own salaries.” After listing men identified as “friends of ‘higher-ups’ in New Jersey politics” as being carried on both ad- ministrative and project pay rolls and alleging prejudiced action against sev- eral W. P. A. employes in Detroit, the 'ment said: ‘The tempo of political intimidation and discrimination which runs through the complete W. P. A. organization is set from Washington, D. C. where in violation of Federal statutes, po- litical posters frequently appear on bulletin boards of W. P. A. offices in the Washington Auditorium and con- stitute a veiled threat to those who may be wavering in their enthusiasm for the New Deal. “Recently & picture of President Roosevelt was posted. Mounted on a large cardboard, it bore the questions: ‘Are you for him?’ and ‘Do you want to keep your job?' A smaller picture of President Roosevelt was posted even more recently, bearing the captions: ‘AA::' ._'Iou For Him; You Bet You CATHOLIC BISHOP HITS SUNDAY LIQUOR SALE FALL RIVER, Mass, September 23 (#).—Right Rev. James E. Cassidy, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Fall River Diocese, last night declared him- self “sadly disgusted with the Catholic officials of the city” for permitting Sunday sale of liquor, in an address at the confirmation ceremanies of 160 children here. He said the Fall River Board of Po- of farm leaders would be called { Washington to discuss crop insurance | as s00n as the committee had ob- tained “background material.” Actuarial Data Asked. assembling such information from millions of Agricultural Adjustment Administration benefit payment con- | tracts. | Although Mr. Roosevelt suggested | the insurance be limited to one or two major commodities at the start, Black said date had been asked for wheat, | cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, sugar and peanuts. Black said the committee also had | asked all data available on public and | private ventures in the field of farm | ¢rop insurance both in this country | and elsewhere. Public ventures in this country probably generally have been limited to hail insurance plans attempted by | some Western States, committee | spokesmen said. Data on govern- | mental insurance plans in foreign countries was believed limited to Ozechoslovakia. It is known crop- risk material assembled by the special | staff in recent months has been con- fined to wheat, cotton and corn, with completion of data reported in that order. | | Discussions Premising. Black said discussion of crop in- surance at farmer meetings during the next few weeks in connection with the 1937 A. A. A. program Was ex- pected to provide much material. “We will consult with farm leaders very closely,” Black said. The meet- ing here will include representatives of national farm organizations and A A A leaders, he added. Secretary Wallace called the or- ganization session, but he was sum- moned to Hyde Park yesterday for a conference with the President. Three of the five men named by the Presi- dent attended, including Black, H. R. Tolley, A. A. A. chief, and Wayne Taylor, Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury. Spokesmen at the Agriculture De- partment said the Hyde Park confer- ence between Wallace and Roosevelt, involved s Nation-wide radio address which Wallace will make Friday eve- ning. Lea‘gue (Continued From First Page.) in front of Haile Selassie’s hotel and cheered loudly. The effect of these developments upon Italy’s attitude may be serious. League sources opénly expressed fear that Italy not only will refuse to re- turn to the Assembly, but may even resign from the League. Haile Selassie, the Associated Press learned, rejected a plan under which he would have agreed to withdraw his delegation if some basis of compro- mise with Italy was reached on the entire Ethiopian problem. Important items on the official agenda waited their turn while the delegates pondered the mixed problem, with such matters as League reform, membership elections, the Locarno treaty situation and official reports of League officials held in obeyance. Dansig Committee Called. Only the committee charged with handling details of the Free City of Dansig, & League protectorate, was summoned to meet to discuss pre- liminary recommendations in the re- port of High Commissioner Sean Lester. The most-favored-nation clause in commercial treaties, an important fac- tor in United States t.rlde policy, was indorsed by the Permanent Economic Committee, The clause, said the re- port, “constitutes an essential guar- antee for the maintenance and devel- opment of world trade.” In the long run, the report stated, ricultural Economics which has been | d in the Mayflower Hotel yesterday. “1 marched over this street 41 years this white hat today. Putting on the og." Wildman and most of his fellows were determined on one thing—they were born a long time ago, but they are still as young as anybod; “We're just a lot of boys,” observed Samuel R. Yoho, who ran away from home on his 16th birthday to fight at | the battle of Nashville. Keeping Up His “Pep.” “Once a man, twice a child, you know. I'm keeping up my pep and when I lose it, I'm going to die.” In the Pennsylvania line was George I. Rudolph, keen of eye, stout, his shoulders thrown back squarely. “I'm the youngest man in this pa- rade,” he said. “I was wounded three times before I was 15—in the hand, in the forehead and in the left leg. If they hadn't winged me in the foot, there’s no telling how fast I'd run up Pennsylvania avenue. “I told them I was 18. We all told lies. We felt we had a moral right to. We were all fighters, no matter how young we were.” Rudolph was pleased with the pace, but not so two gray beards from New York. “This is the worst parade I ever was in in all my life,” complained Joseph Bauer, sr., of Rochester. His wide chest was hidden by scarlet ribbon, signifying he had been named officer of the day for the encampment. Terms It “Longest Funeral.” Frank E. Cooley, a past depart- mental commander of New York, agreed with him. “This is the longest funeral I ever went to.” Crowds along the sidelines cheered and whooped and clapped. Cooley looked reprovingly at the clappers. “Don’t do it so hard. You'll need arnica on your hands tomorrow.” “This is no march! You can't keep step.” A few yards ahead skipped W. H. Chesborough, adjutant of L. H. D. Crane Post, Beloit, Wis. He got a big hand for his jig to “You Can't Get Them Up in the Morning.” “Say, you can't keep me down. I've been walking every day for years. and I carried the flag as long as I can remember. Here, I've got Sherman’s signature in my pocket, too.” He dug deep while the reporter car- ried his flag, and came up with a tiny, browned slip of paper. On it was the signature, “Wm. T. Sherman. General.” Carried Message to Sherman. “I got that in '63. I carried a mes- sage to the general and he wrote out his autpgraph for me.” Par toward the rear came I W. Johnson, Martinsville, W. Va., to chal- lenge Rudolph as the “baby” of the de. | parade, “I went to war on my fourteenth birthday anniversary. Say, I even voted for Lincoln before I was 15. I voted for Grant before I was 21.” Cooley voted for Lincoln when he was 17. “I went on the theory that any soldier had the right to vote,” he said. Johnson had the longest beard of to | MY astonishment when I ran into him | Legion officials said 70,000 were in | the line of march—80 per cent of them in uniforms—and that the | ago, too. I came down with the Con- | number was far greater than ever | necticut department, 402 of us then, | paraded before. Black said the commission had not so many now, I reckon. We were | from 10 a.m. yesterday until 9:25 p.m. asked for actuarial data on crop Tisks SP2PPY then—white suits, white Grant | last night before all delegations had from a section in the Bureau of Ag- | hats. That's how come I'm wearing | completed their four-mile display. The line continued | Hundreds of Thousands Watch. | Even then, like the ebb tide of a | lively sea, the huge crowd that came i"“ see the Legion on display, variously | estimated at between 300,000 and 500.- 1000 persons, swirled and eddied | through downtown streets until long after midnight. Some dozen committee reports on national defense, foreign relations, Americanism and associated themes were on the docket for today. High | officials said no controversial issues were expected. Other items of business were se- lection of a 1937 convention city snd addresses by Orville C. Pratt, presi- dent of the National Education Aseo= ciation: J. E. Rankin, chairman of the House Committee on World War Vet erans’ Legislation, and John J. Hall on “Highway Safety.” Meanwhile, thousands of the vet- erans’ best musicians went through the band and drum and bugle corps contests for the titles held respeetively by the Pranklin Post, No. 1, of Cos lumbus, Ohio, and the San Gabriel, Calif., Post. Finals Tonight. The drum and bugle corps events | got under way at 7 am. in Cleveland | Stadium, where the Legion's big pa- | rade finished up last night, and the | qualifiers from a field of 66 units were to compete in the finals tonight. The | band contest was expected to be de- | cided late today. Harry L. Walker of Memorial Post, | No. 448, Duquesne, Pa., won the bugler contest today with a score of 99.65. Second in the field of 28 buglers was Mack Harp, Bonnie Sloan Post, No. 28, New Albany. Ind., who had 99.50 points. Charles Ray Rausch, Punke | hauser Post, No. 8, Evansville, Ind., was third at 99.30. The Nation's two largest-populated cities, New York and Chicago, to- gether with Los Angeles. Denver and Montreal, Canada, sought the 1937 gathering. The convention concludes tomorrow with selection of national officers and other wind-up business, | Campaign headquarters of Harry W. | Colmery, the Topeka, Kans. lawyer, | claimed “more than 750 votes” pledged | today to his candidacy, with 633 re- | quired for election. |~ Other candidates included Quimby Melton, the Griffith. Ga., editor, and | Ray Kelly of Detroit, whose managers said they were aiming at building up his campaign for 1937. the parade, its bottom strands swinging | against his belt buckle. | “Go away," he insisted. “I'm not | going to tell you how old I am. Think | T want these girls to know the truth?” | The girls along the sidelines by the | Washington Hotel had a big moment | when Bryon Johnson of Sidney, Ohio, arrived. Johnson suddenly stepped out of line and walked over to the curbh. “Hello,” he said to a beauty, and kissed her | squarely. At this, his colleagues all | broke ranks and hurried to the curb, where dozens of women were waiting to be kissed. 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