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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DELAYS EXECUTION][Washington % MILLION STILL N GRL SLAYING Carolina Supreme. Court ! ‘Grants Doomed Man Writ ‘%, in Clevenger Case. By the Associated Press. ! ‘RALEIGH, N. C., September 24— f'he scheduled execution of Martin re, 22-year-old colored giant F‘menwd to die in the lethal gas hamber here for the brutal slaying of Helen Clevenger, was postponed Yesterday by the State Supreme Court. ©'In granting the former hotel hall oy a writ of certiorari, the high tribunal agreed “tentatively at least™ 1o review his case the week of No- vember 3. +; The 6-foot-3 prisoner, convicted in Buncombe Superior Court August @2, had been sentenced to die Octo- Her 2. In the event the court finds no error in his trial procedure, he probably will be put to death during the latter part of December. Moore's appeal was made after he twice confessed, officials said, he-shot tige pretty, 18-year-old co-ed July 16 ine an Asheville hotel room and then clhibbed her to death with the butt of a pistol. <Referring to a motion to dismiss the dgomed man's appeal, made by At- terney General A. A. F. Seawell on te grounds notice was not given thin the specified time limit, the ;&h tribunal, in an opinion by Chief Jistice W. P. Stacy, found: #The motion of the attorney general 1< well advised and is supported by nymerous authoritfes. “On the other hand, the defendant’s tife is at stake, he shows merit, and ile he offers little or no excuse for laches, still we are disposed to hpld the State’s motion in abeyance and to grant him his writ.” Court officials said the procedure WAS very unusual L. China (Continued From First Page.) -— Hotect Japanese lives and property.” +The, protest against Japanese entry 1ito the Chinese-controlled area north ©f the International Settlement was sent to Japanese military authorities. 'ghey, however, Immediately rejected 1 without deigning to answer. *An official investigation of the ooting, which was fixed at 8 pm. ednesday, centered around the story thld by a Japanese eyewitness. Through lis testimony the innocence of the hinese suspect was established. In- vestigators said he was merely & pas- serby who was picked up in the ex- ditement. ! The Japanese witness was reported to have declared the attack on the three marines was staged by one Ghinese gunman. ¢ The witness said he was walking Hehind the marines and the Chinese who was following the Japanese. SBuddenly the Chinese whipped out a pistol, fired repeatedly at the marines and then dashed down a dark alley, the witness asserted. Excitement over the latest attack on Japanese nationals continued high within the Japanese community. The two wounded marines were reported improving. Self-Defense Claimed. : Admiral Kondo, in a proclama- tion urging his countrymen to remain calm, asserted the action of ; the Japanese forces “is based upon the right of self-defense.” “Its object is the protection of fives and property of Japanese .resi- dents here,” the naval commander declared. “We will not be lenient to those regarding Japanese nationals as enemies and who thereby threaten the peace and order of Shanghai.” The admiral's proclamation was in- terpreted as indicating the Japanese intend to continue strong independent action without reference to nationals of other nations in Shanghai. After the commander’s statement, a .Jap- enese naval attache said: ' “The Japanese navy is determined to see that the sacrifice of Japanese lives does not come to naught. Adher- ing to the motto ‘action before words,” we ‘shall act in accordance with our Judgment.” Reserve members of the Interna- tional Settlement volunteer deferise force, made up of resident foreigners, including many Americans and Fili- pinos, was ordered to stand by for ible emergency duty. The force cludes 1,500 men. Final Warning Reported. fsmgeru Kawagde, Japanese Am- dor- to China, was reported by e Domei (Japanese) News Agency fom Nanking to have “served a final ¥arning on the Chinese national government.” ) The agency also said Chang Chun, Chinese foreign' minister, was “aj parently alarmed by = developments” wnd called a conference of high gov- ernment officials, which resulted in sh urgent appeal for Generalissimo Ghiang Kai-Shek, military overlord the Nanking administration, to rpturn . from Canton. +Native newspapers - said Chiang would fly to Nanking tomorrow. JAPAN TO BRING PEACE. ' ) ‘PEIPING, September 24 (#).— Armed Japanese action against China was predicted today by Maj. Gen. ‘Takayoshi Matsumuro, chief of the Japanese military mission at Peiping. “China is a bad boy needing coer- ¢ion following the failure of more gen=- tle methods,” commented Matsumuro. “If he doesn't listen to Japan's peace- ful lessons, he is likely to have his face slapped. “Japan is determined to bring peace and order to China, if not in its en- tirety at least to North China.” —_— MAN ROBBED OF $22 Enocked Unconscious as He Offers Gift to Beggar. John H. Linsdell, 37, of 1736 G street, was knocked unconscious and robbed of $22 early today as he reach- ed into his pocket to comply with his assailant’s request for a dime. Linsdell told park police a heavily | built man accosted him as he was walking in the Ellipse behind the White House. As he reached into his pocket, the man struck him in the Jaw. When he regained consciousness he found his money gone. Linsdell was treated at Emergency ‘Hospital for face cuts. e Divorces Sea-Going Painter. BRADENTON, Fla, September 24 (P)—Circuit Judge W. T. Harrison yesterday granted Mrs. Zdenka Sawyer f New York a divorce from Allen G. wyer, master of the steamer Robin ‘and a painter, - % T Wayside Random Observations and Things. A-THOUGHTIN". N ANNANDALE, Va., youngster, A who would rather associate his school—even to the extent of playing hookey—got caught un- awares the other day. The youngster skipped school in the in pouring concrete in a foundation. The friend had built some bridges and the boy liked to play on them. His father caught him swinging his feet “What are you doing here this time of day,” the irate parent demanded. “I was just a-thoughtin’ ” the future scholar replied. REPORT. Every one knows that members 0f Congress are burdened by pat- ronage woes, but it takes an ex- Representative Ramspeck, Demo- crat of Georgia, to give an adequate picture of this job-seeking problem. Talking recently before the ment Employes, Ramspeck said that he had 30,000 applications in his files. In his district—the fifth—in * ok x % ARTIST. A CERTAIN Washington artist still is wondering what came over him prepare one of the most lavish break- fasts in a lifetime and then be unable | to consume it for lack of time. The man woke up with the thought ing him downstairs. He bathed, shaved and dressed with the same thought. Then he went to the kitchen and set about the preparation of the food, of Interesting Events with men than the boys of afternoon to join his friend, engaged from the bridge shortly after noon. * x * X% ample such as that furnished by Amerigan Federation of Govern- 1932, the total vote was 26,657. the other morning that led him to| of the delicious food which was await- growing hungrier by the moment. Finally, just as he was ready lo‘ sit down to the table, he glanced at the clock for the first time that morning. It showed he had but 2| | minutes to catch the last bus that would get him to the office on time. | He caught it, came downtown, drank a cup of coffee for breakfast and | snarled at his associates all day long. * % ok X HE DID. URING the recent hurricane some ‘Washingtonians were watching the mountainous waves from the Coast Guard station at Virginia Beach.” A visitor staggered In through the rain bathing suit, a bath robe which the wind had split, and a towel was wrapped around his head. | Over the towel he had pulled a damaged felt hat, and he was trying to smoke a wet cigar. “Captain, captain,” he said to the | officer in charge of the station, “will you please rescue my wife, captain?” “Where is your wife, sir?” de- manded the Coast Guard officer. “In that hotel over there.” “That hotel is quite substantial, sir.” “But my wife is under the bed, cap- tain. I tell you she won't come out. Five, or maybe six times this morning I called, ‘Mary, Mary, please come out from under the bed, here's a highball Jfor you,” but she hasn't come out yet.” “And what did you do with the highballs, sir.” “I drank them, captain.” * x x x GOLFER. HEN the golf bug bites, its victims stay. bitten. A certain Washington girl is living, breathing testimony of that fact in spite of the fact that she is just be- ginning to breathe freely again after many weeks in a sick bed. She had a first golf lesson two months ago. Her instructor, an ama- teur, swung his driver by way of showing how it should be done. The club head and the girl's head met at the end of the swing. The latter broke. and the girl has been in bed ever since. She is recovering now and intends to take her second lesson as soon as she is able. * ok ok x CHANGE. One of Washington’s principal “unofficial” playgrounds is going out of business with ground being broken for the mew courts layout, and youngsters around Fifth and F streets are disconsolate. Despite the active ministrations of police, the area fronting the General Accounting Office had served as a ball diamond in Sum- mer and gridiron in the Fall, and in recent months horse shoe pitch- ers were holding forth. But the section is all boarded up now; huge trees are falling be- fore the axe—and there’s nothing to be done about it. REPORTED NOTE WILLS BODY TO MEDICAL MEN Dakotan Who Died of Razor ‘Wounds Said to Have Given Re- mains to Surgeons’ College. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24.—The New York American says that Arthur H. Laemmle, Watertown, 8. Dak., teacher who was found dead in & Co- lumbia University dormitory Sunday, willed his body to the Columbia Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. Laemmle, who died of wounds from razor blades and a dagger found near his body, left a note indicating he in- tended to kill himself. Another note, the newspaper said, provided for the disposition of his body. The American quoted college offi- clals as. saying they had not been formally notified of the bequest. A | this and 60-mile wind. He was wearing a| OUTINGOLDNOTES Partially Repudiated Cur- rency Comes In at Rate of $200,000 Weekly. BY the Asioclated Press. ‘Three years after the New Deal ordered owners of gold certificates to turn over their holdings to Federal Reserve Banks, the Treasury today listed $98,905,429 of them as still in circulation. Officials said this figure was not entirely accurate, however, because some of the certificates undoubtedly are lost or destroyed or held in for- eign countries. They still are being turned in at the rate of about $200,000 a week, they sald, adding that in many cases they are withheld unintentionally. In some instances, the administrator or executor of an estate may discover a safe or vault containing gold cer- tificates. Sometimes the holders themselves either are unaware of the ban or have forgotten they hold the certificates. In other instances, the notes turn up in business transac- tions and are forwarded to the banks. Those who withhold gold certifi- cates are subject to a penalty twice the value of the notes, but on at- tempt is made to exact this when it is clear that failure to turn in the certificates was unitentional, Some cases, however, involve per- sons who knowingly withhold them. In one instance, a vault containing several thousand dollars of this cur- rency was discovered during an in- come tax proceeding. Numerous anonymous tips come to the Treasury and these are investi- gated by the Secret Service, REPORTER BARRED FROM COURT ROOM Asbury Park Judge Declares Newspaper Attempts to Ridicule Him, By the Assocrated Press. ASBURY PARK, N. J., September 24 —City Police Judge Eugene Capi- bianco ordered an Asbury Park Press reporter from his court room today and announced that any reporter from the newspaper “who comes into court room will be dealt with severely.” Press puts my name in the paper is to ridicule and embarrass me,” he said at the opening of court this morning, addressing the reporter, James P. No- lan “No man can say I've done any- thing that isn't proper,” the judge said. “I'm not afraid of the press, Lyle Kinmonth (the publisher) or his money. I'm not going to permit the press, Lyle Kinmonth and his cohorts to bring me before the public in ridi- cule and embarrassment.” The Press conferred with its coun- el to determine its course of action. . Will Address Ohio Voters. Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas and Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Joseph B. Keenan will address a | meeting of the Ohio Voters' League at 1500 Rhode Island avenue at 8 o'clock tonight. The league, composed of Ohio voters residing in Washington, has nearly 1,500 members. U. of M. S';udents Rally to Defense - Of One in Fracas Petition Is Circulated Asking Discipline Be Withheld. By the Associated Press. COLLEGE PARK, Md. September 24 —University of Maryland sopho- mores rallied to the defense of a fellow classman today by circulating & petition asking that he not be dis- ciplined for participation in a sopho- more-freshman fracas that ended the rule of the second-year students. University authorities had named no students in a formal statement that concluded with the assertion it had not been determined whether disciplinary action against any would be necessary. A report swept the campus, how- ever, that Arthur Greenfleld of Yonkers, N. Y., a transfer student from Lehigh College, faced possible charges of unnecessary roughness and the petition was circulated in his defense. More than 900 students signed the petition in the first hour it was cir- culated. The signers asserted they felt Greenfield was not to blame for the roughness of the soph-frosh struggle. Dr. Byrd called sophomore class officers into a conference yesterday and issuance of the statement fol- lowed. It said: “A group of sophomores and fresh- men apparently had decided differences of opinion about relationships be- tween the two classes. What started out as a matter of fun, according to all indications, developed for a few minutes into a not-unusual freshman- sophomore fracas. “As a result, officers and other mem- bers of the sophomore class met in conference and decided to discontinue all activities that have to do with attempts to force compliance on the part of freshmen with so-called- sopho- more-freshman rules, “Whether or not disciplinary action will be necessary in connection with some of the students has not yet been determined.” will start at once. | “The only time the Asbury Park POLITICS HINDERS 1. SHAKEUPPLAN Byrd Delays Hearings as Committee Members Wait Election. Chairman Byrd of the Senate com- mittee on reorganization of the ad- ministrative branch of the Govern- ment announced late yesterday that hearings on reorganization proposals must be postponed until after the elections—not because of any political effect on the election, but because he can't get the members of his com- mittee to take any interest until after the balloting. In the meantime, however, the Vir- ginia Senator expects some valuable work will be done through fact-find- ing studies being made by the Brook- ings Institution to show where dupli- cation and overlapping might be re- duced through regrouping. A “satisfactory” start was made yesterday on one of the important pre- liminaries at a conference between the President's and Senator Byrd's advisory committees of experts, which themselves overlap and duplicate in personnel. An effort is being made | to map out a course for each commit- tee so their studies may not conflict. Another conference is to be held in about two weeks. The President's special advisers— Louis D. Brownlow and Luther H. | Gulick, specialists in public service, |and Charles E. Merriam, expert in | economics—agreed that conflict should be avoided and emphasized the Presi- dent’s special aim to secure better “executive management” through a | direct contact with the various units of government. This would keep the President fully advised at all times on such problems as personnel, finance and administration, CONFEDERATE SEAL IS SOUGHT IN SUIT Action to Replevin Valuable Filed by Daughter of Former South Carolina Official. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, September 24.—Mrs. Helen Tillman Stanley, daughter of |James Hammond Tillman, former | Lieutenant Governor of South Caro- | lina, filed suit in Common Pleas Court yesterday seeking to replevin a gold i seal of the Confederacy, said to be | one of two in existence. Her suit was directed against her usband, Taylor Stanley, secretary h Co., and was part of litigation result- ing from her suit for divorce. She previously filed suit for $500,000 Ethan Bates Stanley, president of | the American Laundry Machinery Co., | charging he alienated her husband's | affections. In the replevin suit, Mrs. Stanley also seeks to recover a number of | other articles, including a portrait of of her grandmother, Mrs, George D. | Tillman, wife of a former Congress- man; & suite of bed-room furniture and personal wearing apparel. | of the American Laundry Machinery | damages against her father-in-law, | Freigliters Crash in Fog Here’s the superstructure of the Norwegian freighter Pluto, off Hunts Point, the Bronz, after an East River collision with the United States freighter New York in a dense fog. the Pluto is on the bottom of the river. None of those on board was injured, the Coast Guard aiding in rescue work. REAR ADMIRAL HENRY A. WILEY. Shipping (Continued h'omrl"hrmfl)’arge.) MAN CHASED HER, WOMAN CHARGES Truck Driver Stopped Delivering Bread to Pursue Her, She Tells Police. P a Staff Correspondent of The 3tar. TAKOMA PARK, Md, September 24.—A young woman's complaint that a bakery truck driver stopped deliver- ing bread to chase her down the street | and throw her to the ground about 6 oiclock yesterday morning led to the arrest of Anthony Sweeney, 30, of | Baltimore today. Sergt. Prank Lane said the young woman, 26, told him she was walking to work when the man started chasing her. She ran, screaming, into several yards, but no one came to help her, ac- cording to her story to police. The officer said she claimed the driver grabbed her at one point and threw her down, but finally returned to his truck. She was not injured, the officer re- ported. The prisoner, taken into custody at Baltimore and returned to the Rocke ville Jail, is charged with assault with intent to commit a statutory offense, according to Sergt. Lane. The alleged attack occurred near Carroll and Park avenues, B ‘Fixing” (Continued From Pirst Page.) Court 3uilding. One of these has three desks, the other two. Previously, cases were heard in the main office, where the three desks are located, but Hooe has decided to con- vert this into a private office for him- self and his staff. As a result most of the cases are now being heard in the smaller office and on several occasions members of the staff have been asked to leave the main office and hear cases in the other one. This bas resulted in some dissatis- faction, but Hooe said his purpose was to provide a place where he and members of the staff could work in private when privacy was desirable. Any member of his staff, he said, is welcome to use his office to hear cases where there is a need for privacy. resulted in much confusion in the outer office, and in some cases mem- bers of the staff have been obliged to hear complaints in the public cor- ridors in order to get their work done. Hooe said he intends to put another desk in the outer office, so there will be one for each assistant, and that he hopes to obtain additional space Night Final Delivered by Carrfer Anywhere in the City [ ) Full Sports Base Ball Scores, Race Resuits, 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 3Jervics Complete Market News of the In practice, however, this policy has | named by Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde Park last night. The three are Henry A. Wiley. re- tired Navy rear admiral of Haverford, Pa.; Rear Admiral Harry G. Hamlet, former commandant of the Coast | Guard, and George Landick. ir., chief | of the Planning Section of the Treas- ury's Procurement Division. The commissionerships pay $12,000 a year each. No word as to immediate activities was forthcoming from the three, but it was learned authoritatively that they intend to meet soon to lay the ‘The Shipping Board Bureau already | has done much “spade work.” Among other things, it has assembled data | showing about 350 new vessels— | freighters, tankers and passenger groundwork for the subsidy program. | D. C., THURSPAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936. Remainder of —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. REAR ADMIRAL HARRY G. HAMLET. boats—will be needed over the next few years to put the merchant marine in tip-top condition. These vessels would cost around $500,000.000. The board may grant construction subsidies up to 50 per cent. and oper- ators may receive authority to meet another 25 per cent of the total cost | through “installment” payments over a period of years. Both the construction and operating | subsidies will be based on the differ- ence between foreign costs and those in this country. ‘The board's first major task will be the formulation of procedume for sub- stituting the direct subsidies for ex- isting malil-carrying contracts, which EMBASSY REOPENED BY U. S. IN MADRID | | Refugees to Be Denied Shelter| Until Emergency Is Again Experienced. By the Associated Press. The American Embassy in Madrid has closed its doors as a place of | | refuge for Americans in the Spanish | | capital, but is open for regular busi- ness as usual. Eric C. Wendelin. Charge d'Affairs, | notified the State Department ot this | | yesterday. PEACE HOPE SEEN - IN GO-OPERATION Sir Willmott Lewis Tells Kensington C. of C. Non- Military War Rages Now. BY JACK ALLEN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON, Md., September 24, —Declaring no single power on earth is sufficient to prevent another general war such as that which plunged the world into conflict in 1914, Sir Will- mott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, told the Ken- sington Chamber of Commerce last night the only escape lies with the nations themselves. “The only hope as I see it,” the speaker tod some 200 members and guests of the civic body, “is for coe operation between the nations, es: pecially along the lines of trade, with the paramount object being the ime provement of economic conditions.” Sir Willmott asserted that the chief reason the world was free from a gen- eral conflict between 1815, when the Napoleonic wars ended, and 1914, when the World War began, was the fact that Great Britain wielded so much financial power and strength upon the sea 1t could force peace Co-operation Only Hope. “We come now to the twentiet tury, where no one nati strong and the world faced prevention of a general war crowning necessity of the day,” speaker stated. “A combination of the United States and Great Britain would be strong enough to prevent a world war, but I see no hope of a policy of that kind being adopted. The League of Nae tions cannot do it. The only hope, then, as I see it, is for co-operation between the nations to improve eco- nomic conditions.” He told his audience in this con- nection that the policies of S ta of State Cordell Hull regarding inte national trade have contributed greatly to the cause of peace. Sir Willmott stated that, whereas the Versailles treaty in 1918 ostensib} was a peace treaty, it actually mere marked the beginning of an ever- increasing non-military conflict be- tween the nations which has heen waged through the medium of higher tariffs, non-intervention treaties, mile itary pacts and other negotiations, “At War Now.” “Actuslly speaking,” he said. “we are at war now, but don't reali v because of its non-mil the | The action was taken in accord- | | ance with a warning given September | 15 to 38 American citizens who had | been sheltered for some time in the embassy. They were told then that those who persisted in refusing to | take advantage of means of escape from Spain would be required to leave | the embassy. It was said the embassy would be | closed to refugees until such time u' | @ renewed emergency forces it to re- | | open for that purpose. Yesterday's report gave no details | of the final departure of the refugees, | but said members of the embassy and | consular staffs had returned to their own residences within the city. Approximately 150 Americans still | | were in Madrid at last reports. 'ROPER IS SILENT ON AIR SHAKE-UP Refuses to Deny or Confirm Re- ports Vidal, Cone and Martin | Will Quit. | By tne Associated Press. | Without directly confirming or de- Sir Willmott st States cannot escape interdepende with the rest of the world and s every citizen is directly affected by trade practices “Your domestic activities Yyour money through taxation a | liquor through prohibition, bu | management of foreign aff. | take absolutely everything yo! even life itself,” he explained The address was made before the chamber’s Fall rally at the iocal ele- mentary school. W. I Cleveland. Capt. Chester A Wells and George C. Shinn wer elected delegates to the Montgomery County Civic Federation. th Wil liam Slattery, Charles S. Miner and Donald S. Bowie, jr, &3 alternates. (Continued From First Page.) known in Bradford. an oil town sit- | uated near the Pennsylvania-New York border. Nine of them—all except Miller and Miss Benson—were charged in 30 counts with ualawfully using the mails in execution of a scheme to defraud. | Another count charged them with must be terminated by July 1, 1937. | nying reports of an impending shake- | COnspiracy. The commission will have about up among top personnel of the Bureau United States District Att $100,000.000 in cash, which will be of Air Commerce, Secretary Roper Charles Uhl said his #nves turned over by the Shipping Board said yesterday “no resignations are :n | Showed the bank's losses were traced | and the Post Office Department, and about $87.000,000 in notes receivable | now held by the Shipping Board. “Id Sock Brund By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 24— Eleanor Holm Jarrett doesn't have head of the American Olympic Com- mittee, who returned to New York today from Germany, “but I'd like to bump into him.” “I'd give him a good swift kick. I would,” she laughed. guy and run like the devil.” Mrs. Jarrett, who was dropped from the United States swimming team on charges of breaking training regula- | tions, ended a theater appearance with her. husband in Philadelphia today | and will go to New York tomorrow. She wondered if Brundage would still be there then and asked what kind of reception he got on his arrival from Europe. “I suppose all his stooges were there,” she remarked, laughing again. Informed that Brundage said he did not intend to seek re-election as presi- ROCKEFELLER SEES DONATIONS HIS DUTY anything to say to Avery Brundage, | “I'd sock the age and Run,” Says Eleanor Holm Jarrett dent of the A. A. U, Mrs. Jarrett sug- | getsed, “He'd better not.” “Why?” don't think he'd get elected any- | how.” When told that Brundage said the | committee probably would arrive at the same decision if it had to con- sider Mrs. Jarrett's case again, the famous swimmer remarked: “Oh, he did huh? Fooey. She appeared surprised at the state- | ment that the committee was respon- sible for her dismissal and not Brun- dage alone. “Oh, he doesn't want to take the credit now,” she remarked. “He's go- ing to give the others a break in the papers now after all that bad public- ity.” Mrs. Jarrett was roused from bed for a telephore interview and felt she was “not in very good humor.” Never- theless, she took the whole affair in a humorous vein and laughed throughout. ing such information and presenting it, without danger to the Republic, other than through- contributions by individuals to such parties.” As a result of these beliefs, the state- Replies to Democratic Critics of Contributions to Maine G. 0. P. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 24.—John | D. Rockefeller, jr., was on record to- | day as believing it is & right and duty of citizens to make such contributions as they wish “toward the legitimate expenses of the political party in whose principles and leadership we | have faith.” He replied to Democratic criticisms of Rockefeller contributions to the Maine Republican campaign in a statement issued last night on’behalf of himself, his wife and his son John. Rockefeiler emphasized in the state- ment that his 93-year-old father, John D. Rockefeller, sr, had made no con- tribution. Saying “we have all our lives been members of the party to which we contributed,” Rockefeller asserted that he, his wife and son have resided in Maine part of each year and “we are intensely interested in the State and all that concerns its welfare.” The statement said the Rockefellers believed political parties were the best agencies for submitting to-the voters *such information and argument * * * needed for correct decisions on pub- lie jssues,” and thit “we know no method of meeting the eosts of gather- A ment said, “the members of my family and I have made no contributions whatever to other organizations which are taking a part, large or small, in the present campaign.” The farm vote. don believes clearly has no wish or intention to hold the farmers in Federal leading strings, or manacles, as prominent wards of the Government. The New Deal statements on farm policy, which coincide 80 seriously with the Republican pronouncements, are very evidently designed to take the wind out of the sails of Gov. Landon’s proposals. revealing that after three years of absolute power to do anything they chose about the farm situation, the up the Republican counter offering. claim, they had it in mind, there was nothing to prevent them from trying it long ago. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. INCINNATI, September 24—Gov. Landon in his speech at Des Moines met every bid the New Deal has made for the Specifically, the difference seems to be one of method. Actually, the difference is that Mr. Lan- my hands.” | The reports said Eugene Vidal, di- rector, and J. Carroll Cone and Rex | Martin, assistant directors, would quit | and be replaced by a single directing | head—possibly Fred D. Fagg, Jr.| counscl for the Senate committee in- | quiring into the air crash in which | Senator Cutting of New Mexico was | killed. | “There is an internal and #n ex- | | ternal administration to every depart- | ment.” Roper told his press conference, | describing the reports as “some of the external administration.” He said he had received no resigna- | tions from the three officials and, in | response to further questions reiterated | his statement about “external admin- | istration.” “I wonder where these reports come | from,” Vidal told reporters. heard that same story that I am going | to resign every week for two and a half years." GEORGE E. HARTLEY, 82, DIES AT BLADENSBURG recial Dispatch to The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., September | 24.—George Edward Hartley, 82, old- | est local resident and native of this town, died at his home this morning after & long illness which developed into pneumonia. A retired brick mason, Mr. Hartley is survived by four children, Comdr. | Henry Hartley, U. S. N., stationed in California; William Hartley of Hy- attsville; Mrs. Archie McFarland and Mrs. Clarence Rogers, both of Bla- densburg. | Funeral services will be held on | Sunday, althcugh details have not | been completed. sound recovery is possible, and It is New Dealers are so ready to take If, as they “I have | back to a bookkeeper's stock market speculation in 1926, The bookkeeper, J. Reed Campbell, was found dead in his garage from monoxide fumes in June. 1931, after the stock market “crash.” The circum- stances of his death were similar to the case of Calkins four years later. Uhl said Calkins had attempted to “cover up” Campbell's losses through fradulent and irregular methods, and that the activities involved the others. ‘Cave Bride,’ 14, Not Married, Avers Mother Court to Pass on Honeymoon Spentin Kentucky Woods. By the Associated Press | CINCINNATI, September 24— Fourteen-year-old Vera Grimes, “cave bride” of a Kentucky tenant farmer, | was to go before Hamilton County | Juvenile Court officials today after trading a couch of leaves, brush and cardboard for white sheets and a pil- | low at home. Mrs. Peter Grimes of nearby Cleves, mother of the girl, denied there had been a marriage to Ben Porter, 19, with whom Deputy Sheriff Boyd Downey of Bowling Green, Ky., said he found her living in the cave. In Gallatin, Tenn., however, County Clerk Hub Purdue said Porter came to his office yesterday, seeking a copy of a marriage certificate. “He had no money to pay for the fee for getting it,” said Purdue, “so I gave him one without cost.” Purdue declared he issued a license September 19 to Porter and “Perry” Grimes, neither of whom gave their ages or home addresses. Mrs. Grimes quoted Vera, whom she allowed no one to see, as saying she did not marry Porter. “Vera and I will confer with juvenile workers in Cincinnati” the mother said, “but there’ll be no an= nulment, because there was no mar= riage.” Inspection of the honeymoon “apartment,” located in the Lost River community a short distance from Porter's home, disclosed only an improvised bed of leaves and brush, covered with cardboard. The couple lived in a small alcove near the mouth of the rather spacious cave. Members of Porter’s tenant-farm- ing family said Vera “begged” meals in the neighborhood and at cafes in Lost River during a three weeks' abode. The girl had lived in the cave for some time after she was taken into custody and released after four days’ detention. (Copyright, 1936.) Deputy Downey id the couple took to the cave fi\;&e of crowded conditions at the home. There are eight in the family, he said. t