Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1936, Page 4

RED CROSS DRIVE SPEED-UP URGED Gain in Momentum of Cam- paign Sought After En- couraging First Day. Although encouraged by the results of the first day's drive, which brought irr more than 1,600 members, volunteer workers strove today to quicken the pace of the District Red Cross’ twen= tieth annual membership campaign. A total enrollment of 1,685 was re- ported to roll call headquarters at 1416 H street this morning. The goal 1s 65,000 before midnight October 16. By noon todgy a total of 1,880 mem- berships had been reported. The house-to-house solicitation group was to start its calls this afternoon, while solicitation captains in 57 apartment houses reported letters had been dis- tributed to 6,500 apartment dwellers. ‘The majority of yesterday's re- turns were reported from the Gov- ernment solicitation division, headed by Gen. Fred W. Boschen, chief of Armv finance, and the real estate and banking unit, headed by Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs Na- tional Bank. Several Units Report. Among the Government units. re- porting were P. W. A., Railroad Re- tirement Board, Veterans' Adminis- tration, Refuse Department of the District government, Resettlement Administration, Supreme Court, Budget Bureau and Export-Import Bank. Other memberships came from the following financial or real estate con- cerns: Floyd E. Davis Co., Columbia Permanent Building Association, L. E. Breuninger, Thomas E. Jarrell, Peyser & Dreyfuss, Howenstein Bros., Riggs Bank, Alexander Brown & Son, W. E. Booker & Co. and Loomis, Sayles Co. “Good progress” was reported by & number of other enrollment units. Dr. Donald Knowlton of the pro- fessional solicitation corps said re- turns from his group indicated the membership total would be ‘“higher than ever before.” Flight Is Postponed. The scheduled flight today of 15 Army pursuit planes from Langley Field, Va, which were to have flown over the city in Geneva cross forma- tion to call attention to the Red Cross drive, was postponed until tomorrow because of poor weather conditions. Mrs. John Arrowsmith was desig- nated last night to have charge of house-to-house solicitation in George- town, replacing Mrs. W. J. Peter, who is ill. At a tea yesterday in the District Red Cross Chapter House, 1730 E street, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, chair- man of house-to-house solicitation, and Miss Mabel T. Boardman, direc- tor of volunteers, gave final instruc- tions to the 300 volunteers who will conduct the house-to-house drive and supervise enrollment in the down- town booths to be set up next week. Janet Clapper, 12-year-old daugh- ter of Raymond Clapper, newspaper columnist, gave another of her talks on the Junior Red Cross, of which she is & member, at a meeting of the Newcomers’ Club at the Carleton Ho- tel yesterday. Winant (Continued From First Page.) Fouse, was immediately relayed by telegraph to Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y. Text of Letter. The letter follows: On August 14, 1935, the social se- eurity act became law. The admin- istration of its major provisions was intrusted to a board of three members. Under the law not more than two members of the board could be “members of the same political party.” You named me to the board as a Republican and as the minority member my appointment was confirmed by the Senate August 23, 1935, together with the other two members, without objection. It was clearly the intention of Congress to create & non-partisan board, with personnel protected under civil service, and to insure non- partisan administration of the act. It has been so adminstered. The act itself was viewed as & non-partisan, humanitarian measure. Three times as many Republicans in Congress voted for the social se- curity act as voted against it. Wanted to Help Humanity. Having seen the tragedy of war, 1 have been consistently interested in the ways of peace. Having seen some of the cruelties of the depression, I have wanted to help with others in lessening the hardships, the suffering, and the humiliations forced upon American citizens because of our previous failure as a nation to pro- vide effective social machinery for meeting the problems of dependency and unemployment. curity act is America’s answer to this great human need. The references to the problems of social security in the platform of the Republican party were disappointing. It was my hope that the position of the presidential nominee might be less so. Today we know that both the Re- publican platform and the Republican candidate have definitely rejected the constructive provisions of the social security act, only to fall back upon the dependency dole—a dole with a means test, which in my State in- cludes the pauper's oath and disen- franchisement. Cites Support. #The statements that provisions of this act are “a fraud on the working man” and “a cruel hoax” I believe are untrue. They are charges with regard to & measure had the support of 372 meimbers of the House of Rep- resentatives, as against 33 opposed— which met with the approval of 77 members of the United States. Sen- ate with only 6 against—which was upheld by the votes of Senator Hiram Johnson, Senator La Follette, Sena- tor Costigan, Representative b measure which was advocated by such advisers to the Committee on Eco- ic Security as President Green of the American Federation of Labor, President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, Miss Grace Abbott, former chief of the Children's Bureau, and Msgr. John A. STEAMSHIPS. BERMUDA VIA FURNESS. $50 up. round 3 ivate bath. Frequent sallings direct to dock of Hamilton. Furness Ber- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOXN, Two Kinds of Red Cross Life Saving In the top picture living models demonstrate how the Red Cross saves the lives of drowning victims, while below a young woman is doing her share to make possible such life-saving activities. The artificial respiration demonstration is going on in a department store window as part of the campaign to adver- tise the current Red Cross membership drive. The international aspect of the Red Cross is stressed in the second picture, for it's Mlle. Marie Therese de Laboulaye, daughter of the French Am- bassador, pinning a button on Miss Beverly Bond, 4327 Fourth street, at campaign headquarters, 1416 H street. & —Star Staff Photos. Ryan of the National Catholic Wel- The social se- | fare Conference. Foresaw Many Changes. I have never assumed that the social security act was without fault I had assumed and even hoped that time and experience might dictate many and important changes. As you stated when you signed the act on August 14, 1935: “This law represents a cornerstone in the structure which is being built, but is by no means complete.” But Governor Landon's address at Milwaukee on the social security was not a plea for the im- provement of the act; it was a plea to scrap the act. I am interested in the social se- curity program not from a partisan viewpoint. I am interested in it as a humanitarian measure. Governor Landon has made the problem of social security a major issue in this | campaign and I cannot support him. | I do not feel that members of in- dependent commissions or boards, such as the Social Security Board, should take an active part in poli- tics and moreover, I was appointed and confirmed as the minority member. While I retain this position I am not free to defend the act. Therefore, I am tending you my resignation as a member of the Social Security Board. No work I have ever undertaken seemed more worthwhile to me than my brief service on the Social Security Board. May I thank you for the opportunity of this service and join you in defending it. TWO TRUCK DRIVERS CLEARED IN DEATH Two Capital Transit Co. truck drivers, William Dooley, jr, and Charles Gilroy, were exonerated by a coroner’s jury yesterday in the death of Frank Gill,"8, colored, of the 600 block of Virginia avenue southeast. Gill was struck while crossing the street near his home on September 23. An autopsy performed by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald showed the boy's death was the result of a broken back and a fractured skull. Dooley lives at 1618 Potomac avenue southeast and Gilroy at 411 Twelfth street southeast. The former was driving an emergency truck, which was towing a truck in charge of Gilroy. ctter frinting Wins MARYLAND SPEECH SLATED BY LANDON Candidate Due to Talk in Baltimore Armory on October 27, By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 29 —The Maryland Republican State Central | Committee announced yesterday Gov. | Alf M. Landon will make one of his closing campaign bids in an address | here October 27—just one week prior to the presidential election. William P. Lawson, State Repub- lican chairman, said a parade would escort the nominee to the 5th Regi- ment Armory, where the address will be delivered. Selection of the date was not com- municated directly to party head- quarters here, Lawson said. He add- ed that arrangements had been made with the major broadcasting com- panies for radio time at 9 p.m. on October 27. “We have not received a confirma- tion from Topeka,” he explained, “but that is the inference. “We are awaiting definite instrut- tion before going ahead with prepara- tions for the meeting. We can safely say that the 5th Regiment Armory will be jammed for Gov. Landon's| address and that he will be escorted | to the armory by a parade.” Party headquarters was without information as to the duration of the | Kansan's stay here or the route to| be followed on the tour. Col. Frank | Knox, candidate for the vice pres- idency on the Landon ticket, will | speak here October 8. . Bacon Named Hotel Manager. ‘Waldo A. Bacon, who formerly was connected with the Lafayette, Wash- ington and Raleigh hotels, has been appointed manager of the Houston Hotel, it was announced today. He succeeds J. C. Vanstory, who resigned. Bacon came here in 1912. He also opened and operated the Hotel Mon- ticello, Charlottesville, Va., for several years. DEATH OF WOMAN WILL BE PROBED Inquest Set Tomorrow in Case of Mrs. Watkins. 3 Men to Be Called. An inquest will be held tomorrow in the case of Mrs. Sadie Watkins, 36, who was found dead under suspicious circumstances on a blood-spattered bed in & rooming house at 303 D street last Saturday. Three men, one of them described by police as the common-law husband of the woman, will be summoned. They have been held since the investigation started. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald set the inquest for 11:30 a.m. after decid- ing it was the task of a jury to de- termine whether Mrs. Watkins was slain or died as the result of an acci- dent. A battered coffee pot and a blood- stained knife were found in the room near the body, but police have pointed out that the pot may have been dented | during a drinking party and the blood on the knife could have come from the woman’'s nose, which, the prisoners have told police, was broken in a fall. An autopsy revealed that Mrs. Wat- kins died of a ruptured heart. She is understood to have been drinking heavily, and Dr. MacDonald said this could have caused the rupture. The trio held are: Robert Taylor Wood, 35, of Richmond. Va, who police said, had been living with Mrs. Watkins; John McGarrgle, 33, of 212 Indiana avenue and Edward Thomas Sellers, 32, of no fixed ad- dress. Wood and McGarrgle were arrested before the body was discovered, when police were informed they had beer talking in a restaurant about a “cold and discolored” corpse. AEs Palen READY FOR TRAFFIC Widened and improved through & P. W. A. grant, F street between Seventh and Ninth streets will be opened to traffic tomorrow morning, it is announced by Highway Director H. C. Whitehurst. To make the plan effective it was necessary to remodel the steps of the portico on the south side of the old Patent Office Building. The change in the street removes a “bottle neck” which was created by a jog in the street at Seventh and Ninth, Fair Special to Leave. RALEIGH, N. C., September 29 (#). —The Raleigh “State Fair Special,” & bus motorcade, will leave here to- morrow for a two-day tour of Eastern North Carolina. Steer's Digestion Continuous. Recently-taken pictures of the in- terior of a steer’s stomach show that the digestive process is continuou: - Heching May Indicate GLAVIS RETURNS | FROMMAINE PROBE Chief Investigator for Sen- ate Body Seeks Confer- ence With Chairman. Ey the Associated Press. Louis Glavis, chief investigator for the Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures, returned to the Capital today from Maine and sought an immediate conference with Chairman Lonergan of the committee. Glavis declined to discuss the results of his investigations in Maine, which covered funds used by both parties. ‘The committee yesterday announced Glavis would proceed immediately to Pennsylvania to investigate charges of political coercion and intimidation in ‘Works Progress Administration activ- ities and also would continue his in- vestigation of alleged vote coercion of workers in industrial plants in that State. Charges of W. P. A. coercion have been made by several Republican lead- ers. Lonergan also said he found Democratic charges of coercion in ::gmylunh industrial plants “justi- Presents Affidavit. The decision to investigate the W. P. A. situation followed an appear- ance of Senator Davis, Republican, of Pennsylvania, before the committee. He presented the affidavit of Jack Dathe, Easton, Pa, who said he was advised he would be “replaced” as W. P. A. timekeeper after refusing to ;on:’nbuw to the Democratic campaiga und. “If complaints are made,” Lonergan said, the committee may carry the W. P. A. inquiry into other States. Steel workers swore, on the other hand, they had been told “how to vote” and that at least one, an em- ploye for 25 years, had been dis- charged after refusing to change his registration from Democratic to Re- publican. Lonergan showed reporters “sam- ples” of 27 affidavits, mostly from steel workers, which he said backed up the charges of industrial intimida- tion in the Aliquippa plant of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. and the Clairton plant of Carnegie-Illinois. Ask Postal Report. Charges that the free postage privi- lege had been misused by Democrats, in the Michigan campaign were re- ferred by the committee yesterday to the Post Office Department, With a request for a report. An unnamed Texas oil company will be “warned,” Lonergan added, of charges that requests for Republican | votes were put into its employes’ pay | envelopes. | In Harrisburg, Pa., M. Harvey Tay- lor, Republican State chairman, wel- comed the committee’s investigation of “the W. P. A. political scandal” and said his committee had “affi vits, photostats, pictures and infor- mation” enough to keep the investi- gators “busy from now until the 1940 election.” David L. Lawrence, Democratic State chairman, said Republicans “sponsored wild reports and sensa- tional charges against W. P. A.” but have failed “to unearth any substan- tial evidence or even anything re- sembling evidence” of irregularities. Raids (Continued From First Page) liquor and narcotics. Customs agents seized 1,200 pills said to contain nar- cotics aboard a ship arrived from the Orient, Arrests Reported. Harold N. Graves, who directed the drive, said 990 arrests had been re- ported up to noon. Of the total arrests, 456 were on charges of narcotics violations, 406 for alcohol tax violations, 24 under cus- toms laws and 104 for counterfeiting. In Detroit, Secret Service agents seized what Graves described as a com- plete outfit for manufacturing spurious silver certificates. . At St. Louis, he said, an illicit still with a daily capacity of 1,000 gallons was seized and at Westborough, N. Y., & 1500-gallon still was taken. 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Anslinger, nar- cotics commissioner, reported that Edward Stey, a German whom he described as an important figure in an international narcotics ring, had committed suicide in Shanghai last Saturday. Anslinger said Stey was a member of & ring headed by Naftale Loffel- holz Brandstatter, who also commit- ted suicide aboard the steamship Oriente one day out of New York Sep- tember 4 while Government agents were waiting there to arrest him. Although Anslinger said that other members of the ring are still alive, he added that “it is pretty well broken” by the two suicides. He attributed the two suicides to fear of apprehension or to some other factor connected with what he called the men’s “narcotics operations.” The Nation-wide drive yesterday was the first such broad offensive since March, 1935. At that time 2,000 per- sons were arrested, and Treasury offi- cials said that when final figures are in the latest drive may approach that total. DRIVE IN RICHMOND, 200 More Drug Addicts Expected to Be Rounded Up. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September 29.— Twenty-six persons were arrested here yesterday by Federal narcotic agents and Richmond police. Eight were charged with violation of the Harri- son narcotic act and the remaining 18 with being persons “not of good fame."” B. M. Martin, Southeastern narcotics supervisor, predicted the arrest of “every dope addict in Richmond” and estimated the number would “easily come to 200 or more.” - Farm Bureau to Extend Building. LURAY, Va., September 29 (Spe- cial). —The Page County Farm Bu- reau is having the hill leveld in front of its building preparatory to building an extension to take care of its huge volume of business. NEW GALLINGER BUILDING URGED Dr. Bocock Cites Growing Needs, Especially as to Obstetrics. Construction of a new ward build- ing at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, to meet the growing needs for service, particularly in obstetrical cases, was urged by Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, super- intendent, in his annual report to the Board of Public Welfare. Reporting that more than 18,000 persons—or about 4 per cent of the entire population of the District— sought medical care at the institu- tion in the past year, Dr. Boccok sald there is little likelihood the average daily population at the hospital again would fall below 800 patients. During the first six months of the calendar year 1936, he sald, the aver- age reached nearly 900 at all times. For the first two months of this pe- riod the average rather considerably exceeded 900. Arguing the need for an additional ward building, he said: “Crowded conditions have prevailed, particularly in the medical and surgi- cal services. By the use of an annex the obstetrical service has been able | to handle its problems without undue overcrowding. The isolation division has been comfortably filled but not overcrowded at any time, while the tuberculosis division is now abie to meet its demands reasonably well. “A crying need is felt for additional | accommodations for housing obstet- | rical patients, and if this were avail- able those beds now occupied by ma- ternity cases should be used with | benefit to allow added space for gyne- | cological patients, thus greatly reliev- ing congestion throughout the hos- pital.” Dr. Bocock declared that during the peak Winter-month periods patients | in some wards had to be placed in' corridors, which “greatly detracts from the efficiency of medical and nursing case.” A second drawback, he said, is lack of sufficient nurses. In many ine stances, he said, it is almost impos- sible to have carried out the orders of the visiting physicians. Nearly 100 more patients were treated daily in the last fiscal year than in the pre- ceding year, without any increase in nurses. 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