Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1936, Page 4

JOHNSON ASSALLS SPEECH BY PEEK Declares Charge Roosevelt Broke Promise Is Untrue. '8y the Assoctated Press. . PHILADELPHIA, October 1.— Hugh 8. Johnson, former N. R. A. chief, said last night “every charge of a broken promise” which George N. Peek, former farm administrator, laid at the door of President Roose- velt was “untrue.” In a broadcast address, Johnson said & speech by Peek last Monday night was “the most unfair attack that has yet been launched at the President.” Recalling that he and Peek had written a pamphlet in 1921 entitled "Equality for Agriculture,” Johnson said Peek fought for 12 years “to force the principles of the book into the law of the land,” before they were accepted by President Roosevelt. Approved of Program. Now, he said, “Mr. Peek charges Mr. Roosevelt with breaking promises to farmers. * * * I propose to prove beyond peradventure that every tharge of a broken promise on which Peek suppprts his desertion is un- true.” Johnson asserted the former agri- cultural adjustment administrator said the President had broken a prom- ise by reducing agricultural tariffs, %especially with Canada.” “Mr. Peek knew and approved Mr. Roosevelt's tariff and reciprocal-trade ¥oncy before it was announced in 932,” Johnson said. He added the President’s promise was “not to lower any tariff without getting a lowered farift in return.” Does Not Like Trades. “Mr. Peek was never an opponent ©f reciprocal tariff,” Johnson said. “It was only that Mr. Peek does not fike the particular trades that have been made. * * * Mr. Peek and Mr. Landon just think they can trade Detter than Mr. Roosevelt. Maybe so. * * * But when Mr. Peek goes from his disagreement with the kind of trade to the length of saying that Mr. Roosevelt has violated a promise to farmers by making any icade at 8lL he is misleading agriculture.” Johnson quoted Peek as saying *Roosevelt promised a benefit on farm-export crops equivalent to the tariff and, instead of doing so, paid farmers for not planting.” “The implications of this highly @equivocal statement are a repudiation by Mr. Peek of every word he has said since 1921, Johnson said. He ,nid Peek's goal was to attain a “farm-price parity,” and that this also was the goal of Mr. Roosevelt. “How was that to be done? By all the means that were written in A. A. A * * * What happened to that promise, which was the only promise to be made by President Roosevelt? Farm prices have increased from about 50 per cent of parity to about 98 per cent of parity., The promise is ful- filled.” Sarah Churchill To Do a Dance in U. S. Stage Debut Denies She Is Appearing With Vic Oliver, Comedian. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October 1. — Sarah Churchill, the theatrically minded daughter of the British statesman, Winston Churchill, will do a little dance number in her stage debut here today. In the same company will be Viec Oliver, the comedian, whose name bas been linked romantically with bexs. “I'll do a dance—a toe ballet—with the girls. Oh, no, I'm not appearing with Mr. Oliver,” she explained. * “Indeed, no,” the curly haired, 38- year-old comedian said. “I don't @ance.” +“And I don't talk,” Miss Churchill replied. They both laughed. Part of Oliver's act is a monologue. ‘The young English girl declined to discuss her reported romance with ©Oliver. “Our relations are really pro- fessional,” she said. Her brother, Randolph, followed her o the United States to cover the pres- {dential campaign for a London news- paper, she said. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Carlists Join » Drive_ YT v Wearing typical red berets, these newly recruited Carlists, who want restoration of the mon- archy, march out of San Sebastian to join Fascists in their assault on the loyalist stronghold of Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay. GEL LSS WOOH DES IV HOSPTAL Death Was Attributed to Shock Due to Fractured Hip in Fall. Mrs. Eleanora Bliss, 83, widow of Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, chief of staff during the World War, died yesterday at Walter Reed Hospital. Death was attributed to shock, due to a hip fracture suf- fered more than a week ago in a fall at her home, 1842 Kalorama been a constant companion of her husband in his 50 years of Army service. During the peace confer- ence in Paris shortly after the war, when Gen. Bliss was peace commissioner, Mrs. Bliss was hostess to premiers and military leaders of the allied governments. A npative of Lewisburg, Pa., Mrs. Bliss was a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George W. Anderson. Her fa- ther was s member of the faculty of Lewisburg Academy, which later be- came Bucknell University. She was married to Gen. Bliss when he was & leutenant with the 1st United States Artillery. Surviving Mrs. Bliss are her son, Col. Edward Goring Bliss, who is gen- eral commercial manager of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. here; a daughter, Mrs. Adolph Knopf of New Haven, Conn., and a granddaughter, Elizabeth Goring Bliss. Tentative plans are for private fu- neral services to be held tomorrow in Fort Myer Chapel, to be followed by burial beside Gen. Bliss in Arlington National Cemeétery. ~ Mrs. Bliss. Peru has taken control of explo- sives. CANDIES TASTE BETTER POWER CONFEREES SEEK JOINT ACTION Agree Savings “Possible” in Pooling Public and Pri- vate Electricity. By the Associated Press. With & Government official and & utility executive agreed “there might be savings” in pooling public and pri- vate electricity, experts continued to- day their search for a possible basis for joint action in the Tennessee Val- ley area, Opening & series of informal dis- cussions expected to continue during the next few weeks, the experts pre- pared to explore “further and in de- tail,” the plan of pooling power re- sources outlined to them at a White House conference yesterday. Other experts will seek an agree- ment between the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Commonwealth and Southern Corp. to extend, meantime, the present agreement between them. ‘The broad pooling plan, if effected, would replace the present contract under which the Government sells power to the private utility, officials said. Their present contract expires November 3. After President Roosevelt discussed the power pool with a dozen power men in a series of conferences yester- —A. P, Photo. day, Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal Power Commission joined Wendell L. Willkie, president of the Commonwealth and Southern Corp., in a statement, saying: “It appeared from the discussion of experiences here and abroad that there might be savings made in pool- ing of transmission which would be beneficial to the public and the in- vestors.” Although McNinch said the White House talks had been limited to the Southeastern section of the country, President Roosevelt earlier had ex- pressed hope that regional pooling of power might be worked out, too, in the Bonneville Dam area on the Co- lumbia River, and on other large pub- lic works projects. Morris L. Oooke, rural electrifica- tion administrator, described the pool- ing problem as “exceedingly com- plicated.” Although the administra- tion is not considering a national electric power “grid” such as Eng- land has, he said, the regional pool “is the same type of thing.” ‘The English system, under which a central corporation purchases power from various generating plants and resélls it to transmission companies, took nearly 15 years to develop as a co-ordinated distributing system, Cooke said, Estate Valued at $1,150,000. Valuation of $1,150,000 has been placed on the estate left by George Baylis of Boxford, England, who was one of the first to apply scientific methods, to agriculture and was 1aughed at for his pains. As smart as a COLLEGE PROFESSOR ; & and As sturdy as U. S. STEEL! HESE smartly tailored “CAM- ELOT” Worsted suits are mighty popular with men who want suits that will wear longer, retain their shape and require less frequent pressing. 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In addition, Smith came down from Albany and took the stump for him. But Bleak- ley, known as “the uncle of West- chester County,” came through with a margin of 30,000 votes, the largest majority a judicial candidate had ever received in the stanchly Repub- lican district. Bleakley is a burly, ruddy, dimple- cheeked man, a few weeks short of 52, his surprisingly youthful and jovial face bubbling under a cap of iron gray hair, brushed straight back. He was born in Westchester County, where his ancestors before him had been born all the way back to 1803. He inherited his Republicanism. His grandfather organized the Republican party in the district and led it to its first victory. Early Education. He was born November 11, 1884, at tended Peekskill High School and Cor- nell University and began the practice of law with the Yonkers firm of Bren- nan & Curran. Seven years later he was admitted to & partnership. At the age of 20 he was appointed & member of the Board of Education in Yonkers, and, in 1917, when he was 33, he was elected city judge. Four years later, Gov. Nathan Miller appointed him to the county bench to fill an unexpired term and Democrats joined Repub- licans in nominating him for & full term. He has been a justice of the State Supreme Court since 1927. Friends report that Bleakley's steady upward rise in politics can be traced to his enormous capacity for work. He undertook all sorts of extra- curricular activities and, despite the pressure of his numerous tasks, man- aged to keep his hand in at golf, hand ball, bowling, billlards and quoits, managed to make himself a force in the Knights of Columbus, the Elks, Red Men and New York OCTOBER 1, 1936 i §if i‘. M g;i;éE ment and pay-as-you-go policy that restored credit and enabled the com- munities to make up arrears in coun- ty government costs. In 1934 he helped in the creation of a corporation which handled the business of three mortgage certificate companies whose $100,000,000 worth of real estate had been taken over by the State insurance department. Bleakley has three children—Wil- liam P, 23, James Robert, 31, and Margaret Mary, 18. Reared in the religion of his mother, he is a devout Catholic. His heavy guns in the campaign will be trained on Gov. Lehman’s re- fusal to cut the cost of government and the increase in State taxes. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, inc.) 3-PLATOON PLAN FOR FIREMEN DIES Commissioners Sympathetic, but ~ Point to Lack of Funds. Establishment of a three-platoon system for the District Fire Depart- ment, no operating on & two-platoon plan, has been rejected by the Com- missioners because of the shortage of funds facing the District during the next fiscal year, it was learned today. The Commissioners are said to be entirely sympathetic to the plan of giving members of the Fire Depart- ment a standard work week of 44 hours, but find they canot do so in their proposed 1938 budget. Members of the Public Order Com- mittee of the Washington Board of Trade yesterday appealed to the Com- missioners to provide 33 additional firemen and 11 new pieces of ap- paratus and funds for additional hose, but did not ask " approximately $1,000,000, which would be required for the employment of additional needed to provide the three- platoon system suggested by Fire Chiet Charles E. Schrom in his 1938 DENTH OF CRATE “TERMED SUHE Man Facing Fine for Traffic Violation Shoots Himself, A certificate of suicide has been is- sued in the death of William T. Orater, terdsy morning, but the case was postponed temporarily because the complaining policeman was delayed by official duties. The corporation coun- sel recommended s $25 fine. When the policeman appeared, Crater’s name was called again. Cra- ter did not respond and Judge ward M. Curran issued an attac ment for him. Meanwhile, however, Crater had returned to his son's home and shot himself. He died Cas- ualty Hospital scon after arrival there. Crater is survived by another son, William T. Crater, jr. ABNORMAL FALL RAINS AID IN DROUGHT AREAS Soil Reported to Be Supplied ‘With Sufficient Moisture for Present Needs. By tne Associated Press. Abnormal Fall rains and a delay in killing frosts were credited by the ‘Weather Bureau today with having compensated farmers somewhat for this Summer’s drought damage. ‘Telegraphic crop summaries to the buresu from all States showed recent heavy rainfall had “supplied the soil with sufficlent moisture for present needs in most areas that cxperienced severe Summer drought.” Compared with an average year, the bureau reported, frost is somewhat later this season in most Centrale Northern sections. 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