Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1936, Page 2

PRESIDENT CALLED KERENSKY OF LS, Republican Committee Says i “He Proved He Is Inno- f cent Tool. B7 the Associated Press, CHICAGO, October 15—The Re- publican National Committee in a statement issued today said that President Roosevelt in his talk here last night proved “he is the Kerensky of the American revolutionatgsmove-- ments.” Kerensky was a leader in the re- volt of the Russians against the Czar after the World War, but after the revolutionists had won and the Soviet established he was relegated to ob- scurity. b “The poor lamb does not realize that his fantastic planned economy, his rapid extension of Government ownership, his idea that saving for a ‘rainy day by business is wicked and musi be prevented by & confiscatory | tax on surpluses leads directly to the destruction of the capitalistic system,” the statement said. Browder Support Explained. “But (Earl) Browder, the Commu- nist candidate for President, knows it and is supporting him. Rexford G. Tugwell knows it, and realizes that his own muzzling until after election is in the interest of the cause. Felix Frank- furter knows it and is feeling mighty quiet for the present. Mordecai Ezekiel knows it, and you haven't heard his name for months. “Stalin over in Russia knows it and has ordered his following in the United Btates to back Roosevelt. * * * “It is probable that Franklin D. Roosevelt really thinks he can save this system of free enterprise. It may be that he is sincere in the golden words of opportunity spoken to busi- ness here last night. But why are his words so different from his deeds?” Tax on Surpluses, The statement asked whether the President intended to repeal or modify the tax on surpluses, what he proposed to do about the unemployed if he reduces the spending. whether he planned to re-establish the N. R. ! A. in some form or revive the power of the A. A. A and charged Mr. Roosevelt had ignored his Republican opponent’s questions on these sub- Jects. “Every one knows he cannot stop gpending,” the statement continued. “Farley’s machine requires too much fuel. Tugwell and Ickes experiments ¢ost too much, * * * © “It seems a pity Mr. Roosevelt cannot see that he ‘s just & babe in the woods for radicals who §now precisely what they want. It « s . 4 & pity that his ambition for power ! Bappens to play into the hands of men who want to change our whole system of government, and who can §ucceed by destroying what Ameri- | §ans have built.” — e (VILLIAM J. TUCKER, "U. S. EMPLOYE, DIES #gtired Treasury Worker Was Member of Fraternal Orders. « William J. Tucker, 71, veteran re- ired Treasury Department employe, Qied yesterday at his home, 2622 Thir- feenth street. He had suffered for some time with a heart ailment, but bad been seriously ill only a short while. For 15 years Mr. Tucker was as- gistant chief of the Federal Reserve Issue and Redemption Division, Treas- rv Department. until retiring in June, 935. Previously he had been a clerk the office of the controller of the Treasury for many vears. He was & pative of Wabash, Ind. : Mr. Tucker was a member of Stans- ury Lodge of Masons, the Columbia ge of Odd Fellows and the Junior rder of United American Mechanics. { He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. H. L. Beck and Mrs. 8. J. Pefley, both 6f Wabash. His wife was the late Mrs. Rouise H. Tucker. ces will be held at 3:30 $m. tomorrow in Hines' funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Du Ponts __fljontmggd From First Page.) voter, to show who's financing the | Republican campaign.” Guffey's statement regarding Sen- ator Robinson's “charge” referred to the Senate Democratic leader’s pre- pared address for delivery at Canton Iast night, from which, however, Rob- | fnson departed when he spoke. Robinson did not mention charges made in his advance copies that there | ‘was reliable evidence ‘“that over $250,000 has been contributed ro the ! Republican campaign fund by muni- tions makers.” ian&on A'dvocatc, Much Publicized, Declared Voteless Arlington Woman, 79, Failed to Pay Poll Tax, Treasurer Says. By a 8taff CorreSpondent of The Siar. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,, October 15.—Campaign propaganda of Arlington County's Republican forces backfired on them today when it was learned that their much-publicized campaigner, Mrs. Lucy O'Leary, pic- turesque horse-and-buggy enthusiast, does not have a Vvote. Three days ago G. O. P. heads ar- ranged to have Mrs. O'Leary’s buggy, decorated with signs to the effect that ghe Will cast her first vote at the age of 79 for Gov. Landon, as the center of a press photographer’s picnic. It was learned today at the office of County Treasurer Charles T. Jesse that Mrs. O’'Leary’s capitation tax for | 1935 has not been paid, a circum- stance that automatically prevents her from casting & ballot November 3. Mrs. Frank P. Scott; registrar “of the Rosslyn precinct, said today that Mrs. O'Leary’s name had not been placed in her registry book, although it was on her list because 1934 and 1933 taxes had been paid. If the 1935 tax is unpaid, Mrs. O'Leary can~ not vote, the registrar said. rep= Washington Wayside of Interesting Events and Things. DRAMA. POLICE COURT trial of the be dramatic if you happen to know the background of the particular case. Take, tor instance, the experiemce the other day which revolved about the point of whether the arresting policeman, had shown his badge. De- fense counsel said the badge was not The deeply interested spectator just i sat there, wondering at the inscruta- ble ways of justice; wondering because shortly before he had heard the po- | to The Star, in which the badge was mentioned as one of several missing | items. It was all very odd. COSMOPOLITES. Put 20 Washington residents to-" gether at a party, ask the proper question, and you will discover just city possesses. It was done at a party in one of | the-grander apartment hoteis up=- town last nmight and the 20 per= 16 different birth places. Three were native of the National Capi‘al, the rest were scattered. One claimed London as ¢ resented, Berlin, Md. ' WAYWARD. I_IABIT is a funny thing. So much so that any break in the rut of | Take that Fourteenth and Decatur | | street car, for instance; the one which displayed such rugged individualism, | about 5:15 Tuesday evening. At any Co. conveyance put on & brief revolt | against regimentation. | The motorman must have long been | in service on the old Fourteenth street {these cars from the Fifteenth street | {detour and sent them straight into Fourteenth street from Pennsylvania |avenue. During the waning rush | motorman either suddenly tired of tra- | versing the new route, and having to contend with the grand scramble at | Fourteenth and F streets, or, through Random Observations outwardly duller variety can of a citizen who sat through a case displayed; the prosecution said it was. liceman phone a “lost” advertisement * ok ok ok what a cosmopolitan population the sons present managed to count up of birth and even Berlin | routine is worthy of passing note. rate, this particular Capital Transit | stretch, long before re-routing removed | beriod of the evening in question, this | force of habit, took the old course. Whatever the reason, the Four- teenth and Decatur deliberately ig- i nored the switch at Fourteenth and | gleefully chased a stream-lined Rossyln up Pennsylvania avenue. In midblock the conductor, evidently worried, went | forward and made discreet and low- toned inquiry. The trolley stopped with a jerk. The car crew then opened an in- formal conference. Titering passen- | gers joined in. “Go around by New | | York avenue,” suggested one. “But | the old turn is gone,” mourned the| {luckless motorman. It was fnally | | agreed that the lost car might back up | | sufficiently to make the usual turn| into Fourteenth from the Avenue. | However, this as not to be. In the! | meantime a Friendship Heights car | | had crept. up behind it, the one-man | operator of the latter grinning broadly | ;.c the sight of the misplaced Four- | teenth and Decatur sign. The Fourteenth and Decatur was | | last seen detouring down P2nnsylvania | avenue, its passengers transfered to | | other lines. NO SALE. :CHARLE‘S HALL JOHNSTON, the i barrister who is something of a | | language student, was brought up | |sharply by a clerk in a downtown shoppe the other day. | “See that,” said the clerk, pointing to the word “Cravat” on the trade- mark of the item he was trying to| sell. “That means this tie is water- proof, won't show spots, etc.” | Mr. Johnston could not believe his | ears at first, but there was no escap- | ing it as the clerk hammered further | on the point. “Have you, by any chance, got the | | words ‘cravat’ and ‘cravenette’ con-.| fused?” he finally managed to ask. The clerk thought for a minute. “Maybe,” he finally admitted, | grudgingly, dropping the whole busi- ness, * x k% SETTLED. IT WOULD seem that President Roosevelt and Gov. Landon are wasting a lot of time and money in the presidential race. A woman in| California has it figured out that there | is no further need for a President. “Please have the Attorney Generzsl” she wrote recently to a Federal dis- trict attorney on the West Coast, “announce to the American people that I have declared myself the dic- tator of the United States. The Gov- ernment will remain the same and the | 1 people will not be affected. “The election wiil not be necessary. I wish my daughter, L. R. C, to be President and Dictator in January, 1937.” The Justice Department has pon- | dered the letter, but has not indicated | | yet what action, if any, it will take| | to carry out her instructions. * % k % FUTURE. 5 The “Silent Messenger” having been more silent than messenger in recent weeks, another soothsayer has sneaked up and taken away his job of telling Wayside readers _what the heavens are recording at . the moment. In his own words, - here’s the story £og “Roosevelt will be Te-elects Then Communists will upset it all. A woman will come in his stead. - Then the British, after which: com= plete desolation. Every man will return to his own country.” ? Got your ticket yg? L - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1936. DEMOCRATS GLAIM FREDERICK VOTE Le Gore Expected to Run Ahead of Ticket in Race With Lewis. BY WILL P. KENNEDY, Staff Correspondent of ‘Lhe Star, FREDERICK, Md., October 15.— The Democrats claim thev are going to carry Frederick County by 1,200 to 1,500 for Roosevelt, with a staud-off between Representative . David J. Lewis, Democrat, of Cumberland and State Senator Harry W, Le Gore of Frederick for the seat in Congress held for eight years in the Republican column by the late Representative Frederick N. Zihlman. This is the one congressional district in Maryland which the Democrats have thought they might lose. The contest was close two years ago when Lewis was re-elected. The Republicans, on the other hand, express & hope that they may carry the county for Landon, and “this being Le Gore's .home county he should carry it by a substantial ma- jority, running ahead of the national ticket.” Frederick Oounty ,is agricultural rather than industrial—and generally speaking the farmers are inclined to support Landon, while labor is sup- porting Roosevelt. The Democrats. made a two-to-one gain in the new registration just completed. In the congressional contest many compli- mentary votes will be given to Le Gore, which are normally Democratic, be- cause he is & home-town boy who has made good, and his family has been well known for nearly a century. Be- sides, Lewis, finishing 12 years in Con- gress, has made some enemies in dis- tributing patronage and offended vet- erans by voting against the bonus. Democrats Are Active. ‘The Democrats are making an active campaign, with a strong organ- ization, conspicuous headquarters, and a booth at the county fair, in charge | of William Slemmer. The State Cen- tral Committee selected Alton Y. Ben- nett, a local lawyer, to be local cam- paign manager, with M Elizabeth Heck as secretary and Albert McCar- dell, treasurer. ner, the local Democratic “boss,” who was, for nine years, Secretary of State under Gov. Ritchie, is chairman of the Executive Committee, which ln-i cludes J. Harry Kennedy, Dr. Otis B. Stone, L. A. Sigafoose, Mrs. Albin M. Wood, Dr. James ‘A. Long and Mrs. Riley Etchison. An active Finance and Budget Com- mittee is headed by Cardell and it includes Dr. Charles H. Conley, Wil- liam J. Grove, Howard Marion Jones, Allen M. Pitzer, Edward J. Smith and F. Ross Myers. The chairman of reg- istration is Albin M. Wood; of pub- licity, August T. Brust; of organiza- tion and city precincts, Ralph G. Kline, and of county meetings, Charles F. Deck. Representative Lewis has already appeared at a rally in Frederick and at several other places in the county. He will also attend the County Fair. A big rally is scheduled for October 19 in the Court House, with Herbert R. O'Connor, attorney general of Maryland, as the principal speaker. | A barbecue and torchlight procession are being planned. Winebrenner has made racdio addresses in Baltimore and the local radio station is being used effectively by Winebrenner, Dr, Charles H. Conley and Clinton Me- Sherry. Trend for Roosevelt. “The trend is for Roosevelt,” said Winebrenner, “although there are a | few veteran Democrats who say they will not vote for him—but invariably they say they will not vote for Lan- | On registrations we | Democrats have gained two to one. Figuring from recent straw votes and | don, either. polls and reports from all over the county, we find that Roosevelt's strength is in the congested centers; the working men rather than the | farmer is helping Roosevelt. Brunswick, which is a railroad cen- ter, and Frederick, are the largest districts in the county and Roose- velt should easily carry both of these. Quite naturally Le Gore will get a big complimentary vote, that is why we expect Roosevelt to run ahead of Representative Lewis, but Lewis has reason: Jle expectation of carrying the county.” Charles Mathias, treasurer of the Republican Central Committee for Frederick County, is in charge of the Landon and Le Gore headquarters. The local chairman is Holden S. Fel- ton, an attorney. “We expect both Landon and Le Gore to win,” said Mathias. “Le Gore should run ahead of Landon in Fred- erick and Brunswick. The small towns and rural sections are more strongly for Landon.” He pointed out that Frederick County has a population of about 55,000, Frederick city 14,500, and Brunswick 3,500—leaving 66 per cent of the voting strength in the small towns and rural area. ———— SCORE ON POLICE MINNEAPOLIS, October 15 () — Two University of Minnesota foot ball players dodged through a wide-open hole in a Minneapolis city traffic charge against them and broke free. Ed Widseth, tackle, and Ray King, end, were tagged a week ago for park- ing just outside the 1-foot line from the curb mear the university stadium. Yesterday, however, Capt. Oscar Bak- ken explained the tag-issuing patrol- man called the wrong signal on the play. The curb was on university property—over which the city has no Jurisdiction. The case was dismissed. David C. Winebren- | STUDENTS BALLOT ON FORUM LEADER G. W. U. Union President Be- ing Selected After Three- Party Campaign. Students of George Washington University, after an exciting campaign marked by recurring bursts of oratory, began balloting today to select a pres- ident of the G. W. U. Union, student political forum. Voting will continue through tomorrow and the results will determine the number of seats to be held by each of the three parties in the union. Bennett Willis is the candidate of the Right party, Robert Doolan the Center, and Charles Kiefer the Left. The three presented the positions of their parties at the closing rally of the campaign yesterday afternoon in the university yard, Polis Open Twice Today. The polls, equipped with voting machines, opened this morning at 8:45 o'clock and were to remain open until 1:15 pm. They were to be closed from 1:15 to 4:30 pm. and then reopen until 7:45 o’'clock tonight. The same hours will be observed to- morrow. The polling places are located in Stockton Hall and Corcoran Hall, on the campus. Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the university, also addressed the rally yesterday and pointed out that the imminence of the national elec- tion emphasizes the value of & student forum such as the union. Temper of the Times. “The temper of the time.” he said, “serves to emphasize the value of a | student forum such as our union. It brings into sharp outline the need for students, as citizens of tomororw, to be thinking about what political par- ties should be—not selfish, partisan groups concerned principally with establishing or maintaining themselves in power, but rather the iustruments | for bringing into existence a leader- ship competent for the development { of an improved social order. “Political parties rise to that stature only when large numbers of voters are possessed of the fund of information and the trained perception which en- ables them to think beyond false issues to underlying principles.” | Counting of the ballots and deter- | mining the proportionate membership of the three parties, it was indicated today, probably will not be undertaken | until Saturday and possibly not until early next week. Labor ed From Pirst Page.) named to a similar post with the Democratic committee. Platforms Analyzed. Meanwhile, &s was customary, a five-man committee of the federation | analyzed the platforms of both parties | and viewed the records of the two candidates preparatory to making its | non-partisan report for the guidance of labor’s votes. | sisted of President William Green, | Secretary Prank Morrison and Vice Presidents. @. M. Bugniazet, Felix H. Knight and T. A. Rickert. ¢ Learning of the strong pro-Roosevelt tinge to the report, Hutcheson is re- | ported to have mustered his strength |answ in behalf of postponing its re- ileue. That he realized he was near | the end of his rope in this respect is | indicated by his absence from the present quarterly session of the Coun- cil. Along with this behind-the-scenes maneuvering in connection with the report, it is understood also that a | like to “trade horses” and make peace ure by Hutcheson. In this connection it is reported | that eight or nine members of the 17- | the suspension if Lewis would guaran- tee his support to them individually in the forthcoming convention. Thus far, however, no “deal” has been made. On the surface the only progress in effecting a reconciliation between the C. I O. and the council was the ap- pointment yesterday of a three-man council committee to do their negoti- ating. On this group are George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Clerks; President Knight of the Street Railway Union and Matthew Woll, president of the Photo-Engravers’ | Union. Seeks “Clarified” Position. Chairman Lewis of the C. I. O., how- ever, is still insisting there will be no conferences uatil the council ‘clarifies” its position on point one of the peace proposal, namely, that the C. I. O, unions be allowed representation at the November convention. Although Max Zaritsky, president of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Work- ers’ Union and author of the peace proposal, conferred with Lewis yester- day morning and was authorized ver- bally by Lewis to transmit the C. L O. decision to the council, President Green last night decldred he had not been informed of the C. I. O. stand on the matter. Furthermore, he added, there was “nothing to clarify.”, Zaritsky, who is a member of the C.-L O, appeared before the council yesterday afternoon, but whether or not he did more than repeat his union's proposal, upon which the council already had acted, is just an- other of the many unsolved mysteries in the whole situation. The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. REENWICH, Conn., October 15.—If you read a speech that expresses shocked amazement at the thought of spending two billion dollars on a farm program, and condemns “cam- paign-devised” promises, you might not unnatu- rally think that its author was Gov. Landon. On at least one occasion you would be wrong, for it is Mr. Roosevelt, the great spender and promiser, who in so many words says, “You're another,” and his remarks are not altogether lacking in the rancor that he so recently deplored. Now Mr. Roosevelt says that his opponents are telling political bedtime stories, filled with specters fo frighten the voters. As a matter of fact, the stories which Mr. Roosevelt resents are ore.. comparable to “believe it or pot” And quite as sccurate and astonishing as anything ‘Mr. Ripléy has to offer in his series of strange | Anse demsworia | g The committee con- | | sizable faction of the Council would | { with Lewis at the risk of any displeas- | | man Council are ready to vote to lift | FIREMEN STRICKEN, BY GAS, SMOKE 'Apartment Blaze Routs 75 in $5,000 Loss—Match Thought Cause. A score of firemen were affected by | gas and smoke and 75 persons were routed from the Birmingham Apart- ments, 2611 Adams Mill road, last night when flames threatened to de- stroy the building. Two alarms were sounded before the blaze believed to have originated | in a storage room, was brought under control. The exact damage had not been estimated today, although un-| official estimates placed it above $5,000. Battalion Chief J. B. Watt and | Lieut. J. E. Ubele. No. 2 Truck Co., | were given first aid and sent home | after gas from melted mains drove | them from the building. Watt was| carried from the building twice by | frremen when he was partially over- | come. Carried Down Fire Escape. ‘The fire was discovered about 9 o'clock by Mrs. Gertrude Breen, 45, | while she was taking her dog for & walk. Notifying the janitor, Samuel | Patterson, colored, she ran m;oua | the building, knocking on doors and shouting. | On the top floor of the four-story building, where her own apartment is | located, Mrs. Breen was overcome. | | She was carried down a fire escape by | fnremen. Her husband, James Breen, | | was led out by firemen. Mrs. Estelle Stone, another resident of the building, who was plaving bridge with friends in a third-floor | apartment, telephoned police when she smelled smoke and found flames eating through the hallway wall boards. Mrs. Stone and other mem- bers of her party made their way safely down a fire escape. y A Boy Scout, 15-year-old Amos | Henry Stone, who lives in the build- | ing with his father, M. H. Stone, | | forced his way through a flxsl-flnori bed room to awaken John nghl.‘ who was asleep in an apartment just | over the fire. They both escaped. Cause Is Investigated. While the cause of the fire had not | been determined today, fire officials | were investigating a report that a | girl living in the building had gone | to a basement storage room to get a | Halloween costume shortly before the fire broke out. | It is believed the girl might have| used matches to find her way around | and then carelessly tossed cue aside An emergency crew from the gas| company disconnected mains leading | to the building and prevented pos-| sible explosion. | Before the gas was turned off, how- ever, fumes had driven a number of | firemen from the building and forced | | them to don gas masks to fight the flames. The blaze was confined to the front of the apartment house and climbed between the interior walls to the third floor. i 1 . WOODRING TO SPEAK AT YORKTOWN RITES ‘War Secretary to Make Principal Address at Celebration of Cornwallis’ Surrender. By the Associated Press. 4 Secretary of War Woodring will ! make the principal address at the | celebration of the 155th anniversary of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. October 19, '.he; National Park Service -announced today. The celebration will be held under the auspices of the Park Service, the citizens of Yorktown and various patriotic bodies. Secretary Woodring, appearing on the afternoon program, will be in- troduced by Gov. George C. Peery, who also will make an address at the morning program. Mrs. George Durbin Chenowith, re- gent of the Comte de Grasse Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, will preside at the sessions, PLANS ENTERTAINMENT The Clvitan Club will hold the first of & series of Winter entéertainments for members of its Boys’ Garden Club tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the boys’ de- H. Leeth, U. 8. N, will speak on his experiences in the Navy as a radio’ Drives Home a Point. Pauses for Applause. The candid camera reveals the President in fine fettle last night, speaking to 26,000 per- sons in Chicago Stadium. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) more money, that when the President of the United States starts to pare the ‘budget, they say his ‘old Dytch blood is coming up.’ “Last night in Chicago I was talk- ing about conditions as they were four years ago and compared them | with today. In Grand Rapids is al pretty good example of what hap- pened ¢in four years.” The presidential train left at 10:40 am. (Eastern standard time,) with a stop at Lansing, the State Capital. RECEP’I’IO‘ PLEASES ROOSEVELT. Tumultuous Ovation Is Given Presi- dent in Chicago. ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN EN ROUTE TO GRAND RAPIDS, October 15 (#)—Warmed By the mammoth demonstration accorded him in the Na- tion's second largest city, President Leftists, Rightists and Centrists—well, that’s iwhat they call themselves, anyhow—partici= pating in the annual George Washington University Union election. Left to right: Caroline Wadden, William Gausmann, Eleanor Livingston, Mary Fulgham, Myron Madden and Rhoda Epstein. —Star Staff Photo. % !Roouvelt headed into Michigan today | | to drive home his assertion at Chicago that the New Deal was aligned against “abuse” of the “power of concentrated | wealth” and not against private enter- prise. Behind a corps of 30 motor cycle | patrolmen he rode last night along streets lined by a cheering muititude, numbered in tens of thousands, to face 26,000 persons in the packed Chicago Stadium where he set forth the em- phatic declaration:, “All that this ministration has done, all that it proposes to do—and this it does propose to do—is to use every power and authority of the Fed- eral Government to protect the com- merce of America from the selfish forces which ruined it.” Stresses Progress. To the credit of the New Deal, he claimed, “the train of American busi- ness is moving ahead. Mind you, it did not get out of the ditch itself, it was hauled out by your Government.” The President’s return as a seeker of i re-election to the city—and stadium— where he was nominated in 1932 was marked by a mass turnout which taxed the efforts of 1,600 policemen. To clear his automobile route from special train to stadium the motor cycle | escort parted a marching throng esti- mated at 100,000 to 150,000 by the | police and Co-chairman Barnet Hodes | of the Reception Committee. In the line of march were 52 bands. Hemming it in was a 16-block long canyon of humanity, which Police Capt. Thomas Kilroy said numbered 15,000 spectators to the block, jammed 20 deep in a storm of falling paper from windows overhead. Entering the stadium in a glare of Hghts amid the' din of fireworks and | the rumble of cheers, President Roose- velt launched promptly into his theme: That “behind the growing recovery of today is a story of deliberate Gov- ernment acceptance of responsibility to save business—to save the American system of private enterprise and economic democracy—a record un- equaled by any government in history.” He asserted “the previous adminis- tration in Washington” had failed to act because “it was high-finance- minded—manned and controlled by a handful of men. who, in turg, con- trolled and by one financial device or another took their toll from the greater ;part of all other business and in- | dustry.” The Under that system, he said, “inde- pendent business was allowed to exist only by sufferance.” In 1933, he said, the “average busi- nessman” wanted the Government to take certain actions. He listed them: Lists Actions audience interpolated loud —and we did it. “2. Increase the purchasing power | of his customers who were industrial workers in the cities—and we did it. “3. Increase the purchasing power of his customers on the farms—and we did it. 4. Decrease interest rates, power rates and transportation rates—and we did it. | 5. Protect him from the losses due to crime, bank robbers, kidnapers, blackmailers—and we did it.” He declared the administration thus | had preserved “privace profit and free enterprise.” The “net Federal debt today,” he said, was “lower in proportion to the income of the Nation and in propor- tion to the wealth of the Nation” than on March 4, 1933. “In the future™ he predicted, “it will become lower still because with the rising tide of national income and national wealth, the very causes of our emergency spending are disappearing, Government expenditures are coming down and Government income is going up.” Depositors Declared Benefited. Bank depositors had benefited, since he took office, from the Government's guarantee of their accounts, he said, investors by rising stock and bond levels, merchants by increased in- come of customers, persons in the in- dustries by greater earnings and fewer bankruptcies, railroads by increased trafic and farm middlemen by a steadier supply of products. “Some people say that all this re- covery has just happened,” he said, “but in & complicated modern world recoveries from depressions do not just happen, The years from 1929 to 1933, when we waited for recovery just to happen, proves the point. But in 1933 we did not wait. We acted.” Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever 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 service “1. Stop deflation and falling prices | THREE CLIPPERS CONTINUE FLIGHTS Oceanic Planes in Different Locations in Opening New Route. B3 the Associated Press, ALAMEDA, Calif, October 15— ‘Three oceanic Pan-American Airway clipper ships neared or lay in the sheltered waters of mid-Pacific islands on simultaneous passenger-carrying voyages today. ‘The Philippine clipper neared Honolulu on its flight from this main- land base with eight publishers and other executives. ‘The Hawalian clipper, en route from Manila, landed at Wake Island at 7:28 a.m. today (3:28 Eastern standard time). The China clipper, with a number of newspaper men aboard, Jay at Guam awaiting favorable weather conditions before psoceeding on its trip to Manila. All flights are preliminary to estabs lishment of commercial passenger service October 21 Makes Average Time. ‘The Hawaiian clipper, Pan-Am: can officials said, made the 1,508 hop from Guam to Wake against headwinds in about “average time H. R. Ekins, globe-girdling New York World-Telegram and Scripp Howard newspapers reporter, is travei- ing on the Hawallan Clipper. He was approximately 3,000 miles ahead of his two rivals in the around-the-world re- porters’ race. Ekins hopes to be back in New York Monday. His competitors, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Evening Journal and | InternatiBnal News Service and Leo | Kieran of the New York Times and North American Newspaper Alliance, |are still at Manila, waiting for the Pan-American's China Clipper, which left Guam for the Philippines yester- day only to be forced to return because of the weather. Passengers Listed. Passengers on board the Philippine | Clipper are California Senator W | lam G. McAdoo; Amon G. C T Fort Worth, Tex, publisher; Roy W Howard, Scripps Howard Newspapers C. V. Whitney, Pan-American direc- tor; Wallace Alexander, shipping | head; Paul Patterson, Baltimore, Md publisher; W. P. Roth. San Fran shipping magnate, and Juan Trippe, president of Pan-American Airways. i KIERAN IN MANILA. | Globe-Circling Reporter Gives Ex- i pense Account to Date. | BY LEO KIERAN. By Wireless to The Star. | MANILA, October 15 (N. A. N. A —This globe-girdling reporter arrived in Manila at 8:30 am. today after & rather rough voyage from Hongkong aboard the steamship President Pierce. On arriving here, however, I learned there will be a delay in starting the next leg of my trip, to San Francisco, s the Pan-American Airways China Clipper, on which I was scheduled to leave tomorrow, has been delaved at Guam because of storms in the Pacific Here is my expense account to date on my trip around the world by reg- ularly established commercial trans- | portation facilities: Bus fare. New Yi | Passport and visa fees | Pare on Hindenburs, Lakehurst- Frankfort Federal t Airplane fare. Railroad fa, Motor car farc Airplang Steams| Total s o SLa ‘The fares on the Hindenburg, on the airplane trips and on the steamship voyage include meals and lodging. (Copyright. 1936, North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) ‘TWO R. A. WORKERS . ESCAPE FUSILLADE £6.00 12.00 T 40000 on Hindenburg fare Bologna-Brindisi ngkong e fare. Bring hip {are. Hongkong-Manila 41.00 Windshield of Truck Shattered by Sniper at 26th and E Streets. Ralph Sweeney, 1002 Rhode Island avenue, and Austin Morris of Ed- monds, Md., Resettlement Administra=- tion employes, decided to go to work this morning without bulletproof | vests, but they felt they had a right | to wear them. The two men dodged a barrage of shots fired by an unknown gunman | in the vicinity of the R. A. warehouse, Twenty-sixth and E streets, yesterday | at quitting time. | The firing scattered a throng of employes lcaving the warehouse for | home. The first bullet shattered a | corner of the windshield of the truck in which Morris was sitting after i whizzed by Sweaney's ear. Morris ran to the warehouse and | Sweeney stood behind a truck door for | safety. Two more bullets followed the | first and flattened against the brick | wall of the warehouse. Police were unable to find the gun- | men. Pvt. F. B. Martin reported ta | nis superiors at the third precinct “No one suspected, no one 'WAR VETERAN DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE | Military Honors Are Planned at Funeral of Patrick A. Franklin. | Patrick A. Franklin, 46-year-old | World War veteran and brother of | Willam F. Franklin, 1743 Church street, prominent local Legionnaire, died yesterday in Gallinger Hospital. He will be buried tomorrow in Mount Olivet Cemetery with full military honors following a requiem mass at St. Matthew's Catholic Church at 10 am. Mr. Pranklin, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, was a member of tne Irish Guards wher. the World War broke out and was among the first to reach the front. Wounded at the first battle of Mons, he recovered in England, but was again injured in the second battle of Mons. While recuperating, he was awarded the Star of Mons by King George. He came to this country in 1928. He had been ailing for some time as a re- sult of his wartime injuries and had been treated in several hospitals. He was taken to Galiinger Hospital a few days ago. Informers Share Fines. Peru has introduced a law giving informers 50 per cent of the fines ime posed on operafors of gambling de- 8