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FLYING REPORTER FETED AT MANILA Reception for Kieran and Dorothy Kilgallen Is Effusive. =n BY LEO KIERAN, By Radio to The Star. MANILA, October 17.—The recep- tion I have been receiving here has been well worth traveling half way around the world. All Manila is turning the city over to my fellow world traveler, Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Journal reporter, and me. It makes one understand what celebri- ties must undergo daily, but it is all s0 novel at this time that both of us | are enjoying it. - My round of activities started early yesterday when I attended a motion picture preview; then followed a luncheon as guest of Dave Boguslav, editor of the Manila Tribune, follow- ing which I attended the regular weekly press conference of President | Manuel Quezon, and thence to dinner | at'the home of Robert Aura Smith, newspaper editor and correspondent for the New York Times, at which J. Weldon Jones, United States High | Commissioner, was guest of honor. Mrs. Smith, an accomplished violinist, gave a concert. Today's full schedule includes a luncheon with President | Quezon. : Meanwhile, I have learned that be- cause of the delay in the arrival of the China Clipper I will not be able to take off from here for San Fran- eisco until Tuesday morning, which should bring me to New York Satur- day. All delays in carrying out my schedule are placed at the doorstep of Pan-American Airways by the local press, which insists I have demon- strated the feasibility of traveling around the world in fast time by de- pending solely upon established forms of transportation available to any traveler. &Copyright 1936, by the Nortn American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) CHINA CLIPPER IN MANILA. First Preliminary Passenger Flight 1 Over Pacific Completed. MANILA, P. I, October 17 (#).— Completing the first preliminary pas- _senger flight across the Pacific Ocean, the China Clipper landed at Manila at 3:36 p.m. today (2:36 am., Eastern .standard time). The last leg of over 1,600 miles from Guam through perfodict rainsto; was completed in 11 hours and 38 ,minutes. . The huge flying boat carried & party .of newspapermen here from California .in one of three current Pan-American ‘trans-Pacific flights preparatory to ‘opening regular passenger service next s Wednesday. . Others of the Pan-American armada ;Yemained in sheltered coral coves on ‘mld-hclflc islands overnighit before {resuming preliminary passenger flights. 1 Juan Trippe, president of the. air- line, and & party of newspaper pub- +lishers, capitalists, a Senator andtheir wives were at Midway overnight after & 1,304-mile flight from Honolulu on | [N the Philippine Clipper. . ‘The eastbound Hawalian Clipper was iset down in Pearl Harbor at Honohulu Syesterday after the short jump from rMidway. On board was H. R. Ekins, #New York World-Telegram reporter, £Who hopes to be back home from a # round-the-world race after about 18%; > days elapsed time. ¥ Ekins, who began his trip September +30 on the dirigible Hindenburg, in Icompany with two other reporters jfrom rival newspapers and news agencies, expected to be 7,500 miles ahead of his co-workers before mid- 2 night. EXTENSION PRESSED FOR BENTON STREET Glover Park Citizens Resume Fight for Opening to Wis- consin Avenue. * The extension of Benton street was Jeonsidered again by the Glover Park /Citizens’ Association in its first Fall »meeting at the Industrial Home School dast night. Favoring an outlet to Wisconsin ave- ihue south of Calvert street, citizens sof the section have supported unsuc- ‘cessfully the plan to open Benton istreet from Tunlaw road east to Wis- sconsin avenue for a number of years. iThis year a petition favoring the project has been signed by 200 resi- «dents of the community. The asso- .ciation went on record for indorse- ~ment. » According to Chairman F. W. Bright .of the Highway Committee, construc- ‘tion of the Warner Brothers’ Calvert Theater on Wisconsin avenue, about 15 feet from where the proposed rextension would enter, may foster a +~commercial growth which would pre- /. ¥ent extension of the street later. } 'The citizens opposed the sale of “wines and beer on Thirty-seventh i street, and adopted a motion of appre- J* ¢iation for People's Counsel Roberts’ #-services and regret of the resignation. They also favored signing the Key- stone Automobile Club petition against “the diversion of gas tax funds. Among the news members was Capt. John E. Bowers, commander of the seventh precinct, who was made an ~ honorary member. 'MRS. EMMA MOORMAN DIES HERE AT AGE OF 64 “Resident of Washington Many Years—Funeral Services at 2 P.M. Monday. Mrs. Emma Conrad Moorman, 64, 1 for many years a resident of this city, [+ died yesterday in the Woodley Apert- . ments, where she had been visiting. “ She had been il several days. 1, Mrs. Moorman was the widow of ¥ Robert Bruce Moorman, at one time #%4n the drayage business here, She .'was the daughter of the late Capt. *1*Thomas Nelson Conrad of Blacksburg, «'Ya, once president of the Virginia *1 Polytechnic Institute. ! Surviving her are two sons, Heath {+-©. Moorman and Robert Bruce Moor- ‘nman, ir.; s daughter, Mrs. Dean Gal- i%lagher, and a brother, John Fairfax +/Conrad, all of this city, and » sister, M. A. Hudson of Gloucester +County, Va. Funeral services wili be held at 2 * 5 ¢ s b » . i - I ¥, Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. . 'STRATION. lot ‘of & Government telé- phone’ operator is far from an easy one. Take, for example, just the matter of what they are supposed to say every time tm{ “plug 1n.” Each time a conmection is com- pleted the operator has to identify her switchboard, of course, by saying “Tarifft Commission,” “Home Owners Loan” or the name of whatever de- partment or agency for which she works. Some of the operators, answer- ing thousands of calls daily, have devised short-cuts. It saves both, breath and time. If you should dial National 2520, for instance, instead of saying “the War Department and the Navy De- partment,” your operator will alwa y brightly and to the point, Navy.” The neatest trick of the week, however, apparently is that of oper- ators at the Veterans' Administra- tion. There they are supposed to say “Administration,” but even that takes too long for most of them. They get around it by chopping off the first three syllables. The result is when your call is plugged in all you hear is & brisk, business-like voice chirping “—Stration.” The girls are pretty well pleased with the idea because it sounds as though they had pluged in right in the middle of the word. We asked a pleasant-voiced girl about it over the phone the other day. “Yes, we do that,” she giggled, “but we're not supposed to.” * kX X WAITING. Pete, the restaurant man, may get a radio—but mot while cam- paign oratory is clogging the air. “Hear Lgndon last night?” a patron inquired. “No hear; no radio.” “Why don’t you get yoursel{ @ radio, and keep up with the times?” was the next query. “Fraid; too much talk,” sponded Pete with finality. x X ¥ % USEFUL. THE wife of & frugal Prince Georges County farmer suggested the other day that he get a new suit of clothes and throw his old suit away. r2e torted hotly. “That's what I'll wear when I go to Marlboro to protest my tax assessment.” STORY WITH MORAL. EXT time one newspaper photog- rapher gets a license for his car he will note the numbers where he can for the loan of his car he has decide to say “no.” $ ‘Tim Elkins, cameraman for the A. P. is a good-hearted soul. He'll do a favor for a friend any time. So when an Army officer, in a jam for quick trans- portation, asked for the loan of a car Tim offered his machine and it was accepted. As such things go the officer was late returning the car and finally parked it on a lot overnight. Going down next morning to get it, he sud- denly recalled he didn't know what kind of car it was, and had even for- gotten what it looked like, and didn't remember the license number, He called Elkins on the phone. “Say, what's the license number of your car?” he inquired. “Gosh, I don't know,” said Elkins, after looking through his card case for a clue. It took hours and hours, but they finally located the missing buzz-buggy. * ok k& SYSTEM. BECAUSE Fred Jefferson, British industrialist and distant kinsman of President Thomas Jefferson, is de- cidedly deaf without his audiphone, he never misses a drink. Our operative interviewed him at the Mayflower recently. Jefferson before he put on the audiphone, explained that when any one asks a question he cannot understand, his reply always is “whisky and soda.” “I never miss & drink,” Jefferson ex- plained. “Nice, what?” * X * & BARGAIN, Many Washingtonians consider themselves good bargain hunters, but Mrs. Rhea Galloway, resettle- ment worker, found a couple in Lonaconing, Md., who consider themselves the champions. And Mrs. Galloway is inclined to agree. The couple, she said, had all their teeth pulled and are wearing false sets because they met a den- tist who was willing to make four sets for $100—which they consid- ered too good a bargain to forego. * X % % VAIN TEARS. WHI:N waxing sentimental about the destruction of old landmarks, let sentiment be well founded. For Pesds years chief -objectors to the proposed change in the front facade of the Capitol to provide an adequate appear- ance of support to the now overhang- ing skirt of the dome, have based their objections upon the resultant destruc- tion of traditional architectural fea- find them. And next time he is asked | THE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, CELANESE PLANT LAY-FFS LOOM Raw Material Shipments to ‘Cumberiand Plant Cut by Strike Threat. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND, Md,, October 17.— Reduced shipments of raw materials to the celanese plant here raised the question of lay-offs and seniority rights today. The company said that, “under threat of sudden strike on the closed shop - check-off,” it was forced to re- duce the amount of raw materials shipped to the plant. This, in turn, the company, said, will cause lay-offs of workmen, which will raise the question of which employes shall be dropped first. The company said that it would resume full operations when the strike threat is removed and also invited the employes to present proposals for a new seniority plan. Representatives of the workmen and of the manage- ment have been meeting in New York in an attempt to reach an agreement on wages, hours and working con« ditions. . In a formal statement, the com- pany said: “Being under threat of sudden strike on the closed shop check-off, this company is compelled to take precautionary measures. “With 50 carloads of raw materials coming in to the plant every day the company must make arrangements for reduced supplies of chemicals and other materials which cannot be stored. “When threat of a strike is removed we will operate to the fullest produc- tion permitted by our customers’ de- mands. “Incoming shipments are being re- duced by 50 per cent. As work in progress moves through the plant this reduction will cause lay-offs. “As lay-offs occur the question of seniority rights arises. Our employes have asked for a form of seniority rights, but have submitted no definite ideas. We must, therefore, reduce em- ployment according to the rules on seniority that have been in effect for years past. “We again invite employes to pre- sent their proposals without further delay. We promise prompt and serious consideration and we will meet to dis- cuss seniority rights if employes will meet with us.” Charles D. Walton, manager of the celanese plant, said the company would pay the eight workmen who par- ticipated in the New York meeting just as though they were at work at the plant. Their expenses are borne by the United Textile Workers’ Union, which they represent. The parley will be resumed here next week, it was announced. PLANNERS TO WEIGH PROPOSED LEVEE Projected Flood Control in West Potomac Park Will Be Discussed Friday. A projected flood-control levee in ‘West Potomac Park in the Washing- ton Monument grounds and the area near Lincoln Memorial will be the subject of a joint conference between the Fine Arts and the National Cap- ital Park and Planning Commissions Friday. Recommendations will be made to Congress later. The planners have already rejected plans of Army engineers for a levee in the line of Independence avenue, contending that it would not only wipe out the West Potomac golf course and a valuable recreational area, but would eliminate a row of worthwhile trees. Indications today were that the Fine Arts Commission would do likewise. H. P. Caemmerer, the Fine Arts Commission’s executive secretary, said: “Our commission is concerned over any high embankment near the Lin- coln Memorial or the Washington Monument.” The Fine Arts Commission at an- other meeting will consider sketches for paintings for the Department of Justice and statuary for the Post Of- fice Department. These are being submitted by the Treasury Depart- ment, through the Procurement Division. Lighting for Columbia Island and Memorial avenue, features of the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge development, will be considered. Several memorial coins are being projected by the di- rector of the mint and designs for these will be examined by the Com- mission, —_— Chicken Dinners Urged. LINCOLN, Nebr. (#).—Eat more chickens, sald W. B. Banning, direc- tor of the State Agriculture Depart- ment, to Nebraskans, Because of warm, dry weather this year baby chick survival was so high the poultry market is glutted, he said. “A few chicken dinners will take care of this supply and stabilize the market,” sald Banning. tures, They cite, In particular, the front steps up which all- Presidents have mounted to inauguration, and the stone smoke-stained window frames that recall the burning of the Capitol by the British in 1814, Gently enough, David Lynn, archi- tect of the Capitol, shatters all this tradition by pointing out that it’s too late to lament landmarks, inaugural steps and smoke-stained stones having gone, anyway. Stones framing Capitol windows out of which flames darted that fateful day in 1814 have been completely re- placed by fresh unstained ones, and the blue and black slate steps were taken up and carted away four years 2go, to be superseded by others less offensive in coloring and designed to eliminate a certain “zebra effect” which some legislative eyes had found not to their liking. Night Final Delivered by Car;ier 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 ind 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 will start at once. " Held in Poisonings . Chang Soo Lee (right) with an officer, was arraigned and held at White Plains, N. Y., after two guests of his wealthy employer were stricken ill of poisoning. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. (Story on Page C0-OP COMMISSION OPINIONS CONFLICT Report “Some Time,” Based on Voluminous Data, to Be After Election. By the Associated Press, Special commissioners who studied consumers’ co-operatives in Europe for President Roosevelt faced “sharp disagreement” today over the conclu- sions to be drawn from five trunks full of data they assembled, Robin Hood, secretary-treasurer of | the National Co-Operative Council, who is a member of the commission, said: “There will be some kind of a re- port some time, even if it is no mere | than a letter to the President. But a sharp disagreement between mem- | bers of the commission makes unani- | mous action almost impossible” The contents of the trunks, which Hood said are “very revealing,” are being indexed and digested at W. P. A. offices now. No report is expected until “long after election,” the com- missioner indicated. Arguments Arise Quickly. Arguments developed among the | commissioners, it was said, almost as | soon as they sailed for their inquiry | on co-operative enterprises in Europe. Some of the six commissioners refused to recognize Jacob Baker, assistant | | W. P. A. administrator, as chairman, | it was explained; and communications from the commission during the trip were handled individually. Baker re- | tused to talk about this report. Consumers’ co-ops are “the chain | stores of Europe,” Hood said, and are | | distinctly different from America’s | farm co-operatives, which are “capi- talistic in principle.” | Swedish co-operative leaders told | them, he said, that “monopolies and | trusts are fast being routed and that | opposition to consumer co-operatives | “comes chiefly from small private | traders.” Hood said he was named to the com- mission, apparently at the instigation of Secretary Wallace, after official an- | nouncement #f{ a three-man group | composed of Baker, Leland Olds, sec- | retary of the New York State Power Association, and Charles E. Stuart, an official of the Export-Import Bank. Two Others Assist Study. Two additional members, Clifford Gregory, & farm magazine editor, and Emily Bates, identified with co-oper- ative interests, assisted the commis- sion’s studies in Sweden, Finland, Nor- way, Denmark, Switzerland, Czecho- slovakia, France, Great Britain and Ireland. The commission finished its work in September, but no official announce- ment has been made on the progress of its report. Baker, the disputed chairman, has declined comment and referred news men to the W. P. A. Publicity Bureau, which said the re- port was “not ready.” Mr. Roosevelt, in announcing ap- pointment of the commission at a press conference on June 23, said he was immensely interested in the de- velopment of co-operative organi- zations in Europe, especially in Sweden, and added that he thought it would be well for this country to see what was going on there, o MRS. A. L. THOMPSON, JR., IS BURIED IN CAPITAL Daughter of Rear Admiral Scales Was Well Known Here and in Annapolis. Mrs. Effie Irving Thompson, daugh- ter of Rear Admiral A. H. les, U. S. N, retired, and wife of Albert Lee Thompson, jr., of Greensboro, N. C., was buried today in Congres- sional Cemetery, following funeral services in the cemetery chapel. Serv- jce were conducted by Capt. Sydney Key Evans, Navy Corps of Chaplains. Mrs. Thompson, who was well-known here, died Thursday at her home in Greensboro. She had lived in Wash- ington and at Annapolis, Md., during the period when her father was super- intendent of the United States Naval Academy. Mrs. Thompson was the grand- daughter of the late Gen. William Montrose Graham, U. 8. A, and a niece of Mrs. Carroll Storrs Alden, wife of the present head of the De- partment of English at the Naval Academy. _— PLANE BIDS OPENED Connecticut Concern Makes Low Offer for Navy Bombers. Bids for new scout bombing planes were opened yesterday by the Navy Department, with the Chance-Vought Corp. of East Hartford, Conn, a di- vision of the United Aircraft Corp., submitting the lone offer. The firm asked $590,484 for 25 planes, adding that if the Government exercised an CONTRAGTS LAW MAY BE MODIFIED Backfire Brings Certain Ex- emptions for Textile Industry. With the Walsh-Healey contracts act beginning to backfire against Gov- ernment purchases, carrying not only a threat of increased costs, but also deterring concerns from bidding for this business, steps are being taken for some modifications of its stringent provisions. Acting on a recommendation from the Public Contracts Board, which originated in the Procurement Divi- sion of the Treasury, Acting Secre- tary of Labor Charles O. Gregory late yesterday approved a 90-day exemp- tion for the textile industry from one labor section of the law. It was re- ported also that the Procurement Division was forwarding additional proposals covering other lines to tie Lebor Department. ‘The law was passed at the wind-up of Congress and went into effect on | October 1. It applies to all contracts in excess of $10,000, and sets up cer- tain working standards, including one for an eight-hour day and 40-hour week in establishments doing busi- ness with the Government. Where the law will “seriously impair the con- duct of Government business,” the head of the contracting agency is entitled to seek relief, and it was under this proviso that the appeal was made in the textile case. Early Indication. An early indication of the way the wind is blowing came several days ago when the Interior Department opened automobile bids and found that two manufacturers each had | sought only that amount of the total offering that wouid keep the con- tract below $10,000, and thereby exempt them from the law. quarter, it was said today, this polic; will be followed generally. The representative of one manu- facturer said that under a& program of the sort the Government would be able only to get a certain pro- portion of its needs through wholesale channels, and would have to go to Ilinois, Michigan, Indiana and other | retailers for the rest, with correspond- ing increase in costs. It was pointed out that Government work is only a fraction of the total business of large concerns, but that it would be necessary to allow the standards set for it to govern op- erations entirely. Barrier to Some Seen. ‘This, it was thought, would keep some concerns entirely out of the field of Government bidding, even up to the $10,000 mark. The textile exemption allowed mills to employ girls between 16 and 18 on Government work, provided they were in employ on October 15. The law requires that girls on such work be at least 18. In granting this measure of relief, however, Gregory imposed the condi- tion that the industry shall not em- ploy any girl under 18 at night or in occupations of hazardous nature. The Contracts Board declined to meet the request of the textile in- dustry for 90 days' grace on work day and week provisions, and would not pass on the matter of exempting custodial, supervisory, maintenance and clerical employes on the ground they were not within the act. ANNAPOLIS WOMAN, 24, SUCCUMBS TO WOUND Miss Katherine Roberts Was Found Shot in Her Home on October 5. Ey the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, October 17.—Miss Katherine Roberts, 24, who was found in the dining room of her home cn October 5 with & bullet wound in the abdomen, died shortly before midnight in the Emergency Hospital. Miss Roberts was found by a brother, who investigated after hearing a shot. A pistol, belonging to another brother, a patrolman, was found near her. Police Magistrate Joseph M. Arm- strong, acting coroner, released the body for burial. State’s Attorney Roscoe C. Rowe of Anne Arundel County said no further action would be taken in the case. There was no inquest. —_— BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the bandstand at 5:30 p.m. today. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant bandmaster. Program. March, “The American on” Overture, “The Amazon” Entr "Acte, (8) “A la Cubana” (b) “Marche Militaire’ Excerpts from musical comedy, “A Connecticut Yankee” ..Rodgers --Kiessler ‘““‘Amina” — option to purchase 40 planes altogether, it would do the job for $906,760. Naval authorities said the new ships will be utilized to train reserves and also to do work in the fleet. Waltz sulte, * Travelers” o.........coeee..-Weiss Finale, “The Ambassador” ......-....-..Bagley “The Star Spangled Banner.” SATURDAY, . OCTOBER 17, 1936. CALIFORNIA DASH COUP FOR LANDON Roosevelt Abandoned Plan to Visit Coast—Time Full Up to Nov. 3. BY JAY G. HAYDEN. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, October 17 (NAN.A).— Gov. Landon énce more may have stolen a march on President Roose- velt in his sudden and dramatic an- nouncement that he will dash to California for a speech at Los Angeles on October 20, before beginning his final swing through the territory east of the Mississippi. President Roosevelt originally had scheduled a tour all the way to the Coast, but this was abandoned when it seemed that the Republicans had given up any hope of winning elec- toral votes west of the Rockies. With his time already booked until election day, it now seems unlikely that the President can follow Gov, Landon to the West Coast. This development is comparable to Gov. Landon's last-minute trip to Maine, before the September election in that State. There, also, the Demo- crats had been lulled into the belief that the Republican presidential can- didate was not going to take a hand in the situation. The announcement that he would do so found President Roosevelt touring the South—too far away to change his plans and compete with Gov, Landon for the Maine vote. Credited With Maine Sweep, There is little doubt that Gov. Landon’s speech at Portland saved the day for Senator Wallace White and thus gave the Republicans a clean sweep in the Maine election, Gov, Landon now is going to Cali- fornia in the firm belief that he can win that State, and also convinced that he has a chance to garner 16 electoral votes en route, in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona, The Republican headquarters, in the last few days, has been flooded with favorable reports from California. The word is that there is taking shape In that State a combination of con- servatives, Republicans and Demo- crats, against the New Deal, very much like that which sabmerged | | Upton Sinclair, the Democratic nomi- nee for Governor in 1934, In September of that year, almost everybody in California agreed that Sinclair would sweep the State, and, | as late as the middle of October, he | appeared to be well in the lead. But | when the votes were counted, he re- | ceived 879,537 votes, as against 1,138,- | 620 for Frank Merriam, Republican, and 302,519 for Haight, the Progres- sive-Commonwealth candidate. | Strikes in the agricultural regions | of California and the threat of an- | other tie-up of maritime activities, | of the sort that produced the general | | strike in San Francisco two years ago, | | are said to be important factors now | | In turning the voters of California in | the conservative direction. | | Falls From Car BOY INJURED AS DOOR OPENS. PATTON TIMMONS, 5 years old, of 1825 A street southeast, who suffered head injuries yesterday when the door of a truck in which he was riding opened suddenly and caused him to be thrown to the street as the vehicle was turning a corner. The mishap occurred at Eighth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast. Patton, who lives with his grandmother, Mrs. Mary McCormick, was treated at Gallinger Hospital. CHIANG SUMMONS PARLEY ON JAPAN Shansi, Hopei and Shantung | Governors in Talks at Nanking. B> the Associated Press. NANKING, October 17.—Gen. | Chiang Kai-shek, dictator of China, | summoned provincial representatives | to conferences on the critical Sino- Japanese question today. The generalissimo, at temporary headquarters in Hangchow, south- west of Shanghai, discussed the sit- | uation with Governors of Shansi, Hopei and Shantung provinces. Observers interpreted the discus- sion as indicating Chiang’s attention was turned toward North China, | _Los Angeles Turns to G. 0. P. | Los Angeles district, which polls | nearly half of the votes in the State | |and was the principal stronghold of | Sinclairism, is turning back to its traditional Republican allegiance. It is in an effort to stimulate this trend that Mr. Landon has decided to take time out of his Eastern campaign to | speak at Los Angeles | . Another factor that has caused Mr. | Landon to view California with a new hope is the statement of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, advising his Dr. Townsend launched his movement | from Long Beach, and Southern Cali- | fornia all along has been his strong- | est stamping ground. The Los Angeles section is populated largely by retired farmers from Iowa, States in the Middle West. Almost all of these were Republicans before the depression, with the result of making Southern California one of the most strongly Republican districts in the United States. In 1928, for | example, Herbert Hoover carried Los Angeles County with 513,000 votes to 209,900 for Alfred E. Smith. But in 1932, when a great majority of the | people of Los Angeles had lost their | jobs and their savings, the county gave Roosevelt 554,000 votes to 373,000 | for Hoover. Count On Northern Section. | ‘The Republicans are confident now | that, if Los Angeles can be turned back to anything approaching an even break between Landon and Roosevelt, the northern sections of California can be depended on to give them the victory. Politicians have not forgotten that California provided the surprising up- | set that gave Woodrow Wilson the | presidency over Charles Evans Hughes { by a margin of 23 electoral votes in | 1916. Wilson's plurality in California approximately a million. Hughes' defeat in California in that year was charged to the fact that he visited San Francisco without calling on Senator Hiram W. Johnson, and there are intimations that Johnson may prove to be a factor in the situa- tion this year. In 1932 he indorsed Roosevelt and spoke for him in several States. This year Johnson has said nothing publicly. His friends say that he dislikes many features of the New Deal, and particularly he is at logger- heads with the dominant group in the Democratic party in California, headed by Senator Willlam G. McAdoo. One very large reason why Johnson supported Roosevelt in 1932 was Her- bert Hoover. Johnson and Hoover for years had been bitter political enemies. So much so that Hoover left Johnson out when he invited the other mem- bers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to dinner at the White House. Now Hoover is pretty well re- moved from the political picture, and this is another factor which might tend to bring Johnson back into the Republican camp. New Mexico, Arizona Cheer G. O. P. ‘The impression which Mr. Landon makes during his visit to California very possibly will decide Senator John- son’s course. The Republicans also have been en- couraged by the reports they are re- ceiving from New Mexico and Arizona, both of which they had written off pre- viously as hopeless. The Literary Di- gest poll of Arizona shows Landon ahead, with 1,771 votes to 1524 for Roosevelt, and New Mexico almost exactly even—1,547 for Roosevelt and 1,521 for Landon. The Digest poll shows Landon leading in California with 83,508, as against 72,352 for Roosevelt, with 4,698 favoring Lemke, although his name will not be on the ballot. Dr. Townsend, in his state- Particularly it is asserted that the | €king increased influence in five was less than 4,000 in a total vote of | where the Japenese were reported | provinces. Discussions of the Sino-Japanese | problem will be reopened Monday between Chang Chun, Chinese foreign | | minister, and Shigeru Kawagoe, Jap- anese Ambassador to China. | A national constitutional conven- tion scheduled to convene at Nanking November 12 was postponed until | | January 3 after authorities decided the session should await clarification of tangled international questions. Many American sailors were in the lrapnal as a result of the movement | |of the United States Asiatic Fleet from the Shantung coast, its Summer station, to the Philippine Islands. | Seventeen American vessels, in- cluding destroyers, submarines and various supply ships. airived during the last few days and more were re- ported en route. | Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell, for- | merly of Honolulu, was expected to arrive Sunday to assume command of | the fleet, relieving Rear Admiral O. G. | | Murfin, who will go to Honolulu, | —— e {JAMES J. BURKE DEAD; LIFELONG D. C. RESIDENT Former Machinist at Navy Yard. Funeral Services at 8:30 A.M. Tuesday. James J. Burke, 69, -retired ma- chinist, died yesterday at his home, 4417 Seventeenth street. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Burke, & lifelong resident here, at one time was machinist at the Navy | Yard and later was machinist for | J. E. Hurley. He retired about five | years ago. | He was a member of the Knights of | | St. John, Knights of Columbus and | the Holy Name Society ot Sacred Heart | | Catholic Church. He was educated at | the Immaculate Conception School and St. John's College. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary C. Burke, to whom he was married 45 years ago; four sons, James C., An- thony F. Joseph W. and Francis J. Burke; flve daughters, Mrs. J. C. Stoner, Miss Catherine M. Burke, Miss Anna D. Burke, Miss Margaret M. Burke and Mrs. Loretta D. Beale, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 am. Tuesday in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, following brief serv- STRIKE IS [AD - 10 PARIS REGIME Industrialists’ Accusations Follow Order to Resume Work on Cruisers. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, October 17.—French indus trialists, alarmed over threats of prospective government confiscation of their factories, charged officials today with slding with striking workers. ‘The accusations by plant owners came on the heels of a navy ministry order to an armament company to re- sume work on equipment for two new French cruisers. The ministry threat- ened to invoke a military requisition law of 1877, take cver the plant and supervise operations. The Industrialist Federation d-- clared the government was “abusing powers granted in the interests of na- tional defense for arbitrary settlement of labor conflicts.” The strike at a Paris factory halted work on armaments for the cruisers Dunkerque and Strasbourg, now being outfitted at Brest and St. Nazaire, re- spectively. Nationalization Ordered. In another government department, Pierre Cot, air minister, ordered ime mediate nationalization of all factories engaged in the manufacture of aire planes and aviation accessories. Cot invoked the armament nation- alization law passed by Parliament last August and said the program would be put into effect immediately, in such a manner as to not slow up production. Officers of the huge Renault auto= mobile factory outside Paris reported Communist workers “raided a Righte ist union election, forcibly taking pos= session of the factory hall, smashing the ballot boxes and ousting the vote ers.” ‘The Rightist union, the officials de- clared, was composed largely of fore= men, technicians and higher-paid em« ployes. Two persons injured in a sugar beet factory fight at Chartres were in a critical condition at a hospital. Employes of the L'Orient arsenal threatened to strike, charging officers of the torpedo boat Indomitable put up a Fascist poster aboard the vessel. Fascist Leader Summoned. . Francois de la Rocque, leacer of the Fascist social party, was moned for questioning in connection with native disorders in Algeria, where leftists charged de la Rocque's supporters with starting disturbances. The harassed government of Pre- mier Leon Blum also faced threats of Radical-Socialists to desert the Peo- ple’s Front political coalition unless the administration takes strong steps to make Communists “behave.” A partisan manifesto, signed by party President Edouard Daladier, de- clared the Radical-Socialists were “firmly resolved to defend individual property just as much against & viola- tion of legality as against pressure from great concentrations of in- terests.” Three hundred Rightist newspapers throughout the country published a Jjoint editorial assailing the govern- ment bitterly and urging an organ- ized campaign against communism. FINE 1S IMPOSED IN LIQUOR CASE Colored Man First Marylander Arrested in Drive to Halt Importation. By a Staff Correspondent o. The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. October 17.— James Garnett, colored, of Takoma Park, Md., was fined $5 and costs by Judge Harold C. Smith in Police Court yesterday as the first step in the ca paign launched to halt Maryland res dents from bringing liquor into Monte gomery County from Washington The jurist explained upon imposing the fne that he would be lenient upon Garnett because he was the first of- fender arrested under the county’s liquor-limit law, but sounded a warn' ing that “this practice must be c out.” Garnett was arrested on a chari¢ of illegal importatian a week a4 when an inspector for the Liquor Core trol Board found him with two quars of liquor and a case of beer, whic Garnett said he had purchased in the Capital. Under the statute, a resident is lowed to bring only one quart of a alcoholic beverage into Montgome: County at any time and is prohibited from bringing in more than two quar within a one-month period. Officials of the Liquor Co Board announced after Gar arrest that they were “confiden law is being “disregarded con: and announced that immediate s wouid be taken to arrest offenders. They added tkhat efforts also w be made to stop Washington beer ar liquor merchants from making d liveries in the suburban section of tha county. Photos Nerve Without Light. A photo of live nerves has been taken without light. A woman physi- cian has originated a device for mak- ices at the residence. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The C the Russians revolution thal nations. Alice Longworth. ment, urged the Lemke supporters to vote for Landon. (Cepyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) » ing pictures with body-generated elece tricity. National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. INCINNATI, October 17.—The Russian dictator senses the need, as do all dictators, of asserting himself abroad in order to make an impression at home. Moscow, having charged Germany, Italy and Portugal with sending aid to the Fascists in Spain, now demands block~ ade of Portugese ports to prevent shipment of arms to the anti-Communists. There is more than & strong intimation that failure to heed this demand will bring active Russian intervention. In all fairness, the Fascist powers cannot blame for helping the reds so long as the whites help the whites. But there is graver danger today than ever before during the Spanish t Spain may become a testing ground for the Soviet Air Fleet, as opposed to planes of the more conservative European Of course, there is the recently made non- intervention agreement, which pledges all of these countries to keep hands off in Spain, It is not probable, however, that any of the signatories took the document seriously when they signed it. (Copyright, 1936.) q