Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1936, Page 6

ARKANSASTOVOTE ONNEWSPRIVILEGE Proposed Act Would Grant Immunity to Reporters in Courts. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., October 24— Professional immunity for newsmen in court proceedings will be up for a| decision by the Arkansas electorate in the November 3 election. Proposed in an initiated act spon- fored by a committee of the State | Bar Association to revise the eriminal code, the measure, according to the committee, was offered “in the public welfare” and to encourage “pitiless publicity” against wrong-doing. Under its provisions, a newspaper writer could not be required to dis- close the source of published informa= tion unless it were shown that his story “was written and published in bad faith, with malice, and not in the interest of the public welfare.” Offered for “Public Welfare.” “This is offered for the public wel- fare,” said the committee W a brief urging adoption of the act by refer- endum. “It recognizes newyspaper writing as a profession and places newspaper men in the same position @s Jawyers, physicians and ministers.” Court records of recent years in this State show no outstanding case of prosecution to have prompted the pro= posal. Former Circuit Judge B. E. Isbell of De Queen, who wrote the section | “to create a privilege for confidential communications to newspaper men,” explained: “It is my opinion that since law enforcement has suffered such & breakdown, that ‘pitiless publicity’ is the best protection the public has | sgainst all forms of lawlessness and particularly against dishonest of- cials.” Would Not Curb Testimony. “This section would mnot render newspaper men incompetent to testify concerning” communications to them, but would only permit them to refuse to reveal the sources of information upon which articles written or pub- lished by them are based,” said the committee’s brief. “Such a change in the law seems to be generally favored, and it is thought would enable newspaper men to secure information of wrongdoing that is now difficult.” Citing sentences given newsmen in other States for contempt on refusal to testify, the committee said: “A judge in Arkansas, as the law now stands, however, much as he may have sympathized with the reporter, would have been compelled to have done the same.” Vassar President to Be Guest. Dr. Henry Noble MacCracken, presl- dent of Vassar College, and Mrs. Mac- Cracken are to be guests of honor at a dinner to be given by the loval | Vassar branch at the Army and Navy | Club at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Miss Mary | Clark. 1316 New Hampshire avenue, | and Mrs. Frederick Coleman Fishback, 3124 Thirty-eighth street, are in charge of the arrangements. Wardrobe Mistress Dies. LOS ANGELES, October 24 (P).— Mrs. Lucia Hays Coulter, 73, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s women's wardrobe department 17 years, died | today of heart disease. Known as “Mother” Coulter, she was adviser and friend to many motion-picture players and extras, THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair, with slowly rising temperature today; gen- tle variable winds. Tomorrow, mostly cloudy. Maryland and Virginia—Fair and slightly warmer today; tomorrow, in- creasing cloudiness, followed by rain and -older in extreme west portions. West Virginia—Generally fair and warmer today; tomorrow, probably | showers, followed by colder. ! River Keport. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy late yesterday afternoon. s: | be available for landings and take-| | ing and take-off areas involved in the | National Park Service that the air- cost housing unit was started. Lower: The same area as PAVING COMPLETED ON AIRPORT RUNWAY Final Surfacing on Short Connect- | ing Link Will Be Done This / Paving of the maln Washington Afrport runway across Military road was completed yesterday and the final | surfacing of a short connecting link | between the road and the south half of the runway will be completed this | morning, it was announced last night by Samuel J. lomon, airport man- ager. The work will finish the pav- ing of all of the main runway and most of the section of the short run- way which lie on ground involved in the title dispute between the airport and the Federal Government. Sunday work on the main runway was ordered to complete the 4.200-foot landing strip for this afternoon’s air | traffic. By noon, it was expected, the . entire length of the main runway will offs, giving Washington one of the | finest air transport runways in this part of the United States. Paving crews will go to work tomor- row on the final half of the shorter 3.000-foot runway. This work is ex- pected to be finished during the week, completing the paving of all the land- present $100,000 construction program. Work on the portion of the airport involved in the long-pending Federal boundary dispute will be completed in the face of two warnings from the port is violating property rights of the United Slates in carrying on this work. X p mi == 59 10 pm. Record Until 10 P.M. Sat: Highest, 64. 3 p.m. vesterday g0. 58. ' Lowest, 5, 10 p.m. yeste Year ago, 44 Record Temperature This Year. 105. on July 10. Lowest, 3. " Year rday. Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘oday. Tomorrow. 4:07 am 1044 am. 434 pm. 11:15 p.m| igh . izh v . = 10 The Sun and Moon, Sun. today_ un. tomoITOW. oon. today ___ ypm, 12:55 Automobile lights must be turned one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 36, Average, Record. January 3.55 7.0 82 a.m. on Precipl- (G Temperature~ tation. p.m. i Sat. o . &€pm. 8p.m. Asheville. N. 4" 5 & Atlanta, Ga Atlantic Cit altimore. Md. R3IRFBRTIN GENERAL ELECTRIC “TIME SAVER” SPECIAL WHILE THEY LAST Small Down Payment Easy Budget Payment Plan FEATURES ACTIVATOR LOVELL WRINGER PERMANENT LUBRICATION LONG-LIFE MECHANISM QUIET WASHING OPERATION ELECTRIC PUMP SEVEN-POUND CAPACITY -DON'T COME IN OR TELEP SUPPLY OF THIS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, OCTOBER: 25 1936—PART ONE. Upper: The 22-acre site of Techwood drive as it appeared before the Atlanta Federal low- it appears today. The project in 1935 and has apartments renting for about $5 a room, instead of old shacks. It has accom- modations for 604 families with incomes ranging jrom $1,200 to $1,800 Gets W.P.A. Job DERN'S DAUGHTER BECOMES RESEARCH EMPLOYE. F Morning to Rush Use. ' MRS. HARRY BAXTER, Daughter of the late Secre= tary of War George H. Dern, who has accepted a position as research worker with the Public Works Administration here. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Trees Blossom in October. Fruit trees and flowers blossomed in Virginia's warmest early October in years. o 69" HERE IS A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE DELAY~ HONE BEFORE OUR MODEL IS SOLD. E.C.GRAHAM, Pres. NATIONA 1328-30 New York Ave. 5 EC(TRIAL NAtional 6800 Atlanta Slum Project Finished cost $3,000,000. It was started a year. —Wide World Photos. SUGAR MEN TO ASK CROP CASH INCREASE| Larger Returns Under Grower- Processor Contracts to Be | Sought, They Say. By the Associated Press, Western and North Central sugar | growers indicated to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration yesterday they would seek larger returns from their sugar crops under new grower- processor contracts than they re-| | ceived under former agreements. | | Their attitude was taken by repre- sentatives of beet and sugar cane growers at & two-day conference with the A. A . A. on a 1937 sugar control | program under the new soil conserva- | tion act. | Assistant Administrator J. B. Hutson said growers told the conference they | believed their share of the cash re- turn from sugar crops should be larger | hereafter as & result of the invalida- | tion of the A. A. A. which eliminated | processing taxes and reduced benefit payments, Grower relationships, Hutson said. entered the discussion to determine | how the Government might enter | negotiations between the two groups. | The conference, Ire said, developed | | 8 position that the Government, be- | cause of the elimination of processing taxes, would be limited largely in negotiations to the furnishing of in- formation on which grower-processor contrac NOW-= Tunin Favorj The New 1937 PHILCO Like dialing a telephone . . « but quicker and easier! One twirl of the brings you vour favorite American sta- tions! That's Philco Auto matic Tuning. American Finder . . System . { Philco H Aerial . . 61B—$42.50, %4, | local ‘Tuberculosis Association. Tuni; PRESDENT GALLD LATE“REPENTER G. 0. P. Says Business Men Won't Forget Earlier Statements. By the Assoclated Press. Chester C. Bolton, chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, said yesterday, “Candidate Roosevelt's ‘good neighbor’ broadcast to business has all the ear-marks of a last-minute repentance.” Referring to the President’s broad- cast to & series of businessmen's din- ners Friday night, Bolton said in a statement that businessmen “cannot forget the vituperation heaped upon them by the Roosevelt administra- tion—harsh words that lose none of their sting because the President would make them honeyed now. “Businessmen find it difficult to reconcile Mr. Roosevelt's very flatter- ing statements at Chicago with his Cleveland address on ‘Economic Barons.”” Series of Charges Issued. The Republican National Committee yesterday put forth a series of state- ments, criticizing a presidential com- mutation of sentence, Works Progress Adnainistration “publicizing” of “polit- ical speeches” and Federal Housing Administration publicity methods. The committee said, “Residents of California held ringside seats to Wwit- ness one of the most astounding ac- tiohs of the New Deal’s entire per- formance—the release from prison by President Roosevelt's order of a bank- er convicted of violation of banking laws.” ‘The banker, the committee said, was Richard L. Hargreaves, sentenced to three years after convictiom in Los Angeles. The committee contended that “the role of intermediary in chief and special pleader” before President Roosevelt was played by Senator McAdoo, California Democrat. W. P. A. Complaint Made. The complaint against W. P. A. sald that it publicized the full text of an address by Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, assistant administrator in charge of womens’ activities, to a Democratic womens’ regional conference for South- eastern States at Tampa, Fla, this year. Of the Federal Housing Adminis- tration publicity the committee said: “Although the F. H. 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