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B2 w ELECTION THREATS LAID T0 2 FIRMS Inforraation, Filed in Den- ver, Though Prosecutor, Doubts Violations. BY the Associated Pross, DENVER, October - 31.— District Judge George F. Dunklee today ordered informations filed charging Montgom- ery Ward, Inc.,, and a Denver lumber company with violating a State elec- tion law of 1891 by “implied threats intended to influence the votes of their employes.” ‘The Denver firm—Hallack & How- ard Lumber Co.—was charged by Dis- trict Attorney Earl Wettengel with inclosing in employes’ pay envelopes a “threat” of wage reductions and “other implied threats” if the present national administration is continued in office. Prosecutor Skeptical. Although Wettengel submitted the charges to the court with an explana- tion that he had prepared them only at the request of John E. Gross, sec- retary of the Colorado Federation of Labor, and the federation's attorney, Floyd Miles, he said: “My honest opin- THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1936—PART_ONE. Iowa Woman Powerless to Talk To Father—Hasn’t in 45 Years fon is that these pamphlets and printed matter distributed as charged in the informations do not constitute & violation of the law.” ‘The lumber firm was charged with inclosing in pay envelopes a booklet bearing the title “Americanism, Com- munism, New Dealism? How Does All This Interest Workers?"” The booklet, as quoted in the infor- mation, attacked “New Deal” laws, the seizure of telegrams or other cor- respondence by Government investi- gators, taxes on corporation profits and “Government monkeying with business.” Social Security Involved. Bulletins posted for employes by the Montgomery Ward Co., the other com- plaint said, dealt with the social se- curity acts’ wage tax for old-age bene- fits. The information charged that similar matter was distributed among employes with statements that work- ers and firms had “no guarantee” that the old-age benefit taxes or pay- ments would not be changed later and that there was “no guarantee money paid will ever be returned * * * in the form of pensions.” Maximum penalty upon conviction under the statute is a fine of $1,000, a | Jall sentence of one year, or both. MUNRO KEZER DIES; A. P. STAFF MEMBER Succumbs After Long Illness at Parents’ Home in Colcrado. Munro Kezer, 30, a member of the regional staff of the Washington Bu- | reau of the Associated Press, died yes- terday after a long illness at the home of his parents, at Fort Collins, Colo., it was learned by the Associated Press. Mr. Kezer, after being ill for some | time, underwent an operation last May | and about a month later went to| Rochester, Minn,, for treatment at the | Mayo Clinic there. From there he| ‘went to Fort Collins. | He joined the Associated Press staff | at Lincoln, Nebr., in 1932 and was transferred from there to the Wash- ington Bureau in December, 1934. While here he “covered” news for Jowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. He was a graduate of the University | of Nebraska and once was a News | writer for the Lincoln Star. His widow, a son, Allen, his parents, | Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Kezer, and a brother, James Kezer of North Platte, Nebr., survive. — ROOSEVELT DEFEAT SEEN BY TOWNSEND | Pension Leader Forecasts Influen- tial Townsend Bloc to Next Congress. BY the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, leader of the old-age | pension movement bearing his name, predicted today the defeat of Presi- dent Roosevelt at the polls next Tuesdzy. In a statement released from his organization’s headquarters here, Dr. Townsend said in part: “Every indication points to the de- feat of Franklin D. Roosevelt next Tuesday. I am certain people will arouse themselves and decide what form of government they want in America. The American people have too long been blessed with a demo- cratic Government to allow it to be lost to them next election day. There- fore, Mr. Roosevelt will be defeated.” The pension leader reiterated his personal indorsement of Representa- tive William Lemke of North Dakota for President and forecast an influen- tial Townsend bloc in the next LCongress. “Conservative estimates on the num- ber of Congressmen forming the Town- send bloc in the House of Representa- tives in 1937 run all the way from 81 Congressmen, on the part of oppo- nents, to 150, on the part of our own statisticians. I believe there will be at least 150 * * *. It will be the largest single bloc and the most sig- mificant in 1937.” The Townsend movement has in- dorsed more than 200 congressional candidates throughout the United Btates. ALABAMA NEGRO VOTERS ORGANIZE AS DEMOCRATS = --BY J. F. ROTHERMEL, Special Correspondent of The Star. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,, October 31.— An experience believed without prece- dent in the State enlivened the clos- ing week of the presidential campaign in Alabama. That experience was the organization in Birmingham of a Negro Voters’ Democratic League. The club signified one change in political sentiment in the South this year, a swing in the Negro vote from Republican to Democratic, & swing born in part of the Roosevelt policy of work relief. The huge Democratic vote is a vote cast for the hand that feeds, but it is a vote neverthelests The Democrats are expected to win Tuesday with & majority estimated at 75 to.80 per fent of the total vote. The Democrats will carry all con- gressional races, will re-elect Senator Bankhead snd will carry all county races with the poss! exception of 4 counties out of 67. Minnie Wall, 45, left, has never spoken to her father, Charles Wall, 81, shown with her at their home in College Springs, Iowa. She talks with every one else but “just chokes up” when she tries them, By the Associated Press, COLLEGE SPRINGS, Towa, October 31.—The cat's got Minnie Wall's tongue when it comes to speaking to her father—has had it, in fact, for 45 years. She talks with her brother Sam, 43. She chats with her neighbors. She bargains with the butcher and the grocer. And she hears what her father, Charles Wall, now 81, says to her. But in all the 45 years of her life, she never has spoken a word to him. Nobody knows why, but her father has an idea that Minnie was “birth- marked” by something that occurred to her mother just before Minnie was born. “I'm 81, he said, “and we've lived together here ever since she was born without her saying a word to me. And I don't suppose we’ll ever know just why she always just sort of chokes up when she tries to. She can’t even talk about it to any one—just loses the power of speech when she tries.” It's a strange conversation the i for it. to speak to her father, or to explain the strange bar between —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto, Walls carry on. The father speaks to Minnie. To all appearances, she doesn't hear him, but if an answer is necessary, Minnie talks to Sam. If the father is out in the yard, Minnie calls him to the telephone or to meals by beating the side of their weather-beaten home with & dented stick. “Once,” one neighbor said, “Charlie and his wife were going away on the train just before Minnie was born. Mrs. Wall didn't want to go. “When they got about a block from the depot she choked up just like Minnie always has and couldn't talk to him for some time afterward. “That’s the only way anybody ever has been able to explain Minnie's trouble.” “Minnie,” her father sald, “tries to talk to me, and she tries hard. But it’s just a funny sound in her throat. “Why one time I laid $500 on the table and her mother told Minnie the money was hers if she'd just ask me But she never did.” She never has been examined by & psychiatrist. FARMER CONVICTED ON ARSON CHARGE | Accused of Hiring Man to Set Fire to Home in Shenan- doah Park. Ey the Associated Press. —Noah Herring, 55, Albemarle County Government property and sentenced by Judge John Paul in the United The farmer was charged with pay- ing Charles Frazier to set fire to a dwelling in the Shenandoah National Park formerly owned by his son, George Herring. Frazier, 25, pleaded guilty to burn- in the home, which was occupied by 17 members of the family of John Morris at the time. Two invalids and a baby were taken safely from the three-room house. Judge Paul sentenced Frazier, prin- cipal Government witness against Herring, to five years in the Federal Rreformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio. was disgruntled over the price paid for his son’s property when the place was acquired for the park. OUSTED ROPER AIDE TO VOTE FOR LANDON Ewing Mitchell Says Roosevelt Evidently Seeks Change in Form of Government. By the Associated Press. Asserting he was a life-long Demo- crat and President Roosevelt's pre- convention manager in Missouri in 1932, Ewing Y. Mitchell, former As- sistant Secretary of Commerce, an- nounced last night he would vote for Gov. Landon and a Republican State ticket. Mitchell, who was removed from office by Mr. Rooscvelt after.a con- troversy with Secretary Roper, said in a statement: “There are many reasons which actuate me in the support of the Re- publican ticket, chief among which is the evident intention of the Presi- dent, in the event of his re-election, to change our form of government. * * * It is highly significant that the President, who usually runs for- ward to meet an issue for the purpose of exploding it, has failed to state that he will not be a candidate for a third term. * * * I also intend to vote the straight Republican State ticket. The corrupt Pendergast ma- chine has completely captured what was once the State (Missouri) de- mocracy.” Divorces will total about 50,000 in Germany this year. “Hant” Protects Chicken Coop of HARRISONBURG, Va., October 31. | farmer, was convicted of destroying | States District Court here today to| | serve three years at Camp Lee. The Government claimed Herring | PROHIBITION VOTE GAIN OVER ’32 SEEN Party Not One of One Idea, but Has Complete Program, Chairman Asserts. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31.—A “much larger vote than in 1932” was fore- cast for the' Prohibition party today by its national chairman, Edward E. Blake. “There is a decided reaction against present liquor conditions in prac- tically every State,” Blake said in a statement. “Dry people now resalize that there is no difference between the major parties in their attitude on the liquor question and the only pro- test they can make against liquor conditions is by voting the Prohibition ticket. “We are not & party of one idea, but have a complete national program, dealing with world peace, crime, old- age pensions, unemployment and the currency.” Blake said the party’s candidate for President, Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York, spoke in 31 States, He termed the party’s campaign “the most active since 1916.” William Upshaw, Prohi- bition nominee in 1932, polled 71,006 votes. DUKE POWER TO EXPAND CI N. €, October 31 (#)—The Duke Power Co. announced today it would spend .$3,000,000 im- mediately in an expansion program at its Riverbend power production plant. ‘The plant, already one of the com- pany's largest, is a steam adjunct to its series of Catawba River hydro- electric developments. The announcement said contract already had been let for a 75,000- horsepower turbo-generator to go into an addition at the plant, construc- tion of which will begin at once. NOW! +: * No Unsightly Hard- ware %* No Light Streaks * No Cornice to Buy 12 Beautiful Pastel Colors with 16 Har- monizing Tape Colors THEY COST NO MORE THAN ORDINARY OPEN- TOP BLINDS WITH EX- PENSIVE HARDWARE. Let us show you how practical and beautiful these blinds are. No ob- ligations. Ask About Our Budge: Plan 3 X 1904 M Street WAR GAMES DRAW GENERALS WEST Army and Navy Exercises to Be Held in Puget Sound Area. BY the Associated Press. LANGLEY FIELD, Va, October 31—Ma). Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commanding the G. H. Q. Air Force, left this morning on an extended trip to the Pacific Coast to witness the joint Army and Navy exercises to be held next week in the Puget Sound area. 3 Two weeks ago Langley Field and the waters of the Chesapeake capes were the of similar in which the battleships Arkansas and Wyoming and the destroyer Taylor towed targets for the G. H. Q Air Force bombers to locate and attack. The forthcoming exercises on the West Coast are similar to those just held in this area, and are expected to commence Tuesday. Ships of the Navy will tow targets which will be located and attacked by bombing airplanes of the G. H. Q. Air Force, stationed at March Field, near Riverside, Calif., and Hamilton Field, near San Prancisco, Calif, which have moved to a temporary base at Fort Lewis, Wash,, near Ta- coma. Gen. Andrews flew to Nashville, Tenn,, today on official business, there to be joined tomorrow by his flagship and a party of high-ranking officers of the War Department in ‘Washing- ton. Maj. E. L. Eubank, commander of the Headquarters Squadron, G. H. Q. Air Force, will fly the general's flagship to Washington early tomor- Tow, there to pick up the following: Brig. Gens. Walter Krueger, assist- ant chief of staff, War Plans Divi- sion; George H. Spaulding, assistant chief of staff, G-4, and Col. John N. Creely, also of the War Plans Divi- sion. Accompanying Maj. Eubank from Langley Field to Washington and then to the West Coast will be Brig. Gen. H, C. Pratt, commanding ‘i’fuwt‘.dco'lm" G. H. Q. Air Force; ul . Joseph T. McNarney, as- sistant chief of staff, G-4, G. H. Q. Alr Force, and the regular operating crew of the flagship, Pvt. H. 8. Wil- liams, co-pilot; Sergt. Arthur An- drews, crew chief; Pvt. C. A. Gmitter, radio operator. When the party from the War Department is picked up in Washing- ton Maj. Eubank will fly directly to Nashville, Tenn, where Gen. An- drews will take charge of his flagship, and Maj. Eubank will return to Lang- ley Field in the airplane flown to Nashville by Gen. Andrews. The itinerary of the party from Nashville will be by way of Salt Lake City. ‘The return journey, which is ex- pected to commence the latter part of the week, will include Hamilton Field, near S8an Francisco, and March Field, near Riverside, Calif. Maj. C. C. Chauncey, accompanied by Col. E. M. Harmon, G-4, Washington, will accompany Gen. Andrews' party in another airplane. of a series designed to make for closer co-operation between the Army and Navy in their joint mission of national defense, by working cut in advance all technical and tactical de- tails which must be solved prior to operations against an enemy in of war, MORMON CHURCH Deseret News Calls on Joseph Smith’s Followers to Stand “for Constitution.” BY the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, October 31.— The Deseret News, independent daily newspaper owned by the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) Church, called in s front-page editorial today for all church members “who believe the revelations and the words of the prophet” (Joseph Smith) to “stand for the Constitution” in Tuesday's elections. The editorial said: “We are nearing the end of a presl- dential campaign. “One candidate has characterized the Constitution as of ‘horse and buggy days’; he has advised members of Congress to join in enacting laws irrespective of the belief of the Con- gressmen as to the constitutionality of such laws. “The other candidate has declared he stands for the Constitution and for the American system of govern- ment which it sets up * * *. “Church members, who believe the revelations and the words of the prophet, must stand for the Consti- tution. Every patriot should feel duty bound to vote to protect it.” e Output of oil in Venezuela is at & two-year high. METAL BOX-CLOSED HEAD NETIAN BLINDS [ T e SV IL NAtional 5395 Venetion Biinds . ® Bontex Shaden @ Sturdifeld Awaings SUPPORTS LANDON| Gov. Landon’s Hope in Far West Rests BY the Associated Press, SAN FRANCISCO, October 31 Gov. Alf M. Landon's hope of car- rying the Far West rests largely upon the doubtful strength of the Town- send old-age pension movement, Landon's dash to Los Angeles for an address last week followed closely an appeal by the pension plan leader, Dr. F. E. Townsend of Long Beach, Calif, to his California followers to support the Republican nominee, “N1-L e e These two joint exercises are part |~ on Townsendites’ Power Previously Dr. Townsend declared he favored election of the Union party candidate, Representative Willlam Lemke of North Dakota. But in Cali- fornia the Union party failed to qual~ ity for the ballot, In the Townsend national weekly, Dr. Townsend said this move was in- tended to throw the presidential elec~ tion into the House of Representa- tives—where it would go should no candidate receive a majority electoral vote. © The weekly printed a table showing how Roosevelt could get 214, Landon 213, and Lemke 104 electoral votes. This table gave Washington, Idaho, California and Colorado to Landon on the basis of Townsend strength; also Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Wyoming. It listed Montana for Roosevelt. But California, with the largest registration in its history, has listed 1,882,014 Democrats, compared with 1,244,507 Republicans. Townsend or- ganizations indorsed 20 candidates for congressional nominations in the State primary. Eleven of them won. On the New 1937 7 RADIOS _— ’s Most Ou,“an di Trade In Your Old Radio! ZENITH . . . 5 Multi-Purpose ALLEN ON LANDON TRAIN Former Senator, Hurt in Accident, Returns to Topeka. ST. LOUIS, October 31 (#).—Henry J. Allen, former Governor and United States Senator from Kansas, was brought to St. Louis by automobile tonight and placed aboard Gov., Alf M. Landon’s special train for return to Topeka. Allen was injured slightly this afte ernoon in an automobile accident near Newberry, Ind. 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