Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1937, Page 2

A—2 ¥¥» THE EV ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937. WHEELER ASSAILS COURT PROPOSAL Says Administration Wants Assurance Judges Will Rubber-Stamp Acts. B the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, April 16.—Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montans said last night that the administration sought to “pack” the Supreme Court 80 1t could be assured “the court will rubber stamp legislation which is yet to be formulated or which is waiting for the dawn of the day when every- body says ‘Yes, Mr. President.’” Wheeler, a leader in the fight against the Roosevelt court bill, spoke at & dinner of the Phoenix Club here. “In view of the recent decisions in the minimum wage case, the Frazier- Lemke case and the Wagner labor case,” Wheeler said, “to claim that the Supreme Court stands as a bar to such legislation cannot now be main- tained with any degree of justifica- tion. * * * ‘Wants Assurance. “That the administration damns the Supreme Court if they deny constitu- tionality of an act of Congress by five to four and damns them if they vote to uphold it by the same majority, can lead to only one logical conclusion. What the administration wants is assurance. * * * “The Wagner labor act was upheld by a five-to-four vote. A five-to-four decision is 55.5 per cent of the court, which the administration says is not enough. Yet President Roosevelt was only elected by 61 per cent of the people in 1936 and 57 per cent of the voting public in 1932. * * * “Under the circumstances that I have set forth, what excuse can there be, except to satisfy personal vanities, to insist upon packing the Supreme Court?” Lauds Brandeis. Wheeler said he “resented” Attor- ney General Cummings’ reference to “aged and infirm judges.” “The oldest man on the Supreme | Court,” Wheeler said, “is Mr. Justice Brandeis, aged 80 years and going strong. He was leading the van when the Attorney General of the United | States was lined up with the economic | royalists.” Wheeler termed Brandeis “the | greatest liberal upon the Supreme | bench and one of the greatest living | Americans.” KRAMER TO ADDRESS K. OF C. BREAKFAST Event Will Follow Memorial Mass | at St. Matthew’s Church Sunday. Representative Charles Kramer of California, will be the principal speaker | at a breakfast to be held by the Dis- | trict of Columbia Chapter, Knights of Columbus, | | | | Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. GIFT. VERCOME by a burst of gen- erosity while in a sea food restaurant the other night (these things are unpredict- able, you know) a young lady de- cided to take home a dozen oysters to her mother. She had them wrapped up, still in the shell, and dropped them by the house before going on to a late party. Returning in the mystic hours, she was confronted by her fond momma. “What,” said the mother, “was the idea of the oysters? You know I don't like them, never did. As soon eat a snake.” This attitude seemed to suggest ac- tion to the fair damsel. Forthwith she moved to get the oysters out of the house, not wanting anything around that might bite her mother. (We are the first to admit that there was some muddy thinking evident throughout this incident.) out in front of the house, and leaning forlornly against a tree, began ac- costing passersby with the pitiful plaint “Wouldn't you like to take a dozen oysters home with you, please? ‘The citizens who came along either regarded her with the nervous em- barrassment of persons being stopped by an unwelcome peddler, or else just plain ran away, certain that she was trying to give them a bomb or some- thing. After noting no signs of luck for a | long time, the girl hit upon an idea, | stopped a taxi and when the driver opened the door, sald, “How would you like a dozen oysters?” “Little girl, who sent you out to sell those things at this hour of the night?” said the taxi driver gruffiy. “Go home.” He drove away. | She tried yet another cab. This time the driver just looked at her like | a panicky rabbit, shot the car in gear { and roared away, almost upsetting our | heroine. | Seeing that reason would do no good in this crisis, she changed her tactics with the next hacker. When he | opened the door, she quickly threw the | oyster sack into the back end ot the | car, screamed “Oysters!! Eat 'em!!” and fled into the night. * %k x THRIFT. All societies, clubs and organiza- tions for the prevention of waste | please note the example set by the officers of No. 3 precinct, this city. They use confiscated “‘numbers” pads for telephone memoranda. * x * % Sunday morning &t the Mayflower Hotel. The breakfast will follow the annual memorial mass which will be celebrated at Bt.Matthew’s Church by Msgr. Edward L. Buckey for members of the order in this Jurisdiction. TG R0kl Rep. Kramer. Johnson, director of education at Catholic University, will preach the | sermon. Members of the Washington | General Assembly, Fourth Degree, will | appear in uniform and act as a guard | of honor during the church services. Among those scheduled to attend the services and the breakfast are Daniel J. Callahan, supreme treasurer of the Knights of Columbus; Walter I. | Plant, state deputy, and the district deputies and grand knights in this area, as well as the head of the Fourth Degree. Michael M. McWhite, Irish Free | State Minister, will be honored at an “Evening in Ireland” celebration Sun- day at 8:30 p.m. at the K. of C. club house, 918 Tenth street. A reception will follow. CALIFORNIA JUDGE DIES Ostrand Former Associate Justice in Philippines. LIVERMORE, Calif., April 16 (). —James A. Ostrand, 65, former asso- ciate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, died here yes- terday. Judge Ostrand was born in Norway. After becoming naturalized, in 1898, he practiced law in the Philippines, was judge of the Court of Land Reg- Istration there and later become chief judge of that court. He also was judge of the District Court of Manila, chief justice of the Appellate Land Court, Santo Domingo, and became associate justice of the Philippine Supreme Court in 1921. He was & member of the 3d United States Infantry during the Spanish-Ameri- can War. o 5,000 Women Protest Lynching. CLARKSDALE, Miss., April 16 (). —More than 5,000 Methodist women in North Mississippi protested yester- day to Gov. Hugh White the lynching of two colored men at Duck Hill, Miss., Tuesday. The North Mississippi Missionary Conference, through its officers, Mrs. H. L. Talbert of Clarksdale, president, and Mrs. R. P. Neblett of Brooksville, secretary, telegraphed the protest to the Governor. Congress in Brief TODAY. In recess. Senate Judiciary Committee hears opponents of Roosevelt court bill. La Follette Committee continues in- vestigation of Harlan County, Ky., labor troubles. House Agriculture Committee con- siders farm credit bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Will not be in session. District Committee meets at 2 pm. to complete hearing on small claims court bill. House: WLl not be tn' sessid}, | numbers thereon with the tag before | She put the oysters in a sack, went | FEDERAL REVENUE 1S FAGING BIG CUT $100,000,000 Reduction Is Seen by New Railway Pension Proposal. BACKGROUND— On January 7 leaders of railroad labor and management began con= ferences directed at devising a rail- road pension law to replace present contested one. Meetings were sug- gested by President Roosevelt. Several weeks ago conferees an- nounced agreement, two of major revisions being reduction of taz rate and inclusion of private sys- tems in that of Federal Govern- ment. Concerned over revenue returns and mounting expenditures, Fed- eral financiers are reluctant to see new burdens heaped on Govern- ment Treasury. By the Associated P: A new railroad pension proposal punched a $100,000,000 hole in ad- ministration revenue estimates today, forcing Budget Bureau officials to re- check Federal income and outgo for this fiscal year. Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, har- monizing differences between the Treasury and railroad management and labor, introduced yesterday a rail retirement program which would give the roads and their workers tax re- funds of about $50,000,000 each. Poughton said the new plan, de- signed to replace the court-contested 1935 retirement legislation, was ac- ceptable to the carriers, rail brother- koods and the administration. The Treasury, objecting to a vol- untary plan formulated by manage- ment and labor, originally contended no tax refunds should be granted. Although ignoring this, Doughton’s program would lift the tax rates to meet Treasury standards. In his January budget estimates, President Roosevelt forecast taxes un- der the 1935 act would put $134,000,000 in the Treasury this fiscal year. The revised retirement prograi would whittle this income to about $30,- 000,000. Fiscal officials said this was being taken into account in the Budget Bureau's recast of income and spend- ing estimates. At his press conference today Presi- dent Roosevelt said he probably would |reach a tentative decision tomorrow on the relief appropriation to be re- quested in a message to Congress next week Estimates of the amount he will seek for the fiscal year beginning next | July 1 generally have ranged from $1,125,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. Ap- proximately $2,000,000,000 is expected to be spent in this fiscal year which ends June 30. Preliminary figures revising last January's budget estimates of receipts and expenditures were received by the President yesterday from Treasury officials. He will see the officials again today. He will begin writing his message Monday. The President referred inquirers to the Works Progress Administration when asked about reports there was to be a seasonal cut of 200,000 in W. P. A. rolls. MIFFED. ROLETARIANS should appreciate | this little essay, maybe, because | | it involves a Virginia gentleman who | | owns two limousines. A few days ago, | after imbibing to the extent a Virginia | gentleman shouldn't, he risked break- | ing a thumb or something by attempt- | ing to affix the new license plates on his fleet. It so happened that one set of tags had the final figures 98, the other 99. Armed with a screwdriver, the pluto- crat went to the garage, unwrapped the tags and probably shuffled them & couple of times before going to work. | Next scene is after dark. The fellow | is out driving, and without lights on | his car. An officer stops him. Busi- ness of reading the registration card. This card doesn't belong with this | car,” says the policeman, standing with | one foot on the rear bumper. 1 The Virginian, wandering around to | the front to look his machine in the | eye, takes the card, compares the tag him. “Does too,” says he. ment. Much argu- Final discovery that both are | right. Except that the law won, of | course. The fellow was arrested for | driving without lights. | ¥ ox x % SHIFT. NE of the most impressive turn- abouts in history has been achieved by the catalogues of those Middle- western mail order houses. In the last few years they have shifted from the status of crude joke material to an almost social dignity. The Satur- day Review of Literature, for example, in a recent issue ran a page and one- half “review” of the latest volume put out by a Chicago house, and we hear rumors that the Library of Congress is seeking a complete file of the vol- umes. ok ok X SHRIFT. Boy and a girl were strolling along a fashionable residential street, saw several limousines stop- ping in front of a handsome house. “Oh, my,” said the girl wistfully, “somebody having a lovely party and we're not invited.” “I wouldn’t like to go to a party where they have that kind of flowers,”. said the boy. “And be- sides, what would you wear, a shroud?” The girl looked at her companion as if she expected to find him sud- denly demented, then followed his gaze to the door. There she saw a funeral wreath, tied with crepe. * ok x % RIFT. D!!R-ING “Be Kind to Animals ‘Week” we heard distant rumblings of a movement that may yet lead to open warfare between the equestrian and pedestrian elements in Washing- ton, Maryland and Virginia society. our spies report that a certain group of long-suffering citizens who have sat numbly through the long hours listening to their friends talk about fox hunting, hounds, blood lines, track records and whatnot, are forming & SBoclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to People Who Know Horsey People. Motto of the organisation is “Rebel, but violently!!" @ The estimates will fix the amount of new borrowing nccessary between now and July 1 to finance Governmen: op- erations. Morgenthau said yesterday this financing would start Monday with a $50,000,000 issue of discount bills. He did not say how many weekly issues would be offered Asked whether unsettled conditions |in the money market had prompted the decision to issue bills rather than long-term obligations, the Treasury head replied only that he thought the short-term paper “a proper way of raising money at this time.” The Treasury, meanwhile, disclosed | it had bought $119,553,000 of Govern- ment securities to steady an erratic market in Federal issues during March. This was a record investment for a single month and compared with $5,000,000 in February and $32,000,000 in March a year ago. The purchases were made from Government trust funds available for investment. The Federal Reserve Board, contin- uing operations to maintain an “or- derly market,” reported it acquired $28,000,000 in Government bonds dur- ing the week ended April 14. |SLOAN SEES WOES AHEAD FOR LABOR “Danger” in Closed Shon Linked to Direct Deduction of Dues From Pay Check. By the Associatea Press. SALT LAKE CITY, April 16— Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president of Gen- eral Motors Corp., saw “trouble ahead” today “if John L. Lewis pursues his present advantage and obtains a closed shop and then wants a check-off (de- duction of union dues directly from workers’ pay checks).” “Ask Lewis,” Sloan replied last night when questioned if he expected a re- currence of sit-down strikes in the automotive industry. “No one can foresee what will be the outcome of the present situation.” “The past strike was not for better pay or shorter hours, but for domi- nation. The public should consider what may happen if & few men gain dictatorships over America's industry without any responsibility attached except to themselves.” . TWO OLD BAY LINE SHIPS THREATENED BY TIE-UPS Conference Between Seamen’s Union and Company Set Today in Effort to Avert Strike. B3 the Associatea Press. NORFOLK, Va. April 16.—A con- ference between representatives of the Internaticnal Seamen’s Union and offi- cials of the Old Bay Line was planned today in Baltimore following a threat to tie up movement of two of the line’s ships. Richard Graham, agent for the Seamen’s Union, said the meeting should discuss demands for higher wages for unlicensed men. “If they refuse to negotiate, or fail to meet our demands, we'll tie their ships up,” he said. A majority of the unlicensed men on the steamers President Warfield and Maryland, Graham said, had au- thorized the union to represent them in negotiations with the company for higher wages. ‘The Old Bay between Baltimore, i operates the ships Norfolk. INSPECTORS SEEK AUTO ALLOWANCE Trips to Building Sites Bur- densome, Says Oram, Asking $7,920. Coming to the aid of District in- spectors who are forced to walk or ride at their own expense to build- ing sites, Capt. Hugh P. Oram, di- rector of inspection, today appealed to Engineer Commissioner Dan I Sultan to seek restoration in the 1938 appropriation bill of a $7,920 item for allowancés for the use of private automobiles. He joined issue in this matter with John W. Oehmann, inspector of buildings, who had brought to his attention an “embarrassing situation” in a report, saying: “It will be absolutely impossible to comply with the provisions of the building code as to inspection meth- ods, both on the part of the District and the builders, unless it is made possible for the inspectors to cover their territories with the least amount of delay.” Eliminated 5 Years Ago. Five years ago, for economy rea- sons, the allowance for the use of pri- vate automobiles by inspectors was eliminated by the Budget Bureau. The so-called “walking strike,” which was actually nothing of the kind, was reported when most of the inspectors were forced for economy reasons of their own to walk on their inspection work. ‘The building inspection division is operating, Oram said, on a $900 ap- propriation for contingent and miscel- laneous expenses. Out of this $900 over $750 must be expended for nec- essary supplies, equipment and plat books, leaving only $150 for the pur- chase of street car tokens. There are 22 inspectors who are not provided with any form of transpon- tation and who require it to cover their territories efficiently. There are 30 inspectors in the whole division, some of whom are used to inspect elevators. On the basis of this force, it would Trequire $450 a year to supply one car token a day to get an inspector into his territory, Oram reported. To give | them each a weekly car and bus pass would require approximately $1,500 a year. Increase of Traveling. Oehmann reported it has been “difficult for the inspectors to keep apace of their work when using their automobiles, and the great amount of traveling has increased the operating cost of their cars to such a point that they no longer feel justified in bearing the expense. “The building regulations provide that no building shall progress with construction until & resurvey has been obtained for location of exterior walls, and to enforce this will necessitate de- laying all operations both at time of approval of trenches so that footing concrete may be placed and at the time the building is checked for com- pliance with the zoning regulations and its location on the lot. “Delays of this character will cause much dissatisfaction among the build- ers * * * and this office is totally help- | less to relieve this situation.” CANAL HELD UNABLE TO REDUCE RATES House Committee Recesses After Hearing Railroads Testify on Florida Project. By the Associated Press. ‘The House Committee on Rivers and Harbors recessed its Florida Canal hearings yesterday after listening to railroad representatives testify the short water route would not produce a reduction in transportation rates. Chairman Mansfield called another meeting for Monday morning, but some committee members said the canal testimony might not be resumed until Tuesday. Mansfleld agreed to hear a few wit- nesses on the Bonneville Dam in Ore- gon, although officially the commit- tee's hearing on that project, original- ly set for Monday, was postponed to a later date. H. V. Borjes, assistant general freight agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, said ship rates were based on time and not distance of the trip. “It may not be expected,” he added, “that any shortening of distance by the digging of this canal will be fol- lowed by a reduction of rates. It will not occur.” ' Borjes said railroads feared the canal would damage the State's water supply and thus destroy Florida agri- culture, which he said is important to the rail carriers’ business in the State. MRS. EMILY BLISS DIES Rites to Be Held Tomorrow. Burial at Lynchburg, Va. Mrs. Emily Augusta Bliss, 79, widow of George H. Bliss, sr, former real estate operator, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ida Bliss Draper, 2745 Macomb street, after a short {llness. Mrs. Bliss was for many years a Washington resident. Besides her daughter, she leaves a son, George H. Bliss, Annapolis, Md., and six grand- children. Private funeral services will be held tomorrow. Burial will be at Lynch- burg, Va. 52 ISLAND FLOOD TOLL TOKIO, April 16 (&)—Fifty-two persons were reported drowned, in- jured or missing today at the Japa- nese-Russian Island of Sakhalin as rivers swollen by rainstorms and melt- ing snow ran over their banks. One thousand houses were submerged and an entire village of 120 persons was isolated. Plane (Continued From First Page.) addition to the sleeping quarters there are large working quarters, and the equipment even includes an ice box. The new bomber will exceed the 16-ton weight of the Flying Fortress by approximately 3 or 4 tons, the War Department explained. Its elec- trical generating system will be com- parable in size to that of a small fac- tory. No other airplane has been equipped with more than a 12-volt direct-current system. The electric generator will be driven by two: aux- lary gun].o power plants. Upper left: Henry L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sun as he debated the nega- tive side of the question, “Are Editorials Effective?” at the American Society of Newspa- per Editors’ Convention today. Upper right: Edson K. Bizby, editor of the Spring- field, Mo., News-Leader, who took the affirmative side in the debate. Lower: Roy A. Roberts, managing editor of the Kansas City Star, speaking before the convention. —Star Staff Photos. EDITORS DEBATE | EDITORIAL PAGE Mencken Declares Writers Editors Air Views on Editorial Writing RELIEF TAX BILL VETOED BY NICE Governor Drafting Substi- tute Program, but Keeps Details Secret. By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, April 16.—The Leg- istature will convene in special ses- sion soon to enact a relief taxation program to replace the one Gov. Harry W. Nice vetoed. On the grounds the revenue to be derived from it would not meet relief needs, the Governor refused yester- day to sign the taxation measure the recent Legislature passed. At the same time he announced he would summon the Legislature into extraordinary session to enact new taxes to raise funds for relief and soclal security. Date Not Set. Nice did not say when he would recall the General Assembly. He an- nounced, however, that he was draft- ing a taxation program to present to the legislators. Declining to disclose what taxes he would recommend, he said: “Anything published about what I have in mind is unauthentic and pure guesswork. Until I have my bill and plan perfected, I shall not say a word in connection with relief.” Nice vetoed the measure after having announced his intention of applying a “pocket veto” to it. That would have enabled him to hold it over in case the new measure also proved inadequate Committee May Act. His veto removed all provisions for raising funds for the State's needy It will be the task of the General As- sembly when it convenes to provide such monies. An authoritative source indicated s Citizens’ Committee of a score or more possibly might meet with legislative leaders to work out a relief prograrn before the Assembly convenes The vetoed bill would have legalizec and taxed bookmaking as one of iu means of raising revenue for relief Considerable opposition had arisen fs that feature of the measure. { POLLARD’S NIGHT GOOD 11l Former Governor Comfortable Is Report. Former Gov. John Garland Pollar Must Employ “Art of Show- Press,” George Fort Milton, editor man” for Appeal. Newspaper editorial writers must CentY € 1ploy “the arts of the showman” in order to appeal to their readers, Henry L. Mencken, “sage of Balti- more” and one of the founders of the American Mercury, asserted today |in an address before the American | Society of Newspaper Editors. of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) News and noted historian, reviewed a bill re- put before the Tennessee Legislature, designed to gag the | press and fine owners and editors | for printing “‘any untruth of any kind | Leading off with the statement he | found it “impossible to imagine any | sound reason” for reading the editorial pages, Mencken contended “the great masses are shy of logic and can be reached only by appeals to their feelings. “That appeal,” he said, “can never be made by intellectual devices. I see no reason why a newspaper, in seeking to put over an idea, should not make use of the expedients already in use by its advertisers and even by its feature writers.” Mencken spoke for the negative on the question “Are Editorials Ef- | fective?” The affirmative was taken by Edson K. Bixby, editor of the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. Bixby's defense of the editorial page was based on the poll he conducted among his own readers just after the general election on whether the page should be abol- ished. His poll attention, coming at a time when edi- torial pages had been under fire, Darts From Bixby. Mencken's flow of pungent phrases and catch words was equalled by that of Bixby. After the election, Bixby said, “We | asked our readers to determine whether the editorial page should be given a burial befitting its years of impotency. “Even the partisan replies,” he de- clared, “pleaded for the life of the | editorial page.” Referring to the so- called “power of the press,” Bixby con- tended, “The press never had the power or ability to lead the masses with a ring through the nose.” At this point Bixby sighted rotund and bespectacled Roy A. Roberts, man- aging editor of the Kansas City Star and original backer and gponsor of ex-Gov. Landon for President, and de- clared: “There sits that great Christopher Columbus, Roy Roberts, the discoverer of Alf M. Landon. Yet, the Star lost its own States, Missouri and Kansas, to Roosevelt. It has been powerful for years for the cause of clean gov- ernment, yet in Kansas City Tom Pendergast has erected a great politi- cal machine. Great as the Star is, its editorials aren’'t accepted at their face value.” ‘When President Marvin Creager called for discussion of the speeches by Mencken and Bixby, the meeting turned into an open forum on the Kansas City Star. One editor arose to declare that Boss Pendergast rose to power by doing favors, big and little, for the little and big citizens of Kansas City. The climax came when Roberts took the rostrum to explain that a news- paper is in business to ‘“get circula- tion and advertising” and if it wants to win elections, it must set up a po- litical machine. “In an election the organization is worth 85 per cent and the news- paper 15 per cent. Two organizations are an ideal situation, then you may swing the balance of power. “We expect to lose, but if we do win we're probably worse off than if we had lost. The louder we scream the fewer votes we get,” Roberts as- serted, almost out of breath. Roberts contended newspaper edi- torials carry great weight “on the issues and on programs for their cities, but when it comes to men, they get licked. “People seldom vote from their minds. Generally,” said the noted editor, “they vote from their bellies.” “The pull of the other pages is plain enough,” Mencken said. “The editorial page, by which I mean the section of actual editorials, meets no such need (as the other pages). It is, ‘basically, an attempt to subject public questions to logical analysis, and logical analysis is something that nine human beings out of ten are incapable of and hence uninterested in, Their thinking i not done by in L on “Presdom of the attracted national | | | | or character.” Even had the meas- ure been constitutional, it would have been impossible of application, Milton said. The press has its freedom protected by the Constitution, he asserted, but it must preserve its own power by perfecting, revising and rejuvenating its “own technical processes.” “So far as our policies and public services are concerned we must take a good look at ourselves in the mirror of self-criticism,” Milton said. Declaring “we can hardly escape shuduering at the slavery of the press in such countries as Russia, Italy and Germany,” Milton said the American press nevertheless must be sure that ‘“‘we ourselves seek to free i* from the internal despotlsms of our own con- trivance at the same time we resist such external dangers.” Editors Visit White House. The press society opened its con- vention at the National Press Club yesterday afternoon. President Marvin H. Creager, editor of the Milwaukee Journal, called the group to order in the club auditorium and delivered his annual address. After an afternoon speaking pro- gram, the editors visited thc White House at 8:30 pm. for their annual | off-the-record interview with Presi- dent Roosevelt Mencker. Bixby and Milton spoke at this morning's session. Marziuer S. Eccles, chairman of the Pederal Reserve Board, was to de- liver an “off-the-record” address be- fore a luncheon of the group at the press club at noon. A. H. Kirchofer The Man Did Bite the Dog! of Virginia, ill at his home here fror an acute respiratory infection, was re ported to have spent a “comfortable night last night. Pollard, who lives at 1028 Sixteenth street, now is chairman of the Vet- erans’ Board of Appeals. “of the Buffalo Evening News was to | preside Speakers this afternoon were to be | | Managing Editor John Martin of Time Magazine, Dr. George Gallup, director of the American Institute of Public Opinion, and John H. Sorrells, presi- dent of the Memphis Commercial- Appeal and executive editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Gallup and Sorrells were to discuss “News- paper Surveys.” Tonight's program includes a buffet supper for members of the society at the home of Eugen- Meyer, publisher "'H:““_:e"m’:‘n "’l’nmfl‘:g’:l'be > of the Washington Post, and an en- | S ittt reception at e | Studled at the university there. press club at 9 pm. | The society passed a resolution yes- terday paying tribute to Fred Fuller Shedd, editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin and former president of the group, who died recently. | S e Jimmy D VICE C ONSUL DIES | PITTSBURGH, April 16 (#).—John E. Loibl, 49, German Vice Consul, | died early yesterday of pneumonia. Graw Entries for Tomorrow FIRST RACE—Purse. 4-year-olds and up. Fredalva ISaunders) (Parke 100; clal 5. | MOVE TO SAVEG. 0. P. | Snow Coat Republicans Fail to Hold Place g{‘f“” Pen ying Feathers ischiefmaker (Kur xSiempre (McCombs) | Tiempo “(0'Malles ) | Cant.” Jerry (Westrope) Accorder (M. Peters | Justa Play (L xPreity Lass in Florida Primary. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 16 (#) —The State Senate Elections Com- | mittee—all of its members Democrats —authorized preparation yesterday of | SECOND rAc rse, $1.000: 4-year- an amendment to preserve the Re- |Clds and up: claming, 8 fationgs, € | Blakeen (Saunders) publican party in Florida. xBristle (LeBlanc) | b : = air Time '(Deering) Florida's laws provide at present a |y T: Hariteg ¥ | party must cast 30 per cent of the Lady Carrot (O'Malley) 277 votes in a general election to be en- Barnstormer (Machado) The Mauler (O'Malley) .~ titled to a primary. Florida Repyb- | xMerrily On_(Eccard) e licans cast only 20 per cent in 1936, | &, Rose (McCombs) T (Porter) committee members said. Rdde (Johnson) Sky xltele Bitsie (Sarno) oIt HIRD RACE—Purse &1.000: id_up: claiming: 6 furl xBill Donoghue (Le Blane) o % XGood Flavor (Sarno) WMasked Cal Eccard) uke ( LadReld (Richards) <" - ) Films Tax Banned. | | VIENNA, Aprii 18 (#).—The | Austrian government yesterday can- | celed & 25 per cent increase in taxes on imported motion picture films be- cause of protests from American pro- | ducers. The economics ministry boosted the duties two months ago. T Prince Turley (Westro) XAroused (Napler) > 8Sage Girl (Wagner) xScudder (Gordon) POURTH RACE—Purse. $1.200; olds and up: 6§ furlongs. 00 3Tear- Weston (M. Peters) Deflate (Le Blanc) = Purple Knight (Wagner) Joyride (Saunders) Mucho Gusto (E. Smith) Marson " (Kurtsinger). Baby Talk (Schmidl) Here By the Associated Press. American newspeper editors chased today that journalistic phenomenon— the dog-biting man—right out of the headlines. “The man who bites a dog nowa- days,” said square-jawed Marvin H. Creager, managing editor of the Mil- waukee Journal, “isn’t the news he used to be.” Hege to preside at the fifteenth an- nual convention of the American So- clety of Newspaper Editors, Creager | sald the world rapidly is changing in presentation and appreciation oi news. “If one of our reporters,” he added, “came in with the details of a citizen chewing up a dog, I'd ask—'Do you have a picture of it?’ " Without an accompanying action picture, he said, the canine menace might not make page one, especially if there were no colorful descriptions and facts to go with it. Keen-eyed, soft-spoken Robert E. !uvenr editor-in-chief of the The Editors Wanted the Picture and FIFTH RACE Whopper (Richards) New Deal (E. Smith) ance Ray (Parke) A Floradora (Porter) = Columbiana (Le Blanc) Kievex (Wagner) Dark Hope (O'Malley) Kenty (Schmidl) It Is. White Cockade (Westrope) ~~ b_(Kurtsinger) E 2 Two Bo a Mrs, entry. Denemark and E. D. Shoffer claiming | Pencader (Fallon) | Tragedian (Wagner) xKoterito (Gordon) _ xCount Tetrarch (Eccard xHeadin Home (Napier) Pomposity (Peters) . SEVENTH RACE—4 years up: claiming $1.000:1 )0 miles Dearzin_"(O'Malley) _ - Three Daggers (O'Malley Dunair (Johnson) XMr. Marvel (Eccard) Daffy (Richards) - Adamite (Westrope) <Popo (Napier) Minna (Porter) _~~~C xBravado (Le Blanc) Zembla (O'Mailey) . _ Sumac_(Wagner) = *Happy Easter (Sarno) Scratches for Today— Clear and fast First race—Smoke Signal. Third race—Working Girl. Fourth race ‘Whisk. Fifth race (was fourth) —All go. (was fifth) —Li. le ‘Waterbury Republican and American, said the 1937 reader wouldn't swallow details of the dog-biting in one humorous gulp. “We have to give him more than 1 D that,” he pointed out. “The reader hue wouldn’t be interested primarily in | Frince 3 how far the man put his teeth into | e Havre de Grace Workouts| FRIDAY. APRIL 16. the dog’s flank—he would want to|_ % Mile. know why the man acted as he did.” | BEmi*ion, - 84 Jean Bart Scholarly J. N. Heiskell of the Lit- Be, | tle Rock, Ark., Gazette contended Bage Girl Aroused | readers still are interested in the un- g‘:}t\:; Nisht 12‘1);} Eo usual, but in a world of many unusual e happenings the dog-biter isn't the Sweet Desire 1:05 =~ Fredrick ___ 1:04 oddity of yesteryear. Fleet's Moon 1:03% Iron Ore T 1:01% “However,” he smiled, “he’s still a |8ilent Shot 1:05% Sock Doloser 1:05 good story.” | Y Broad-shouldered, smiling St.ephen‘ v % ”:x‘x; Devert 1:11% Bolles, editor of the Janesville, Wis., | Lew Dunlin Dreel s 3718 Gazette, went after the man and the | Feppery - Sy — 130 dog with the zeal of a super dog | Treford _ Toby Tyler 121 catcher. g?:zlg“h ;:‘yfl lrlofun o :fi‘m‘ “No,” he said, “he is nothing like the | Manager Bill Y news he once was. 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