Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1937, Page 6

PETITIONS SEEKING FARM BILL ACTION Five Circulate in Congress for Granary Plan and Crop Control. 8y the Assoclated Press. Five petitions circulated today among members of Congress for early enactment of farm legislation em- bracing the “ever normal’ granary and crop control. The petitions expressed alarm over the possibility next year's farm sur- pluses will bring disastrously low prices. Several administration leaders signed them. The request for action 4t this ses- sion followed final congressional ap- proval yesterday of a modified farm tenancy program and the introduc- tion of a proposed “A. A. A. gf 1937" by Senator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho. A bill along the same line has been offered in the House by Representa- tive Flannagan, Democrat, of Virginia. Terms Measure Impractical. . Chairamn Jones of the House Ag- riculture Committee called Pope's measure impractical and said he would have one of his own ready within a few days. He previously had despaired of any vote before adjournment. The suggested “A. A. A. of 1937” contains Secretary Wallace's ‘“ever normal” granary theory. It was sponsored by Edward A. O'Neal. presi- dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation. and indorsed in principle by Wallace. The “ever normal’ granary con- templates the storage of crops during years there are surpluses and their release for consumption during years of short yields. 3 The tenancy measure sent to the ‘White House provides for the spending of $10,000,000 the first year, $25,000,- 000 the next and $50,000,000 each subsequent year. It also authorizes expenditures of £10,000,000 the firs year and $20,- 000,000 each of the next two years to retire crop lands not worth culti- vating “Drop in the Bucket.” Chairman Jones said the program was ‘“only a drop in the bucket” compared with what is needed for the Nation's 2,500,000 farm tenants. He estimated the first year's ap- propriation would help between 2,500 and 3.000 acquire farms. Tenancy has been increasing, he added, at the rate of 40,000 a year. Jones said farm tenancy is a fer- tile field for private philanthropy. “In passing this legislation,” he #aid, “it was our hope that wealthy persons having an interest in the Nation's welfare might be encouraged to help. “How much better it would be if rich men who build cold monuments would establish similar loan funds for tenants.” An Agriculture Department offi- cial said the Resettlement Adminis- tration will be reorganized under a new name to direct the tenancy pro- gram. He said Secretary Wallace favored calling it the Farm Security Ad- ministration or the Tenant Security Administration. JAMBOREE EQUIPMENT TO GO ON SALE MONDAY Lumber, Tables, Buckets, Shower Buildings to Be Sold. Lumber, garbage cans, tables, buck- ets and a variety of other articles £alvaged from the abandoned ‘‘tented city” of the Boy Scouts along the Potomac River will go on sale Mon- day morning along the Mount Ver- non Memorial Highway opposite ‘Washington Airport. Prices will range from 5 cents for eharcoal pans, wash basins and salt ghakers to $20 for shower buildings complete with fittings. Garbage Cans, HIKING CLUB TRIP SET Wanderbird Group to Leave To- morrow for Virginia Beach. Members of the Wanderbird Hik- ing Club will spend the week end at Virginia Beach, leaving Baltimore by boat tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. and re- turning Sunday night. Reservations must be made in advance by calling National 8426. For members not making the boat trip Dr. Titus Ulke will lead a hike up the Potomac to Prospect Rock, where a swimming party will be held. Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. FIVE men who had been fraternity brothers in school went away to war in a foreign country. Their names were Jim, Sam, Red, Larry and Bhorty. One of them was killed in action. With the following informa- tion at your command, can you deter- mine which one? 1. Jim was an ordained Catholic. priest. 2. The wife of the man Kkilled in action was the sister of Larry’s wife. 3. Shorty's beautiful daughter died of an incurable disease. 4. Sam regretted that Red didn't return on the same boat with him. 5. Larry's wife always regretted that she had never had a niece or nephew. (Copyright. 1937.) (Answer on Page B-11.) Corns Shed Off Pain goes, 50 does corn, when you ‘use E-Z Korn Remover. Soaks thru toughest skin and softens hardest corns until they shed right off—core and all. Easy to use—works fast. Seldom falls. At drug stores, 35¢. NG_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937. Rivaling Diego Riviera, Mexican mural painter, Bob Green- wood, 11-year-old student of the John Burroughs School, is working at a mural of Mexican life at the school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Greenwood, 1810 Kearney street northeast. Tomorrow: Stanley Goldberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Gold- berg; Emilie Newport, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Newport, and Barbara Ann Van Branken, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Van Branken, 3915 Fifth street. —Star Staff Photo. ERROR EXPLANED INENTRYVARRANT Second One Ready for Serv- ice in Case to Test H. 0. L. C. Validity. The error in a warrant which re- sulted in a directed verdict of ‘“not guilty” Tuesday in the trial of Ed- mund D. Fletcher, formér aide to Attorneys General in the Harding and Coolidge administrations, in a case charging him with unlawful entry into a house about to be taken over by the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., was the fault of investigating officials and | not the district attorney’s office, it was asserted today by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Karl Kindleberger. At the same time it was learned that a new warrant had been de- livered to the eighth precinct for service, but as yet no return has been made on it. Kindleberger today produced the original statement of facts in the by William E. Foster of the H. O. L. C., Arthur J. Sherwin of the real estate firm of H. L. Rust & Co. and Pvt. H. E. Watson of the eighth pre- cinct. In this statement the address of the house which Fletcher is al- leged to have entered to prevent foreclosure by the H. O. L. C. was given twice as 3142 Military road, while the actual address was 4132 Military road. At the time Defense Counsel James J. O'Leary charged the error directly to the Police Court branch of the district attorney's office. It was pointed out today, however, that all warrants are made out from informa- tion furnished by investigators, com- plainants or police, hence the prose- cutors were blameless. It is charged by the Government that Fletcher secured a quit claim deed to the property from Edna L. McCutchen after the H. O. L. C. had instituted foreclosure proceedings and had spent $600 on reconditioning. Fletcher is attacking the validity of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., claiming it has never been incorpo- rated. His counsel will attack the validity of the second warrant, which differs from the first only as to address, on the grounds that it places his client in double jeopardy. Educational Movies Tonight. The regular Friday educational mo- tion pictures, under auspices of the Y. M. C. A, will be shown at 8 o'clock tonight in the Sylvan Theater. Bring your PASTOR RELATE VERSION OF DEAT Authorities Claim Confes- sion Solves Slaying of Woman Friend. By the Associated Press, PITTSFIELD, Ill, July 16.—An 11- page signed statement of a soft- spoken pastor that he struck his “de- voted friend,” Mrs. Dennis Kelly, with a hammer during a roadside quarrel after she deserted her husband, was claimed by authorities today. They said it solved the bizarre Mississippi River “floating body mystery.” Meticulously, Rev. C. E. Newton, 51, a married man, toiled in rolled shirt sleeves and stocking feet for six hours at the jgil here over his version of how his 45-year-old former Paris, Mo, parishioner met violent death, Execution Looms. ‘When it was ended, State's Attorney Merrill Johnston of Pike County, Ill., announced the statement and said Newton indicated willingness to plead | guilty in case the grand jury indicts case, which, he claims, was sworn to| him. Newton, for 13 years pastor of & Baptist church at Paris, is charged with first-degree murder, & crime for which the electric chair is the extreme penalty. Johnston quoted Newton as saying Mrs. Kelly insisted he accompany her to California on her flight from home and husband, which began Monday night at Paris, in Newton's automobile. On the Illinois side of the Mark ‘Twain Bridge over the Mississippi, op- posite Hannibal, Mo., Mrs. Kelly got out of the car, the statement said. “She halfway screamed that she would never get back in the car unless we were going together,” it added. Tells of Struggle. Johnston said Newton related calmly that: He struggled with the woman dur- ing which she twice fell to the pave- ment. He drank “two or three small ones” from a whisky bottle. He struck the woman with a ham- mer upon becoming “¥xcited” as an automobile approached. Then he dragged the body in the car, drove on the bridge and pushed the body off into the river. It was found floating near Louisiana, Mo.,, Tuesday morning. More than $1,900 of Mrs. Kelly's money was said by officers to have been turned over by Newton to an adopted daughter before his arrest. SEE Business concerns in the Netherlands Indies are searching for an efficient paper clip. BREAKFASTS up to date Eat well and feel well —that's the modern idea! Start your day with this sunny new whole wheat cereal with the double-toast- ed taste—its carbohy- drates, minerals and Vitamin D will help keepyourenergy high! Grandest eating ever = and the kind of food active moderns need. Two tasty Muffets oontain as much Vita- min D as a teaspoon- ful of ood liver oill MUFFETS BRAND WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS MODERN AS TOMORROW'S SUNRISE FINNAN T0 REMAIN ASPARK CHIEF HERE National Capital Parks Of- ficial's Wish to Stay in D. C. Granted in Shifts. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, will re- main on duty in Washington. Finnan at one time was under con- sideration by Secretary Ickes and officials of the National Park Service for appointment as director of the new region 1, with field headquar- ters at Richmond, Va, but an In- terior Department announcement to- day definitely disposes of that plan, with the naming of Carl P. Russell, chief of the wild life division, to the post. Under the new set-up the Nation will be divided into four major regions. Oliver G. Taylor, deputy chief en- gineer, with headquarters here, will become chief engineer of the Na- tional Park Service but will stay in A - - A N < AN R R NN Washington. Frank A. Kittredge, chief engineer of the service, will head region 4, covering the Western States and continuing his fleld headquar-~ ters at San Francisco. Wanted to Stay Here, ‘When. the planywas broached to Pinnan some time ago he expressed & preference to remain in Washing- ton. He disliked the idea of consid- erable traveling, as the new job de- mands, and, as he had young chil- dren in school, he preferred to stay in the National Capital, where he has been park superintendent for the last four years. Formerly he was superintendent of Mesa Verde Na- tional Park in Southwestern Colorado. Thomas J. Allen, jr., superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, will be in charge of region 2, with fleld headquarters at Omaha, Nebr. As yet 1o appointment has been made to head region 3, officials of the Interior Department said, but Herbert Maier, heading the Park Service’s Civilian Conservation Corps and emergency activities in that area, will act as director of that region. He will be at Oklahoma City. David H. Canfleld, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park in Ore- gon, will become the new superin- tendent at Rocky Mountain National Park. Ernest P. Leavitt, superin- tendent of Lassen Volcanic National Park in California, will succeed Can- field at Crater Lake. The new super- intendent at Lassen will be John O. Preston, now assistant superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park. Secretary Ickes in making the an- nouncement said that the regional- izing of the National Park Service has been planned “to facilitate adminis- tration of the national park and monument system, which in the last four years has expanded enormously in number of areas and functlons.” The new regional director will co- ordinate the fleld work of the Na- tional Park Service. —_— HONORED IN RETIRING W. L. Lyons Guest at Party of Navy Yard Workers. William L. Lyons, 62, 106 South Asoph street, South Alexandria, Va., has been retired from the Navy Yard after 24 years of service. For the past four years he was & machinist in the sight department, and previous to that had been in the breech mechanism department. At a party held Wednesday noon in the shop he was presented with a purse, presentation being made by L, P. Oursley, a shopmate. Music for the party was furnished by the Hudson String Band of the department. 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