Evening Star Newspaper, August 9, 1937, Page 3

MIDTERM PARLEY OF 6. 0. P. URGED Hoover Reported One of Leading Spirits in Move to Rally Party. the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 9.—The Herald Tribune said last night, in a special dispatch from Washington, that ex- President Herbert Hoover was one of the leading spirits in a move to hold a midterm Republican Natiomal Con- vention. The convention, the dispatch said, By was proposed to “take stock of public | affairs, to map the general position of | the Republican party, to energize the party and to prepare for battle in the next congressional election.” Hoover, said the dispatch, was un- derstood to have discussed the pro- posed convention in general terms with at least 200 party workers, and some of the Republican national committeemen have also given congideration to the idea “As far as the National Committee headquarters itself is concerned, noth- | ing official has developed.” said the Herald-Tribune. “While the proposal has been heard here (in Washington) | it is described as being in nebulous | form. “Mr. Hoover is reported to believe that the time will soon arrive for Republicans to reassert themselves and offer a highly articulate, constructive leadership to the country “He would like to see a national Republican meeting this Winter or Spring, arising from a spontaneous sentiment for vigorous action to dis- place the principles of the New Deal with a contrary concept of American individualism. “Members of the Executive Commit- tee of the Republican National Com- mittee, who have not heard from Mr More About Mr. Franklin THE EVENING To the Editor of The Star: ‘The Star deserves nothing but praise for printing J. Pranklin's column. He is one man that is for the people. He does tell the truth in the court pro- | gram, wages and hour bill and other subjects of vital interest to millions of Americans. It is the truth that hurts, more than that one Senator will be out next elec- tion. Many forget to think when times are prosperous, and the change is coming. President Roosevelt wants only just decisions from the Supreme Court, and that laws made by the 400 able lawyers in the Senate and House in accordance to article 1 of the Con- | stitution (that all legislative powers | herein granted shall be vested in a | Congress of the United States, which | shall consist of a Senate and House | of Representatives) should not be de- | clared unconstitutional by five judges | in the Supreme Court. | T don't say that lawyers can be | bought. But on Memorial day in New York three persons were murdered and the lawyer that is defending this | murderer brags that he has defeated the electric chair for 123 murders and expects to repeat. ‘What prompts & corporation lawyer, after he reaches retirement age on | the Supreme Court bench, to refuse to he is not wanted? Jay Franklin knows more about | coming events than any other writer on The Star, and the public appre- ciates his honest statement JOHN RIGGLES, | Seabrook, Md. | | To the Editor of The Star: | From the August 5 column of your Hoover, have nevertheless given pre- | commentator. Jay Franklin, in which, liminary thought to much the same |in line with the technique of current idea, although they have linked it European dictatorship, he advocates much more closely to the congressional | suppression of the United States Sen- election for which a national meeting | ate because that body is not willing “THREATS” T0 1. C. C. CITED BY EASTMAN Robinson Reorganization Bill ‘Would Hurt Board, Mem- ber Declares. Br the Associated Press Joseph B. Eastman, a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, said today three safeguards placed around the commission by were threatened by the Robinson re- organization bill Eastman told the Senate’s Special Reorganization Committee that the threatened safeguards were:. Basing actions on records obtained at public hearings. Bi-partisan nature of the commis- it Long, staggered terms for members. He declared certain *“dangerous and Il-advised recommendati had been made by the President’s Reorganiza- tion Committee and carried over into the bill written by the late Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas. He testified when the committee be- gan its second week of hearings on the bill, which Eastman said he feared might give the President power to | reorganize the commission internally. | “I know no such intention was meant by the author.” interrupted Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, chairman, adding he would favor “any change of language” to be sure that | what Eastman feared would not occur. Major Girl | (Continued From First Page.) including at least one wealthy man, had been questioned in a futile ef- fort to shed new light on the case. A Congress to be a servile rubber-stamping ma- chine for the autocratic whims of the Fuehrer in the White House, this quotation: | “The issue is the duty of Demo- | cratic Senators to follow the election returns of 1932, 1934 and 1936, in support of the program and policies advocated by Roosevelt, their chosen |leader. I do not believe that even | a United States Senator has the right to take other people’s votes on false pretenses or to embezzle the results of an election which was a mandate for the published purposes of the New Deal.” When were the “published purposes” Star Readers Express Their Appreciation of His Column Even If They Find Different Reasons for Liking It. | of them carried by of the New Deal to pack the Supreme | | Court with political puppets “pub- lished” before the election of 19362 Who was it that in the 1936 election embezzled” the people’s votes on the court packing proposition, the Sena- | spectfully yours, tors and Representatives who stood | | To the Editor of The Star: on the 1936 Democratic platform which proposed “to maintain the let- ter and the spirit of the Constitution” by a “clarifying amendment” if neces- sary, or the “master minds” who did not have the forthrightness or courage (to let tricky and machiavellian course of action entirely different from that | pledged in the platform was what | they intended to pursue once they had taken the hoodwinked and blindfolded voters into camp? It would be enlightening to have Mr. Franklin through his column ex- plain when and how the Democratic | party in advance of the last election or any of the three elections he men- | tions went to the people with the issue of packing the Supreme Court either revealed or defined so that the election of candidates for the United States Senate hinged upon their loy- alty to such a program. A general impression seems to pre- vail that if the New Deal leaders had this issue in mind they did not suffi- ciently trust “We the People,” for whom Mr. Franklin essays to speak, false “tip,” which at first looked prom- | to divulge their court packing pur- ising, was to the effect that the girl | pose—a purpose unrevealed till Feb- might have eloped with an admirer | ruary of this year and one which ran known to have left town | Under questioning the man revealed that his companion on the trip was | not Miss Major. Several other “leads” | were exploded over the week end by detectives who have been working night and day on the case, sifting meager facts from a mass of con- flicting rumors. Investigators today probably will in- terview again a taxicab driver, who | #aid he believes he picked up the girl | about 6 o'clock on August 1, the| morning of her disappearance, and | drove her to Key Bridge, where she | was to meet friends and go up the | Potomac for an early swim. Left Note to Friend. Miss Major left a note pinned on her apartment door explaining she was “going up the river for a swim” in an effort to get her “think-ma- chine” to work, and promising to be back later that day. The note was| addressed to a young woman friend and dated “5 am., Sunday.’ | The girl taken to Key Bridge by the hacker hailed his cab on Connecti- cut avenue, a few blocks from Cathe- dral Mansion She was dressed in brown slacks, a polo shirt, low-heeled shoes, and had a bandana handker- chief or an eye shade on her head. She explained she was going up the river to swim, and the driver left her at the bridge without seeing whom she planned to meet there. Police have searched the river as thotoughly as possible from above Great Falls to Key Bridge. The rugged nature of the thicket-grown, rock- strewn banks, however, make a com- plete check-up impossible. The girl had been in the habit of swimming at & place she kept secret. Scores of amateur sleuths combed the banks of the river yesterday for clues to the girl's disappearance. Capt. Ira Keck, assistant cl RAKE RELINED 4 Wheels Complete Ford = 34. o Chev. & Lot § 4P 75 De Soto, 6-8 ] including FREE ADJUSTMENTS! Other Cars Proportionately Low counter to the clear language of the 1936 Democratic platform. Many readers doubtless appreciate the service of The Star in giving us such revelations of proscriptive New Deal mentality as Mr. Franklin sup- plies with all his splenetic diatribes about reprisals and “blood purges” against Senators who refuse to be rub- ber stamps. As an index to the inner intolerant Fascist trend of New Deal thinking, his writings serve a valuable public purpose. LOUIS TAYLOR. To the Editor of The Star: Your editorial concerning “Mr. Franklin” in The Star of August 7, hits the nail on the head. I always try to read Mr. Franklin's articles. As a mental gymnast, he is a top-liner. He takes the place of some of the more difficult cross-word puz- zles. As an example of lack of logic and of inconsistency, he is unequaled. As a side show in a great news- paper, he gives your readers the same feeling that one gets on a midway. after viewing a fake side show. Smart enough to earn your dollars, detectives, said it seems improbable that the girl could have drowned in the river. Her body would have come to the surface several days ago, he said, with every possibility that it would have been found. The missing girl was known by sight to hundreds of night clubgoers. In addition, she often had been seen about town driving a tiny automo- bile and accompanied by a huge fawn- colored Great Dane. Detectives received scores of “tips” from persons who either thought they had seen the girl since her disappear- ance or had heard some rumor as to her whereabouts. None of the “tips” led anywhere, it wa. said. HERBERT | NOw ony 75¢ There's SOMETHIN the electorate know that a | about lhem yo like | &S they are so frightfully funny. The | retire on $20,000 a year when he knows | some of us are led to believe he must have something, even if we cannot see it. The Star contains so much good material that a little rotten nonsense should not be matter of complaint. After all, no one is compelled to read what he writes, but it is a waste of good white paper. Very truly yours, CLARE E. HOFFMAN, Representative, fourth Michigan district. To the Editor of The Btar: T am very glad to read your editorial in defense of Jay Franklin. He seems to have more common sense and more of the greatest of all things: Love for mankind, than any of the columnists who write on affairs of State. I am glad Jay Franklin is for our Presi- dent, who has done more for the great mass of common people than per- haps any one man in history. When at home in Arkansas I read Jay Franklin's column at every op- portunity. GEORGE E. TENNEY. To the Editor of The Star I was much interested in the let- ters in The Star Saturday night pro- testing against Jay Franklin's column and was glad to be reassured in your editorial that these columns will be continued. I never fail to read them, delightful part of it all is that Mr Franklin is apparently not iying to be amusing at all, but he seems to really believe all that he says: His humorous assertions only serve | to convince one all the more of the | excellent logic expressed in your po- | litical columns. Which reminds me of the German propaganda in the | World War. The more of that I used to read, the more I was persuaded that the side of the allies was the cor- rect one. So do let him keep up the good work. One needs a little iaughter in these serious times. LOUISE KAUTZ. To the Editor of The S Thank you very much for your | editorial of August 7, 1937, “Concern- | ing Mr. Franklin” I have always wanted both sides of any question, | and Mr. Franklin, contrary to practi- cally all the other columnist. your very American paper, The Star, gives r: a fair discussion of the present admin- istration Why give the people the discussions of Mr. Jay Franklin? Twenty-seven million American voters indorsed the | administration’s policies which is dis- cussed sympathetically by Mr. Frank- lin and only Mr. Franklin To stop this column would be unfair | to your many readers of The Star | and un-American in principle. Re- | E. M. BROWNING. “Unaccustomed as I am” to such literary endeavor as writing ietters to | the papers, the controversy raging | over the column written by Mr. Jay Franklin proves too great a temptation to be resisted. ‘The particular violence expressed by §. H. Mumford places him definitely among those haters of our beloved President who are, fortunately, great- | ly in the minority, and how thflnkl\l” we should be that there are but a few | of these extremely bitter opponents of the New Deal. Else we might wake up some morning to find that the White House had been treated to something more destructive than merely verbal bombs. It is a fact evident to any interested observer that both the ultra-radical and the ultra-conservative are in this group. | Franklin Roosevelt, being liberal and | progressive, pleases neither the ex- | treme left nor the extreme right, the leftists wanting violence and a com- plete overturn and entire change of government and the rightists wanting As you say in your excellent edi- torial, “the role of a defender of the New Deal is an important role,” and Mr. Franklin ably fills the role. To me he seems by far the most interest- ing columnist you have and I believe | his articles are widely read all over | the country by the people of the| United States, who have shown by | their re-election of Franklin Roose- velt what they think of the New Deal. (MISS) JULIA LAWLESS. | no change at all. | | | = | To the Editor of The Star: This is in appreciation of the “Con- cerning Mr. Franklin” editorial yes- terday. There should hardly be any objec- | tion to a “defense counsel” in any case. Furthermore, “free speech” natur- ally implies “free screech,” as “free- | dom of the press” must imply “Iree- | dom of the Mr. Franklins.” | So if I “heard you the first time,” The Star will “continue the use of Mr. Franklin's column” “for some time to come.” And ‘“not to change the subject,” | 1 know of nothing better in their | line day after day than The Star's “this page” and “the page opposite this page"—bar none, and including | Charles E. Tracewell “on vacation.” F. B. WATSON. FOUR OF QUINS GET COLDS; EMILIE WELL CALLANDER, Ontario, August 9| (Canadian Press).—Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe said today that four of the Dionne quintuplets have developed “mild colds.” Emilie, who was isolated for five days with a sore throat, is now “quite well,” the physician said, but the others— Yvonne, Annette, Cecile and Marie— caught colds today. Dr. Dafoe said the quintuplets caught their colds from an ‘“outside” source. EXCEPTIONAL | started | ernment pus | acing a?a;ee//e.’ Exceptional tobaccos plus the nicety of the Tareyton %’% /9/& TAREYTON CIGARETTES STAR, WASHINGTON! D. C, MONDAY, INSURGENTS START SANTANDER DRIVE “Final Offénsive” Is Opened by Planes, Artillery in Biscayan Sector. BACKGROUND— Spanish insurgents rencwed of- fensive against Madrid, nine ‘months in grip of siege, after cap- turing Bilbao, on northern coast of Spain. Counter offensive by Spanish loyalists crippled efiect of rebels’ attack. Meanwhile, international situa- tion has eased after departure of Germany and Italy from non- intervention patrol and France's termination of international cone trol of her frontier. By the Associated Press. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, August 9.—Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco's northern forces today launched what insurgent officers called their “final offensive” against the provinces of Asturias and Santander, last government stronghold in North Spain Insurgent planes and artillery bombed government defense lines in the Biscayan sector in an effort to wipe out the last government resistance on the Basque-Asturian front Insurgent reports declared the bom- bardment was as intense as the deadly fire poured onto the iron ring of forti- fications encircling Bilbao before that | Basque capital fell last June The northern sector had been vir- tually quiet since the insurgents ad vanced through Bilbao and a short distance along the highway to San-| tander. It was believed renewed hos- tilities meant Gen. Franco hoped to mop up the region befor~ Fall in order to release his northern concentration of troops and war equipment for use on the Madrid front or elsewhere. | Point of Start Unrevealed. | Insurgent officers at Irun, though terming it the final offensive, declined to reveal the point from which s Al : *exk A—3 GUST ¢, 1937 Child Slayer Confesses Brooklyn, July 31. Officials of New York said Lawrence Marks, 49, ex-convict (left) confessed to the attack-slaying of Paula Magagna, 8, in Right is Detective Edward Mullaney. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Kemp (Continued From First Page.) necessity for increased appropriations to provide proper facilities for educa- tion of both resident and non-resident children. Because of the amount of the toward support the city's and the nece forthcoming The school head contended that to admit to the local schools non-resi- dent children reduction of the Federal contribution of the District, how- reventes ry funds were not living here of public school facilities, the overcrowding would result in drive started Bombing planes, accompanied by strong escorts of pursuit planes, took | off at .dawn today from Bilbao's in- | ternational airport and other fields | behind the insurgent lines, roaring | toward the government lines to drop their deadly cargoes At almost the same began a vstematic positions that cided must wedge for time arti shelling of the general staff be taken as an ente the insurgent the | de- | &l land troops. | From Salamanca the insurgents | issued & communique yesterday re- all quiet on the civil war t as they did before the final Bilbao offensive started. | Loyalists Push North. the new Northern offensive | the embattled Spanish gov- d its Albarracin sPll')r' line north today and dug into posi- tons blocking the insurgent threat to the Cuenca-Teruel highway, key | 0 communications linking Madrid and Valen Government the towns of As scouts reconnoitered Guadalaviar and Villa | del Cobo, advancing the government vanguard within sight of Griegos, most point of the insurgent salient now the center of civil war | operations. Both Sides Digging In. Battlefront dispatches indicated | both sides were digging in for trench | warfare such as has raged around Madrid for more than nine month. Strong reinfor ents were report- edly concentra g behind the govern- ment lines while labor battalions rushed work on elaborate fortifications in the Valdemeca Mountain passes northeast of Cuenca, capital df the province The government tage of the to fortify po of the finger also took advan- Il in major operations | ons south of Toril, tip ip salient thrust men- | at the Madrid-Valencia lines. | Persistent reports of renewed street | fighting in Barcelona came from in- rgent sources, which said that an- archists and members of the P. O.| U. M., proletrian extremists, were bat- | tling in the Catalan capital. | The French Rightist press asserted that more than 30 leaders of Barce- | lona political groups had vamished during recent days and declared that | Catalan Leftists were in a state of | chaos while Gen. Sebastian Pozas at- tempted to end international dn.ssen-l sion. Nin Reported Killed. PARIS, August 9 (P).—The inde-| pendent newspaper La Fleche re- ported today that Andres Nin, Trotzkyist leader of the P. O. U. M., dissolved anti-Stalinist Spanish Com- munist organiation, has been assas- | sinated in a Barcelona jail. The newspaper said Nin was killed “in the private jail of the Stalinist party—in other words by the G. U. P. (Soviet secret police).” | The news of Nin's supposed fate, La Fleche said. first became known in Barcelona last July 21 when friends demanded that the Catalan govern- ment deny that he had been killed. A few days later, the newspaper said, | the Catalan minister of justice ad- mitted he had been “unable to locate Nin.” lof an LOIS KEMP. —Star Staff Photo. of class rooms and classes, in the reduction of hours of instruction, in the elimination of post-graduate work in the high schools and in general serious curtailment of the educational program., None Enrolled Last September, Because of this situation, no children of non-resident parents were enrolled last September in the junior high schools, except those who previously had been students there. Citing these conditions, in his argu- ment before Trial Justice Jennings iley, Assistant Corporation Counsel Vernon E. West contended *something emergency existed.” He told the court that if the statute were con- strued to impose a mandatory duty on Auto Painting haleys 2020 M ST. N.W. Let Haley's Do It Right! ““See Ets and See Bette Going away? 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And yet the 800 49TH ST., NEW YORK DALEY, Menazor fi decreased | would deprive children | Dr. Ballou to take in Maryland and Virginia pupils, the paradoxical situa- tion would arise of the official being physically unable to comply with the law “The school officials repeatedly have asked Congress for more money, but have not gotten it,” West stated at that time. “If Congress has failed to supply adequate facilities, it is Congress who has failed under this law, and not the superintendent of schools.” Justice Bailey, however, even call upon Kemp's attorney to answer this argument, but imme- diately announced from the bench that he would grant the mandamus, not ‘Three new types of mechanical sugar SUEAR PROTEGTON OPPOSED BY HL Asks More Liberal Treat- ment of Cuba, Citing Pos- sibility of Monopoly. By the Associated Press. Secretary of State Hull opposed to- day “any further measure of protec- tion” to sugar refiners in urging the Senate Finance Committee to revise the disputed sugar control bill which already has won House approval. Arguing for more liberal treatment for Cuba, the Secretary said in a Finance Committee that the measure would foster monopolistic practices of refiners in this country. “It is believed to be against the | public interest,” Hull said, “for the Government to grant any further | measure of protection to a group | whose record repeatedly indicates that | it would resort to monopolistic prac- | tices and conspire to restrain trade in voilation of the anti-trust laws.” Hull assailed a provision to restrict Cuba’s refined sugar shipments to the United States, | Secretary Ickes has objected to a proposed limitation on Hawaii and | | Puerto Rico refining. Earlier a spokesman for sugar re- finery workers urged the committee to retain in the bill a curb on Ha- waii and Puerto Rico refining Harold J. Burke contended removal | of the clause, which the administr tion has opposed, would “eventually | wipe” out a $25000.000 pay roll of refineries in the Continental United | states | Burke, representing the Sugar Work- | | ers’ Conference, an American Fed- | eration of Labor affiliate, said conti- nental refinery workers were paid $5 | to $17 a day, while sugar workers in Hawaii averaged only $10.92 a week. | The pay is even lower in Puerto Rico, | | he asserted o DisT. 820: cane cutters were successfully tried in Hawail recently. While the Finance Committee | the sugar bil speeded hearings on r letter to Chairman Harrison of the | expecting to complete them today, Senators from sugar-producing States hinted a possible compromise of the insular refining limitation in the hope of forestalling a threatened presi- dential veto. Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- rado, chairman of the Senate sugar bloc, said “We are seeking a way out” of the dispute with the administration. Before the committee, Ernest J. Greene, manager of the Oahu Sugar Co., renewed Hawaii's criticism of the refining clause as “discrimination” against an American Territory. J. A. Dickey, spokesman for the Puerto Rico Producers’ Association, urged also that Puerto Rico be given a larger raw sugar quota. He sug- gested an amendment to prevent Cuba from sharing in any increase in mar- keting quotas resulting from the fail- ure of other areas to fill their annual FREE COLOR CARD 4 ho Dries in rs shades Hee { We Deliver ~ Butler Flynn PAINTS 609 C St. N.W. GLASS MEtro. 0150 Nt Broiled Maine Lobster Luncheon ___ 750 ESTABLISHED 1838 FAMOUS RESTAURANT Air Conditionea. + LAWYERS’ BRIEFS COMMERCIAL PRINTING ADVERTISING SERVICE 1107 Conn. Ave. BYRON §. 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