Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1937, Page 2

PERVADES JAPAN Active Soviet Participation In “War” Is Doubted by Ghservers. BY FRANK H. HEDGES. TOKIO, August 26 (N.A.N.A.).—Re- ports that Russian-made military air- planes have been delivered, by way of Mongolia, to the Chinese central gov- ernment in the last week have served %o confirm the Japanese public’s worst. fears. Serious as is the conflict between Japan and China, the real shadow looming over Japan and darkening hearts and thoughts is that of Russia —Japan's potential enemy for a cen- tury, its active one during various periods. The Japanese do not speak of Soviet Russia as a menace. The words “comintern” or ‘communism” are preferred. When the ideological pact with Germany was announced on November 25 of last year, it was directed at the Comintern, and not at the U. S. S. R. Nevertheless, the whole world knew it was the Moscow govern- ment even more than the activities of the Communist pa which both Ber- lin and Tokio feared, although Com- munist propaganda holds a real dread as well. Russian Participation Doubted. Neutral observers do not believe Soviet Russia will officially participate in the warfare between Japan and China, but, rather, that Moscow will confine itself to such activities as it has executed in the Spanish civil | war. The aid will be sub rosa. but it | ‘will be substantial. For Russia to come out into the open might well cause repercussions in Europe which would | st _the whole world aflame. The Tokio government also believes this to be the most likely development, | but the Tokio war office and the Japanese general staff cannot depend upon this. be taken on the presumption that not only Chinese but Russian armie: may be met on the field of battle, that Russian airplanes may raid Japan from their base at nearby Vladivostok, that Russian troops may flood into Manchukuo from across the Amur River and the undefined border be- tween that infant empire and Outer Mongolia, a satrapy of Moscow. Why should Japan dispatch thous- ands more of its soldiers to Manchu- | kuo when they seem to be so much more needed in North China and at | Shangkal? The answer is twofold: Fear of Russia and apprehension of a | rising of the Chinese population of Manchukuo. More than 95 per cent ©of Manchukuo’s 30,000,000 citizens are Chinese-born. Not, it is believed, until Gm.» Win- ter has frozen the Amur and the Sun- gari Rivers and made them easily crossable, until freezing weather has | \ made the mud of Manchurian plains ¢ for infantry movements, until the reme cold to which Russians are accystomed and which breeds death- dealing pneumonia among Japanese soldiers, would the Soviet Army strike —1if it strikes at all. It is in part in preparation for this eventuality that Japanese reinforcements are now be- ing rushed into Manchukuo. Japanese Concentration Less. A much smaller concentration is going on in the southern half of the Island of Saghalien, or Karafuto, which is under the sunrise flag of ! Japan. The northern half of that is- land, believed to be rich in oil, is under Russian sovereignty, and Japan would seize it at the very beginning of hos: tilities with Russia, There is still another fear from Boviet Russia, and it is the one which Japan openly acknowledges—fear of Communist propaganda Japanese statesmen repeatedly assert that it is the Chinese Communists who stimulate anti-Japanese sentiment in China. While this is only in part true, it is a fact that, to the average Jap- anese, any Chinese antagonistic toward his country is looked upon as a Com- munist. To the Japanese a “Chinese Communist” means, reduced to sim- plest terms, a Chinese opposed to Jap- anese policy in China, “Bo long as we have positive support in the rear and need have no concern about conditions at home, we are ready to go to any lengths in the discharge of our duty.” These are the words of Lieut. Gen. Kiyoshi Katsuki, com- mander of Japanese troops in the field in North China, spoken to correspond- ents in Tientsin. Gen. Katsuki ex- plained that what he meant was the adverse effect of Communist propa- ganda within Japan itself. (Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Enmed to Trap Monkeys. Monkeys have become such a nui- sance in Belgaum, India, that an ex- Every military step must | Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things, CUTTER. HEN he is not cutting one thing by daylight, Mr. A. J. Livezey of this city usually is whacking away at an- other in the late afternoons or at night. Mr. Livezey is a meat cutter by pro- fession, and has in addition about 175 dog clients which he bathes, clips, manicures, plucks and curls right in their own homes. (Not all of them every day, to be sure.) Mr. Livezey's days have not always been passed with such mild objects as sirloins, roasts and ladies’ pet dogs. ‘He was an animal man with the Ringling Bros. circus and tells us he | once nursed Old Babe, who died at our own Zoo recently, through a serious siege of pneumonia. He also has had | & few turns with the lions and tigers |and was once called upon by Head Keeper William Blackburn here to assist in separating & mother tiger | from her cubs. Mater Tiger evidently | had no desire to be bothered with in- fants and would slap them all over the place every time she was left alone | with her brood. | Mr. Livezey, armed with a chair, a blank pistol and a loaded pistol, went into the cage to distract the tigress, he says, while Mr. Blackburn, armed | with a nimble pair of legs and & | shrewd eye for action, entered to | snatch the cubs away at the first op- portunity. The tigress looked at Mr. | Livezey in a nasty way and he pushed the chair in her face. While she was getting over this surprise Mr. Black- burn grabbed the cubs and beat it to the door. Mad as hops, the tigress then took a jump in Mr. Livezey’s di- rection. He fired the blank pistol and that burned her, enabling Mr. L. to duck out while the ducking was good. Mr. Livezey day-dreams about those moments occasionally now. when his hands are busy beautifying the coat of somebody’s soft and slightly wheezy | Pomeranian pooch. * ok oK X NEW BREED. Whether you have or have not been to a horse show or a race meet down in Virginia, you've un- doubtedly heard of the Llangollen Stables. equine mom de plume of Mrs. John Hay Whitney. So had a groom who works for Jamie Mc- Cormick, the steeplechase rider, at Middleburg. Mr. McCormick bought himself a pedigreed Angora kitten as a pet not long ago. Returned from a horse show one evening last week to receive the dread mews— that an automobile had run over and killed the kitten. Nert morning he went down to his stable and was greeted mourn- fully by Joe, the colored boy in charge. “’Deed, Mr. Jamie,” said Joe, shaking his head. “It is a shame It is a terrible shame.” “About what?” asked Mr. McC. “About that Llangollen kitten of yours that was killed last night,” said Joe, solemnly. * % ok X RIDE, MISTER? TAXIES being as rare as they were during the recent deluge, we were not surprised the other night to see & young couple, who'd been whistling and waving at cabs for about 15 min- utes, suddenly step out straight into the path of a lettered car as it came down the street, driven by a be- capped gentleman, When , the machine skidded to a stop they went around to the side and started to get in—until they no- ticed that the lettering read “Police Department.” Then they ran. * x *x x NO THANKS. Did you notice that President Roosevelt, in his final two-sentence message to the House of Represent- atives, wished the gentlemen a pleasant vacation, but omitted the more or less customary “thanks for your splendid co-operation?” * ok ok ok SLIPPED. P!:OPLE who have had nightinares in which they imagined them- selves wandering about town in various pert trapper has been engaged to capture them and release them in the Jungle, Mann Bringing New Husband For Zoo’s Susie Pair of Black Panth- ers Also on Modern oah’s Ark. Susie, the widowed orang-utan at the Zoo, will have a mate as soon as Dr. Willlam M. Mann arrives here ‘with his colorful collection of animals from the East Indies. The expedition has acquired a bach- elor orang-utan to be mated with the widow, who lost her husband several Winters ago through pneumonia. . Among the “first hrmltes',' on the dition's “Noah’s ark” are a pair of & "l black panthers, the gifts of c i n Prince of Johore from his il arty sailed aboard the motor n Silverash several weeks ago, bpped at Ceylon and India en home to make additions to the 1 collection. The expedition will arvive here late in September. One of the rarest prizes is a croco- dile from North China of a type never seen in the New World. The crocodile was taken aboard at Singapore and occupies & huge tank on the boat. The expedition has collected nine tbbon apes,” including & baby which heepen have dubbed “Sticking Plaster,” because he is always hanging around. Jn addition, there are scores .of emotic birds and snakes, -including bended kraiks, pythons and Most of the more valuable ‘Wwere faken in Stam. wd Tout stages of undress will appreciate the plight of Else Straton, who kicked off a slipper in a local movie cathedral the other day and, when she was ready to depart, discovered somebody had given her shoe a long putt. Summoned an usher, who searched and searched, but no find. He promised to tele- phone her when it was found, and Miss Straton went charging out of the theater with one shoe off and one shoe on. So into a taxi and home. An hour later the telephone rang. “If you will bring the other shoe for identification ” said an usher, ‘“you may have the shoe just turned in."” * ko x X EARLY BIRDS, AJ. ERNEST BROWN, superin- tendent of police, thanked a radio station for sending his officers to work half an hour early the other day. Over the air from the station came the bong-bong-bong which pre- pares listeners for a time anounce- ment. The announcer said (approxi- mately) : “It is now 2 p.m., Scratchendangle ‘Watch Time.” Actually it was 1:30 p.m., but lots of policemen, prompt fellows at heart, set their watches ahead half an hour, consequently showed up early for work. . New Zealand Aids Wofken. The government of New Zealand will contribute to the wages of work- ers taken off sustenance and em- ployed on new municipal public ‘works. 2 BY NUMISMATISTS J. Henri Ripstra of Chicago Heads Group—Mrs. Ross Tallks. J. Henri Ripstra of Chicago today was elected president of the American Numismatie Association at the con- cluding session of the organization's twenty-fifth annual convention at the ‘Washington Hote]. Other officers elected were: First vice president, Herbert W. Walker, Warren, Ohio; second vice president, Ernst R. Wernstrom, San Francisco; general secretary, Harry T. Wilson, Chicago; treasurer, George H. Blake, Jersey City, N. J.; librarian and curator, William 8. Dewey, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; board of governors, Nelson T. Thorson, Omaha, Nebr.; Harry Boosel, Washington; L. W. Hoffecker, El Paso, Tex.; Martin F. Kortjohn, New York, and William A. Philpott, jr., Dallas, Tex. Ripstra succeeds T. James Clarke, Jamestown, N. Y. The board of gov- ernors will meet next Winter to select the 1938 convention city. The session here was the largest in the history of the association, which was founded in 1891 and incorporated by Congress under & Federal charter in 1912, Speakers at last night's banquet of the association were Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint and former Governor of Wyo- ming; Alvin W. Hall, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Theodore T. Belothe, curator of his- tory, Smithsonian Institution. Thomas H. Chapman of the Washington Nu- mismatic Society presided. ‘Today's program called for a busi- ness session, election of officers and selection of next year's convention city. Subsidiary Coinage. Subsidiary coinage—such as nick- els, dimes and quarters—never has been given the degree of importance it deserves, despite its important role in the everyday economic life of the world, Edward F. Keeley, former sec- retary of the Kemmerer Commissions, told the convention. It is & hopeful sign, Keeley said, that numismatists are exerting a growing influence in the formation of public policles behind modern currency reforms. “The attention of currency ex- perts has generally been directed to the major problems of monetary standards, metallic ratios, reserve re- quirements, velocity of circulation and other purely economic aspects of those subsidiary coins which make possible the innumerable transactions of our daily lives and directly affect every individual citizen,” said Keeley. He is now employed as adviser on coinage to the International Nickel Co., Inc. New Sizes and Weights. “The result of failure by govern- ments to devote due attention subsidiary coinage may be observed in the heterogeneous systems that seem to be the rule throughout the world today,” he continued. “In re- sponse to sudden emergencies caused by violent rises in the prices of component metals, or becauss of a large theoretical profit to be de- rived from seigniorage, new denomi- nations, new sizes and weights of coins were thrust into an already confusing system, with utter disre- gard of such practical consideratiors as the convenience of the public, lonz- run economy. should be the principal criteria. “It is not unusual, therefore, to find a score of coins comprising fev- eral different alloys in circulation in a given country, when this same monetary by four or five coins of adequate de- nominations and sizes, made of single metal or alloy.” Discussing scientific currency re- form, Keeley cited four factors: Reduction in diameter and weight of ail fiduciary coins. Uniformity through the use of a single metal or alloy for the entire system, especially in countries whose mints are equipped to handle the en- tire operation, from melting the metal to striking the eoin, Abandonment of the precious metals because of their wide price fluctuations and higher cost. Adoption of utility rather than of refative intrinsic value as the basis for selecting the metal to be used. Utility, Keeley defined as including appearance, durability, saleability, se- curity against counterfeiting, low relative cost and stability of price. Of the 79 countries, mandated ter- ritories, protectorates and other en- tities authorized to issue coins, 70 are using nickel, either in its pure state or as & major alloy, in their coinage systems, he said. 200 ACTIONS READY IN TEXAS EXPLOSION Damages in Behalf of New Lon- don Parents to Be Sought From 0il Company. By the Ascociated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 26.— Two hundred suits for damages on behalf of parents of victims of the New London, Tex., school disaster were held in readiness today for filing, it was announced by Howard K. Berry, Oklahoma City attorney. He said he would bring them against the Parade Gasoline Co. next week. Hundreds of school children and teachers died in the explosion last March 18 at the “world’s richest school.” ‘The suits, Berry said, will contend negligence on the part of the Parade Gasoline Co., operator of the gas line to which the school's heating plant was connected. Berry said the suits would be filed after a Henderson, Tex., County Courp acts on his petition to have Robert A. Mooseman, Delaware, appointed ad- ministrator for the plaintiffs. The Parade Co. is & Delaware com- pany. Should the administrator be granted, he said he would file single large suits in the Henderson District Court. Should the foreign adminis- trator be denied, Berry said he would bring suit for $3,000 or leas in State District Court in each case, and file suits for higher damages in each case in Federal District Court at Tyler, Tex. Legion Installs Tonight. SILVER SRRING, Md, August 26 (Special) —Installation of officers of Cissel-Saxon Post, American Legion, will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the State Armory, with Robert For- rest, former vice commander of the Southern Maryland District, conduct- ing the ceremonies. ¥ toi or uniformity, which | work could well be done | a, | Rerous weapon and mayhem; Arthur N WOHAYS DEATH Trial of M’Affee on First-De- gree Murder Charge Due in Fall. Willlam (Major) McAfee was in- dicted on a first-degree murder charge today, shortly after detectives went be- fore the grand jury with evidence by which they hope to prove the 61-year- old colored man killed Mrs. Henrjetta Anderson, 36, of 1633 L street, with a furnace shaker last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Anderson, an attractive widow, who had been employed at the Vet- erans’ Administration, was beaten to death, She was the mother of trree children and the widow of & World ‘War veteran. McAffee was janitor at the rooming house where she lived. Within 12 hours after his arrest Sunday McAffee is said to have vol- unteered a confession. The statement was read to the coroner’s jury by De- tective Sergt. John C. Dalglish yes- terday. McAffee, diminutive and wrinkled, is alleged to have told police he had quarreled with Mrs. Anderson and that she threatened him with an ice pick before the slaying. Trial of his case is expected to be held this Fall. Jewel Cutter Indicted. Joseph Van Ryck Presbourg, expert jewel cutter, who is alleged to have stolen a huge emerald intrusted to him by Mrs. Catherine Mayo, was in- dicted on four charges of larceny after trust. Because of Mrs. Mayo's absence from the city, her complaint was not presented to the grand jury, but will be taken up later. ‘The true bills charge that Pres- bourg absconded with some $2,000 worth of diamonds which had been given to him for recutting by four local jewelers, The jewelers were Arthur Markel, 921 F street; William Hyman, 1757 K street; Jacob Heid- enheimer, 1215 H street, and Max Zwelg, 937 D street. Presbourg is in Seattle awaiting extradition. The grand jury ignored a homicide charge against James Lanham, chief engineer of the Palace Laundry, who was held by a coroner's jury in con- nection with the death August 3 of James Steadman, colored employe of the laundry, death in an allegedly defective eleva- tor. Exposed Wire Blamed. Steadman, who worked at the main | plant at Ninth and H streets, was | said by witnesses to have just placed | one foot on the elevator platform when it started to rise, the heavy door pinioning him and the platform crush- | ing him against the framework of the shaft. Before the accident the elevator worked perfectly, it was said. An ex- posed wire was reported by investiga- tors to have caused the lift to start| upward as soon as it reached the ground level. Others indicted were: Benjamin H. Baylor, John L. Frye and Catherine Wright, joyriding; Moses Brown, Samuel Miller, Martin A. Gleason and Norman Leaks. grand larceny; G. Ricks, larceny from the United States; Albert Pinckney. receiving stolen property: James Page, Mary Maxwell, Charles A. Wyles and Jesse Battle, violation of the gaming law; Wanda W. Toombs and Robert E. Bickford, violation of the liquor taxing act: Zeph Moore, operating a smoke screen: Margaret Histon, violation of the Harrison narcotic act: William C. Schwetz, false pretenses; Stanley P. Wazny, forgery and uttering; Ernest R. Watson, larceny after trust; Harvey A. DePue, embezzlement; Emerson Martin, assault with a dan- Reed and Zelmar H. Berry, assault with & dangerous weapon; Mary Fowler, manslaughter, and Joseph Barnhart, first degree murder. Besides the Lanham matter, cases ignored included: Charles A. Foreman, larceny from the United States; Claude Hall, house- breaking; Mary E. Barber, larceny after trust; Thomas E. Hall and Buford R. Hitzing, joyriding, and George W. Harrell, forging a Gov- ernment check. TR Church Picnic Announced. SILVER SPRING, Md. August 26 (Special) —The Four Corners Meth- odist Episcopal Church will hold 1its annual picnic at Jesup Blair Park here on Saturday. Washington Own 'Book of Hours" 4 o'clock p.m. T IS the hour of evening prayer at Mount St. Alban. Every afternoon when Congress is in session, we are informed by one of the clergy, a special petition is offered for its members. Years ago, when the venerable Edward Everett Hale was chaplain of the Senate. he was asked what were the duties of his office. “I look over the Senate,” he said, “and pray for the country.” They also pray for the country at Mount St. Alban. * % ok % Long shadows of stands and bleach- ers fall over the greensward of the ball park. ‘Washington has & safe lead of two runs. The pitcher is hit safely four times in succession. He goes wearily toward the showers. * x Govemment‘cl‘erks squirm in their chairs and have more mistakes check- ed against them than at any other time of the day. The work day's vexations are cumulative. Bosses are getting unreasonable and irritable, The clerks are more likely to tell them to go jump in the lake. Minds are wandering from charts and routine letters to the cool bridle paths of Rock Creek Park, to evening dances, to dates with the boy friend. * * ‘The Govemm:m‘ofllm empty—a great outpouring of sweaty, weary, nerve-raw humanity. Boys stand on the pavements before the doors, wait- ing to pick up their girls, their wives, or the wives of other men and take them riding, swimming, golfing or drinking. Parking lots are & Babel of ereaking breaks and caths. Bvery street lead- s who was crushed to| Edith Hardesty and Francis | the President. Cannes, denied he was involved. MGRADY ADMITS INTENTIONTOQUIT Has Not Yet Resigned, How- ever, He Says After See- ing Roosevelt. After an hour’s conference with President Roosevelt at the White House Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, early this after- noon told reporters he has not yet sub- mitted his letter of resignation. “I have not yet resigned,” he said “Give me some more time to think it over. I'll give you all 48 hours’ notice.” Earlier in the day, at his own office, day to take over the post of chief of labor relations for Radio Corp. of America. Despite the long session with the President, admit discussing his reported de- parture from public office with the Chief Executive. Secretary Perkins declined any comment on the report at a press con- ference shortly before noon. Christened Edward Francis, but dubbed Edward “Ferocious” by some of the spokesmen of labor and industry Wwho have participated during recent years in strike-settlement negotiations with him, McGrady has served for four vears as most effective New Deal trou- ble shooter on the labor front. His departure from the Labor De- partment post would leave the admin- istration with a problem, since organ- | ized labor will insist on having an in- fluential word about the identity of his successor and the present bitter di- vision between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. makes it unlikely they can agree easily vidual. A lifelong labor background fitted McGrady well for his career, his expe- rience in this field beginning when he | ot & Job as a pressman on the Boston Herald in 1894. Served as Union Heads. In succeeding years, he served as president of the Printing Pressmen's | Union, the Boston Central Labor Union and the Massachusetts State Pederation of Labor. In his con- nection with the printing pressmen he became closely associated with George L. Berry, long-time interna- tional president of the pressmen's union and now a Senator from Ten- nessee. The late Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, called McGrady to Washington to help the fortunes of organized labor na- tionally and the Bostonian rendered ’ S ing from the downtown section is jammed with automobiles. The air of Washington is poisonous with carbon monoxide. The aroma of gasoline is everywhere—the charac- teristic odor of twentieth century, by which she will always be detected in the dark of time. There are all sorts of folks—light- hearted and world weary—in this out- pouring throng. * *x X ¥ To one large group of them we would call special attention. They are the night school students, who dash to get a bite of supper be- fore the start of evening classes. They form a unique group in Washington— larger than ever since the big influx to fill the New Deal agencies. All day they have slaved, or loafed, over dull tasks for which they cared nothing. Now their minds are loosed in the green fields of learning. Their Government jobs are stepping stones. ‘They have a childlike faith that better things are in store for them once they have mastered law or mathematics. Twenty years ago this would have been true. Now one. wonders. ‘Times have changed. Learning has become independent. She must be pursued now for the joy of her com- pany—not because she has lots of money and influence for her suitors. * % x % Washington hotel clerks get ready for their second' biggest rush, with guests checking out to avoid paying for an extra day and to catch the 5 o'clock trains and planes out of the Capital. Bell boys strain and sweat under burdens of heavy luggsge and maids hurry to get the rooms in order for incoming guests. McGrady admitted that he expected to | | leave Washington directly after Labor | the labor official would not | that ! on one indi- | notable service, not only in lobbymg’ To Quit Post EDWARD F. McGRADY. legislation through many an unfriendly Congress, but also in cleaning up sev- | eral bad situations within the labor | movement. From 1921 to 1924 he fought relent- lessly against racketeering elements in unions associated with the building, garment, cleaning and dyeing and moving picture operators trades. Risked Life on Occasion. ‘Two-fisted and fearless, McGrady did much of labor's disagreeable work during those years, occasionally at the risk of his own life. In 1929, he was escorted out of Elizabethtown, Tenn., by armed vigilantes at 2 o'clock one morning, but he was back hammering at the sheriff's door before 8. de- termined to stay in town until a settle- ment could be made on behalf of some striking A. F. of L rayon workers. For the next several days, he lived across from the sheriff, with armed guards on duty at all hours Despite his accomplishments in these years, McGrady probably has surpassed them in the four-year span of his serv- ice with the New Deal. Serving first as a deputy adminis- trator in charge of labor matters with the N. R. A, he took over the actual work of the Assistant Secretary’s office in 1934 and since then has figured prominently in seitlement of virtually every major industrial disturbance. Strike Experience Long. Familiar with the tactics of leaders of both industry and labor, the well- groomed McGrady knew when to be tough and when to be conciliatory. He has shown himself adept at both. In 1933 he led the way to settle- ment of the soft coal strike and the Pacific Coast shipping strike. Among his accomplishments of 1934 was a leading part in settlement of a strike of employes of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In 1935 he had like success plants in Toledo, Ohio; Industrial Rayon Corp. in Cleveland and the longshoremen at New Orleans. In 1936 he turned to the rubber strike in Akron, the building service strike in New York City and the shipping tie-up on the Pacific Coast. Earlier this year, he aided in effect- ing settlement of the Chrysler and General Motors strikes and was a member of the special mediation board active during the strike in “little steel.” His most recent conciliation service was in Philadelphia, where bit- ter trouble gripped workers of the Apex Hosiery plant. _Went to Switzerland. In June of this year, McGrady went to Geneva as one of two United States representatives to an international labor conference. Born in Jersey City, he has lived most of his life in Boston. Since com- ing here he has lived quietly with his wife at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Fleming, at 30 Madison street. On many occasions, it was re- ported he had received attractive of- fers to leave public service, but until the present one all had been rejected. PREVIEW OF PAGEANT SET AT HAGERSTOWN 80 Visiting Newspaper and News- reel Representatives to See Presentation Sunday. Bpecial Dispatcn to The Star. HAGERSTOV'N, Md., August 26.— A preview of the “On Wings of Time” pageant, to be presented here during the National Antietam Commemora- tion next month, will be shown Sun- day for 80 visiting newspaper and newsreel representatives. They will be guests at luncheon of the National Antietam Commission and will also tour the Antietam Battlefield, where the Civil War battle, fought 75 years 2go, will be re-enacted September 17. ‘The preview of the pageant will be presented by 1,500 actors on s 600~ foot stage at the Hagerstown Fair- grounds, where an exposition grounds of 26 acres has been constructed. A Y in strikes at Chevrolet and Edison | | BALANCED BUDGET 1N 1938 FORESEEN Chairman Cannon Says Slashing of Debt to Start by 1939. By the Associated Press. Acting Chairman Cannon of the House Appropriations Committee pre- dicted today a balanced budget next year, through reduction of all ap- propriations. “By 1939,” he asserted, “we shall tional debt.” The debt now stands begin making payments on the na- M. Pierre Nouveau (right), Mayor of Cannes, France, had a bouquet tossed in his face during a flower festival in Cannes recently. Early reports attributed the act to John Roosevelt, son of John, in center of qroup at left, embarking on a speedboat during his visit to —Copuright, A. P. Wirephotos. PRESIDENT STARTS VACATION TONIGHT Will Take Number of Un- signed Bills With Him to Hyde Park Home. President Roosevelt was clearing his desk of as much business as pos- sible today, preparatory to leaving to- night for a vacation at Hyde Park, his New York home, Unable to complete the study of more than 100 bills awaiting his ac- tion, Mr. Roosevelt planned to take them along with him, thus sandwich- ing business between pleasures. ‘The President will rest a few days at Hyde Park before embarking on a brief cruise to Long Island Sound, where he wants to see the 6-meter boat races, which begin Saturday. The races will continue until one boat has won four races. He will board his yacht, the Poto- mac, at Poughkeepsie for the cruise, which probably will include several days of fishing. Mr. Roosevelt plans to return ‘o Washington about the middle of Sep- tember. He is scheduled to make a Constitu- tion day address September 17 in the Sylvan Theater, near the base of the Monument. The speech will be broad- cast, and members of the Good Neigh- bor League will listen in at banquets and meetings throughout the Nation. STATE INVESTIGATES CHARGE OF PEONAGE Mississippi Sharecropper Wife Was Chained to Bed by Farmer. By the Associated Press. CLARKSDALE. Miss.. August 26.— Federal authorities held a colored sharecropper and his wife in “pro- tective custody” as material witnesses today pending arraignment of a 30- year-old farmer accused of holding them in peonage. Meanwhile, Department of Justice agents continued their inquiry into the claim of the man, J. W. Wiggins, that he and his wife were forcibly de- tained on the farm of J. S. Decker to insure payment of a debt. Wig- gins claimed his wife, Ethel, was chained to a bed. Decker, freed under $1.500 bond, denied the charge and promised to give his version of the case before the courts. Sheriff H. H. Dogan of Tallahatchie County said Wiggins complained to him two weeks ago that his wife was being held in chains on the Decker farm for a $175 debt the farmer claimed due him. Dogan said he “went to the Decker place and in a sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to & bed with a trace chain.” The sheriff quoted Wiggins as say- Ing he escaped being chained to a tractor by promising to stay on the farm until the debt was paid. WARRANTS ACCUSE TWO IN ESCAPE OF BRUNO By the Associated Press. POTTSVILLE, Pa, August 26.— Alderman Robert J. Kalback issued warrants last night for the arrest of two men charged with aiding Joseph J. Bruno escape from a county prison guard last December 18. The warrants named Rocco Garo- mone of Hazleton and Joshua (Jess) Nilo of New York, formerly of Kelayres. Lewis D. Buono, chief county de- tective, charged Garomone and Nilo supplied the automobile in which Bruno escaped from Pottsville after he strolled away from a guard who was taking him to & dentist’s office, Arrested last Sunday in New York, Bruno is now back in prison serving three life sentences for the Kelayres mass slayings of 1934. PRESIDENT.MAY SPEAK Legion Asks Him to Convention in New York, September 20. Presiden. Roosevelt may address the American Legion at its twentieth anniversary convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on September 20. An invitation to make the address was received today by the President from Assistant Secretary of War Louis A. Johnson, who acted on behalf of the Legion. Since this is the first convention the Legion has held in the President's native State, legionnaires are confi- dent he will not miss the opportunity of attending the meeting. 3 Says | P just under $37,000,000,000, the largest figure in history. “For the first time, the condition of the country s back to where we expect to discontinue or drastically curtail emergency activities,” Cannon said. While Cannon looked to next year, Treasury officials said a probable re- vision of budget estimates for this fiscal year might show Federal finances in better shape. They said enactment of the law to close tax loopholes and the “freezing” of & part of appropriations alread made to departments would make pos- sible a substantial reduction in the prospective 1938 deficit. This deficit was placed at $418,000,~ 000 in an April forecast, but Cannon, speaking of the January session of Congress, said “every appropriation bill will carry less than the corre- sponding bill of the present session.” Congress appropriated about $9.- 400,000,000in the session just ended, compared with $10,336.489,970 Jast, year. The latter, however, included $2,237,000,000 for the soldiers’ bonus. Cannon said he might discuss budget - balancing possibilities with President Roosevelt before leaving the Capital. Increased revenue, ments of loans and larger returns from self-liquidating construction projects should be important factors, he said, in equalizing income and outgo. Some appropriation bills, Cannon said, may be cut as much as 30 per cent under those of similar bills for this year. He said it ought to be pos- sible to slash the relief appropriation 25 per cent. He added he looked for little in- crease in expenditures as a result of & projected general farm bill. Enough funds must be provided for a soil- conservation program, he said, but price maintenance operations “should be self-sustaining.” 48 ALEXANDRIANS ON GRAND JURY LIST Panel Will Begin Duties in Cor- poration Court on Sep- tember 1. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 26— Selection of 48 persons to serve on grand juries in Corporation Cour: beginning September 1 was announced today. Those chosen for duty were: E. F. Ticer, Marshall L. King, Al- bert A. Smoot, Capt. George Evans, Dr. Robert S. Barrett, Thomas H. Bayne, Chester Pierce, Edward O©. Van DeVanter, Arthur Bryant, Rich- ard M. Green, Joseph Hayman, Louis P. Hoy, John A. Lannon, W. L. Nor- ford, J. H. Taylor, M. T. Dwyer, W. Harmon Reed, O. P. Angelo, R. M. | Colvin, Irving Hufford, Herbert Tan- cil, Edward Dixon, W. Seldon Wash- ington, C. Taylor, Nicholas Lawler, Llewellyn Dyson, G. Raymond Gaines, J. Van Schouwenburg, David Hulfish, Amos Howard, George Warfield, E. S. Goodloe. R. E. McGahey, D. C. Book, M. E. Green. R. H. Beverly, O. H. Kirk, W. H. Brooke, J. R. Eddington, H. Newell Larcombe, Clarence Rem- ington, Alan Prosise, P. J. Conlon, W. B. Fulton, E. D. File and Riley Nixon. bigger repave —_— Swallows Depth Bomb. LONG BEACH, Calif. (P.—A tale of a shark whose appetite got the best of it was told by officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey vessel, Pioneer, upon their return to port. The big fish swallowed a depth bomb, which is about the size of a coconut and fitted with a fuse which burns under water. A few seconds later a column of water shot upward. Fragments of the shark came with it. Cuba Will Try 14Who Escaped Island Terror Group That Drifted 5 Days Held on Arms Charge. By the Assoclated Press. SANTIAGO, Cuba, August 26.—A tattered band of fugitives from Great Inagua’s uprising waited in jail here today for trial, probably tomorrow, for possession of arms, despite the intercession of the United States Con- sul. The 14, 5 white United States eiti- zens and 9 Negroes, British subjects, were in rags, having used their cloth- ing for sails on the disabled motor launch that brought them to the Cu- ban coast Tuesday morning. § Days Drifting in Boat, They had spent five drifting, terri- fying days in the open boat without food or water, after fleeing for their lives from Great Inagua, an island of the Bahamas. Natives rioted theré over the attempted arrest of one of them accused of mistreating a ehild. One person was killed. The small arsenal the refugees car~ ried brought their arrest by Cuban rural police, who suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba. A report from Havana said it was believed the men would be freed when brought to Santiago last night. In- stead, the four soldiers who escorted them from the north coast locked them up pending trial in Urgency Court. Consul Visits Prisoners. The United States Consul had in- formed Cuban authorities that the fugitives were known to him as peaceful persons. He visited the pris- oners last night. The leader of the refugees was Dr. Dudley Arthur Fields, port health of- ficer at Great Inagua, customs official and delegate to the governor of Baha- ¢