Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 2

A—2 sx» LA GUARDI TYPE HELD.0.P.HOPE Emporia Editor Advises Party That Piug-Hat Candidate Is Doomed. The implications for mnational politics in the re-election of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York are discussed here by “The Sage of Emporia,” who, a few months ago, evoked widespread comment by declaring that La Guardia would be the logical Re- publican candidate for President in 1940. By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. EMPORIA; Kans., Nov. 4 (NANA). ~What are the Republicans of this Nation going to do about Fiorello La Guardia? They cannot ignore him as a man, and as a political phe- nomenon he is so significant that, if the Republicans shut their eyes to him, the undertaker may just as well put pennies on them and go ahead with the embalming process. ‘Which does not mean that they will have to take La Guardia or pass out. It means that the Republican party must give up hope of nominating a plug hat or any one from the plug-hat section. This country today is definitely out of the control of the business man in politics. Ten years ago, with the stock market booming, industry humming, high wages and low unemployment, this country glorified Coolidge when he declared, “The business of America is business.” Those days are gone forever. The business of America today is justice—an honest, equitable readjustment of the national income as between those who toil with their hands and those who direct industry with organizing brains. Sees Strong Reaction. If the Republican party tries to go nto another fight with its arm around Al Smith and the Liberty League, with its feet in the windows of the various Union League Clubs, with a high tariff complex and with weasel words running around its labor policy | to bamboozle both capital and labor, heaven help this country rabble-rouser will carry the electorate far to the left out of protest against the worship of the hollow, heartless, gutless little tin god in a frock coat, the emblematic idol of the Republican old guard. Fiorello La Guardia, either in per- son or, even better, as a type. repre- sents the hope of victory in this coun- try over the Democratic party. The Republican party can realize that hope or reject it. Americans obviously are beginning to be unhappy under Demo- cratic rule. They have not rejected President Roosevelt, but, as the head of the Democratic party in 1940, they may still reject him and his party. But the issue today is surely not a re- turn to '28. The issue is clearly de- fined in efficient government, in honest government, and in forthright, forward leadership. Fed Up With Partisanship. The butter-fingered revolution, fos- tered in the White House, which has begun to fumble the ball of progress, seems to be on its way out. If it is finished, it is because it is danger- ously and unpatriotically partisan. ‘The people are getting tired of its vast incompetence. The eyes of the Democratic party are on the stars, but its feet are stuck in the mud of a | dirty, clogging and often crooked party organization, ravenous for jobs and utterly careless of social consequences. The American people are weary of squandering billons for the paipable purpose of holding party advantage. The voters are tired beyond words of a leadership which is not forthright, which is clever without integrity. ‘The people want some one who will scold them, who will tell even a majority it is wrong. The country yearns for a leader who is not afraid of offending a minority, or who will not shrink from denouncing a pres- sure group which has votes for sale. La Guardia. first of all, is a com- petent administrator. He is a budg- et balancer. He knows how to get re- sults politically without sacrificing his self-respect. As an administrator, he should command Republican re- spect for this competence. For, if the Republicans have any justifiable brag, it is in their competence. La Guardia is marching down their alley with banners. Independent and Honest. Also, La Guardia is honest. That’s #l=0 a Republican boast. In two cam- Ppaigns, not one attempt to smirch the man’s personal or political honor has stuck. He has been smeared with a cunning malignity like that which covered Herbert Hoover. Yet Mayor La Guardia has proved conclusively to the voters that every dollar of taxes passing through his hands has been spent so that the taxpayer got 100 cents out of it. He tolerates no waste. He plays no favorites. He scorns to buy votes with the people’s money, and the Republicans should burn that on their hearts. More than all that, he is absolutely independent. He promised a non- partisan administration in New York. He has kept his promise. He has asked of his public servants only that they make good. He has ignored party, even the Republican party, and the man who beats the present Democratic administration will have to stress the fact that he will rise above party, and strengthen his party by serving his country, and will not use his coun- try to serve his party. La Guardia has given the greatest eity on the continent an absolutely clean, efficient, high-minded, non- partisan administration. And that is a necessary qualification for the | | | For some | THE EVEN ChaPei Ruins Abandoned to Japanese | Following fierce fighting in the Chapei sector, the Chinese abandoned the area to the Japa- | nese, leaving such scenes as this smoking ruin in their wake. Z € to be strengthening their positions, despite recurrent rumors they might abandon the entire | Shanghai front. | il Yesterday Chinese were reported —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. | leader who takes the Republican party | into the White House. The people will not follow a pussyfooting parti- san who is forever playing smart politices civilization forever. urban democracy. America is an | the great cities. The great city States that form New England, along with | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, | Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, California, where the cities control | the States that name the electors— these commonwealths will decide who | sits in the White House in 1940. La Guardia appeals to the city crowd. He has twice defeated the strongest Democratic machine in America. He is an accomplished fact as a Repub- lican victor. He is honest enough, forthright | enough, competent enough to attract the farmer. But honesty, competence and integrity, which delight the rural population, are not enough. These qualities must meet in a man who can talk the language of the street, and whose record appeals to the city man who also wants his tax dollar safely, wisely, honestly invested. No other horizon since 1932 with those peculiar Flower” of New York. He is not the only candidate for President. It isn't La Guardia or bust. But it certainly is the La Guardia | type. The man who is a proved vote- | getting winner in the great cities, who has a record for cold honesty, execu- tive competence and stalwart inde- pendence, and an open liberal mind not afraid of evolutionary progress. A time-serving regular Republican backed by the old guard will just walk through the buzzsaw of the next elec- tion, taking a divided party to indecent oblivion. Republican leaders can ignore La Guardia, but they cannot ignore what he stands for. The New York election has pointed the only way to national Republican success. (Copsright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) —_— ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE TO HOLD HOME-COMING Annapolis School to Celebrate Oc- casion Saturday—Team to Play Guilford. St. John’s College at Annapolis, Md., founded in 1696 and listed as America’s third oldest college, will celebrate its annual homecoming day Saturday. Alumni will give a reception at 5:30 pm. for Dr. Stringfellow Barr, new president of the college and for- merly of the University of Chicago. Other events include a meeting of the National Alumni Association at 1:15 p.m. hefore the football game with Guilford College at 2:30. Class reunions will follow the contest at 4:30 pm., with the alumni banquet and dance coniing at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. respectively. -The dinner will be held at Carvel Hall Hotel and the dance in the college gymnasium. ART Sets Number 0/4 Pictures in the Ar of The Star upon payme: Star. 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The baby talk and candy proffered by the officers didn’t helg, and the child cried until his mother arrived. —Star Staff Photo. Racing Results- Pimlico— FIRST RACE—Purse, $1.000: claiming: lhfi Monumental: 3-year-olds and uwp; 1% mile Spartan Lady (Snyder) 8.10 -5.10 2.80 Inactive (Eccard) 17.60 6.50 Sun Apollo (Vinas) 2.8 Time—1:53%. Also_ra; termath, Double Finesse, Lockstep. Prairie Prince, Venetian, Infilee, Nipponese, Time to Go, Letter Box. SECOND RACE—Purse, $1.000; Falr Hill; 2-year-old maiden fillies; & longs. Baby League (Renick) 4.30 3.50 Heraldic —(Wagner) 970 5.40 & Gulf Breeze (Wright) 3.60 Also ran—Pergy Byrne. Dogxerel. Spin- ster _Anne, rose, Riotous, a Mer; Bresses, Hi Ads, Moths Wing and Fickle WKine Ranch-Mrs. Parker Corning en- % iDally Double paid $27.20.) THIRD RACE—The Gwyn Oak: purse, $1,000; elaiming; 2-vear-olds; mile an 70 yards. heck Signal (Lyneh) 17.00 7.70 4.90 i “Frile” (Wally ~6.10 410 Afirmation (0'Malley) 550 the fur- 2.60 d, L aTry Joe D, Texas Boy, se Him. ax Hirsch-Arnoid Hangar eniry. Rockingham— By the Associated Press. FIRST RACE—Purse. $800; olaiming; —Transmutate, Beautiful, Nobl Spirit, Sciva, Night Serse, Thundert Shantime, tehall. 5.SECOND BACE—Purse, $800; clatmine; -year-olds and up; 1 mile. 570 380 3.30 Our Major (Seheih 380 330 Bird, Busy Dauthter, Daily double THIRD RACE—Purse, $800; clsiming; 3-year-olds and we; 1 mile. Spicy (Meloche) 510 4.60 3.30 Gelden Duchess (Dubols) 43.40 15.70 Prince Dean (Ray) 460 ay Line, A 0’Counell, Fras- eatl, Whittle, Briarthers, Ledy' Grandace, Shebans, Gypwick and Mary's Boy. o FOURTH RACE—Purse, $800; elatmine; =Y OAr - Y g 3 kY (M 4.20 270 2.20 1o Birike (Bchelk) 538 Z70 rovd (J ) 250 b MAL LOOT FOUND ATSUEDF HOLSE |All But One Package Locat- ed Soon After Gunmen Rob Truck. | By the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4—The sher- | iff’s office reported today a $6.000 con- signment of registered mail, taken from a Government truck by two gunmen last night, was found hidden | under the home of a suburban drug- gist. Lt. Ray Bergh said the druggist had killed himself shortly after the Tobbery. Bergh said all but one package was recovered from a hiding place under the residence of O. L. Richardson, 34, Lawndale druggist The officer said Richardson shot himself to death in front of his at- torney’s office shortly after midnight, firing two shots into his body. One man already was in custody in connection with the robbery when officers at the Richardson house re- ported success in their search. Eart Irwin, 33, driver of the truck, partially identified the suspect, who refused to tell sheriff’s officers his name or whereabouts when the hold- up took place in South Side Los An- geles last night. Forcing the mail truck to the curb, one of the robbers alighted from a coupe, flourished a revolver and took a pouch of registered mail. BUTLER PREDICTS BRUSSELS FAILURE U. 8. “Not Sufficiently Interested,” He Says, Citing Investments of Britain in China. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 4—Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired Marine Corps officer, expects- the Brussels Nine-Power Conference on Chinese- Japanese hostilities to fail “because the United States is not sufficiently in- terested to save it.” “Nobody can do anything about it but us, and we won't do it,” the gen- eral, here for an address, said today. “England wants us to pull her chest- nuts out of the fire,” Gen. Butler said. * She has a billion and a half dollars invested in China. We have only $125,000,000 invested there. Our trade in the Orient is not worth four battle- ships. “We're in danger in China because of our ships and soldiers. - Suppose they drop a bomb on a ship or kill a marine. Why, we're going to get mad and want to fight.” Landon Writes - , Martin Opposing Midterm - Parley By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., Nov. 4—Alf M. Landon said today he did not regard the time as opportune for a midterm Republican conven- tion but reiterated the opinion that if one is called there must be “no limitation on its scope and its personnel must come from precinct caucuses or primaries.” In a letter to Represenative Joseph W. Martin, jr., of Massa~ chusetts, his Eastern campaign . manager last year, Mr, Landon said he could not agree that the convention be composed of dele- gates elected tothe '36 conven- tlon. ; # “The opportunity-must be pro= vided for the convention to repre- sent every shade of opinion in the b. 0. P. SENATORS HIT 1938 PARLEY Borah and Townsend Toss Rocks at Plan on Eve of Chicago Session. By G. GOULD LINCOLN. On the eve of the Republican Na- tional Committee’s meeting in Chicago to pass on the proposal for a national party gathering next year, rocks were hurled at the plan by Senators Borah of Idaho and Townsend of Delaware. Senator Borah, who failed to support Landon in the last national campaign, declared that & national convention would be “usurpation or dictatorship in politics.” The Delaware Senator, who is chair- man of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, while less vio- lent in his language, said he was op- posed to the convention idea, fearing that it might jeopardize the chances of election of Senators and Representa- tives in 1938. Tomorrow the National Committee assembles in Chicago to decide whether the proposed convention is to be sanctioned by the party's official organization. It has been predicted by members of the committee that the convention plan would be adopted by & considerable majority. Borah Hostile From Start. What effect, if any, the protests of Senator Borah and Senator Townsend will have on the committee remains to be seen. Borah has been hostile to the convention idea ever since it was first broached. Former President Hoover has been its chief protagonist— although he has support from many | other Republicans—and former Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, the 1936 Republican presidential nominee, has been extremely lukewarm to the idea, if not actually opposed. | In a recent speech in Boston Mr. Hoover sought to clear the atmosphere by declaring that he was not a can- didate for any public office and that he had no wish to dominate or dictate | to the proposed Republican conven- | tion. Apparently he had no effect upon the Idaho Senator. Senator | Townsend’s attitude represents that| of a number of other Republicans in | Congress, who believe in letting nature | take its political course, at least until after the congressional elections next | year. They have a nebulous kind of | fear that a gathering of Republicans might do something that would lose votes to certain Republican candi- dates for election to Congress | Hits Lack of Representation. Attacking the convention plan, Sen- ator Borah said: “A mid-convention of the Repub-!‘ lican party would be something like | the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left | out. The voters would have no rep- resentation in that convention— simply the leaders. Nothing could be more impolitic and nothing more cal- culated to affront the voters than | | that of a few distinguished men as- suming to commit the party to a set| of principles or to outline the policy of the party. They would have no | more authority to announce the prin- | | ciples of the party than any other | | group of distinguished men who | | might volunteer for that task. “We have heard a great deal about | usurpation and dictatorship in recent | vears. There could be no greater ex- | | hibition of usurpation or dictatorship | in politics than for a few self-selected, self-elected, self-accredited men un- dertaking to fix the principles and Ppolicies for 17,000.000 voters without ever having consulted the voters or | received their indorsement .n any | way. “It has been stated that we could | | secure something in the nature of | authority from the people by calling | back the delegates to the Cleveland convention. The work of these dele- gates, their views and their principles, lie beneath an avalanche of votes, buried, rejected We do not want a voice from the tombs, but a fresh, new voice from the voters. Views Held Well Known. “Have not these men who are as- suming to speak for the voters had their day in court and had their prin- ciples passed upon? The voters know well their views and theories and have rendered judgment, “If we are going to rebuild the party let us build from the bottom, not from the top. It has been urged that the convention will only deal with funda- mentals. If we should meet in con- vention and fail to declare ourselves with some degree of detail on the farm question, the labor question, upon Government expenditures, upon taxes, upon balancing the budget, ad infi- nitum, we would be jeered from the Atlantic to the Pacific as unfit to have the reins of government. And if we should undertake to deal with the farm question, who would be au- thorized to speak for agriculture or to express their views? Likewise, for labor? “The Republican party is in its present plight largely because leaders of the party too long neglected to take counsel of the voter. Leaders acted upon the theory that the voters would be led or cudgeled along the road pointed out by the leaders. “For the national committee to call a midconvention would be a flat usurpation of power. There are those who will deal with the subject upon that theory.” Senator Townsend’s Statement. Senator Townsend’s statement fol- lows: “I am opposed to the Republican Na- tional Committee taking any action at this time that might jeopardize the chances for election 6f Republican Representatives and Senators in 1938. I feel the Republican National Com- mittee could well afford to appoint & special committee to sound out the sentiment not only of Republican members of Congress and of prospec- tive Republican candidates, who must bear the burden of campaigning in 1938, but of the rank and file of the party before ordering a midterm con- vention for the declaration of Repub- lican policies and principles. “I am making this statement in my private capacity as a member of United States Senate and I do not pretend to reflect the views of the other members of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, of which I Iam chairman.” VANDENBERG NON-COM;‘TAL. » Michigan Senator Says 1938 “Too Far Away” to Tell- About Now; Benator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan said today the proposal for an off-year Republican convention “hasn’t been sufficiently explored for anybody to make & decision on it.” ‘Vandenberg said that “even 1938 is too far away to tell about at present.” “Bven our President himself says he has to run the Government on & 24- hour basis,” the Senator added to newsmen, “and the rest of us can't expect to be better prophets thsn he s NG _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937. Differ on Convention Ideas Joseph W. Martin (left) of Massachusetts, chairman of the G. 0. P. Congressional Committee, believed a projected midterm convention of the party would be “a major political blunder,” in discussing the idea yesterday at Chicago with John D. M. Hamilton (right), who thought such a gathering “advisable.” —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. READS ATTORNEY TOASKFORSTAY Governor Denies Commuta- tion of Death Sentence in Torch Slaying. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., November 4—Gov. Holt closed last night what may be William B. Read's last avenue of escape from the gallows by deny- ing commutation of Read's death sentence for the torch slaying of W. Earle Dollman At Clay L. G. Pierson, attorney for the 25-year-old Four Corners, Md., man who is scheduled to be hanged Friday night at the State penitentiary, said he would ask a stay of sentence to prepare a petition to the United States Supreme Court for an appeal. The State Supreme Court twice has denied an appeal. Gov. Holt, in denying commutation to life sentence, said that after con- sidering the “matters presented to me by his counsel” and after he had made “‘considerable independent investiga- tion of this case * * * cline to commute it.” Hasn't Decided Grounds. Pierson said grounds for an appeal had not been decided upon, but that he would claim three members of the | jury “went into the case with their minds made up.” The petition charged state’s evi- dence at the trial justified nothing more than a second-degree murder verdict and said the trial was unfair. The body of Dollman, burning automobile near Gassaway last Thanksgiving eve. Two Repudiate Confessions. At the trial, Read’s two companions on a tour of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, Lawrence Gingell of Kensington, Md., and War Joseph Kirby of Baltimore, named Read as the killer. Gingell and Kirby are serving prison terms. They later signed affidavits which repudiated their confessions naming Reed. Read contended he was in Rich- mond, Va.,, at the time Dollman was slain, Two doctors who recently examined the condemned man said he was sane and that “he has deliberately refused to take advantage of his better oppor- tunities and resorted to crime.” FIVE-DAY WEEK COST IS DISPUTED BY BAKER Disputing the estimate that it would cost $60,000,000 to inaugurate the five-day week in -the Government, Jacob Baker, president of the United Federal Workers of America, said today this seems to be “wholly out- side of probability,” and that his organization has decided to make “an independent spot check” on cost. Baker expressed the opinion the cost would be no more than $20,000,~ 000, without taking into considera- tion operating economies it would bring about. The U. F. W. is planning a radio campaign in behalf of the five-day week in addition to pressing for legis- lation to bring it about. The first speech in its behalf will be made over WJSV Tuesday. voung | Charleston salesman, was found in his | | he signed his will leaving the bulk of an $850,000 estate to his secretary, | Poor Forgery OfWillHeld Just A Guiding Hand Kin Contest Nuptials With Bequests to Secretary. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Nov. 4—Miss Mildred Spiering, a nurse, told a jury in Cir- cuit Court yesterday that she guided the hand of David E. Shanahan when Helen Troesch. The will was signed on October 5, 1936. the same day the veteran Illinois legislator married his secretary in a hospital room. Shanahan's cousins, the Misses Mary and Margaret Flynn, who are attempt- MEDICAL UNIT ACTS ON GROUP SERVICE D. C. Society to Call Atten- tion to Phases of U. S. Plan Held lilegal. Rejecting a proposal to hire at- torneys and start a direct court at- tack on the new group medical service plan for employes of Government agencies under the Federal Horhe Loan Bank Board, the District Medi~ cal Society last night decided instead on action to direct attention to local government officials to asserted illegal phases of the program, it was learned today. The society approved a resolution directing its secretary to ask the American Medical Association to com- municate to the District Commis- sioners, the district attorney, corpo- ration counsel, insurance commissioner and local licensure board the sub- stance of an article in the issue of its journal for October 2. The article reported that the leghl department of the American Medichl Association believed, after a study 6f the Group Health Association, Inc., plan, that it was illegal in certain | aspects. It called attention to legal provisions in the District against the practice of medicine by a corporation and against a check-off system against the pay of Government employes fo collect dues in the association. ‘To Proceed Cautiously.” The society’s decision to “procead cautiously,” as one member expressed it, came after long discussion in a closed session during which the pro- posal to institute direct legal proceed- ings against the “socialized medicine” plan was rejected. It pointed out that the medical society’s charter does not give it authority to take part in | court action, and most of the doctors | expressed the feeling that such & | course would not be proper. | Sponsors of the more drastic pro- posal centended that the group health plan makes it more difficult for young men to get a foothold in the profes- sion. urging direct action to stop such a program before it gained headway. The Group Health Association, Inc., with more than 1,000 members among | employes of the Home Owners' Loan Corp. and other agencies affiliaved | with the Federal Home Loan Bank | Board, began operations Monday in ing to invalidate the marriage and contest the will, charged that the sig- nature was “a poor forgery.” “After the marriage Mr. Shanahan read the will,” the nurse testified, “and then he motioned to me and asked. ‘Will you guide my hand?’ I asked the others if that would be all right. I see no|and they said it would.” proper reason for interfering with the | sentence imposed and therefore de- | “I then put my right hand over his and guided his hand as he signed his name. Then he thanked me,” Miss Spiering said. “T00 MUCH WHEAT” IN 1938 FORECAST Economists Fear Materially Lower Prices With 1,000,000,000 Bushel Yield. By the Associated Press Department of Agriculture econo- mists forecast today “too much wheat” in 1938, resulting in materially lower prices and a big headache for pro- ducers in the Nation’s grain belt. They based their predictions on three major factors—another record planting, a 100 per cent increase in the stocks of old wheat in the United States and poorer prospects of selling the grain abroad. Responding to relatively high wheat prices that put cash into their pock- | ets this year, American wheat grow- ers and those in other wheat-produc- ing countries have been planting wheat heavily, hoping to reap good incomes in 1938. The American acreage, the econo- mists reported, may exceed 81,000,000. Under normal conditions this would produce a billion-bushel harvest—or a third more than needed to supply the Nation’s food, feed and seed re- quirements. On top of this burdensome yield, they added, will be a carry-over of 200,000,000 bushels from this year's crops, compared with 100,000,000 bushels last year. POOR FEEL COLD Cold weather yesterday brought a sharp increase in demands for winter clothing, it was announced today by the Central Union Mission. The principal articles asked for by the needy were men's overcoats, suits, shoes and undergarments, according to Mrs. Ada Jean Bennett, ‘mission superintendent. Donations of clothing may be brought to the mission at 613 O street N.W., or a truck will pick them up if one calls National 4349. | offices at 1328 I street NNW. Members | pay $220 a month individually or | $3.30 per month per family for full { medical services. The association | maintains a staff of 15 doctors and | technicians | Health Center Urged. | The medical society last night also adopted a resolution urging that con- | struction of the proposed Distric: | health center at First and Pierce | streets be expedited. . Pointing out that Congress has ap- propriated $185,000 for comstruction of the health center, Dr. Thomas E. Neill, president of the society, said ys and means should be found to | begin building the center withoit untoward delay.” " “ The Health Department explained today that plans for the building had been drawn, but that construction was being held up because the site is oc- cupied at present by the Jones Schodl, and school officials have encountered delay in arranging to care for the | pupils elsewhere. The projected health center would provide medical and nursing ¢are for indigent residents of the area in which | it is to be built. Similar projects ate | contemplated for other sections of the | city as funds become available, | | 'FLORIDA PERMITS EXTRADITION OF PAIR Indiana Officers, Returning After Delay Which Prosecutor Criti- . cized, to Be Intercepted. By the Assoclated Press. ‘TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 4 —The Florida Supreme Court ordered Don- ald and Elsie Mae Young returneg today to face grand larceny charges in Indiana, but officers who came for them already had left Tallahassee. Sheriff Frank Stoutamire, in whoge custody the couple was placed, said he was trying by telephone to inter- cept Deputy Prosecutor Ray E. Seidel of Marion County, Ind., and expected to catch him in Birmingham. Seidel's superior, Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer, ordered him back to In- dinana because of a week's delay in arranging extradition for the Youngs. Gov. Cone’s secretary, W. Branch Cone, issued an extraditnon warrant last Wednesday, but attorneys for the ‘Youngs took the case to the Supreme Court on the ground that the secre- tary could not act for the Governor in such matters. Upon his return to Tallahassee the Governor himaself jssued a new extradition warrant, °° Glen Echo Vigilantes Formed To Rid T own of Petting Parties BY a Staff Correspondent ot The Btar. GLEN ECHO, Md., Nov. 4—Petters, beware! The vigilantes will get you If you don’t watch out! - Stealing a page from law enforce- ment methods of the old South and ‘West, this community is forming its own band of vigilantes. Their efforts, like those of their predecessors who patrolled the bad lands when thé country was in iits infancy, will be directed toward stamping out. “crime”—modern-day “orime.” Petting First on List. Petting, or necking, is first on the: list. It must go. The use of streets and roads of Glen Echo as the trysting places of loving couples has exhausted the patience of local residents. Closely following “necking” come the dumping of trash along public highways, the use of District of Co- lumbia automobile tags by Maryland residents and the wanton cutting of trees. ‘There will be one principal de- parture, however, from the methods pursued by the vigilantes of the olden days, who ofttimes were ruthless in their efforts to preserve peace and order. Clarence W. Sands, secretary of the Glen Echo Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion’s Vigilantes' Committee, declared today “everything will be conducted in a ,gentlemanly and neighborly fash- ion.” Will Note Tag Numbers. Sands explained this will be accom- ‘plished by the vigilantes jotting down license numbers of offenders’ automo- biles and reporting them to police at the Bethesda substation of the Mont- County force. “It will be a simple task for the radio cruisers to halt law violators before they can get away,” he added. The Vigilantes’ Committee sought to obtain police authority and permis- sion t0 carry guns and special police badges, but the county commissioners explained at their meeting Tuesday | they had no power to grant such a request. Undaunted by this setback, the Vigilantes’ Committee decided upon the system whereby they will report violations to the police. The movement was inaugurated Monday night at the Glen Echo Hejghts Citizens’ Association’s meet- ing. Henry I. Pahlow was made chair- man of the Vigilantes Committee and Sands was chosen secretary. It was planned to have 12 mem- bers of the association sworn in as special officers, but the commissioners’ action the following day halted this. Sands said the 12 men, who have not been selected: yet, will maintain “regular road patrols,” and it is hoped eventually to obtain police authority. One of the most common offenses of motorists, he declared, is the pracs tice of removing barricades erected at the Conduit road and Massachu- setts avenue entrances ta Tuscorora and Walholding roads between the|hag: “We do nat wish to fill any one's | hours of 8 and 9 am. and 3 and & ‘heart with terror,” he said. “However, we are deiormined to maintain law.” L pm.,, when those roads are blocked off to protect school childrem. f FEDERAL UNIT PLANS :» HEALTH TALK SERIE§ A short course of lectures on cons servation of health and a seminar creative writing were announced to- day by the Graduate School of the Department of Agriculture. Members of the staff of the Publi¢ Health Service, Food and Drug Ad- ministration, Bureau of Animal ¥ dustry and other medical authorities will lecture in the health course, whick starts at the department auditorium Tuesday and will be held weekly at 4 p.m. until Pebruary 15. ‘ The writing seminar will start No« vember 16 and be held on W, . and Thursdays at 4:50 p.m. = e Denmark Asked To Translate *= P Mural Ling By the Associated Press: R Treasury officials disclosed . taliRy they ' had written to Denmatk in forts to obtain a translation Eskimo Kuskokwin message Kent painted into his $3,000 Rican mural in the new Post Department Building. Unable to find in the Unil an interpreter capable of gi ficial rendering of the which Vilhjalmur Stefansson, explorer; sald unofficially was an’#& hortation to Puerto Ricans to “c! chiefs,” Treasury officials said had communicated with Dr. Thalvitzer at the University of en. 34 Pending a translation, the grar said, the balance of $1,050 due for the painting is being:-held up:>" )