Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1940, Page 4

| A4 % Third-Term Debaters Cheered and Heckled At Editors’ Banquet Glenn Frank, Pepper, Willkie and Ickes Talk ‘Off Record’ Four of the country’s ablest political orators, two New Dealers and two Republicans, debated the third-term issue last night in a spirited “off-the-record” finale for the convention of the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors. In the words of the referee, Wil- liam Allen White, veteran Kansas editor, the speakers “let ti.eir hair down, kicked off their shoes and went to it.” What they said, how- ever, was not for publication. ‘The lead-off man was Dr. Glenn Prank, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, whose resonant voice, commanding personality and Intellectual power have placed him high in his party’s councils. Following Dr. Frank at the edi- tors’ annual dinner in the Willard Hotel was Senator Pepper of Flor- ida, consistent New Dealer and one of the stanchest supporters of a third term for President Roosevelt. Willkie Gives Views. The final speaker on the Repub- lican side was Wendell Willkie, the public utilities executive mentioned as “dark horse” material for the presidential nomination, who was described by Mr. White last night as the “Hoosier hurricane.” The summing up fell to the lot of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, noted in many quarters as a sharp shooter whose volleys have punish- ing effect. Some 160 editors and publishers, assembled from all parts of the United States, appeared to enjoy the free debate hugely. They cheered, applauded and interposed a few heckling comments of their own. Following the formal debate was a round-table, free-for-all led by four members of the association— Richard Finnigan of the Chicago ‘Times, Walter Harrison of the Okla- homa Times, Oklahoma City; Man- chester Boddy of the Los Angeles Tllustrated News and Wilbur Forrest of the New York Herald Tribune. | Banquet Tickets at Premium. ‘The editors, their wives and guests | filled the baliroom on the 10th floor | at the Willard to capacity. Tickets for the dinner were at a premium. | Many members who could not at- | tend the two-day session flew m! ‘Washington for the banquet. | Most of the editors planned to! leave for New York today to attend | next week’s convention of the Amer- ican Newspaper Publishers’ Asso- ciation and the Associated Press. Soon after the editors were warn- ed late yesterday that contempt citations against two newspapers which eriticized editorially court opinions were possibly preliminary to a “concerted Nation-wide cam- paign against freedom of the press,” the editors learned of a new con- tempt citation. They adopted a resolution: “Hold- ing that free expression of opinion is & right no less fundamental than the free circulation of knowledge, we urge the exercise of utmost vigilance against the recently ex- hibited tendency of some judges to extend the conception of con- tempt of court into an unwarranted assault upon the bill of rights—an assault which, if persisted in, will soon expose any citizen to arrest and imprisonment who ventures publicly to criticize or even com- | ment upon current judicial de- cisions, however debatable they may be.” Editorial Writer Fined. The new contempt citation was | issued late yesterday against E. B. Chapman, editorial writer of the ‘Topeka State Journal, who was fined $25 for failure to “answer | questions considered important” about bootlegging in the Kansas capital. Mr. Chapman said in an editorial that liquor sales and gambling continued despite arrests. He said that the information was in the hands of authoritative per- sons and that he could not disclose his sources. A few hours before the third eontempt case became known, Ralph Coghlan, editor of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, de- tailed the steps leading to his sen- tence of 20 days in jail and a fine of $200 for criticizing dismissal of extortion charges against a State Representative. Writers of the Los Angeles Times had been fined for similar criticisms. Cognizant of the difficulties under which foreign correspondents are working, the society adopted another resolution which declared: “We salute with pride and admira- tion the crop of American corre- spondents abroad who in war and disaster, with the handicap of faulty communications in an atmosphere too often of hostility and suspicion, under censorship and official pres- sure, amid personal hardship and dangers, in an isolation frequently demanding unusual resources of resolution and initiative, are making available to American people in honestly edited newspapers uncon- trolled by propaganda, the best in- formation on world affairs available to any people anywhere.” Hear of Difficulties in Finland. The editors earlier had heard of | the hardships and difficulties en- countered during the Finnish in- vasion by Norman B. Deuel, United Press correspondent. J. R. Wiggins, managing editor of the St. Paul Dispatch and JPioneer Press, declared in a speech on ad- ministrative problems of editors that “employers on newspapers are not availing themselves of the best methods used by industry” in select- ing personnel. He suggested that editors select employes through apti- tude tests and cited one instance where a youth who had only one year of college education had outshown several with college degrees. “We all need to overhaul our employing methods,” he said. Local news is “tops” for reader interest, M. G. Sullivan, circulation director of the Gannett newspapers, said. “Radio has taken the edge off na- tional events in newspapers,” he de- clared. “Yet more people are buying the papers the next day to read about events of the preceding night” on which they had heard frag- mentary broadcasts. “At the out- break of the war,” he added, “people were confused by conflicting radio flashes from abroad” and as a result have come to depend more upon their newspapers for accuracy and completeness. Cites Books of Comics. | of battle had cleared one man was Comic strips have been expensively promoted into popularity by news- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940 NEW OFFICERS OF EDITORS’ SOCIETY—Election of officers of the American Society of News- paper Editors was held at the concluding session yesterday of the group’s two-day convention at the Willard Hotel. Those named were (left to right) M. V. Atwood of the Gannett Newspapers, Rochester, N. Y., first vice president; E. 8. Beck of the Chicago Tribune, treasurer; Dwight Marvin of the Troy (N. Y.) Record, second vice president; N. R. Howard of the Cleveland (Ohio) News, secretary, and Tom Walla ce of the Louisville (Ky.) Times, president. —A. P. Photo. One Shot, Two Seized In Police Battles With Robbers Another Suspect Believed Wounded in Trap At N Street Home Revolvers roared last night as police chased suspected robbers | around town and when the smoke hospitalized with gun-shot wounds, | another was believed to be wounded | and two othérs were behind bars. | The shootings were two separate | actions. The first began at 6 pm. | when police were called to a house | at 1511 Sixth street N.W. and found | a colored man with bullet wounds in | both hands. | As the police approached, a colored | youth was seen to flee out the back door. The wounded man, John H. Beauknight, 31, was removed to Freedmen's Hospital for treatment. Liquor Store Held Up. About two hours later, three col- ored youths, including the one who | had shot Beauknight, entered a liquor store, at 1410 Ninth street | N.W, and ordered Proprietor Sam Wertleib of 1001 C street SE., to! hand over the cash. “If you don't keep quiet,” they | told him, “we’ll do what we did over in Deanwood.” Remembering that Herman Sirkis, Deanwood liquor store owner, was| shot to death recently while re- sisting holdup men, Mr. Wertleib handed over $110 in cash and the youths fled. | In another two hours, police got | a second call to go to the house at 1511 Sixth street N.W. Policemen | Charles Burns and C. G. Edwards | answered the call and were fired | upon by the same colored youth they had seen fleeing earlier. The youth made his escape, but was pursued by the two officers, who were joined in the chase by two more policemen. These officers were Charles A. Scott and J. A. Osterman of the Traffic Bureau, who caught up with the fugitive at Fifth and Neal streets | N.W. and exchanged shots with him. But again the youth got away. | At Fourth and P streets N.W. a few minutes later, he came upon Joseph Best of 113 Hepburn street S.E, showed his gun and ordered the man to hail a cab. Best stopped & cab, but signaled the driver that something was amiss. Best and the driver overpowered the colored youth and were strug- gling in the street with him when Policemen Burns and Edwards ap- peared and put him under arrest. At the second precinct, he ad- mitted participation in the liquor store robbery and gave the name of his companions, one of whom was arrested. The other is still sought. They will be questioned in connec- tion with the murder of Mr. Sirkis, but police were not hopeful that this arrest would solve the killing. Thief Trapped in House. The second shooting action began when Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy, 933 N street N.W., surprised a sneak thief in their home. The home had been burglarized several times re- cently and the Kennedys had put a papers, he said, and syndicates which control the strips are taking ad- vantage of the promotion in selling comic books, of which 83 are being published. He sald the syndicates are “open to criticism" for this. Tom Wallace of the Louisville (Ky.) Times was elected president of the society, succeeding Donald J. Sterling, managing editor of the Oregon Journal. M. V. Atwood of the Gannett newspapers, Rochester, N. Y., was elected first vice president; Dwight Marvin of the Troy (N. Y.) Record, second vice president; Na- thaniel Howard of the Cleveland News, secretary, and Edward S. Beck of the Chicago Tribune, treasurer. Directors elected yesterday were Mr. Beck, Paul Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News and Hamilton Owens, Baltimore Sun. Directors re- elected were Mr. Atwood, John S. Knight, Akron Beacon Journal, and W. S. Gilmore, Detroit News. for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramathe times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. purse on the window-sill in the hope it would lure the thief in, When a colored man appeared they called police. Private A. T.| Davis and C. A. Marinshaw re- | sponded and collared the burglar. He broke away, was recaptured | and broke away again. The policemen pursued him to a | house in the 1300 block of Ninth street, where they cornered him in| a hallway. They fired two shots at | the man as he ran out of a back door. He escaped, but the police believe both bullets hit him. William J. Green, 26, of 1159 Third street N.E. reported he was beaten and robbed in the 1300 block of I street N.W. early today. His assailant, & young white man, got $47, he said. Maj. Sin-ju Pu Hsiao, assistant | military attache of the Chinese Embassy, reported to police that | his car was broken into yesterday | and looted of a camera and some Chinese candy, valued at $30. The car was parked on a lot at Central High School at the time, he said. Would-Be Victim Flees. Lawrence E. Wilson, 50, of 621 Princeton place N.W. was walking in the 600 block of T street N.W. about 4:30 p.m. yesterday when a colored man, holding his hand in his pocket as if he carried a pistol, approached him. “Give me your money,” the bandit | ordered. Without a word Mr. Wilson turned his back and ran. The robber also, without a word, turned and ran—in the opposite direction. Edward Mertz, jr., 14, of 3415 Ord- | way street N.W. reported to police yesterday that he surprised a young colored burglar in his home. The youth jumped out of a window when young Mertz entered the house. | About $300 worth of jewelry was!' | stolen, Argentina’s government - owned petroleum company now operates 400 service stations and 6,158 gaso- line pumps. So Safe for his skin . . . So Safe for your clothes | Body, Union to Seek Elections In 5 More G. M. Plants By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 20.—Walter P. Reuther, director of the General Motors department of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) which this we€k won the right to bargain for more than 120000 G. M. em- ployes, said last night the C. I. O. would seek N. L. R. B. elections in five plants which did not participate in Wednesday's poll. The five are the Yellow Cab & Truck Plant, Pentiac, Mich.; the Hyatt Roller Beating Plant, Harri- son, N. J.; Chevrolet Commercial Indianapolis, Ind.; Allison Engineering, Speedway City, Ind., and the G. M. Parts Plant, Los An- geles, Calif. Runoft elections will be requested in the Delco-Remy Plant at Ander- son, Ind.; the Baltimore Chevrolet | plant and the Fisher No. 40 Unit at Detroit, where no group gained a | majority in the elections. Crew, England, has started an old man’s club and the mayor’s daughter dedicated the clubhouse. FIRE ESCAPES FRED S. GICHNER IRON WORKS, INC. RE. 2420 Save Flue Pipes Remove all of the Soot Now. E. J. FEBREY & CO. INCORPORATED BERGHANNG LAUNDERERS o ZORIC DRY CLEANERS Plant 621-23-25 G Street Branches: Hyattsoille, N.W.—Metropolitan 2220 Md., Greewwood 0888 Rosslyn, Va., Chestnut 2852—Oxford 1325 Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. {8 gecome QUALITY COnseygys: = Two Important Press Meetings Open Next Week in New York A. P. and Publishers’ Association to Hold Annual Conventions By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20—The men who run the American press are coming to New York next week for the two most important yearly meetings of the newspaper industry —the annual meeting of the Asso- ciated Press and the 53rd annual convention of the American News- paper Publishers’ Association. The A. P. members will elect elght directors. Normally only six are chosen as terms expire. The extra two this year will be named to suc- ceed Frank E. Gannett, publisher of the Rochester, N. Y., Times Union and other newspapers, who resigned when he became candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and Frederick E. Mur- phy, publisher of the Minneapolis Times-Tribune, who died in New York last winter. The members will meet Monday morning for the election. ‘'The afternoon, after a luncheon with an expected attendance of 700, will be given over to a general discus- sion, with war coverage probably one of the topics. 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P. men abroad, and continued: “Personal courage, keen newspa- per talent and high devotion to duty are implicit in these annals, yet all of it was essentially the work of & well-organized, worldwide staff, act- ing with unity and tireless devo- tion.” He called the news photo service in 1939 the heaviest in its history from the viewpoint of coverage on both sides of the Atlantic, and pointed out that while “the news picture report was producing more extensively and coping with ab- normal difficulties, it nevertheless operated at less total cost than in the preceding year.” The feature service, Cooper said, was “notably successful” in pro- ducing outstanding material not ordinarily available. Among these features, he declared, were back- ground maps and tabloid background pages. i ! The A. N. P. A. meeting will open Tuesday at the Waldorf-Astoria and continue through Thursday. with,special attention in discussions to the effect of the Federal wage and hour law upon large and small busi- ness interests, More than 500 own- ers, editors, publishers and other executives, representing two-thirds of all daily and Sunday newspapers | in the country, are expected to at- | tend. s | | The opening session will be de- voted, as usual, to a discussion of problems of dailies with circulations of 50,000 or less. Bice Clemow of the new Hartford, Conn., Newsdaily, printed by the offset process, will talk on the feasibility of this method for small city dailies, French Leader Dies PARIS, April 20 (#).—Viscount Blin de Bourdon, last survivor of the National Assembly of 1871 ard veteran of the Franco-Prussian | War, through which he fought as| & captain, died here today at the age of 102. 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