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Named Chairman of U. S.
Delegates to Congress
in Mexico.
Dr. Cloyd Keck Marvin, president
of George Washington University, has
been named by President Roosevelt to
serve as chairman of the delegation
from fhe United States to the seventh
American Scientific Congress, to meet
In Mexico City September 8 to 17.
Dr. Marvin plans to leave for Mex
ico on September 3. Two other Wash
ingtonians. Dr. Neil M. Judd of the
United States National Museum and
Dr. Prance V. Scholes of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, are mem
bers of the delegation. Other mem
bers are Dr. Wallace Walter Atwood,
president of Clark University; Dr. J.
McKeen Cattell, editor of Science; Dr.
Franklin Stewart Harris, president of
Brigham Young University, and Prof.
Edward V. Huntington of Harvard
University.
Dr. Marvin in accepting the ap
pointment said;
“This meeting of scholars from
the 21 American States has vast
significance, providing, as it does, a
striking contrast to those forces
which are dominant in the Old World
today. Never was there greater ne
cessity for emphasis upon the ideal
of freedom in human life. In the
Seventh American Scientific Congress
the American republics, furnished to
countries of Europe, which are grave
ly In need of recall from the brink
of intellectual isolation, an example
of freedom in thinking and the free
interchange of thought among na
tions. I know of no more congenial
place for such a gathering than
Mexico City."
President Marvin yesterday called
on the Mexican Ambassador to con
sult with him upon certain plans
relating to the congress.
JAPAN DENIES FORTS
ON ISLES OF PACIFIC
tlefends Handling of Mandated
Areas in Annual Report to
League of Nations.
By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, August 26.—Japan de
fends her handling of her mandated
Pacific islands in the annual report
for 1934 submitted to the League of
Nations today.
The report said no Japanese mili
tary or naval forces were stationed
on the islands, given to her to hold
in mandate following the World War,
and that no fortifications or military
or naval bases exist on them.
Answering unofficial charges that
the development of some of the island
ports was disproportionate to the
economic activities of these islands,
the Japanese report said that the
commercial harbors of Saipan, Palau
and Rota needed development. It
ipas held the harbor developments
were not only justified, but hardly
adequate, and that the natives were
sharing in the prosperity of the
inlands.
MAYOR AND WIFE FOOT
WATERWORKS SURVEY
»
Madison, Va., Sum to Be Repaid
if 45 Per Cent Government
Grant Goes Through.
6pecial Dispatch to The Star.
MADISON, Va., August 26.—When
the Town Council of Madison showed
an unwillingness to assume the cost
of a survey for the waterworks sys
tem. the cost was assumed by Mayor
B. M. Bushong and Mrs. Bushong.
If the 45 per cent Government grant
for which they are applying is re
ceived, they will be repaid.
The town of Madison has been in
corporated four years, although It has
been a community for more than a
hundred. Recently it voted to issue
bonds for a waterworks system if a
Government loan could be secured.
Reds
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statutes of that organization to assist
in provoking a world revolution.
Stalin was enthusiastically received
as he entered the hall the day when
Dimitroff made his speech and
greeted as "the chief leader and in
spirer of the world revolution espe
cially in the United States.”
The head of the Russion govern
ment was re-elected on the board of
the Guiding Committee of the Third
Internationale, a board which, among
othr things, passes and approves all
the policies and statements of that
organization.
Present at that meeting were also
Fred Browder of New York, W. Z,
Foster and Gil Green, the head of the
communistic youth movement in the
United States.
They all reported the great strides
communism was making in this coun
try, especially among the colored
population and youngsters in high
schools and college*.
ahuq ioua appiau.se, carutners,
another American delegate, reported
that “today the Communist party has
already become a significant factor
in the struggle of Negroes for their
vital rights. The white and the col
ored workers affiliated to our party
have been working hand in hand as
it has been shown in recent strikes.
We have at present no less than 500
officials active in our organization of
masses.”
At the last session of the meeting
of the Comintern, America was the
chief topic of discussion. It was
revealed that the general assembly of
the Third Internationale, which was
held for the last time in 1928 was
summoned this year after Ambassa
dor Troyanovski returned to Moscow
*and informed his government that
the chances of a normal resumption
of trade relations between the two
countries had to be abandoned. It
is upon this information that the
Executive Committee of the Third
Internationale decided to summon its
members from all over the world to
discuss the possibility of an increased
Communistic movement in foreign
countries and principally in the
United States.
The figures reported by the recog
nized officials of the Third Interna
tionale in the United States were de
clared by the Executive Committee as
satisfactory.
While the membership In the Com
munist party has increased since 1928
by less than 100 per cent, the member
ship In the United States has in
creased since the recognition of the
Soviet government In 1933 by no less
than 250 per cent.
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I What’s What
Behind News
In Capital
Too Much Talk Costs
Politician Important
Appointment,
BY PAUL MALLOV,
HE adhesive tape medal for
talking too much will go this
session to an ex-congressman
who talked himself right out
of one of the most important Jobs
in Washington.
He had been virtually selected to
become new liaison man between the
White House and Congress. The se
lection had been done by Assistant
Interior Secretary West, who now has
the job, and Speaker Byrns. At least
they were recommending him to the
President.
The prospective appointee for
merly had some political trouble
with the two Senators from his
State. It centered around things
said in the heat of a campaign.
West went to see the two Senators.
They were willing to forgive and
forget. In fact, they offered their
indorsements of the appointment.
But when the near-appointee
heard about it, he said he did not
need any such indorsements, that
he was going to work for the Presi
dent.
Indorsements Withdrawn.
Messrs. West and Byrns went in
to the President, carefully leaving
their talkative appointee outside.
Th^y learned that the two Senators
had withdrawn their indorsements,
that the President could not use a
liaison man who failed to get along
with Senators.
rs _
The job of getting House rebels to
accept the holding company compro
mise was performed adroitly. Jack
Gamer, the Vice President, and
Speaker Byrns did it. They did not
waste time arguing the merits of the
measure tn the cloak rooms. They
talked political turkey. What they
said substantially was this:
-If this bill fails, 134 House
Democrats and many Senators will
go back home to defend their ac
tions. To defend themselves they
will have to criticize the Presi
dent’s stand. This will mean a
split party. Furthermore, if the
issue goes into the next campaign.
President Roosevelt will be put in
the position of criticizing his
wheelhorses in Congress."
During the fight the President’s
leaders kept threatening to carry the
issue into the next campaign, but the
truth is this is what they planned to
avoid at all costs.
Two prominent business men who
do not want their names used have
the somewhat novel idea that the
country is entering an era of credit
inflation similar to that which pre
ceded the 1929 stock crash.
One is a former intimate of Her
bert Hoover, now holding an important
banking position. He says the current
era will not last more than a year.
The other, a wealthy member of Con
gress. who foretold the 1929 crash,
thinks it will last until 1937.
A prominent Republican here wrrote
a letter to Mr. Hoover some weeks
ago, suggesting that Mr. Hoover had
permitted himself to be put in the
wTong category.
What he meant was that a pic
ture had been drawn in the public
mind of Mr. Hoover and the G. O.
P. lacking sympathy for human
misery. The writer of the letter
asked Mr. Hoover for data to show
what the Hoover administration
did to alleviate suffering in its
closing days.
In reply, Mr. Hoover sent long rec
ords and data in support of this theory.
The letter writer is now looking for
an outstanding Republican spokesman
to present them.
Note—Volunteer outstanding spokes
men will please apply to C. Bascom
Slemp, formerly secretary to Presi
dent Coolidge.
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The 1936 presidential campaign
really opened last Wednesday night,
instead of Saturday night, as adver
tised. On Wednesday the President
addressed the people of Sainte Gene
vieve. Mo„ by telephone, commemo
rating their bicentennial celebration.
When Presidents start making spe
cial long-distance addresses to towns
the size of Sainte Genevieve, baby
kissing time cannot be far away.
Pens in Demand.
There was a heavy demand for
pens with which the President signed
the bank bill. About six interested
parties put in applications, including
Senator Glass. As the President
handed a pen to Glass, one of the as
sembled legislators whsipered to an
other, "Roosevelt should have given
him an eraser instead.”
The Virginian is supposed to
have worn out six erasers rubbing
out the original Eccles bill pro
visions. Incidentally. Glass does
not believe there is enough of the
bill left for Eccles “to light a ciga
rette with."
Southern Senators were wild about
the new cotton loan plan, because
they had been promised privately tHat
the 12-cent loan would be continued.
They thought the A. A. A. crowd let
them down.
The Vuild-up for Gov. Landon of
Kansas is proceeding without en
couragement from him. The two
largest weekly magazines and a large
monthly have lately sent men to write
him up. They will soon be out with
stories about "the Coolidge of Kansas.”
Mr. Roosevelt has tut-tutted con
gressional hesitancies about the Con
stitution. Consequently, three Con
gressmen nearly fainted the other
day when he told them the original
Pittman neutrality legislation would
be an unconstitutional interference
with hi right to conduct foreign re
lations.
(Copyrish^. 1935.)
Buys $10 for $1.90.
SPOKANE. Wash., August 26 iff).—
What price $;0 bills? M. J. Higley
bought one at an auction for $1.90,
with two gold watches thrown in. The
valuables were in a sealed envelope
among other unclaimed personal be
longings auctioned off by the coro
ner’s office. . I
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ROOSEVELT TALK
“GOOD POLITICS”
Foes Lack Chance to Refute
President, Observer
Says.
BV DAVID LAWRENCE.
Judged purely by the standards ol
political effectiveness, President Roose
velt’s radio speech of last Saturday
night, described by the White House
itself as ’’non-political,” was the most
effective political speech Mr. Roose
velt has delivered since the campaign
of 1932.
Taking a leaf out of the book of ex
perience of Woodrow Wilson, who used
to say that he liked to deliver speeches
of "implicit” politics, Mr. Roosevelt
did not mention party achievements,
but dealt wholly with basic ideas that
are nevertheless the central thought
of the New Deal.
To the masses who listened in, Mr.
Roosevelt appeared as a sincere cham
pion of human rights, anxious not to
tear down, but to build up. ready to
preserve American Institutions, calling
for changes in rules and not funda
mental principles, and revealing him
self as the leader of the underprivi
leged versus the privileged.
This correspondent could not help
feeling as he listened that nowhere in
the Republican ranks has appeared as
yet anybody who can match Mr.
Roosevelt's manner or style on the
radio and that, unless some one equally
skilled and aggressive appears, we shall
find the radio the biggest vote-getter
for the President's re-election that we
have known in modern politics.
Fallacies Get By.
There were in the speech a number
of fallacies—indeed, a number of in- |
consistencies and contradictions. But
they got by the radio audience last
Saturday, just as they will get by fu
ture radio audiences, because nobody
speaks immediately after Mr. Roose
velt on the same national hook-up to
point ‘out those flaws and to carry on
the debate as it should be carried on
so that the American people can hear
' both sides.
The radio is. of course, indirectly
in the hands of the administration
in power and the President, who
controls the Federal Communications
Commission, can utilize to political
advantage the prevailing system of
granting licenses according to "public
Interest, convenience and necessity."
By this device stations or broadcast
ing companies which dare to permit
critical speeches immediately after
the President speaks can be harassed
and intimidated.
There will, of course, be radio ad
dresses replying to Mr. Roosevelt's
speeches 24 hours or more after he
delivers them, but not to the same
audience or through the same number
of stations. It Is like having a joint
debate and letting one speaker have
the floor entirely and then telling the
other speaker to put his remarks in
writing and mail them for future
reference after the crowd goes home.
Answer to President.
It might be asked here: What
were some of the points in the Presi
dent's speech that would have been
answered had there been an oppor
tunity to tell the self-same radio
audience the other side of the so
called non-political questions being
discussed?
Well, for one thing, the following
paragraph in the President's address
I caused dismay among those who have
watched close at hand the course
of the New Deal for the last two
years:
JU&b nS inc cvuiuuuii ui cvuuvuut i
and social life has shown the need
for new methods and practices, so
has the new political life developed
the need for new political practices
and methods. Government now de
mands the best-trained brains of every
business and profession. Government
today requires higher and higher
standards of those who would serve
it. It must bring to its service greater :
and greater competence. The con
ditions of public work must be im
proved and protected. Mere party
membership and loyalty can no longer
be the exclusive test. We must be
loyal, not merely to persons or parties,
but to the higher conceptions of abil
ity and devotion that modern govern
ment requires."
How many of the radio audience
who heard the President make that
statement knew of the intrigues of the
Democratic party politicians in get
ting their friends appointed? How
many thought of the fact that in the
President’s own cabinet sits as Post
master General the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee? How
many thought of the tragic fate of
the so-called Business Advisory Coun
cil, known as the Roper Council,
whose report* have been pigeonholed
by the President himself repeatedly,
though they came from the "best
trained brains of every business and
profession"?
How many people also thought of
the fact that, on the very day Mr.
Roosevelt was making his speech he
was appointing the Democratic na
tional committeeman from Arkansas
to sit as one of three on the Social
Security Board? And now many were
thinking of the fact that, notwith
standing the President’s professions
of Government fairness and helpful
ness, Mr. Roosevelt on Saturday last
was sending to the Senate the nomi
nation of a public ownership advocate
to be a member of the all-poweriui
Securities and Exchange Commission
which is to “regulate” holding com
panies in the utility field?
Mr. itOOSeVCIL 5 cuiiucpwuii Ui jpua/
lie service, when he isn't obeying the
Parley command to appoint Demo
crats of known party service, is to
appoint to Government commissions
and to key positions only tno6e per
sons whose preconceived notions of
social and economic philosophy are
certain to be sympathetic with his
battle for state socialism.
Thus Government becomes a class
partisan or an economic partisan and
not the fair, disinterested, mediating
influence it should be in reconciling
conflicting interests.
Then there was the comment by
the President in his speech that
“rules are not necessarily sacred—
principles are.” Most people listen
ing in will think that’s a fair enough
statement. Rules, to be sure, are
merely guides to methods to be used
in the application of a set of princi
ples, but the Constitution of the
United States happens to be a set of
principles. The codes of ethics in
public life in making pledges in a
party platform and keeping them are
principles.
Debate Suggested.
How many who listened in would
say, on reflection, that the President’s
attitude toward the Interpretation of
principles made by a unanimous opin
ion of the Eupreme Court of the
United States on May 27 was, on his
part, a “sacred regard” for the “prin
ciples" embodied in the Constitution
of the United States? This la what
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UnityNeeded inCrime Fight
Hoover Says Fullest Co-operation of
Enforcement Officers Is Necessary.
Editors note: This is the first in a series of seven articles on crime
end its control, written by the foremost authorities on the cause and
combating of crime, in co-operation with the National Committee on
Public Education for Crime Control.
BY J. EDGAR HOOVER,
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation. United Btatea Department of Justice.
(Copyright. 1935, by N.A.N.A.)
THE campaign against crime depends as much upon the county sheriff as
upon the police of the largest city; each must be alert, eager and de
termined to help the other. Adequate detection and sure apprehension
plus swift, certain and just punishment are the time-proved deterrents
of crime. Certainly it is a tribute to our law enforcement bodies everywhere
that they accomplish what they do in spite of the tremendous handicaps which
are laid upon tnem. in tne majority,
they are grossly underpaid, leaving
them open to temptation. Yet, In the
main, your average law enforcement
officer rarely yields. Further, he is
courageous unto death, and no man
can give more.
Too frequently, however, the power
ful hand of some town, county or State
politician stays the enforcing arm of
the law and a criminal, because of his
political influence, is allowed to escape.
No greater aid to police efficiency
could be given than the complete di
vorcement of politics from law enforce
ment. Not until this separation Is ac
complished will lawbreakers be forced
to obey our statutes.
Mere Transitory Phase*.
Until political pressure Is doomed
and until there arrives a continual
slate of co-operation between all arms
of law enforcement, we must regard
the eradication of gangs like those of
Dillinger, Floyd, Bailey and others as !
transitory phases of a condition which
can change overnight.
Consider the psychology of the crim
inal. He rules by fear, and fear is
the only weapon which can rule him
—fear of the certainty of arrest and
punishment. The countries which
speedily find, arrest and adequately
punish their criminals have few major
problems. The fact that the con
viction record of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation for the last year was
94 per cent Is positive proof that the
criminal can be speedily fouiro, ar
rested and convicted.
It is my hope that always the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation of the
United States Department of Justice
may serve as a willing and eager aide
to the goal which all law enforcement
bodies seek, the welding of a co-op
erative machine which stretches from
coast to coast, every part functioning
perfectly against the common antag- |
onist. We already have the ground- ]
work for the best and only kind of
national police which America will
tolerate—local officers with a knowl- j
edge of the local conditions and the
local criminals. These men. with the
support of the Federal Government,
are all that is needed, as far as per
sonnel goes. But they must be freed
of their shackles.
A practical example of the co-op
J. EDGAR HOOVER._
eration and co-ordination of law en
iorcement activities is the Identifica
tion Division of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, where are kept on
file more than 4,697,296 fingerprints
of criminals. There are 8.285 law en
forcement agencies In this and for
eign countries contributing to this
file and continuously making recourse
to it for identifications of criminals.
The percentage of successful identifi
cations is 50.3 per cent. Three thou
sand times a day a fingerprint comes
to the Identification Division from
some law enforcement agency.
The modern criminal is very fre
quently an educated renegade with
out principle, but possessing sufficient
shrewd cunning to adapt to his ne
farious ventures modern devices. The
scientific facilities of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation are ever at the
disposal of the Nation's peace officers,
who, in many communities, are with
out adequate means to combat the
criminal forces.
Gratifying experience has shown
that, where the local police and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation join
forces, the criminal element Is routed
end brought to justice.
Incendiary
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YOUTH CONFESSES SETTING
17 FIRES.
WARREN CRAMER,
17 years old, of Oakland, Calif.,
pictured in the Denver, Colo.. City
Hall as he told police he had set
17 incendiary blazes, which ter
rorized Denver.
•—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
JAPANESE INSIST
ON EQUAL NAVIES
Note Given London Demands
Principle as Condition of
Conference.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. August 26 —A Japanese
note delivered to the foreign office to
day insisted upon advance recognition
of naval equality with Great Britain
and the United States as a condition
to the holding of a preliminary naval
conference here In October.
The note, delivered by Charge d'Af
faires Fugii, made it clear Japan
would not participate in the four
power meeting unless Japanese pro
posals for a common upper limit of
global tonnage as a general limita
tion of fleets as a whole formed the
basis of any new naval agreement.
Japan again outlined demands pre
sented at the three-power naval con
versation held here last year. These
demands were; Equality with the other
two powers; limitation or regulation
of the size of the fleets by a common
upper limit of tonnage, commonly
called the global tonnage plan; the
right of each power under such limi
tation to build any number of the
size and type of ships it desired with
in the general blanket tonnage limit
for the fleet; elimination of the ratio
principle of limitation; recognition by
all powers of the right of each nation
to build whatever ships might be
needed exclusively for defensive needs;
elimination of battleships, large cruis
ers sind aircraft carriers,
0
ought to be debated. Senator Borah
could do it.
"Pacts are relentless,” said the
President In his speech. And so they
are when the means of communica
tion to transmit those facts are open
to all classes of people and all parties
and all groups on an even and fair
basis. When they are not, democracy
disappears and government by cir
cumvention, by subterfuge and by
misrepresentation appears in its place
as the certain precursor*of the dicta
torships set up in Europe through
government control of the radio and
the press.
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1] DM FIRES
Police Claim California Boy
Has Admitted Thrill
Blazes.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER. August 26.—A youth of
17 was said today by police to have
admitted he is the arsonist who set
a series of fires which struck terror in
the city’s business district.
“Sure I set 17 of the fires, and be
sides that I’m wanted all over the
country." Detective Sergt. Walter T.
Fox quoted the youth as saying.
Dave Eastes. a detective, said the
youth identified himself as Warren
Cramer, son of Dr. Harry R. Cramer,
Oakland, Calif.
"I got a thrill out of it,” Fox said
the boy told him. "It was fun, espe
cially last night, when I started a fire
In police headquarters.’’
Disavows Three Biases.
“I set all the fires except those at
the Annunciation School, the Railway
Exchange Building and the Crescent
Flour Mill,” officers revealed the boy
declared.
“I started three fires in doctors’
^offices that were never reported,” he
'told the officers. "I didn’t want to
hurt any one—that is why I set those
kind of fires. I could have started
some good ones if I had wanted to."
The boy said he was wanted in
Colorado Springs and several other
Western towns for arson, grand
larceny and petty thievery.
He explained his rapid movements
about the city by saying he stole a
bicycle and used it to jump from one
spot to another.
Buildings Guarded.
Police maintained their guard over
churches and other buildings, how
ever, while they checked the youth's
statements.
Besides the blazes set in three
Catholic Churches, flames were found
in office buildings, stores and the City
Hall. All of the fires were extin
guished without heavy loss, although
a costly oil painting was slightly dam
aged in one of the church fires and
works of art were threatened at the
City Hall library. After the fire
at the police station last night the
youth was dragged from a night club
telephone booth.
DERBY FLYERS OFF AGAIN
Miss Hamilton First Out of Tuc
son on Way to Cleveland.
TUCSON, Arts., August 28 OP).—
Miss Cecile Hamilton of Santa
Monica, Calif., was first off the field
today as the Coast-to-Cleveland air
derby began its second day.
The five other participants were ex
pected to follow her soon.
Leland Hayward of Hollywood led
the derbyists into Tucson yesterday,
the judges awarding him 183 points in
precision flying.
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j Congress.
in Brief
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By the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate. >
Meets at noon, Eastern standard
time, t<yconsider deadlock on cotton
wheat loans. v
House.
Meets at noon to consider deadlock
on cotton-wheat loans.
Driver Surrenders to Police.
Says He “Couldn’t Stop
in Time.’'
By the Associated P*ess.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa., August 26 —
Exhausted after wandering through
out the night, Peter Callahan, 40,
surrendered to police today and told
them he was the driver of an auto
mobile which plunged into the Mo
nongahela River, drowning four per
sons.
Callahan said he got on the wrong
road and was going too fast to stop
the car from falling into the river
from a ferry landing.
Mrs. Joseph Kolar, 41; her son
Joseph Kolar, Jr., 19, and two daugh
ters, Catherine, 10, and Elizabeth, 8,
were drowned.
The accident occurred last night
while the family was returning with
Callahan from a visit at the nearby
mining town of Denbo.
This morning Callahan walked into
the office of a magistrate. He ex
plained he was unfamiliar with the
roads and took the wrong one.
"We were going between 30 and 40
miles an hour," he said. "None of us
saw the river ahead until it w4s too
late. Then the boy yelled, "rhere's the
river.’ I tried to stop, but we went
over.’’
Callahan managed to free himself
from the submerged car and swam
ashore.
HUNT FOR SLAYER
IN FAIRFAX SLOWS
Sheriff Awaits Clue to Man Who
Killed Recluse With
Stone.
By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
PALLS CHURCH, Va , August 26 —
Absence of clues In the rock slay
ing of Truman Brush, 76-year-old
recluse, near here, has compelled Fair
fax County authorities to adopt a
policy of watchful waiting in the hope
that the murderer, believed to be a
local man and one known by Brush,
will unguardedly drop some hint which
will lead to his apprehension.
Sheriff E. P. Kirby, who is heading
the search for the man who waylaid
the recluse on a pathway through the
woods of his farm Friday and crushed
his head with a large stone, spent
yesterday interviewing residents of
nearby farms and renewing his search
for cluses at the old homestead where
Brush was thought to have concealed
a large sum of money.
Failing to find anything of value,
Kirby said today that he will await
developments.
Services were held yesterday for Mr.
Brush. He was buried in Oakwood
Cemetery in Falls Church. His two
only relatives. Mayor L. P. Daniel of
Falk Church and Mrs. Jeanette Wil
liams of Washington, and almost 100
friends attended the rites.
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INSURANCE COMPANY
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Gilbert Pence Heads Shenandoah
Farmers’ Meeting in 67th
Annual Session.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW MARKET, Va , August 26 -
Officers elected at the annual meet
ing of the Shennandoah Farmers' Mu
tual Fire Insurance Co., meeting for
the sixty-seventh year, were an
nounced today.
Gilbert Pence of Woodstock was
elected president for the second term.
E. L. Campbell was elected secretary
treasurer. The following directors
were elected from all sections of the
county: W. L. Green, S. E. Boyer,
W. C. Wisman. E M. Funk. C. S.
Ketlin, T. W. Allen, S. B. Hepner,
S. B. Miley, J. R. Beatty, S. A. Wil
kins, J. Frank Good. E. A. Neff, R. S.
Wright, Nehemiah Kelly.
According to Mr. Pence the rate of
assessment for the company has not
been increased during the years of
depression. The company has 3,800
policyholders, $10,000,000 worth of
insurance and a cash surplus of
around $31,000.
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RED MEN WILL OPEN
TRI-STATE SESSIONS
Convention at Ocean City August
30 Represents Maryland,
Virginia, Delaware.
By tha Associated Press.
OCEAN CITY, Md„ August 26.—
More than a score of tribes from
Maryland, Virginia and Delaware,
comprising about 800 members,- are
expected to attend the first tri-State
convention of the Order of Red Men
here August 30.
Nassawango "rtibe. No. 110, of Snow'
Hill, assisted by tribes at Berlin and
Girdletree, will be hosts to the visit
ing delegates at the convention.
The first annual banquet, Friday
night, will be addressed by Attorney
General Erbert R. O'Conor. Mayor
Thomas Elliott of Ocean City and
others: Thomas F. Johnson, member
of the Snow Hill Tribe, will be toast
master.
Couaens’ Temperature Normal.
ROCHESTER. Minn., August 26 <£>).
—Senator Couse ns. Republican, of
Michigan, 111 in a hospital here, had
a "very good day,” his physician said
last night The Senator's temperature
has returned to normal. He was
operated on last week for removal of
a kidney.
Speaks in Forum
SENATOR JOSEPH F. GUFFEY.
—
GUFFEY TO TALK
Co-Author of Disputed Coal
Measure Will Explain
Law.
Senator Joseph F Guffey of Penn
sylvania will discuss the coal bill,
designed to regulate the bituminous
coal industry- in the National Radio
Forum. Thursday, at 10:30 pm.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over the network of the
National Broadcasting Co.
Senator Guffey Is one of the co
author's of this measure, which sets
up a commission to deal with the
soft coal industry and authorizes
the adoption of a "code" for the in
dustry. It has been called a “little
N. R. A.’’ Congress put the bill
through after President Roosevelt
had strongly urged its passage, even
though the members of Congress
mignt nave reasons Die oouots oi its
constitutionality. The measure, it is
expected, will be tested in the courts.
The neutrality resolution recently
adopted by Congress, placing an em
bargo for six months on the ship
ment of arms and munitions to bellig
erent foreign nations, will be dis
cussed by Senator Gerald P Nye
of North Dakota, in the National
Radio Forum Thursday. September 5,
at 10:30 p.m.. Eastern standard time.
Senator Nye is the chairman of
the Senate Committee which made
an investigation of the munitions
business and has sought to have
passed legislation to “take the profit
out of war." He led the fight in the
Senate, which forced the recent adop
tion of the neutrality resolution.
MUNICIPAL POWER
SALE HELD INVALID
Ickes Says San Francisco Vio
lates Act by Selling to
Company.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes ruled today that
the city of San Francisco was violat
ing the Raker act by selling power
from the Hetch-Hetchy dam to the
Pacific Gas & Light Co.
Declaring he came to this conclu
sion “with reluctance." IcKes said
there were two ways for the city to
finance building its own distribution
system—either by holding a referen
dum to sponsor a general bond issue,
or by amending its charter to permit
issuance of bonds secured solely by
the distribution system.
The case had been before the Inte
rior Department in one iorm or an
other for the last 12 years. Several
months ago. while issuing a permit to
raise the height of the dam in Voeem
ite National Park. Ickes summoned
the city to show that it was not vio
lating the Raker act.
That law, under which San Fran
cisco originally obtained authority lor
the Hetch-Hetchy project, provided
that the city must distribute tne cur
rent itseii.
WATER PLANT BLAST
KILLS 2, HURTS 12
Acetylene Torch. Used to Clean
Pipes 35 Feet Underground,
Blamed.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 26—Two men
were reported killed and 12 o' lers seri
ously Injured today in a terrific ex
plosion on the new William E. Dever
water supply crib, under construction
in Lake Michigan, 3!jj miles off Navy
Pier.
Coast Guardsmen who hurried to
the scene reported that the blast had
thrown many of the workers Into the
lake. Capt. John Anderson, who led
several Coast Guard boats to the scene,
removed four of the injured to shore,
where fire department ambulances
waited to take them to hospitals.
One of the injured men said work
ers were cleaning out water pipes with
an acetylene torch 35 feet below the
surface when the explosion occurred.
Early it was believed that escaping
gas from the acetylene torch accumu
lated and then ignited.
Fellow workers expressed fear for
the lives of at least three men who
were working in the pit at th« time of
the blast.
Natives Again Victims of Fish
Deadly Only in Certain Waters
By tha Associated Press.
PAPEETE, Tahiti, August 26—An
old mystery of the islands—fish that
are poisonous when caught in certain
localities—has risen to strike new vic
tims among the natives here.
There have been a number of re
cent deaths; just how many died prob
ably never will be determined.
The haamea is the chief trouble
maker. Perfectly safe when caught
along most shores, and a delicious
morsel no matter where taken, the
haamea in its poisonous states causes
a violent inflammation and degenera
tion of the kidneys which ends in
death.
There has been no scientific re
search into this strange quality- , To
the eye and taste there appears no
difference between safe and poisonous
fish.
Throughout the islands there are
other species of fish that possess this
peculiarity. Perfectly wholesome when
found in some quarters, they are dead
ly if caught in the waters of a neigh
boring isle.
The natives usually know by expe
rience the safe and dangerous rones,
but even they make mistakes, as the
recent death;, all on the Island of
Huahine, show.
There are many varieties of fish
safe in all seasons and places, but the
dangerous kinds are many and in a
time of poor fishing there are natives
who will take a chance.
Gil FUND HELD
Commander Says He Did
Not Know Mrs. Worrell, Who
Urged Appropriation.
John M_ Kline, sr.. district depart
ment commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, said today he "did
not know” Mrs. Margaret Hopkins
Worrell, whose effort* obtained a
$16,000 appropriation by Congress for
a national encampment of that or
ganization here in 1936
Mrs. Karl Pomeroy McElroy, honor
ary member of the District’s only
chapter, Kit Carson Post. No. 2, de
clared ‘ Mrs. Worrell had no authority
to seek this appropriation.” The post
meets at Mrs. McElroy's home, 1412
Sixteenth street.
’’Mrs. Worrell acted entirely on her
own authority in seeking the con
gressional appropriation and did not
represent the department," Mr. Kline
declared.
Plight of Commissioners.
Mrs. McElroy, whose interest in
G A. R. activities has made her a
national figure in these circles, point
end to the plight of the District Com
missioner*.
’’The Commissioners issued an in
vitation to have the convention here
in 1936 after the congressional action
The District post has no money for
this, neither do the several local allied
auxiliaries. The appropriation is
strictly for police protection, roping
off streets and protection of property.
This the State chapter* do not under
stand. If it i* decided to hold the
convention here the Commissioners
will have a real problem on their
hands.”
She explained such an invitation
automatically included one to the
various auxiliaries, which would bring
between 40,000 and 50.000 persons
here.
“The State members do not under
stand what this appropriation is for.
They think it can be used for enter
tainment. If they come here they will
find nothing. In State conventions
the State, city and all State organi
zations contribute for the convention
entertainments. We have no money
here and they misunderstand the con
gressional appropriation," Mrs. Me.
Elroy declared.
17 Veterans Here.
Actually there are but 17 Union
Civil War veterans here that are ac
tive members of the G. A R post.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Worrell made pub
lic letters to her from Allred S. Sta
cey, commander in chief of the G. A.
R . and Col. R. C. Martin, past na
tional commander, congratulating her
and associates on passage of the ap
propriation.
Mrs. Worrell Is past national Junior
vice president, Ladies of the G. A R ;
past president Department of the Po
tomac, Ladies of the G. A. R : past
president William H Beck Circle, past
national legislative chairman. Ladies
of the G A R.. and national patriotic
instructor. Betsy Ross Club.
SIGMA NU MEMORIAL
DEDICATION IS HELD
Organization 66 Years Ago Re
called at Lexington. Va.,
President Yates Speaking.
By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON. Va„ August 26 —
Members of Sigma Nu Fraternity
dedicated a limestone and bronze me
morial here yesterday at the spot on
the Virginia Military Institute campus
where the organization was formed
66 years ago.
Three cadets, meeting in secret In
the shadow of a rock which formerly
stood on the institute grounds, started
the fraternity, which now has 96 col
legiate chapters in 46 States. The
memorial was erected to honor those
three—James Frank Hopkins. Green
field Quarles, both of Arkansas, and
James Mclleaine Riley of Missouri.
The Sigma Nus who came here yes
terday are attending the convention
of their fraternity at White Sulphur
Springs. In addition to several hun
dred fraternity members, some 350
spectators watched the dedication and
listened to the addresses.
Frank L. Yates. Washington. D. C,
national president of the order, made
the principal address.
Gen. J. A. Lejeune. commandant of
cadets at the institute, accepted the
marker.
MINE IS DYNAMITED;
UNION WAR BLAMED
Machinery Wrecked in $100,000
Explosion—Coil of Wire
Is Clue.
By the Associated Press.
BENTON, 111., August 76.— A dyna
mite blast, attributed by authorities
to the State's inter-mine union war
fare, destroyed the engine room of
the Valier Coal Co. mine early today.
Damages were estimated at $100,000.
Boilers, hoisting machinery and
other apparatus were wrecked by the
explosion, which leveled a one-story
brick building. No one was injured.
Deputy sheriffs discovered a long
coil of wire near the building, which
they said had apparently been used
by the dynamiters in setting off the
blast from a distance.
This same technique was used re
peatedly late last year in a series of
coal train explosions, dynamite being
placed by the tracks and exploded
from a distance with a blasting ma
chine as the train passed.
FARMER ILL, NEIGHBORS
PICNIC AND PLOW LAND
Mi»ourl Folk Combine Work and
Pleasure to Advantage of
All Concerned.
By the Associated Press.
PARKVILLE, Mo. August 26.—
Lester Grisham's wheat land was
plowed Saturday—a tremendously im
portant fact to Grisham and a heart
warming thought to 100 of his neigh
bors, who did the work and called
it a picnic.
Grisham, ill, was forbidden to do
any work the rest of the year. His
55 acres of wheat land had to be
plowed qr remain a stubble patch
next season.
His neighbors took a day off from
their own plowing, brought fried
chicken, cake and Ice cream, plowed
^risham's field and had a picnic.