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LOCAL POLITICIANS
MED IN RELIEF
Joint Federal and State
Effort Suggested as Cure
for System.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Politics has become a thorn in the
side of the relief administration, but
the responsibility for the abuse* that
have grown up is put squarely on the
shoulders of over-zealous, If not un
scrupulous local politicians.
The cry being raised by Republicans
that relief be turned back to the States
is answered by Harry Hopkins with
the statement that this would merely
intensify political Influence. And it
requires no stretch of the imagination
to realize that Hopkins is right on
that point, if State relief were adminis
tered in the same way that Federal
relief is handled.
Hopkins insists he will do every
thing he can to eliminate politics
from relief and judging by his record
in fighting Democratic as well as
Republican misdeeds in various States,
he can be depended upon to follow
out conscientiously the program of
non-partisanship, which he has out
lined.
Unbeatable System.
But Hopkins was beaten before he
started. It is the political system
which Hopkins is up against and the
moment the President agreed to let
the members of the United States
Senate help in the naming of State
administrators under the W. P. A.—
they all have to be confirmed by the
Senate when nominated—that day re
lief went headlong into politics and
has been there ever since.
Hopkins has said publicly that he
believes persons who are friendly
to the New Deal policies should be
appointed instead of those who are
opponents. This, however, is a poli
tical concept. As a matter of fact, the
relief job should have been handled
by persons who are not particularly
concerned about the policies of the
Federal administration as such, but
who are eflicient in performing the
tasks allotted to them.
Local oosses crown in.
Throughout the United States re
lief is being administered by organi
zations set up by Washington and with
key men in there who are directly, or
Indirectly related to the political or
ganizations of the Senators who are
instrumental In naming them. This
encourages the local political bosses
to assert themselves and to claim
political influence, which they may not
really possess.
The alternative of the present sys
tem is not State administration, but
a combination of Federal and State
effort. The Federal Government, by
its grant of funds was in a position
to insist upon standards. It could
have required the appointment by the
„ Governors of the States of persons who
: had a high standing in the community
. and who were known as public spirited
l citizens, unreachable by political cur
■ rents. Such a commission in every
• State of the Union would have pre
3 vented the development of political
“ machines in the relief organizations
and unless a Governor appointed a
high grade commission, the Federal
Government could have balked at
granting aid.
System Increases Bills.
Public opinion in each State then
• Would have held each Governor re
• sponsible and similarly each mayor
; of every city. As it Is today, the local
administrators are under pressure for
> increases in funds for W. P. A. proj
ects. The local interests that are
selfishly interested in how W. P. A.
, funds are spent exercises influence
through political channels and since
the key men are themselves part
of the political system, the Federal
Government is loaded with more and
more expense.
Relief costs are going up. This
Is defended on the ground that the
unemployed people have never really
been given adequate relief. This may
be true, but it is also apparent that
efforts to increase the total number
in Jobs in private industry have been
woefully inadequate. The statistics
show that there are still about 10,000,
000 persons unemployed. The W. P.
A.'s job is relief and not economic
readjustment. Why has re-employ
ment been retarded? What poli
cies of the New Deal have been
an impediment to increased em
ployment? What would happen
if some of the unnecessary re
strictions on industrial operations
were removed? These are questions
which are going to be asked more
and more as relief itself becomes en
tangled in politics and higher and
higher expense. For it is insisted on
every side that W. P. A. is temporary
and that direct relief is out of the
question, and that permanent relief
must not be assumed as invitable. An
attack on the causes of continued un
employment is really the key to the
relief problem.
(Copyright, 1936.)
MAHAN REPORTED SEEN
IN PENNSYLVANIA TOWN
Jolice Chief of Warren Says Man
Resembling Kidnaping Fugi
tive Bought Hair Dye.
By the Associated Press.
WARREN, Pa, April 18.—Police
Chief George Haehn said last night
a man answering the description of
William Mahan, sought for the kid
naping of George Weyerhauser in
Tacoma, Wash., two years ago, pur
chased hair dye of the type known
to be used by Mahan in a Warren
drug store.
Haehn said a drug clerk told him
the customer resembled a photograph
of ' Mahan on circulars distributed
by the Department of Justice.
The police chief ordered all of
his men into a search of the immed
iate vicinity and notified officers in
all surrounding towns to watch for
the suspect,
MARYLAND MILITIA
TO GET 8 NEW PLANES
Observation Craft Now Being
Built—Equipped for Blind
Flying.
Bythe Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 18.—Col. Wil
liam D. Tipton, 29th Division air offi
cer, said the Maryland National Guard
would get eight new observation planes
within the next few months.
Col. Tipton said the planes have
14-cyllnder, 700-horsepower motors
and are equipped with the latest radio
apparatus and devices for flying blind.
The planes are being built at the
Douglas plant, Santa Monica, Calif.
They will replace eight outmoded
planes.
I
What’s What
Behind News
in
Nash-Kelly Machine
Breakdown Seen
by Party Moguls.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE Chicago shock has left the
top Democratic moguls with a
suspicion that the Kelly-Nash
machine may fioon be missing
on all cylinders. It seems they know
far more about that than has been
advertised.
For instance, there is one Tom
Courtney on whom they have their
eye. Mr. Courtney is the State's
attorney in Chicago, a lamb who
was marked for slaughter by the
machine of which he was a mem
ber.
The boys around headquarters have
heard that Mr. Courtney got wind of
a meeting some time back at which
the Nash-Kelly slate was picked. Al
though he was not Invited, he sent
word over to the general effect that
he understood the meeting was going
on and wished it well, or at least
something which rhymes with well.
Of course, an ordinary State’s attor
ney generally has enough on most of
his own machine crowd to hang them.
But Mr. Courtney hanged no one, at
least not openly. Officially he “re
mained out’’ of the primary fight,
which is the polite way of saying he
did a little undercover work for Gov.
Homer.
The big shots are saying that if the
Nash-Kelly machine goes it will be
supplanted by “a half dozen smart
Irishmen who saw the wind and rode
with it.” Among those present, it is
said, will be Mr. Courtney and Gov.
Horner.
Horner Was Forgotten.
The New Dealers may be whistling
In the dark, but they assert that the
upset will not be disastrous for them
in November. They say they kept out
of the situation, but perhaps not
enough out.
All the boys had forgotten about
Gov. Horner since December. When
President Roosevelt spoke there then
in the Stockyards, Messrs. Kelly and
Nash pushed Horner out in left field
throughout the President’s stay.
They say the final blow which hurt
Messrs. Nash and Kelly was the may
or’s attempt to put Chicago on East
ern standard time. Downstaters do
not want their time tinkered with.
Dead men vote in Congress
under certain conditions. In the
House, a committee can be dis
charged from consideration of a
bill if 218 members sign a petition.
Under a ruling by the late Speaker
Rainey, a member's signature,
which is equivalent to a vote, is
effective after his death.
The Frazier-Lemke Inflation bill pe
tition contains the names of two de
ceased members, the late Wesley
Lloyd of Washington and Charles
Truax.
Only those who know the clublike
atmosphere of Congress will appreci
ate how un-clubby w'as the refusal of
the House to appropriate money for
Senator Black’s legal defense. Such
a thing was unheard of. Rarely ^be
fore have members of Congress failed
to rally to the assistance of a member
against outside attack, even when the
member has been wrong.
V
The explanations for the House vote
are many. But two are enough: (1)
That the $10,000 was to be paid to
Black’s former law partner, which
gave the proposed payment a personal
slant, and (2) If any member’s law
partner is going to get $10,000, a lot
of them prefer that it not be Senator
Black’s.
$300 a Month Anyway.
However, Senator Black’s law part
ner will not waste away even If the
appropriation Is finally blocked. His
payment will be at the rate of $300 a
month, the maximum allowed under
the law for Investigators, counsel, etc.,
for committees.
Note—House members also re
member that Black was lately
merciless in publicly dragging out
the names of Representatives who
had apparently been invited to a
steak dinner, innocent of the fact
that a so-called lobbyist was foot
ing the bill. They were not ac
cused of anything reprehensible
and publication of their names did
not accomplish anything except the
inference that there was.
President Roosevelt has been burn
ing about the massive new govern
mental buildings recently completed
here. They were designed during the
Hoover administration and earlier, in
the era of plenty, and now may ap
pear to be a little too ornamental and
expensive to passing taxpayers and
hungry men.
The first chance Mr. Roosevelt had
to unburden himself was at the Inte
rior Department corner stone laying.
He departed from his prepared speech
to point out that this building was the
only one which could be charged to
him. Later on he dropped a remark
about the building being spare on or
nament, but strong on comfort, In a
way no one misunderstood.
(Copjrlfht, 1036.)
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Agriculture Committee studies cot
ton trade methods.
Commerce Committee considers flood
control measures.
House:
In recess.
Ways and Means Subcommittee con
tinues drafting of new tax bill.
MONDAY.
Senate:
Resumes debate on Mississippi flood
control bill. . i
Judiciary Committee, regular weekly
meeting. <
Bouse:
Will consider consent calendar.
I
COL. FRANK KNOX.
Pictured on arrival at Union
Station today. —A. P. Photo.
knox Hess
3 MAIN ISSUES
Pledge-Breaking, Waste and
State Rights Usurpation
Are Charged.
Indicting the Roosevelt administra
tion for failing to ‘'think through”
the very real problems which face the
Nation, Col. Frank Knox, Chicago
publisher and candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomination, said
here today he would continue his cam
paign on three main issues. They fol
low:
1. Unt rust worthiness of the admin
istration with regard to its platform
pledges and other promises.
2. Profligate and wasteful spending,
with the certainty that heavy taxes
must be enacted to pay the costs.
3. The question of Federal intrusion
and usurpation of rights of State and
local government.
Most vulnerable of administration
activities thus far, he said, is the
Tugwell program of resettlement,
w’hich he termed "sheer waste.” Run
ning it a close second, the Chicagoan
continued, is the whole administration
of relief.
Instances Are Cited.
As a signal instance of the adminis
tration’s failure to "think through”
its problems, Knox cited the social
security act, calling it an "absolutely
unworkable” attempt at solving a
problem which is real concern to the
entire Nation. Another instance
quoted was the pending tax legisla
tion, by which he predicted the real
burden will fall upon those receiving
incomes from dividends rather than
upon the corporations singled out by
the President in making his proposal.
Fresh from his preferential pri
mary contest with Senator Borah of
Idaho in Illinois, the Chicago pub
lisher planned a series of meetings
with Republican chieftains in Wash- I
ington, New' York and other key
points on the Atlantic seaboard
With returns nearly complete, the
Knox supporters at Chicago laid
claim to 55 of the 57 delegates the
State will send to the national con
vention at Cleveland in June.
Vote 468,760 to 396,029.
The latest count shows the Knox
vote to be 468.760 to Borah's 396,029.
Knox carried Cook County (Chicago)
by 110,294 votes, while Borah was
running 37,563 ahead downstate.
Of particular interest to the Demo
crats was the showing made by Presi
dent Roosevelt, unopposed in his
party’s primary in Illinois. Latest
figures show his vote was 464.652
greater than that polled by Borah
and Knox together.
Democratic Chairman James A. Par
ley said in a statement yesterday
that there would be "a tremendous
Roosevelt sweep in November.”
Democratic claims regarding Illinois
wrere disputed by Republican leaders
of that State, who maintained that
the bitter struggle between Gov.
Henry Horner and Dr. Herman N.
Bundesen for the Democratic guber
natorial nomination caused many Re
publicans to get into the fight. To
this, the Democrats’ replied that the
primary voters in the gubernatorial
contest on the Democratic side were
under no obligation to mark a ballot
for President Roosevelt.
Two Missing Districts,
Carl C. Bachmann, chairman of the
Borah-for-President forces in the
Capital, declared it was “very queer”
that official returns from two districts
had not come in.
“The information I have does not
Indicate that there is any good rea
son for the final returns in these dis
tricts (fourteenth and twentieth) not
to be open to the public at the present
moment, and it appears to me that
apparently there is something wrong.”
Arizona was slated to hold its State
Republican convention today. Ned
Creighton, national committeeman,
said supporters of both Knox and
Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas were
campaigning.
GEN. BUTLER IS DENIED
SCHOOL FOR SPEECH
Court Decision Backs Board in
Refusal to Rent Auditorium.
Private Hall Is Hired.
By the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash., April 18.—MaJ.
Oen. Smedley D. Butler, U. S. M. C.,
retired, scheduled to speak here Sat
urday, will deliver his address in a
privately owned hall because the
School Board, backed by Superior
Court, refused use of a school audi
torium.
A writ of mandamus sought by the
State Committee for the Protection
>f Fundamental Americanism to
orce the board to allow use of the
iuditorium was denied. Judge Fred
3. Remann held the law gives school
wards reasonable discretion as to
centals of buildings.
I
SENATE CONDEMNS
METHOOSOF TIL
Ritter’s Impeachment Leads
to Criticism of Historic
Procedure.
By the Associated Fress.
Senatorial criticism of the constitu
tional impeachment procedure reached
a new high today after the long and
tedious trial of Judge Halsted L. Ritter
of Florida, but many Senators forecast
nothing would come of it.
After devoting almost two weeks to
Ritter's trial, the Senate convicted him
of misconduct yesterday, 56 to 28, and
removed him from office.
The historic method of trying judges
and other high officials before the full
Senate was almost universally con
demned by the tired Senators. Several
proposals for simplifying the proce
dure were under discussion. But there
was little agreement about what could
or should be done.
Consider! Court of Judges.
Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Cali
fornia considered a plan to create a
court of judges to try Judicial officer!
of charges of misconduct on the
bench, but the idea met with little
favor among some of the Senate's vet
eran lawyer members.
Most of the other proposals revolved
about the idea of setting up a com
mittee to hear the testimony and re
port to the Senate. But most Senators
held this would require the consent of
the defendant. Such a procedure al
ready is permitted under the Senate
rules, but was ignored in the Ritter
case.
McAdoo would authorize creation of
a court of Circuit Court Judges to try
cuuvu Bgnuwv mitt iui x tuuai juugcg,
He would then permit appeal to the
Supreme Court. He said Congress had
created the Inferior courts and, there
fore, could establish procedure for re
moving judges.
Chairman Ashurst of the Judiciary
Committee and Senator Norris, Repub
lican, of Nebraska, former chairman,
both held the McAdoo plan uncon
stitutional.
Sees Amendment Necessary.
“Everybody admits the present
method should be improved,” Norris
said, “because it is cumbersome and
unsatisfactory. But I don’t think
there is any way to do it without
amending the Constitution.”
Ashurst took the view it would be
improper to allow "judges to impeach
judges” even if the McAdoo plan were
constitutional.
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah,
suggested that Congress might pass a
law permitting committees to receive
the testimony. That procedure is only
authorized now' by Senate rule. But
he agreed it could not be used, even
then, without the consent of the judge
on trial.
The vote of guilty in the Ritter case,
futilely contested by Senator Austin.
Republican, of Vermont, come on the
last of seven rapid fire ballots and
was exactly the two-thirds majority
required by the Constitution for con
viction. No appeal is possible.
Acquitted on Six Ballots.
Six previous roll calls had acquit
ted the 65-year-old jurist of as many
specific charges. The last impeach
ment count combined all the others
and added the accusation that Rlt- j
ter. by the actions complained of,
had brought his court "into scandal
and disrepute.”
Shaking his head wearily, Ritter
left the chamber with his counsel,
Frank P. Walsh and Carl T. Hoffman.
To reporters he said:
"I have nothing to say. God, you
can see why I have nothing to say.
I’m going back to Florida.”
COLLECTOR HUNTED
IN REPORTED ATTACK
Washington Girl Relates Assault
in Montgomery
County.
A reported criminal assault upon a
20-year-old Washington girl launched
District and Montgomery County police
upon an intensive search late yesterday
for a collector employed by a local
clothing firm.
The victim of the alleged attack
told officers investigating the case that
the man drove her to a lonely spot In
Montgomery County near Four Cor
ners shortly after noon yesterday and
overpowered her.
It was said that the man called at
the girl’s home to inquire about a de
linquent payment on an account with
his firm. Informed the payment had
been made by money order and the
receipt was at her office, he insisted
she drive with him to her place of
employment and produce the receipt,
the girl said.
The collector drove out through Sil
ver Spring to Four Comers and at
tacked her after she had exhibited the
receipt for the payment of her ac
count and asked to be driven home,
the victim declared.
Parents of the girl reported the case
to Washington police. She was taken
to Oarfleld Hospital for treatment.
Relief
(Continued From First Page.)
the threshhold of the next industrial
boom,” with Duslness showing an up
swing during April, and many ob
servers feeling that the rising tide
is ‘‘becoming irresistible.”
But despite all gains, it said, the
unemployed number 12,000,000 and
‘‘re-employment has fallen behind
rising, business.”
Roosevelt Plea Indorsed.
Indorsing President Roosevelt’s plea
for increased purchasing power and
shorter hours, the statement said:
"If wages are not Increased we may
well fear a runaway stock market
where fictitious values, without basis
In production, will bring a boom and
then a crash worse than the last.”
Another comment on the business
situation came from Dr. Charles C.
Morris, director of the American Bu
reau of Business Research, who said
the "depression is definitely over.”
President Roosevelt, writing a greet
ing to newspaper executives gathering
in New York for annual meetings of
the Associated Press and American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
next week, urged an inventory into the
state of the Nation as “revealed by
the public press.”
Little Vision Needed.
DES MOINES, Iowa (fl5).—Members
of the Iowa Optometric Association
watched closely as Dr. Harry L. Foug
of Los Angeles explained various sight
deficiencies, using charts and a black
board. Came a voice from the back
row: "W« can't sea a thine from hart.”
Turkish Troops on March
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Turkish troops of the type being maintained along the Greek and Bulgarian borders in
Turkish Thrace. Unofficial sources at Ankara have advanced the opinion that the government
may have received information that a Greek revolt was impending. Latest move of troops is
reported to be into formerly demilitarized Dardanelles.
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500 TO ATTEND A. P. j
American Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Program to Fol
low in Gotham.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 18—The van
guard of American newspaperdom ar
rived today for the annual meetings
of the Associated Press and the Amer
ican Newspaper Publishers’ Associa
tion.
In the gatherings next week more
than 500 publishers and editors are
expected to participate.
They will devote Monday to the
annual meeting of the Associated Press
and from Tuesday to Friday to sessions
of the Publishers’ Association.
The Board of Directors and the
Advertising Agents’ Committee of the
American Newspaper Publishers' Asso
ciation met today.
The members of the Associated Press
will hear various reports at their meet
ing Monday.
Directors to Be Chosen.
Five directors will be elected. They
will be chosen from the list of 10 mem
bers nominated.
Directors whose terms expire and
who were nominated for re-election
are: W. H. Cowles, Spokane (Wash.),
Spokesman Review: E. Lansing Ray,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Col. Robert
R. McCormick. Chicago Tribune;
George B. Longan. Kansas City Star,
and L. K. Nicholson, New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
Other nominees: E. K. Gaylord,
Oklahoma City Oklahoman and Times;
Airrea G. Hill, Fort Coilins (Colo.)
Express-Courier; J. Lawrence Home,
jr.. Rocky Mount (N. C.) Telegram;
William J. Pape, Waterbury <Conn.)
Republican, and Howard C. Rice,
Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer.
Mencken and Lewis Speakers.
Newspaper men will share the
speakers’ platform at the annual
luncheon. Instead of prominent Gov
ernment officials as in .recent years.
The speakers will be H. L. Mencken,
the Baltimore columnist and author,
and Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington
correspondent of the London Times.
Frank B. Noyes, president of the
Associated Press since its organiza
tion, and publisher of The Washing
ton Star, will preside.
The annual meeting of the A. N.
P. A. will devote much attention to
matters of the business office and leg
islation affecting the newspaper in
dustry. Jerome D. Bamum. publisher
of the Syracuse <N. Y.) Post-Stand
ard, is the president, and according to
precedent is expected to be re-elected
for a second term.
The A. N. P. A. will elect five direc
tors to succeed Edward H. Butler,
Buffalo News: W. G. Chandler,
Scripps - Howard papers; John S.
Parks, Port Smith (Ark.) Times
Record; Charles A. Webb, Asheville
(N. C.) Citizen Times and S. R.
Winch, Portland (Oreg.) Journal.
STANDARD IS SOUGHT
FOR SMALL PACKAGES
City Heads Ask Congress to Pro
tect Families Who Buy
Coal by Bag.
Seeking to protect poor families
which buy coal or coke in quantities of
50 pounds or less from practices of
“gouging” by some dealers, the Com
missioners asked Congress yesterday to
amend the weights and measures act
to set up definite standards for sizes
of small packages.
The action was taken on urgent re
quest of George M. Roberts, superin
tendent of weights and measures, who
protested he had found unscrupulous
dealers selling small packages of fuel
at prices which would mean a rate of
$27 or $28 a ton. Buyers are unable
to check their prices closely, he said,
because of the lack of standards as to
sizes of small packages.
The proposed amendment would re
quire use of standard sizes of 50, 25
and 15 pound packages, on which the
package maker would be required to
print his name and address and a
statement of the true weight.
5
The National Scene
BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH
rIERE are indications that the New Deal has decided to lump
much of its program under the word “conservation.” The
country and the political writers are today swallowing “con
! servation” as a shark might swallow hook, line
and bait. The term is being used by the Pres
ident as a blanket of virtuous intention to cover
far-flung Government extravagance.
Until comparitively recently, the administration
would announce the appropriation of an addi
tional billion for one of its various brands of
“relief” as a satisfying soothing syrup for any
symptoms of unrest or discontent with its pro
gram. But since Congress has begun to tighten
up the purse strings another formula has become
necessary. Now every time the country starts
to object, to shift uneasily on its bed of pain,
we hear “conservation, conservation, conservation."
Aik* L*nrw*rth. Mr. Ickes even suggests the bright thought of
changing the name of the Department of the Interior to the Depart
ment of Conservation.
Conservation Is evidently the latest New Deal abracadabra. The
finest kind of conservation right now would be to balance the budget.
(Copyright. 1936)
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According to post-war restrictions, demilitarized zones have
been maintained on each side of the Dardanelles straits
<shaded territory). Turkey some time ago served notice she
would refortify area and asked consent of Lausanne powers.
MRS. HOYT TAKES
President Installed While
Biennial Convention
Nears Close.
Mrs Phyllis Fergus Hoyt. Chicago
and Green Mountain, Vt.. composer,
aras installed today as the twenty
»ighth president of the National
League of American Pen Women a!
;he final business session of the
biennial convention at the Willard
Hotel.
Other officers elected yesterday and
Installed today are:
Mrs. Lily Hunt of this city, first vice
president; Mrs. Harriet Hawkins
Chambers, also of Washington, second
vice president; Mrs. Francesca Falk
Miller. Illinois, third vice president;
Mrs. Louise Hartley Wassell. Arkansas,
fourth vice president; Mrs. Grace Boles
Hedge. San Francisco, fifth vice presi
dent; Mrs. Lilia Wood Daniels, Balti
more, recording secretary; Mrs. E. E.
Carroll, Baltimore, corresponding sec
retary; Mrs. Theodora Cunningham,
Washington, registrar; Mrs. Maria
Briscoe Croker. Baltimore, librarian;
Mrs. Kate Speake Penny. Alabama,
historian; Mathilde Kolb Barlett,
Washington, treasurer; Sara Buckley
Daniel, Washington, auditor; Mrs.
Agnes Giles Newman, Washington,
vice president.
Mrs. Hoyt won the presidency over
Mrs. Clyde Robertson, Denver, and
succeeds Mrs. Victoria Faber Steven
son. As chairman of the National
Music Committee she arranged the
program for the composers’ concert
Wednesday night, and for the musical
it the White House yesterday.
After a sight-seeing tour under the
direction of Mrs. Lily Hunt, delegates
will honor Mrs. Hoyt at a reception
:onight in the cabinet room of the Wil
lard before adjourning.
IUDGE DECIDES PUBLIC
SHALL SENTENCE YOUTH
Court Expects to Hear Views on
What Speeder Should Get and
Then Pass Sentence.
By the Associated Press.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D„ April 18 —
Robert N. Swark’s high school friends
and teachers will decide what punish
ment he should receive for speeding
70 miles an hour on the outskirts of
the city.
Swark, a high school senior, pleaded
guilty to a charge of careless driving
and Municipal Judge Ransom L.
Gibbs passed his case until May 15.
“I’ll wait and see what your friends
and teachers think you should get for
a sentence.” Judge Gibbs said. ’’When
I get all the reports I'll take a cross
section of the results and that will be
your sentence.”
DAMES OE LOYAL
LEGIONTO ELECT
Choice of Officers and Ap
proval of Resolutions to
Conclude Session.
The annual meeting of the Dames
of the Loyal Legion opened its second
day at the Mayflower Hotel today with
election of officers and adoption of
resolutions as the principal action
scheduled for the third and final
session.
Dr. Stewart W. McClelland, presi
dent of Lin oln Memorial University,
who spoke yesterday afternoon, pro
nounced the invocation at the annual
dinner last night. Speakers at the
dinner included Dr. Thomas E. Green,
chairman of the speaking services of
the American Red Cross; Dr. Roscoe
J. C. Dorsey, professor of law and
jurisprudence at the Washington Col
lege of Law, who spoke on the "Dan
gers Confronting Our Federal Trade
Commission,” and Brig. Gen. Perry
L. Miles, who spoke on the Army and
the need for national defense.
Mme. Julia Cantacuzene of the Leg
islation and Defense Committee, paid
a warm tribute yesterday in her re
port to Mrs. Harriet Vaughn Rigdon,
president of the organization, for the
“courage, dignity and tact with which
she held the warring elements together
in the peculiar circumstances which
arose around the speech of Bainbridge
Colby.” Colby attacked the New Deal
in a speech before the recent con
vention of another organization
headed by Mrs. Rigdon. Mme. Canta
cuzene said her action “saved the
Women’s Patriotic Conference for
future usefulness in a good cause.”
In the remainder of her report,
Mme. Cantacuzene outlined the so
ciety’s policy in backing patriotic bills,
national defense legislation, alien de
portation legislation and all move
ments directed toward control “of
seditious and subversive efforts of
Communists, radicals and other
wrong-minded forces in the United
States.”
“RED” LINK SOUGHT
IN FLOGGING TRIAL
Attorneys for Defense and State
Clash Before Florida
Jury.
By the Associated Press.
BARTOW, Fla., April 18 —The part
Communism may have played in the
flogging of three Socialist labor or
ganizers at Tampa last November was
an open issue In the trial of seven
former Tampa policemen today.
Before a six-man jury questioned
closely about political viewpoints be
fore it was seated. Defense Attorney
Pat Whitaker and State Attorney
Rex Farrior engaged in heated ex
changes after Whitaker brought up
the subject.
"Certainly the State's witnesses are
not going to sit in that chair and
admit they're Communists,” Whitaker
asserted on one occasion. "Because
if they admit they're Communists
they admit they're violating the sedi
tion law of this State.
"We have a right to show on cross
examination their connections, their
associations, in an attempt to im
peach their testimony.”
Walter Roush, formerly of South
Dakota and Chicago, was called as a
State witness to testify concerning a
meeting of the “Modern Democrats,”
independent political organization,
which preceded the flogging.
The meeting was raided without a
warrant and those present taken to
the police station for questioning.
Three—Joseph Shoemaker, E. F.
Poulnot and S. D. Rogers—were
grabbed by a group of men as they
left the station, hustled to a wooded
■pot several miles from town, severely
beaten and tarred and feathered.
Shoemaker succumbed to his injuries.
Former Police Chief R. G. Titts
worth is on trial as an accessory after
the fact and the others as principals
in the kidnaping of Poulnot.
The sedition statute to which Whit
aker referred was enacted in 1866
against carpet-bagger*.
REP0RTE00FF1CIAL
Turkey Informs Greece of
Treaty Violation in Dar
danelles, Athens Says.
By the Associated Press.
ATHENS, April 18.—The correspond
ent ol the Exchange Telegraph re
ported today Turkey has officially in
formed Greece that Turkish troops
have entered the demilitarized zone at
the Dardanelles.
EUROPE WATCHES MOVE.
Confirmation of Dardanelles Action
Awaited in Capitals.
(Copyrltht. 1936. by tha Associated Press )
LONDON. April 18. —The British
government, already harassed by the
delicate Ethiopian and Rhineland sit
uations, looked for clarification today
of reports that Turkey had remilitar
ized the Dardanelles In violation of
post-war treaties.
Dispatches from Istanbul, former
capital of Turkey on the Bosporus,
across the Sea of Marmora from the
Dardanelles, said troops moved into
the demilitarized zone yesterday on
the straits between the Marmora and
Aegean Seas.
The soldiers moved in without any
public announcement, the dispatches
said, after a meeting of the Turkish
cabinet, presided over by President
Kemal Ataturk.
A Reuters (British) News Agency
dispatch from Ankara, present capital
of Turkey, however, said the semi
official news agency there denied that
Turkish troops occupied the zone.
The usually reliable sources which
first reported occupation of the straits
insisted that their information was
correct, but said it was Impossible to
reach Turkish officials for formal con
firmation immediately.
Hard to Believe, London Says.
British government sources, finding
it difficult to believe that Turkey had
dropped a new bombshell into troubled
post-war Europe, awaited word from
the British Ambassador at Ankara.
The Turkish Embassy denied flatly
the reports.
The reports of reoccupation of the
Dardanelles, forbidden by the treaty
of Lausanne, caused all the more sur
prise since Turkey recently asked the
signatories to the treaty formally for
revision to permit remilitarization.
The British response to the request
for an amendment to the straits
clauses was favorable.
The reports that Turkey reoccupied
the demilitarized zone caused ex
cited comment in diplomatic quarters
throughout Europe.
Action by League.
An inquiry among League of Na
tions officials at Geneva, however, dis
closed that apparently reliable reports
that Turkey already was remilitarizing
the Dardanelles were in the hands of
the League even before the Turkish
note arrived.
The fact that Turkey had requested
revision of the Lausanne treaty, in
stead of merely repudiating it, had
been welcomed at the time as a pres
ervation of a form of legality.
For the reoccupation to be carried
out without waiting for formal agree
ment by the signatory powers, how
ever, was regarded as embarrassing
the League powers in their effort* to
uphold respect for treaties.
The Turkish request for treaty re
vision had been expected to be con
sidered by the Lausanne powers early
next month, with favorable action
anticipated.
COUNCIL GETS WAR PROBLEM.
Conciliation Group Gives Up Efforts
for African Peace.
GENEVA, April 18 OP).—The League
of Nations Conciliation Committee of
13, conceding defeat in its efforts to
effect Italo-Ethiopian peace, handed
the problem back to the Council to
day for renewed action by the execu
tive body of the League.
The conciliators assembled to take
official cognizance of their failure,
with the Council already convoked for
Monday.
An Italian spokesman announced
that his nation—a member of the
Council, but excluded from the delib
erations of the Conciliation Commit
tee—would participate in Monday’s
special session, prepared to state Its
case once more to the world.
Plan to Bomb Capital Charged.
The Ethiopian government, In a
cablegram to the League, charged that
the Italians already are preparing to
bomb Addis Ababa after two Fascist
bombers flew over the city yesterday
•'firing machine guns and discharging
rockets.”
The League's Conciliation Commit
tee gave up its efforts to negotiate
East African peace yesterday after
Ethiopia rejected a modified Italian
proposal for direct negotiations, with
contact to be maintained with the
League through an observer.
All committee members, meeting to
day to let urn their mandate to the
League, agreed that their “one last
appeal" to the belligerents to cease
fighting—put forward criginaily as a
48-hour virtual ultimatum—failed
after 4o days of futile negotiations.
The uBxt move was expected to be
Introduction of a resolution to the
Council Monday, for submission to all
League powers, which British sources
persisted in hoping would maintain
the League stand against aggression
and carry on efforts for peace.
No Hope for End of Sanctions.
An Italian spokesman said his na
tion's representatives held no hopes
for a lifting cf sanctions as a result
of the turn in the negotiations, but
declared, “Sanctions are not working
anyway, so it is Immaterial to us
what is done about them.”
The British, however, contending
the financial and economic penalties
were beginning to show an effect on
Italy’s foreign trade, expressed a be
lief that sanctions might yet result
in cutting short the Fascist campaign
unless Italy came to terms.
LEGATIONS ARE GUARDED.
Envoys in Addis Ababa Get Reassur
ances, However.
(Copyright l'J.iti. or tne Associated Press.)
ADDIS ABABA. April 18—The
Ethiopian government installed a
guard over American and other for
eign legations today, but gave assur
ance at the same time to the heects
of diplomatic missions that they need
not fear for their safety.
The British Legation already had a
strong guard of Sikhs about its cen
ter on the eastern outskirts of the
capital.
Cornelius Van H. Engert, minister
resident and consul-general to Ethi
opia. remained at the American Lega
tion, on a hillside opposite the other
foreign legations, with his wife, his
two children and their governess.
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