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WENDEL AIDS HUNT
Joins Officers in Search for
House Where He Made
“Confession.”
By the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 18—Paul
H. Wendel, free of a New Jersey charge
he murdered the Lindbergh baby,
Joined Kings County officers today in
a search for the Brooklyn house where
he said he was tortured into a ‘‘con
fession."
With Wendel, a disbarred Trenton,
N. J., lawyer, to aid them, the author
ities hoped for a swift showdown in
the mysterious case and arrest of the
men who, he said, kidnaped him Feb
ruary 14.
Wants “Justice Done.”
"I am here to do all in my power
to see that justice is done," Wendel
said upon arrival last night.
“I promise you justice will be done,”
replied District Attorney W. F. X.
Geoghan.
Geoghan and his men were seeking
specifically two men Wendel has
named as his assailants.
Thomas W. Trenchard, New Jersey
Supreme Court justice who sentenced
Bruno Richard Hauptmann to death
as the kidnap-slayer of the Lindbergh
child, dismissed the murder charge
•gainst Wendel late yesterday.
Bail Fixed at $2,000.
In Mercer County, N. J., Judge
James S. Turp then fixed a bail of
$2,000 for Wendel’s release on a group
of old embezzlement charges, and he
was brought to Brooklyn last night.
A charge of kidnaping the Lind
bergh baby, filed in Flemington, N. J.,
by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann in a futile
effort to save her husband from elec
trocution. remained on the books
•gainst Wendel.
Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck said
at Flemington he would defer placing
the kidnap charge before the Hunter
don County grand jury pending a
thorough investigation of -Wendel's
own story in Brooklyn.
Detectives
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dissatisfaction with the situation is
responsible for the story leaking out.
Just why the detectives were directed
to report to the brain trust, or re
search department of the Republican
National Committee, is open to all
sorts of conjecture. A friendly version
is that the detectives are. after all. no
more than researchers themselves. The
explanation along this line is that it
was realized there was some phase of
researching which the recently ac
quired professors could not accomplish.
This is to say, they were not tempera
mentally fitted for it. The professors,
it was pointed out, could take reports
and other propaganda disseminated by
the New Deal and dissect it, but when
it came to getting out like a newspaper
reporter and getting the real lowdown.
they couldn't do it.
The committee is understood first
to have employed several reporters on
the side—that is, to have paid them ;
S50 or so a week to report to it, while
continuing to work for their news- j
papers.
Under the rules of the House and
Senate press galleries, a newspaper
man can accept such employment as:
this if he lists ihe extra employment!
with the committee.
Committee Faces Problem.
The Republican Committee, on the i
other hand, is confronted with the
problem of getting such information j
from the various New Deal agencies as i
it has not had to obtain in recent |
years. It is difficult enough for a1
trained reporter to get such informa-!
tion, much less persons who are an
nounced as being from the committee.
Several days ago the press agent of
Prof. Tugwell’s Resettlement Adminis
tration complained that a man from
the Republican Committee, posing as
a newspaper man, had obtained in
formation from his unit. This pub
licity agent said it was no* that he
objected to who was asking for the
information, but he did object to the
duplicity. The Republican Commit
tee discharged the man who misrep
resented himself.
It is doubtful that Republican Chair
man Fletcher approved of the employ
ment of the detectives. The chairman
got a bad reaction from the employ
ment of the professors, for one thing.
But New York influences, which have
a lot to do with the committee's
finances, are impatient to “do some
thing.” In so far as this reporter can
learn, this is responsible for the em
ployment of the detectives.
WIFE STILL DOUBTS HIM
Cites Incident of 20 Years Ago
at Alimony Hearing.
CHICAGO, April 18 (/P).—“I’ve
always been a good provider, judge,
and a faithful husband and-” Gus
tave Schuhl started to explain at a
hearing of his wife's petition for ali
mony.
“Faithful, my eye!” interrupted Mrs.
Schuhl. “Twenty years ago you came
home at 5 o’clock in the morning with
a pair of lady’s slippers in your
pocket—and you never have explained,
not to this very day.”
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Pennsylvania School Strike Spreads
Pupils of Hazle Township School in Hazleton. Pa., spread their strike picketing against new
schools yesterday, protesting dismissal oj 12 teachers by the School Board. Striking students,
with their band, are shown here picketing the Lattirner School—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
PROBERS EXPLORE
SENTINELS’ EUNDS
Lobby Committee Learns
How Anti-New Dealers
Laughed at Film.
BY REX COLLIER.
How the Sentinels of the Republic,
at a cost of $360,000, hope to get
the country “laughing at the New
Deal” through a cartoon movie called
"The Fire Brigade” is disclosed in
correspondence spread on the record
of the Senate Lobby Committee.
A1 Smith and former Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri are listed
among persons who have enjoyed the
film, which depicts President Roose
velt driving a fire truck to a burn
ing house of alphabetical blocks.
John J. Raskob is mentioned as hav
ing called a meeting in New York
City to show the movie and explain
purposes of the Sentinels to prospec
tive contributors.
According to David F. Sibley, as
sistant treasurer of the Sentinels, the
movie shows a Supreme Court justice
poking his cane at the few blocks re
maining after the fire, and top
pling them over into the embers.
Four traveling trucks have been sent
Into all sections of the country to
show the picture, the committee was
advised.
Delight in Movie Told.
Smith and Reed were represented
as having been “delighted” over a
showing of the picture in Florida last
February at the home of W. F, Kin
ney. E. T. Stotesbury, partner in
J. P. Morgan & Co., who was in
Florida at the time, was mentioned
in letters as having told a Sentinels
representative that Atwater Kent and
Jay Cooke, 2nd, would be good “pros
pects." Both later followed Stotes
bury's example In contributing to
the Sentinels.
In a letter read at a hearing of
the committee yesterday afternoon a
representative of the Sentinels re
ported that Thomas L. Chadbourne,
New York lawyer, told him Smith had
declined an invitation of the American
Liberty League to speak, but upon a
second invitation had accepted. It
was In that speech Smith said he might
"take a walk” from the Democratic
party.
“Smith commented," the agent,
Charles A. Berry, wrote, “that the
league needed him to help clean it
of Its financial taint and that he felt
Via TI'QC CIlfRoianf ltl thrnunKniif
the country to be able to use any
board from which to spring back into
the public eye. This comment is made
to explain the statement that the
league needed Smith and needs an op
portunity to support such a program as
the Sentinels. He further states that
John W. Davis is also a close personal
friend, and he believes that through
Davis and Smith he will secure the
money necessary from the league."
$166,000 Given Sentinels.
Prom Sibley the committee learned
the Sentinels have received a total of
$166,000 in contributions since Feb
ruary, 1935. Members of the Pitcairn
family, identified with autogyro de
velopment, gave more than $96,000
to promote the "educational pro
gram” of the organization. More than
$63,000 of this sum has been donated
since the first of this year, the wit
ness said.
Raymond F. Pitcairn, prominent In
the affairs of the Pittsburgh Plate
Glass Co. and national chairman of
the Sentinels, has contributed $83,000
since February, 1935, with the proviso
that this money will be returned to
him "if and when" the organization
“is able,” it was testified.
The group has “not more than 3,000”
members, Sibley testified.
Lewis W. Douglas, former director
of the budget: col. Robert R. Mc
Cormack. Chicago publisher, and
Henry Breckinridge, lawyer, were
listed among speakers for the organi
zation.
The committee brought out that a
representative of the Sentinels had
Interviewed Gov. Talmadge of Georgia,
New Deal foe and aspirant for the
presidency, and that Talmadge had
been sympathetic to the program of
the organization.
Amendment Suggested.
Prof. A. W. Wilson, of Yale, it was
shown, wrote Alexander Lincoln,
president of the group, suggesting that
;he "general welfare” clause of the
Constitution be abolished in favor
>f an amendment providing that Con
gress should have the power “to pay
:he debts and raise funds for carrying
:>n the functions of Government."
Lincoln asked H. G. Talbott. Wash
ngton representative of the Sentinels
A look into the possibility of pass
ing such an amendment.
A letter to William Randolph
Hearst asked the publisher to sup
port the program of the Sentinels and
fave him an ootUne of the “scenario”
)f “The Fire Brigade,” which was
:haracterlzed as ”a fable of the Raw
Peal."
Talbott told the committee his or*
Barker Bombarded
By ‘EV Motorman s
Showers of Fruit
Driver Breaks Monotony
by Hitting Sleek “Pull
in” Man Daily.
by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 18—David
Feinman, a "puller-in'' for a Brooklyn
clothing store, has just found out who
threw the apple cores, banana peels,
grapes and other fruit which have
been hitting him with surprising ac
curacy almost every night for the last
seven weeks.
I Glib of tongue and confident of mien,
j as he has to be for this type of "side
walk salesmanship,'' Feinman said he
nearly lost his aplomb as well as his
peace of mind.
Things had reached the state where
Morris Klar, Feinman's employer, was
asking regularly:
"Well, Dave, did the apple come
yet?”
Night after night, at precisely 8:50,
things would begin coming Feinman's
way. Never did he have a chance to
dodge.
Should Feinman dash into the
street, his tormentor would vanish
like a phantom, unseen into the night.
Frankly, it got on Feinman's nerve
Monday night Feinman kept watch
and, although smacked once again,
saw the core thrown by a motorman
from an elevated street car.
The next night an inspector for the
car company was on the job. He.
too, saw the motorman throw first a
core and then a banana peel.
At the next station, the motorman
was relieved of duty. He was James
Cooley, who had worked on the “el' !
for 14 years—14 years of monctony j
except for the last seven weeks
Officials of the line, undecided about j
his case, indicated they intended to
be "merciful.”
I
Mrs. Roosevelt to Be Main
Speaker at Conference
Tonight.
The need for better housing among
Negroes and how to supply it were
to be discussed today at a one-day
educational conference at Miner
Teachers College, Georgia avenue
and Euclid street.
Mrs. Roosevelt will deliver the prin
cipal address tonight. Other speak
ers are Dr. George C. Ruhland, Dis
trict health officer; Canon Anson
Phelps Stokes, member of the Wash
ington Committee on Housing, which
is sponsoring the conference in co
operation with colored organizations;
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, United States
Public Health Service, and Dr. Robert
C. Weaver, adviser on Negro affairs,
Interior Department.
The conference opens with a lunch
eon meeting at which Clarence Phelps
Dodge, chairman of the Washington
Committee on Housing, is to preside,
and Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
Is to welcome delegates. Dr. Weaver
speaks on “The Significance of
Housing.”
The theme of the first afternoon
session is "Minimum Standards of
Housing.” Hilyard R. Robinson, chair
man of the committee of architects
supervising the Langston low-rental
housing project for Negroes, was to
speak, as well as Drs. Ruhland and
Brown.
John Ihlder, executive officer of the
District Alley Dwelling Authority, and
Mrs. Clara Burrill Bruce, assistant
resident manager Dunbar Apartments,
New York City, are the speakers on
the program for the second afternoon
session.
The Women’s Glee Club of Howard
University will sing at the concluding
session tonight, at which Mrs. Roose
velt is to speak.
D. C. WRESTLING BILL
A bill to authorize professional
wrestling in the District was intro
duced late yesterday by Representative
Schulte, Democrat of Indiana.
The measure would amend the pres
ent law legalizing boxing. Schulte is
a member of the House District Com
mittee.
ganlzatlon has opposed social se
curity legislation, child labor legis
lation in the States, a national depart
ment of education, the Guffey coal
bill, the holding company bill and
other measures. Members were asked
to send telegrams asking repeal of
the “pink slip” provision of the In
some tax laws.
The committee Is in recess until
next week.
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A. R. Bird, Jr., Among Four
Given High Presbyterian
Award at Richmond.
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, April 18 —The faculty
of Union Theological Seminary today
announced that the trustees of the
Southern Presbyterian General As- ;
sembly have confirmed the recent j
nomination of four seminary students j
as Latta scholars.
The awards, the highest undergrad- j
uate honor at the seminary, were j
made to Andrew Reid Bird, Jr., Wash
ington. D. C.; Donald R. Brandon,
Kannapolis, N. C.; Robert H. Bul
lock. Sherman, Tex., and Robert H.
Smith, Jr., Mobile. Ala.
Awarded annually to the three or
four most outstanding new students,
the scholarships amount to about $300
a year and provide for the student's
seminary expenses.
Davidson Graduate.
Andrew Bird, graduating at David- 1
son College in 1931, edited the col- j
lege annual, was major of the Cadet
Military Battalion, a varsity debater.
Literary Society president, president
of the Publications Board, assistant to
the professor in philosophy and Bible,
member of Omieron Delta Kappa
Leadership Fraternity, Phi Gamma
Delta Social Fraternity and various
honorary societies.
He cofhes to Union Seminary with
four additional years of experience
with the Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.
of Winston-Salem, N. C., and as a
deacon in the First Presbyterian
Church there. At the seminary he was
nresident nf his class this vear and
is the newly elected secretary of the
student body.
Also College Editor.
Robert H. Smith, a fraternity brother
of Bird, was also editor of the David
son College annual in 1935 and was j
awarded Omicron Delta Kappa in j
recognition of his campus leadership.
Donald Brandon, another David- 1
son man. did extensive Y. M. C. A.
work while there and was co-pastor
of the Unity Church of that city while j
a student.
Robert Bullock graduated last year
at Austin College, Texas.
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D. C. MOTOR CLUB HITS
PARKING METERS’ USE
Strong opposition to proposed legis
lation permitting installation of park
ing meters here was announced yes
terday by the advisory board of the
District of Columbia Motor Club of the
American Automobile Association.
In voting opposition to the plan, the
board asserted that cost to motorists
of the city would be nearly $500,000
annually.
“Motor vehicle owners in Washing
ton are already overburdened with
taxes and the District of Columbia
Motor Club is unalterably opposed to
any attempt toward placing a further
load of taxation on the shoulders of
car owners,” it was declared in a
statement issued by the advisory j
board.
PEACE SEEN NEAR
Union Suggests Meeting
With Employers in Effort
to Settle Differences.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18.—Peace
negotiations were under way today in
the ominous San Franciso waterfront
dispute, responsible for a virtual cessa
tion of activities at the port.
Representatives of the International
Longshoremen’s Association and the
Waterfront Employers' Association
were to meet in an effort to settle dif
ferences, which started with refusal
of longshoremen to work the Liner
Santa Rosa and the shipper^ sus
pension of relations with the dock
workers’ union.
The move toward peace was made
yesterday when district officials of the
I. L. A. suggested the meeting in the
belief the conferees “should be able to
arrive at a basis of settlement.”
Bridges Accuses Conciliators
Earlier in the'day growing tension
was climaxed by Harry Bridges, head
of the local union, who charged Fed
eral labor conciliators had issued "prej
udicial statements.’’ The conciliators,
E. P. Marsh and E. H. Fitzgerald, de
clared his charge “too ridiculous to
answpr.”
Marsh yesterday sent a telegram to
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins say
ing the situation “looks bad.”
Bridges told Miss Perkins labor con
ciliators had said a union violation of
the 1934 arbitration award was the
primary cause of the present contro
versy. He denied the union would de
mand shorter hours, better wages and
netter working conditions and said
statements to that effect attributed to
him were unfounded rumor.
Want Self-Rule.
“The sole thing we are asking now,”
he said, "is that the employers adhere
to the terms of the 1934 award and
the right to choose our own officials.”
In a statement to all coast I. L. A.
locals, Bridges said the “lockout” was
a move toward giving Joseph P.
Ryan, president of the Longshore
men's International Union, control of
the West Coast units.
Only seven ships were worked yes
terday. Operators of at least 30 ships
had set their courses for other ports
as a result of the situation.
Trouble Started Tuesday.
Waterfront activities began decreas
ing last Tuesday when the Santa Rosa
arrived. Longshoremen refused to go
through picket lines established at the
Santa Rosa's dock by the Maritime
Federation of the Pacific. The fed
eration had termed the Santa Rosa
“unfair” because a Great Lakes crew
had replaced sailors who left the vessel
in the East in support of demands for
the higher West Coast scale.
The employers then suspended rela
tions with the union, saying the move
was directed against what they termed
“radical, subversive and comunistic”
leadership of the local I. L. A.
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MRS. GRACE HAMILTON
DIES IN DRUMMOND
Maryland Woman Is Survived by
Husband and Three
Children
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Mrs. Grace Gardiner Hamilton, 48,
wife of R. E. Hamilton, died unex
pectedly this morning at her home
in Drummond, Md.
She was the daughter of Mrs.
Ignatius Quinn Gardiner of St. Paul,
Minn., and the late Mr. Gardiner,
and had been a resident of Drum
mond for about 12 years.
In addition to her mother and her
husband, she is survived by one daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy Ann Hamilton;
two sons. Richard and Donald, and
four brothers, Donald I. Gardiner,
Francis G. Gardiner and Rev. Harold
C. Gardiner, all of Washington, and
Dr. Greth G. Gardiner of St. Paul.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed.
JULIA FAYE, SCREEN
ACTRESS, GETS DIVORCE
Parted From Author and Scenar
ist She Married Six
Months Ago.
By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, April 18—Julia
Faye, leading woman of the silent
screen, disclosed today she had ob
tained a Nevada divorce from Anthony
Merrill, author and scenarist, whom
she married six months ago.
Miss Faye said she cited incompati
bility when she obtained the decree
at Reno April 3. Merrill did not con
test the divorce.
The couple admitted they separated
about 10 days after their wedding at
Pasadena last October 24, when C. B.
De Mille, her "discoverer” and direc
tor, gave the bride away.
Waste Long
Tradition
of U; S.
’Quoddy and Ship Ca
nal in Florida Cited
as Examples.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
HEN the Union Pacific Rail
road first crossed the Amer
ican plains passengers
amused themselves by
shooting buffaloes from the trains,
leaving the beasts to rot on the fields,
flesh and hides alike. Even 50 years
ago wild pigeons blackened the Amer
ican skies with their numbers. Today
not one is alive. There is one con
sistent American tradition. It is the
tradition of waste.
Consider Passamaquoddy and the
Florida ship canal, two projects cut
in Wednesday after
a short but ex
pensive child
hood.
Passamaquoddy
was the dream of
one man, Mr.
Dexter P. Cooper,
brother of Hugh
Cooper of the
Russian Dnieper
stroy. Mr. Cooper
dreamed of har
nessing the moon,
that is to say the
ocean tides which
it controls, and
building in Maine
a vast hydro
electric plant which would be the
heart of new complexes of industries.
First he tried to interest private capi
tal, and failed. Then he tried to in
terest the Government. The Presi
dent turned the matter over to the
Department of the Interior and P. W.
A. The P. W. A. engineers made a
survey and rejected the proposition.
They, and later the Federal Power
Commission, said that it would cost
more than twice as much to produce
electricity by this method as it would
with coal. And the industries which
would use it. the consumers, appar
ently existed only in Mr. Cooper's
hopes.
Cooper Haunted White House.
But Mr. Cooper haunted the White
House, and the President had nearly
$5,000,000,000 appropriated to him 1
without any strings attached—money ;
appropriated for the relief of the un- j
employed. Eventually a special com- I
mittee of four was appointed to re
consider the proposal. It approved
the project. Mr. Cooper and one of
his associates were on it. Seven mil
lion dollars was taken out of relief
funds to start the work. In the fol
lowing months $6,00'),000 was spent
building railroad spurs, shops, ware
houses. laboratories, making topo
graphic and hydrographic surveys and
building a model village in tlie finest
New England manner to house engi
neers and workmen. The village cost
In round figures a million. There's a j
million left. By July 1 this money j
will be gone, and the work of building
the dam has not yet begun. Mean
while, the little town of Eastport, Me.,
has doubled in size, and up and down
the Maine coast Yankee fanners,
merchants and fishermen have been
sharing Mr. Cooper's dream of the
moon and new riches.
A ship canal which would run 200
miles from Jacksonville to the Gulf
of Mexico has been dreamed and dis
cussed romantically for half a cen
tury. And when money began to flow
from the Treasury Florida politicians
in the Jacksonville area revived the
idea and asked the R. F. C. for funds.
The R. F. C. turned the matter over
to P. W. A. In August, 1933, the
President appointed a special Board
of Investigation who estimated that
at current prices, without interest, and
without highly probable complications,
the canal would cost $142,000,000. P.
W. A. engineers rejected the project.
The Board of Rivers and Harbors
queried the 61 shipping firms engaged
in trade in Florida and Gulf waters
and found only nine who showed any
interest whatsoever. The Department I
of Commerce likewise reported that i
the consensus of the shipping indus
tries was that the canal was not eco
nomically justified. But is was started,
just the same, with $5,000,000. Out of
relief funds.
Continuance Put Up to Congress.
By and by that money was exhaust
ed. Then both projects appeared—for
the first time—in Congress, in regular
appropriation bills. Passamaquoddy
claimed that it needed 5 or 10 millions
to get it through the coming Winter.
The Florida Ship Canal asked lor
another 20 millions. And for the first
time Congress was asked to consider
whether it wanted these projects at
all—on which $12,000,000 had already
been spent.
Congress, on the basis of all the
evidence, didn't want them. After all,
90 per cent of the Government's own
advisers had decided that they were
economically unsound. The support
for one was chiefly Mr. Cooper's faith
and the support for the other was
chiefly Senator Fletcher’s not dis
interested constituency. Senator Van
den berg m his attack on the canal
produced evidence that even the nine
originally slightly interested ship
owners had all retreated; that repu
table geologists had predicted that the
canal would damage the underground
waters, perhaps cause an Infiltration
of salt water into the fresh water
supply and possibly ruin the citrus
fruit industry—with law suits against
the Government as a consequence.
What the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors thought about It
did not come out. because that board,
which exists for the purpose of making
such investigations, had not been con
sulted.
Other Pretentious Projects.
Nobody seems to know how many
other such pretentious projects have
been begun by the administration
without regular appropriations and
against the advice of experts in the
hope that Congress might be per
suaded later to carry them further, by
authorized funds. Senator Vanden
berg states that he has himself dealt
specifically with 10 such. Five of them
were reclamation projects. Conchas
Dam. New Mexico; the Sardis River
Reservoir, in Mississippi, and Blue
stone Reservoir, in West Virginia, were
so initiated, only eventually to be
abandoned.
A deserted village, an abondoned
water way, half-finished dams will dot
the country to testify to its people
of the Incompetence of Government, to
disillusion people with the belief that
they can solve their problems through
government. There will be hundreds
of unhappy and discontented workers
who will have to be shifted onto work
relief rolls. For thousands of others
another bubble will have burst. We
will have had another bit of public
disillusionment at a cost of millions.
Vast accretions of wealth in this
country are derived from the waste of
our national resources in the interests
of certain groups of individuals. Now
we have reached another stage. We
are wasting the money derived from
waste. The tradition persists.
(Copyright, 10.16, New York Tribune, Inc.)
MENINGITIS VICTIM
REMAINS CRITICAL
—
Physician Beports Only Slight
Improvement in Condition
of Student.
Miss Margaret Graham. 17-year-old
high school student from Wickford.
R. I., remained in a serious condition
today in Garfield Hospital, where she
has been in a semi-conscious condition
from meningitis since Tuesday night. |
Very slight improvement was reported [
by her physician.
Miss Graham was a member of a
party of 30 students of the Rhode j
Island school who came to Washington
for an Easter tour. She became U1
Tuesday and her mother w-as sum
moned here from Wickford the next
day. when specialists handling the case
feared an operation might be necessary.
Thursday, after it was decided the
illness is of communicable type, ar
rangements were made to send all other
members of the party back home at
once. They left in a special car on
an afternoon train from Washington
to Boston and were to be placed under
quarantine on arrival at their homes
last night.
Badford House Bazed.
Radford House, near Plymouth,
England, where Sir Walter Raleigh is
supposed to have ridden when fleeing
for his life, is being torn down. i
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Greetings to Publishers
Urge Review of State
of the Nation.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 18—An Inven
tory Into the state of the Nation as
“revealed by the public press’’ v.as
urged yesterday by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt In a special message to
American publishers.
Through Editor and Publisher,
weekly trade journal, President Roose
velt asked the newspaper publishers
and executives gathering here for the
annual meetings of the Associated
Press and American Newspaper Pub
lishers’ Association next week to re
view events since the meetings last
year.
Renewed Felicitations.
It gives me great pleasure through
the medium of Editor and Publisher
again to send hearty felicitations to
the members of the press associations,
the publishers, editors and advertisers
in connection with their annual meet
ings in New York.” he wrote.
"This yearly gathering of the vari
ous instrumentalities which a great
statesman of an earlier day so aptly
called ‘the fourth estate’ invites an
Inventory into our standing as a Na
tion as revealed in the public press
since the meeting a year ago. And
surely the business and financial
pages of all of our newspapers have
given a cheerful chronicle of improve
ment in business throughout the Na
tion.
Wishes for Success.
“In the hope that the record of im
provement so uniformly reflected by
the press during the year which has
passed since I last addressed you may
be maintained and strengthened In
the year to follow. I wish for the va
rious bodies which will gather in New
York a successful solution of all the
problems which will come before them
for consideration.
“Very sincerely yours.
“FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.”
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young musician. The 29-year-old wifa
of an oil operator was at liberty under
$7,500 bond.
Witnesses said Hataway and Mrs.
Kent quarreled at a night club party
and that he was fatally shot in his
apartment a few hours later.
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