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ROOSEVELT LAUDS
Minister and Consuls Pro
moted for Bravery De
fending Legation.
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday cited
Cornelius Van H. Engert. American
Minister-resident to Ethiopia, and his
staff for "courage and devotion to
duty” for their defense of the Ameri
can Legation against maurauding
tribesmen.
In recognition, the Executive ad
vanced them one rank in the foreign
service.
The President. In a radio message
to the Minister, also praised the "brav
ery and devotion" of Mrs. Engert, who
remained with her husband in the be
seiged legation, and praised the four
Navy radiomen for "valor worthy of
the best traditions of the Navy.”
Radiomen Advanced.
The Navy Department announced
Friday that the radiomen had been
given promotions for "commendablej
zeal and efficiency” in continuing to;
transmit the legation's messages and
siding in the legation's defense during
the four-day seige.
Engert, a career diplomat, was ad
vanced from class 2 to class 1, the
highest in the service, which will
mean an increase in salary of ap
proximately $1,000 annually.
William M. Cramp, Philadelphia,
vice consul, was advanced from class
9 to class 8, with an increase of ap
proximately $500 yearly, and Robert
L. Hunter, Milbank. S. Dak., vice
consul and clerk, was advanced to
junior clerk, class 2, with a similar
salary increase.
All three nominations will be sent
to the Senate for confirmation to
morrow.
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and
Senator McAdoo, Democrat, of Cali
fornia already have announced that
they would seek recognition for
Engert.
Recommended by Hull.
President Roosevelt announced the
promotions of the foreign service offi
, cers after Secretary Hull had trans
mitted to him a recommendation
from the Foreign Service Personnel
Board that the three men be advanced
In rating.
President Roosevelt's message to
Engert said:
"I want you to know with what
interest I followed your reports re
garding the recent situation at Addis
Ababa and to express my sincere ad
miration for the splendid manner in
which you conducted yourself during
that trying period.
"I cannot speak too highly of your
courage and devotion to duty’, worthy
of the finest traditions of the Ameri
can foreign service.
"I also wish to add my apprecia
tion and commendation for the ex
cellent co-operation and assistance,
rendered under the most difficult cir
cumstances, by Mr. Cramp and Mr.
Hunter, as well as by the non-Amer
ican employes of the legation. For
the bravery and devotion of Mrs. En
gert I have only the greatest admira
tion.
Promotions Made.
"I am happy to say that in recogni
tion of the conspicuous and meri
torious service rendered, it has been
recommended to me that you be pro
moted to class 1 and that Mr. Cramp
be promoted to class 8 and I have
approved and shall send appropriate
nominations to the Senate on Mon
day. Mr. Hunter will be promoted to
Junior clerk, class 2.
"I also desire to commend Walker
Edgar Tanner, chief radioman. United
States Navy: William Lee Pitts, radio
man, first class, U. S. N.; John Wil
liard Anslow. radioman, first class,
U. S. N„ and Cecil Franklin Cavanah,
radioman, first class. U. S. N., for
valor and devotion to duty worthy of
the best traditions of the Navy dur
ing the attack upon the legation."
AZANA IS FAVORED
TO WIN PRESIDENCY
Many Members of Spanish As
sembly Believe He Will Be Cho
sen on First Ballot.
By the Associated Press.
MADRID. May 9—Premier Manuel
Azana was favored choice tonight for
tpe presidency of Spain in tomorrow’s
voting.
'Many members of the electoral as
sembly, who met at the Crystal Palace,
predicted he would be named on the
fij-st ballot.
Electors, named at a special elec
tion April 26. will act jointly with
Parliament to choose a new chief ex
ecutive to succeed Provisional Presi
dent Diego Martinez Barrio.
A heavy police guard was thrown
around the historic exposition build
ing in Retiro Park.
(Martinez Barrio assumed the presi
dency under constitutional authority
as president of Parliament after
Niceto Alcala Zamora was deposed.
* (Although no candidates for |he
six-year term of chief executive have
been formally announced, the names
of three other men in addition to
Premier Azana have been mentioned
as possible successors to Alcala Za
mora. They are Barrio, Alvaro de
Albornoz, former president of the
Tribunal of Guarantees. Spain's high
est court, and Julian Besteiro, leader
of the moderate Socialist group.)
LA GUARDIA REJECTS BID
TO BERLIN CONFERENCE
a ■ ■
Refuses to Attend Parley of
Mayors Due to Opposition
to Nazi Policies.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 9.—Mayor F. H.
La Ouardia, president of the United
States Conference of Mayors, dis
ciosed today he had refused to at
tend an international conference of
mayors in Berlin next month because
he objected to the Nazi government’s
policies.
The invitation had been extended
through the State Department and
in La Guardia’s reply sent Friday to
Paul V. Betters, director of the United
States conference at Washington,
D. C., Betters was asked to Inform
the State Department neither La
Guardla nor any other conference
member would attend the June 7
meeting.
“It seems rather paradoxical for
municipal authorities to gather for
the purpose of discussing local self
government In a country where all
local self-government has been com
pletely obliterated,” La Ouardia said.
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Washington
Wayside Tales
Randoiij Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
MOTHERS DAY
MOTHER’S day may have had
its joyful dawning In most
homes this morning but there
was one in Chevy Chase
where it brought comparative fear
and trembling.
This particular reaction was the
result of an all-too-vivid memory on
the part of the adult members of the
family of what happened last year
on the same occasion. Early on that
May day, the delivery truck of a large
florist drove up to the house and the
driver dismounted to carry into the
house the largest bouquet it ever had
received. It looked, in fact, like all
the flowers in the world.
They were, of course, for mother
from her youngest daughter, aged
7 and they came C. O. D. The
mother had her choice of breaking
the family financially by paying for
them or breaking the child's heart by
sending them back. She paid.
* * * *
LIFE’S A GAME
The judge before whom three fish
peddlers appeared the other morn
ing on a charge of standing too
long in one place (that's what
itinerant fish peddlers usually are
charged with) was fascinated by
the badges they wore. The attor
ney for the defendants explained
they were badges signifying the
peddlers had paid for their licenses.
The judge suggested a more
searching look on the part of the
attorney. It disclosed a second
badge only partly concealed by the
official one. It signified that the
fish peddlers also were junior
G-men.
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PRE-VIEW.
‘ TTHE VOICE OP BUGLE ANN"
A made one of those unexpected
and unannounced appearances at the
Takcma neighborhood theater last
week. The film version of "Any
thing Goes” was the feature and after
the usual routine of trailers between
shows, most of which was devoted to
"Bugle Ann.” the Friday night audi
ence of youngsters was delighted when
the full story of "Bugle Ann” began
surprisingly to unfold on the screen.
It ran for a full five minutes be
^oi'f
fore the operator discovered his error.
* * * *
PRAISE.
VyASHINGTON'S Union Station,
according to a student of big
depots, has a practical aspect which
makes it outstanding in its particular
field of architecture.
Of all the stations he ever has seen
—and he has seen enough of them to
regard himself as a specialist—he in
sists it is the easiest one in which to
1 meet some one. Whereas the average
large structure of the kind is full of
j angles, pillars and exits w'hich require
meetings in a specific spot, the Wash
' ington station has no angles, no con
cealing pillars and one main con
course exit which makes everything
almost too simple.
He says he ought to know what he
is talking about, being a station
authority and an expert on meetings.
* * * *
DADDY'S BOY.
\ GENTS of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation were questioning a
suspect in a bankruptcy fraud case
about some missing papers.
“We would like to search that file
cabinet.” the G-men told the suspect.
“I haven’t got the key to the cab
inet,” the man replied.
A young voice spoke up. It was
that of the suspect's son.
"Here it is, daddy. I’ve got it!"
Much to the disgust of "daddy,"
the agents accepted the key from the
boy with thanks, opened the cabinet
and found the missing papers.
+ * * *
LIFE’S SPICE.
A young lady working in a Wash
ington business office decided yes
terday that, as men go, she pretty
well covers all categories. On a
single day two of her masculine
admirers sent her flowers—one an
orchid, he had purchased, the other
an iris which he had stolen.
* * * *
MAIMED
t) EMEMBER Mickey Egan, the 9
year-old who calculates an ath
lete's greatness in the number of his
scars and size of his bandages? We
told you about him not long ago when
he decided to wear a bandage himself,
for purely symbolic purposes.
Well, Mickey’s athletic career re
cently got a momentary marring which
had him worried no end. It took the
■ form of a large washer which he had
worked down beyond the last joint
of his index finger and which, despite
every reasonable effort to remove it,
remained there.
At the darkest moment of the futile
effort before the family resorted to
hospital treatment, Mickey took one
look down the future and observed:
“Well, I guess I’m through as a ball
player.”
TWO SHOT BY POLICE;
ATTACK IS CHARGED
Officers Kill One, Critically
Wound Another in New
York.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 9.—One man was
shot and killed and another critically
wounded tonight when two detectives
came upon them during an alleged at
tack on a 14-year-old girl.
The shooting took place on the Sec
ond avenue elevated bridge at 132d
street between Alexander and Lincoln
avenues, in the Bronx.
The dead man was tentatively iden
tified as Alfred Brader, 26. The other
man. wounded in the stomach, was
not immediately identified.
They were shot by Detectives Win
terhalter and Gunsett of Bronx head
quarters, who said they were attack
ing Anna O'Hara, 14.
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PROWLER SOUGHT
IN AnACK KILLING
Chicago Business Woman
Is Found Murdered in
Hotel Room.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 9—Investigators
sought tonight a prowler as the
killer of Mrs. Lillian Guild, 50-year
old business woman, who was found
battered to death In her room In the
downtown Y. W. C. A. Hotel.
Reconstructing the crime from evi
dence of the struggle, homicide squad
experts believed the alayer had
snatched his weapon—a 6-pound stona
—from a nearby brick pile, had scram
bled up a fire escape Just oft North
Michigan avenue and swung through
a window to gain entrance to Mrs.
Guild's room.
Evidence of Battle.
Thereafter a furious battle and
criminal attack, he left his victim
dead. Her body lay on the floor
when a colored maid entered the small
bed room at 10:30 a.m. The oblong
shaped weapon lay beside her. Indi
cations were, police said, that the
slayer had made a quick search
through Mrs. Guild's two suitcases,
stowed under her bed, before fleeing.
While fingerprint specialists exam
ined the stone and checked other
prints found in the death room, other
officers questioned male employes of
Ihe institution. Nicholaus Franzen,
49, a boiler room attendant who was
off duty when the body w'as dis
covered, was quizzed at length as to
his whereabouts at the time of the
slaying.
Two other men also were interro
imt.pri
Franzen denied any knowledge of
the attack, but admitted he knew
"that old lady,” police said.
Operated Jewelry Shop.
Mrs. Guild, until recently a resi
dent of Attleboro, Mass., had been a
guest at the hotel since last January.
She operated a small Jewelry shop in
a loop hotel in partnership with a
sister, Mrs. Blanche Bloom, of Attle
boro. Friends there said she was sur
vived by a son, an attendant at Taun
ton State Hospital In Massachusetts.
She returned to her room about
12:30 a m. last night.
Police and hotel officials were mysti
fied as to the reason none of the near
by lodgers heard the struggle. The
evidence indicated she put up a
furious fight before being overpow
ered by her assailant. Her fellow ten
ant across the hall, Miss N. Kearins
of Galesburg, 111., said she was
awakened by noises before midnight,
but heard nothing later. The noises.
Miss Kearins heard, investigators said,
probably came from a film exchange
at the rear of the hotel.
Because no one could leave by the
hotel door without passing the night
[ desk, police believed the slayer es
caped by way of the fire escape.
Find Strands of Hair.
A few strands of gray and brown
hair, clutched in the dead woman's
hand, furnished authorities with what
they hoped might be their most valu
able clew. Chief of Detectives John
[ L. Sullivan said the hair was ap
i parently torn from the head of the
j killer in the death struggle.
Three fingerprints found on an elec
tric iron were also considered clews
of potential value.
Most of the movable articles in the
*room—bed clothing, chairs, hangings
. and floor covering—were transferred
I to police headquarters as the investi
gation proceeded.
Assistant State's Attorney Gordon
Nash directed a careful search of the
maze of small rooms in the basement
of the hotel tonight. In an out-of
way corner a washstand was dis
covered which gave the appearance
of having been used recently and
thoroughly cleaned afterwards.
With the discovery of a stone in
the basement similar to that used to
kill Mrs. Guild, Sullivan said the
weapon would be analyzed to deter
mine whether it was the same com
position.
If it was, he said, it would indi
cate the killer might have entered the
hotel through the basement and picked
it up on his way to the second floor.
The stone found in the basement
was used as a doorstop.
WORKERS MAY TAKE
MEXICAN RAILWAYS
President Cardenas Quoted as
Leaning Toward Radical
Move in Strike.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 9.—President
Lazaro Cardenas was quoted today by
Juan Gutierrez, secretary-general of
the Mexican Railway Workers’ Syn
dicate, as expressing the opinion It
might be necessary to turn over the
national railways to workers unless
an agreement is reached to settle a
strike scheduled for May 18.
The Railway Conciliation Board
found both employers and employes
adamant. The workers are demand
ing wage increases, which the em
ployers argue would mean ruin for
the national railways.
Gutierrez declared President Car
denas told him May 2 he "had con
sidered awaiting the arrival of s
crisis to seek a radical solution, which
might well be that the workers would
take over the enterprise, provided they
respect the obligations it tthe rail
road system) now has.”
Roosevelt Will Dictate It,
but It Will Bear Wag
ner’s Name.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roosevelt will not be
heralded as the author of the party
platform to be adopted by the Demo
cratic National Convention in Phila
delphia, but he will have more to do
with its writing than any one person.
Although Mr. Roosevelt has made
no public statement, those close to
him know he proposes to go to the
convention in person to accept the
renomination. He inaugurated this
precedent when he flew so dramatic
ally from his Hyde Park home in
New York to the Chicago convention
in 1932.
This innovation made such an im
pression that the Republican high
command is planning something
similar Wt their Cleveland convention,
two weeks in advance of the Demo
cratic convention In Philadelphia.
Platform Taking Shape.
Already Mr. Roosevelt's 1936 plat
form is taking shape. In its final
form, when presented to the commit
tee and later to the convention, it will
have been actually penned by Senator
Wagner, of New York, one of the
President’s close friends and trusted
leaders In the Senate.
This document, it is known now,
will feature the President's aim for
social pioneering, and will contain
urgent recommendations for continued
social reforms.
There is reason to know the plat
form will feature a great Nation
wide home-building program to pro
vide low-cost and good homes for
citizens of small Incomes.
It will aim to provide something
to take up the slack in the unem
ployment field. •
It will provide for what the Presi
dent wants in the way of better labor
conditions—better wages and shorter
work hours.
It will attempt to abolish child labor
and will endeavor to encourage the
spread of employment in various fields.
It will promise continued progress
In the matter of social security, old
age pensions, aid to the under
privileged, opportunity to the Ameri
can youth, further aid to agriculture.
| the passage of a ship subsidy bill and
! a food and drug law to meet modern
j conditions, as well as a broad pro
j gram under the title of conservation,
principally with a view to preventing
| soil erosion, encouragement of re
| forestation and flood control.
To Seek Economy Plank.
The President will, in his platform,
j insist upon something to assure the
people he is anxious for a policy of
governmental economy and reduction
j of the national debt. It is quite possi
ble that in the paragraph dealing with
this subject he might refer to his last
| budget message to the Congress in
j which he pointed out that so far as
! the normal expense of running the
Government was concerned he was
; balancing the budget, but in view of
| the emergency it was necessary to
spend- many millions more for unem
ployment and relief.
As for governmental economy, the
President will point out that already
he has named a special committee to
| co-operate with similar ones composed
I of Senate and House members to
| study the subject of practical and effi
cient reorganization of the executive
branches of the Government w ith a,
view of reducing actual expenses and
increasing efficiency.
Mr. Roosevelt's ideas as to the “good
neighbor” policy, not only for this
I country, but in relation with the other
1 countries of the world, will have a
I prominent place in this forthcoming
platform. In the 1932 platform the
| foreign policy was touched upon
J briefly, but because of subsequent
! events in Europe it is felt the Presi
dent may insist that more space be
I given to this subject. He will want to
emphasize a foreign policy not only
of the “good neighbor" aspect, but one
of strong, but flexible neutrality. The
President Is opposed to a neutrality
policy which puts up to him a hard
and-fast mandate.
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SHIP PURSER IS HELD
IN AMMUNITION DEAL
Justice Department Charges Dun
can Pierce in New York
\frith Honduran Sale.
By .the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 9.—Charged with
selling ammunition with intent to de
liver it to purchasers in Honduras in
violation of a presidential proclama
tion, Duncan Pierce, a purser, was
held in $1,000 bail for action by the
grand Jury today.
Pierce, who said he was employed in
the port purser’s office of the United
Fruit Line, waived examination be
fore United States Commissioner
Isaac Platt. He was released on bail.
He is charged with violating the
presidential proclamation of March
22. 1924, and the congressional Joint
resolution of January 31, 1922, in ref
erence to the sale of arms and am
munition abroad.
Pierce was arrested yesterday on
complaint of the Bureau of Investiga
tion of the Department of Justice.
Federal agents said the alleged sale
occurred after the United Fruit liner
Platano docked here yesterday. They
said Pierce was suspected of selling
ammunition at a "high price” .to
consignees in Honduras.
Roper to Discuss Business
COMMERCE SECRETARY FORUM SPEAKER TOMORROW NIGHT.
HE vital relationship between
American business and finan
cial recovery will be discussed
by Secretary of Commerce
Roper in the National Radio Forum at
9:30 o’clock tomorrow night.
The forum, arranged by The Star,
will be broadcast over the Nation
wide system of the National Broad
casting Co., with Station WRC as the
local outlet.
Secretary Roper has announced as
the subject of his address, "Co-opera
tive Action for Co-ordinated Progress.”
The Commerce Department head,
who has played an intimate part in
the correlating of business and gov
ernment during the last three years,
will review what has taken place in
the administration’s recovery program
and its effect upon the country. He
will discuss the relationship of pri
vate business to recovery and will out
line the problems that business and
the Government must face jointly
during the coming months.
While not intended to be primarily
a discussion of campaign issues, as
SECRETARY ROPER.
such. Secretary Roper’s address Is
expected to be one of Importance
politically,
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Crippled Jobless Besiege Hopkins’ Office P
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Insisting they would not leave until seeing Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, 33 members
of the League of the Physically Handicapped camped out last night in the W. P. A. offices.
Coming here from New York by truck, they demanded jobs. Here they are pictured at their
midnight lunch.
Photo taken about midnight showing the job seekers as they prepared to bed down for the
night. _ #_—A. P. Photos.
Siege
(Continued From First Page.)
spokesman for the cripples, pounded
the table and shouted:
"We want to see Hopkins at once”
Nels Anderson, labor relations ad
visor, and Holt refused to summon the
administrator.
Immediately half a dozen of the del
egates broke in with excited demands,
some trying to stand on their crutches.
"If Hopkins won't see us, we'll wait
here all night until he does," some one
shouted in the uproar. A girl with a
twisted spine, choking with emotion,
protested: "We've had nothing but
bones thrown to us and we won't
stand it any longer—we can't stand
it, we can't.” She sat exhausted and
speechless in her chair.
"We'll go to see the President; we ll
go to Congress," Friedman and others
shouted.
Finally Holt arose wearily to leave,
signifying the meeting was over.
"And you refuse to summon Hop
kins?” several persisted In demanding.
Holt refused.
W WWW- sts-tiiaoii
Then the girl president, her right
leg in a steel brace, hobbled to the
front of the room. She demanded a
vote on whether to stay all night until
Hopkins agrees to see them. They
voted unanimously to remain.
Anderson remarked as he rose to
go that they could leave any written
memorandum they desired. "We're
not leaving, we're staying here until
we drop,” the militant Sylvia replied.
When the officials departed, the
delegates held a session. They dictated
a "collect” telegram to league head
quarters In New York, telling them
about the situation and urging “wide
spread publicity.” They voted, also,
to send a committee to see Senator
Frazier of North Dakota at the Cap
itol. Frazier later sent word he would
try to see them.
Fortified with a little money — a
$10 bill was passed out for food and
expenses—the tired delegates subsided
as suddenly as their nerves had brok
en during the hearing. Several of the
young men stretched out on the floor
in a corner and slept soundly. Others
pulled chairs together, resting tired
legs and backs. Some huddled to
gether in conference.
About 5 o’clock, a pile of sand
wiches and some coffee was brought
In by several of the more able bodied.
There was a sandwich for each.
Orders were given at W. P. A. not
to disturb them; to let them come
and go by the elevator as they desired.
Only a few chose to leave the room.
Cnnlar With Holt
Arriving shortly before 10 o’clock,
the delegation knew before coming
here they could not see Administrator
Hopkins. A White House wire sent
by Marvin McIntyre, secretary to the
President, informed them that Holt
would see them.
Their disappointment at not seeing
Hopkins and the repeated explana
tions of his two assistants that as "un
employables” they would have to be
taken care of by the local W. P. A. in
New York was tne straw that broke
their Dent up emotions.
"We're being given the run around,
here as well as in New York,” Fried
man protested.
"The W. P. A. here and Hopkins,
himself, can’t solve the problem for
you,” Anderson insisted.
The delegation spokesman insisted
that Victor F. Ridder, New York W. P.
A. administrator, had said last month
that 5,000 jobs would be provided for
physically handicapped persons but
that funds had not been furnished.
Out of some 6,000 physically handi
capped in New York, Friedman in
sisted, jobs of a sort had been found
for only 1,500.
Because the physically handicapped
are discriminated against in private
r
industry as well as In work relief, j
Friedman insisted, they demanded
special treatment from the Federal
Government; a special quota and a
stop to discrimination. Then came
the ultimatum.
Prepare to Spend Night.
At 8 o clock last night, some hardly
able to keep awake, they prepared it
make the best of tables for the girls
to sleep on and chairs for the men.
One of the girls became hysterical
and it was difficult to quiet her. Miss
Flexer reported.
The siege here Is the third of the
kind in the last couple of weeks, the
New Jersey capitol and the city hall
In St. Louis having previously been
the scenes of gatherings of the Jobless.
MISS DETZERNAMED
SPEAKER ON PEACE
Emergency Campaign Schedule
Includes Addresses in
Three Cities.
Enlistment of Miss Dorothy Detzer,
national executive secretary of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, as a speaker in
the emergency peace campaign was
announced here yesterday.
Her schedule calls for addresses at
Glens Falls, N. Y„ Wednesday; Wilkes
Barre, Pa., Thursday, and Nyack, N.
Y- Friday, it was
announced by the
campaign organi
zation. which is
launching ‘‘a
compre hensive
two-year drive to
keep the United
States out of
war."
The campaign
has been initiated
by the American
Friends Service
s Committee and
I includes r e p r e
^ aentatives or the
MU. Defer. various peace, re
ligious and educational groups of the
country. Meetings in more than 300
cities are planned.
Miss Detzer is a native of Fort
Wayne, Ind. After 18 months of
travel in the Far East, she became a
resident of Hull House, Chicago, where
she took courses of study at the
Chicago School of Civics and Philan
thropy. In 1920 she joined the
American Friends Service Committee
and went to Vienna for two years of
child feeding work. She then went
to Russia as a member of the unit
which helped in the Volga Valley
during the famine. Upon completion
of relief work she spent some time
in the Balkans and other parts of
Europe. She returned to this country
in 1924 to take her present post with
the league.
I
Federation’s Social Econ
omy Plan Scored by
Pittsburgh Leader.
By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 9—A pair
of Methodist bishops crossed swords
today over conservative-liberal ques
tions within the church after the dis
pute w'hich simmered all week on the
fringe of the Methodist Episcopal
General Conference exploded.
Bishop Adna W. Leonard of Pitts
burgh. demanding "the destruction of
Russian Communism in the United
States,” branded planned social econ
omy as advocated by the Methodist
Federation for Social Service "alien
and Godless.”
He was answered at a luncheon
meeting of the federation by Bishop
i Francis J. McConnell of New York,
president of the Federation for Social
Service, who defended its right to
speak on social and economic matters.
Militancy Favored.
“We believe in a militant organiza
tion.” McConnell declared. "We don't
care a hoot what the great church
groups say about us—if they deny us
the right to use the word Methodist,
we'll call ourselves something else.”
Bishop Leonard, ardent foe of rad
icalism, startled the delegates at their
devotional session today with a de
mand that the church take a definite
stand on the matter of Communism.
"We cannot stop at the destruction
of such evils as slavery, the liquor
j traffic and gambling,” he asserted.
“We must go straight through and
make it impossible for communism
to have any place under the Stars
and Stripes.
"Those who are giving their in
fluence for the Introduction of a
planned economy on the basis of any
theory of brotherhood that represents
a Godlessness even to • the point of
anti-God, are both un-Christian and
un-American.”
Attack on Federation.
Leaders interpreted Mr. Leonard’s
remarks as an attack on the federa
tion. which has demanded that the
general church conference recommend
substitution of a planned social econ
omy for the profit system.
Gordon Weit Point Candidate.
William T. Gordon, son of Col. W.
W. Gordon, now on duty at the Army
War College here, has been desig
nated a candidate for admission to
West Point in the July class, the War
Department announced yesterday.
Max Campbell Tyler, jr., and Donald
O. Davidson were named first and
second alternates, respectively.
Father, 71, Pulls His family
435 Miles in Hunt for Work
By the Associated Press. .said Mrs. Swcatman. “sometimes I
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. May 9—Sev
entv-one-year-old Dave Sweatman
hitched himself to a wagon and pulled
Ilia family and belongings the 435
miles from Tulsa, Okla., to Memphis.
Dirty and ragged, but with wild
roses fastened to their nondescript
bundles, the family reached here to
day. <
The group and the home-made
wagon, which weighs 975 pounds when
loaded, attracted a crowd.
Mrs. Sweatman sat on the narrow
wagon seat with 2-months-old Joseph
Edward in her arms. Beside her was
George David. 18 months; Francis
Louis. 4, and the daughter, Levall, 11.
"The little ones ride all the time,"
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walk ana sometimes uevan walks.
Sweatman said he started South
after he lost his Job as a railroad car
repairman, and was unable to get
other work.
"Brother,” he told a sympathetic
onlooker, "111 make work. I’ll mow
lawns, clean house, anything. I’ve
got to work I’ve got a family to
feed.”
Some food was given the family as
it rested beside a curb, and there were
coins from some of the crowd.
"Thank God for a civilized coun
try,” said Sweatman, as he pulled his
wagon down the street in search of a
place to sleep. He plans to start his
search for work here tomorrow.
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Wore Democratic Organiza
tion Aim, Says Presi
dent Ransom.
By the Associated Press.
A complete reorganization of the *
American Bar Association was pro
posed tn a plan announced yesterday
by William L. Ransom of New York,
the president after t special four-day
meeting of tfce Association's Executive
Committee.
Ransom said a new constitution,
drafted after a year’s study, is in
tended to give a more democratic or
ganization to the entire legal pro
fession. This constitution will be
submitted for ratification at the as
sociation's annual meeting August 24
in Boston.
State and local bar associations and
affiliated legal organizations will re
ceive greater representation under the
proposed scheme, Ransom explained.
Control of the association, which now
rests with whatever members happen
to attend the annual meeting, would
be turned over to a new house of dele
gates.
Complex Membership.
This body would have a complex
membership. Including the United •
States Attorney General, the chairman
of the national conference of bar ex
aminers, and the president of the
American Law Schools Association, In
addition to other legal officials ar.d
representatives from state and local
bar associations.
The plan also calls for a new board
of governors. 14 standing committees,
and a special board of editors for the
American Bar Association Journal.
The proposed constitution was
drafted by three Co-ordination Com
mittees. which included John W.
Davis of New York. Newton D. Baker
of Cleveland, Jefferson P. Chandler of
Los Angeles and others.
Ransom said a reorganization
scheme has long been considered.
Essay Contest Winner.
The Executive Committee also an
nounced yesterday that the $1,000
prize in the annual Erskine Ross
essay contest will be awarded to
George Grayson Tyler of New York.
His essay on "The Origin of the
Rule-Making Power and Its Exercise
by Legislatures" was selected by Dean
Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law
School, Judge George McDermott of
the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals,
and Henry Upson Sims of Birming
ham. Ala. The contest was estab
lished under the will of Judge Erskine
Ross of Los Angeles.
CHILDREN DISCOVER
BODY OF MOTHER
Woman Apparently Slain With
Pick—Police Arrest
Husband.
By the Associated Press.
ERIE. Pa., May 9.—The two chil
dren of Mrs. Paul Furry. 38. found her
bruised body today under a pile of
lumber in the basement of the family
home. Police said she apparently
had been slain with a heavy pick.
Two hours later, police arrested the
husband, Paul Furry, 40. Police Chief
George Christoph said his officers
found Furry hiding in a clump of
bushes a block from the house. Furry
fought with the officers, Christoph
said, and force was used to subdue
him.
Mrs. Furry had been missing since
Thursday.
The children. Catherine, 17. and
Paul, jr., 14, told officers they had
been looking for their mother since
she disappeared.
Chief Christoph said Mrs. Furry
was dressed only in her undercloth
ing. He asserted he found the pick
and the woman's blood-stained dress,
coat and hat under the mattress of
a bed on the second floor of the two
story frame dwelling.
Detectives took Furry to jail. They
said he made no statement.
Neighbors asserted Furry had been
out of work several months before he
recently got a job with the Works
Progress Administration.
21 MEXICANS KILLED
IN FIVE-HOUR FIGHT
Rebels Are Routed by Govern
ment Troops After Fierce
Rattle.
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO. D. F.. May 10 (Sunday!.—
A fierce five-hour battle between rebels
and government troops, in which 13
rebels and 8 sqjdiers were killed, was
reported today in dispatches from
Guadalajara, capital of the State of
Jalisco.
Army headquarters at Guadalajara,
the dispatches said, reported troops
of the 27th regiment, under Capt.
Teofllo Garcia and Lieut. Crisanto
Campos, engaged 50 rebels headed by
Macedonio Altorre on Caracol Hill,
and routed them after sharp fighting.
As they fled, it was announced, the
insurgents left behind them guns,
ammunition and horses, along with
their dead.
Army casualties included eight pri
vates and non-commissioned officers
killed and Lieut. Campos, who was
wounded.
4 DROWN AS 2 CARS
PLUNGE FROM BRIDGE
Four Survive Fall—Portion of
Span Raised to Permit
Ship's Passage.
IT the Associated Press.
EDENTON, N. C„ May 9.—Pour
persons drowned tonight when two
automobiles plunged through an open
section of the Chowan River Bridge,
near here.
The victims were Arthur Newbern,
19; Thomas Phelps, 18; William
Smith. 26, all of Bertie County, and
Miss Essie Bunch, 17, of Edenton.
J. H. Cobb, assistant keeper of ths
bridge, said the bridge was open for
the passage of a boat, the Dorothy Lee
of Norfolk, when the aecident oc
curred.
Cobb said the bell was ridging and
lights flashing, signalling that the
bridge was open, when the cars
plunged into the water. ,
Pour occupants of the cars survived.
Edith Garrett, 17, of Edenton. suf
fered a broken arm. The others, Ken
neth Cobb, 18, Loyd Newbern, and
Ralph Frscman, were not hurt,
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