VAN i ISSUE IN QUODDY FIGHT Roosevelt Plan May Go Through to Save Face of President. BT CARLISLE BARGEBON. The votes for continuance of the Passamaquoddy project and the Florida Ship canal apparently have been lined up in the Senate on the argument that it would not do politically for Senator Vandenberg to win out over President • Roosevelt. t Political capital, in this event, would c be made that the Michigan Senator, c prominently mentioned for the Re- , publican presidential nomination, is c stronger with the Senate than the ( President, it is claimed. The Senator defeated the two proj- t ects when they were up before and also < has to his credit the checking of ad- 1 ministration forces on three other items 11 since he took up his aggressive opposi- < tion. But this is the first time he comes directly in conflict with the 1 President. New Deal Senators frankly consider ‘ that it was bad strategy that the situ- , ation should have been permitted to 1 (develop into this position and Passa maquoddy is something particularly ' Vhich they do not wish to carry through the campaign, but the issue has been joined and the only way out, as they see it, is to go ahead and vote for the proposal sought by the Presi dent. One Vote Decided. f As a matter of fact, Senator Van ■denberg won by only one vote before. in the meantime to save the Florida • ship canal. ' Of the two. the canal is looked upon ' as having more justification although • it is difficult to arouse enthusiasm, i outside of those directly interested, -even for it. Finally, Mr. Roosevelt directed Ma jority Leader Robinson to offer a reso lution authorizing him to name two boards. No one questions that this is j but a face-saving device, and that as 8enator Vandenberg charges, it will bind Congress to carry out the projects. The White House has made it an issue, however. Robinson even went so far as to sit in on the committee consid eration of it with the deliberate pur pose of keeping tab on the New Deal members of the committee. Jockeying Continues. There is a question, though, as to 1 whether Vaadenberg won't increase in | stature if he loses his fight. When he |; won before he relied mostly on his am- i munition against the ship canal. He i has hardly drawn on the stuff he has against Passamaquoddy. Some New • Dealers ,who do not want Quoddy to i be hurled around in the campaigu, I get some comfort out of the belief I that the House will not accept the i resolution. . \ In this case, as they see It, Vanden- < berg will not get the credit for defeat- 1 lng the President and at the same time there would be no Quoddy in the campaign. . • —-— — U. S. OFFICER IS SLAIN BY CANADIAN GUNMAN By the Associated Press. BELLINGHAM, Wash., May 29.—A critically wounded gunman, charged with fatally shooting United States Immigration Inspector Charles M. Flachs, was guarded by Federal officers in a hospital today. The man was charged under *the name of John Arthur Alien Fraser. Supt. H. Darling of the Vancouver, British Columbia, police said Canadian authorities identified him as Edward McMullen. Canadian sought for mur der and bank robbery. Flachs and Inspector L. J. Pike took the suspect off a southbound stage at Blaine, on the border, and were about to search him in the customs building when, Pike said, the man drew a pistol and fired. Pike said he bent the weapon back and the last shot en- ' tered the assailant’s head. * 1 Daniels Is Back Home. < RALEIGH, N. C., May 29 OP).— ' Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mex ico, arrived at his home here last ' night from Washington. 1 He will remain here about two weeks '.and possibly may attend the Demo cratic national convention in Phila delphia, to be held during the latter part of June, before returning to Mex ico City. Mrs. Daniels accompanied him here. Woman, 86, Eager 1 < i i Dirigible Voyage * By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. May 29.—Mrs. Harriet j Hague, 86, flying enthusiast and ( probably the oldest person ever to ( make a trans-Atlantic air voyage, would like to be the first person to j catch a fish from a dirigible. s i That thought, she said yesterday on j i her return to the United States on the , i liner Washington, occured to her as , , she flew to Germany on the Hinden- j , burg on its first eastward trip. She t , even mentioned it to the captain. f Mrs. Hague is the mother of Robert ( L. Hague, president of the Standard 1 Shipping Corp. “No one has any secrets on a dirigible," she said. “The partitions are not soundproof, and everything ( that is said over the passenger quar- 1 ters can be heard distinctly. And c did I hear some things • • • well, c don’t ask me." 3 V Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. LOBBYISTS. OBBYISTS at the Maryland General Assembly In Annapolis, like those in the National Con gress, cause considerable con roversy and It was with the activities f the lobbyists In mind that L. Har ld Sothoron, Prince Georges County lelegate, attempted to govern his onduct in most decorous fashion re ently. Sothoron stayed overnight at An lapolis and asked a fellow delegate, iharles C. Marbury, who was going iome to Marlboro for the night, to lave a check cashed In the Prince Jeorgee County seat for him. The next day the two met in the louse chamber prior to the session. “Did you get the check cashed?” iothoron asked. "Yes,” answered Marbury, reaching or his wallet. “Wait.” exclaimed Sothoron, “don't ;ive me any money in here.” * * * * BEST SELLER. All the talk about the Consti tution seems to have convinced publishers that if has possibilities as a "best seller." Ten-cent edi tions, bound in the national col ors and carrying a photograph of the Capitol as a frontispiece now are making their appearance on chain store counters. * * * * OUT OP THE PAST. pOLICE veterans, putting their calls through patrol boxes painted blue ifter many years of familiarity with mly gray-colored boxes, recall an ;arlier type of patrol box which made calling one's station house an adven ure. The box in question was one made in the image and likeness of the mod ?rn telephone booth, with a door and everything. It was the custom of the patrolman to go Inside, close the door, ring up the desk and tell his story. It was the custom, also, of boys pass ng a booth so occupied to get a stick, olace it against the door in such a way that the latter could not be >pened from the inside, then retire x> await developments. The developments usually took the 'orm of a hasty call by the precinct patrol wagon, the driver of which ■eleased the Imprisoned policeman. * * * * WINNER IS LOSER. DRINCE GEORGES COUNTY RE PUBLICANS are non-partisan when it comes to handing out door prizes at dances, but it seems unlucky tor a Democrat to take one. At a recent dance staged by the Republicans in Beaver Dam Country -lub announcement of the winner of ;he door prize was made by Edgar P. -zarra and. in the din. S. C. Heifer, i Democrat, thought his name was :alled. He stepped forward and was handed ive $1 bills without question. In a ipirit of good will Heifer generously listributed the bills among his friends. A few minutes later Boyd Hart, who vas the real winner, was told of his :ood fortune by his friends, verified he report through Czarra and went o Heifer to collect. After finding the .5 he had claimed and given away pas not intended for him, the Demo rat had to go down In his pocket o award the rightful winner. * * * * STANDEE. ANTON HOGAARD. Police Court clerk, apparently couldn't believe ii8 eyes the other day. "Stand up,” said Hogaard when the lame of a certain defendant was eached. His command, uttered in a one which usually Is productive of mmediate results, apparently was ig lored. He repeated It, louder and pith greater emphasis. Still nothing lappened. Surveying the room with I'M STANDIM6 \ OP , threatening countenance, Hogaard eiterated the order. "I'm standing up,” Anally uttered a mall voice. Hogaard took another look, blinked ince and was forced to admit the iccused was right. Standing up, her lead barely reached over the back of he chair In which she had been litting. * * * * STYLE NOTE. Sergt. George Giddens of the Mount Rainier police force hat a new “line" when he ttopt tpeeiert these days. He no longer says, “Where d'ya think yere going—to a fire?" Instead he says: "Where d’ya think yere going—on a Representa tive's honeymoon?" * * * * TRINKETS. of the liveliest topics of specu ^ latlon in Washington nowadays oncerns the niche to be occupied ty J. R. McCarl after his 19-year erm as controller general ends tune 30. One good guess is that he won't iave anything to do with the auto nobile business, for automobile bids loublessly have embroiled the Alnty febraskan with various Government lepartments more often than any hing else. To McCarl, a car is a car, his only nterest being in price. Retailed peciAcatlons that Federal agencies ty down when in the buying market re sure to draw his Are as evidenced few days ago when he held up a rational Park purchase in which va lous accessories had been prescribed, iuch items are only "trinklets,” the ontroller general said with emphasis. Franciscan Father Dies. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 31 P).—Father Peter WaUischeck, $4, aunder of the Franciscan Seminary f St. Anthony, and for 40 yean head f the Santa Barbara Mission, die! esterday at a heart attack. > i HAMM CHOSEN LANDON ORATOR Will Place Name of Gover nor in Nomination at Cleveland. By tn* Associated Press. TOPEKA. Kans.. May 29.—Gov. Alf M. Landon announced today that John D. M. Hamilton. Kansas national com mitteeman. will place his name In nomination for the presidency at the Republican National Convention at Cleveland. Hamilton, national organizer for the Landon-for-President Committee, is a district delegate to the convention. He alsd Is general counsel for the Repub lican National Committee. Calling newspaper men to his office. Gov. Landon said In an informal statement: “John Hamilton will make the nom inating speech at Cleveland.” Asked about seconding speeches, the Kansas Governor said he did, not know who would make them. “I suppose that’s to be worked out yet at Cleveland.” he said. Former Foe of Landon. Hamilton will offer for the presi dential ncminatjpn the name of a man who once helped defeat him for Republican nomination for Governor of Kansas. The tall, sandy-haired and youthful former executive assistant to Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Re publican National Committee, started his political career at 28, as a probate Judge. He was a member of the Lower House of the State Legislature at 33, its speaker at 35, a candidate for Governor at 36, State Republican chairman at 38 and at 40 national committeeman for Kansas. In 1919, after returning from the Army, Hamilton dared battle his party bosses to win his first public office. A stripling lawyer, he went to the late David W. Mulvane, veteran Kansas national committeeman, to ask his support for probate judge of Shawnee County. He was turned down, not only by Mulvane, but by 72 of the 86 county committeemen. "The job should go to an older man ” he was told. “Why don't you wait?” But the Scotch-Irish youth did not want to wait. He was nominated and elected. Beaten for Governor. In 1928. the Mulvane wing of the party supported him for Governor. His primary opponent was Clyde M. Reed, Parsons editor, who had Landon's sup port. Reed won in a bitter contest. Two years later Hamilton directed the campaign of Frank Haucke, who won the nomination from Reed, causing a split in the party. Haucke, however, was r.osed out by 251 votes by Harry H. Woodring, Demo crat. in the general election. Hamilton set about to harmonize the divided party. In 1932. the Repub licans elected Landon Governor, al though Roosevelt and Garner swept the State. Hamilton stepped into the national political picture in 1932 after the death of Committeeman Mulvane. With Landon's aid. he was selected as Mulvane’s successor. Attending his first meeting of the national com mittee in 1934, he was nominated for the chairmanship, but was defeated by Fletcher. However, he was chosen general counsel for the committee and became attached to the Washington headquarters in May 1935. Hamilton helped organize the Mid western “grass roots" Republican con vention at Springfield, 111., in June. 1935. He continued his work with the na tional headquarters until March 9, this year, when he resigned as Fletcher's assistant to work actively for Landon's presidential nomination. -• W. B. LEEDS ILL MIAMI, Fla., May 29 OF).—William B. Leeds was 111 last night as he and his bride, the former Miss Olive Hamilton of Pittsburgh, arrived here aboard the tin fortune heir’s yacht Moana. Leeds denied himself to visitors. The yacht's officers explained Leeds had exposed himself to the high winds which swept this region several days ago and had been ordered to bed to recuperate. Leeds and Miss Hamilton, whom he rescued from drowning six years ago. were married Saturday aboard their yacht at sea near Bimini. The bride, a former telephone operator, is the daughter of a retired Pittsburgh steel worker. BAND CONCERT. By the Navy Band in Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 p.m. today. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alex. Morris, assistant leader. Program. March, “All Hands”.Benter Overture, “Mlgnon".Thomas Cornet solo, “The Devil's Tongue." Schmidt; Oscar Short. “Ballet” and "Soldiers March," from the opera, "William Tell”_Roesini Popular fa) “Boots and Saddles”...Samuels fb) “Red Sails In the Sunset,” Williams Selections from “Sweet Adeiine”.Kem Waltzes, “Old Timers"...Arr, by Lake March. "The Diplomat”_Sousa "The Star Spangled Banner." SENATE TO START QUODDY DEBATE Robifison Will Ask Power for President to Continue Two Projects. By the Associated Press. After extending a helping hand to rescue Rexford O. Tugwell's giant Re settlement Administration from eclipse, the Senate sped on today toward de bate on two other controversial angles of the relief program—"Quoddy” and the Florida Ship Canal. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, announced defi nitely he would offer, as an amend ment to the $2,369,000,000 rellef-de flciency bill, a resolution giving Presi dent Roosevelt conditional authority to continue work of the Passama quoddy tidal power project In Maine and the canal. Immediately, Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan reached for a stack of data he has been collecting in an effort to convince the Senate that further work on the two big projects, which the administration started with work relief allotments, is unjustified. Other Republicans planned to Join in the attack, and served notice the debate would be prolonged. Admin istration men have been seeking to put the big bill through as quickly as possible, so Congress might adjourn next week. would rermu Allotments. The Robinson amendment would permit the President to allot more money to the canal and power proj ect if new boards of review approved. The boards would be required to make their reports by July 20. After hearing Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, defend the Resettlement Administration, the Senate, by a vote ol 38 to 28, decided late yesterday to continue financial backing of the big program to buy up poor farm land and transfer agricul tural families to better soil. As the relief bill came to the Sen ate from the House it provided that $85,500,000 could be used for "rural rehabilitation'’ and some other pur poses. A Senate committee struck out "rural rehabilitation, "but the Senate vote yesterday restored the words and thus permitted the funds to go to Tugwell. La Follette said much of the criti cism leveled against Tugwell's agency was unjustified. Declaring it may prove "one of the most constructive steps this Government has taken in years,” he said the Nation must "turn back the tide resulting from profligate and wasteful use of the soil.” Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir ginia fought for the committee view point on the ground that Congress already had appropriated $450,000,000 for soil conservation. Some others supported him, but on the vote 30 Democrats, 5 Republicans and 2 Farmer-Laborites joined La Follette to reject the committee amendment. Earlier Senate Vote. Earlier the Senate had voted to give President Roosevelt sole control of the $1,425,000,000 contained in the bill for relief for next fiscal year This action was taken after spirited debate in which Senator Sterner, Re publican, of Oregon, objected that the President was being given a "blank check." Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, remarked that while it might not be wise to accord the President such power, the determination of proj ects was an “administrative" oper ation. Chairman Glass of the Appropria tions Committee said he was opposed to the "lump sum appropriation.” "I voted against it in committee,” he said, “because I thought the people of the United States should know how this money Is to be spent, and I still think so.” This was his answer when asked If he would follow his course of last year when he presented his committee's $4,880,000,000 bill and then voted against it. G. P. 0. OFFICIAL RETIRES, ENDING 34 YEARS’ WORK Herman B. Barnhart, Chief Copy Editor, Served Under Seven Public Printers. Herman B. Barnhart, chief copy editor of the Government Printing Office, was retired today after 34 years of service. Appointed from Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1902, Mr. Crawford served under seven puniic printer*. Begin ning as a com positor, he was appointed super intendent of printing in 1927, serving until 1933. As chairman of the G. P. O. Style Board he exerted a marked influ ence on the typ ography of Gov- I avnmsnt mihliPfl. tions in the past „ _ _ ,_H. B. Barnhart. few years. Mr. Barnhart, who Is 84, lives at 1415 Shepherd street. At his retire ment he was presented with a travel ing bag and several other gifts by his associates in the printing office. The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH THE balanced budget plank in the Democratic platform, if any one has the nerve to propose one, is going to look fairly sick. Along comes Mr Morgenthau asking for another two uiiiioxi mortgage on me iuiure, m acamon to the hundreds of millions of current cash called for by the tax bill. On the theory that "there's gold in them thar hills” the administration evi dently believes there is money to spare ‘‘in them thar taxpayers.” Mr. Roosevelt sees automobiles running, air planes flying, relief checks fluttering to their recipients, people generally going about their usual avocations. He is apparently convinced that everything is lovely, so he still talks in financial hyperbole, and makes another peace time record for the national debt.