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, warmer tomorrow; gentle northerly winds in Washington with thp
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tures-Highest, 84. at * p.m. yesterday; Associated PreSS NeWS
lowest, 65, at 5 am. today. and Wirephoto Services
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UIID HEAT HITS
WEST AS FARMERS
TAKE W. P. A. JOBS
r
Damage and Distress In
creased as Temperature
Ranges Up to 110.
3,000 CALLED TO WORK
ON U.S. RELIEF PROJECTS
Feverish Buying Hoists Grain
Prices to Maximum Allowed
by Regulations.
BACKGROUND—
With corn in critical period,
vioisture or aridity of next fort
night will determin whether Mid
west drought destruction of 1936
will equal devastation of 1934. in
opinion of Agriculture Department.
Alarmed by conditions, the de
partment has established a live
stock feed agency. Secretary Wal
lace has allotted $5,000,000 to pur
chase cattle. The I. C. C. has cut
freight rates in stricken area. The
R. A. seeks authorization to loan
from its $1,425,000,000 relief fund.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 6.—Record heat
Increased damage and distress in the
Midwestern drought belt today.
Despairing farmers pinned their
hopes for a break in the protracted
siege on a change in weather. But
none was sighted for the immediate
future. Instead, a broadening of the
high temperature blanket was for
roct
Meanwhile, in Washington Presi
dent Roosevelt plunged into drought
relief conferences almost immediately
on his return from Virginia. Three
administration officials discussed the
problem with the President. There
■were Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement
administrator; Aubrey Williams, as
sistant works progress administrator,
and J. B. Hudson, acting administrator
of the A. A. A.
Abnormal heat seared the prairies
from the Rocky Mountains to western
Kentucky yesterday. All-time marks
were broken at Williston, N. D„ and
Rapid City, S. D„ with respective
readings of 110 and 106 degrees, and
at Sioux Palls. S. Dak., with 109. A
new record of 105 was established
at Moline, 111. Other maxima in
cluded:
Yankton, S. Dak., 112. after an all
time high of 113 had been set Sat
urday; Miles City, Mont.; Huron, S.
Dak., and Pana, 111., 108; Hastings,
Nebr., 107: Bismarck, N. Dak., and
Fremont, Nebr., 106; Grand Island,
Nebr., 105; Quincy and Peoria, 111.;
Des Moines, Iowa, and Dickinson, N.
Dak., 104; Springfield, 111.; Keokuk,
Iowa and Havre, Mont., 102, and
Omaha, Nebr., 100.
Showers Fall in South.
Scattered showers fell in Southern
and Atlantic States. Light precipi
tation was indicated for tomorrow
In some parts of the Dakotas, Wis
consin and Indiana, but the general
prediction was for hot, dry weather.
The drought stimulated feverish
speculative buying in the Nation’s
markets today, hoisting prices of all
major grains—wheat, corn, oats and
rye—the highest they could go under
existing trade regulations.
Wheat shot up 5 cents a bushel,
com 4, oats 3 and rye 5.
All prices were at new highs for the
•eason.
Trade reports were that drought and
heat had destroyed crops in many sec
tions of the United States, resulting in
the seventh consecutive crop faliure in
the Spring wheat belt. Canadian ad
vices indicated grain growing in sec
tions of the prairie provinces also wTas
damaged seriously.
Market Reaches Stalemate.
The wild rush to buy all grains at
the start of trading in Chicago re
sulted in a virtual stalemate of the
market. Prices were at the perm is
sable limits and would-be buyers,
frantically trying to acquire holdings,
were unable to bid any higher. There
were few sellers at the sharp advance
and therefore little business. Trading
In corn came to a complete standstill
for a time.
July wheat was bid up to around
$1.06 and December was around
$1.07%, within 2 cents of its 1935
peak. Wheat prices have advanced
more than 12 cents a bushel in two
weeks and were now 23 to 25 cents
higher than they were a year ago.
The limit prices of 5 cents above
the previous close were bid for wheat
futures at Duluth and Minneapolis,
but there was no grain for sale at
these figures early in the day.
Buying orders flooded the wheat
futures market at Kansas City as
drought reports from the Northwest
sent prices soaring the full 5-cent
limit.
Deliveries Above $1 Mark.
All deliveries here went above the
$1 mark, with December selling up
to $1.03.
Trade diminished soon after the
(See DROUGHT~Page A-5j
CHINESE ARRESTED
AT U.S. MAN’S HOME
[ 10 Held for Counterfeiting at
Peiping Residence of
Army Officer.
By the Associated Press.
PEIPING, July 6.—Ten Chinese were
arrested today on a charge of counter
feiting at the home of Col. Isaac
Newell, United States Army officer and
former military attache, who is on
vacation in the United States.
The alleged counterfeiters were
using the Newell home as a manu
facturing base for thousands of bogus
bank notes of Hopei Province. Their
leader was asserted by police to be
Col. Newell’s former No. 1 houseboy.
The house was empty of Its Ameri
can occupants. Roy Chapman An
drews, the explorer, who had been
spending his honeymoon at the NeweU
residence, left for New York with his
bride recently.
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Widotv of Col. Rogers Loses
Fight to Obtain Dotver Rights
Surrogate Refuses to Set
Aside Waiver—Ajt
peal Planned.
By the Associated Press.
RIVERHEAD, N. Y„ July 6—Mrs.
Pauline V. Rogers, comely 42-year-old
widow of Col. Henry Huddleston Rog
ers, today lost her fight in Surrogate’s
Court to obtain dower rights in the
huge Rogers' fortune.
The decision was not announced by
Surrogate Robert S. Pelletreau in open
court, and none of the principals to the
legal tussle over the $16,000,000 estate,
nor their attorneys, were present.
Under the ruling, filed with his,
clerk, the surrogate refused to set aside
the waiver to her dower rights.
Her bequest from the estate re- j
mains at $100,000 outright and a sum
roughly estimated at $125,000 as an
annual income from the estate.
It was announced in New York soon
after the decision that Mrs. Rogers'
fight would be carried to the appelate
division. •
Mrs. Rogers’ fight to obtain her
dower rights in the $16,000,000 estate
of Col. Rogers was based on her
claim she signed a waiver of those
rights without realizing what she was
signing.
The attractive widow, who married
Col. Rogers in August. 1933, testi
fied that before she signed the waiver,
her late husband's lawyer, Adrian H.
Larkin, told her it would not jeopard
ize her rights in the estate.
She signed the paper without read
ing it, she said, because she consid
ered Larkin a good friend and re
lied on what he told her.
The waiver which formed the basis j
for Mrs. Rogers’ action was the second
such paper she signed, the first having
been drawn up at the time of her
marriage to Col. Rogers. The widow
testified she considered this first
waiver only a temporary document.
The second waiver was drawn up
(See ROGERS, Page A-3.)
MRS. PAULINE V. ROGERS.
AREA IN VIRGINIA
Huge Boulders and Tons of
Slate Swept Through
Towns in Southwest.
By the Associated Press.
RICHLANDS. Va., July 6.—Flood
waters from a cloudburst in Western
Tazewell County, carrying huge bould
ers and tons of slate, swept through
the communities of Raven and Red
Ash today and covered State Highway
No. 84 to the northwest with debris
for 8 miles.
The storm was one of a series which
struck in Far Southwest Virginia early
today, wrecking communication lines,
inundating roads and doing large
property damage.
At Raven, Mrs. Rosa Lambert, a
widow, and her five children, were
trapped by flood waters in their home
as boulders weighing near 500 pounds
smashed in the rear of the house.
An estimated 800 tons of slate was
swept down the mountainsides across
highway No. 84. The road was blocked
from Richlands, in Tazewell County,
to Short Gap, in Buchanan County.
A Norfolk & Western branch line
through the section also was blocked.
Every available laborer, including
W. P. A. workers, was set to work
this morning clearing the highway.
The storm, which was accompanied
by a severe electrical display, began
about 2:30 a.m. and continued for
three hours. It was accompanied by
hail, which beat down com near
Honaker.
Town Manager R. W. Arthur of
Wytheville said two severe electrical
storms struck the town during the
night, but the wind was not unusu
ally high. Norfolk & Western Rail
road men, reaching Bristol, brought
reports of storms in Wythe County.
Telephone company employes at
Marion said that a windstorm between
Marion and Bristol early today
wrecked telephone lines. Trees were
blown across lines at Damascus on
the Virginia-North Carolina border
and 13 telegraph poles were snapped
off there.
Unverified reports at Marion said
that several stores at Saltville, 20
miles to the northwest, were washed
away this morning by a cloudburst
Communication lines to Saltville were
broken.
19 Sentenced by Germany.
DRESDEN, Germany, July 6 (JP).—
Nineteen persons, whom authorities
described as Communists, were sen
tenced yesterday to prison terms
ranging from two to five years and
two months for "preparing acts of
high treason.” These were stated to
consist of surreptitious communistic
agitation and distribution of com
munistic literature.
BULLETIN
BOISE, Idaho, July 6 (/Pi.—W.
Scott Hall, close political associate
of Senator William E. Borah, Re
publican. of Idaho for a quarter
of a century, said today Borah will
be a candidate for re-election and
that he will support the State and
national Republican tickets.
"In my conversation with the
Senator, I saw no particular dis
satisfaction on his part with the
Republican platform,” Hall said.
"On the contrary, he Is well pleased
with the platform as a whole.”
Hall issued his statement after'
an hour's conference with the Sen
ator.
BODY OF REdUSE
10 BE EXHUMED
Iowa County Board Acts to
Solve Death of Iwers in
Gold Discovery.
Ey the Associated Press.
TIPTON, Iowa, July 6 —The Cedar
County Board of Supervisors today
passed a resolution authorizing
exhumation of the body of Henry
Iwers, whose hidden fortune brought
treasure seekers to the Iwers farm
near here. Already $213,500 has been
found on the farm.
The board said it passed the resolu
tion after receiving "orders from the
State Department of Health and ad
vice from the attorney general's
office.”
Iwers was buried in the Durant,
Iowa, Cemetery.
At Des Moines, Glen Schmidt, State
Investigation Bureau chief, said an
attorney for relatives of Iwers had
asked the bureau to investigate cir
cumstances of the elderly farmer's
death.
Arrangements Made.
The bureau chief added that. his
office made a preliminary investiga
tion last week. He said the attorney
had made arrangements for the
exhumation.
"Now there is nothing for us to do
but await results of the autopsy,’*
Schmidt said.
Iwers died May 30, 1936. Schmidt
said he was informed the death
certificate said the cause was double
pneumonia.
An irate heir to the money found
aimed a "shot in the pants” threat at
gold rushers eager to search for more
hidden wealth.
Seventeen claimants were left out
in the cold when Iwers willed his
property to his cousins, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Voss. So the forgotten folks
planned to swoop down on the place
in a treasure hunt.
But Voss had other ideas. He
— (See RECLUSE, Page A-2.) *
President’s Wife Sees Human
Side of W. P. A. Aid Operation
BY FRANCES LIDE.
A colored woman with an order
blank at the W. P. A. surplus com
modity warehouse. Sixth and D streets,
felt a moment of panic today when
the slip was taken from her hands and
turned over to a little boy standing
with her at the "food window.”
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was in
specting the building and photograph
ers were arranging a jicture, but the
woman didn’t understand that. When
the shot was completed, however, and
the order slip returned, her evident
relief also relieved the President’s wife.
Calling attention to the Incident,
Mrs. Roosevelt pointed out that the
woman was “petrified—almost in
tears—at the thought of losing her
slip.”
True to her announcement last week
P
that she expected to wend much of
the Summer visiting W. P. A. and
N. Y. A. projects, Mrs. Roosevelt started
out this morning in comfortable walk
ing shoes for a “botton-to-top" tour
of the District W. P. A. sewing room
project.
First visiting the W. P. A. supply
warehouse, Sixth and Constitution
avenue, where W. P. A. work relief
supplies are distributed, she went to
the John Marshall sewing room, John
Marshall place and C street, where
1,300 women are employed in two shifts
on making garments which are later
distributed among W. P. A. relief
clients.
A burst of applause greeted her ap
pearance with the party, which in
cluded Mrs. Mary Steele Funkhouser,
(See MRS. ROOSEVELT, Page A-8J
U. S. ffi REVIEW
OF STEEL DECISION
US STRIFE LOOMS
Labor Board Declares Its
Function Must Be Up
Held to Keep Peace.
500,000 UNION MEMBERS
IS GOAL OF ORGANIZERS
Relief if Job Lost Promised Work
ers by Lieutenant Governor
of Pennsylvania.
BACKGROUND—
Labor’s union representatives
have never swayed the steel indus
try. Two years ago, A. F. of L.
voted to attempt organization in
steel field, but plans failed to ma
terialize. Group of A. F. of L.
unions, favoring industrial union
ization rather than craft unioniza
tion, last Fall formed Committee
on Industrial Organization. It de
cided to test own strength on drive
to organize steel on industry lines.
Proceeding on theory that attack
is best defense, industry immedi
ately joined in denunciation of
labor motives and pledged all re
sources to fight organization drive.
by the Associated Press.
Warning that Industrial warfare
threatens, the Government stepped
into the steel picture today as the
struggle over unionization in the $5,
000,000,000 industry headed rapidly
into its first crucial phases.
With John L. Lewis spurring the
drive to organize all 500,000 steel
workers into one big union in defiance
of the bitter opposition of employers,
the National Labor Relations Board
reopened a fight in the courts to force
steel companies to accept the national
labor relations act as a means of
keeDine Deace
The board announced it was peti
tioning the Federal Circuit Court of
Appeals at New Orleans today in a
new effort to enforce the act against
the big Jones Si Laughlin Steel Corp.
The petition said "the need for
remedial legislation such as this act
is now being amply illustrated by the
threatened strife in the steel industry
which will, by its nature, directly bur
den • • • interstate commerce."
“Employer” Unions Hit.
The act, among other things, guar
antees the right of collective bargain
ing. seeks to outlaw employer-domi
nated .unions and lists "unfair prac
tices” tor which employers could be
penalized. It is now the subject of
court battles in which its constitu
tionality is being challenged and
defended.
The Labor Board some time ago is
sued an order directing Jones Si
Laughlin to cease alleged interfer
ence with its employes’ attempts at
self-organization and to take back
10 discharged employes at its Allquip
pa. Pa., plant.
The board asked the court at New
Orleans to enforce this order. The
court refused, declaring the steel la
borers were engaged in manufacture,
not interstate commerce, and that the
Constitution gives the Federal Gov
ernment no power to regulate labor
relations in manufacture.
The court pointed to the Supreme
Court decision which struck down the
labor provisions of the Guffey coal con
trol act on the ground they were an
invasion of State rights.
Rehearing Cites "Difference.’'
The Labor Board, in its petition
today for a rehearing, argued that
the Guffey act’s type of regulation “is
different from the employment of
means to protect commerce itself pro
vided in the national labor relations
act.”
Unless "the threat of industrial war
fare is alleviated,” the board argued,
workers may "directly and intention
ally interrupt interstate commerce.”
It said the “express purpose of Con
gress to prevent such direct and in
tentional burdens to commerce itself,
and to provide a means of settling dis
putes which lead thereto, distinguishes
this statute" from the Guffey act.
Congress, the board added, has power
to “protect commerce” by removing
the causes of strikes.
The board's move was the latest
major development with a bearing on
the struggle over unionization which
is fraught with potential importance
for the future history of the American
labor movement.
With employers reiterating their in
tention to maintain the “open shop,”
John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers’
leader and head of the Committee for
Industrial Organisation, planned to
strike the keynote of the unionization
drive at 9:30 o’clock tonight in a radio
(See STBEL, page A-4.)
SON BORN TO MRS. DON
Wife of Speed Enthusiast Is
Daughter of New Yorker.
LONDON, July 6 {IP).—A son was
born today to Mrs. Kaye Don, wife of
the automobile and motor Jjoat racing
enthusiast. Mrs. Don is the former
Miss Eileen Martin, daughter of Leon
ard P. Martin of New York. The cou
ple was married in 1922.
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A MONTH OF HEALTH.
EDUCATION .
and PATRIOTISM
UNCLE SAM PAYS ALL
NECESSARY EXPENSES
JuLY8-Auousre
'936.
Dr. Cadman, Radio Preacher,
Reported in Critical Condition
Appendicitis Operation
Deemed Necessary
by Physician.
By the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURGH. N. Y„ July 6 —
Dr. L. G. Barton, jr„ said today that
the condition of Dr. S. Parkes Cad
man. noted radio preacher, was "crit
ical.'’
Dr. Barton, who is attending the 71
year-old Brooklyn clergyman at the
Champlain Valley Hospital, said he
was “quite sure” that Dr. Cadman had
a ruptured appendix and that an op
eration would be necessary.
The minister’s illness, he explained,
was such that "a deferred operation is
advisable and we are deferring it from
hour to hour until he is able to un
dergo it."
The physician described Dr. Cad
man as a strong and vigorous man for
his years, but said his condition was
serious and a little worse today.
Refusing to yield to pain, Dr. Cad
man addressed 1,500 persons in tt>e
Methodist Church here last night on
world peace, fulfilling a lecture en
gagement
Not until he completed his address
did the pastor of the Brooklyn Cen
tral Congregational Church seek med
ical attention.
Then he went to the hospital and
Dr. Barton was summoned.
DR. PARKES CADMAN.
17 TO DIE FOR AID
Five Get Life, 52 Shorter
Terms After Up
rising.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, July 7 (Tuesday).—A spe
cial court-martial early today sen
tenced 17 leaders of the February 26
rebellion to death and 5 others to life
imprisonment.
The court also convicted 44 non
commissioned officers and 8 civilians,
ordering them imprisoned for terms
ranging from 18 months to 15 years.
The charges against them included
murder, rebellion and disobedience to
the commands of the Emperor himself.
It was in this rebellion that the pre
mier. Admiral Keisuke Okada, nar
rowly escaped assassination. Three
other statesmen were killed.
Strike at Capital.
Shortly after midnight February 26
the officers-leaders of the coup ordered
some 1,400 men under their command
out of their barracks in Azabu Ward
and marched them to the heart of
the capital.
Before dawn, small groups of offi
cers, armed with pistols, machine guns
and swords, and riding in motor cars,
descended on the residences of five of
the empire's leading statesmen in
Tokio intending to paralyze the ex
isting government by assassination.
Three elderly statesmen, among the
most distinguished in Japan’s recent
history, were slain in their homes,
Admiral Count Makoto Saito, lord
keeper of the privy seal and former
premier; Gen. Jotaro Watanabe, in
spector general of military education,
and Korekiyo Takahashi, minister of
finance and former premier.
Premier Okada escaped when the
band which invaded his official resi
dence killed, instead his brother-in
law, Col. Denzo Matsuo, who resem
bled the premier in appearance.
Besides these four murders, the
rebel officers had to answer for the
deaths of five policemen. A band of
assassins also attacked and seriously
wounded Admiral Kantaro Suzuki,
grand chamberlain of the imperial
court.
Occupied Important Base.
After the assassinations the rebel
officers, with their enlisted men, most
of whom were entirely ignorant of
their leaders’ purposes, occupied for
three and a half days the Nagata
Cho district in the heart of the cap
ital, including such government build
ings as the premier’s official residence,
the new Parliament building, the
home ministry, the war ministry and
the general staff offices.
The rebels defied the government
and broke several agreements to sur
render.
The rebellion finally collapsed when
the 1,400 enlisted men heeded the
government’s appeals and promises of
leniency and laid down their arms.
>
MAN IS DROWNED,
West River Dragged for Body
After One Fatality Is
Discovered.
With the body of a Washington man
aiready taken from Maryland waters
as the result of a holiday tragedy, au
thorities today were seeking the body
of another man believed to have
drowned near Shadyside.
George H. Atchison, 54, of 638 G
street southeast, lost his life in the
Lower Potomac when he fell or jumped
from a sailboat adrift in St. Cath
erine's Sound off River Springs, Md.
Richard M. Sullivan, 1747 Church
street, an employe of the Public Works
Administration, and two other week
end vacationists heard Atchison's
screams and rushed to his aid in a
rowboat, but he was found lifeless,
fully clothed, when they reached the
scene.
Robert Wonderly, 47, of Walbrook,
Md., is believed to be the other vic
tim. West River, near Shady Side, was
being dragged after he disappeared
while wading in shallow water yes
terday.
Guest at Resort.
A week end guest at the resort,
Wonderly had been swimming most
of the day with friends, but a storm
had driven them ashore. Later, when
(See DROWNING, Page A-4.)
Turkeys Used on Insects.
DANBURY, Nebr., July 6 UP).—0.
B. Smiled and Truman Springer of
Danbury expect to kill thousands of
grasshoppers today and produce a
profit at the same time. They pur
chased a flock of turkeys and turned
them into alfalfa fields to fatten on
grasshoppers for the Thanksgiving
market.
FREED QUESTIONED
IN VALLETTE CASE
Husband of Woman Hunted
in Slaying Surrenders
to Police.
Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 6.—Edward Freed,
part owner of the Nut House. North
Side night life spot, surrendered to
police today to be questioned about the
love affairs and slaying Thursday noon
of Audrey Vallette. 31-year-old “plati
num blond butterfly.”
Freed appeared at the Hudson ave
nue station at 9:45 a.m. (Eastern
standard time) with his attorney.
Abraham Marovltz. He wore a dark
suit and a cap, showed no outward j
appearance of the illness which his i
attorney had reported.
He was not accompanied by his
wife. Ruth, whom police have sought
since her photograph was pointed out
as resembling that of the woman who
visited Miss Vallette's apartment Just
before she was slain.
Wife's Whereabouts Unknown.
Freed was taken to the office of
Police Capt. Andrew Barry. Before
being closeted with him, Freed told
inquirers he had neither seen nor
heard from his wife, Ruth, since the j
time Miss Vallette was shot in the
chest in a near North Side hotel
apartment. He asserted he did not
know where she was.
Freed asserted that since Thursday
noon he had been staying with rela
tives in Chicago.
“I last saw Ruth either late Wed
nesday or early Thursday,” he said.
“I had a business engagement and
left her at our home.”
xac :auwu wj 1115 acquaint
anceship with the slain woman.
Questioned by Capt. Barry, Freed
declared he would not talk of Miss
Valletta, also known as Annabelle
Blake, until he has had a chance to
talk with his wife.
Wants to Talk to Wife.
To a point-blank question as to his
relations with Miss Valletta, he re
plied:
“I would like to co-operate with the
authorities, but my wife’s liberty is
at stake and until I get a chance to
talk with her I have nothing else to
aay.
"I had a nervous breakdown after
I heard about this and I have been
under the care of a doctor at the
home of relatives. When I read
about this I phoned my brother to
call Attorney Marovitz. When I am
released I will try to get in touch
with my wife and do what I can do
to clear up the situation.”
Eyston Drives Car
162.5 Miles in Hour
to Set World Mark
By tbe Associated Press.
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS,
Utah, July 6.—Capt. George
Eyston, English speedster, drove
his shark-nosed racing car 162.5
miles in one hour today to set a
new world record.
In setting the new mark in his
specially built machine, Eyston
bettered his own world record of
159.3 miles an hour.
Official American Automobile
Association timers caught the
record.
Holiday Death Toll Hits 440,
Largest Number in Last 5 Years
By the Associated Press.
The Nation today summed up its
cost in life of celebrating the double
holiday of the Fourth of July and
found the staggering total of 440 per
sons had met violent death over the
week end.
It was the largest Independence day
oelebration fatality list since 1931,
when 483 died, and the second largest
In the last nine years. However, the
1936 deaths were over two days,
whereas the compilations for some of
the previous years were for the
Fourth only.
Death totals were 316 In 1935, 175
in 1934, 185 In 1933 and 243 in 1932.
Motor vehicle fatalities numbered
254 as unprecedented millions took to
the highways for the double holiday.
Deaths by drowning were listed at
103.
Fireworks resulted in 7 deaths, the
same as in 1835, 1928 and 1833.
There were 13 deaths attributed to
r
fireworks In 1930, 11 in 1928, 6 in
1931 and 2 in 1934. Advance esti
mates were that the sale of pyro
technics had increased substantially
in 1936.
Others lost their lives in tavern
brawls, airplane crashes, wild shoot
ing and railroad and other acci
dents. Fires and lightning claimed
other victims.
The record compared unfavorably
with the list of 205 in 1828, 159 in
1929, 178 in 1930, 243 in 1932, 185 in
1933, 175 in 1934 and 216 in 1935,
despite widespread appeals for a safe
and sane celebration.
National Guardsmen occupied Rem
sen, Iowa. A firecracker there started
a blaze that resulted in a loss esti
mated at $500,000. Four blocks of
business buildings were razed. Fifteen
families were homeless.
Deaths by 8tateS: Alabama, S; Ar
(See FOURTH, Page A-4.)
A
ROOSEVELT BACK,
SEES FARLEY AND
DROUGHT AIDES
Postmaster General Due to
Make Decision onLeav
ing Post.
M’CARL’S SUCCESSOR
ALSO IS CONSIDERED
Conferences With Roper and
Gerard Swope Also Sched
uled for Today.
Political and drought problems con
fronted President Roosevelt today as
he returned to the White House from
a week end tour of Virginia.
After scheduling a luncheon meet
ing with Postmaster General Farley,
which may result in a definite deci
sion concerning Farley’s cabinet statua
while directing the New Deal’s political
campaign, the President summoned
three of his aides for a discussion of
severe drought conditions in the West.
The Chief Executive also is de
voting considerable thought to the
selection of a successor to J. R. Me
Carl, whose 15-year-term as controller
general expired last week. There were
Indications, however, that final deci
sion on this appointment will be de
ferred for some time because of the
importance of the controller's work and
the job's status as a prize political
plum.
May Take Leave of Absence.
Farley accompanied Mr. Roosevelt
on the Virginia trip, but said the pos
sible relinquishment of his cabinet
post was not discussed. The general
issimo of the Roosevelt forces inti
mated, however, that rather than re
sign he would prefer a leave of ab
sence without pay from the Post Office
Department, and gave the impression
a definite decision will be made today.
It is generally believed the Presi
dent will accede to Farley's wishes in
this matter. Several of the Roose
velt lieutenants have pointed out It
would be helpful to Farley during the
campaign to remain a member of the
cabinet, even though he is not draw
ing pay and some one else is doing hi«
departmental work.
Mr. Roosevelt also conferred this
morning with Secretary of Commerce
Roper. For this afternoon he has
scheduled talks with Gerard Swope,
chairman of the board of the General
Electric Co. and head of the Mobili
zation for Human Needs; Stillman F.
Westbrook, secretary of the National
Community Chest; Morris L. Cooke,
director of Rural Electrification, and
Senators Loftin and Hill of Florida.
May Leave Thursday.
The President plans? to leave Wash
ington Thursday or Friday to visit
his mother in Hyde Park for a few
days. He will embark for a two
week cruise along the Maine coast
on his son James' 50-foot schooner.
John and Franklin Roosevelt, jr,
also will accompany him on this trip,
which will include a visit with the
governor general of Canada. Mr.
Roosevelt probably will not return to
Washington before August 1.
The President made two speeches
during his Virginia trip, the first
marking the dedication of Shenan
doah National Park.
Tribute to Jefferson.
On the Fourth of July he stood at
the portico of Thomas Jefferson's
home Monticello in Charlottesville and
eulogized Jefferson. Describing him as
a man who was not satisfied with
"things as they are.” but devoted
himself to “things as they ought to
be,” Mr. Roosevelt called on the Na
tion to renew the struggle for "true
freedom.”
At wimamscurg, old-time capital or
Virginia, the President yesterday at
tended worship in the old brick church
of Bruton Parish.
With Mrs. Roosevelt by his side
the President faced the church's 200
year-old altar, before which stood the
original baptismal fount used by the
settlers at Jamestown.
Greeted at the door by Rev. Dr. W,
A. R. Goodwin, the rector, the Presi
dent was reminded that Bruton was
the church of Patrick Henry, Wash
ington, Jefferson, Monroe and Madi
son and that eight Presidents of the
United States before him had occu
pied the same chair.
As text for his sermon. Dr. Good
win used the prayer offered at James
town at the opening of the first
legislative assembly ever to meet in
America—"men’s affairs do but little
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5.)
TEN HORSESBURN
IN TRAINING BARN
rwo of Seven Animals Led From
Building B,un Back to Die
in Fire.
By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD. Ky„ July 6.—Fire
of unknown origin destroyed a large
saddle horse training barn and 10
horses at Kalarama Farm, near here,
yesterday, it was reported by L. R.
rhurman, manager of the saddle horse
nursery.
Thurman expressed the opinion that
the fire started from defective electric
wiring.
Among the horses burned to death
were: Gypsy Sun Flower, champion
wood mare by King Barrymore-Spoon
Mll by Sun Flower, and her colt foal
ay Kalarama Rex; Brownsdale Fairy
Prince, yearling colt by Kalarama Rex
3yp6y Sun Flower; Kalarama Captain,
promising 2-year-old show colt by
Kalarama Rex-Gypsy Sun Flower:
Star Broom, 2-year-old show gelding
»y Kalarama Rex-Star Blossom; Mary
Long, 2-year-old 5-galted show filly by
American Bom-Moonflower; a 2-year
pld filly by Chief of Longview; 2-year
pld stallion by Kalarama Rex and a
1-year-old walk-trot gelding.
Five horses were led from the burn
ing building. Two others were taken
put, but ran back in and were de
itroyed.