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Says Mayor Using Wire-Tap
Charges as Springboard for
Political Ambition.
Bt th* Assocltted Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July 24.—Charg
ing Mayor S. Davis Wilson was using
the incident "as a springboard for his
own political ambitions.” Gov. George
H. Earle tonight demanded an apology
from Wilson for a statement the Gov
ernor was "unquestionably responsible"
for the alleged tapping of telephone
wires to the home of Wilson's secretary.
Wilson, announcing at the same time
he would run for Governor of Pennsyl
vania next year in defiance of at
tempts "to assassinate my character."
made his charges at a hearing in which
he held a State motor policeman in
$5.00(1 bail on a charge of tapping tele
phone wires of Louis E. Wilgarde, sec
retary to the Mayor.
Points In Committee Activity.
The Mayor declared the policeman.
Wallace F. Ely. had been working for
the Senate Committee headed by Sen
ator Frank Ruth, investigating the
Pennsylvania courts.
Earle said "documentary evidence
obtained by Mayor Wilson shows con
clusively that the policeman involved
was acting solely as an investigator for
the i Ruthi commission.
"This was confirmed by the police
man's own statement.
cannot understand why Mayor Wilson;
made his unfounded charges that I
as Governor, was responsible in even
the slightest degree for the activities
of this policeman.
"Mayor Wilson knew his charge was
untrue when he made it and I demand
an apology for his totally unjustified
statement.
"He has chosen to use as a spring
board for his own political ambitions
the action of an investigator of a
legislative committee "
Wilson said, after readme a state
ment bv Edvard W. Prendergast.
Earles secretary, to the effect that
Earle knew nothing of detailed ac
tivities of the Ruth Committee, that >
"I am glad to learn the Governor
had nothing to do with it. I couldn't
believe he would be guilty of such
a thing "
Says Criticism Misplaced.
Chet A. Keyes, counsel for the Ruth
Committee, said "If there is to be
any criticism of our methods, that
Briticism should be directed at the
members or me, not at the Governor
or other individuals who have no
connection with the commission. . . .
"I am greatly surprised at the fuss
that is being created in the newspa
pers over the revelation that an in- ,
vestigating bodv should resort to wire- !
tapping, a device commonly employed
ell over the country by duly author- \
Ized lav-pnforcement agencies."
Mayor Wilson, Republican, who took !
office in January, 1936. for a four- \
tear term, said at the policeman's
hearing:
"I have repeatedly said I did ndt |
intend to run for Governor or any !
other office and I hoped I would not ]
have to. But now it Is necessary.
"I do not know what ticket I will
run on, but I will be the people's
candidate. ”
GERMANY GUARDS ORE
Government Unit Will Take
Hand in Working Mines.
BER.LIN, July 24 i/Pi.—The govern
ments control of Germany's mineral
resources was tightened tonight by
an order authorizing It to participate j
in private enterprises working certain .
ore deposits.
It was announced a company had 1
been formed to operate mines in
Hanover. Baden and Franconia, under
the name of thp "Hermann Gopring
Reich Works for Iron Ore. Mining and
Smelting." Goering. who issued the
order, is dictator of foreign exchange
and raw materials.
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Girl, 12, Captures
Prize of Parasol
In Freckles Event
Jean Mellon W inner in
Contest at Langdon
Park Playground.
A parasol to keep the sun off her
fare so she would not, get any more
freckles was the prize received Fri
day by Jean Mellon. 12. of 22ns Perry
street northeast, after she won the
girls' freckles contest at the Langdon
Park Playground. Mills avenue and
Franklin street northeast.
Jean, a 6-B student at the John '
Burroughs School, broke the parasol
shortly afterward, however. It wouldn't
do much good anyway, she said, be
cause, although she doesn't know ex
actly how many freckles she has, she
does know she has "lots.”
The boys’ contest was won by Rich
ard Thompson. 13, of Charlotte Hall.
Md. About 100 freckled youngsters
took part In the affair. Other prizes
vere presented for the largest freckle
and the moat freckles on the nose.
THE PUBLIC’S
CHOICE
Because
Holbrook Farms Dairy was the
first to be awarded Grade A Pas
teurized by the Montgomery County
Health Department at the semi
annual grading period. July 15th.
1937.
j 150 faVmers with Grade A Dairy
! Farms have assisted in keeping re
tail price of milk within reach of
all.
Grade A Pasteurized Milk. I I
Per qucrt_ I I C
100"?, Independently Owned and
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One of Four Slain by Mother
Twenty-month-old Elizabeth Walkup. the youngest of four
sleeping children killed by their mother. Mrs. Marie Walkup. of
Flagstaff. Ariz.. before she ended her own life with a rifle. De
spondency over ill health was blamed.
—Copyright. A. P. Wirephoto.
Rebellious Indians Ask Collier
Ouster, Hitting Stock Cut Plan
By the Assocm’ed Pre«s.
FARMINGTON. N. Mex July 24 — j
Turquois and blanket-bedecked Nava- j
Jo head men threatened rebellion |
against thp white man's government
today and thundered warnings against
proposed reduction of their grazing
stock.
Calm tribal chieftains urged cau- I
tion. condemning white men for stir
ring up factional political disputes :
among the 50,000 Navajos.
Disregarding these warnings, an in
surgent council of 400 Navajos drafted
resolutions demanding the ouster of
United States Indian Commissioner
John Collier and indorsing the anti
Collier fight led by Senator Dennis
Chavez of New Mexico.
Last week a tribal council in Win
dow Rock, Ariz.. and an all-Pueblo
meeting in Santo Domingo. N. Mex..
upheld Collier and strongly criticized
Chavez.
Bearing dirertly on the personal af
fairs of every Navaio—and. some be
lieve, at the heart of the trouble—Is
the Indian Service's stock-reduction
program, designed to maintain sparse
grazing lands. Further complicating
the situation is an Indian dispute
over the Wheeler-Howard (Indian
self-government) act and a bill to de
fine and extend grazing land boun
daries.
Deshne Chischillige, influential tri- j
bal leader, said:
"The Navajo people are poor and
uneducated Thev don't know which
way to turn—whether to believe the
(Indiani superintendent or these men
who are going around the reservation
encouraging them to oppose the Gov
ernment."
Chee Dodge, rich old war chief,
thundered against the Senate Indian
Affairs Committee for countenancing j
"men who went to Washington to stir j
up trouble among the Navajos."
However, the present insurgent
meeting of Navajo "progressives" went
ahead with plans to declare the pres
ent recognized Navajo tribal council
■‘illegal" and not representative of
the tribe.
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COLLEGES CONSOLIDATE
LAUREL. Miss., July 24 <4» —'The
closing of two Methodist Church col
leges and their consolidation with
Millsaps College, Jackson, was an
nounced today by Rev. J. F. Campbell,
a member of the Conference Board of
Christian Education and of the Whit
worth College board of trustees.
Colleges affected are Whitworth
College, Brookhaven, and Grenada
College. Grenada.
CIVIL SERVICE BILL
HELD DEADLY SLAB
Martin Assails Administra
tion Proposals as a Raid
by the President.
BY WILL P. KENNEDY.
A vigorous protest against the ad
ministration's proposed civil service
reorganization was made last night by
Representative Martin, Republican, of
Massachusetts, who charged that the
"New Deal is planning another deadly
stab at the merit system,”
Martin's attack came at a time
when the House was preparing to pass
the first of four reorganization meas
ures, that giving the President au
thority to appoint six additional ad
ministrative assistants to the Whit*
House secretarial force. This bill is
expected to go through tomorrow,
while that which was the chief target
of Martin's blast probably will be re
ported by a special subcommittee Wed
nesday.
Martin, chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, emphasized
that "public hearings have been denied
many opponents of this bill.” He
held that President Roosevelt's recom
mendation for a one-man civil service
administration to replace the existing
bipartisan commission would place the
entire Federal machine of 840.000 em
ployes "under the personal patronage
of the President and his jobmaster
general, looking forward to the 1938
congressional elections.”
Expressing the organized opposition
of the Republican minority, Martin
said that "in an effort to drive this
destructive scheme of political mo
bilization through in the last days of
the session, the White House is bring
ing extraordinary pressure to bear
upon some members of Congress.” He
insisted that the bill* the President
seeks, "in the name of civil service
reform, to establish the last essential
instrument of unbridled political
spoilsmanship"
Before issuing his statement, Mar
tin conferred with Representative Ta
ber of New York, who is prepared to
denounce in the House tomorrow the
bill providing for the six additional
administrative assistants and. with
Representative Gifford of Massachu
setts, ranking Republican on the Ex
penditures Committee.
Martin asserted that whereas the
last official report of the Civil Service
Commtssion shows 840.159 Federal em
ployes on June 1, exclusive of the
military personnel and Civilian Con
servation Corps employes, only 509.328
of this number are in the 'classified
civil service. The other 330.831 are
patronage appointees, he said, con
tending that the percentage of non
civil service employes is the largest
in 40 years.
Since Marrh. 1933. the New Deal
has added 277.000 persons to the
Federal pay roll, but has increased the
classified civil service rolls less than
55,000, according to Martin.
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EXTRADITION BARRED
MEXICO CITY. July 24 i/P —Alex
ander Pompez. fugitive from a New
York lottery racket indictment, was
granted an Injunction today bv the
Second District Court against a ruling
of the first district judge that he be
extradited to the United States,
The injunction is effective until
July 28. when, according to law. the
judge will decide whether It should
be permanent or allow the Mexican
foreign office to handle extradition
proceedings.
Stark Realism Held Essential
In Art of Creating Dioramas
F. J. Mackenzie Says
Old and New Masters
Would Be Flops.
Stark realism is an essential of the
art form in which Frank J. Mackenzie, 1
London-born Washingtonian, works.
He makes dioramas, creating within
the space of a packing box lilluputian
worlds with three-dimensional fore
grounds and curved backgrounds of
two dimensions.
In such a medium, he pointed out,
as the interviewer looked about the
fascinating clutter of his studio on the
second floor of 1517 H street, there's
no place for the artist's individual
conception of scenes or figures. The
old masters and the modernists alike
would be "flops'1 at making dioramas.
"The trick.’’ he explained, "is to
unify the foreground and the back
ground, to make people stand in front
of the exhibit and argue about where
solid objects end and painting begins,
to confuse the human eye into think
ing it looks out over valleys and
mountains.
"The effect of stark realism is
therefore required. The painter with
a mannerism is doomed, for he can
not make his backdrop harmonize
with the real objects near the eye."
Diorama Is New Art.
The diorama is a new art, and Mac
kenzie thinks it's as distinct a medium
as the organ in music. This suggested
to him that building a diorama Is
somewhat like playing three instru
ments at once, for the artist must
paint, model and often arrange taxi
dermic and technical exhibits in the
foreground.
He has made large-scale dioramas,
but in recent years he has concen
trated on the miniature type.
' The trend is toward motement in
the scene." he said "The require
ments for a recent dioramic arrange
ment demanded lighting which would
portray the cycles of day and night.
Others require moving trains, flowing
water, cranes at work on the wharves.
All these must be worked out within
weird rules of perspective, with three
vanishing points on the horizon in
stead of the single one in a land
scape painting "
The market for dioramas comes
from museums that want to give visi
tors an idea of the life of the com
mon "bob white" or of the extinct
stegosaurus and diplodocus; from com
mercial organizations and from the
Government.
Mackenzie has done work for the
Bureau of Exhibits, the Interior De
partment. Biological Survey and the
Forest Sertace.
Began Career in Iondon.
H» began his career in the Royal
Academy School of London, where
he won the Turner gold medal and
a traveling fellowship. He then
studied in Paris. He came to the
United States after some years in
South Africa to design the Boer War
exhibit in the St. Louis World's Fair
of 1904.
Because of his first-hand observa
tion of African life, the artist then
j was engaged to do work on natural
I habitat groups in various American
i museums, and at the Sesquicentennial
in Philadelphia and the Century of
Progress Exposition in Chicago.
"It was. perhaps, a natural step
from work like this to the miniature
dioramas," Mackenzie said, "but when
I came to Washington 10 years ago
’ the Government didn't know what
they were. Since then it has come to
use them extensively as a means of
encouraging conservation activity.”
The origin of the diorama is some
what obscure. Mackenzie believes that
the first real one. a small bird group,
was produced in the South Kensington
museum half a century ago. It is
probably derived from the panorama,
or cyclorama, which was invented by
Robert Barker of Edinburgh in 1788.
I/iuis Jacques Manrie Daguerre,
French painter and physicist, who
later invented the daguerreotype, pro
duced in Paris in 1822 an exhibit
which he called "The Diorama,” but
whirh was merely an exhibition of pic
torial views, with the effect height
ened by changes in the light thrown
on them The term is derived from
two Greek words, meaning "through
view.”
Mrs. Steese Gets Divorce.
RENO. Nev , July 24 l/TV—Mrs
Esther Hill Steese. prominent, in New
York society, was gi anted a divorce
today from H»aton Sturtevant Steese. j
She charged extreme cruelty and de
sertion. T'nc couple married Decem
ber 25, 1917, Custody of their son. j
William. 18. and a property settle
ment were arranged in an agreement
ordered sealed by the court.
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Feel Too Tender,
Zoo's iRobe’ Gets
Private Quarters
Aging Elephant, yervous
Recently, Taken From
Double Pen.
Tender feet hate earned Babe, the
Zoo's 99-year-old former circus ele
phant, private quarters in her declin
ing years.
Until recently the one-time mon- !
i arch of Ringling Bros -Bamum Bai
| ley's troupe had shared a pen with
another pachyderm. Then the Babe
became somewhat fractious and the
nervousness was traced to ailing un
derpins.
Head Keeper W. H. Blackburn de
cided it would be best to put Babe
in a pen alonp. rather than risk se
! nous trouble between the two.
The aged elephant was presented
to the Zoo in May, 1934. after she
! had been with circuses more than half
1 a centurv.
F. J. MACKENZIE.
EANTTO
‘Our Constitution” Will Be
Presented Thursday at
McKinley-Langley.
The height of the Midsummer
schedule of the District’s co-ordinated
recreation program will be reached
this week, with the presentation of
the pageant, “Our Constitution." at the
McKinley-Langley Community Cen
ter at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, holding
the spotlight.
The Constitution Sesqulcentennial
Commission, through It* chairman,
Representative Sol Bloom, Is co-oper
ating with the Community Center De
partment and five Northeast Wash
ington citizens' associations in pre
senting the pageant in observance of
the ISOth anniversary of the adoption
of the Constitution. The citizens'
groups are the Brookland, Michigan
Park, Dahlgren Terrace, Burroughs
and Rhode Island Avenue Citizens'
Associations.
Dance Group to Perform.
Mis* Marian Chare and her dance
group will perform a* a part of the
pageant program. Children coached
by Mr*. Elizabeth Ollea also will
participate.
Among the other event* to be staged
at various centers and playgrounds
about the city this week sre a baby
show at the Carberry Center, Fifth
and D street* northeast at 11 a m.
Tuesday for any girl costumed a* a
child; a meeting of the Boys’ Club
at 6:30 p.m., and a dance for young
people at * p.m. at the Buchanan
Center the same day.
Doll Show* Scheduled.
On Wednesday doll shows will be
held at the Georgetown and Brook
land Centers at 2 o'clock, the Van
Buren Center at 2:30 and at the
Corcoran and Orr Centers at 3 o'clock.
The Shepherd Center will hold a pet
show at 2 pm. Jack Pernie and Boh
Spindler, representing the Paul Junior
High School unit, will give a mode!
airplane demonstration at the Bu
chanan Center at II o'clock.
A doll show will be held at the
Park View School at 2 pm. Thursdav,
while the Maury School and Eastern
High School units will hold pet shows
at the same hour.
On Friday the Stanton School di
vision will stage a doll show at 2
o'clock. The Powell and Ludlow
Schools will have similar event* at 3
pm. The Langdon group will hold a
vehlclp parade at 2:30, while the Ban
croft unit will have a tacky party.
The Jefferson Center will conduct a
costume show at 3 pm.
Buyers from 27 foreign countries <
attended the International Fair in
Brussels, Belgium.
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