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CHEYENNE FAILS :
TO START FIGHT
O’Mahoney's Meeting With
Roosevelt Proves “Dud,”
Politically Speaking.
ON BOARD PRESIDENT ROOSE
VELT'S SPECIAL TRAIN EN
ROUTE TO SEATTLE. September
25 (NAN. A.).—President Roosevelt
at Cheyenne, for the first time on his
present trip, came fare to face with
a Democratir senator who had vigor
ously opposed his Supreme Court bill,
but the result was a distinct anti
climax.
The let-down was the more pro
nounced because the Wyoming citi
senry was all set, to witness a great
political drama. The stage was fixed
for it when Senator Joseph C. O'Ma
honey arrived in Cheyenne late the
previous day all uninvited by Presi
dent Roosevelt and tired and dishev
eled from four days’ fast driving from
Chicago. He had first heard that
the President would speak in Chey
enne, his home down, when he read
the newspapers last Monday morning
and he last not a minute in starting
for home.
In the meantime, the Wyoming
electorate was being stirred bv re
peated stories from the eastward that
the President was coming out to take
the hide off the senators who had
wrecked his legislative program, and
O'Mahoney, who with Senator Pat
McCarran of Nevada, had turned the
tide against the court bill in the Sen- -
ate Judiciary Committee, obviously
w’as a shining target for the presiden- I
tiol u’rafVi I
Would He Face Roosevelt? ^
For three days, Cheyenne citizens
had been debating whether O'Mahoney
would dare to fare Mr. Roosevelt. His
close friends were sure that no man
with an Irish "O" ahead of his name
ever ran away from a fight. The more
ardent New Dealprs jeered back vari- <
ouslr that O'Mahoney was lost and he '
would remain so until after the Roose
velt, visit,, or that Joe might turn up,
but If he did. he would be nothing
more than a grease spot by the time
the President got through with him. ]
As indicated above, the climax came
when the Senator came driving down
the main street in his own dusty auto
mobile at dusk on Thursday, to declare !
that he had come to meet Mr. Roose- <
velt, either friend or foe, as the latter
might elect.
The Wyoming Eagle. Cheyenne's only
morning newspaper, which was handed *
the President an hour before his ■
arrival, devoted most of its front page j
to the impending Roosevelt-O'Mahoney
scrap. "State tense as F. R. nears !
Cheyenne." it blared in an eight- 1
column headline, followed by the decla- ]
ration in slightly smaller* type that
"failure to invite O'Mahoney to join 1 *
him creates stir.” *
The following text declared that 1
Gov. Leslie L. Miller and Senator Harry f
Schwartz had been invited to ride
through the State with the President. !
but not O'Ma honey. Two other articles, *
almost equally displayed, told of O'Ma- ! 1
honey’s dash from Chicago and his in- 1
tention to meet the President even if j ^
it was only as a private citizen, and ! !
that a meeting of Cheyenne Democrats j 1
had decided Thursday evening to stage j '
a testimonial dinner for O'Mahoney
next Monday, seats for which already ! 1
were more than sold out.
Hoped Against Reprisals. | (
In a double lead editorial, the Eagle ! v
recalled that it had been a supporter ■
of Roosevelt in the elections of both I *
3932 and 1936. but that it had been I c
compelled to disagree with him on his j
Supreme Court and corporate tax bills | (
and on some features of the wages I c
and hours bill. It expressed eonfi- c
dence that the President will not stoop I 1
to reprisal against those who disagree f
with him.
Such was the setting when the ^
presidential train drew into the Chey- n
enne station. Members of the local J
Citizens’ Committee, headed by Gov. y
Miller, no less than the newspaper n
correspondents, were speculating as to s
whether O'Mahoney would appear; 1
when ■ he suddenly strode into the j .
group. He had not been invited by i 11
the President and he didn't know • n
where he stood, he admitted, but he |
couldn't permit the President to come ! c
to his home town without being on i 1
hand to greet him. Mrs. Roosevelt !
came alone just then and shook hands !
with O'Mahoney with every appear- n
8nee of warmth. Senator Schwartz, a
first termer in Washington, edged for- e
ward and there was a touch of tri
umph in O'Mahoney's manner when ®
Mrs Roosevelt failed to recognize the
junior Senator and O'Mahoney was
compelled to introduce him.
A moment later, the President's sec
retary. Marvin McIntyre, greeted
O Mahoney and it was McIntyre who ; F
subsequently assured the Senator that
the President would be glad to have
him ride the train to its last Wyoming
stop at Casper. 2
No Mention of Major Aims.
O'Mahoney moved out into the
crowd to listen to one of the most in- r
nocuous speeches Mr. Roosevelt ever t
has delivered. The President made
no mention of his court, bill or of any L
other of the major features of his leg- v
Jslative program. Instead, he told of , -
the thousand of airports and new J
schools the Federal Government had t
built from relief funds. j
The depression emergency and the
era of government spending, he said, j
was drawing toward an end. He was t
sure It all had been very helpful to -
the Nation and even more sure that
the Government of the United States
Is not going broke. This last pro- J
nouncement evoked a mild cheer, the
only one that the crowd of 5,000
vouchsafed. It had come in ex
pectancy of a dog fight and it was
plainly disappointed when nothing of l
the sort occurred.
While the President was speaking j
Senator O'Mahoney engaged in a con- t
tinuous reception, dozens of citizens ,
moved over to shake his hand, slap his
beck and whisper encouragement. The '
Senator plainly was having a most
enjoyable time.
If there was any visible slight to
O'Mshoney during the day, it was the
President's pointed references to Sen
ator Schwartz and O'Mahoney's prede
cessor, the late Senator John B. Ken
drick. in his speech at Casper, as lead
ing promoters of the neighboring Cas
per-Alcova project. O'Mahoney, who
also has been active in this connection,
was not mentioned. The President
also may have had O'Mahoney in mind
when he referred to those who do "lip
service to the administration's ob
jectives,” but balk at the means of
obtaining them. By "means” the Pres- :
ident perhaps had in mind the court i
bill which O'Mahoney opposed. i
(Capyrlrht, 103*. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) 1
I
Fiery Cross Bums Again
mi.n, mm u—
X /ter.y rross ?ras burned yesterday near the home of Ray
Sprigle. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, who recently wrote
a series of articles aesigned to show Justice Black’s relationship
with the Ku Klux Klan. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
(lYSIONE G. 0. r.
_
Itate Committee Rallies to
Launch Drive Back
to Power.
(y the Associated Press.
ALTOONA. Pa.. September 25.—
Republican party chieftains in Penn
ylvania rallied today to launch a
Irive back to power in this once tra
litionally Republican State.
It was the first meeting of the State
ommittee since the campaign last
ear when Pennsylvania swung to
Resident Roosevelt and the party
nst its last two major offices. State
reasurer and auditor general, to the
>emocrats.
Biggest task of the conference was
he election of a State chairman to
ucceed M. Harvey Taylor of Harris
iurg, who resigned a few months
fter last, November's election.
Friends of C. Edward Green, acting
Itate chairman, insisted the Pitts
mrgher had marshalled sufficient
trength to win. David Perry. Blair
ounty attorney and member of the
Rouse of Representatives, and Jay
Jerhler, Philadelphia lawyer and
ormer foot, ball star at Pennsylvania,
cere candidates
Interest in the chairmanship vied
odav with suggestions for the reju
enation of the party. Among moves
avored in answers to a 20-question
ircular. leaders said, was a merger
•ith dissatisfied Democrat*.
In crowded lobbies, where commit
eemen sat in shirt sleeves and puffed
louds of cigar and cigarette smoke,
ooms for Governor were heard,
iliver M. Deibler of Westmoreland
ounty. former fish commissioner and
lose friend of Gifford Pinchot, one
me Republican Governor, said his
•iends were "urging me to run."
The names of G. Mason Owlett of
ioga, member of the National Com
littee: United States Senator James
Davis, whose term will expire next
?ar, and Harry Trout of Lancaster,
lember of the State House of Repre
‘ntatives, entered into the conversa
ons.
Davis’ formal announcement that
e had resigned from the State Com
littee aroused speculation.
He said that he stepped down "be
mse I was only named for the na
onal campaign last year.”
The senior Senator scouted reports
tat he wax back of an Independent
ovement in Pennsylvania and added:
"I always have been an independ
lt; that's not news.”
Of reports that he would seek the
)vernorship, Davis commented:
"I haven't any bug just now.”
HASTY BACK ON MOUND
ormer Mackman, Now Amateur,
Ends Battle Creek Streak.
BATTLE CREEK. Mich.. September
5 <A>).—Semi-finals In the American
lase Ball Congress amateur tourna
lent will be played today, with At
mta meeting Fresno, Calif., and St.
aul engaging Battle Creek Steel and
/ire.
The Battle Creek outfit, unbeaten
ntll yesterday, lost, 5 to 1, to Atlanta,
ut it took a former major league
itcher to turn the trick. Bob Hasty,
nee with the Philadelphia Athletics
ut now restored to amateur status,
eld the local club to four hits.
Today's winners will meet Sunday
nr the championship won a year ago
t Louisville by Lynn, Mass.
C. DF C. COMPLAINS
OF TAX BURDENS
Business Discouraged, Sav
ings, Wages Threatened,
Statement Says.
By the Associated Press.
The United States Chamber of Com
merce said today Federal, State and
j local taxes take so much of the na- |
! tional income that they "discourage
business, threaten the security of
J wages and savings and retard employ
! ment.”
The chamber, regarded as the
1 spokesman for a large segment of
business, asserted m a "statement of
policies'’ that the Federal budget
j should be balanced. It. added:
"Unless expenditures are curtailed,
any revenue program designed to ob
1 tain an early balance of the budget
; will fail of its purpose.”
The chamber demanded “restora
tion of a satisfactory international
monetary standard and strict main
' tenanee of ihe integrity of the cur
rencies of the world ”
"The gold standard." its statement
said, "is the only international mon
etary standard that has commanded
general acceptance.’’
i The chamber expressed opposition to
cancellation of war debts. It said
modified payment agreements should
be effected only on condition that
debtor nationa grant Americans "fair j
competitive terms” in foreign trade'
j and agree to reduce expenditures for
; armaments.
Striking at "Government compe
I tion.” the organization said "the in
vasion of government into fields cf j
btisiness properly occupied bv private ]
: enterprise constitutes one of the gray- i
est present threats against the eco
nomic freedom of our citizens.”
As to labor problems, the state
ment said picketing should be limited
“to giving out information, and should
not be permitted to include anv ac
tions which will cause reasonable ap
prehension in the mind of any per
son that, there will be Injury to himself
or members of his family.”
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AUTOPSY IS ORDERED
IN WOMAN’S DEATH
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. September 25.—An
autopsy was ordered today on the
; bruised body of auburn-haired Vir
ginia Lee Darrow, 34, found yesterday
in the apartment of John Walker,
Los Angeles Country Club caddy.
Walker was held on suspicion of
murder. Police Detective Joseph
Filkas quoted him as saying Miss Dar
row last consciousness after a hem
morhage and that "I slapped her a
little, trying to bring her to.”
Earl Ragsdale, manager of the
apartment house, said Walker told
him yesterday Miss Darrow was ill
and had discussed calling a physician.
Filkas said Walker told him Miss
Darrow had been living with him as
his common-law wife,
Ragsdale told police the two quar
reled frequently and Miss Darrow
once had appeared with a black eye.
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‘’Premier” Proves Joke.
CLEVELAND, September 25 <>P).—
A small crowd gathered at a Great
Lakes Exposition show-place last night
with printed invitations for the
"world premiere" of "The Drunkard's
Son.”
A practical joker had been at work.
The place was dark.
“The Drunkard,” a bar-room classic
of yore, had closed there two days ago.
GREATEST OF JEWS
SELECTED IN POLL
Honor Society of Chicago
Students Offers “Living
Ideals” to Youth.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 25.—The
"120 greatest living Jews” have been
named to a Jewish hall of fame
selected in a world-wide poll by The
Ivrim, honor society of Chicago Jewish
students.
Their purpose was to hold up "living
ideals” to Jewish youth and they re
quired only that nominees must have
been alive on Rosh Ha-Shanah (Jewish
new' year) of 5697 (September 28,
1936).
Scientist Albert Einstein. Actor Paul
Muni, Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, jr„ and Supreme Court
Justices Louts Brandeis and Benjamin
Cardozo won election to the dis
tinguished group.
Nominees were drawn principally
from medicine, the humanities, juris
prudence, the arts, sciences, the rab
binate, journalism, sociology, statecraft,
education, Jewish movements and en
gineering.
Seven Dead to Be Replaced.
A spokesman said seven have since
died and will be replaced next year
to maintain the personnel at 120
members. They were Adolph Ochs,
publisher of the New York Times;
Percy Selden 8traus, merchant: Ossip
Gabrilowitsch, pianist; Jacob de Hass,
journalist; George Gershwin, com
poser: Dr. Alfred Adler, psychiatrist,
and Meier DizengofT, Mayor of Tel
Aviv.
The group included;
Former French Premier Leon Blum,
Musicians Mlscha Elman, Jascha Hei- 1
fetz, Yehudi Menuhin and Efrem Zim- i
balist. Authors Sholom Asch. Leon
* « V4\ **< nnugri, x nimir JjUll w it
Lewisohn, Emil Ludwig. Arnold and
Stefan Zwetg, Sculptor Jacob Epstein.
Composers Maurice Ravel and Oscar
Strauss.
Max Litvnoff. U. S. S. R. commisar
of foreign affairs; Dr. Morris Fishbein,
editor of the Journal of the American
Medical Association; Dr. Sigmund
Freud. Prof. Felix Frankfurter, i
Dramatist David Pinski. Max Rein- |
hardt of the theater, Radio Engineer |
David Sarnoff, Dr. Stephen Wise. \
president of the Jewish Institute of '
Religion, and Lillian D. Wald, founder
of Henry Street Settlement in New
York.
Sent to 110 Communities.
Questionnaires and 420 suggested
names were sent almost a year ago
to 110 Jewish communities throughout
the world. They were addressed to
Zionist organisations and Jewish edu- i
rational groups, which took plebis- I
cites and returned the communities' j
joint selections to The Ivrim. Names
were interpolated in the suggested list.
One-third of the communities re- 1
plied. Letters to Irak. Tripoli and ■
Odessa, Russia, were returned un
opened, indicating no Jewish com
munities existed there.
Spokesmen said no replies came
from Germany, but some information
was relayed by Palestinian Jews.
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CATHOLIC WOMEN
MEET TOMORROW
Several Events Today, However,
to Precede Official Opening
of Convention.
With official opening of the seven
teenth annual convention of Catholic
Women planned for tomorrow evening
at the Mayflower Hotel, several pre
liminary events have been planned
for the officers and delegates.
This evening an informal reception
will be held in the grand ball room,
preceding a talk on the Catholic dra
matlc movement.
There will also be
an illustrated lec
ture on medical
missionary activi
ties in Alaska by
the Rev. Paul
Schulte, priest
and a former
austrian World
War flyer.
At 5 p.m. to
morrow a tea will
Oe held at the Na
tl o n a 1 Catholic
School of Social
Service', 2400
Nineteenth street,
for officers, delegates and Cafholic
women of Washington, with Mrs. John
Victory as tea chairman. A commit
tee will assist her.
Earlier in the day a sightseeing
trip is planned, including the placing
of a wreath on the tomb of the Un
known Soldier. Benediction will be
given in the school gymnasium.
Mias Katherlhe Williams, national
council president, will preside at the
convention opening in the ball room
tomorrow night.
YOUTH FOUND SHOT
TO DEATH IN HOME
Son of President of Allied Chem
ical Corp. Discovered by His
Brother With Pistol by Side.
By the Associated Press.
BROOKVILLE, N. Y„ September 25.
—With a bullet wound in the right
temple, the body of Walter H. Ather
ton, 21, son of Henry P. Atherton,
president of the Allied Chemical &
Dye Corp., was found in his bedroom
yesterday by his brother. Henry, jr., 23
Young Atherton was pronounced
dead by a family physician summoned
by his brother to the Atherton estate,
one of the most extensive on Long
Island.
According to Inspector Harry R.
King, Nassau County police, Henry
Atherton said his brother went to his
room in the afternoon to pack for his
return today to Harvard University,
where he would have been a senior.
When he failed to reappear after
several hours, Henry went to seek
him, he told Inspector King. The
young man's body was sprawled over
a bed. An automatic pistol lay on
the floor.
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Postmasters Kept Busy.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ September 25
(JP).—Third and fourth class post
masters were described as the “real
McCoy!’ by Postmaster Theodore
Terry of Sonora, Ky.
Speaking to the annual convention
of Kentucky postmasters, Terry said
postmasters in the smaller towns who
do not have assistant postmasters
must perform an assortment of tasks
from llcking^stamps to selling bonds.
Mary rick ford Tells Amateurs
To Shun Hollywood as Racket
■i me Associated **ress.
INDIANAPOLIS, September 25.—
ilary Pickford, trim in modish black,
tood on a table here yesterday and
earned people who like to act to stay
away from Holly
wood.
“Hollywood.” the
screen actress told
amateurs of the
IndianaDolis Civic
Theater, “is a
racket. Stay at
home if you are
interested in act
ing.”
When she
stepped down to
sign the season’s
first membership
card and begin a
Mary Hrkford. campaign, she put
in a good word
or the little theater movement as a
neans of expression and leisure-time
■ctivity.
Looking backward, America'* Sweet
ie art called a movie veareer a ’^ery
V
rough road” and told her audience she
sometimes was sorry she had not
stayed on the stage. But she said she
might go back to pictures again if she
could find the "right story.”
Miss Pickford flew here with her
husband. Buddy Rogers, from Kansas
City, where Rogers had led his or
chestra the night before.
HIT BY BACKING TRUCK
District Highway Department
Laborer Suffers Injuries.
Samuel Buonria. 58. of 837 Florence
street northeast, District Highway De
partment laborer, was injured yes
terday when he was run over by a de
partment truck backing in the 5000
block of Lowell street.
At Emergency Hospital it was said
he had internal injuries and possibly
a skull fracture.
The truck driver was Jacob W.
Pence, 49, of 1304 Sixth street south
west.
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Prepare Elaborate Welcome for II Duce
Story on Page A.-1,
When Fuehrer Adolph Hitler visited Premie r Mussolini in Italy three years ago he u as treated
much like any prominent tourist. Now that II D uce is visiting Hitler, the Fuehrer has prepared an
eiaboiate celebration. Berlin streets will be gayly aecorated with Fascist emblems. This is the
Unter der Linden, as it was being made ready )or tiie premier’s visit.—Copyright. A. P. Wircphoto,
ALCATRAZ RIOTER
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Warden Is Recovering From
Injuries After Attack in
Inspection.
By (he Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 25 —
Burton E. Phillips, life termer at Al
catraz Federal Prison, was in solitary
confinement today while Warden
James A Johnston was recovering
from injuries suffered when Phillips
struck, him down In a “one-man riot"
in the prison's dining hall.
Prison officials did not reveal what
further disciplinary measures would be
taken against Phillips, sentenced to
the San Francisco Bay island peniten
tiary for kidnaping and bank robbery.
The attack took place during John
ston's customary noon-day inspection >
of prisoners yesterday.
Only shortly before the warden had
prepared a statement disclosing a hun- (
dred convicts had been on "strike"
and had been confined to their cells
since Monday.
Removed to Home.
Bleeding from head and face in
juries, the warden was taken to the
prison hospital, but later was removed
to his home adjoining the prison Dr.
George Hess said his injuries appar
ently were not serious.
Johnston himself telephoned a re
port of the assault to the Department
of Justice in Washington and then re
sumed charge through Deputy Warden
Edward A. Miller.
The 100 strikers. Johnston said, ap- \
parently are making “an effort to
draw attention to themselves and
stampede the Department of Justice
into giving them more privileges and
paroles.”
The warden was attacked as he
walked dow’n a line of prisoners.
Phillips suddenly stepped out of
line behind him and felled him with a
blow of his fist.
Guards Rush to Aid.
Reports Phillips kicked the warden
after he was down could not be con
firmed. James V. Bennett, director of
the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said
at Kansas City, information received
by him indicated the warden's injuries
were the result of his fall.
Guards rushed to Johnston's as
sistance while other guards at ele
vated posts about the hall trained
rifles upon the 200 prisoners in the !
room. Other guards stood ready to
release overhead tear gas bombs. The
prisoners, however, stood still, watch
ing the affray in apparent amazement.
Alcatraz has been a prison for in
corrigible convicts since August. 1934. I
Before that it was used as an army
disciplinary barracks.
More than 100 convicts struck in
January. 1936, but leaders of the re
bellion were sent to solitary confine
ment and the strike quickly ended.
STATEMENT ISSUED
ON LOYALIST AID
Friends of Spanish Democracy
Report $2,150 of $2,937 Re
ceived Was Sent to Spain.
The American Friends of Spanish
Democracy, with headquarters at
1410 H street, issued a statemeint yes
terday showing that $2,150 out of
$2,937 it collected In May, June and
July had been sent to Spain for
Loyalist aid.
This was offered to refute the State
Department's recent release which
the Friends group said “presumably
showed administrative and publicity
costs of various committees engaged
in aiding Spain to be greater than
the aid itself.”
“The receipts and disbursements”
of the group “were not listed specifi
cally in the State Department's re
lease. its funds having been included
in figures given for the North Ameri
can Committee to Aid Spanish De
mocracy, of which this organization
is an affiliate,” said Betty Walker,
executive secretary of the Friends
group.
Administrative costs for the Friends
group in May, June and July totaled
$303, with $484 representing cash on
hand and deferred assets, thus mak
ing administrative costs “only 10.3
per cent of receipts, 90 cents out of
every dollar that was donated being
sent to Spain,” she declared.
The Rattlesnake Died.
PECOS. Tex. MP).—Kyle Biggs, post
office employe, was ill only an hour
from a rattlesnake bite received while
dove hunting. His companion, John
Carrell, helped lance Biggs' leg and
the victim soon recovered.
Hie rattl^nake died.
V
Iii Prison Attack
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WARDEN JAMES A.
JOHNSTON.
BURTON E. PHILLIPS.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
RESIGNATION OF DAVIS
CONFIRMED IN ADDRES!
Pennsylvania Senator Tells Aud
ence He Was Only Appointed
for 1936 Campaign.
Bt the Associated Precs.
ALTOONA. Pa.. September 55.
Senator James J. Davis, Republicai
of Pennsylvania, confirmed reports la
night that hp had resigned from th
Republican State Committee ar.d r«
ferred to published hints that he wf
organizing an independent movemer
in Pennsylvania by asserting:
“I have always been an indepenc
ent.”
The Senator disclosed his resigns
tion formally in an address before th
State Home Rule Association on tl
eve of the State Committee meetin:
"1 was only appointed (to the corr
mittee) for the national campaign (i
193R) and with that over I felt that
should resign. In the event that
become a candidate for public offie
I thought I should not use my men
bership on the State Committee as
lever to pry votes,” he said.
HOWARD U. 10 GIVE
District Association Votes
to Finance Program for
Freshmen.
, Amused by statistics showing th<
toll tuberculosis takes among younf
people who are about to assume fam
ilv and civic responsibilities, the boart
of directors of the District Tubercu
losis Association yesterday voted t<
finance a diagnostic program embrac
ing every freshman student at Howart
University.
Dr. Numa P. G Adams, dean of thi
Howard University medical school
told directors of the association he t
hopeful results of the examination
will convince trustees of the schno
that annual tests for tuberrulost
should be made a part of the institu
! lion's health program.
Approximately 580 students will b
given tuberculin tests under the direc
tion of Dr. Howard Payne, director o
the Chest clinic at Freed men's Hos
pital. X-ray examination will b
made of all students who react posi
tively to the tuberculin test.
Dr. Adams told the association's di
rectors that on the basis of availabli
statistics approximately 40 per cen
of the freshman class can be expectec
to show a positive reaction to th<
■ tuberculin test.
Mrs. Ernest R Grant, managing di
; rector of the Tuberculosis Association
1 Dlaced before the directors a Healtl
Department statement stressing th<
Importance of early diagnosis in com
! bating tuberculosis.
The directors voted to continue re
; habilitation work at the new Gleni
j Dale Tuberculosis Association.
Present at the meeting were Di
James G. Townsend, president of th<
! association, ffisley G. Hunt, Di
Adams. Dr. Luther Reichelderfer. H
| B. Taylor. Walter F. Pratt, jr.; Birr'
| Bahy, Mrs. W. Prank Persons am
Mrs. Andrew Stewart.
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s SHIP COSTS ASKED
> _
The Maritime Commission has aske
all American companies operatin
foreign-flag vessels from Unite'
States ports to give it complete in
formatiion by October 8 on operatioi
costs.
The information will be in deter
- mining operating subsidies for Ameri
i, can-flag ships. In addition to in
t formation on routes and the numbe
e of vessels operated by a company. *h
- j commission requested data on wae
s' scales, subsistence, repair and insur
tj ance costs.
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Drug Held Self-Administered.
NEW YORK. September 25 (ff’i —
' Detective Lieut. Martin Owens ha
p said his investigation into the deat)
p of Mary Brown Warburton led him ti
'• believe the narcotic found in her bod;
* was self-administered.
n Miss Warburton, prominent in Net
1 Yorks social set, was found uncon
I scious in her apartment September 1
■ • and died the same day.
“There is no reason for police ac
a t.ion, according to the facts that hav
come to light,” Owens said.
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National Meeting Likely in •
November—States’Vote
Center of Interest.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 25._The
Prohibition party is planning a na
tional meeting in November, much in
the manner of that proposed by Re
publican leaders for the G. O. P . to
map its strategy through next, year's
congressional election and the 1940 a
presidential race, National Chairman
Edward E Blake announced today
Blake said correspondence was br
ing carried on with Slate chairmen
and party stalwarts in the 34 States in
which the prohibitionists are fully or
ganized to determine the time and
place.
Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapo! i
appeared to be the likeliest choice-,
he said, with a date some time &;■ t i
November 10.' *
Berause of efforts being concen
trated on State elections this year
in New Jersey and Virginia—Blake
said he would not determine the cau
cus details until late next month.
The prohibitionists have candidates
for Governor in both States which
vote this Fall.
Says Sentiment Exists.
Blake's statement was made in
connection with comment on Thurs
day's prohibition repeal referendum
in Tennessee, in which "drys” mus
tered more than 70 per cent of the
votes. ,
Blake said he believed the senti
ment which produced the eighteenth
amendment "still exists and is only
latent.”
"When the ‘dry’s’ decide to vote for
the principle of prohibition we will
have it again.” he said. "The last
few State-wide elections hay'e gone
j our way, and the more voters we ha‘ e
; gotton out to the polls the larger h£3
been the prohibition majority.
Public Indignation.
"The people are becoming aroused
at. the evils flowing from the liquor
traffic. Public indignation again** it
is increasing. This will soon take the
form of votes.”
Also commenting on the Tennessee
referendum. Mrs. Margaret C Munns,
, national treasurer of the Womens
• Christian Temperance Union, said the
, result was "by no means surprising.”
[ “The Tennessee vote clearly re.
. fleets the awakening of the pe*ip>
, everywhere to the failure of repeal
rationally and the menace of the
I relegalized liquor traffic."
CONNALLY PREDICTS
NO COURT REPRISALS
i -
Texas Senator Also Calls Black
Dispute a "Super-Heated
Excitement.”
By the Associated Press. •
j DALLAS. Tex. September 55 —
| Senator Tom Connally. Democrat, of
j Texas, expressed the opinion yester
day there would be no reprisals upo-i
Senators who opposed President
Roosevelt on the Supreme Court bill.
“It is my view." he said in an in’er
view. “that the administration will not
seek to punish those whom it regards
as supporters of President's program
in the past, but
who from convic
tion d i s a 2 r eed
with the philoso
phy of the court ,
bill.
“The President
in a conference I
had with him
about a week be
fore Congress ad
journed assured
me he had no
fault to find w ith
one who dis
agreed with him
on principle.
“A difT e r e n t
1 : course may be pursued toward those
! who indulged in bitterness or harras
1 ; sing tactics.”
■ ; Connally characterized the dispute
1 over the appointment of Senator Hugo
| Black to the Supreme Court as "super
- heated excitement.”
“Senator Black was appended by
- the President without any knowledge
r of Klan affiliation," he said in a
- separate statement.
* “He was confirmed by the Senate
■ without, any formal charge or proof
as to such affiliation. He is now a
member of the Supreme Court and *
ran be removed only by impeach
ment * * *.
“Of course former membership in
the Klan is not an impeachable of
1 fense.”
>
TEAMSTERS’REINFORCED
• IN JURISDICTIONAL FIGHT
^ By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. September 25 —
| The State Federation of Labor and
' the San Franciseo Labor Council w»re <
aligned with A. F. L. teamsters today
in a fight for jurisdiction over C I. O -
organized warehouse men.
The Labor Council voted. 395 to 71,
to support the tramsters several hours
after Secretary Edward D. Vandeleur
[ announced the State Federation was
taking over the teamsters' battle.
Mass picketing of the water front,
inaugurated by the teamsters to forre
C. I. O. longshore leaders to relinquish
control of the warehouse men. con
tinued today. The demonstration
stopped work in two minor Instances
yesterday.
Apparently to avoid possibility of a
tie-up the Panama-Pacific Lines
Pennsylvania sailed last night almo.t
a day ahead of schedule.
RITES FOR MRS. CONWAY
Services for Baltimore Resident
Held at Stanley.
LURAY, Va., September 25 (Spe
cial).—Funeral services were- held at
the Adventist Church at Stanley yes
terday for Mrs. Carrie Conway of
Baltimore, daughter of the late De®
. Goodrich of Stanley, well known farmer
and lumber dealer. Mrs. Conway had
been married twice, her first husband
being the late Robert Foltz of Stanley.
She is survived by the following chil
dren: Miss Margaret Foltz and Mrs.
Myra Hersint, Baltimore, and Harry
Foltz, Pittsburgh.
The following brothers and sisters
also survive: William Goodrich. Phila
delphia: Mrs. Virginia Butler, Wil
mington, Del: Mrs. Maude Jenkins.
Mrs. Ida Painter. Mrs. Mamie Bradl»y
Ud Mrs. Gertrude Foltz, all of Stanley.-,
Screen Tarzans Almost Never
Find Their Way Out of Woodt
HOLLYWOOD, September 25.—
Screen Tarzans seldom get out of the
woods.
Playing ape-man Is a highly spe- !
cialized bit of business, and few of
those who make good at it arrive at
the cinematic heights. The public re- j
members them only for the way they i
beat their chests and the volume of
their jungle bel
lows.
Glenn Morris,1
Olympic decath
lon champion,
and Eleanor
Holm, pretty!
swimming cham-!
pion, are the j
present Mr. and
Mrs. Tarzan.
Hollywood rec
ords show Morris
is the tenth
screen jungle
king.
The first was
Elmo Lincoln, who
appeared in “Tarzan of the Apes.’’ in
1918. He's now a Salt Lake City junk
dealer.
Lincoln’s successors were Gene
Polar, P. Dempsey Tabler, Kamuela
Searles, Frank Merrill, James H.
Pierce, Larry (Buster) Crabbe. Her
man Brtx and Johnny Weissmueller—
names thjfb don't mean a thing now.
excepting Weissmueller and Crabbe.
Crabbe is under contract at Para
mount, doing nothing colossal, bu
getting along. Weismueller is givini
swimming exhibitions in Clevelanc
and is under contract to do a seriei
of shorts. He is also married to Lupi
Velez, and their frequent fights pro
vide good, clean fun for the public.
Of the Tarzan mates, Maureer
O'Sullivan is about the only one wht
has been successful in higher his
tronics.
Morris and Miss Holm are schedulec
to begin work shortly on "Tarzan';
Revenge” for principal productions.
Morris is a puzzle to Hollywood
He refuses to co-operate in publicity
stunts. He attends Rotary and Ki
wanis meetings regularly, addressei
Y. M. C. A. groups.
In "Tarzan’s Revenge” he will speal
four lines, virtually an oration for i
Tarzan.
Miss Holm has appeared in ont
motion picture, was in the Ziegfelc
Follies and has been on a vaudevillt
tour.
The Hays office expects her to weai
more clothes than her predecessors
but she will appear mostly in a wisp
of a swimming suit.
This W’on’t constitute deliberate
flaunting of body and limbs. It ii
Just so she can swim better. It will
be perfectly all right.