.. Wallace Says Whalen
Letter to Stockholders
Of Fair 'Misleading'
Financial Difficulties
No Fault of Government,
He Declares
Bt the Associated Press.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace,
Chairman of the United States
World’s Fair Commission, . -id yes
terday that financial difficulties of
the New York Fair could “hardly
be traced to any lack of generosity
on the part of the Federal Govern
ment.”
In a statement, Secretary Wallace
accused Grover Whalen, president
of the New York Fair, of writing a
“seriously misleading” letter to the
fair’s bondholders. Mr. Whalen, the
Secretary said, had informed the
bondholders the New York Fair
Corp. had assurances from "the ap
propriate Federal agencies” to cover
a $1,558,000 construction cost for the
Hall of Nations, erected for foreign
government exhibits.
“Neither the commission nor any
other Federal agency that I know
of gave the corporation ‘assurances
of a Federal appropriation’ to cover
the total cost of the Hall of Nations,”
Mr. Wallace asserted. He said Con
gress appropriated $3,000,000 for
Federal participation in the World's
Fair, of which $750,000 was allocated
by the Federal commission for the
construction of pavilions for foreign
nations.
Workers Solicited
For Library Gifts
Especially designated employes of
the Agriculture Department solicited
their fellow workers in person today
and yesterday for contributions
toward the building of the Hyde
Park Library for housing President
Roosevelt's personal papers.
The personal solicitation was a
follow-up of the solicitation letter
sent a week ago Tuesday to almost
all Agriculture Department workers
suggesting that contributions be
made. The letter was signed by
Charles B. Ingram, assistant to the
Assistant Secretary.
Paul H. Appleby, assistant to Sec
retary Wallace, who assumed respon
sibility for the letter, said today that
he knew nothing about the personal
solicitation and had not ordered it.
Garbage Cans, Not Cigars
CHICAGO. Aug. 17 City offi
cials complained about the difficulty
In keeping streets and alleys clean
In the 32d ward because there just
Weren’t enough garbage cans.
Therefore, Alderman Joseph P.
Rostenkowski instead of passing out
cigars to his constituents is now
giving away garbage cans, 2,600 of
them.
Company
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comfortably in his grassy bower.
“We have food, plenty of it, and
besides there is no guard duty here
like back in camp. After all, my
friend, this is war.”
Another Pennsylvanian comment
ed: "The enemy didn't treat us right
yesterday—they captured us while
we were eating breakfast.”
"We have no orders to go back,”
several of them chorused. At this
point, Capt. J. B. Johnson, com
mander of the company, arrived on
the scene after climbing a hill and
clambering over the fence.
Two Infantrymen Captured.
“This,” said the captain, "is the
best place I've been yet. In camp
it is all flies and mosquitoes. Here
there are none. I'm satisfied. In
war they would let us know when
then wanted us to go back. This is
mostly a combat problem, and no
body cares about the medicos un
til they get wounded—then they do
care.”
Meanwhile the “Blacks” proceed
ed to capture two advance Guards
men of the 1st Maryland Infantry
coming up the road from the south.
"Hey, Butch,” shouted one Reg
ular to another, "don't take any
more prisoners—shoot them. We
don't want to feed them.”
The speaker apparently was un
aware that the Pennsylvanians were
"sending home” for their own food.
The company ambulance brought
back this morning not only some
breakfast but some sandwiches for
lunch.
As for their general situation, it
was just one of those things. They
didn't want to go back, there w’as
no Army umpire handy to rule on
them, and the “Black” forces Just
let them alone.
Don’t gamble your life to win a
minute.
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Romantic Law Firm
AKRON, Ohio, Aug 17 OP).—A'
little soft music please, maestro, for
the opening of Akron s newest law j.
firm. The firm name is "Hartz &1
Flowers.”
Guardsmen Use Salt Tablets
To Repel Heat Assault
bj a starr correspondent ol The Star.
BRISTOW, Va., Aug. 17.—Armed
with 20,000 salt tablets to replenish
the body supply extracted by perspi
ration, the 104th Medical Regiment,
Maryland National Guard, today
was fighting the heat successfully
on Bull Run Battlefield during the
current National Guard-Regular
Army maneuver.
“We believe in the salt tablets,”
said Maj. Henry F. Buettner, one
of the regiment’s medical officers.
“They alleviate considerable suffer
ing from the heat.”
Maj. Buettner is well pleased with
the health of the 29th Division,
which the regiment serves, under
the command of Col. Frederick H.
Vinup, Baltimore. Right now there
are 50 men of the 29th confined
to the hospitals at Fort Belvoir and
Fort Myer, Va., and at Walter Reed
Hospital, Washington, for a total
of 65 hospital cases thus far. Their
ailments range from blisters, in
fected feet, gastro-intestinal dis
tress and colds to poison ivy and
acute appendicitis. When it comes
to poison ivy, the regiment is armed
with a supply of serum for this
affliction that is being made avail
able wherever needed and as long
as it lasts.
“We send them to the hospital
because moving around in the field
would not be good for them," Maj.
Buettner said. “In several cases
the hospitals have kept men we
sent in for X-ray pictures.”
Among the District casualties thus
far have been Pvt. Nathaniel Ger
son, Company C, 121st Engineers,
in Fort Myer with an infected foot;
Pvt. Faust Brown, Company E, same
regiment, at Fort Myer with bron
chial asthma, and Francis Petit,
headquarters company, special
troops, in Walter Reed with acute
appendicitis.
Escapes Death Sentence
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 17 OP).
—The death sentence of Harry
French, Alturas (Calif.) editor, who
shot a rival newspaper publisher,
was commuted to life imprisonment
yesterday by Gov. Culbert L. Olson.
French killed Claude McCracken
in Modoc County in March, 1937. He
contended he was emotionally un
balanced as a result of a heated pub
lishing rivalry with Mr. McCracken.
ALLENTOWN, PA.—SISTER KILLS INVALID—Left: Mrs. Louella Saeger, 65, who was shot in a
hospital Tuesday night, as she appeared several years ago. Her sister, Miss Margaret Cowan, 77, right,
is under arrest and was quoted as saying: "I’m happy now. I’ve put my sister out of her misery.”
Mrs. Saeger had been in the hospital about two years. Miss Cowan, a retired nurse, tucks in her
gray hair en route to district attorney’s office. —A. P. Wirephotos.
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44 PRS. $2.25 TO $2.95 WASH SLACKS_81.39
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(181) $2 and $2.50 SHIRTS_T.$1 29
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