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Labor Board
Ruling Held
Significant
Extends Obligation
Of Employers to
Deal With Unions
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
While the neutrality controversy
may overshadow for the moment
other occurrences in Washington,
the agencies of Government not
concerned with _
the war emer
gency, as, for
Instance, the
National Labor
Relations Board,
are turning out
their decisions
on vital ques
tions just the
Bame.
Thus, there
has been a most
significant rul
ing by the la
bor board which
mil 1 H pnnppiv
ably transform D»vid Lawrence,
the whole labor picture in America
by compelling employer groups to
negotiate industry-wide agreements
with national labor organizations
For it has just decided that an em
ployer who has a plant in each of
six different cities must recognize
a union as bargaining agent for all
six, even though the union has a
majority in only five out of the six
plants.
Not long ago the board ruled that,
with respect to longshoremen, the
employer group as a whole had to
recognize the unions in the Pacific
Coast region. This case will be car
ried to the Supreme Court of the
United States and there are many
well-informed lawyers wTho think
the court will sustain the power oi
the board to prescribe the ‘‘appro
priate unit,” as the phrase is used
in the Wagner law, to apply to an
employer group or an employer
company irrespective of how many
plants are covered or where they are
located.
It is true that the labor board has
divided on the latest case involving
the six plants under one employer,
but the differences between two
board members, on the one hand
Chairman Madden and E. S. Smith,
4 and W. M. Leiserson, new member,
on the other, are fundamental.
Think Law Pro-Union.
It is not a question of one mem
ber being pro-employer and the
others pro-union. They are all pro
union because they think the law
is pro-union. Like many other de
cisions, the difference in interpre
tation comes from sincere ap
proaches to what may or may not
be done with wide discretionary
powers. The theory that the only
thing wrong with the labor board
is its membership and that a new
personnel would make everything
right for the employers is as falla
cious as the belief that the C. I. O.
would be satisfied if the A. F. of L.
is. The fact remains that Congress
has passed a law with such discre
tionary authority vested in a board
of three that the attack- in the
courts thus far has concerned itself
primarily with alleged arbitrariness
of specific orders, and hardly at all
with the broad question of delega
* tion of legislative power.
There has also been a reluctance
on the part of employers to ask the
courts to pass on the constitution
ality of other sections of the Wag
ner law than those interpreted in
the Jones & Laughlin case. Labor,
too, has not seen fit to question the
power of a board to decide the “ap
propriate unit” for itself without
being given legislative standards by
Congress for such a determination.
The tendency has been to go back
to Congress to try to redress the
grievances arising out of operations
of the Wagner law, and there is an
investigation of the board going on
now by 60,000 questionnaires, to be
followed by testimony before a
House committee about October 15
Under the chairmanship of Repre
sentative Howard Smith of Vir
« ginia.
Law Weaknesses Overlooked.
The opposition thus far has been
mostly against the board itself, with
relatively little attention to the
weaknesses in the law, and espe
cially to the blank check given by
Congress to the labor board to de
cide how “appropriate units” for
collective bargaining may be made
up. The latest case, showing that
the board can, under the law, order
an employer to group all his em
ployes irrespective of location geo
graphically is one of the most im
portant that has developed. It is
not the kind of board, but the law
Which makes possible such a ruling.
The Wagner Act virtually orders
the board to decide what is the
“appropriate unit,” but sets forth no
legislative standards by which the
decision should be made. Hence,
precedents and previous rulings by
the board constitute a quasi-legis
lative record comprising the exer
cise of intimate powers over busi
ness and workers which, it will be
argued, was never intended that the
• Congress itself should delegate, to
Bay nothing of legislating on such
a point without direct constitu
tional mandate. The criticism of
the operations of the labor law in
the last year or more have empha
sized dissatisfaction with the board
much more than with the organic
law itself. The latest “appropriate
unit” case draws attention once
more to the fact that the Congress,
by law, has delegated wide power
, to a three-man board without pre
scribing specific . legislative stand
ards.
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Spanking Is Opposed
To Start Baby Breathing
By the Associated Pres*.
HONOLULU, Sept. 23.—Spaking
a child to start him off in life draws
a scientific frown from Dr. Eldon
' Webb Tice. *
The Los Angeles surgeon, author of
a flexible tube method of starting a
baby’s breathing, told the Pan-Pa
cific Surgical Congress yesterday re
finement of the method cut the mor
tality rate in 1,635 deliveries to one
tenth of 1 per cent. In a neighbor
ing area, where older methods such
as spanking were used, the rate was
30 per cent, he said.
He contends the spanking method
was too violent for newborn babes.
,Dr. Tice pushes a silk tube down
the windpipe of the infant a minute
or two"' after delivery and a mixture
of oxygen and carbon dioxide is
forced gently through it into the
lungs, to start the breathing process.
The Capital Parade
Really Impelling Reason for Repeal
Of Arms Embargo Is Never Mentioned
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
There was something infinitely depressing about the opening of the
special session. The President read his message well, with only alight
signs of the strain of these trying days. The lawmakers responded sensi
bly. The high officers of state and distinguished visitors listened with
attention. Yet not once was there the slightest mention of the really
impelling reason for repeal of the arms embargo, the grand object of the
whole solemn proceeding.
The explanation of this political illogic is, of course, simple enough.
The impelling reason for repeal of the arms embargo is a practical, hard
headed, unemotional reason, of the sort which is considered tactless to
state in national or international politics. It moves every member of the
administration desirous of repeal, from the President co the most con
servative career officer of the State Department. In private, they outline
it frankly, but ih public it is unmentionable.
Nevertheless, it deserves public consideration, especially because it
supports the President's vague claim that repeal of the embargo is the
best way to keep out of war. As
generally formulated, it falls into II-vou SEE i&srir
US'ahft i
View of Realists.
(1) The war has aroused two
violent but essentially contradictory
emotions in the American people.
They are intensely anxious for the
democracies to win, and even more
anxious to avoid fighting themselves.
As proved by all the polls, they are
not averse to giving peaceful aid to
me democracies, a large group is even frantically insistent on letting
i the democracies buy arms here.
Thus, if the arms embargo is retained, the contradictory emotions
of the people will find expression in bitter, unending controversy. All the
old slogans—“We're next!” “Save civilization!” and so on—will be dug
up and bellowed from the housetops. Of course, such controversy tends
to be involving. The safest course, therefore, is to neutralize both the
popular emotions by repealing the embargo and sitting calmly back to
await developments.
(2) Every one fears that “we may not keep out.” It is more useful
to ask, “How may we get in?” It is childish to suppose that the Germans
will attack us for repealing the arms embargo, and, short of open attack,
no reprisals are in their power. It is downright ignoble (as Representative
James W. Wadsworth has wisely said) to suppose that the President will
try to jockey us into war for some sinister purpose of his own. In truth,
there is only one practical answer to the question. We may get in only
if the democracies, which represent our interests and have all our sym
pathy, are in danger of defeat.
Unfortunately, the military situation puts a premium on certain
weapons in which the democracies are deficient. The airplane is especial
ly important, with the armies immobilized in the Maginot Line and the
West Wall. There is a grave possibility that the Germans will even be
able to drive the French from the air. In fact, their deficiencies in
weapons like the airplane may place the democracies in danger of defeat.
The safest course, therefore, is to do everything possible to avert this
danger — again, by repealing the
O arms embargo.
The D^vil Shamed.
This argument is summarized from
notes of conversations with a num
ber of men of the highest authority
and influence. It has no relation
to logic-chopping about what is or
is not “neutral,” or to high-flown
talk of “traditional American pol
icy,” or to moral oratory about
mercnants ot aeatn.” its simple
I object is to suggest a workable solution to the problem of remaining at
peace in a war-torn world. Its prescription, to keep calm and prevent
the conditions which may involve us, is both cynical and unexciting.
All the same, the President might have done a better job in his
message to Congress if he had told the truth and shamed the devil (or,
in this case, the political conventions). To be sure, it tfould have been
undiplomatic to say, “The American people are against Germany and for
the democracies. In trying to keep the peace, we must take these feelings
into account.” But it would have confused the issue much less than the
President's historical theorizing, and it would have upset Congress much
less than the President's request for discretionary powers.
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The Political Mill
Embargo Repeal Battle Simmers' Down
To 'What Is Surest Road to Peace'
#
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.
The battle over the arms embargo
in the neutrality law—in the air for
weeks — has finally been joined.
President Roosevelt has made his
statement to ^
v u u (j i c a s. ill
that statement
h e emphasized
his devotion to
the cause of
peace for the
United States.
But he has not
satisfied the
Senate bloc
which is oppos
ing repeal of the
embargo and
which insists
that repeal is
the first step
toward getting G. Gould Lincoln,
this country into the European
war.
Boiled down—with both sides to
the controversy proclaiming their
determination to keep this country
out of war—the contest becomes one
of method — method to maintain
this country’s position of neutrality
in the conflict which already has
engulfed the great nations of Eu
rope. The President insists, in ef
fect, that to leave the law as now
written means we will be drawn
into war—that American ships going
into the war zones with oil, wheat,
steel and cotton for the British and
French inevitably will be sunk by
German submarines. The mere
stoppage of the sale and shipment
of arms and munitions to France
and England, he argues, will not
prevent this country from being
drawm into the war.
Other Kinds of Unneutrality.
As a substitute, the President
proposes that the embargo be re
pealed on arms and munitions and
that safeguards be thrown around
the shipment of all goods, whether
arms or wheat, from this country
to the war zones, so that American
ships will not be sunk. He has in
dicated he prefers to be allowed to
deal with this matter of shipments
of goods in American vessels—with
out any hard-and-fast, mandatory
law being written. But that he is
not likely to get.
His opponents in the fight over
the neutrality law—most of them—
say: “All right, we will agree to
keeping American ships out of war
zones, whatever they may be car
rying, but we want to keep the
arms embargo, too. Then we will
not be accused of furnishing arms
and munitions to the only set of
belligerents who can come across
the ocean to get them. It would
be unneutral to furnish them to
England and France, which control
the sea.”
In reply to the last argument the
President may point out that it is
also unneutral to provide England
and France with all the raw ma
terials which go into the manufac
ture of arms and munitions—steel
and cotton, etc.—when Germany
cannot get those materials from
this country any more than they
can arms.
“Education” Drive Suggested.
Both sides in the controversy are
leaving no stones unturned. The
President started the battle by call
ing the congressional leaders of both
major parties and Alf M. Landon
of Kansas and Col. Frank Knox of
Illinois—the Republican national
ticket of 1936—to confer with him
on the eve of the opening of Con
gress. Since then he has called
Senator after Senator to the White
House and put the issue squarely
up to him. He is using all his
persuasive ways to line them up for
repeal of the arms embargo.
His very emphasis of the need of
bringing abou„ the repeal of the
arms embargo, placing it before the
adoption of any cash and carry pro
vision, has led some of his op
ponents to charge that his purpose
is clearly not a neutral one.
The anti-repeal bloc is going to
the country—if need be through an
independent and outside commit
tee or organization designed to in
form the American people on the
arms embargo issue and the neu
trality situation generally. The
creation of such a committee has
been discussed in their meetings.
It is not their purpose to have the
committee as an official adjunct.
The committee, if it is formed, will
be wholly outside the Senate mem
bership, it is said.
Industrialists’ Position.
Former Gov. Philip La Follette
of Wisconsin spent yesterday in
Washington and went over the mat
ter of forming such a committee
to fight repeal with the anti-repeal
Senators. He attended a meeting
of the bloc in the office of Senator
Borah. Like his brother. Senator
Robert M. La Follette, the former
Governor is intensely interested in
the neutrality fight. Whether a
committee is formed or not, as now
discussed, Mr. La Follette is likely
to make some speeches in opposi
tion to embargo repeal. It has been
suggested that other prominent
American figures—Henry Ford, Ool.
Charles Lindbergh and former
President Hoover—be enlisted. Mr.
Hoover, while he is very insistent
that this country remain out of the
war, has made no definite statement
of his position on the proposed arms
embargo repeal. Nor has Col. Lind
bergh dealt with that particular
phase of the matter.
Mr. La Follette, if he becomes
active in this fight, is a persuasive
figure—an orator of great ability
and charm.
Some of ,the country’s big indus
trialists are siding with the anti
repealists. They are tremendously
anxious to keep this country from
being involved in war. despite the
fact that in some quarters they are
charged with seeking to make huge
gains by selling munitions and arms
to the belligerent cbuntries. What
they fear is that repeal of the arms
embargo might in reality prove a
step leading to involvement of this
country—and they don’t want to
take a chance on it. They believe
that if this country does get into
the war industry will be regimented
as never before and taxed as never
before; that it will bring only dis
aster with a huge loss of life.
Taking stock at the outset of the
battle, the anti-repealists are not
downhearted—at least, so they say.
Their claims run already as high
as 39 Senators ready to vote against
elimination of the arms embargo.
They insist that more and more
other Senators are becoming "open
minded" on the question and may
be won over. A majority of the
Senate is 49. They are counting
on a wave of sentiment against
repeal running over the country as
the debate in the Senate proceeds
and augmented as the suggested
"educational committee” gets under
way.
Members of the Senate are
amazed and almost dazed at the
huge mail which is coming to their
offices dealing with the embargo
issue. Their clerks are swamped
with two and three thousand com
munications daily—and it is said
that only a small percentage of the
letters favor the President's demand
for embargo repeal. The anti
repealists figure that such a show
of interest in the country will in
the end have considerable effect on
their colleagues.
When the Senate voted for the
passage of the present neutrality
law, containing the arms embargo,
on March 3, 1937, 63 members were
recorded in favor of it and only 6
against it. Of those six, Senators
Borah of Idaho and Johnson of
California were two. Before the
vote was taken, however, Senator
Borah made it clear that he favored
the arms embargo. He voted against
the bill because of the so-called
cash-and-carry clause (which ex
pired May 1 of this year), which he
contended would prevent the ship
ment of food and other supplies out
of this country.
Now both Senators Borah and
Johnson are taking leading parts in
| fighting repeal of the embargo.
$5,410,344 Contracts
Awarded by Army
Contracts totaling $5,410,344 were
awarded by the War Department
between September 1 and 15 for
supplies and equipment, Acting sec
retary of War Louis Johnson an
nounced yesterday.
The bulk of the contracts were
for ordnance and Air Corps. Awards
for the Ordnance Department to
taled $2,126,962, and for Air Corps
materials, $1,779,767.
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Volunteers Attack Task of Supplying
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Grim proof that bullets and
bombs are expected to strike more
and more human targets as the
European war is intensified was
brought home to Washington wom
en today as the District Chapter of
the Red Cross began preparation
of 8.750 special surgical dressings
for the French Red Cross.
Twenty chapters in larger cities
throughout the Nation will join in
filling a rush order for 175.000
bandages, Red Cross officials here
said.
The District Chapter began its
share of the program yesterday,
when Miss Grace S. Wright, chair
man of surgical dressing produc
tion, gave 12 volunteer women in
structors practical demonstrations
in how other volunteers should be
taught to make the dressings.
Clothing for Refugees.
After preliminary instructions the
12 volunteer leaders spent the re
mainder of the day perfecting their
technique by rolling and packing
the new type dressings. Production
of bandages and clothing for war
sufferers occupied these and other
women volunteers, who crowded the
auditorium on the second floor of
the District headquarters.
Across the large room about 40
wives of United States Army offi
cers were busy at sewing machines
and sewing tables shaping garments
for refugee women and children.
In an adjoining room a group sat
in a circle around a tub, pulling
out 6-yard strips of 4-inch gauze
and rolling it into compact, readily
unfurled bundles. Two rolls of
gause were included in each com
bination dresssing package, along
with safety pins, for use in fasten
ing the bandages securely and com
fortably.
The dressings were of three sizes,
each with a smaller bandage in
closed for supplementary use. The
largest had a basic 45x12 (inches)
cotton pad covered by folded gauze,
with a similarly covered cotton pad
I 11x9. These, with gauze and pins
j for fastening, were wrapped into a
package especially designed fbr ap
plication to abdominal, pelvis and
thorax wounds.
New Method of Applying.
Planned for head, neck, shoulder,
thigh and upper leg injuries, the
medium size dressing consisted of
gauze-incased cotton pads 30x9 and
9x9 and accessories for fastening.
Smallpr still, designed for arm,
foot and instep wounds, were cov
ered cotton pads 18x6 and 6x6 with
wrapping accessories.
Red Cross medical authorities
said that the bandages were dif
ferent from any that they have
prepared heretofore, and they sur
mised that the French have de
vised new methods of dressing ma
jor wounds. These methods were
not discussed, however, in com
munications with the French Red
Cross, officials added, and it was
not known precisely how applica
tion of the new dressings will differ
from the old.
Additional instructors are to be
trained as dressing production in
creases, Miss Wright said, and the
local chapter is completing plans
for large scale production of war
relief supplies generally.
Prospective Instructors.
So many women have volunteered
for class instruction in bandage
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Raymond Moley's Book Makes One Wonder
Why President Roosevelt Confided in Him
By JAY FRANKLIN.
Prof. Moley was a young professor of public law at Columbia Uni
versity and a well-known practical criminologist in 1931, when Sam
Rosenman picked him to head Gov. Roosevelt's stall of consultants and
speech-drafters which was later known as the “brain trust.”
Prof. Moley served Mr. Roosevelt all through the 1932 campaign and
was appointed Assistant Secretary of State, under Cordell Hull, with
special duties connected with White House policy. After the London
Economic Conference of 1933 pressure from Secretary Hull forced Prof.
Moley’s resignation. But Mr. Roosevelt continued to trust and make use
of Prof. Moley. The President's friends—Vincent Astor and Averill Harri
man—took care of Prof. Moley, founding a weekly magazine, Today, under
his editorship and later purchasing News-Week to enable him to continue
his writings. Prof. Moley was also favored by the pleasant Job of receiver
for the St. Regis Hotel in New York City and continued to be consulted
by the President and to advise on the draft of speeches and on other
details of policy.
'Clever, Bitter and Unscrupulous'
Beginning with 1939, Prof. Moley began to take an increasingly sharp
editorial tone toward President Roosevelt and fln&llv hrnkp with him nn
, almost every Important administra
{ tlon policy. Now, on the basis of
the voluminous notes which he had
taken during his official, personal
0It and political relations with the
If«WiE President and his advisers, he has
1/ .. written a series of exceedingly clever,
\/,//(/ bitter and unscrupulous articles
Vtyf which were given wide circulation by
*■ the Saturday Evening Post and
M/a which are published in a $3 book un
' der the title of “After Seven Years.”
i in mis duok, ne sets out to taxe president Roosevelt and the New
Deal apart, with the air of a scientist dissecting a frog in a laboratory
but with the spirit of a small boy tearing the wings off flies. The result
is some damage to the prestige of the President at a momeht when
considerations of national unity are compelling Prof. Moley’s new-found
business friends to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Mr. Roosevelt. The
greater result is a remarkable piece of dissection on Prof. Moley himself,
so remarkable that the greatest criticism of the President, after reading
this book, is the fact that for a number of years P. D. R. gave his
friendship and confidence to its author.
It is hard to find any point on which Prof. Moley was wrong or
even mistaken, in his own view of the events of seven years. Since
I politics are never a choice between right and wrong, but a compromise
between two separate mixtures of right and wrong, this is amazing.
Only three other men in contemporary history—Hitler, Stalin and Musso
lini—would seem to share this consciousness of political infallibility.
Quotation Without Permission
Writing of contemporary history Is always a delicate task—as we
columnists know—but one of the rules of the game, and indeed of human
decency, is that you do not sell or reveal to the public confidential con
versations with your friends or even with your foes, unless you have
their permission and have given them a chance to check the accuracy
ui yuui version 01 uunana remarts
delivered in the heat of informal f
discussions of public policy. Prof. I
Moley purports to quote the Presi
dent, the late Louis Howe and other
men in public life, voluminously
and, I am informed, without per- Kvy
mission or verification.
In this connection, it is amusing \f j
to note Prof. Moley’s indignant com
ment on the treatment he received
at the Embassy in London, when he
filed a "confidential” cable to President Roosevelt in 1933. in which the
professor took personal issue with some of his colleagues at the World
Economic Conference. "I had no reason to believe,” writes Prof. Moley
with tempered bitterness, “that such a message would be pawed over by
dozens of people.” Perhaps President Roosevelt and others discussed
in this book likewise had no reason to believe that what they said in
friendly confidential talks with Prof. Moley would soon be pawed over
by millions of their fellow citizens.
(Released by the Consolidated News Features, Inc.)
Lund, District Chapter manager,
that all cannot be pressed into serv
ice until the chapter has been re
quested to increase its quota.
Prospective instructors in the
class conducted by Miss Wright in
cluded Mrs. Leicestere Curzon
Howe, Mrs. Margaret Howard, Mrs.
M. C. Kissinger, Mrs. Wallace Lind,
Mrs. F. R. H. Millar. Mrs. E. M.
Pace, Mrs. Ralph P. Robinson, Mrs.
Arthur Wilson, Miss Nancy Glover,
Mrs. Charlels Glover and Mrs. E. P.
Moses. Several volunteers assisted
in preparing the dressings on the
initial day, and an increasing num
ber are expected to join in the
procedure daily until the present
quota is filled.
Ex-Lighthouse Service
Head, Retiring, Feted
Capt. Harold D. King, assistant to
the commandant of the United
States Coast Guard and former
commissioner of lighthouses, retired
from active service yesterday and
was tendered a testimonial luncheon
in the Department of Commerce
Building.
Among the speakers were Admirals
L. C. Covell and H. F. Johnson of
the Coast Guard and Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce J. Monroe
Johnson. i
Capt. King was commissioner of
lighthouses from 1935 until the
Lighthouse Service was transferred
July 1 from the Department of
Commerce to the Coast Guard. He
joined the Government service in
1902 as an employe of the Coast and
Geodetic Survey and transferred to
the Lighthouse Service in 1911.
Capt. King represented the United
States at a meeting called at Genoa,
Italy, in 1929 for the coilsideration
of a uniform international system of
coastal aids to navigation.
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Low Is Not Disturbed
About Hitler's Hint
Of Secret Weapon
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
Prof. A. M. Low, famous British
physicist, reassures his countrymen
about the German “death ray,” or
whatever it was Adolf Hitler re
ferred to in his Danzig speech,
when he talked about a “secret
weapon.” Prof. Low says all this
was just big talk and replied, in
effect, that England could spot Der
Fuehrer a couple of nightmares and
an apocalypse and leave him one
down when It came to dealing
horrors.
The professor blew himself up a
couple of times studying such mat
ters and has the additional qualifi
cation of nine academic degrees,
from nearly as many universities,
and has his own trade-mark on
many of the British war acces
sories, including the wireless tor
pedo control.
One bit of evidence that he can
outsmart the Germans, or perhaps
anybody else in his line, appears
in his invention of the scientific
golfing putter last December. A
necessary companion Instrument is
the professor's pair of trick spec
tacles. As you adjust the spectacles
with a screw on the frame they
iistort the image of the golf ball
ntil it is elongated into a ribbon
of white, leading smack into the
hole. The putter is fitted with a
delicately adjusted red light. If
you maintain a perfect pendulum
swing along the guiding white line,
the red light glows, and goes out
if you’re swinging sideways. Thus,
monitored by science, you sink a
20-foot putt.
Naturally, the Royal and Ancient
Implements Committee refuses to
allow use of the device in tourna
ments, but Prof. Low’s many con
tributions to war apparatus, cover
ing communications, transportation
and combat weapons, are under no
such restrictions and he is quite
undisturbed about any possible
technological competition from the
Germans. As to all this, he is quite
sure that England is no longer
“muddling through.” He is one of
the leading research physicists and
consulting engineers of Britain, 51
years old, the author of about 20
sprightly H. G. Wellsian books on
the future of science. He la an
optimist.
Just in passing, England bought
a death ray from a mysterious con
tinental inventor a few years ago.
The deal was whispered in the dark
of the moon and the inventor dem
onstrated his ray before a war of
fice committee, aiming at a cow in a
secluded meadow at dawn. He
adjusted some snarling, sizzling
gadgets, aimed his gun and the cow,
200 yards away, flopped over dead.
He took his payment and departed.
The committee, tracing the process
more carefully, found the cow's feet
fastened to electrodes. The ln
' ventor, touching off his death ray,
had linked an underground circuit.
Prof. Low thinks all death ravs
are quite as fraudulent and tells
the world that England is scien
tifically prepared. And any one
who can make a golf putter an in
strument of precision must be
heeded.
(Released by Consolidated News Features )
Neagle Guest of Honor
Elmer P. Neagle of this city, na
tional president of the Rainbow
Division Veterans, will be guest of
honor at a banquet in Chicago to
be given tomorrow by the Illinois
State Chapter of the veterans’ or
ganization.
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