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Dies Charge
Seriousness
Increases
Peace Leaguers'
Jobs in Peril if
Proved True
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
If the American League for Peace
and Democracy is "Communist con
trolled" in fact, and if it can be
proved that this organization ad
vocates the
over throw o f
America's con
stitutional form
of Government,
then members of
such an organ
ization who are
Government
workers are now
threatened with
loss of their
Jobs.
It d e v e lops
that there is al
ready legislation
on the statute
books covering Oavid Lawrence,
that point. The Hatch law has a 1
provision in it, little noticed at the i
time of passage last August, which
Bays:
"It shall be unlawful for any
person employed in any capacity by
any agency of the Federal Govern
ment, whose compensation, or any
part thereof, is paid from funds
authorized or appropriated by any
act of Congress to have member
ship in any political party or or
ganization which advocates the
overthrow of our constitutional form
Of Government in the United States.
"Any person violating the provi
sions of this section snail be im
mediately removed from the posi
tion or office held by him. and there
after no part of the funds appro
priated by any act of Congress for
such position or office shall be used
to pay the compensation of such
person."
But Is the American League for
ire ace hiiu uraiuciacj sucn an or
ganization and does membership in
it constitute a violation of law on
the basis of the proof offered? While
the Dies Committee unanimously
contends that the league is "Com
munist controlled,” does this mean
that the members of the league be
lieve in Communist doctrines? This
has yet to be proved.
Resentment Explained.
Many Government workers who
ere on the "mailing list" of the
league resent bitterly the publicity
that has been given their names.
They do not fee! that being on a
‘'mailing list" is the same as being
e member, or that being a member,
they should be chastised on the basis
of the proof offered thus far. One
Government employe writes as fol
lows :
“I am on the mailing list. Some
months more than a year ago a
friend who is a member asked that
I contribute a dollar to help the
cause. I sympathized with most of
the professed purposes of the organ- j
ization and contributed the dollar.
Yesterday my name appeared under
headlines proclaiming the presence
of 'reds’ in thp Government. I re
sent the implication. No one loves
and rpveres Amprira and its trarii
tions more than I. a native-born of
native-born. My folks are Republi
can and I am Democratic. I was
brought up to believe that America
stood for free speech.
“I have always felt that as an
American I must smite hard at every
evidence of injustice or discrimina
tion. And if the league professes
to stand for these principles, I am
not ashamed to be on their mailing
list. And I challenge the American- :
Ism of anyone who challenges an
American citizen’s right to have
such a creed, be he even a Govern- i
mem employe.
“The league is said to be ‘Com
munist-controlled.' I read the tes
timony very carefully and have yet
to find any further proof of this,
other than the fact that there may
be Communist membership, even at ,
this time. None of the members I
know are Communists; none has ever
remembered being in contact with
Communistic influence. I do not re
fuse to contribute to the Community
Chest because Communists probably
do, although I hate and despise all
that Communism stands for."
Propriety of Probe's Action.
The question then turns on the
♦tronrictv nf tho action of ihp Flicc
Committee in making public a mail
ing list, presumably because it did not
have an accurate membership list.
President Roosevelt calls this a "sor
did procedure." Differences of opin
ion always arise as to the behavior
of congressional committees when
they invade the private rights of cit
izens. Thus it will be recalled that j
the White House did not frown on
the unwarranted use by the famous
Lobby Committee of private tele
grams. a committee headed by form
er Senator Black of Alabama. In
deed. the Senator was later elevated
to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Likewise, when a congres- .
sional committee published a list of I
alleged tax irregularities on the part
of prominent business men, no such j
delicacy was felt about the proce
dure and the public was left to in
fer that men who took advantage
of lawful provisions were guilty of
some sort of tax evasion.
Two wrongs, of course, do not
make a right and the improper use
of men's names and reputations is,
Indeed, a "sordid procedure" when
the facts do not justify disclosures.
It will be interesting to see what
proof can be offered that the indi
viduals who joined the League for
Peace and Democracy knew’ any
thing of its communistic affiliations
or connections. The Dies Commit
tee doubtless will wish to give all
whose names are mentioned an op
portunity to clear themselves of any
connection with Communism.
The Capital Parade
Talk of the Week: President Loses Precedent Chance;
Princely Bullitt Brings Europe's Best Chef to Paris
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
This week, the President lost a chance to use a constitutional power
never before exercised by any of his predecessors. The Founding Fathers
foresaw that some day one house of Congress might wish to adjourn
and the other to stay in session. They authorized the President to
meet the case by commanding the whole Congress to go home and
reconvene on a given date.
On Monday, with the farm bloc shouting for $50,000,000 for drought
stricken wheat farmers and water-logged cotton growers, and the Re
publicans demanding a continued session to "watch tpe President,” it
looked as though adjournment might be voted down in the House. At the
President's conference with Vice President John N. Garner, Senate
lvaci.jui i\.y ijcaua rviucu vv . DdiMi'y
and Minority Leader Charles L. Mc
Nary. the situation was discussed,
and it was concluded that the Sen
at could be depended on to disagree
ivith the House.
The President then mentioned
ais forgotten power, showing con
siderable relish at the thought of
setting an historic precedent. The .
leaders offered no objection to its
I1SP nnH prrrvthii-m ti’o c
accordingly. But the desire to settle matters simp;y was greater, un
fortunately. than the desire to use the adjournment power. Secretary
Henry A. Wallace scraped a few millions for the farmers out of a back
drawer at the Agriculture Department. The farm bloc was pacified.
Incidentally, several House votes were picked up for repeal of the arms
embargo. And House approval of adjournment was made fairly certain.
Bullitt, en Prince
As Ambassador to France, brilliant, dome-headed William Christian
Bullitt is America’s official No. 2 diplomat, and his nightly trans-Atlantic
telephonings to the White House, which the President cannot forego
despite danger of wire-tapping, really put Mr. Bullitt ahead of Joe Ken
nedy in. London. But his habits as a host are strangely princely for the
leading representative of the greatest democratic power in the world.
For his first Moscow party, he flew blooming tulips from Holland, had a
f.llllpi’lAt h r\f nrnti'ino ovocc ond omomooind Vilr- —1
cages ol young animals.
That party, winch was given while Moscow was still buried In snow,
was named after Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps,” the spring festival.
Mr Bullitt's latest and probably his last, considering the war, was
a great ball in Paris in the spring. It has always been his ambition
to have the best chef in Europe, and he was determined to satisfy it, at
least for the ball. Investigation disclosed that the best chef in Europe
was in the service of Admiral Horthy, regent of Hungary. After delicate
negotiations. Mr. Bullitt borrowed the paragon, had him flown to Paris,
and that evening showed the world capital of cookery such buffets, both
chaud and froid, as had not been seen for some years.
A. F. of L. Desk-Pounders
Attorney General Frank Murphy is under violent fire from the
leaders of the A. F. of L. because his Rabelaisian, trust-busting Assistant
Attorney General. Thurman W. Arnold, is insisting on anti-trust enforce
ment in the building trades.
The building business is the biggest log-jam in the American econ
omy. and the strange practices of the building trades union are as much
to blame as the "co-operation" of contractors and manufacturers. Mr.
Arnold has frequently declared his determination to proceed against both
the unions and the employers, and has shown he meant it by bringing
a tough suit against them here in Washington.
Consequently, A. F. of L. President William Green and his General
. . rnnnspi .Tnspnh Pariwnv mnrrhpH
YUU LAY urr
THE A F of U,
ORELS^^
down to the Justice Department
N the other day and hammered on
y Mr. Murphy's table. They demand
/ ed that the A. F. of L. unions be
let alone, told Mr. Murphy to call
7 Mr. Arnold's 75 investigators back
C td the department, and would agree
' only to the Washington suit being
'j carried to completion. If other
suits were brought, they threatened.
tllC n. A . Ui AJ. WUUJU Hiltri 1V1I ,
Murphy in public, oppose Justice Department appropriations in Con
gress and impose other dire pains and penalties. Mr. Murphy put them
off for the time being, showing considerable firmness. Now the Justice
Department is seeking C. I. O. support against the A. F. of L.
Damon and Pythias
Apparently, Jerome N. Frank, chairman of the Securities and Ex
change Commission, has safely survived the last of his resignation fevers.
His recovery meant that the President could not keep his promise to
Leon Henderson, newest commissioner, that he would have the chairman
ship soon. Mr. Henderson, who h*s become a deeply serious citizen
of late, is a crony of Mr. Frank. He wrote a letter to the White House
expressing the opinion that Mr. Frank ought to stay on during the war
emergency, which was a rare good deed in the naughty bureaucratic
world of jealousy and conflicting ambition.
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Carnegie Hero Fund
Makes Awards to
26 Persons
Three New Englanders
Get Medals for Part
In Hurricane Rescues
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Oct. 28.—The Car
negie Hero Fund Commission has
recognized acts of bravery by 26
persons in 17 States who faced fire,
water and storms in rescue or at
tempts at succor.
Three New Englanders were
awarded bronze medals for their
part in daring fescues during the
hurricane of September 21, 1938.
One of the heroes was a 14-year
old schoolboy. Richard W. Holmes of
Warren. R. I., who swam through
flood waters of the Warren River at
Barrington. R. I., to save two women
at the height of the storm.
Another hero of the disaster. Hay
ward Wilson, 54, died attempting to
save three persons from drowning
at Gray Gables. Mass. He had
joined them in a flooded house that
was swept out to sea.
Saved Five From Drowning.
The third hero of the hurricane
was Henry M. Morris, 27. of Wester
ly, R. I., who saved five persons from
drowning at Weekafjaug.
^aniorma ieu me oiaics m me ,
number of awards with four. New
York and Massachusetts were next
with three each. Texas and Rhode
Island had two heroes, and there
was one award each in South Dakota,
Oregon, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Washington, New Jersey, Montana,
Connecticut, Alabama, Maine, West
Virginia and Illinois.
Four of the heroes died during
rescue attempts and to the father of
one $250 was granted to be applied
as the commission might approve.
In four cases awards totaling
$2,000 were made for educational
purposes and in 17 other cases awards
aggregating $10,000 were made for
the purchase of homes or other
worthy purposes.
Two women and a 15-vear-old girl
were among those honored. •
Prodigious Feat of Strength.
One hero, Harold H. Thompson,
30-year-old carpenter of Pleasant
ville, N. J., performed a prodigious
feat of strength to save seven per
sons from death aboard a burning
launch at Atlantic City.
Mr. Thompson, in charge of the
launch, fought the flames and was
severely burned. He seized a rope
attached to the launch and swam,
towing the craft 200 feet to shore.
He then ran 1.000 feet and leaped
Into the water. He swam 1,000 feet,
seized two men clutching floating
debris and towed them to shore.
Again Mr. Thompson dashed 1,000
feet down the shore and leaped into
the water. This time he sw-am a
juarter of a mile and towed the
remaining passenger to shore.
Hardly-felt earthquakes are fre
juent in Chile, instruments record
ng an average of two a day :
through the year.
Famed Obstetrician
Reaches 70 in Life
01 Saving Mothers
Dr. Delee's Efforts
Brought $3,000,000
Hospital Into Being
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 28.—Dr. Joseph B.
Delee, famous obstetrician, turned
70 today, still fighting for the lives of
women who give the world new life.
The gray-haired physician divided
his day in a familiar pattern—eight
hours' work in the attic office of his
home and a visit to the Chicago Ly
ing-In Hospital, a $3,000,000 institu
tion which he founded on the Uni
versity of Chicago campus.
Dr. Delee. who helped to deliver at
least 8.000 babies, blames war fears
and chaotic economic conditions for
the present-day decline in the birth
rate.
Cites Mothers' Hopes.
“Bring permanent peace into the
world and people will bring more
babies into it,” he said in an inter
view. “Many women approaching
motherhood have told me: ‘Doctor,
I hope it's a girl; then she* won't
have to go to war'.”
Dr. Delee taught obstetrics at
Northwestern University Medical
School for 32 years and since 1929
has been professor emeritus at the
University of Chicago.
He has written numerous text
books on obstetrics for medical stu
dents and nurses and spent part of
his birthday compiling, for the 35th
consecutive year, a yearbook con
taining editorial comment on ob
stetric literature of the world.
Had Vision as an Interne.
He was still an interne in Chi
cago’s Cook County Hospital when
he was fired with an indomitable
ambition to foster a dispensary with
a threefold purpose: To care for
poor women during confinement at
their homes, to provide for such
women who had no homes and who
needed hospital facilities during de
livery and to teach doctors, nurses
and students the science of ob
stetrics.
After collecting charitable dollars
from wealthy citizens, Dr. Delee
founded the Maxwell Street Dis
pensary. That was in 1895.
The beginning was made in four
rooms of a tenement near Hull
House in one of Chicago’s poorest
districts. Service was performed on
ly in homes and students and nurses
were taught at the bedside.
Founded Other Hospitals.
But as the years passed, Dr. De
Lee, living frugally and toiling tena
ciously, founded other lying-in hos
pitals. He wanted to remove the
generally recognized stigma that
poor and worthy women must bear
children in peril of life and invalid
sm. From the plan evolved the Uni
versity of Chicago’s lying-in hos
pital.
In 1932 the Maxwell Street Dis
pensary became the Chicago mater
iity center which last year cared
'or 3,000 women and taught 37 doc
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themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
The Political Mill
Advocates of Roosevelt Third Term
Chary of Open Candidacy at This Time
»y U. UUULD LINCOLN.
When Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace declared in San
Francisco that he believed the nomi
nation of President Roosevelt for a
third term had
become neces
sary and inevit
able, in view of
the war in Eu
rope, he was
only telling the
American peo
ple what he had
already told the
President. That,
at least, is what
Iowa Democrats
are saying here.
While these
gentlemen admit
that Mr. Wallace
made a slip in G. Gould Lincoln,
timing his statement about the third
term, they also believe the White
House slap at the Secretary of Agri
culture was not justified. The coun
try has been put on notice that poli
tics of a partisan nature has been
adjourned, owing to the war abroad,
and that the President has no poli
tics in mind in conducting his fight
for the repeal of the arms embargo.
It was inopportune, therefore, for
Mr. Wallace to spill the third-term
fat in the fire out on the Pacific
Coast. But the treatment accorded
him was on the severe side.
The "Political Adventures of
Franklin and Me,” to paraphrase the
title of an amusing volume from the
pen of William Allen White, if ever
written by Mr. Wallace, might prove
to be equally kmusing. Mr. Wallace
did not believe in the third term—
for Mr. Roosevelt or anyone else—
until after the war in Europe broke
out. He had been unwilling to fol
low in the footsteps of his cabinet
colleague. Secretary of the Interior
Ickes, with a bold announcement
mat Mr. Roosevelt snouia De re
nominated and re-elected. And yet
Mr. Wallace had been a thorough
going New Dealer. But he became
I convinced that Mr. Roosevelt, with
all the strings in his grasp, was in
a better position to steer the Ameri
can Government while hostilities
continued. Hence his present state
ment.
Shy At Open Candidacy.
The third termers, while they are
in a fever to line up the voters for
Mr. Roosevelt, do not wish the Pres
■ ident to become an open candidate
for a third term nomination at this
time. The longer an open candidacy
can be put off, they believe, the
better. In the first place, if the Presi
dent was an avowed candidate he
would be an immediate subject of
attack, both from the Republican
side and from the anti-New Deal
and anti-third term Democrats. In
the second place, they figure that
the longer the President remains as
the most prominent dark horse can
didate for the Democratic nomina
tion, the less chance any other can
didate will have for a build up. And,
thirdly, they are hoping that, like
Mr. Wallace, the American people
will come round to the position that,
while war continues, it is necessary
to keep the President in the White
House.
The third term build-up has been
under way for the President for a
long time. The sponsors of the third
term do not believe in leaving too
much to chance. They have turned
this way and that. And one way
was in the direction of a third term
set-up in the 1940 census. Anti
third term senators among the Dem
ocrats found to their surprise that
the key men in their areas were
not of their recommendation—but
that their recommendations, where
they had made them, were ignored.
The Census Bureau Is in the De
partment of Commerce, presided
over by Harry Hopkins, who was
at one time suggested as a possible
successor to President Roosevelt. The
trial balloon for Mr. Hopkins did
not get very far. Mr. Roosevelt has
no greater admirer than Mr. Hop
kins. The Secretary of Commerce
has been absent from his duties for
a long time on account of illness.
In his absence, however, the plans
for the census set-up progressed.
Gillette on War Path.
It is no secret that neither Sena
tor Herring nor Senator Gillette,
both Iowa Democrats, have favored
a third term nomination for the
President. Knowing that the census
set-up was to be organized, Mr. Her
ring recommended to the Census
Bureau a gentlemen whom he con
sidered qualified for one of the main
posts in his area, and suggested that
Senator Gillette should do the same.
When Mr. Herring returned to
Washington for the special session
of Congress thus fall, he made in
quiry and found that not his man,
but another, had been selected, on
the theory that the other man was
“better qualified.” Mr. Gillette looked
into the matter and immediately
declared war.
He found that Democratic Sena
tors in other States were being ig
nored and it looked as though a
more personal organization was be
ing constructed for the census tak
ing—when the enumerators are to
contact every voter in the land in
| the national election year. So the
Iowa Senator took the matter up
i with the Democratic leader of the
Senate, Mr. Barkley of Kentucky.
He announced that on the follow
ing Monday he would introduce a
resolution withdrawing the appro
priation made by Congress for tak
1 ing the 1940 census and its re
turn to the Treason;
Drive Well Under Way.
The country, Mr. Herring sug
gested, could get along next year
without a census enumeration, and
the money could be saved to good
purpose or spent for more adequate
national defense. Other Democratic
Senators immediately declared they
would second his efforts. The up
shot of the matter was that Senator
Barkley made a swift trip to the
White House. The matter was laid
before the President, who knew
nothing about what had been go
ing on. The activities of the third
termers were checked in this direc
i tion. The Senators were urged to
make their recommendations—and
they went through.
Next to the A. A. A. the census,
with its thousands of officers and
enumerators, is an ideal set-up for
any group desiring to bring political
propaganda and influence to bear.
The third term drive, notwith
; standing the checks it has had here
and there, as in the case of the cen»
i sus appointments, is well under way.
Democratic Senators and Represen
tatives who are strongly opposed to
a renomination of the President
frankly admit that the war has
played directly into the hands of
the third termers. They say that
only the President himself can put
an end to the third term movement
—and they don't see him doing it.
They point out that while Mr. Wal
' lace was rapped over the knuckles
for his California statement, there
was no flat denial on the part of the
White House that the President
would become a candidate for the
presidential nomination.
This does not mean that some of
these Democrats will cease their
opposition to the third term, or that
some of them, if Mr. Roosevelt is re
nominated. will actively oppose his
re-election. But they have not much
hope of preventing a renomination.
Doomed by His Physicians,
Man Laughs at Death
i By the Associated Press. |
NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—One might
say Claude J. Bradley is laughing!
at death.
He just won't go down—and the
date for death, set by his doctors, j
is a full month past.
Doctors told Mr. Bradley last June
he had only two or three months
to live, then he would die of ma
lignant cancer of the spine.
His friends threw a gay farewell
party for him last July. Glasses
were clinked, songs sung, tall tales
told. Mr. Bradley jested and pounded
happy tunes from a piano. He was
the very life of his jolly wake.
But Mr. Bradley mentally put a
men rrom mars
Program Causes
Charleston Scare
By the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, S. C., Oct. 28.—
Charleston and its environs had a
“men from Mars” scare last night.
A radio broadcast told of a death
dealing anti-aircraft ray which got
beyond control in the Santee-Cooper
area.
It was one of a series of “Pal
metto Fantasies,” broadcast once a
week, and was dedicated to Orson
Welles, whose “Men From Mars”
program caused consternation among
some radio listeners a year ago.
Several times during last night’s
broadcast over Station WCSC here
announcement was made that the
program was fictitious.
However, scores of persons called
the radio station, the morning news
paper and the police station, inquir
ing about the disaster.
tors, 321 medical students and 46
nurses. ,
The maternity center is in the
heart of Chicago's ghetto district
with its honky-tonks, outdoor fish
markets, importunate street mer
chants and dilapidated buildings. Its
doors are always open. At every
hour of the day and night physi
cians, nurses and students answer
the call of help from expectant
mothers. No appeal ever is refused.
And back of this institution still is
Dr. Delee's guiding hand. It's the
mirror of his dream and stands like
a monument at the end of an ac
tive, humanitarian life.
I
ring around a date in the Septem
ber calendar. It was a month ago
yesterday that he saw the circled
day come and go. Today he still
was sitting cheerfully in his wheel
:hair, happily conducting his cement
business over his telephone.
It was embarrassing to ask this
cheery man if he thought he was
going to die. So the question was
put this way:
“Are you going to have another
party?"
“Surely,” he said. “But it's not
going to be a wake this time. It's
going to be a victory dinner. I'll
throw it as soon as I know I have
whipped this thing.”
Some months ago he said. "Maybe,
just maybe, the doctors are wrong.”
Today he said, “I’ve licked death
for a month and I’ll be sitting here
long after a lot of my friends who
said bon voyage to me last July
are gone.”
Mr. Bradley is a husky 53-year
old with reddish hair, lots of freck
les and heaps of hope in his eyes.
We, the People
Kappa, Mythical Japanese Monster,
Blows His Vain Bubbles in House
By JAY FRANKLIN.
My Japanese journalistic friend looked down, with Oriental reserve,
on the stormy scene in the House of Representatives, with John Coflee of
Washington tangling with Montana's Representative Thorkelson over the
League for Peace and Democracy.
I asked my friend what he thought of it.
"Kappa no he!" he replied enigmatically. "We would say in Japan
that Congress has kappa-complaint.”
Since the only kappa I had ever heard of was a Greek letter fra
w»*»* (mu ouivc otcmcu
far from brotherly, I asked what he
w meant.
I The kappa, he explained, is a
(_ mythical Japanese monster which
dwells at the bottom of deep lakes
™ and streams. From the nether
regions it is constantly blowing
bubbles which rise toward the sur
jk face, but as these bubbles mount
' upward they are absorbed hv the
„ . , _ ' ' water through which they pass and
so the kappas efforts to add to the atmosphere are forever frustrated.
Hence, say the Japanese, “Kappa no he!’’ (the kappa is blowing bubbles!)
whenever some obscure, irrelevant, negligible matter agitates the public
mind without thereby affecting the course of events.
A Convenient Animal
After due consideration, I decided to adopt the kappa into my politi
co* zoo, as being the only creature which accounted for the frustrated
vehemence and zig-zag agitations in the depths of the Lower House.
L"16?? ,°f the H°use are walking around in circles, spirals
loops and whorls, tearing their hair, reading their mail whisnerine in
corners and puffing out brave little bubbles of ideS whS rise, !ve?
dwindling, through the waters of public indifference toward the unat
wTves nf ntheir- ^ the Senate whi>3S the surface into ripples and
kappa-complahr “d "S™1’ the H°USe has c0ntracted a dad case of
— _ _ i
UU,U‘K me last month of isolationist oratory here are
a few minor efforts of the congressional kappa boys.
_i„\B,;0UP 0f haIf a dozed Republican freshmen are talking revolt
S ■ mlnorlt-v leadership on the Issue of relief8 They
?rii! Jhe WJth thp G ° R in favor of beating the unemployed
thof thi N.ow,they *ace the 1940 campaign for re-election and believe
votes in'Tn EffortYSO d them down the river and lost them many city
\otes in an effort to score a petty success against F. D. R.
Then there is the fate of Ham Fish's famous committee to keen
out of war—which used congressional stationery to solicit
thedmemhpfnnrtH'R^°uVelt lobby' Afl{,r Wo°d rum's attack on Pish,
thp nf Lhe ^ilSh c°mmittee suddenly realized they were out on
to hon? Ham nmb' Th??C. Wh° dared not reslgn under flre were careful
exitTom h™ company.111 “ W&S Safe *° Walk~n0t ru»-|w the nearest
The 'Amendment Squad'
_ f^e the little groups who rush around preparing “amend
n^QpnJ^i^vr n.eutrallty b‘U—to show the House s “independence” of
he Senate Most important of these is that of Representative Robert J.
( ni’hPtr a ttnnwvir D<miiUlin«« /.ow.
Pittsburgh, to set up a "National
Neutrality Commission" of 17 mem
bers. This body would ignore the
weakness of the G. O. P. by in
sisting on an equal number of Re
publicans and Democrats from the
House and Senate to sit with the
Secretaries of Commerce, State
War, Navy and Treasury. It's a
sort of bootleg coalition, Theri there
is John Vorvs nf Ohio ahn stallpH
| the neutrality bill in the House last summer, still insisting that the
popular branch of Congress will not repeal the arms embargo, and other
Republican hopefuls who seek to use the national emergency as a spring
board to political prominence.
Round and round they go—little groups whispering together, plot
ting together, bursting with oratory on the floor, holding hearings, waiting,
talking, working—all the bubbles of kappa—bubbles which, even if by a
miracle contrary to the nature of the beast should reach the surface,
would not fill a cup of wind to blow us where we would go on our des
tined national voyage.
Reserve OfficerTeams
To Decide Trophy
In Shoot Tomorrow
I
Col. Wetherill Award
At Stake; Contestants
Announced
Reserve officers of the District
will hold final competitions tomor- •
row for the Col. Richard Wetherill 1
Small Arms Trophy at the National 1
i Guard range under direction of
| Capt. George L. Hart, jr., of the
Field Artillery Reserves.
Teams in the event were selected
from more than 400 officers in pre
liminary contests during the past
month. Teams of Field Artillery
officers have won the trophy for the
past two years.
Contesting Teams.
Contestants will be:
Field Artillery—First team. Capts.
M. WT. Van Scoyce. P. Grover. J. W.
Haines, G. L. Hart and A. B. Car
penter, and First Lt. A. H. Jackman,
alternate: second team, First Lts. C.
C. Vogt. O. C. Morris. J. F. Myers,
G. W. Campbell and E. L. Rasmus
sen.
Infantry—First team, Capts. E. C.
Moore, T. N. Berden, S. J. Marsden,
A. C. Schieck and R. C. Howe: sec
ond team, Lts. W. O. Hillman-, W.
S. Stanley. W. A. Lansford, G. B.
Kelly, jr., and C. K. Rhone.
Quartermaster—First team, Lts.
M. I. Schaub, L. K. Cooke. C. M.
Caffrey, J. H. Gaffney, E. B. Van
horn and H. M. Nelson; second team,
Capts. W. B. Laurence and D. E.
McRae and Lts. H. B. Norwood, J.
Miller, J. H. Bowen, R. L. Blenitt
and C. H. Schulze.
Cavalry Team.
Cavalry—First team, Capts. C. R.
Buell, W. R. Woodruff and H. J.
Gunderson and Lts. C. S. Wilcox,
and R. W. Castle; second team,
Capt. W. B. Gleason and Lts. F. P.
Knoll. M. R. Morehouse, E. A. Luck
enbach and R. L. Hogan. Alternates,
Maj. H. P. Ames and Capt. L. A.
Parker.
Miscellaneous services — Capt.
George De Witt Holden. Finance
Reserves, and Lts. Frank C. Broad
bent, O. R C ; Benjamin S. Malin,
Ordnance Reserves; John A. Swart
wout, Medical-Reserves; Garland F.
Smith, O. R. C., and Robert C. Rior
dan, Ordnance Reserves.
Raskob and Brown
Expected to Testify
the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 28 —
Lawyers for General Motors Corp.,
three subsidiaries and 17 officials
charged with violating the Federal
anti-trust laws, are expected to call
G. M. C. Directors John J. Raskob
and Donaldson Brown to the wit
ness stand Monday when the trial
is resumed.
Before the Federal Court case was
adjourned for a week end recess late
yesterday, John J. Schumann. jr„ of
Montclair, JJ. J., president of Gen
eral Motors Acceptance Corp., told
jurors that as head of the finance
company he tried to sell General
Motors automobiles and to offer
financing agencies “at the lowest
possible cost to the public.”
Mr. Schumann, one of the de
fense witnesses, denied on cross
examination that he had control
over selection' of General Motors
dealers, but said that as a member
of the G. M. C. board he helped ‘
determine the policies of both the
automobile manufacturing concern
and G. M. A. C. I
Headline Folk
And What
They Do
Gen. Chu Reported
Stealing Show in
Northwest China
By LEMUEL F. PARTON.
China's Chu Teh was a fat. com
placent middle-aged, semi-retired,
opium-smoking free-lance general
before he became the "Red Na
poleon.” Today’s news is that he
and his grass-eating, cave-dwelling
8th Route Army are overrunning
and Sovietizlng the four great prov
inces of Northwestern China. His
army is now merged with the na
tional forces, but repeated news re
ports of the last few weeks have been
that Russia is dealing with Chu and
not with Chiang Kai-shek.
Like the Russian Gen. Bleucher of
the Soviet Far Eastern command, he
has an army which is autonomous to
a degree unusual in a modern state,
and there are also persistent and re
peated stories that the Russians
have cleared roads to the border of
Sinkiang Province and sent large
numbers of troops there. While
these latter reports lack verification,
England is looking to her exposed
Indian border, northwest of the
mountain barriers of Tibet, as both
Bleucher and Chu Teh seem to be
only lightly held by their political
allegiance.
At Yunnan, Chu's father was a
wealthy land owner and fought for
his class when the 1912 revolution
began to show class cleavage. Chu
went to the Yunnan Military Acad
emy, took up the fighting trade in
a rather desultory manner and be
came a local, sandlot general. He
suddenly became a bookworm, wolf
ing class-angled literature, and it
was this that shunted him into
current history—if not into the
longer retrospect.
He left his harem and his pi gow
game and went to Hangkow to join
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's leftward drive.
They blackballed him. He was an
opium addict and he was too fat.
With a dufflebag full of Bakunin.
Kropotkin and Marx, he boarded a
Hangkow steamer, threw away his
opium pipe and booked passage for
enough round trips to break him of
the opium habit. That took about
six weeks. Landing with his thirst
for learning still unsated, he went
to Germany nnri in wpral uni
versities studied economics, philos
ophy and military tactics.
Returning, he took leadership in
the left forces. In 1927. Chiang
Kai-shek defeated him. That start
ed his recruiting of the 8th Route
Army and its long fighting rampage,
comparable to Ghengis Khan's
round trip to the Danube.
As the roar of battle ebbs and the
troops prepare to bivouac for the
night, there is a sharp command
from Gen. Chu. It is an order to
break out the ping-pong table. He
is a ping-pong addict and plays by
flares far into the night. His other
diversion is basketball, and. at 54.
he still plays it hard and fast, and
between battles there are games on
a half-dozen courts. He and Chian#
fought bitterly, reconciled, it is re
ported by Mme. Chiang. with Chu
now stealing the show in the North
west.
(Released by Consolidated News Features.)
Alsatian Farm Boy, 17,
Gets Croix de Guerre
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. Oct. 28—Ritter Philippe.
17-vear-old Alsace farm boy. Is the
first civilian to receive the Croix de
Guerre in this war.
French dispatches said the boy was
working in a field when a German
pilot landed his warplane nearby,
strode to Ritter with drawn revolver
and demanded, "Where am I?”
“In France,” Ritter blurted.
Ignoring the revolver, he fled to
his bicycle and pedalled away to
notify a French patrol, which ar
rested the pilot before he could set
fire to the plane.
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