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Democrats Expected
To Pick Mid-July
Convention Date
Effort to Force G. 0. P.
Meeting Into Early
August Reported
By the Associated Press.
Reports circulated in the Senate
today that the Democratic National
Committee would set the party’s
national convention for mid-July in
a polltically-strategic effort to force
the Republican convention into
early August.
Republican Chairman John Ham
ilton and several other party leaders
have been represented as wishing
to hold their convention after the
Democrats nominate their candi
dates and adopt their platform.
This may provoke a split in the
Republican National Committee,
however, for several Republican
leaders in Congress expressed the
view that their party should pick a
convention date without regard to
what the Democrats might do. They
argued that the minority party
needs much more time to build a
campaign organization than the
party in power.
Decision * eoruary 10.
These leaders expressed the opin
ion that any jockeying for position
about convention dates might' give
the impression Republicans were
unnecessarily concerned over what
candidates and what platform the
Democrats might select.
If the Democrats should agree on
a mid-July convention, the Repub
licans probably would have to de
cide whether to meet in late June
or early August. They will make
their decision February 16 at a Na»
tional Committee meeting, 11 days
after the Democrats pick their con
vention date and place.
Persons in touch with Chairman
Farley of the Democratic Commit
tee said he was highly pleased that
the Republicans had decided to de
lay their committee meeting until
after the Democrats hold theirs.
Mr. Farley was quoted as saying
that this gave the Democrats the
whip hand in the selection of con
vention dates.
Late Convention Favored.
Senator Vandenberg. Republican,
of Michigan, a probable contender
for the Republican presidential
nomination, said he favored a late
convention and saw no reason why
it should not run into August.
Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio, an avowed presidential candi
date, told reporters that he was
agreeable to a short speaking cam
paign but that the Republicans
would need time for campaign or
ganization.
He suggested that it might be ad
visable to hold the Republican Con
vention after the Democratic meet
ing unless such procedure would
make his party's meeting so late
that a thorough campaign organiza
tion could not be set up.
Will of Gen. Johnston
Is Filed for Probate
The will of Brig. Gen. John A.
Johnston, former District Commis
sioner, was filed for probate today
in District Court, but the extent of
the estate will not be known until
an inventory is filed.
Gen. Johnston’s will places the
entire estate in trust with the Wash
ington Loan & Trust Co., of which
he had been a director for more
than 30 years.
A number of specific bequests
were provided for.
Gen. Johnston’s housekeeper. Mrs.
Lottie L. Turner, will get $2,000
annually under terms of the will,
while the general’s nephew, Samuel
Alexander Johnston, and an em
ploye. Corlies B. Taylor, will receive
$1,000 annually, and his grand
niece, Mrs. Franklin A. Langsdale,
will be given $900 annually.
Remaining income from the es
tate will go to the John Dickson
Home for elderly men. Gen. Johnston
was president of the home’s Board
of Trustees.
Officials explained today that the
income will be increased periodically
when beneficiaries named in the
will die. The Washington Loan &
Trust Co. was named executor as
well as trustee.
Student-Teachers
Will Aid in Benefit
Student-teachers from the Wilson
Teachers’ College will help the Au
thors of Books for Children in their
benefit program for the Polish unit
of the American Red Cross Sunday
at the penhouse of Earle Clark Cal
houn, 1028 Connecticut avenue NW.
Miss Jane Fletcher will tell the
story of the trumpeter of Krakow,
the Nebery prize story on Poland
by Eric P. Kelly. She will be assisted
by Gene Davis and Robert Wagner,
trumpeters.
The string quintet will play music
of Polish composers. Members are
Virginia Roberts, Violet Gauss,
David Sickles, Don Swingle and
Verona Fulton.
7Cawn't1 Upheld
If Uttered in ‘
Pleasing Tone
By the Associated Press. •
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 11.—
It’s all right to say “cawn’t” and
“bawth”—if you do it with a pleas
ing, musical tone.
So says Prof. Frederick C. Pack
ard, Jr., associate professor and di
rector of spoken English at Harvard,
in complete disagreement with Mrs.
Elizabeth Von Hesse, Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt's voice teacher, who
would toss those pronunciations
right out the window.
“In the matter of pronunciation,”
Prof. Packard asserted in an inter
view, "the personal factor—whether
a tone is uttered in a pleasing or
an unpleasing manner—is one ol
three important items of speech.
The other two are intelligibility—
the speaker making himself under
stood no matter how he pronounces
words—and clear conveyance of
meaning—not detracting from what
is being said by mannerisms focus
ing attention on how it is being
said.”
He said he felt that a complete
leveling or standardization of ac
cents would not be desirable since
then the charm and beauty of many
regional dialects would be lost.
BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—CELEBRATE UNION DEFEAT—Employes of the Bndicott-Johnson Shoe
Corp. plant are shown as they paraded yesterday through the streets to celebrate a 5-to-l defeat
of a proposal for company unionization. —A. P. Wirephoto.
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Mail Robber Takes
Own Life, Ending
Notorious Career
Gardner Penitent Over -
Disgrace tind Shame *
He Caused Relatives
Br the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11.—The
notorious career of Mail Robber Roy
Gardner, who boasted that he could
escape from the law, was closed in
suicide today because he could not
escape from the stigma of “ex
convict” after nearly 20 years in
prison.
Fashioning a lethal chamber in
the bathroom of his hotel quarters
here, Gardner, about 56, breathed
deadly fumes which he created last
night with chemicals, and died
quickly, “old and tried,” but bearing
“no malice toward any human
being.”
Since his release from Leaven
worth Federal Penitentiary in June,
1938, he had tried to rebuild his life
in the world outside bars, trying the
motion picture business, writing
and lecturing.
“All men who have to serve more
than five years in prison are
doomed,” he said in a note, “but
they don’t realize it. They kid
themselves into the belief that they
can ‘come back,’ but they can’t.
There is a barrier between the ex
convict and society that cannot be
leveled.”
Refused to Shoot at Captor.
Gardner, whose final capture in
Arizona came about because he re
fused to shoot at his captor—he
never fired a shot in a long series
of robberies—was solicitous to the
last.
On the door of the bathroom he
posted a note which said. "Do not
open this door. Poison gas. Call the
nnlirp ”
Gardner’s note, addressed to news
men. asked that they "let me down
as light as possible." because "I
have always played ball with you
all the way, and now you should
pitch me a slow one and let me
hit it.”
Gardner appended a request to
newspapermen that they not bring
the name of his married daughter
into the story of his death “because
her in-laws do not know she is my
daughter.”
Wife Remarried.
His wife, who was separated from
him for 15 years by his prison sen
tences, obtained an annulment of
their marriage in 1936, and later
married again, said, “I regret this
very much” when informed of
Gardner's death at her present
home in Napa.
Now Mrs. Dollie Parks, wife of a
State hospital employe, she said she
planned to come here today to claim
the body for burial.
The ex-convirt. whose criminal
career began with an $80,000 mail
robbery in San Diego in April, 1920,
said he would have “checked out”
then had he known what the future
held “and saved my loved ones the
disgrace and shame that they have
had to endure these many years.”
He added that every convict on
forbidding* Alcatraz Island, where
he served about five years, “would
be better off if they would jump in
the bay and start swimming for
China.”
Boast Made Good.
Gardner, who was sentenced to 25
years’ imprisonment at McNeil Is
land, Wash., for the San Diego rob
bery, escaped from the train en
route mere near Portland, Oreg. He
was recaptured in Roseville, Calif.,
May 23, 1921, and in the interim he
robbed a mail train of $117,000 in
securities.
He told the Federal judge who
resentenced him to McNeal for 60
years that he would esc type again,
and he did en route to tne prison,
this time near Castle Rock, Wash.
Recaptured at Centralia, Wash.,
and finally placed on the Puget
Sound island, he bolted from it in
a sensational break September 5,
1921, while one companion was slain
by guards and another wounded.
In November, 1921, he tried to
rob a mail car in Phoenix, Ariz.,
but Herman Interlied, the clerk,
overpowered him.
SAN FRANCISCO.—DIES OF
GAS—Roy Gardner, notorious
robber and escape artist of
the early 20s, killed himself
with poison gas last night in
a small downtown hotel room.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
Ruling Presages Spread
Of Fight on Racing Data
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 11.—A Su
perior Court decision here uphold
ing the right of a telephone com
pany to discontinue service to per
sons accused of giving horse race
information to bookmakers may
stir action in other States.
“This is a salutary decision,” de
clared Samuel Klaus, special assist
ant to the United States Attorney
General, “and will go a long way
in aiding the Federal Government
hi its fight against this kind of
racket.”
Mr Klaus said he was forwarding
copies of the decision to Federal
officials dealing with similar cases
in Florida and Illinois.
Superior Court Judge Emmet H.
Wilson yesterday dissolved a tem
porary order granted Russell
Brophy and Leonard J. Nevans,
publishers of a racing “scratch
sheet,” restraining the Southern
California Telephone Co. from dis
continuing service to them.
Stimson Urges Legal Ban
On War.Aid for Japan
Bi the Associated Presa.
NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Henry L
Stimson, former Secretary of State,
has proposed in a letter to the New
York Times that Congress prohibit
export of arms, munitions or raw
materials for arms to Japan.
He urged extension of the “moral
embargo,” but added he believed
legislation was needed to impress
Japan with “the seriousness of the
feeling of our people as to this
matter.”
He contended a number of mer
chants in the United States had
been aiding Japan by “selling to
Japan the ore, steel and scrap iron
indispensable to her bombs,” while
“large oil producers • • * are selling
to her the even more indispensable
aviation gasoline for her planes.”
Legislation such as he advocated
would: he asserted, produce a re
versal of Japanese Army leaders’
policy, a reversal without which, he
argued, “the stable equilibrium of
Eastern Asia • • * cannot be re
stored.”
Aeronautical Award
For 1939 Goes to Mead
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. 11.—The Syl
vanus Albert Reed award for 1939,
conferred annually for ‘‘a notable
contribution to aeronautical engi
neering,” will be presented January
26 to George J. Mead, vice chair
man of the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics, it was an
nounced last night.
Mr. Mead was credited by the
Institute of the Aeronautical Sci
ences, donor of the award, with
“the design and development of high
output aircraft engines for military
and commercial services.”
Mr. Mead, until recently a resi
dent of Hartford, Conn., studied at
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. In 1937 he received the
honorary degree of doctor of science
from Trinity College, Hartford.
Since 1916 he has been engaged In
aircraft motor engineering.
An institute announcement said
Mr. Mead had been largely responsi
ble for the design of outstanding
single and double row radial air
craft engines manufactured In this
country and abroad.
Mayor Makes Fiery
Attack on Detroit
Business Leaders
Urges Action to Offset
'Folse Reputation'
Because of Strikes
B» the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 11.—Young Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries, who took office
avowedly to give Detroit the "pub
licity it .deserves,” among other
things, has jumped Into that job
with both feet.
Calling a spade a spade, Mayor
Jeffries, who is 39 and has been In
office less than a fortnight, raked
the city’s leading businessmen over
the coals yesterday.
His language, remindful of his
bitter fights as a city. councilman,
was blistering at times.
Choosing the Rotary Club's annual
“municipal government” luncheon
to loose some vehemence, the rookie
Mayor accused businessmen with
this stinger:
“False Reputation” Deplored.
“What you did—and it had an
Injurious effect on Detroit—was to
sit back on your haunches and say
that the town was going to hell In
a handcar.’’
Mayor Jeffries has deplored what
he called Detroit’s “false reputation"
in other cities largely because of its
strikes. He urged the businessmen
to “get together” and see that De
troit regains “Its place in the sun In
this country."
“Detroit is Just exactly what the
people In it make It,” he said. “If
Mr. Ford was still trying to have
horses in front of his carriages this
would still be a small town. But It
was his Initiative and the ability
and energy of you and people like
you who changed It.”
“Sen Out” Charged.
Mayor Jeffries, declaring there are j
many things In Detroit which “are
the envy and objectives of compet
ing cities,” charged the businessmen
with falling to do anything about
them. As a result, he said, Detroit
has been “sold out” to competitors.
“We have been the constant vic
tims in Detroit of compeyng boards
of commerce, of civic clubs and
Rotary clubs. Instead of building
up our own propaganda, you have
been agreeing with them that the
town was In terrible shape,” he said.
Mayor Jeffries proposed a cam
paign of counter-propaganda to
"sell” the city because “it’s a leader
in most industrial respects and its
potentialities are unlimited."
Whiteman in Hospital
MINEOLA, N. Y., Jan. 11 VP).—
Paul Whiteman, band leader, has
been a patient at Nassau Hospital
for five days, hospital authorities
have revealed. They explained he
had entered for “rest and observa
tion," and would probably leave in
another week.
Spain Building Four Ships
MADRID, Jan. 11 (/P).—The di
rector general of maritime com
munications announced last night
Spanish shipyards were building
four merchantmen of 16,000 tons
each as a start on a marine recon
struction program.
Woman Wins Divorce,
Keeps Job With Ex-Husband
Bi the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.—A di
vorce decree has deprived Theodore
Laher of the association of Mrs.
Geraldine Laher as a wife, but not
as a business colleague.
A settlement approved by Su
perior Court stipulated that Mrs.
Laher is to continue as “store man
ager” for her husband, who operates
an auto body supply company.
She will be pad $25 a week for
her services, plus 2 per cent of the
net profits of the business, work
five days a week and get two weeks’
vacation with pay.
• Mrs. Laher blamed her husband’s
association with an unnamed
Omaha, Nebr., woman as the cause
of their marital discord.
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