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Youth Congress Takes
Unity as Watchword,
Hits Dictatorships
'Pro-American' Group,
Supported by Gene
Tunney, Is Formed
By the Associated Press.
XiAKE GENEVA. Wis.. July 8.—
.-The American Youth Congress ac
cepted "unity” as its watchword
today in what President Jack Mc
Michael of Quitman, Ga., called
‘‘this crucial political year of 1940.”
Mr. McMichael, who was re-elect
ed without opposition, said in his
closing remarks before adjournment
of the annual meeting yesterday
that "this year we must face, above
all else, unity of American youth—
unity for peace, for keeping Amer
ica out of foreign war, for jobs for
Unemployed youth, for preservation
of our civil rights and liberties.”
Delegates cheered Mr. McMichael
to the rafters of the rustic audi
torium in nearby College Camp
Where the young folks met.
Dictator Opposition Reasserted.
The congress, in final session, re
affirmed its stand against “all forms
of dictatorship.” Previously it over
whelmingly voted down a resolution
by Franklin Kramer, Elgin, 111.,
which also proposed to condemn all
dictatorships, but which mentioned
specifically governments led by “a
war dictator, as are England and
France, or a political dictator, as are
Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and
Franco Spain.”
Principal opposition to Mr. Kra
mer's measure was on the inclusion
of Russia. The resolution adopted,
Instead, named no countries.
Other principal officers were re
elected and nine regional representa
tives at large were chosen. The
cabinet of officials later will select
next year's meeting place.
Pro-American Group Formed.
An offshoot of the convention was
formation of a “pro-American”
group supported by Gene Tunney,
former heavyweight boxing cham
pion.
The “pro-Americans” charged the
A Y. C. was “Communist controlled,”
were refused delegates’ seats on the
ground their credentials were not
properly filed, and then, after Mr.
Tunney’s personal appearance, an
nounced they would establish a new
youth movement, starting in Michi
gan. designed to rival the American
Youth Congress.
Ex-Mayor Hanson Dies;
Broke Big Seattle Strike
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 8.—Ole
Hanson, 66, known as the "fighting
Mayor" during his term as head of
Beattie's city government, died Sat
urday night.
Elected Mayor in 1918, he gained
national prominence by his prompt
measures terminating a general
strike the following year.
He resigned a few months later
and after a lecture tour came to
California as a real estate develop
er. He founded the beach city of
San Clemente and was active in real
, estate subdivisions at Santa Bar
bara, Compton and Twenty-Nine
Palms.
His widow and 10 children sur
vive.
In February, 1919, the Seattle
general strike, designed to paralyze
the city, was called. Mayor Han
son consistently refused to deal with
strike leaders, equipped fire trucks
with sandbags and machine guns,
swore in hundreds of returned sol
diers as special officers and. in his
own words, dared strikers “to do
their w^orst.”
The strike collapsed after five
days, without bloodshed.
Mistaken Identity Blamed
In Murder ot Man, 80
By the Associated Press.
MONTCLAIR. N. J„ July 8.—A
theory of mistaken identity was ad
vanced by police today as they in
vestigated the murder of John
Longstreet Ely, 80. who was mysteri
ously shot as he played solitaire in
■ the home of his son-in-law, former
Assistant State Attorney General J.
Raymond Tiffany.
Mr. Ely. a retired Holmdel farmer,
was found slumped over a table in
an inclosed porch yesterday morn
ing. A bullet, apparently fired from
the sidewalk 60 feet away, had
passed through the base of his skull.
Mr. Tiffany, asserting Mr. Ely had
been in retirement for 16 years and
could not have had any enemies,
said it was barely possible the as
sailant had mistaken the older man
for himself.
As counsel for the National Small
Business Men's Association, Mr.
Tiffany had participated in a cam
paign against Communists and "fifth
columnists" in Government office,
he told police.
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Guardian of U. S. Exports
Lt. Col. Russell L. Maxwell Will Advise
President on Shipments of Munitions
By the Associated Press.
An expert on guns, shells and ex
plosives who has furnished muni
tions to every branch of the Army
is the guardian of America's war
Col. Maxwell.
materials.
Lt. Col. Rus
sell L. Maxwell,
ordnance officer
of the General
Staff Corps, has
opened a new
office as admin
istrator of ex
port control.
From there he
will advise the
President in the
use of broad
powers to stop
the ship m e n t
out of the
United States of
a long 11st oi military supplies and
"strategic materials" necessary to
the defense effort.
Col. Maxwell steps into his new past
after hectic months of handling
large problems of national re-arm
ament as a confidential adviser to
Assistant Secretary of War Louis
Johnson. Col. Johnson controlled
much of the purchasing and rout
ing of supplies for the Nation's
new Army.
Ordnance His Career.
A pleasant, round-faced man who
works in the same small office with
his aides, Col. Maxwell has made a
career of ordnance—the business of
designing, obtaining and distribut
ing the weapons with which wars
are fought.
As an expert in guns and muni
tions, he has served on the staffs
of infantry, cavalry, field artillery
and aviation units. His latest “field"
assignment was as ordnance expert
on the staff of the General Head
quarters Air Corps at Langley Field.
Va. In his liaison work for Col.
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Johnson. Col. Maxwell had oppor
tunity, too, to learn much about
the Navy’s problems in armament.
War- College Graduate.
Still one of the younger staff
officers of the Army at 49, Col Max
well was in one of the first groups
of officers to graduate from the
Army Industrial College, a special
school established in 1925 for study
of the problems of industrial mobili
zation. He also is a graduate of the
command and general staff school
and of the Army War College—top
graduate school for military men.
Born in Oakdale, 111., the officer
was graduated from West Point at
21 and began his service as a second
lieutenant of the field artillery.
Three years later, he transferred io
the Army Ordnance Department.
He commanded the Picatinny Ar
senal in New Jersey during the
World War. As an officer of the
Army of Occupation after the Armis
tice, he commanded a German
munition plant and an ammunition
depot in Germany for two years.
Chief of Planning Branch.
Ordnance posts in Philadelphia
and Texas and at headquarters here
brought him in 1938 to the combina
tion post of executive officer to Col.
Johnson and chief of the planning
and equipment branch, G-4, War
Department General Staff.
'Col. Maxwell’s family, living In
Vienna, Va., is a military household.
His wife is hhe daughter of MaJ.
Gen. Edwin B. Winans, retired, and
two sons are Army lieutenants. The
second of Col. Maxwell’s sons showed
his father's interest in modern ma
chines of war by applying for train
ing as a flyer.
In his new post, Col. Maxwell
serves as a staff officer for the Presi
dent, commander in chief of the
Army and Navy. He will furnish the
military view on what goods should
be barred from export, and will co
operate with the State Department's
Division of Control in seeing that
needed materials are conserved for
American use.
Hadassah Luncheon
Tlie Washington chapter of Ha
dassah. Women's Zionist Organiza
tion of America, will give a bring-a
member luncheon at 12:30 p.m. to
morrow at the home of Mrs. Raphael
Tourover, 4812 Thirtieth street N.W.
Presidents of various local organ
izations are expected to ioirt the
Hadassah.
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U. of Pa. Given $200,000
For 'Atom Smasher'
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, July 8.—A giant
“atom smasher,” capable of pro
jecting particles of matter with a
velocity of 25,000 miles a second,
will be built at the University of
Pennsylvania for cancer research
and treatment.
The cyclotron, which will weigh I
250 tons and cost $200,000, is the
gift of William Henry Donner, re
tired Pennsylvania steel master,
whose son Joseph died of cancer
in 1929.
For therapeutic work, the energy
of the machine will be equivalent to
that of about 200 pounds of radium.
The cyclotron, Dr. Thomas S.,
Oates, president of the university,
said In announcing the gift, will be
the third of Its size in the world,
matching in capacity one now In
operation at the University of Cali
fornia. Another of the same size is
under construction at the Carnegie
Institution, Washington.
Residential Vacancies
Show Little Change
By the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department says
that local surveys of residential
vacancies in 40 cities indicate no
general change in the vacancy level
during the past three years. Down
ward trends in some cities, the
Department said, have been com
pensated by upswings in other com- j
munities, • I
Noted Engineer Dies
CHICAGO, July 8 CP).—Robert P.
Durham, 60, president of the Mac
Donald Engineering Co. and an out
standing grain elevator engineer,
died yesterday. He had aided in
Soviet Russia’s program of con
structing a chain of cement plants,
grain elevators, flour mills and oth
er industrial enterprises.
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