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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
BLOCK W|THDRAWS
OFFER FOR WORLD
Employees Plan to Buy
Paper Given as One Reason
for Publishers Action.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 26.-Paul
Block, publisher, announced today he
had withdrawn his offer TO purchase
the New York World newspapers.
He made his announcement through
Max D. steuer, his attorney, who ex-
planned that Mr.. Block not only had
decided not to purchase the newspapers
for himself, but also TO withdraw the
offer he made to buy them and allow
the employees of the World As days
within which to purchase them without
profit to himself.
Surrogate James A. Foley will de-
eide today whether the will of Joseph
Pulitzer may be broken to allow the
sale of the newspapers. The with
drawal of Mr.. Block means that the
employees, who have made a bid for the
Worlds, must arrange their financing
without his assistance.
When Mr. Block made an offer for
the purchase of the Worlds, he was on
the coast and he knew nothing OF what
had here transpired since December be-
tween Roy Howard and the Messre.
Pulitzer" Mr.. Steuer said.
Howard Contract Cited.
Nor did he learn anything concern
ing it until last evening. He has now
ascertained that Mr.. Howard had con-
cluded a contract with the trustees
Of the Pulitzer estate and he does not
want to be put in the position of hav-
ing interfered for the purpose Of break
ing up an existing contract. He did
want in good faith to purchase the
three papers, but he does not want in
any sense to interfere with a contract
already concluded.
He is also moved by the plea on
behalf OF the employees. He would not
make a move TO deprive them of the
opportunity of getting these papers. On
the contrary, he had announced publicly
that If he did purchase them he would
give the employees As days within which
TO make arrangements TO take the
papers over without l cent of profit to
him or even reimburse him for his
counsel fees and other disbursements.
Not wishing to interfere with ar
rangements already concluded, he is
notifying-indeed, has already verbally
notified-and will now follow 1t up with
written notification to counsel for the
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HOLDS MINISTER
IN CONTEMPT OF COURT
Refused to Answer Question on In
formation Given Him in Con-
fdence as Pastor.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, February 2o.-Reu
Emil Swenson, pastor of the Bethlehem
evangelical Lutheran Church here, was
held in contempt of court yesterday for
refusing to testify as to information
given him in confidence by a member
of his church. Judge Paul w. Guilford
In County District Court made the rul-
ing. The maximum penalty is 80 days
in the city workhouSe.
The minister had been called to the
stand as a witness for Mrs. Gladys Sund-
seth, who is seeking divorce from Ar
mold Sundseth, vice president and treas
urer of funeral home company. Rev.
Mr.. SwenSon was asked by Sundseth's
attorney to tell about a conversation
Sundseth had with the minister, al
legged to have had to do with the d.
vorce action or events leading up to it.
Although the court ordered him to
answer, Rev. Mr.. Swenson declined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEWOKA. Okla. February ga
battle of titians began here today as
two brothers. conquerors Of many un-
ruly monsters of the midcontinent oil
fields, sought to snuff out a flaming
deep rock gaSSer one mile south of
town.
Ped by an estimated flow of 81, OO0,-
600 cubic feet of gas daily since it
caught fire Tuesday, the flames con-
tinued to spout 200 or more feet into
the air as the brothers-M NJ and
Harry KInley of Tulsa, Stroye TO clear
away the molten debris preparatory 10
firing a shot Of nitroglycerine expected
20 snuff out the blaze. The white-hot
metal would reignite the gas imme-
diately.
A score or so of families living in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
HOUSE COP. NAMES
NOMINEES TONIGHT
Independents Will Be Absent
at CauCuS-Want More
Attention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Ranks thinned by the purposeful alb
sence of independents, Republicans of
the House will meet in caucus tonight
to select candidates for Offices in the
next Congress.
Independents, mostly from Western
States, want free hand next Decem-
Der, and are unwilling to commit them
selves now to the present Republican
leadership.
Among the regulars, there was no
sign of opposition to Nicholas Long
worth of Ohio, for denomination as
Speaker He has held the chair for six
years now. Other officers also appeared
slated for denomination without oppo-
sition. They are: John @. Tilson of
Connecticut, floor leader; William Tyler
Page, clerk: Joseph G. Rodgers, SER
geant at arms, and Bert w. Kennedy,
doorkeeper.
Independents Hold Whip.
The independents have not entirely
rebelled against this leadership, but the
significance of their dissertations Law
in close margin between the Republicans
and Democrats in the next House. In
a block, that dozen or fifteen votes could
elect either slate or force compromise.
They have given no sign, however, of
wishing to join the Democrats.
Recent weeks have seen Speaker
LongwoTth in a conciliatory attitude
toward FESTIVE groups Only yesterday
he obtained reopening of the oil en-
barge question after the Ways and
Means Committee had shelved for the
session legislation sought urgently by
petroleum State representatives. The
day before he took the floor TO aid
in passage of the lame duck" resolu-
ton much desired by Westerners, and
his support of the veterans loan dill
was popular with a majority of the
House
Democrats Delay Caucus.
Liberalization Of the House rules,
whose Stringency has been a sore spot
with many, was assured a large place
in tonight's discussion, but most Of the
party leaders already concede that the
absence of a controlling majority in the
next House would make the present
regulations ineffective. There was
sentiment, too, for not committing the
party to rules program until the next
SESSION is on. Inc democrats, VINO aISo
had planned to caucus this week.
changed their minds some time ago and
put off their elections until next term
BY then deaths may alter the standing
CT the parties
Among those who have announced
they will stay away are Representatives
La Guardia of New York, Mas and
Christgau of Minnesota and Schneide;
of Wisconsin. Mas explained he had
a dinner engagement with Representa-
tive Kvale of Minnesota, the single
Farmer-Labor party member.
1T was a choice of the more agree
able of two affairs" he said, both So
cial."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
EDUCATORS UPHOLD
18TH AMENDMENT
Only One Vote Cast in Favor
of Repeating of Dry
Laws.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT, Mich, February 90
With only one voice in opposition, the
National Education Association, depart
nent of superintendent today adopted
resolutions upholding the eighteenth
amendment.
The lone opponent of the Resolutions
Committee report was DR.. Daniel S.
Kealey of Hoboken, N. j., who had Of
fered repeal resolution.
Speech Interrupted.
DR.. Kealey did not ask adoption of
his own resolution, however, but de-
voted 10-minute talk to opposing the
one reported by the Resolutions Com
mittee. which declared the eighteenth
amendment the most effective means
yet devised to curtail the distribution
and use of alcohol
The New Jersey educators talk, which
was made from the stage, was inter-
rupted frequently by cries of throw
him OUT and sit down." Norman r.
Crozier, president of the organization,
several times called on the superintend-
ents to "be fair" and permit DR.. Kealey
to finish his speech. Raising his voice
above the noise, Kealey shouted at one
time, If you think you can intimidate
me, you're foolish"
A warning that the mentally gifted"
child Is as much a problem as a delin-
quent and needs special attention as
much as any defective type found in the
school room was given to school super
intendentS today by William John
Cooper, United States commissioner of
education.
The child showing an unusually high
intelligence reaction, DR.. Cooper SAID,
may become a liability to the com
dren in the schools of the Nation, he
estimated, or about 200 for each 5000
pupils.
Only 40 cities in the country, how
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HOLLOW TOOTH USED AS cEAR"
BY DEAF TO HEAR RADIO MUSIC
Vibrations Molar Also Enable Afflicted Person to
Listen to Lectures.

mitted to the ear and enable him to
hear not only music but also broadcast
lectures. He can also listen to q violin
by placing one end of q length of wire
into the cavity of the instrument and
holding the other end In his teeth.
Only persons afflicted with otosclero-
sis, or thickened ear-drum, can hear in
this way, says DR.. Svatek. Persons
whose auditory nerve is destroyed or
whose ear-drum is perforated are I'M
able to recover their lost faculty by
the hollow tooth method.
Copyright, 1931)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
CONALLY VOTES DRY
Texas Senator Opposes Committing
Party to Anti Prohibition Policy.

Senator Conally Of Texas yesterday
added his protest to that of other
Democratic congressional leaders against
any attempt to commit the Democratic
National Committee to an anti-prohi-
bition stand at its forthcoming meet
ing.
Leaders, meanwhile, awaited arrival
here of Chairman Raskob to inform
him of an almost solid front Of the
party in Congress against the reported
attempt to bring up the prohibition is
sue at the March conference
On the ground that the National
Committee is without authority to adopt
party policies Democratic leaders on
Capitol Hill are confident of defeating
any attempt at adoption Of wet plank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
Warner, Film Aide. Is Ill.

NEW YORK, February rs B.-Lewis
warner, son OF H. M. Warner and an
executive of Warner Bros Pictures
Inc, is i'll in Havana, it was learned
today. DR.. Thomas j. Unger, medical
director of Warner Bros, has been sent
to Cuba to take charge of the case. An
infection has set in and blood poison
ing is feared
Mr.. Warner had a wisdom tooth ex-
tracted just before he sailed. It was
the cause of the trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
OF BULGARIA
TAKING TRIP TO EGYPT
By the Associated Press.

by IIle h5bUCIdItu FIGbb.
BERLIN, February 26.-Friends of the
former Gear of Bulgaria, Ferdinand, to-
day celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday
for him, Ferdinand himself having left
Germany several days ago on trip to
Egypt prescribed by his physicians.
Although no word has been received
from him since he left Coburg, his an
cestral residence, he Is believed TO have
reached Cairo.
The celebration of his natal day in
Berlin took the form of a reception by
the German Bulgarian Society, of which
he Is an honorary member, for the Bull
garian colony here.
He Is one Of the European ex-royal-
ties upon whom the loss of royal pomp
and circumstance sits lightly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
Battleship Maine
Survivor, "a, Fails
To Receive Pension
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
One of the Is survivors of the
battleship Maine disaster has
failed to qualify for Spanish
War pension.
A bill to confer a pension on
74-year-old John Beffron of
Brooklyn, passed by the Senate,
was blocked in the House last
night when it was shown Heffron
served only SO days. Ninety days
war service are required by law
for pension rights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
MEXICANS BLAME DRINK
FOR DEATH OF AMERICAN
Two Companions in Unconscious
State-Report of Similar
Cases Investigated.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TIJUANA, Mexico, February 90
Three men we're found unconscious in
the Tijuana River bottom last night,
and one, whom officers tentatively iden-
tilted as Richard J. Sheehan of Massa-
clusetts, died at the hospital here Will
liam P. MCGUIRE, address unknown, and
a third man, still unidentified, were
taken to the hospital unconscious. All
three were said to be cases of acute
alcoholism
Tijuana police also received a report
from San YSidro Calf, that two men
returning from Tijuana we're taken Ill
there, presumably from alcohol obtained
in Tijuana.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
BY Cable to The Star.

By Cable TO The Star.
PRAGUE, February 26.-A hollow
tooth provides an excellent "ear" for a
deaf person who wishes to hear radio
program. according to DR.. Francis
Svatek Of Prague, who describes his in
teresting experiments in the current
issue Of a Czech medical review.
Or. Svatek, himself deaf, props one
the button of the loudspeaker and ap-
plies the other end to a hollow molar.
The vibrations on the tooth are trans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26

New Jersey Authorities Hope to Learn
When and Where Mrs. StaGler Died.

New Jersey Authorities Hope TO Learn
When and Where Mrs. St@der Died.
RAILWAY, N. j., February 26 (P.-By
questioning william Frazer, a former
restaurant worker, under arrest in
Raleigh, N. c., and by an autopsy, au-
thoritieS sought today to learn how,
when, where and why Mrs. Phoebe
Stader was killed.
Prosecutor Abe J. David of Union
County went to Raleigh TO confront
Frazer with the statements of his
cousin Ira Jensen and his wife, Hilda
Frazer, that they had seen woman's
body in his automobile and that he
had told them he killed Mrs. Stader.
The body was brought TO Railway by
Philip Stader, husband of the slain
woman, from Bowling Green, Va. 1t
(Continued on Page 2, Column s.
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Radio Programs on Page D-4
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Continued on Page 2, Column Sd
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NO WcdVIICI 15UISuU UIVOdoVsT
Fair tonight; minimum temperature
about 80 degrees; tomorrow fair.
observation-disclosures. 81, at 430
pm yesterday; lowest, 80, at 7 am. to-
day.
Full report on page 9.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22

this sort Of saving-a saving that groans with the
agonies of starved and neglected mothers and
babes-if they did they are hyenas, they aregouls.
That the st. Paul Farmer Union outfit should
engage in merchandising prison Irvine is in keep
ing with their general policy of exploiting and be-
traying both the farmers and workers under the
cover of Cooperation"
Madam ROLAND, the way to the guillOtine,
during the French revolution, upon passing the
great statue of Liberty in Paris, cried out, Glib
erty, Lberty How many crimes are committed in
thy name!" And can fittingly, in this case,
paraphrase Madam ROLAND in saying: "Co-opera-
ton, Cooperation How many crimes are commit
ted in thy name!"
In Russia prison labor is paid union wages-it
is not forced The wages go 10 prisoners or their
dependents. In this country the prisoner is rob-
bed and his family starved. We hope the farmers
of Sheridan county will refuse to buy prisOn-made
Irvine or any other prison made goods, even tho
the Farmers Union is a party to this nefarious
business until such time as the prisoner is paid
for his labor-and paid just as much as free la
Dor.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22
WHEN A TOWN SELLS ITS
UTILITIES

Carl D. Thompson, of the Public Ownership
League sends story of what happens to towns
which are "hornswoggled" into selling their utili
ties.
Less than two months ago, the village of Vassar,
Michigan, with population of 1453, sold its
nicipal power system to the local branch of the
Power Trust for 100000
Within thirty days the power trust secured au-
thority from the State Utilities Commission to is
sue $25O,OO0 of bonds against the Vasar plant,
100000 par value, of preferred stock, and some
indeterminate slices of "no par common stock"
Unless there is big change in the rulings of
commissioners and courts, the people of Vassar will
be obliged to pay electric rates sufficient to re-
turn profit of from to 8 per cent on this in
flated valuation" At per cent, this means $780,,
600 year. Undoubtedly the village could have
borrowed the 100000 for go, or $1,000 year.
The town which sells a pubicly-owned utility is
putting its head in the hyena's mouth-and the
jaws never fail to flose-"Labor"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22
MONTANA BRIEFS

BUTTE = Lights have been in
stalled at the local airport.
GREAT FALLS - Excavat;O,
is underway for erection of pOs
office landing at rear of the fa5
eral building to cost $500.
BOHEMIAN - Bozeman Roofino
Company is established here.
BAINVILLE = H. Siverson !,
planning to open a lunch coupts,
at Amsler confectionery.
Grading of 2 1miles of road h
tween Rudyard and Chester on ths
Roosevelt highway is completed.
Shelby - Local council asked N
open Maple Avenue to traffic
BOWDOIN - Plans approved
to erect plunge pool at hot wate,
well north of here.
HAVVRE - Anderson Brother,
have opened a service station here
SWEETGRASS = Plans ar.
progressing for construction of A
federal building.
BILLINGS - Shaffer Brothers
plan rebuilding plant of old Vel.
lowstone creamery.
Stockmen's Association has been
HYSHAM - Treasure Countv
organized.
Conrad = The Conrad Auto Re.
pair Company has opened for bus.
ines son Front street.
WINNETT = Eugene Hunt Ia,
purchased and refitted Weona re
finery and will operate.
| POISON = Wee-Gee Miniaturr
Golf Course has been opened.
Crawling of the Ravalli-St Ic
natius road has been completed.
| DEER LODGE - Local waite,
company to connect east and ives
side reservoirs.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22

Washington Herbert Hoover's
determination to do nothing at all
and to propose nothing construc-
tive, to safeguard the workers and
their families, in the coming year,
from the hunger and misery which
unemployment has brought, will be
the real issue around which the
presidential contest of 1892 will
turn. Gov. Franklin Roosevelt of
New York, in private talks with
Washington political writer's dur
ing the past week has shown that
he knows that his own best chance
ii reach the White House will be in
offering a remedy. Owen D. Young
was the object of a wild demon
stration of enthusiasm by the
American delegates at the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce ban
quet when Booth of the Guaranty
Trust Co., named Young as the
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22
EUROPE A POWDER MAGAZINE
By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Press

By SCOTT NEARING, Federated Press
European workers and farmers are living over
powder magazine. This magazine exploded in
1914 with fearful consequences. Today big bust
ness interests of Europe, with their mderlngs-
the diplomats and generals-are busy restocking
the magazine with. high explosives that are far
more deadly than those which it contained in 1914.
Economic conflict led up to the war of 1914 and
dictated the peace treaty of 1919 AS concession
to the masses the elder statesmen agreed to
League of Nations which has neither economic nor
political power. Since its organization, both eco
nomic and political conflicts have kept the Euro
pean masses in hot water.
The League of Nations has done little to relieve
the pressure that the principal powers have brot
to bear upon it's weak European members. 1t has
not even attempted to curb the economic political
and military rivalries between France Britain and
Italy.
The French ruling class is today seeking 10 DOM
mate continental Europe. It's prestige was in
creased by the War of 1914; it has enjoyed an un-
usual era of prosperity; it has cornered large
section of the worlds gold supply; and it seeks
to hold its present position at the expense of its
principal rivals-Brdtain, Italy and Germany
Great Britain made her alliance with France 80
years ago because of her fear that Germany might
dominate continental Europe. The German men
ace is gone for the moment but in its place. there
is a France more powerful on the continent than
was Germany in 1914, with the largest army in
the world and with an air force that is perpet-
ual threat to British security Add to this the de-
cline in Britain's economic position during the past
two decades and the anxiety of the British ruling
class may be readily understood
Fascist Italy has mighty ambitions-in the Bal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22

of Labor Doak has delivered a not
ably standpat speech to the con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Rail
road Trainmen, at Houston. in
which he lauded Hoover as a wise
and generous soul. He suggested
that organized labor should feel
greatly honored that one of its
officials should be permitted q
place in the Hoover cavinet ana
it should avoid all offers of helI
from liberal elements outside the
union ranks. He warned them a.
gainst the Soviet example where
as he asserted, "The meek have be-
come tyrants, the humble have be
come taskmasters, the religion.
'have become atheists, and all sem
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22

there would have been no riots and the churches
would not have been burned The blame for the
riots is not on Alfonso or the royalists, or the
church, or Cardinal Segura, or the communists or
anarchists 1t is on the head of the "liberal" cap
italist republican and social-democrac government
of Spain and no one else; the provisional govern
ment is to blame for the loss of life and tremen-
dous property loss by fire amounting it is now
reported to the tremendous sum of 500 million
dollars 1t is the price of weakness and betrayal
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22
sblance of individual freedom has
Vanished"
WARNS AGAINST
SOCIALIST INTRIGUES-

After making vague charges
that the public ownership forces In
the United States have an the
main" been in opposition to "our
struggle to preserve the freedim
of the organized labor movement
from the destruction of restrictive
legislation" Doak declared that
they now seek for self interest to
have the movement with Them"
Coming as this does without a
particle of specification, much less
of proof and from a man who al
ways fought the demand of the
the other railroad labor executives
for public ownership of the rail-
roads it is assumed to be mere
campaign buncombe. But the next
attack is more nearly direct. 1t
seems to be aimed at the progress
ives and socialists and all who
have demanded federal relief fol-
the unemployed.
"There are springing up thruout
our land" he said,T all kinds of So
cieties, advocating all kinds Of
isms which tend to traduce the ira
ditions and policies upon which
this, our government, was found
ed. These influences seek tc
destroy the American labor move
ment and supplant it by radical
atheistic and dangerous doctrines
repugnant to civilized people.
therefore warn you to set you
house in order and to be forever
alert to the devices, intrigues anC
Vaccinations of the so-caller re
formers who are seeking to sub
merge our principles of freedom
and democracy in a sea of social
lied industrial activity, there to lie
it drown"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-05-22
DOAK BRAGS ABOUT PERSE-
CUTTING FOREIGN BORN

This doctrine is applauded equal
ly by Hoover and Young. But the
next sentence is a Hoover bid:
"Under this administration every
effort is being made to protect the
interests of United States labor.
Doak proceeded for half an hour
to claim credit for the Hoover re-
gime for excluding foreign immi-
grafton, deporting thousands of
alien workers, and planning to
strengthen the laws So that more
thousands can be excluded or de-
ported.
Of constructive measures for
getting men back TO work there
was nothing. nor did the former
executive of the Trainmen tell
them how their members who have
been dropped from the payrolls of