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Evening star., 1933-08-30

Taken to the Academy Hospital, his
condition was diagnosed as acute appen-
dicitis and an operation was performed.
Physicians hold little hope for his re-
covery.
kilograms to Maj Whelan's home at
Bellevue, Wash, brought the response
that he was motoring through Glacier
National Park. At Glacier Park he was
reported to. have left for Yellowstone
Park.
Evening star., 1933-08-30
SON DYING; SEEK father
Maj. Phelan, on Trip, Unaware of
Bows Condition.

WEST POINT. N. Y. August 80 up.
Officers of the United States Military
Academy tried vainly last night to get
in touch with Maj. G. A. Phelan. who
is travelling through the Rocky Noun
is near death.
The son. Cadet Don Phelan, returned
from his Summer furlough seriously i'll.
Evening star., 1933-08-30
PROBES ISLAND CLAIMS
Philippine Senate to Investigate
Ownership of Nine Tracts.

MANILA, August 80 C49.-A resolu-
ton to determine Philippine claims to
nine small islands in the South China
Sea now being claimed by France and
Japan was filed in the Insular Senate
today by Elipidio Quirino, majority floor
leader.
The resolution provides for appoint
Evening star., 1933-08-30
emergency legislation should have the

emergency legislation should have the
support of the bar association.
While denouncing child labor as in
human" Mr. Martin assailed the pend
ing amendment to the Federal Constl-
tuition granting Congress power over it.
No reason exists for the grant, he
said. Although advocated by many
well-meaning people. it is a Com
munistic effort to nationalize children,
making them responsible primarily to
the Government instead of to their
parents. 1t strikes blow at the home. y"
Evening star., 1933-08-30
FORMER FAMED WOMAN
PAINTER DIES ABROAD
Mrs. Cecile De Wentworth Made
Portraits of Roosevelt, Taft
and Other Notables.

BY the Associated Press.
NICE. France. August 30.-Mrs. Cecile
De Wentworth, 80 years ago one of
the most noted American woman paint
Evening star., 1933-08-30

Midnight matinees are being intro
duced in London
Evening star., 1933-08-30
Spain Watches Imports.

Spain has decreed that no animal
products will be admitted into the coun-
try without government permit.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
DRY MISSISSIPPI MAY
GO WET BEFORE 1894
Prospects Are That Special Ses-
sion Of Legislature Will Be
Called Shortly.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


JACKSON. Miss, September o.
Possibility that Mississippi, statutorily
bone dry" may swing into the wet
column before 1884 looms. Prospects
are that the special session of the State
Legislature, long expected, will be
called shortly Too, the two speeches
of Postmaster General Farley to be
made in Mississippi during October are
expected to touch upon the repeal of
the prohibition amendment
Gov. Conner is holding a mail or
der" vote on the special session of the
Legislature and has announced that
he will submit the question of repeal
to the Assembly if the extraordinary
session is called. The mail vote Is
upon drafted bill providing for q
constitutional convention to be held
November IA, the first since 1890.
Postmaster General Farley Is sched-
uled in Meridian, Miss. for the dedi-
cation of the new Federal Building
ard it is expected he will make strong
plea as he did in the neighboring State
port the party plan on repeal. Farley
is scheduled for Jackson, the State
capital on October II, at which time
he will address the party leaders OF
the State Farley Is to fly from Wash
irgton on this trip en- route to Texas
The acceptance by Farley Of the
Jackson invitation Is significant, espe-
cially since it was after the possibility
of Mississippians voting on the repeal
of the eighteenth amendment on No
vember z was generally known.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BY ROBERT H. HORNER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARI TSTON w va Sent

Special Dispatch to The Star
- ~HARLESTON, w. Va. Septem-
Der 23-On top Of all its 9TH
er troubles, including q total
" lack Of funds to provide relief
for the unemployed after Oc-
tober /, another matter Of grave i'm
port arose last week to harass West
VirRinians and as q result Gov. H. G..
Kump may md it necessary to soon
assemble the Legislature In extra ses-
sion to straighten matters out.
The new diftculty was the State Su-
preme Courts decree multiplying q law
enacted last Spring authorizing counties
municipalities and school boards to lay
special levieS to raise revenues to pay
their debts. The court held that the
levying bodies could not fix rates of levy
in excess of the limits fixed in the con-
stitutional amendment adopted by the
Ieople in 1882, and further, that the
political subdivisions must pay their
debt. out Of regularly authorized levies
before they could begin to meet current
expenses.
The courts order had the effect Of
throwing many counties and cities into
q panic stage, because some OF them
would collect only enough revenues to
pay their debts end be left without
i
At MorQantown, where Is situated
West Virginia University. the city coun-
Gil, after reading the courts decree,
ordered its debt paid and at the same
time directed that all 1t governmental
activities be stopped. including the
operation of the police and fire depart
ments. The order, however, was leld
up when the policemen and f1remen
agreed to work for nothing until some
adjustment could be made.
At Charleston, q special 10-cant levy.
which had been laid to raise sl17,o00 to
pay its debts, was Cancelled by the
courts order and Mayor r. p. DeVan
announced that expenses and costs
would be reduced to the lowest possible
figure we will get along somehow
he said
Gov. Kump. however. has remained
silent in regard to calling the Legisla-
ture. He announced that the State, un-
Evening star., 1933-09-24
WRIT HALTS PAYMENT OF ROAD
FUNDS ON NEW ARKANSAS BONDS

ture to be issued in exchange for all
classes of highway Indebtedness.
Hearing on the petition for a perma-
nent injunction will be held before q
three-judge Federal Court here Octo-
Der 80.
Distribution of the sixth-cent gaso-
line tax allotted to the counties as
turnback for rural road construction
and maintenance also will be held up
until the case is disposed of. The rext
quarterly turnback. which is due Oc-
tober l. will amount to approximately
100000. Loss of this fund by the
counties will greatly hamper rural road
work
Although the date for the formal
opening has not been set. patients will
be received in the new $1,500,000
ArmyNavy General Hospital at Hot
Springs this month. The hospital.
one of the most modern in the United
States, is the tallest building in Ar
kansas, although several buildings IN
the State exceed it in the number OF
floors.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
WORRIED BY FUTURE
OF G. O. P. IN MAINE
Former Governor Also Disturbed
by Great Powers Given
Roosevelt.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


AUGUSTA, Me. September 23.-
Former Gov. Percival Baxter is dis
turbed as to the future of the Repub-
lican party in Maine and the after
effects in the Nation of the present
great power which has been placed in
the Presidents hands. On the first
proposition he says: The Democracy
of Maine is in the saddle riding fast
toward permanent aScendancy, its men,
berS flushed with victory and power
Maine Democrats seem to forget that
their party was successful in this State
not because of its own strength. but
because of the weakness and pickering
in Republican ranks"
For the first time in three years this
Fall sees some of the large pulp and
paper companies operating In this State
moving toward increased activity. One
Of the largest companies has already
started one large wood-cutting opera
ton In Northern Maine, where for the
past years, there has been practically
no wood cut. In the past three Win
ters the only wood cut for this company
in the area where their lands are
located, was that by independent opera
tors who had contracts, running over
period OF years, to cut certain amount
OF wood each season. The operation
which they have started this Fall will
get cut about 10000 cords of pulp wood.
Gov, Brann has placed before Presi-
dent Roosevelt the proposition Of estab-
fishing a national forest in Maine. The
Governor would have the Federal Gov
ernment take over 1000 to 1000, 900
acres In the Mount Katahdin area for
this purpose. This, as understood, would
be In connection with the present State
park, which includes Katahdin.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Ne,U Council Seeks
To Settle Price of
Connecticut Milk
Farm Federation Backs
Plan to Name Pro.
ducers' Board.
BY ROBERT d. BYRNES.
ial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARTFORD, Conn. September as
A new formula for the settlement OF
the problem of milk prices in Connec-
ticut is the goal of the State Farm Bu-
reau Federation which is now engaged
in organizing a State milk producers
council of IA members.
Dissatisfaction with the State Milk
Control Board established by the Legls-
lature last Spring to fix prices has
brought friction and at one time one
group of farmers called milk strike
in the State. While compromise pre-
vented the strike, the farmers do not
yet consider their return sufficient.
The constitutionality of the milk
control board act Is on its way to
determination in the courts.
The new group will not be market
ing organization, but will represent the
farmers before the Milk Control Board.
and will endeavor to formulate a milk
marketing program for the State. Eight
of the ID members will be elected. one
from each county, at mass meetings
to be held October g. each of the re-
naming six to represent one OF the Or
ganiZed societies Of milk producers, by
which he will be elected.
Present indications are that there
will be several candidates in the con-
gressional race Mrs. Kemp, widow OF
the Representative, has announced she
will be a candidate, but it is not def
mite yet whether she will receive the
Endorsement of the Long-Allen organl-
zation, which supported her husband.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
VIRGINIA
LAWS UNDER FIRE
Gas Tax Variation Attacked
as Invalid; Loan Measure
in Dispute.
BY X. L. c. BARRET.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


RICHMOND, Va, September %
Questions of constitutionality cling
embarrassingly to two laws enacted by
the General Assembly of Virginia at its
recent special session. One of these is
designed to permit Virginia gasoline
stations within a 15-nile radius of the
District of Columbia line to meet, In
part at least, the gasoline prices
charged by stations in the District
where the tax is lighter than in Vir-
ginia. The act, in effect, would reduce
the usual Virginia tax by 2 cents
gallon in zone extending 10 miles
into Virginia and reduce it cent in
a zone which extends miles farther
out.
1t being claimed that the act was un-
constitutional because it levied q diff
ferent tax for different parts of the
State. Gov. Pollard. before signing it,
referred the matter to Attorney General
Saunders. The attorney general replied
that he could not render straight out
opinion without court precedents to
guide him. The Governor then signed
the bill saying that its constitutionality
was in doubt, but that as the measure
was in the public interest he was dis
posed to leave its validity to the courts.
1t is expected that gasoline station
owners just this side of the 15-mile
line will test the question in court.
Loan Bill Signed.
The Governor also signed the bill
authorizing borrowing by the State from
the Federal Government of $4,000, 900
Of road funds to be supplemented by an
outright Federal grant of s16000,000
In doing so he virtually put the consti-
tutionality Of the measure up to the
Federal authorities.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Vermont Senator
Lashes Czaristic
Federal Policies
Scores Tendency to Cire
Orer to President
AL POirers.
BY w. B. GATES.

special OlSpttCn 10 he SLaE.
BURLINGTON, VT, September a.
While admitting that the present cha
otic condition Of the United States Gov
eminent is probably necessary in order
to bring the country back to prosperity,
United States Senator Warren r. Aus
tin Of this city in an address on the
Constitution, given at Lions Club
luncheon here Monday, declared that
only one more step is needed to over
throw the Government.
Senator Austin said: I'VE are wit
Messing the abandonment by the legis-
lative branch to the executive OF its
exclusive power and duty to legislate.
Only one step further need be taken to
destroy the Constitution and overthrow
the Government, and that is to remold
the judiciary We observe the Govern
ment going into business, class agita-
ton and class consciousness being eX-
cited, the individual being fettered and
paternalism enthroned.
In this situation a service club can
and ought to keep ever foremost the
patriotic duty to make the diversion
from American institutions, which we
are experimenting with now, temporary
and to replenish the sacred flame OF the
Constitution as speedily as possible"
OF the 121 companies and PLATO men
in Civilian Conservation Corps camps
In the six New England States there
are 43 companies and 1889 men sta
toned in the State Of Vermont, the
largest number in any Of the six States.
Second to Vermont is Massachusetts.
with 80 companies and 5,543 men, while
Maine is third with II companies and
SOIL men.
The task Of making these men, who
have been quartered in tents during
the Summer. comfortable during the
Winter is now being studied. Contracts
for the construction Of barracks have
been awarded and the delivery Of lum-
ber begun. The actual work Of build
ing will start next Monday.
Commissioner Of Forestry Perry H.
Merrill outlines a recreational develop
ment plan fer the State Of Vermont
under the public works fund to supple
ment the proposed Green Mountain
Parkway sponsored by Col. w. J., Wilgus,
chairman Of Gov. Wilson's Engineers
Committee.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
hOdeIsIandN.R.A.
Signers Include 80
Pct. of State Firms
10000 Consumers Are
Pledged to Blue Eagle.
Pay Rolls Up 1915.
BY JAMES S. HART.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


PROVIDENCE, r. l., September 23-
National Recovery Administration work.
ers at the start of "buy-now" cam
paign were informed that all but IL per
cent of Rhode Island employers have
signed the unemployment agreement,
146000 consumers have signed, 10000
men and women have gone back to
work since last March, and pay rolls
are up 1926 per cent over year ago.
James Roosevelt, son of the Presi-
dent, was supposed to be a speaker,
but he wired he had a sore throat.
Federal Judge Ira Lloyd Let's, Re-
publican, told the gathering he did not
like the spectacle of country going
off the gold standard and repudiating
its promise to pay, and there were
certain features of the N r. A. which
were bound to be tested in the courts.
He declared, however, that suspension
of the operation of the Sherman anti
trust laws was the greatest forward
economic step in 20 years, and elimina-
ton of child labor under the codes
gave the chance to form a national
policy in matter much neglected by
many States.
1t would seem that the drop, which
had gone steadily on since last April
month by month, in Rhode Island un-
employment relief costs has come to
an end, and will stand at about $780,
900 month during the coming Win
ter. Last April, the peak, the cost was
S609,00
Evening star., 1933-09-24
KENTUCKY OBTAINS
PROCESSING TAX.
Falls Heir to Largess Of
Government in Tobacco
Outlay.
BY HARRY BLOOM.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, September as
Kentuckians continued this week to fall
heir to the largess Of the Federal Gov
ernment with Secretary Wallaces pro-
mitigation of the tobacco processing tax.
This phase of agricultural adjustment
was estimated by DR.. Hugh B. Price,
chief of the department Of markets Of
the University of Kentucky, to be worth
about S6,500 900 to Kentucky tobacco
growers, with $2,200.000 destined to
line the pockets of leaf farmers in other
sections Of the country.
Louisville Figures.
Louisville cigarette. plug, twist and
snuff manufacturers, 1t was estimated.
would nay more than So 100000 Of this
tax. How conservative this estimate is
was shown by statistics on the city's
cigarette output alone. Two Of the
most popular 10-cent brands on the
market had a combined production
value Of 27,000 100000 cigarettes in
1882. 1t is calculated that the tax will
run about 10 cents a thousand Gig
arettes, or $2.700000 from this source.
The city is also quite center for
chewing tobacco and snuff.
Kentucky growers are watching close
" the Governments program in the
Carolinas and Virginia with the grow
ers Of flue-cured tobacco. none of which
is produced in this State. They feel
that the pattern Of the agreements
reached there will be followed closely
here and naturally the extent to which
the tobacco farmers share in Uncle
Sans bounty depends on the manner
in which they subscribe to the crop cur
tailment agreements.
Assuming that participation is pretty
general, the leaf producers most bene-
hurley is about 300 1000. 900 pounds. IS
per cent of which is grown in this
State, the 2-cent processing tax would
net the States growers about 81, SOC, 600.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
ROSTON VOTERS PONDER FIELD
OF II MAYORALTY CANDIDATES

barred lawyer in addition to numerous
and sundry other more or less ident.-
fed individuals
The city charter bars Mayor Curley
from seeking another term at this time,
but he is believed to be the sponsor OF
William A. Reilly. School Committee
member, who is only 80 years OF age
Some Of the other candidates are
District Attorney william ]. Foley,
Daniel H. Coakley, Judge Michael H
Sullivan, Senator Henry Parkman. r.;
former Congressman Joseph O'Coa-
nell, former Auditor Alonzo B. Cook
and q number of others less conspicl-
GUS in the public eye.
With no party designations, the
candidates will participate in gen.
eral free-for all election on November
and Democratic leaders are appre-
hensive lest one of the two strong Re-
publicans, Nichols or Parkman, sue
ceed In being elected mayor Of the fore
most Democratic city In the East, next
to New York.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
GEORGIA TO SPEND $7,OOOOOO ON NEW CONSTRUC:
TENNESSEE WINS|
TILT ON STATE
IDLE AID PLAN
NO Dole Cry Heard
as Government
GiUes In.
BY THOMAS FAUNTLEROY.

~ AAAOANAho hO4N AEkSo1s
Special Dispatch to The Star
MEMPHIS. Tenn, September 23.-
General satisfaction spread throughout
official circles In Tennessee this week.
following the visit of Gov. McAlister
to Washington and the consequent es-
cape from . special session Of the Leg
islature Moreover, the relief program
ton. Is apparently simplified.
The insistence Of Harry L. Hopkins,
administrator. that relief funds would
be discontinued In Tennessee October
Is unless the Governor arranged to
raise 100000 had upset the en-
time plan of State econom--. Mr..
Hopkins had demanded this state fund
before the Government would release
Sc, 900 900.
While Gov. McAlister and the State
ohcials were anxious to provide relief
for the hungry, 1t was pointed out that
only 100000 was spent last year.
that this year would require more
Moreover, the order from Washington
that the $1,000 900 be spent ON q basis
of $40 q day whether the recipient
worked or not brought forth the cry
of mo dole for Tennessee" cry which
threatened to bring all relief to an end
$500 Each.
An official figured out the relief
season in Tennessee extended from
about December Is to April /, roughly
would amount to around 5000 for every
person on the relief rolls; and this
would mean 40, 900 persons on the rolls.
No reasonable computation could con-
jure up 10000 persons in Tennessee in
need Of relief
In addition to this. the Federal ad-
miniStratiOn'S demand that this S2.40
be available whether the person worked
or not brought many protests, since it
would be an easy matter for . person
to quit a job paying SIPS day and
apply for relief at S240. For a time
Tennessee officials thought Of suggest
programs be combined, in order that
every man asking for relief might be
given job.
The Governors visit to Washington
this week had the support of Senator
McKellar and. together, they conferred
with Mr.. Hopkins.
The result was that Mr.. Hopkins
withdrew the demand that 100000
be raised by Tennessee. Instead. $780,
600 will be raised and Mr. Hopkins will
continue relief at the rate of 100000
month. The s500.000 is already pro-
vided for at no extra drain on the
taxpayers.
It was frankly feared by Gov. Nc
Alister that the Legislature. if called
in special session, might get too wild.
While the Constitution limits the Leg
islature in special session to subjects
named by the Governor in his conven-
ing proclamation, 1t often happens that
these limits are stretched. An example
was cited in the recent session Of the
Kentucky Legislature, in which q wran-
gle has developed and nothing toward
relief has been done.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
BrO,U1, Nav
Decide Not to Rl1r,
Due to Patronage
in Nev hampshire
Also Has Rogers as Gu
bernatOriaL Candidate.
BY J. J. MCCARTHY.


MANCHESTER. N. H., September %.
The big political news OF the week
was to the effect that United States
Senator Fred H. Brown may not run
for reelection due to being sighted tn
Democratic patronage and that Repre-
sentative william N. Rogers would be
a candidate for Governor in 1894.
Political observers in the Granite
State take both stories with pinch Of
salt. 1t Is believed that whatever slight
Senator Brown may feel owed the
patronage will be ironed out.
The fact remains that Senator Brown
was ignored when John F. Hurley was
named as head of the prohibition en-
forcement unit Of the United States De-
partment of Justice. Brown was for
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New
Hampshire primary campaign, put his
own money in the fight and beat
George H Moses for the Senate.
Representative Rogers has been in
the State several weeks and said
candidate In fact. when the matter
was suggested to him some months ago
he only smiled.
There may be a special session of the
New Hampshire Legislature to act on
the State dry law, following the repeal
of the eighteenth amendment.
Retail buying Of textiles and shoes Is
starting to pick up. Return of conf
dence and knowledge that prices will be
higher has stimulated buying through
out New Hampshire. At the present
time the AmoSkeag mills, New Hamp-
shire's largest industrial plant, has g.
800 names on its pay rolls.
At Portsmouth the Navy's newest
submarine will soon be launched at the
Navy Yard and two more underseas
craft will be built at the Portsmouth
yard. About 1000 employees are work.
ing in the Navy Yard.
Due to the increase in price Of medic
inal liquor, rum runners are active
along New Tampshire's short coast line.
The customs patrol is active and av-
erages about four arrests each week.
The small force. however, cannot cope
with the hundreds Of rum runners. and
for every one caught hundred get by.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
TOBACCO WAR HITS CAROLINAS
Tar Heels Take Steps
to End Neighbors'-
Holiday.
BY ROBERT C WILLIAMS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c.. September 23.--
Governors of North Carolina and
South Carolina, who had worked in
complete harmony since the beginning
of the tobacco-marketing holiday on
September 2. differed this week and
the North Carolina executive won out
in his determination that the markets
should not reopen until next week.
1t had been expected that the mar
kets In both States would reopen this
week, but when officials Of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration on
last Saturday adjourned their Wash
ington conference with tobacco buy
ers pending public hearing on
Thursday of this week on a proposed
marketing agreement, Gov. j. C. B.
Ehringhaus took the position that 1t
would be disastrous for the markets to
reopen until the Government should
have completed its plans for securing
higher prices.
On the other hand. Gov. l. c. Black
wood of South Carolina yielded to the
opportunities of farmers and ware
housemen and decreed that the holiday
there should end at midnight on
Monday, September 18.