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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
LONG is EUL0GIZED
AS NEEDY CHAMPION
Talmadge Urges Preservation Of
Constitution in Address
Before v. F. W.
BY the Associated Press


NEW ORLEANS, September 10
Extolling the late Senator Huey P.
Long as a champion of 1.-The cause of
the poor and oppressed" Gov. Eugene
Talmadge of Georgia pleaded yester-
day for preservation Of the Constitu-
tioE.
The Georgia Governor has been
mentioned in some quarters as a pos
sible successor to Long as the preSi-
Dental candidate of the "Share-our-
wealth" Societies, the late Senator's
national political organization.
Addressing the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Convention here, Talmadge
waxed eloquent about the State which
Senator Long controlled as a dicta-
tor.
Whatever else might be said OF
Huey Long, he never prscticed de-
ception." Talmadge said.
'Huey Long fought for the cause
Of the poor and oppressed and
wished that he was here today on
this platform to talk to you"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
BY f. de S. MELCHER,

Drama Critic OF Ihe star.
" OLLYWOOD, Calf, September
Hollywood has changed.
Shirley Temple still rules
l. Il the roost. Mae West still
SneakS in and out of the studio
on her sturdy feet, bolStered by a
milk-and-egg diet. Carlo is still
a myth. The blends that bounce
along the streets, radiant in trou-
sers, sailor blouses and 3 inches
of makeup, are still the same blends
that you saw last year, the year be-
fore and in 1924. But calm, a
sophiStication, a continental whatnot
has spread over the land.
The Trocadero, Hollywood's ultra
plush lined-caviar blistered 'nightery
where only the Mayors, the w. S.
Van Dykes and other gilt-edged celeb
rites can eats breaking out with a
public wine cellar, a room of epic pro-
portion which, adjoining one OF the
eating rooms and entirely visible to
the world at large. will also remind
the world at large that Hollywood
knows its grapes, as we'll as its onions
and that the rough and roaring
eras are over, giving place to new
California dignity and such continent
tai WITNESSES as can be brought within
the gates.
The town has grown more people
more gadgets, and more strange sights
are mixed in with the new European
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
BarOnteters Set
Ne,U Lou for u. S.
In Hurricane Belt
26.75 Reading Snldshes
Record Made by
1926 Storm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The hurricane that roared across
Florida keys early this month pushed
barometers down to new low for
this country.
The Weather Bureau said yesterday
1t had three readings from points at
or near the center of the storm track
as it swept in from the Caribbean.
The lowest was taken from barom-
eter brought in from Lignumvita
key-26.75. Two readings at other
nearby points were 1884 and 26.98
inches.
The lowest previous official reading
for the United States in bureau rec
ords is 27.61, made at Miami, Fla,
during the 1926 hurricane. The low
reading for the world was made on
a Dutch steamer AGO miles east of
Luzon, Manila, on August 10, 1927,
when the glass fell to 26185 in a
typhoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
KOENECKE DEATH
IN PLANE PROBED
Attorney for Two Airmen
Says Ball Player Evidently
Was Trying Suicide.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, September 18-The at
torney for two Detroit airmen, seek
ing freedom from manslaughter
charges after their death struggle in
midair with Len Koenecke of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, expressed the be-
lief today that the big league base ball
player had attempted suicide.
"Koenecke was deliberately at
tempting to commit suicide and try
ing to 90 it in one grand, glorious
finish" said the attorney, E. ].
Murphy.
He announced he would subpoena
Casey Stengel, manager of the Dodg-
ers. to testify at the coroner's inquest
tomorrow night as to Koenecke's
mental condition, and would call
any one else that is necessary to
prove that my clients fought in self
defense"
Spend Night IN Jail.
Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeney
and Irwin Davis, parachute jumper,
spent last night in jail. Koenecke
was dubbed to death with fire ex-
tinguisher in the cabin of their ship
Yesterday morning as they new from
Detroit toward Buffalo.
Mulqueeney insisted the base ball
player, last years star outfielder being
sent home after hitting slump this
year, had become unmanagable and
started to fight. He said it was case
Of "one or three
"Grave implications" Seen.
Although Murphy protested it was
nothing but a tragedy to Jail the
flyers, Attorney General A. w. Roe
buck said this matter has grave i'm
plications"
Paralleling the attorney generals in
vestigation was one launched by the
Federal Department Of Civil Aviation
but this inquiry was concerned solely
with circumstances surrounding the
forced landing after the fight,
Koenecke's body remained at New
Toronto undertaking parlor. awaiting
the arrival Of the athletes father and
brother from Adams, Wis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
LONGS BROTHER
EYES SENATE SEAT
Public Subscriptions Sought
to Finance Campaign
in Oklahoma.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
TULSA, Okla, September 18.-The
name of Long may return to the
United States Senate next year on a
share-the-wealth platform-if enough
people contribute funds to finance a
successful campaign.
DR.. George S. Long, brother of the
slain Louisiana dictator and peren-
NAL - though unsuccessful - cam
paigner for Office in Oklahoma, is
planning to run for the Senate in 1886.
Frank Hickman, one OF the Tulsa
dentists Heutenants in past political
activities, said DR.. Long will an
nounce for the Senate in two or three
days"
Lacks Campaign Funds.
Hickman indicated the believers in
the program of the late Senator Huey
P. Long would be expected to back the
campaign.
Lack of money is holding DR.. Long
back" said Hickman, but the people
will provide that. He already has
scores of letters from all over the
country urging him to carry on the
Highland most of the letters had from
81 to $25 in them"
DR.. Long himself said 1t was very
likely" he would be a candidate.
Often q Candidate.
As a Democrat in State normally
Democratic, DR.. Long has run for city
and county offices on numerous occa-
Sions and three times has been can
didate for corporation commissioner,
but never has he held an elective Of
fee or even been nominated by his
party.
There's hardly a boulder or aban-
doned auto wreck beside an Oklahoma
highway that does not bear the words,
In ragged white paint, Geo. S. Long
for Corp. Com" 1t was Longs favor
tie way of getting his name before
the voting public.
The announcement by Hickman in
timated a final healing at Senator
Longs death bed of the intermittent
breach between the brothers.
Once Senator Long refused to make
a speech in behalf of DR.. Longs can
didacy for the Oklahoma regulatory
body and DR.. Long promptly called
his brother the "Al Capone Of Amert-
can politics"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
70 NEWSMEN SAIL
|. SOON FOR MANILA
List of New Philippine Com
monWeaIth's Guests
Announced Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A list of 20 American publishers
editors and correspondents who will
cross the Pacific as guests OF the
Philippine government this Fall to
attend the inauguration of the new
commonwealth was announced last
night here.
Chosen by Manuel Quezon, who to-
day became preSident-elect OF the new
commonwealth, and Resident Com
missioner Francisco Delgado, some of
the newmen will travel with the
group headed by Vice President and
Mrs. Garner, sailing from Seattle on
the steamer President Grant october
l6. The list:
Clark Howell, publisher of the At
lanta Constitution; Sevellon Brown
of the Providence, r. l., Journal, with
Mrs. Brown and Miss Brown: Frederic
Nelson, the Baltimore Sun; William
Philip SimmS, Scripps- Howard foreign
writer. now in Washington; Arthur
Hachten, Washington correspondent
for Hearst newspapers, with Mrs.
Hachten.
William Allen White publisher of
the Emporia. Kans., Gazette, and Mrs.
White; Erwin Canham, Washington
correspondent for the Christian
Science Monitor, with Mrs. Canham;
Sterling Fisher. New York Times;
Marlen Pew of Editor and Publisher.
New York: George Wright Hawkins,
st. Louis Star Times.
Dean Carl w. Alderman, Columbia
University School of Journalism, New
York, with Mrs. Alderman; Donald j.
Sterling, Portland, Greg, Journal;
Jack Howard, Washington, D. c.,
News, and Mrs. Howard; Ben Nickel
way, Washington Star; Burrows
Matthews, Buffalo, N Y, Courier Ex-
press, and Mrs. Matthews; j. r.
Knowland, publisher of Oakland,
Calf, Tribune, with Mrs. Knowland;
Chesley Manly, Chicago Tribune
Walter Karig, Newark. N. j., Even
ing News: Gene Huse, Norfolk, Nebr.,
Daily News, and Mrs. Huse; Mark
Foote, Booth newspapers, Michigan.
and president of the National Press
Club. Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18

varnish. September. too, is the season
for grandmothers. Grandma is here
with granddaughter, who, one OF these
days, she will PUNK into school or
college, and grandma is having her
self a time.
At Levy's Sards or the Brown Derby
you may see the gayest grandmas right
now in the land. They are tall,
square, and they don't walk very well.
This is due to their shoes. which Miss
ZilCh, in department store, has sold
them because they are Jean Harlow
models This is also due to the fact
that grandma insists on wearing silver
fox furs when the temperature hoverS
around SO, that she must strew herself
with earrings. bracelets and a hat
with some sort of a lace jigger on it.
and that she can't help but be tempted
by these new Hollywood cocktail bars,
which are rife with dashing young
men. dressed in blue trousers, red and
white striped shirts and all trying very
hard to look like Cesar Romero.
Grandma is Hollywood's September
problem. We ran into grandma as
soon as the train pulled into Los An
geles and haven't lost grandma since
| Frank Shields, ace tennis player
and also a new M-GM light, ar
rived with US. No sooner did he lano
with a thud on Passdena's terra firms
/ than a brigade of old women who
we're there to grab their young of
springs off the train, grabbed Mr.
/ Shields instead, and when last we
/ saw him were bombarding him with
questions, autographs and invitations
/ to dinner.
IN SPITE Of grandma trouble, Holly
wood has, however, most of it;
| feet on the ground. A subdued frs
/ day out here found us dining with
/ the Paul Smells, getting a glimpse o.
| the 8l8th performance of "Tht
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
CUT IN W. P. A. HOURS
SEEN BY JOHNSON
Administrator Says He Has Re-
ceived limitations From Wash
ington on Question.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September l8.-Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson. Works Progress Ad-
ministrator here, said yesterday he had
received intimations from Washington
that hours would be shortened while
pay remained at $3.50 monthly for
skilled w. P. A. workers.
This would effect a compromise
with labor unions which have caused
interruptions in the work by demands
for a prevailing wage to diSplace the
security wage in vogue.
"I don't know what adjustment will
be made" johnson said, except that
in broad outline they probably will
shorten monthly hours, leaving the
pay at $93.50 monthly"
If I am asked for recommends
tons" johnson said, Il shall suggest
cutting hours from 100 to 80 month.
This would raise the hourly rate OF pay
from approximately 70 cents to SLIT"
He added that he would welcome
such a compromise, declaring he had
always favored it and that he had ad-
vised union officials to concentrate on
Washington with their negotiations"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
EYSTON CAPTURES
24,HOUR RECORD
Speed in Excess of 14O NJ.
P. H. Sweep of Many Hon.
ors for England.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS. Utah,
September 18.-Virtually every world
land speed record of consequence be-
longs to England today.
Sending his froglike racing jugger-
naut over the salt beds where Sir NAL
colin Campbell recently established his
3Ol-m1le-an-hour mark, Capt. G. E.
T. Eyston last night completed a "a
hour assault against time which
moved down IA assorted world records
for racing machines.
Capt. Eyston and two relief drivers,
c. S. Standard and Albert Denly,
took turns behind the wheel of the
Speed of the Winds" which resem-
bles the face of a frog when viewed
from the front.
Although the contest board of the
American Automobile Association held
UP official announcement of speeds at
the various stages of the endurance
run, it was unofhcially announced
Capt Eyston and his aides had cap
tured the 24-hour record with a speed
in excess of 40 miles an hour.
Alb Jenkins Record.
Only a few weeks ago. Alb jenkins
of Salt Lake. City had established a
record Of l35.47 miles an hour for the
day and night race.
Jenkins held several records cap
tured by the Englishman, while others
we're held by John Cobb of London.
These included records for 10 miles,
so kilometers. so miles, 100 kilo-
meters, 200 kilometers, 1000 kilo-
meters, 1000 miles, 5000 klometers,
5000 miles. 1000 kllometers. 5000
kilometers, one hour and II hours,
The endurance speed trial was ac-
complished with little tire trouble,
and no motor troIble-thanks in part
to utilization of the facilities Of a
railroad roundhouse by the daring
Briton.
When motor parts needed arrived
from Detroit they were found to be
two thousandth's OF an inch oversize
and Eyston trimmed them 10 fit in the
Western Pacific roundhouse at Wend
over.
A. A. A. officials delayed announce
ment of speeds to double-check their
figures and prevent an error such as
marred Campbell's run. when an in
correct announcement indicated h
had not bettered 800 miles an hour
Speeds to Be Announced.
officials Of the Contest Board Of
the American Automobile Association
said they would announce exact spee15
at various stages of the run tomorrow.
1t was stated unofhcially that the
doughty English driver had estab-
lished 13 new records for runs rang
ing upward from 10 miles in his Speed
of the Winds.
Some of the many records were
held by John Cobb of London. VITO
recently raced on the salt fats he"t
jenkins followed the British driver
and recovered the 24-hour record am
several others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
ITALIAN 0ILFIELD
CONTROL REPORTED
Shares Acquired in Mosul, Ltd.
Company Is an Associate
of British Concern.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 18.-An Off
cial announcement by Mosul Oilfields,
Limited, that Italian interests have
acquired enough shares to control the
enterprise was reported in press as
ISOLATION dispatches early yesterday.
The company is an associated con-
Germ of the British Oil Development
Co. The reports said Francis M.
Rickett, British promoter who figured
in the granting Of an Ethiopian con-
ceSSion to an American company was
active in the formation of the latter
Oil company.
Rickett returned 10 London yester-
day from Amroth Castle, his Welsh
home, where he visited his family
after his trip back from Ethiopia.
Interests in Irak of the Mosul OIL
fields, Limited, extend to within ap-
proximately 100 miles of the Kirkuk
fields, in Mespotamia. where Ameri-
can, English and French Oil COM
panieS are active.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
.LOOPH0LE IS SEEN
IN W.P.A. DEADL|NE
More Desirable Proposals
May Be Substituted for
Rushed Ones.
BY the Associated Press.


Although the deadline for filing
applications for w. P. A. funds was
September II, officials today saw a
loophole through which they believed
many projects developed after that
date could be undertaken.
They predicted State works progress
administrators would be permitted to
substitute more desirable work for
some Of the proposals rushed through
before the deadline.
Belief was expressed that the ap-
plications which we're received by
September IL would be made the basis
for ALLEGATION of remaining W. P. A.
money. But apparently, it was pointed
out, there will be nothing TO prevent
later-developing projects from being
submitted to Washington for approval
and then being substituted for some
OF the items included in the alloca-
lions.
Emergency work, such as that
which grows out of floods and
drought, was outlined as one type
which would have little difficulty
winning approval whenever it de-
velops.
Final word is expected shortly from
Harry L. Hopkins, w. P. A. admin
istrator, on this and other details OF
the administrations program to pro-
vide jobs by November l for all able
bodied persons on relief and end the
dole. Hopkins spent yesterday at
Hyde Park, comforting with the PreSi-
dent
A meeting Of the Allotment Advisory
Committee to set aside the bulk of
remaining work-relef funds for the
w. P. A. program, in line with Mr..
Roosevelt's decision last week, is an
ticipated generally within the next
week.
The President has announced that
he is relying on temporary jobs under
Hopkins jurisdiction 10 meet the No.
vember l goal. while giving Secretary
Ickes more time to get a limited
amount of permanent w. P. A projects
underway.
At the National Emergency Council
it was said today that funds already
earmarked or allotted from the
S4,88O ,000, 900 work-relief fund total
S3,463 ,9l5,265.
The Relief Administration yesterday
announced that direct relief allot-
ments for September had been cut to
S74,9l6, goo, as compared with se7,-
III, 1892 for August
Vermont was added to Alabama and
Wyoming as States which no longer
Will get Federal relief contributions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18

mere beggarly $1,000 words. But
'twould seem it's loaded with crop
reduction rules and what not for the
100000 Americans who, for reasons
best known to themselves. go on pro-
ducing potatoes at the customary
ratio Of 16 to sixteen potatobugs n
every potato. BY Winter, I look for
the Omen to be out running down
potato leggers and spud runners.
However, having gone on a strict
reducing diet in the interests Of TIE
acting art. I'm remaining calm. the
only times I ever taste starch any
more aire when licking the button
holes in a stiff shirt.
But I do wish the Government
would take up onions next! pre-
sumo the proper place to write is
to the Interior Department. Because
I've found onions absolutely uncpn-
trollable.
P. S.-Probably we'd better include
radishes, too.
(copyright 1880
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
CONDEMNED WOMAN
SAVED BY MERRIAM
California Governor Commutes
Death Sentence of Hus.
band Slayer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH, Calf, September
18.-Mrs. Nellie Madison, convicted
slayer of her fourth husband, vas
saved from the gallows Monday.
Gov. Frank B. Merriam committed her
sentence to life imprisonment.
The husband, Eric Madison, film
studio worker, was found shot to
death in Burbank apartment in
March, 1884. Mrs. Madison said she
shot in self-defense.
Almost at the same moment that
the Governor committed her sentence
the Supreme Court denied without
comment writ of coram nobis which
would have brought a review Of her
case upon grounds Of alleged error
of fact.
No woman has ever been executed
by California. Gov. Merriam made
no public explanation of his action.
Mrs. Madison was not Immediately
informed, as official notice was to be
made by Warden ]. B. Holohan of
San Quentin Prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18

Drunkard," attended by not only
grandmas. but good many grandpas,
swift skirmish with Trocadero, chat
with Spencer Tracy, Harlows new
leading man in "Riffraff"; lunch with
Tom Baily out at the Fox Studios
where Bill Robinson RECALLED us with
yarns about the new Shirley Temple
picture, The Little Rebel" and what
fun it is to teach Shirley how to dance
(he says she can learn routine
and a half in an hour: and then a
prolonged afternoon down at MG-M,
where the stars pop out OF every cor
ner, where you may see boat called
the Santa Lucas, which was once
"Tugboat Annie's" original barge, and
where $50 people will work for 80
days, but not on the barge. to pre-
pare the costumes for The Great
Ziegfeld."
M-G-M Is an looking place
at the moment Another Tarzan pic
ture is in progress and giant Nubian
chiefs, sprayed with Nujol and clad
in minimum bright-colored skirts
Oh OlA al Oull0 lllC IOt, pldSLAk gaines
with their mammies from Harlem,
Brooklyn and the Bronx Inside the
studio walls Johnny Weismuller once
again is making love to Maureen
| O'Sullivan-this time in a bog in
which they have to stand for hours
while the director argues with the
Nubian boys and tells them what
to do.
FARTHER on down the line" we
come 10 the "docks"-a quaint
croSs-section Of the world, this time
in imitation of San Pedro. where the
San Lucas is moored, where the squat
bleak houses advertise beds for IL
cents" and where you may get q
bath for IS cents" Waterfront
| characters plod up and down the
wharfs and suddenly there is a shrek
/ and a hurrah and out of a San Pedro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
FIREBUG RULED INSANE
Father Acts as Sons Attorney
and Pleads for Verdict.

DENVER, September Is tP.-War-
rem r. Cramer, II, who started fires
in Denver's new city hall and several
downtown Office buildings, was ad-
judged insane yesterday by jury, the
verdict for which the youths father
pleaded.
DR.. Harry r. Cramer, dentist-law-
yer Of Oakland, Calf, arose as the
hearing was about to be postponed
because of absence Of counsel and
volunteered to be his sons attorney.
"Will all of you base your verdict
solely on the report of the doctors
and If they say he is insane will you
find him insane?" DR.. Cramer asked,
his face tear-stained. Two physi-
clans so testified. The youth was
ordered committed to the Colorado
State Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18

More than a score of residents of
Washington and nearby Maryland or
Virginia are included in the list of
the $50 foreign service officers, whose
promotions have been announced by
the State Department. In addition
there are many in the group who
are we'll known here because of their
official connections.
The promotions, entailing pay raises,
have received in more than four
years. The first ,wo classes affected
are officers who are-or will be
conSulS general or counselors of en-
bassy or legations: the next two, con-
suls general or first secretaries; the
following four, consuls or first or
second secretaries, and the remainder,
third secretaries, consuls or vice con-
suls.
List of Promotions.
From this area those advanced
we're: Glass 4 to class 3-CIarence
]. Spiker, Washington: Avra M. War
rem, Ellicott City, Md, and Carol H.
Foster, Annapolis.
Glass 5 to class flames Hugh
Kelley, jr.; Rudolf E. Schoenfeld,
Washington, and Robert B. Macatee,
Front Royal, Va.
Glass to class 5-Herbert S. Burs-
ley, Washington, and j. Rives Childs,
Lynchburg, Va.
Glass 7 to class edwin Schoen-
rich, Baltimore.
Glass to class ii. Holbrook
Chapman, Carlton Hurst, Joseph P.
Ragland, Washington, and Rufus H
Lane, jr., Falls Church.
Unclassifed (A) to class 8-Dorsey
G. Fisher. Gainesville, Md, and Claude
H. Hall, jr., Baltimore.
Unclassified OBJ to unclassified
(A)-Kenneth ]. Yearns, Washington
Unclassifed Co to unclaSsified
(B)-Theodore C. Achilles, Washing
ton; Reginald Bragonier. jr, Balti-
more; Merritt N. Cootes. Fort Myer;
Kent Leavitt, Mclean, Va, and WAL
ter j. Linthicum and William c.
Trimble, Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18

Editors note. This is the first OF
a series OF articles by E. de S.
Melcher, dramatic critic OF The
Star. pho is in Hollywood to tell
you HON the film folk trork and
play, and to 1Urite OF the produce
ton activities in the big studios.
Another article ICiH be published
tomorrow and each day thereafter
as long as Mr.. Melcher remains in
the moutnQ picture capital.