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The Washington times., 1936-08-26
WILL NEE 7
LAND0N AT
DESM0INES
FARLEY
Kansan Among State
Officials to Confer
On Relief Plans
BIZ GEORGE r. HOLMES

EN- ROUTE WEST WITH
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Aug.
26 UN.SO.-PreSident Roosevelt
sped westward today on the first
lap of a $500 mile swing that
will take him, during the next
10 days, through those parts Of
the country hardest hit by the
devastating drought.
That many of the States he
will traverse and visit, from Ohio
to the Dakotas, are politically
debatable this year is perhaps
incidental. But. in any event, Mr..
Roosevelt diSavowed any partisan
thought in connection with his
trip, and supported it by banning
political lieutenants from his
special train.
Farley Left Behind
In fact, Harry L. Hopkins, Fed
eral Relief Administrator, under
whose direction drought relief is
now or about to be administered
to more than 1000 of the 5000
odd counties in the United States,
was one of the few Federal Off
Gals accompanying Mr.. Roosevelt
into the West. Another was Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wallace.
Jim Farley, the Roosevelt cam
paign manager, and other politi-
cos were left behind.
Lending further emphasis to
the partisan aspect Of the
journey was the fact that from
Washington last midnight the
Presidents train was routed direct
for Bismarck, N. D., center Of
what the scientists predict may be
another great American desert
unless corrective drought-preven-
ton measures are taken.
The only stops scheduled were
operating stops along the route of
the B. and o. to Chicago, afford
ing little opportunity for speech
making-and thence over the
Milwaukee to st. Paul and across
the Red River into the DakotaS.
Observation Tour
The President has returned .
smiling and firm negative to all
suggestions that this journey be
counted as a part of his campaign
for reelection. That campaign,
he insisted, will not begin until
early october, when he will lay
aside for a few weeks the aura
of the presidency and return
westward in the role of a candi-
date frankly seeking votes.
AS for this trip, it was explained
Mr.. Roosevelt simply wanted to
see for himself, and at close
range, the effects of the most
disastrous drought calamity in
the country's history, in order to
better direct a gigantic relief pro-
gram that is going to take addi-
tional millions from the Federal
Treasury before it is ended.
More than 100000 farm fam
lilies already are receiving Federal
aid, and more will be added as
weeks go by.
To better afford the President
a closeup view of conditions, his
itinerary has been Sprinkled with
Continued on Page 3, Col. p
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
RAIN TO KEEP
DOWN HEAT

Unusually high humidity which,
coupled with the heat, caused
the death of a seven-month-old
baby and prostration to two
adults, will be relieved today,
the Weather Bureau predicted.
Local showers and varying
winds will hold the mercury be-
low its high level of SO attained
yesterday, it was said, and the
humid air will become drier.
Lowest temperature in the last
IL hours was rs at 8 a. m.
Leo Ralph Davis, 1857 Sixth
st. N. W., was discovered dead
by his mother when she went to
his crib. Physicians attributed
the infants death to the heat.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
NEAR
DEATH OF
INFLUENZA
Wife and 4 Children
at Bedside; Grows
Little Weaker
international News Service

Physicians began to depair to-
day for Secretary of War George
H. Dern, "a, critically i'll at Walter
Reed Hospital with heart and kid,
ney complications developing
from a severe attack of influenza.
He lapsed into a Semi-stupor this
morning.
While Mrs. Dern and four of
her five children were given quart
ers at the hospital so that they
can be almost contantly at his
bedside. The doctors reported
Mr.. Dern had a restless day and
night"
They said there was less con-
gestion in his lungs this morning
but that his general physical con-
dition was "a little weaker"
The hospitals bulletin read:
Secretary of War passed a
rather restless day and night,
characterized in general by q
SemicOnSciOuS condition.
"While some improvement is
shown in that there is less con-
geStiOn in the lungs and less
Odema, his general physical con-
ditiOn remains about the same"
Periodic reports on his condition
are being telegraphed to President
RooSevelt'S special train, en- route
to the drought area.
Those at his bedside are his
wife and four children-MrS. Harry
Baxter and Betsy, James and viii.
liam Dern. Dern was elected gov
ernor of Utah twice.
-VOTE AMERIcAR-
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
War Near.
Is Stalin'S
Warming

LONDON, Aug. Is. Q.N.S).
In a special broadcast to all
units of the Red army, Josef
Stain today ordered the military
forces of the Soviet Union to
hold themselves in readiness for
instant action, according to the
London Evening News. Stain
said:
Comrades of the Red forces
we are on the very eve of
mOmentOuS events.
cat any moment now you
may be called upon to lay
down your lives in the defense
of your prOletarian birthland."
Action of Stain in addressing
the army personally was re-
garded here as of particular sig
nificance, especially as the action
came on the heels of Chancellor
Hitler's decree increasing the
term of service of the German
army to two yearS-a step he
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DeIawareG 6. 0. P. MAY
Draft Sen. HASTINGS

DOVER, Del, Aug. 26 GN.S).
United States Senator Daniel o.
Hastings, who announced last
spring he would retire" when his
present term expires, will be
drafted to run again this Novem-
Der, it was indicated as the Re
publican State convention opened
here today.
Hastings name was unopposed
on the slate offered the gathering
although a stiff fight doomed as
Delaware Republicans convened to
pick their choice for the guberna-
torial nomination.
-VNTE
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
STRIKE CLOSES
MD. PLANT

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 26
G.N.SO After three tear gas
barrages laid down by police
failed to disburse a picket line. the
Kelly.Springfield Tire and Rubber
Company plant, employing about
1,700 workers, was closed today
on order of its president, Edmund
S. Burke.
Burke said that insufficient pro-
tection afforded persons desirious
of working, and not the strike
itself, which has been on since
Monday, was responsible for his
shutdown.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
MILK PRICE
ADVANCE
BLOCKED
Tentatively
Approves Agreement
For D. c. Area

Maintenance of current milk
prices in the District was fore
cast today by Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace in giving his
tentative approval of a market
ing agreement for handlers of
milk in the District marketing
area.
The agreement now awaits ap-
proval by handlers and produc-
erS.
Wallace stated:
Every effort win be made to
see that this program does not
become instrumental in adj
vancing prices to consumers.
"Since the agreement does
not raise the level Of prices to
producers. there is no justifica-
ton for any increase in prices
charged to Washington con.
sumers for milk or cream"
UNIFORM PRICES
Drawn up by the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, the
marketing agreement would con-
tinue existing prices to producers
and would require all handlers
to pay uniform prices.
Conditional approval was given
by D. E. Montgomery, consumers
counsel of the AAA.
The consumers counsel insisted
there be a continuous inveStiga-
ton by the Secretary of Agricul-
ture into all facts that may be
necessary to determine whether
the program "is being misused
to control the resale competitive
activity of any handlers"
The program would be handled
through a market administrator
and all milk would be divided into
two classifications, according to
its use. AS explained by the AAA,
Class milk would be all milk
or cream sold for consumption
in bottles, while Class 2 milk
would be milk or cream sold at
manufacturing purposes.
The program would set up a
price differential for butterfat con-
tent and a system of premiums
which handlers would pay pro-
ducers for quality" milk.
Administration expenses in con-
nection with the program would
be paid by handlers on a pro-rata
basis. On all Glass milk, each
handler who is not an association
of producers member would pay
the administrator mot in excess
of cents per hundredweight."
26 Cents Per Gallon
Each producer for the re-
mainder of this year would be
allowed as a base" rs per cent
of his delivery during the months
of october, November and Deem
Der, 1885. For this quantity of
milk, the handlers would pay the
producers $500 per hundred
weight, or 26 cents per gallon.
Incidently, this is now the whole
sale price level in most instances.
The price on the balance of
the milk over the base" would
be determined on a basis of $2.82
per hundredweight. delivered, ex-
cluSively of butterfat and quality
premiums for "Class /" plus the
standing offer of the Virginia
Maryland Milk Producers ASso-
citation offer for "ClaSS g"
VOTE AMERICAN
U. S. Scribe Jailed in France
ST. NAZAIRE, France, Aug. 26
GNSO .-Valentin de Mollinedo,
New York newspaper man who
shot his way to freedom from a
Spanish steamer commanded by
Reds, only to be arrested by
French police, was sentenced TO-
day to spend an indefinite term
probably week or 10 days-in
Jail.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Woman Jams Door
OF Shop With Auto

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-When
attendants of a fashionable Brook
Ign candy store yester day refused
to serve Mrs. Evelyn Allensback,
Al, she walked out angrily to her
car, drove it over the curb and
damned the shops entrance. Po-
lice, after releasing imprisoned
patrons of the establishment,
took Mrs. Allensback to a hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
DrYdoCk For Hawaii
To Be Built on Coast

The Navy's proposed $15,000,-
900 floating dry dock for Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, will be construct
ed in a Pacific Coast ship yard,
Admiral William H. Stanley, act
ing Secretary of the Navy, said
today.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Firm Head Robbed
OF $500 Pay Roll

WEST NEW YORK, N. j.,
Aug. 26 Q.N.SO.-Two armed
bandits robbed Sidney Lobel,
president of the Dixie Undergar-
ment Company, of a $500 pay
roll yesterday as he stepped from
an automobile in front of his fac.
tory, and escaped in a machine
driven by third man.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
DESPA|RS
OF NEUTRALITY
IN NEW CRISIS
The EcUrOpeHne Situation:

In a special broadcast to the Red army,
Josef Stain ordered all military and naval
forces of Soviet Russia to hold themselves in
readiness for instant action"
London reported President Roosevelt in event he is
reelected will call world conference to pledge main
tenance of peace while in Washington officials ex-
pressed great surprise at this White House aide
stating he had heard the President mention such
move.
Spain the nsurgent launched of the greatest
drives of the recapture San Sebastian and 1run while
from Seville announced the death toll of the revolt has
passed 10000.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Reds Seize Huge Sum
From Spanish Banker
BIZ THOMAS A. LOAYZA

BY THOMAS A. LOAYZA
MADRID, Aug. 26 QN.SO.
While the Leftist Peoples Court"
pressed forward with mass trials
of enemies of the Madrid regime,
Leftist militiamen today began
selling huge amounts of property
belonging to wealthy citizens.
In the largest money seizure
made in the capital since tho
civil war began, militiamen took
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The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Two French Villages
Get |nsurqent Fire

PARIS, Aug. 26 G.N.SJ.-Insur-
gent shells fired in SPANS civil
war fell today in the French vii
lagos of Biriatou and Behobla,
forcing evacuation of the latter,
the newspaper Intransigeant re-
ported in a dispatch from Hen
daye.
The report said insurgent planes
dropped copies of a proclamation
on Irun ordering evacuation of
women and children and surren-
der of the town within "a hours.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Insurgents Blasting
San Sebastian Line

claim five government air
planes shot down.
MERIDA - Insurgents re-
ported pushing closer to
Toledo.
MALAGA-Parts of loyal.
ist-held city set afire by
lnsurgent bombardment.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
SEN. REED HITS
PEACE MOVE

FAIRVIEW, Mich, Aug. 26
Q.NSO.-ReportS President RooSe-
welt planned to call a peace con-
ference of world leaders today
brought a sharp attack on the pro-
posal from James A. Reed. former
United States Senator from Mis-
souri, and a recognized authority
on world affairs.
Senator Reed, in effect, said
that if President Roosevelt called
such a parley of world powers the
President would be taking post
graduate course" in tactics en-
ployed by European dictators to
deprive people of liberty.
He said a President of the United
States had very little business"
in mixing with dictatorS.
Reed, who recently returned to
politics as head of the ConStitu-
tional Democrats, emphasized his
remarks should be construed as
an attack on President Roosevelt
only if reports the President
planned to invite King Edward,
Hitler, Mussolini, Stain and other
leaders to a peace conference were
true.
He also made it clear he did
not want any of his statements
to be directed against King Ed
ward of England.
-VnTE AhERIcAN-
Tests Security Act
ConStitutionality of the Truth
insecurity" act of 1888 was chal-
lenged in an appeal filed in the
Supreme Court yesterday by j.
Edward Jones, New York dealer in
oil securities. Jones asserted that
the law, designed to minimize
stock frauds by requiring publicity
for security issues, invaded rights
of the States.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
Golfer Killed BY Bolt

CHICAGO, Aug. ga bolt Of
lightning yesterday killed golfer
as he ran for shelter during a
rainStorm. Just as Lester Top
per, Is, reached a tree the bolt
struck him in the neck.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26
This Family Eats Enough
To Supply a Restaurant!

Read about the interesting home-making prob
lens of the mothers competing in the million
dollar Canadian Stork Derby. Their food
bills read like the weekly orders for
restaurant. See page 4.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

VOTE AMERICAN-
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Showers probably tonight and tomorrow;
somewhat cooler tonight; slightly warmer to-
morrow.
The Washington times., 1936-08-26

-YOTE AMERlCAN-
The times-news., 1936-07-30
EDDIE YOUNG
IS SENTENCED
Pleads Involuntary Man
Slaughter in Death Of
Savannah Girl

BREVARD, July 80. = Eddie
Young, young Brevard negro,
whose automobile struck and kill
ed Miss Hazel Harvey, %, of
Savannah, Ca, near here on Mon
day morning, pleaded guilty to in
voluntary manslaughter in super
ior court before Judge H. Hoyle
Sink today and was sentenced to
serve from 3 to 18 years in state
prison. . 80. ..-/'. .-'-
Testifying in the case were
Walter Smith, colored, who was
riding with Young, James Ber-
don, the driver of a truck just
ahead on the highway at the time
of the accident, and Sheriff Tom
Wood. Smith, who stopped the
car and called the sheriff and
doctor after the girl was struck,
was commended for his actions by
Judge Sink.
Young was arrested on Tuesday
afternoon about 1 o'clock near
Tryon by Deputy Sheriff Roy
Owens, Of Henderson county, and
Police Chief H. G. Laughter of
Saluda. ..-.
The times-news., 1936-07-30
MRS. CHENEY
ECO-AUTHOR
Former Miss Smathers of
This City Long Time
Magazine Contributor

cart And The Machine" an ac-
count of industrial design in the
goth century, written by Sheldon
Cheney and Martha Gambler
Cheney, will be released by pub
fishers on August 1.
Martha Gambler Cheney, CO.
author of the book, native OF
Hendersonville, is the former Miss
Martha Smathers, sister of Mrs:
P. F. Patton. For a number OF
wears she has contributed reviews
and articles to various publlca-
tions. Her husband is the author
of "a Primer of Modern Art,
"Tbe Theatre" "The New World
Architecture" Expressions IN
Art" and other works.
In the new book the authors
set out to answer some OF these
Questions: What is modern de-
sion in skyscrapers and automo-
biIes, factory machines and homes
and furniture and kitchen equip
ment. Are there standards OF good
taste that apply in the selection
of mass produced articles for ouI
use or Surroundings? Where did
the new stearmline designs IN au-
tomobiles and the new horizontal
ity in architecture originate!
The times-news., 1936-07-30
10 DAYS MORE DROUTH WILL
FORCEU.S. TO IMPORT CORN

per cent more for their produce
than they did in pre-war days.
Grain prices were up 22 points,
truck crops rose 5 notches on the
price barometer, dairy products
advanced 10, chicken and eggs
three. Cotton and cotton seed
were nine points higher.
Meeting human ravages of the
drought, President Roosevelt last
might allotted $1,OO0,000 work
relief money to the works prog
ress administration to finance
jobs for destitute farmers IN
North Dakota alone.
A total of 13,467 needy al
ready are working on government
financed projects in that state.
The government will increase the
total to $4,000 before snowfall.
Meanwhile, acting WPA Ad-
ministrator Aubrey Williams re-
ported that WPA now is employ
ing 5000 drought victims in
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana
and Colorado. The employment
quotas for all those states will be
5000.
WPA also will operate in Ne
braska, Kansas, Missouri and Ok
lahoma. Six Southeastern states
are receiving federal aid,
The times-news., 1936-07-30
MISS BRADLEY
RESIGNS POST
Goes to Greensboro to
Teach; Miss Pridgen
Is Her Successor

Miss Snowe Bradley, of Gas
tonia, very successful teacher in
George-Reed home economics de-
partment for the past two years,
resigned to become head of SINH
lar department in the Greensboro
senior high school. She will also
have charge of supervising teach
ers from the college preparing for
teaching positions in this depart
ment.
Her place here is to be taken
by Miss Maude Pridgen, of Abe
marie, who has for the past eight
years been in charge of similar
department at Hertford.
She comes highly recommended
bv Miss Catherine Dennis, state
supervisor, and DR.. 7. E. Brown,
head of the state vocational de-
partment.
The times-news., 1936-07-30
By RICHARD L. HARKNESS
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 80. CUP
Another ten days of soaring
drought and this country may be
forced to import corn from South
America, Secretary of Agrlcul,,
ture Henry A. Wallace predicted
yesterday.
The best farmers may hope for
he said, even if drenching rams
soak their fields is a yield OF J.
100000 bushels compared to a
normal crop of 2,500,0OO,OOO.
If the moisture does not come
and the U. S. weather bureau
had no assurance. it would-the
crop might drop as low as J.
200,000,000 bushels.
Wallace said that in such an
event, considerable corn prooap-
ly would be shipped in from Al
gentina in order to provide SUI
ficient feed for the nations i've
stock.
Statistics released by Wallace S
own bureau of agriculture econo-
mics, reported that June 1arhi
prices recorded their highest lev
el for any period since August
1884. 80
Farmers now are receiving ID
The times-news., 1936-07-30
5OOLUTHERANS
ATTEND MEET
3-Synod School at Kanuga
Attracts Many From
Four States

KANUGA LAKE. July go
More than 500 persons are regis
tered at the Thrce-Synod summer
school of the Lutheran church,
now in session for week at ka-
nuga Lake, conference center OF
the Episcopal church. The school
is composed of the synOds of
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Georgia-Alabama.
On Tuesday evening a pageant,
"The Blind Beggar at the Gate
Beautiful" was presented by the
class in drama, under the dlrec-
ton of Mrs. Pearl Stezer Deal,
director of the Playmakers of Le-
noir-Rhyne college, Hickory.
Prior to the pageant, mission
airy meeting was held, led by Mrs.
H. C. Michael of Johnstown, Pa,
former recording secretary for
the Woman's Missionary Society
of the United Lutheran Church IN
America. Mrs. Michael made a
stirring appeal for the work of the
Lutheran church in the mission
ary field. She introduced Miss
Maude Powlass, missionary to
Tokyo, Japan, who is home on a
furlough and planning to return
in the autumn to her labors in the
slums of the japanese city. Mrs
Michael reminded her audience
that the well known DR.. Kagawa,
Christian convert in Japan, spoke
of Miss Powlass, working in her
squalid surroundings, as an AN
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The times-news., 1936-07-30
MUST STAY IN
MADRID, LEAVE
AT own RISK
Rebels Ambush Loyalists
With Frightful Machine
Gun Casualties
DISORDERS FEARED
In BARCELONA NOW
BY UNITED PRESS)

Frightful casualties which may
exceed 1000 are reported from
Perpignan, Spain, as the Spanish
Fascist Monarchist rebels am
bushed the leftist loyalists who
were advancing to the attack on
Zaragoza.
The loyalists, in three columns,
were reporte dtrapped and raked
by machine gunners.
The State department at Wash
ington today was advised that the
Spanish government had declined
to provide a special train for the
evacuation of Americans from
Madrid.
Arrangements were being made
for their transport to coastal
towns in order that they could be
transferred to American warships,
when an order issued by the gov
ernment suggested that they stay
in Madrid, or else take their
chance on regular train service.
Meantime, American and Brit
ish officials are urgently seeking
the removal of their respective
nationals from Barcelona, as a
clash between forces there was
feared over loot.
The Spanish government has
decreed a 1900 mile war zone
about Madrid and today admitted
that the rebels were still holding
Alcazar. = .'
The times-news., 1936-07-30
STILL FAVORS MAINE
TIDAL POWER SCHEME

CAMPOBELLO ISLAND, N. B.,
July so. (UP).-President Roose-
welt last night bid adieu to his
neighbors here and prepared for
departure today for Quebec where
on Friday he will discuss with
Lord Tweedsmuir, governor-gen-
eral, and Premier Mackenzie King,
hydro-electric power development
as it affects the United States and
Canada.
With a big boulder serving as
a backrest and the seat cushion
of an automobile as his chair, the
nations chief executive sat on the
beach here yesterday at a picnic
party and revealed to newspaper
men that the st. Lawrence project
would be one of the subjects OF
conversation.
At the same time he vigorously
defended the Quoddy tide har-
Messing project at nearby East
port, Me-, as an interesting eX-
pertinent that might well serve as
a laboratory in the event Canada
and the United States ever decld-
ed on Joint action in the develop
ment of the full hydro-electric re-
sources in this vicinity.
He pointed out that power con-
sumption in both countries stead
ilv was increasing and that II sci
entists perfect cheap transmls-
sion system power generated here
could easily be distributed to New
England industrial centers.
Moreover, he explained, the
Quoddy project financed with re-
lief funds, provided work for. D.
600 residents of northern Maine.
As the result of congressional ac-
ton in refusing additional funds
to carry on the work, he declared
that the 5000 would have to be
taken care of on other projects,
because they could not be left to
starve.
The times-news., 1936-07-30
CADDY Still
IS Held FOR
Sheriff Brown Turns to
"G-Men" For Analysis
in Mystery

ASHEVILLE, July 80. (UP)-
Sheriff Laurence Brown said to-
day that he is determined to solve
the Helen Clevenger assault and
murder of two weeks ago" no mat
ter how long it takes. He centered
his hopes on a story from Daniel
Gaddy, the night watchman at the
fashionable Asheville hotel where
she was killed. Gaddy is the only
man still held for questioning in
connection with the case.
Aid from G-men's laboratories
of the department of justice in
Washington was sought last night
by two Asheville detectives, Rob-
ert Patton and James Dayton,
seeking to solve the 13-day-old
Staying of pretty Helen Clevenger,
New York University coed.
The pair left yesterday for the
nations capital with a mysterious
bundle which was believed to con-
tain specimens picked up in the
hotel room where Miss Clevenger
was ravished and slain on July 16.
1t was understood that several
angles of the case were puzzling
local authorities and that they
wanted the analysis by govern
ment experts to aid them. What
this analysis would include was
not disclosed.
In Washington, officials of the
federal bureau of investigation
were equally reticent in comment
ing.