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Evening star., 1936-06-19
SUTTON ABANDONS.
SENTENCE APPEAL.
Gangster Must Now Serve
Life Term for Part in
Wilson Murder.
B. a stan Correspondent OF The Star

ROCKVILLE. Md. June 19.-Albert
s. Sutton. one-time lieutenant of Eddie
Killeen, slain overload of gambling In
the Nations Capital, has abandoned
his appeal from conviction in the MUIR
der Of Allen B. Wilson, Washington
newspaper route agent, who died amid
q hail of gang bullets in October, 1894.
The gangster must now 60 to the
State penitentiary for life for the
brutal killing, which occurred when
gunmen lying in wait for Edward
Mickey Mcdonald, well-known District
gambler, shot down Wilson by mistake.
States Attorney James H. Pugh was
informed today the appeal was auto
matically dropped when Sutton's coun-
sci failed to appear before the Allegany
County Circuit Court In Cumberland
to have that tribunal sign bill of ex-
ceptions.
The law permitted Sutton's attor-
ney 20 days from the filing of the
appeal to come before the court for
Endorsement of bill setting forth the
exceptions taken by the defense to
the ruling under which the gangster
was convicted.
Pugh said he would take immediate
steps to have the Department of JUS
tice turn Sutton over to the State of
Maryland to serve the life sentence
for the Staying. He had been serv-
ing time in the Lorton Reformatory
on q Federal charge at the time he
was borrowed" by the State of
Maryland to stand trial in the Wilson
case.
The Wilson Staying occurred at the
entrance to McDonald's Takoma
Park, Nd, residence. Two Of SUIT
tons companions in the crime, Ernest
Meyers and Albert McDermott. alias
John Slim Dunn, now are serving life
sentences for their part in the mur-
der.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
DR.. H0WLETT.WRIGHT
EXPIRES HERE AT rs
Retired New York Physician Was
Stricken Year Ago-Lectured
for w. G.. T. IT.

Dr. Frances Hewlett Wright, rs, re-
tired New York physician. died yester-
day at her residence, 1902 Lamont
street. She had been stricken with q
cerebral hemorrhage about a year
ago.
During the World War DR.. Hewlett
Wright was a lecturer for the wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union. She
was president of the Bible Readers
League of Washington and formerly
was secretary of the Florence Critten-
ton Mission Of New Jersey and a
member of the Women's Purity
League.
She was a chemical diagnostician,
using the method to treat persons ac-
cording to their general body chemis-
try. In New York she was the only
woman honorary member of the ORR
f1cial Surgeons Association. At one
time she had charge Of q large chill
dren's clinic in New York.
DR.. Howlett-W Wright, a native Of
Wisconsin, had lived in this city about
IL years. She is survived by several
nieces and nephews
Funeral arrangements were to be
announced later.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
All CLUBS CALL
AT WHITE HOUSE
Or. 0berholser of Biological Sur-
vey Bureau Talks to
Delegates.

Visits to the White House, museum
and the Library of Congress head
lined today's program for $50 boys
and girls attending the annual All
Club encampment here.
After an assembly program In the
Department of Agriculture auditorium
at 8 AM. the delegates today called
at the Executive Mansion at l1:15
m. for visit of an hour and q half.
during which they were TO pose for a
group picture.
DR.. H. C. Oberholser Of the Bureau
of Biological Survey, Department of
Agriculture. was the main speaker al
the morning assembly which follows
the morning breakfast daily at the
club camp, located in Potomac Park
near the Tidal Basin.
The All meeting, which opened
Wednesday night. will continue
through the same day next week
This afternoons program was to in
clude visits at $3.50 to the Natural
History Building and Smithsonian IN
stitution. with a trip to the Congress
sional Library scheduled at 7:3o pm
Evening star., 1936-06-19
CHARLES P. TAFT, I'd,
ON LAND0N STAFF
Son of Former President Expected
in Topeka Today for
Conference.
b. the Associated Press.


TOPEKA, June 1e.-Gov All NJ
Landon disclosed that he expected
Charles p Taft, I'd, son of the for
mer President. to arrive in Topeka to-
day to join the Landon campaign
strategy staff
The Cincinnati lawyer, brotoher Of
Robert A. Taft. Ohio's "favorite son"
candidate for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination. will be stationed here
during most of the campaign, Gov.
Landon said.
He will join Earl H. Taylor, former
associate editor of the Country Gen
tleman, who became a Landon ad-
wiser several weeks before the Cleve-
land convention, which nominated
Landon for the presidency.
Gov. Landon also announced that
Ralph West Robey. economist, a
member Of the teaching staff of Co.
lumbia University, New York, was ex-
pected here today to assist Taft and
Taylor.
The presidential nominee said the
staff may be augmented by others
later.
Questioned as to the nature of their
work, Gov. Landon said:
They'll form the usual campaign
staff. They'll assist me in the cam
paign"
"A brain trust, eh, Governor" Lam
don was asked in his press conference.
mo, they will not be brain trust. "
the Governor replied with emphasis.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
BILL
Due FOR PASSAGE
House Leaders Decide to
Push Civil Service Meas.
ure to Senate.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
House leaders agreed today to try
topass and send to the Senate during
the day the Ramspeck bill to put
first, second and third class postmas-
tew under civil service.
ssThe action was interpreted in some
quarters as an administration reply
to- the Republican declaration at
Cleveland last week in favor Of the
naerit system. and to attacks from va
finus Republican sources on NewaDeal
patronage.
Speaker Bankhead agreed. after a
conference with party floor leaders,
to~recognize Chairman Ramspeck Of
the Civil Service Committee for con-
sitieration of the measure under sus-
pension of the rules. Although this
procedure will require a two-thirds
vote, the Speaker said he thought the
bill would pass.
1--WE are going to take our chances
OF a two-thirds vote" he said, count
ing on a little Republican help"
sOn questioning, Bankhead said Sen
ator O'Mahoney. Democrat, of Wyom-
ing, author of a companion Senate
bill, had told him he thought that if
the House passed the measure today
1t would get Senate action before ad-
journment.
Bankhead expressed approval, also,
Of the Senate e-approved Black bill to
penalize attempts to influence civil
service appointments, but said he
doubted whether there would be time
for House action this session.
Cataloguing all pending civil serv-
ice bills as lone penny, two penny
Representative Mcleod, Republican
Of Michigan. yesterday introduced a
civil service bill which would impose
merit standards on virtually every
civilian position in the executive
branch Of the Government. The bill
was referred to the Ramspeck Com
riittee
sssThe measure would take in all ex-
eept cabinet officers and one assistant
to each. and would require civil serv-
ice appointment of all members of
the Post ONCE Department from the
Postmaster Generals office down.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
SULLIVAN DEFENDS
HIS TEACHER QUIZ
Says Only Two Questions in
BIanton Letter Deal With
Religion.

George z. Sullivan, chairman of
the Special Committee of the FEEDER
alton Of Citizens Associations on Elim-
ination of Anti-patriotic Matter
From the Schools. who yesterday ac-
knowledged responsibility for the
QUESTIONABLE sent by Representative
Blanton to Washington teachers, to-
day issued a further statement ex-
planning his stand.
He prefixed his formal statement
with the explanation that only two
questions in the Blanton letter in
quire into religion, and that they re-
quire only yes" or mo" answers.
His statement follows
"The QUESTIONABLE has my COM
plete and unqualified approval. In
fact, the importance of sending some
such QUESTIONABLE was actually sug-
gested by me. I do not believe it will
be objected to by any informed per-
sons sincerely interested in eliminat-
ing Communistic and anti-patriotic
propaganda from the public schools.
THE suggestion from certain quar-
tiers that any such inquiry constitutes
invasion of academic freedom and
terrorism is at variance with the
distinct declaration by the United
States Supreme Court in the oregon
school case that it is entirely compe-
tent for the Legislature to require that
teachers shall be Of good moral char
acter and of patriotic disposition and
that nothing be taught which is man
ifestly inimical to the public welfare
"A QUESTIONABLE is an obviously
appropriate and logical method of car
rying out the resolutions Heretofore
adopted by the Federation of Citizens
Associations of this District, appealing
to Congress for a prompt and
thorough investigation into the exist
ing conditions, and the responsibility
therefor. now prevailing in the public
school system Of the District Of Co.
lumbia, which are favorable to sub
versive, anti-patriotic and communis-
tic propaganda In all investigations
of public Offices, where thousands OF
persons are employed. it is quite Gus
tomary to make use of questionnairs
as a convenient and important part
of the investigation"
Evening star., 1936-06-19
NEW ARMY MEDICAL
CATALOGUE PRINTED
Fourth Series Of Index to Be
Exhibited at st. Paul Session
Next Week.

Another milestone in scientific pro-
'eress has just been achieved as volume
.one of the Fourth series Of the Index
Catalogue of the Army Medical LII
.brary rolled of the presses this week,
1T was announced today by the Sur
'geon Generals Office.
. Founded in 1880 by the late DR..
John Shaw Billings, photographer and
designer Of the Johns Hopkins Hos
:pital, the work Is recognized through
,out the world as the accepted stand
ard Of medical photography.
= The new volume will be exhibited
next week at the meeting of the Medi.
cal Library Association In st. Paul,
MINI, by Maj. Edgar Erskine Hume,
librarian.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
VETERANS RELIEF
CONTINUANCE HIT
Taxpayers Group Favors Drop
ping Those Given Big
Ronus Sims.

Veterans who cash any substantial
amount of their bonus bonds should
be dropped from the Districts relief
list, the Washington Taxpayers AS
sociation declared today.
There is no more reason why q
he has up to $500 in bonus money
than he should be continued on relief
if he had $500 in savings bank,
said a statement for the association,
issued by Rufus S. Lusk, its secretary.
Meanwhile. Postmaster Vincent c.
Burke said the peak load Of mailing
final checks to District veterans who
surrendered bonus bonds is past, and
today that the total of checks ran
substantially over S6000,000 This is
in addition to those being mailed out
to local veterans from the Treasurer
of the United States on bonds SUR
rendered through banks
L Including large number of checks
delivered this morning, Burke said de-
liveries Of final checks had been made
to l3s764 veterans, in total value OF
Sc, 451 900.
While many veterans tsurrendered
their bonds through banks. 1t was be-
lieyed the City Post ONCE handled by
far the greatest number.
While some increase in retail busi-
ness was reported to have followed
distribution of the checks. there was a
definite feeling in the business and
financial districts today that the spend
ing so far had not been nearly so great
as anticipated.
with the last Of the night service
at postal stations for certification OF
bonds last night, mail carriers con-
cluded their four days and four nights
of special duty on the bonus. There
will be no more night certifications.
But all postal stations began work to-
day to certify bonds during their regu-
lar business hours.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
WILLIAM D. P0GUE,
WAR VETERAN, DIES
.Adjutant Of I'd Division Legion
. Post Was Native of
Tennessee.

+. William D. Pogue, 40, of 1863 Co
4, lurbia road, claims examiner of the
Veterans Administration and adjutant
of the 2nd Division Post, No. %,
p, American Legion, died yesterday in the
. Episcopal Hospital. He had been Ill
several months.
: A native of Columbia, Tenn, Mr..
Pogue had been resident of this city
. for eight years. He had been adju-
: tant of the Legion post for two years
and was q member of the Masonic
fraternity.
e Special services will be held tonight
by the American Legion at Chambers
funeral home. 14o0 Chaplin street,
where the body was taken. The re-
. mains will be sent tomorrow morn
. ing to Columbia. where funeral serv-
ices and burial will be Sunday after
! noon.
Mr.. Pogue is survived by his widow,
Mrs. E. Jeraldine Pogue; his parents,
: Mr.. and Mrs. James J. Pogue, Colum-
bia; three brothers. II. S., A. c. and J..
{ L. Pogue. all of Columbia, and three
: sisters, Mrs. Ulna Swami and Mrs.
, Lggett Lane. both of Columbia, and
Mrs. Frank Shelton, Boston.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
CAMERA!

CAMERA!
ETTING a picture OF the old
Smithsonian building would
be just about the simplest
~ thing in the world, you would
think. 1t isn't though. and II you
doubt that you can ask Senior Photo
grapher Olmstead of the Smithsonian
staff.
A Wayside operative whose work
keeps him out all night came upon
Olmstead at am. trying to get a
picture of the building. 1t seemed
such an odd time to be doing any,
thing that looked so ofilcial that the
operative began to ask questions. Mr..
Olmstead explained that at other
times of the day cars are parked so
thickly around the grounds that the
picture he wanted was impossible to
get.
He didn't get 1t that particular
morning, either. Every time things
looked to be perfectly set cloud
would scud across the sun or a pedes-
trian would fit past the lens. or some
thing else would happen. At $50 the
days crop of cars began to arrive,
the clouds got thicker and Mr. Ohm
stead folded up his camera and went
away from there.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
II Got Tired of IT, Keller Says,
Explaining Blanton attacks
Quiet.Spoken Mid,cest.
erner Sees Fundan,e,,t-
ais Endangered.

ST just got tired of it. sat in the
House and tried to be good natured
while Representative Blanton made
his attacks on the fundamentals of
our. American system Of democracy
I've stood as much AS could, and I'm
not going to stand any more"
Thus quiet-spoken Representative
Keller Of Illinois, who took Repre-
sentative Blanton of Texas to task for
the QUESTIONABLE he sent out to
teachers of the District Public
Schools, asking statements on their
religious and political beliefs, de-
scribed his stand on the House floor
yesterday.
One of the surprises for the House
galleries and even the Representatives
came not when Representative Scott
of California, nor Representative
Marcantonio of New York, nor Repre-
sentative Maverick of Texas, nor any
Of the group generally classed as the
House Liberal bloc" rose to defend
District teachers after the question
nsire sent out by Blanton had caused
such furor.
BIanton Foe No Radical"
: The Representative who arose to
recommend censure of Blanton was no
radical" but an elderly man with
white hair who has taken little part
in the wordy battles on communism
and other radical" tendencies which
have been the object of Blanton's
attacks.
third term in Congress. He comes
from a downstate Illinois district, the
Southwest tip of the State, and in
1892 was elected with the largest ma
jority ever given a House Representa-
tive. and in a Republican district
The last time he was elected, two
years ago, he carried every county in
his district. something no other candi-
date had ever done before.
Not only that, Keller is himself q
former school teacher. He taught
school, and later founded the high
school in his home town, Ava, Ill. He
read law, and after attending Heidel-
berg University in Germany, where
generations of his family had studied
he completed a law course at the St
Louis Law School and passed the bar
examination at the head of his class.
Compelled to give up practice OF
law after a year because he was
stricken with tuberculosis, he refused
to accept the verdict of the doctors
who gave him six months to live. He
went to Mexico and regained ht
health. Later he engaged in min
ing operations and had won a for
tune by his energy and persistence
when revolution sent him back to the
United States in 1912. Although he
had been away for more than 80
years, he was elected to the State
Senate and has been in politics ever
since.
Explaining his sudden opposition tc
Blanton's tactics in dealing with the
District schools through his strategic
position as chairman Of the House
Evening star., 1936-06-19

The end of the tale about the lions
tail, however, is that the lion was in .
cage. He was sleeping, with his tail
dangling outside.
Our man couldn't resist the tempta-
ton. He gave an almighty twis: and
stepped back. The lion lesped and
roared, but the bars were still there.
X
NUMBERS.
DO you know the difference
betueen the numbers on q police
mans cup badge and those on the
badge OF a postman?
There is difference, quite a
considerable one. The policeman's
number is his own. He gets it
When he Joins the force and it
stays Dith him so long as he is a
member OF it. The postman's
badge number, ho,Deuer, designates
his route and he changes it as
often as he changes routes.
y X y \
MAN BITES DOG.
FOR the first time in the history Of
mechanical writing devices, per-
haps, q dry fountain pen Is being ex-
tolled In Washington. So grateful Is
the owner of the pen that he is think
ing Of turning 1t out to pasture the
rest Of its days.
His wife, in hurry the other morn
ing, woke him out Of sound and
slightly alcoholic slumber to ask for
some extra money. He was in no posi-
ton either to protest about being
awakened or to deny her request.
The only money he had left, after
the night before, was that represented
in his bonus check. He'd sign it, he
said, but when he started to do so the
fountain pen was dry. The house was
searched for ink. but 1t, too, was dry.
Even the neighbors were of no help,
representing, so far as ink was con-
cerned, an arid wasteland.
The husband Is spending the check
ON himself now; not q cent Of It going
for ink.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

point Of no quorum in order to find
time to learn its purport.
The resolution was killed on a point
OF order by Representative Fuller.
Democrat Of Arkansas, who argued
that Blanton's action did not consti-
tute a reflection on the House since he
had exercised his own Judgment as
chairman of the subcommittee on sp-
preparations in charge Of the District
bill in sending out the QUESTIONABLE.
Action Of Board.
Keller's statement preceded action
by the board in which they informed
the teachers to use their own discretion
and to answer or not to answer, as
they see At.
mo man or woman on earth has less
right to ask these questions" Keller
said, than Tom Blanton. He was put
in his place this afternoon. The
Speaker ruled that he couldn't be CEN
sured because to do so would involve
the House. Blanton acted as an in
dividual, and the teachers Of this city
are not compelled to respond to the
wishes of a single person acting on his
own responsibility.
II want you all to konw that II Blan-
ton threatens anything, let me know.
promise you that he will receive an
Injunction from the House that will
stop him.
"The thing to do is put Blanton in
his place Tell him where to go to.
Throw the questionnaire In a waste
basket and pick out basket that will
be moved away soon 50 1t won't be too
contaminated.
Tired of Bullying
"I'm tired of his bullying and bull
Raging and I'm determined to stop 1t.
He has no authority whatever to ask
any such questions and he can't get it. 81
Keller's appearance was the high
point in q special session Of the board
that was devoted exclusively to crih-
cism Of the Texas Representative.
Two spokesmen for the organized
parent-te associations arraigned
tbs Texan and tolnsd the board and
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Appropriations Committee. Keller
said:
II don't like to get into a House
fight, but just couldn't stand this
any longer. Blanton is not the
House, nor even the House Appropria-
tions Committee The House will
never give Tom Blanton the right to
rag the teachers of the District, nor
the Board of Education. Any teacher
is justified in telling him he has no
right to ask such questions as he
asked in his questionnaire.
Calls Him Publicity Seeker.
'.Blanton is an indefatigable worker.
He probably knows the rules and par
liamentary procedure better than any
one else in the House. But he has
continuously used his knowledge to
further his own selfish ends. He has
continuously sought the spotlight. He
is not fighting communism. That S
only camouflage. He is seeking to
exploit the situation to promote Tom
Blanton. But because he holds the
purse strings he need not think he
can have the right to undermine the
effectiveness of our American sys-
tenn of education. In fighting COM
munism, he employs the same tactics
he decries against"
Pointing out that Washington is the
pulse of educational interest in Amer
lea, Keller pointed to the danger OF
disrupting the morale of teachers not
only here, but throughout the ma
ton.
"Blanton's policies are disrupting
the Washington school system as nc
other man in the country would be
permitted to do," the Illinois repre-
sentative declared. The Jeffersoniar
principle of freedom of religious
thought has been so grossly outraged
am surprised that a Democrat could
advocate it. The permanence Of our
Government depends on academic
freedom.
II hated to butt into this mess, but
now that I'm in, I'm going to stay in
If Blanton keeps on, he'll find plenty
of opposition right a-straddle his neck
I'm not going to trim for Blanton, mol
for anybody else"
Evening star., 1936-06-19
ID. c. UNIT HEADS
| FORM CABINET"
Will Consider Problems Col.
IectiveIy to Advise Com
miSSi0nerS.

District Government department
heads, sitting as the commissioners
cabinet" hereafter. are to act collec-
lively in consideration of many of the
important problems, at least so far
as general principles are concerned
Organization of a District of Colum-
bia Department Heads Association,
composed of the executives Of depart
ments and b-division chairmen, has
been effected with the approval of the
commissioners.
Street Heads Group.
Elwood Street, director of welfare,
who suggested the plan. was elected
chairman at the initial meeting yes
terday. Maj. Daniel ]. Donovan,
auditor, was named vice chairman,
and Roland M. Brennan, secretary.
Brennan is secretary to the Board of
Commissioners. These officers and
District Surveyor Edward Dent and
sanitary engineer make up an execu-
tive committee.
Meetings will be held monthly for
round-table discussion of mutual
problems. Commissioner Hazen said
the cabinet" would be asked frcm
time to time to pass on general prin-
ciples involved in important legisla-
tive and administration matters.
More Powers Favored.
To stress the importance Ct collec-
tive judgment, Hazen outlined Dis
trict needs for more schools, libraries
Fairgrounds, larger Federal raymt nj
toward National Capital expenses and
improvement Of District government
services.
He repeated his objection to any
wholesale reorganization OF the Dis
trict government, but favors enlargine
the powers Of the commissioners tc
deal with many details nov dependent
upon Congressional action.
Evening star., 1936-06-19


declined to intercede for the second
time. saying:
Use Of the executive power to
modify the sentence imposed would
be to render nugatory law carefully
considered by the Congress and de-
signed to meet a national need"
Gooch. who had been nervously
garrulous up to the time he was
taken from the death cell, shook
his head when United States Deputy
Marshal George Hall asked:
do you have anything to say,
Arthur"
Until Mr.. Roosevelt's statement was
read to him the one-time bullying
gangster chung to his hope for Glenn
ency.
He called newspaper man to his
hot. stuffy cell, shortly before the
death march and said:
Make sure the President hasn't
changed his mind I'd like to know
right away If he does. don't want
to be kept in suspense minute
longer than necessary. This isn't
much fun"
ROOSEVELT BREAKS RULE,