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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Militia Is Guarding
ScOttSIDOrO Youths

j. S. Sandlin, of Morgan county,
fired after Powell launched a
sudden murderouS attack on
Deputy Sheriff Ed Blalock, as
the Scottsboro Negroes were being
returned by automobile to Biz
mingham from Decatur, following
postponement yesterday of the
fourth series of trials in the no.
torious mass attack case, struck
the Negro in the side of the head,
piercing his brain.
Already facing charges Of at.
lacking two white mill girls ON
Continued on Page 3, Col, ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
GAS DRUMS
EXPLOSION
IS BARELY
AVERTED
Ships Fall in Flames
At Hawaii Air Field:
Parachutes Save 7

HONOLULU. T. H. Jan. IS
Q.N.SJ.-Two survivors of the
plane crash Of two Army bomb.
ers, which claimed six lives last
night, will be called to testify
before military board of inveS.
tigation to determine cause of the
worst plane crash in the history
Of Hawaii.
The two bombers Of the Sew.
enty-second bombardment squad
ron of eight planes were com,
pleting night maneuverS when
they collided 500 feet above the
air field and fell flaming between
the field and gasoline tanks.
A terrific explosion of the huge
gasoline drums was miraculously
avoided. Each tank contains 55,-
600 gallons of aviation gasoline.
The victims, whose bodies were
burned to cinders IN the flaming
planes, were:
Lieut.. William G. Beard, San
Francisco.
Staff Sergeant Bernard r.
JablOnSky.
Private Bruce E. Taylor.
Private Truman J. Gardner.
Private John d. Hartmann.
Private ParkhurSt first name
unknown.
Two Escape Death
Two members of the bombing
crews escaped with parachutes.
They are Lieut.. Charles M.
Fischer and Sergeant Thomas
flanagan.
Lieut.. Fischer, in command Of
one Of the bombers, and flanagan
we're severely cut and bruised.
Fischer'S life probably was
saved when his parachute, which
only partially opened, caught on
a ladder of one of the gasoline
drums of the airfield. He was
suspended IS feet above the
ground.
Sergeant flanagan landed in the
water.
The bombers crashed near a
crowded athletic pavilion where
basketball game was in progress.
Spectators witnessed the rescue of
the two survivors and also were
witnesses to the death of Pri-
vate Taylor who had parachuted
safely onto one of the huge gaSo-
line storage tanks, only to fall to
his death into the flaming mass
of the two planes.
One of the flaming planes
crashed on one Of the huge gaso-
line tanks and slid off the iron
drum onto the field.
Quick action by Capt. Frank
Cook, Army fire marshall at Luke
Field, averted an explosion which
would have demolished the air
base.
Turn Hose On Tanks
Realizing it was futile to at
tempt to extinguished the blaze
which enveloped the two planes.
Captain Cook ordered his fire
crew to turn hoses on the tanks.
Paint on the tanks, only few
feet from the flaming planes,
already was blistered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Rooseve|t's New AAA Bill Hits SnaQ in Senate
Foes Fear
AL Smith
Speech
By GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service

AROUND the CaplCal To-Day only
one question was being asked:
whats Al going to say?"
The question interested Repub-
licans and Democrats alike. The
former governor of New York, the
1928 standard bearer of the Demo
cratic party, the man who popu-
larized the brown derby, speaks
tonight at the Mayflower Hotel
at the dinner of the American
Liberty League before one of the
greatest audiences ever gathered
in Washington, and the New
Dealers are a bit jittery about it.
Will Scan Record
Smith is expected to "look at
the record'-the record Of Roose-
welt performances, as compared
with the promises of the Demo
cratic platform-and comment in
his own inimitable way thereon.
Just what he is going to say
nobody knows, except Al himself.
He refused all entreaties to have
a prepared manuscript. He said
he would not prepare a speech in
advance, that he would speak
"out of my heart and off my
chest" If he does that, the New
Dealers fear the worst, for it is
we'll known that the 1928 nomi-
nee fellS rather bitterly about the
Administration.
1t is not believed, however, that
Smith will make any personal at
tack on President Roosevelt. He
is expected to Savagely assault
the policies and the philosophy Of
the New Deal, much of which he
has already criticised publicly.
When President Roosevelt de-
valued the dollar, Al spoke con-
temptuously of "baloney dollars"
How Far Will He Go?
From time to time he has taken
pot-Shots at other Administration
policies.
The question that interested
the politicians today was how far
Smith would go tonight in burn
ing his political bridges behind
him-whether he would elect to
remain with the party whose
leadership he diSlikeS, or whether
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. Is
QN.SO.-A company of National
GuardSmen stood by today as a
precautionary" measure against
possible mob violence as Ozie
Powell, one of the Scottsboro Ne
groes, shot in the brain after he
slaShed a guards throat in a
sensational escape attempt, strug-
gled for life.
Powell, given an even chance
to recover, regained consciousness
today, but attendants said his
condition remained critical.
A bullet from the gun of Sheriff
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Kidnap Ransom Cash
Penalties Provided

International News Service
President Roosevelt today signed
a bill amending the Lindbergh
Act so as to provide stiff penal
ties for anyone caught handling
ransom money.
Anyone knowingly receiving, pos
seSsing, or disposing Of such
money is now liable to fine of
not more than $4,000 or i'm
prisonment for not more than 10
years, or both.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Palmer In Hospital
For Test Of Sanity

NEW YORK, Jan. Is G.N.SJ.
Austin Phelps Palmer. retired en-
gineer who wrote threatening let
tiers to the President, today was
in Bellevue Hospital for OBJ
servation on motion of J. Howard
Carter, Chief Assistant United
States Attorney.
Sentence under his plea of guilty
was deferred by Federal Judge
Patterson until January 80.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Tribute Paid Father
OF Public Schools

HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. Is
Q.N.S0.-More than 100 school
teachers from Rhode Island and
Connecticut met here today to
honor the memory of Henry Bar
nard, father of the public school
system in the United States" on
the one hundred and twenty-fifth
anniversary of his birth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Missionaries Flee
Invasion by Reds

SHANGHAI, Jan. Is GN.SO.
American and British missionaries
in Eastern Kweichow province
have evacuated their stations,
taking refuge in cities to the west,
as the result of an invasion of
Communist troops from Honan
province. Fierce fighting is going
on today between the Reds and
government forces,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Pupils March Out
Of School in Fire

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. IS.
Fire from an overheated flue dam
aged the woodwork and floors of
several rooms at the Ridge Avenue
Public School here yesterday. The
students marched to safety. The
mercury registered 3 below zero
as firemen fought the blaze.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Rotary Head Dies

CHICAGO, Jan. IS. - John
Nelson, aged 81, of Montreal,
president of Rotary International
in 1884, died last night of heart
disease in Chicago hotel. He
came here two weeks ago to at
tend conference of the Rotary
Foundation of which he was a
trustee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Light to moderate snow this afternoon and
tonight; tomorrow fair; continued cold; lowest
temperature tonight about H.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25

Realizing it was futile to at
tempt to extinguished the blaze
which enveloped the two planes.
Captain Cook ordered his fire
crew to turn hoses on the tanks.
Paint on the tanks, only a few
feet from the flaming planes,
already was bliStered.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
,wer who has good

The business borrower who has good
assets or good prospects to borrow on
is not in a mood to burden himself
with debt. The experience of the
depression has left him cagey. Thus
both are keeping the money market
in the doldrums They will continue
to until both change their minds.
G. o. p. Experience Revealed.
prominent Michigan Republican
is telling his friends about an expert
ence he had at Republican headquar-
ters recently. He strolled in and asked
to see an official, but was informed
the official was busy. After sending in
his name the official came out to greet
him, but unfortunately connected him
with a competing business. That was
bad for the conversation, but was
Strengthened out with strained
laughter. and the visitor then volun-
teered his services for anything that
would be of help. The official pom
dered and said that the only thing he
could think of would be for the Mich
igan visitor to get Father Coughlin to
make another speech against Mr..
Roosevelt. That was very bad, because
the visitor was well known as one of
Coughlin's leading antagonists.
The Michigan man finally asked to
see the top official and was told what
very busy man the top was. How
ever, the busy No. l man eventually
came out of his office to greet the
Michigander with well, how is every
thing in Wisconsin,"
(Copyright, 1o36)
Evening star., 1936-04-24
MRS. ANNA CULLITON
SERVICES TOMORROW
One Of First Women to Enlist
in Naval Reserve During
World War.

Mrs. Anna S. Culliton, Al, one of the
first women to enlist in the Naval Re-
serve during the World War, died
Tuesday in Graduate Hospital, Phila-
delphia.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row in Philadelphia, with burial in
the New Cathedral Cemetery there.
Mrs. Culliton was the widow Of
John ]. Culliton, former employe Of
the Post Office Department, who died
in July, 1917. She is survived by a
son, John j. Culliton, 1476 Newton
street, former administrative assist
ant, N. R. A.. and by two brothers,
Joseph Mcguire of Philadelphia and
Charles B. Mcguire of Pittsburgh.
After her enlistment in the Naval
Reserve on April 13, 1917, Mrs. Culli-
ton served until May 81, 1918, at the
Bureau of Construction and Repair,
Navy Department, later being trans
ferred to Philadelphia. She was dis
charged as yoeman, first class, August
8, 1919 Subsequently she became
Government employe under civil serv-
ice.
Mrs Culliton was charter men,
ber of Yoemanette Post, No. so, Amer
ican Legion, and belonged to the
Daughters Of Isabella, the Catholic
Daughters of America and the Ladies
Of Brownson Council, K. Of C. She
also was charter member Of Ma
Haven, Conn. She was a native Of
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
lid. BARNUM AGAIN
HEADS PUBLISHERS
PreSs.Radio Bureau Con-
tinuance for Another
Year Approved.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 24.-Jerome D.
Barnum, publisher of the Syracuse
PoSt-Standard, was reelected presi-
dent of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association today.
Four directors were reelected. John
S. McCarens, general manager of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, was named to
the board, succeeding Charles A. Webb
of the Asheville. N. c., Citizen Times,
who retired after is years service.
In the morning session closing the
four-day meeting the convention ap-
proved continuance of the Press-Radio
Bureau for another year and efforts
to extend the service to all radio sta
tions desiring to use the news bulletins.
Barnum Is Reelected.
Barnum was elected for a second
term. Other officers reelected were
James G. Stahlman, Nashville Ban
ner. vice president; E. H. Harris,
Richmond Ind) Palladium and
Item, secretary, and Walter M. Dear,
Jersey City Journal, treasurer.
Directors continued in Office for a
two-year term were E. H. Butler.
Buffalo IN. " Evening News; w. G.
Chandler of New York, ScrippS-
Howard newspapers; John S. Parks,
Fort Smith (ArkD Times Record, and
S. r. Winch, Portland (Oreg) Journal.
The radio resolution offered by
Chairman Harris was adopted un-
animously as follows:
Resolved, That the Press-Radio
Bureau be continued for another year
and that the Associated Press, the
United Press and the International
News Service be requested to co-op-
crate with the bureau during that pc
riod, so that its news reports may be
made available to all radio broadcast
stations desiring to use them"
Newsprint Is Discussed.
The newsprint situation was discus
sed in reports by the Paper Committee,
headed by Chandler and Stahlman,
who reviewed the progress made in
the development of newsprint indus
try in the South.
The committee expressed the view
that the time is near when United
States publishers of Canadian news
print will have to deal with a coalition
of the Canadian government and
manufacturers.
Legislation enacted or under con-
sideration by the provinces of Quebec
and Ontario does not augur well for
! harmonious relations between manu-
facturers and their customers, the re-
port said.
The committee again urged Amer
| lean publishers to buy at home or in
| foreign countries whose governments
have not threatened to interpose
themselves in the newsprint market" ="
Stahlman said the manufacture of
Southern newsprint is long past the
experimental stage and is definitely on
its way. The manufactured product
has withstood all the tests for stand
ard newsprint, he said.
He said it opens an avenue of
escape from "an intolerable newsprint
situation" and that the South is on
the threshold of new industry which
will mean turnover of s500,000 900
annually.
S. E. Thomason Of the Chicago Il
lustrated Times suggested resumption
of Fall conventions by the A. N. P. A.
The proposal was referred to directors.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Future Wars Veterans ScOrn
s:.Sarcastic' Legion Imitation

Washington Post, No. /, Veterans
Of Future Wars, will accept no open
house" invitation from Victory Post.
No. 4, American Legion, which lays
down rules for checking "coonskin
coats, saxophones and ukuleles" at the
door.
As a matter of fact, the future vet
erans have no "coonskins," but only
few "sheepskins." and such. Further
more, as college students Of the post
war depression era. the long since
discarded saxophones and ukuleles in
favor Of text books.
Even If the future veterans had these
articles, they probably wouldn't &C.
cept an invitation couched in terms
Of sarcastic ridicule," since the aims
and purposes" of their organization
ARE Of a serious nature"
j. A. Moses, commander of local
future veterans, said this much and
more yesterday in reply to the invi-
tation from the Legionnaires. The
Evening star., 1936-04-24
ABERDEEN News
CONVICTION VO|DED
South Dakota Supreme
Court Reverses Decision
in Contempt Case.
BY the Associated Press.

PIERRE, S. OAK, April 24-The
conviction of the Aberdeen American
News and its editor and publisher in
1882 on a contempt of court charge
was reversed today by the South Da-
kota Supreme Court. 1t declared
unanimously the need for free and
unfettered press is perhaps more ur-
gent in this country today than ever
it has been before"
The case attracted wide attention,
particularly in newspaper and legal
circles. 1t was based on editorials
published during a controversy over
alleged graft in Brown County and
criticizing a sentence handed down by
Judge Howard Babcock Of Sisseton,
in the case of Royal Hasse, former
county auditor, who pleaded guilty to
forgery.
Hasse was sentenced to six months
in jail and fined $500, with the jail
sentence suspended. The American
News, contending heavier sentence
was justified, editorially called Judge
Babcock's action "a pat on the back, p"
and remarked that "the honorable
judge should doff his regal robes, don
sackcloth and sit in the ashes until
his penitence is complete"
Contempt action was brought by
members of the county bar association
and the publisher, J. A. Mathews, and
the editor, Howard o. Anderson, were
fined 5000 each and sentenced to 80
days in Jail. The Jail sentences were
suspended, however.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
GREAT LAKES PLAN
SUPPORT is URGED
Rivers and Harbors Congress Told
Waterway Would Build
Foreign Trade.

Support for the Great lakes-St.
Lawrence waterway to help the Nation
regain some of its foreign trade was
asked of the Project Committee Of the
Rivers and Harbors Congress today by
Representatives Dondero of Michigan
and Christianson of Minnesota. The
committee opened two-day session in
the Mayflower Hotel to select projects
for consideration by the Congress,
which opens a two-day convention
Monday.
Declaring the Senate's failure to
ratify the st. Lawrence treaty in 1884
"a tragedy" Dondera predicted that
completion of the project would enable
the Midwest to regain some of the
Nations foreign trade by bringing its
grain more accessible to world mar
kets.
Another proposal placed before the
committee was one which has been
brought before various Government
bureaus and even Congress itself since
the day Of Andrew Jackson-connec-
ton Of the Tennessee River with the
Tombigbee River with an 18-mile
canal, at a cost of about $50, 100000.
The United States Army Engineers
have recently approved survey Of the
project.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
-FOUR LOCAL BILLS
PASSEDBY SENATE
Gas Light Firms Merger and
Ship Model Basin Are
Approved.

Four bills, including authorization
for merger Of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light Cos. and au-
thority for the Navy Department to
develop a s3,5o0,000 ship model basin
near Washington, were passed by the
Senate today.
A third bill. which has passed the
House, authorizes an appropriation of
$500 to aid District veterans organ
izations in planning joint Memorial
| day services at Arlington National
Cemetery and other cemeteries in this
vicinity on May 80.
The model basin measures also has
| passed the House and goes to the
| President for signature, but the gas
company merger still requires House
| action.
The fourth bill affecting the Dis
| trict was a House measure authorizing
the chief of engineers to make pre-
| liminary surveys of the Potomac River
and its branches TO determine future
flood control requirements. This bill
goes to the President for his sigma
ture.
Separate From Flood Fund.
The proposed survey of future re-
quirements is separate from the funds
that would be authorized in the
pending omnibus f1ood-control bill to
provide more immediate flood protec-
ton for Cumberland, Harpers Ferry
and the downtown part of Washing
ton. where public buildings are near
| the river
The Senate postponed action today
on the Tydings bill authorizing the
Agriculture Department to give the
Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission the right to use
land in Montgomery County, no longer
required for the departments expert
mental farm, for park purposes.
Gas Firms Merger.
Chairman King Of the Senate Dis
trlct Committee explained the merger
bill is intended to enable the gas COM
pany to obtain needed capital by issu-
ing additional stock. subject to the
approval of the Public Utilities COM
mission.
The ship model basin bill was ap-
proved after Senator Walsh, Democra..
| of Massachusetts declared the ole
basin at the Washington Navy YARD
has become obsolete and useless. He
said all large countries have such
/ basins in which to test models of naval
vessels. Private shipbuilders could use
the basin by paying for the services
thus obtained, and Walsh said this
would take care Of half the cost of
maintenance. He said the new basin
probably will be located in the vicinity
Of Cabin John, Md.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

invitation said: Nurses will be in
attendance to care for wounded and
psychopathic cases"
The reply suggested the posts
psychopathic facilities should be ex-
tended to the Legionnaires wins wrote
the invitation. The future veterans
went on to say that their elders must
have gained their conception of college
boys from current Hollywood versions.
The invitation said an entertainer
would be on hand to sing Il Didn't
Raise My Boy to Be Soldier" To
this, the future veterans replied:
Soldering has long been an hon.
orable profession and in the light Of
the last war it has apparently become
q highly profitable one.
For our own part, we could we'll
profit from the valuable experience Of
your recent bonus success in bringing
about the realization of our own aims.
With your example before US, we viii
continue to strive to emulate your
success"
Evening star., 1936-04-24
What's What
Behind dNews
in Capital
Misunderstanding of Tax
Bill Explains Dull
Public Reaction.
BY PAUL MALLON.


THE dull public reaction to the
new House tax bill may be
explained in part by the fact
i that no one understands 1t
including some of the men who
wrote it.
T,Uenty-three years Dere spent
In building up the eristing corpo-
ration tar structure to keep the
big tellows from euasions. Just
about % days lOere spent by the
House Ways and Means Committee
in conceiuing the complicated sub
stitute. Considering the imposSt-
biIity OF it, the committee did a
good job, particularly Representa-
tires Hill and Vinson. tDho really
kno1p something about the neto
scheme and are sincerely for it.
HoweUer, not all the committee
men Who poted for it ,Dere as en-
thuSiaStic about it as these tlCo.
There is evidence that some sup.
porters of the bill were sorry to COM
NIT themselves, but there was moth
ing else to do. This is campaign
year, and they did not dare risk the
wrath of the White House.
Revision Expected in Senate.
A contributing reason for the lacl
of interest is that every one under
stands the bill will be revised by tht
Senate. The key to the situation nov
is Senator La Toilette. Details O
the Senate revision appear to depend
on what kind of fight he makes.
Evening star., 1936-04-24

erty League and the Tories. "As you
ride over the river you can see the
rocks. You can almost walk across
the rocks Of the Susquehanna at Har-
risburg, but 1t ought to have S80,000."
Harrisburg was badly swept by the
food
Continuing. the Senator said:
There is Sunburv. Pa They need
levees there to protect people and city
property, and they want only $4,000.
-'' You can see Sunbury there now,
nesting in the little foothills. the
barefoot boy going to the creek, the
wheels of industry turning, the white
picket fences and the old public Colo
nial stone architecture. The only
thing lacking in that inland town is
9 waterway. Why not bring the SuS-
quehanna in on a beautiful curve and
let it 60 out again?"
Quotes Senator Guffey.
The Senator recalled that the song
Here Comes the Steamboat Around
the Bend" was written around Sun
bury and he quoted Senator Guffey OF
Pennsylvania as having told him only
the day before that the last thing he
Guffey, intended to do was to bring
the Susquehanna into Sunbury SC
that song wouldn't be a joke. The
record discloses that the galleries and
the Senators were now in unrestrained
mirth.
During the recent flood the Susque-
hanna came into Sunbury in full force
1t swept over the town to depth OF
eight feet and Coast Guard boats sent
down from Philadelphia had difficulty
in combating the flow.
So the revived rivers and harbors
pork barrel bill will have no opposition
from the Senator. He can withstand
what the professors told him were
inescapable social trends. But he cam
stand out against those flood waters.
He is sort of superstitious about the
whole thing.
Evening star., 1936-04-24
Congress in Brief

TODAY.
Senate:
Considers unopposed bills.
Finance Committee considers tax
bill.
Commerce Committee studies flood
control proposals.
House:
Resumes consideration Of new tax
bill.
Appropriations Subcommittee meets
on deficiency bill.
Special Investigating Committee re-
sumes questioning of R. E. Clements,
co-founder of the Townsend old-age
pension organization, 2 pm.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will not be in session.
House:
Probably will not be In session.