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Evening star., 1936-06-24

Governor. But the decisions stood.
Not one case was carried to the
courts.
That ALI Landon would get along
well with Kansas Labor was indicated
even before his election. He had
lived with laboring men under the
Oklahoma and Kansas skies. He had
eaten with them, played pitch with
them. and never thought of laborers
as class any more than he thought
OF bankers as a class. He favored
ratification of the Child Labor Amend
ment to the Federal Constitution. Be-
fore the special session of the Legis-
lature in 1888 he said, Labor saving
machinery unquestionably has gone q
long way toward reducing the hours
Of labor needed to supply economic
goods. This situation calls attention
to shorter working hours and to chill
dren working in industry"
Later, when the national spotlight
turned on him, he amplif1ed his stand,
favoring old-age pensions and child
labor laws as an important part of
a program to eliminate unemployment
among able-bodied men.
Landon appointed as Labor Com
missioner George E. Blakely, who had
been twelve years president of the
Kansas Federation of Labor Lam
dons administration had a quiet time
in labor relations. In the only i'm
portant disturbance, mine strike in
southeastern Kansas, he received a
call from the affected counties for
protection by the state militia. But
he sent his labor commissioner to the
scene and acted on his advice.
At the University of Kansas Gov.
Landon is known as the friend of the
faculty. believer in academic free
dom. Not that he has been forced to
protect the teachers against any or
ganized attack: but he has opposed
several demands for investigations Of
communism or socialism. He simply
refused to subject the faculty to
heckling.
The pay Of all teachers, college fac
ulty members, high school and ele-
mentary teachers temporarily was af-
fected by the Landon pay-as-you-go
program; but their reductions were no
greater than those Of other state and
local employees. In many instances
the cuts have now been restored.
Landon was a leader in the fight
against a proposed constitutional
amendment that would have limited
the school funds throughout the State
for many years. Instead he put the
restrictions in a flexible law that en-
ables the school districts to restore
salaries as rapidly as they can af-
ford it.
tCopyright, 1885 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-06-24
TWO PRIESTS JAILED

vACHA, Germany, June "A R.-
Two Catholic priests were sentenced
to prison and fined yesterday on
charges of smuggling currency from
the country.
Father Josef Beier received q term
Of 81 months and fine of 10000
marks (about SIG 6,O00). Father Hilarius
Frank, who fled abroad, was sentenced
in absentia to 80 months, fine OF
81 900 marks and loss Of citizenship
for five years.
Evening star., 1936-06-24

taken for granted in Kansas, the peo-
pie on one side and the utilities and
railroads on the other Out Of the
years of expensive conflict. charges
have famed and died, charges Of util-
ity abuses and of politicians batting
the utilities for political capital
Rate hearings meant truckloads of
evidence to prove opposite sets of facts,
appeals, errors and expense. Reduc-
tions usually were achieved only with
overwhelming evidence.
Gov. Landon appointed as chairman
of the Corporations Commission even
tempered, soft-spoken Homer Hoch.
The sword was to be exchanged for
table silver, the council table to re-
place the battlefield Kansas entered
a period of new utility legislation with
teeth in it and general reduction in
rates.
The story is in figures Of savings
based on the normal past consump-
ton in each case where a reduction
was made. 1t affected most of the
$50 utilities in the State and adds up
to an annual saving to the people Of
Kansas of about $1,778,500.
A bill assessing the utilities for the
cost Of State department to control
them aroused resistance that did not
break down until the second session
of the Legislature. Naturally the
utilities opposed law that provides
the State with engineers and lawyers
who can keep up with the facts, a per-
manent weapon.
When, back in 1911, Kansas passed
blue sky law, it was the pioneer in
a type of legislation since adopted by
IS States. But the type of service it
performed varied from administration
to administration, with the average
being poor.
When Landon took Office there were
good reasons to think millions of dol
lars annually we're being f1lched from
Kansas investors. AS Homer Hoch
said, technical expert was needed,
somebody who could read all that fine
print on the elegant paper"
Out of the faculty of the University
of Kansas they pulled Leslie Tupy, who
was a lawyer as we'll as an accountant
and student Of corporation financing.
They gave Tupy chance to read all
the fine print" and have look at
some of the assets behind enticing
securities. 1t developed that only
about 60 Of some 400 securities could
be granted new permits. About 200
brokers and agents left the State. Sew
eral bucket shops we're closed, one Of
them had taken $150,00O from a
widow.
Men claiming control Of large
blocks Of votes ran screaming to the
Evening star., 1936-06-24
SUYDAM TO SPEAK

Henry Suydann, special assistant to
the Attorney General, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the annual dinner
of the Corrections Committee of the
Council of Social Agencies tomorrow
at q pm. at Wesley Hall, Seventeenth
and K streets. His topic will be pub
lie Opinion and Crime"
Ray L. Huff, chairman, will pre-
side and arrangements are in the
hands of ]. A. Nolan. committee Sec
retary. The committee deals with
agencies engaged in the prevention Of
crime and in the rehabilitation Of
persons who have fallen afoul of the
law.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
.DAKOTAPR|MARY
RENAMESLEMKE
Union Party Candidate for
President Unopposed
in G. 0. p.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Declaring that liberals OF Nd
ton hare been forced into mo
mans land" by re1ctiondries OF ttDo
major political parties, Representa-
tire Lemke, non partisan, of North
Dakota, last Ueek launched neU
Union party ,uith himself as presi-
Dental candidate.
Feio days later Father Coughlin
Endorsed announced platform OF
neU party.
Lemke has been best known in
Congress for authorship of inpdl-
iddted Frazier-Lemke farm mora
torium bill and OF unpassed farm
refnancing bill.
81 ecial Dispatch to The Star
FARGO, N. OAK, June 24.-Rep-
resentative William Lemke, the
Union party's candidate for Presi-
dent, was renominated today while
the electorate decided congressional,
State and county contests in North
Dakota's primary elections.
Lemke, who seeks to retain his
seat in the House despite his en-
trance into the national field, and
Representative Usher Burdick, man.
ager of Lemke's presidential cam
paign, were automatically renomi-
mated by the State Republicans. since
neither was opposed on the ballot.
Vote for Lemke Watched.
Although without opposition, OBJ
servers profeSsed interest in the vote
Lemke would compile as an indi-
cation of home State Endorsement
of his new efforts.
Chief attention centered on the
struggle between Gov. Walter We'll
ford and former Gov. William Lam
ger for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination. They waged bitter
fight, for to the victor goes control
of the party's dominant unit, the
Nonpartisan League.
Gov. Welford's final appeals were
made by proxy. since he was in Wash
ington arranging aid for farmers in
the drought-scourged districts of the
State.
TOWNSEND HOLDS KEY.
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which were demilitarized under the
Lausanne treaty Of 1928. Sharp critic
ism was directed at the proposal and
especially the limitations Turkey seeks
to place on passage Of vessels. both
fighting and merchant, through the
Dardannelles to the Black Sea.
No Limit on Soviet Tonnage.
The Turkish suggestion would limit
the Eastward tonnage to $4,000 tons
for any one power and $4,000 tons for
simultaneous passage of all powers.
1t would not, however. place limit on
the Russian tonnage westward through
the Straits.
Conferees heard reports of the possi-
bility Russia is building a modern,
powerful fighting fleet at the Black
Sea port Of Odessa.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. June 24-Fear Of interna-
tional isolation haunted France today
as she slowly emerged from internal
strife.
The Socialist government, encour-
aged by 382 to 1873 parliamentary
vote of confidence, struck out vigorously
to strengthen its position among Euro
pean nations.
Premier Leon Blum carried forward
double drive to bind France more
firmly to her present allies through
regional security pacts which would, in
their turn, fortify the League of Ma
tions collective peace agreement.
A few fresh strikes and renewed
clashes between Leftists and National
lists complicated the domestic situa-
tion, but Roger Salengro, minister OF
the interior, assured the cabinet firm
measures would bring an end TO the in
ternal struggles.
Two Proposals Advanced.
Openly fearful France may be left
out if Great Britain, Germany and
Italy settle their differences. Blum ad-
yanced two proposals to bolster Euro
pean relations.
The first would permit any group Of
League powers to fight an aggressor
whether grouped according to "a given
geographical situation or from q COM
munity Of interests"
Under the second. members of the
League would be allowed the privilege
Of instituting preventive measures" il
threatened by an aggressor.
These suggestions, together with the
regional pacts, Blum believes would
bring to France an equality among the
great powers which he fears is now on
the decline.
Balks at British Plan.
The dapper Socialist leader already
has baked at a British proposal tc
establish three regional zones-similal
to the French regional agreements in
some respects, but unfavorable tc
France because they would permit
Germany q free hand in Centra
Europe, seat of the Franco-Little
Entente alliances.
Instead Blum would substitute three
pacts in which she would participate
In a trio of alliances-one in Western
Europe, one in the Danubian Basin
and one in the Mediterranean.
The British suggestions set up
agreements between Great Britain
France, Belgium and Holland in
Western Europe. The other pacts
would take in the French allies
Russia and the Little Entente (Yugo-
slavia, Czechoslovakia and Rumania)
and France would have no chance to
90 to their aid or they to hers.
Acceptance Of this proposal. the
French declared, would reduce France
to state of dependency in Europe.
Blum and his foreign minister, Yvon
Delbos, are expected to advance their
proposals at the sessions Of the League
Council at Geneva Friday and at the
assembly meeting next week.
Mounted gendarmes dispersed .
battling crowd in the Place de la
Comedie at Bordeaux and broke up
new fights between Nationalists and
Leftists at Grenoble and Lyon.
The mayor of Brest, after the city
had been without gas for five days,
asked the government to let the navy
take over the gas works, after 500
residents, most Of them housewives,
demonstrated in front Of the COM
pany's office.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
Shirley Seen Bad influence.

HONOLULU R.-Oficials blame
Shirley Temple for wave of hitch
hiking among Hawaii's schoolchildren.
The diminutive film star. they say. was
shown "thumbing" ride in q recent
picture and her fictional success led
hundreds Of youngsters here to try the
same tactics.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
DISCUSSED WITH ROBINSON

PHILADELPHIA, June "a R.-H,
L. Mitchell, executive secretary OF
the Southern Tenant Farmers Union,
said yesterday that men and wom-
en- have been beaten" in the labor
disturbances of the Arkansas cotton
fields, but the spirit of the workers
is unbroken."
Accompanied by Gardner Jackson
and John P. Davis, chairman and
executive member. respectively, of the
National Committee on Rural Social
Planning, Mitchell conferred with
Senator Robinson, Democrat, of Ar
kansas on the Arkansas labor situa-
ton.
Senator Robinson has agreed"
jackson said, Ito confer with the
Arkansas Department of Labor. look
ing toward a complete and full in
vestigation of the facts in collabora-
ton with the Federal Department
of Labor"
The group also discussed with Rob-
inson a plank for the Democratic
platform. pledging 1.-The protection OF
the rights Of workers, both industrial
and agricultural. to organize and
bargain collectively"
Evening star., 1936-06-24
FLOGG|NG UPHELD
FOR AG|TATORS
Action in Arkansas Cotton
Area Said to Have Brought
Results.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, June 24-The
Earle, Ark, Enterprise said yesterday
strap applied where it would do the
most good" has rid the East Arkansas
cotton area of outside "agitators,
There is no strike at Earle" the
newspaper said. 1t was near there
that Miss Willie Sue Blagden, 30, of
Memphis, and the Rev Claude c. Will
liams, Al, of Little Rock, said they
were flogged.
The paper asserted that labor is
plentiful at rs cents a day and that
tenants and planters will harvest their
crops and make money IF they are
unmolested by those who should be at
home attending to their own bust
ness"
Demand $1.50 a Day.
H. l.. Mitchell, secretary OF the
Southern Tenant Farmers Union, first
issued a call for a strike among cotton
croppers in East Arkansas, demand
ing Sl.50 a day. He later asserted
sharecroppers, who work on share
the-crop basis, joined the strike.
The sting" of the "backband," the
Enterprise said has produced results
where all other remedies less drastic
have failed"
The greatest hue and cry arises
from the fact that white woman was
forced to endure light whipping" it
said continuing that while lit is hard
to condone the action" there is mo
doubt but what the woman was COM
pletely out of her place"
Miss Blagden and Williams said they
we're whipped when they attempted to
verify reports that Frank Weems, 40,
colored sharecropper, had died" of a
''beating" Sheriff Howard Curtin
promised to produce Weems alive ito
show up this hoax"
Assisting in conducting Negro
funeral is no job for white woman
in the South" said the paper, "spe-
cially a mock funeral over Negro,
as Mark Twain would say, whose
death was greatly exaggerated. ,"
Norman Thomas. Socialist candidate
for President, declared in New York
that the papers picture of the situa-
ton "glorifies f1ogging," and reveals
a dreadful picture of worse than Fas-
cist tyranny"
DISCUSSED WITH ROBINSON
Evening star., 1936-06-24
SECURITY PACTS
MAPPEDBYBLUM:
Premier Seeks to Bind
France to Allies for Self
Protection.
BACKGROUND

% uO II AUNOUVD-
Fear that his nation had been
left at the post in Europe's big
po10er race for alliances prompted
Premier Blum last week to shake
up Frances diplomatic machine
and the men iUho made it.
The head OF the French Socialist
party receiued his mandate in re-
cent Deputies election. when suing
to Left UaS hailed as demand for
action to stimulate employment,
keep credit conditions stable and
Improve foreign relations.
Evening star., 1936-06-24
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implication that Republican admins
trations have made non-political ones!
The truth is that we all have been
victims of the system. Political ap-
pointments are bad politics"
Green Asks High Wages.
Green told the committee: I'VE urge
that your platform declare in favor
of the maintenance of high, decent
wage standards for employees of the
Federal Government and that civilian
Government employees be equitably
and satisfactorily classified under civil
service regulations.
THE devotion of labor to civil serv-
ice and the application of civil service
regulations to Government employees
inspires us to earnestly recommend its
continuation and progressive extension
to all departments of the Government. :"
The decision of the Platform Com
mittee will be awaited with keen in
terest in view of the fact that the Re-
publicans adopted strong civil service
plank at Cleveland, to which the presi-
dental candidate, Gov. Landon, added
even greater force in a telegram. The
decision of the Democrats also will
have added significance in view of the
large number of appointments made
without regard to civil service during
the last three years.
Steward said: THE merit system is
essential to good government. and it
is indispensable to democratic gov
ernment. Long and costly experience
has proved that there is no substitute
for the merit system in Federal per-
sonnel administration. Civil service
is the only assurance to the taxpayer
of full value for every dollar expended.
"The National Federation of Fed
eral Employees urges specifically that
this convention adopt platform plank
which will pledge the party to the
support of legislation designed to ex-
tend the civil service to all Federal
positions which are not directly of a
policy-making nature"
Steward was accompanied by John
]. Barrett of the United National As
sociation of Post ONCE Clerks.
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Evening star., 1936-01-31

though. Did he happen to call, or
anything?"
made a stall at looking over the
phone records and told her Mr.. Bloom
hadn't called.
There was another sour note, too.
Kitty's money had run out.
Naturally. tumbled to that as soon
as anybody. I noticed she was TAX
ing all her meals inside now, and
mighty skimpy meals, too. Then I
caught Bales, the assistant manager.
locking at her two or three times like
a hangman studying death house
boarder's neck.
GO WAS as tickled as If I'd won
~ a sweepstakes prize when Kitty
stopped at the desk one day to ask
if she had any word from Bloom
(Which she HADN'T and told me she
was going out to a tricky tea room
that night with Mallory.
Il was so in hopes I'd get word from
Bloom today" she said. I'D made up
my mind that if did, I'd mark my
self up a technical victory and say,
Yes to Paul tonight. Guess it'll
mean another day Of waiting and
hoping"
Paul came down to wait in the lobby
for her, and I couldn't resist telling
him what she'd said. He grinned
and gave me two passes to his new
show.
When Kitty stepped of the elevator.
she lighted up the lobby like a neon
sign. It wasn't so much what she
had on It was her face. Radiant"
is what the book writer's call it, I
guess.
looked at the envelope in her
mail box for a count of ten before I
decided to call her over. was afraid
she would open it and find bad news
inside. And she looked so dog -goned
happy.
THEY were starting out when I
I sent a boy after her, and she
came back running. pointed to the
box under her room number and didn't
say q word, She gaSped, ana coul0
see her corsage bouquet trembling.
But when she put out shaking little
hand. I shook my head.
Its from Bloom, all right" told
her. His secretary stopped at the
desk a minute ago and scribbled 1t.
But good news1l always keep"
She hesitated just second, then
threw a kiss at me-or maybe at the
letter-and went dancing out. I didn't
have to be a clairvoyant to know that
there'd be one more pair Of names
in the marriage book before a week
passed.
AS soon as she and Paul were out
of sight I took the letter out OF the
box and tore it up. I knew she'd get
another one just like it the next day.
They have supply of them in the
managers Office.
Dear Miss Blank: 1t has come to
our attention that your bill has not
been paid for two weeks. Unless you
take care of this matter promptly 80"
copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-31

wife, he, too. was attacked, Rose said.
Commonwealth Attorney Claude
Wood said he would move for an early
trial and ask the death penalty.
If they don't give him DEATH" he
said "they ought to burn the electric
chair up" High feeling which devel-
oped in the Cumberland-Bu Buckingham
area after the boys arrest yesterday
prompted officers to have him brought
here for safekeeping.
In his account of the killings, Rose
said:
Il left home early in the morn
ing. I broke the screen of
ore of the side windows (of the Kel-
lenger home) and entered the place.
I needed some money to go away.
Hit Woman With Stick.
Il saw Mrs. Kellenger coming
through the room with a pan Of hot
water. took the stick I had and
struck her across the face. She fell
to the floor yelling, SO I struck her
several more times across the head
and shoulders. Then Mr.. Kellenger
came into the room. He came at me,
and I knocked him in the head with
the stick. went outside. Mr.. Kellenger
came stumbling out the front door
with q shotgun in his hand and fired
at me. I grabbed the gun and beat
him over the head with it until the
stock broke from the barrel"
Evening star., 1936-01-31
"A HOTEL clerk
<A is snnnoSed to

a HOTEL clerk
"a Is supposed to
be about as hard
boiled as q res
taurant soup bone,
but that idea be-
longs in the same
pigeonhole 1t h
the chestnut about
dumb hctel dicks.
The corrid or
creeper at our little
hostelry, the Gen.
eral Grant. reads
Walter Pater In his
spare time, and as
for tough clerks,
well. all I need Is
q bow and arrow
and I could double
for Dan Cupid
except for q little
matter of difference
in dress.
You'll get what
! mean when I tell
you about Kitty
Evening star., 1936-01-31

Haute's gift to the Broadway stage.
Kitty's honest gray eyes and plucky
little chin sold her to me the day she
walked up and set down her cardboard
suit case and asked for a weekly rate
on our cheapest room. No cracks. now.
MY interest in Kitty was all along the
big brother line.
All right, then, make it big cousin" !"
I've been spending money on girl
over in Brooklyn for two years. and
I've got too much invested. there to
start free-lancing. Besides, there are
rules about the staff members Lavish :
ing anything but unprofessional smiles
on the guests.
4 \ X 4
put Kitty was different from the
- average kid you find living un-
ehaperoned in a big town hotel. So
tiny, so serious and so scared, don't
know why she didn't stop at one OF
those homes for would-be ingenues.
She probably didn't know they ex-
listed. There was so much she didn't
know about show business.
who hires actors?" she asked me
one day a week or so after she regis
tered. 1--WE been to all the booking
agencies I could find in the phone
book. and all I get is head shakes and
cold looks. Nobody has even asked me
to read for them yet or to look
at at me-.
I happened to remember then that
Paul Mallory. who wrote "The Needles
Eye" and Still Water" was hiding
out in the Grant while he finished
up new play. so took my job in my
hands and framed an introduction.
.The quickest way to get a part is
by the back door, I told her. Sell
your stuff to the author, and he can
move mountains"
X X X
WELL, that was the beginning OF
w something more than a beau
tiful friendship. Within a week NAL
lory was taking her everywhere, in
GLIDING the producers Offices. No,
she didn't get a part in his play. I
asked him one day about that, and he
laid it right on the line.
~ "Kitty's the sweetest child in Man.
haitian, but she'd never make an
actress with Duse to coach her and
q Texas oil man to angel her show.
I let her down gently. though. Gave
her the inside track with some good
producers, for which they probably
would subscribe to hanging fund for
me. Let her get this footlight fever
out of her system, then she'll listen
to reason"
Twas little uneasy about that.
Paul wants to marry me-" Kitty
told me one evening, when she stop
ped to pick up her daily letter from
mamma. She was bursting with the
news. and since I was about the only
person she knew in New York, I rated
the honor.
Good man, Paul." said. "And
when is this to be-"
+ X X X
SHE stood there by the desk .aI,d and
~ blew a sort of whispering whistle
>roiret tho enveloDe Her ewes were
Evening star., 1936-01-31
LOBBY LETTER

full of sparklets,
and there was q
smile on her lips
that I'd give my
Christmas bonus to
have flashed on
me. Then her chin
set hard, and she
gave her head q
quick toss.
mot till I've
proved to him I'm
as good in my line
as he in his his. l
refuse to contem-
plate a lifetime as
the mousey wife Of
a successful man." :"
"Paul's pretty
crazy about you,"
I said.
And I'm not
getting my name
in lights, very fast.
am I? Mr.. Bloom
practically prom
ised me q Walk-on
in his new comedy,