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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
REELECTION
HELD MOST
DOUBTFUL
Former NRA Chief
Cites Four Breaks
of New Deal
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN
Copyright. 1896. by International
News SerVice)

NEW YORK, July II U.N.SJ.
Brig. Gen. Hugh S. johnson,
former director of the now defunct
MIRA, declared in an interview to-
day that "if the present adverse
trends continue, the reelection Of
President Roosevelt is extremely
doubtful"
johnson, who is a Democrat,
said that if the Presidential cleo
ton were held today Mr.. RooSe-
welt probably would be reelected
But, he added, "the breaks have
been against Roosevelt the last
two or three months"
He cited tile adverse "breakS"
IS:
81. The split in labor.
90. Injection of the Lemke
ticket into the presidential cam
paign.
"3. Organization of the Town
send COughlin bloc.
~. Detection Of George Peek,
former AAA administrator"
AS plain spoken as in the days
he was running the NRA, John
son arrived in New York from
Washington on a brief visit. He
was accompanied by his Secre'
tary, Miss Frances Robinson.
Peek Holds Key
johnson said the most serious
of the breaks against Roosevelt
Is the detection of Peek. He
termed this development 1.-THE
most important political event OF
the summer" johnson declared:
eff Peek, who has been in
Kansas comforting with Cover
nor LandOn, decides to go all
the way for LandOn he will
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. y
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TO WE'D, HINTS
MISS P0NS

NEW YORK, July 17.-ReportS
of her betrothal to Andre Koste-
lanetz, orchestra leader, were vir-
tually confirmed here today by
Lilly Pons, petite songbird of radio
and opera.
Taking cognizance of the stories
which have linked her name ro-
mantically to that of the conduc-
tor-pianist, Miss Pons admitted:
"If some day he has the time,
1 will have the time"
But when the marriage will be
Miss Pons refused to specify other
than to state that it would prob
ably be before next February when
she resumes her roles with the
Metropolitan Opera Company.
Explaining that she has had
only short vacation during the
last five years, Miss Pons asserted
that up to the present neither she
nor Kostelanetz had had the op-
portunity to entertain thoughts of
marriage.
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I 0WNSEND|TES
BARPART|ES

CONVENTION HALL, CLEVE-
LAND, Ohio, July II u.N.S.).
Determined to crush rebellion
in the Townsend plan ranks,
DIR. F. E. Townsend, founder,
announced today that he will
resign unless the board Of di-
rectOrs expeIS Conner Smith of
Oklahoma, vice president and
director.
TOwnSend'S announcement
followed reports that the board
of directors had decided to
postpone action on the case
until after the convention.
CONVENTION HALL, Cleve
land, Ohio, July II Q.N.SO
Moving to halt the political row
in the Townsend old-age pension
convention, Chairman Frank A
Arbuckle, Of California. today
ruled out of order motions fol-
endorsement of political parties
by resolution.
The action, concurred in by
DR.. F. E. Townsend and the board
of directors, was said by one
leader to be due to a drive by
Southern members to obtain
adoption Of a resolution favorable
to President Roosevelt.
Conversely, leaders in the anti
third party group asserted that
it met their demands that the
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
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HIN 7 PL0T
ON LIFE
0FK|NG
Scotland Yard Asks
Witnesses for Facts;
Reds Questioned
By DAVID P. SENTNER

LONDON, July II UN.S0.
Apparently suspecting the at
tempted assassination of King
Edward VIII near Buckingham
Palace yesterday was a premedi-
tated plot with a group of con-
spirators possibly involved, Scot
land Yard appealed for public aid
today in probing the near trag-
edy.
AS the monarch resumed his
state duties, calm and upper
turbed by his narrow escape,
Britain's famous crime investiga-
ton bureau issued the following
conlmunique: aer
TN connection with the incl
dent during yesterdays process.
sion, the police request any per-
sons in the immediate vicinity Of
the man arrested and who wit
messed the occurrence to COM
municate with New Scotland
Yards as soon as possible"
A spokesman said the appeal
was issued because Of conflicting
reports" regarding the incident,
but Scotland Yard officials were
reticent to disclose just what they
hope to learn from witnesses of
the incident.
It was apparent, however, that
Scotland Yard may not be COM
pletely satisfied that George An.
drew Mcmahon, the crippled Scot
fish journalist who levelled q
loaded pistol at King Edward as
the monarch was returning from
a military ceremony in Hyde Park,
attempted to carry out his deed
Single-handed.
1t was possible also the police
wish to solve the mystery sur
rounding persistent reports that
during the excitement when Nc
Mahon was seized by police mis-
sile of some sort was thrown at
the Kings horse.
Accomplish Hinted
Several eyewitneSSeS insisted
some object had been thrown, but
there has been no official confir-
nation of these stories. McMa-
hons gun landed with a clatter
on the pavement behind the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. II
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RIVER BOAT
RAMSGUN
BARGE
Passengers Shaken Up
But Little Damage
Is Reported

Several hundred passengers
aboard the Norfolk and Washing
ton steamer Northland were given
a severe jolting early this morn
ing when the liner ran head-on
into the side of a Government
barge loaded with guns in the
channel just off River View, about
10 miles south of Alexandria.
Hampered by a heavy fog which
limited visibility to less than 100
feet, the Northland was nearly
upon the barge before it was seen.
Little damage was done to the
Northland, while a small hole was
torn in the side Of the barge. The
Northland was about an hour be
hind schedule at Alexandra at z
o'clock this morning.
Navy officials had received no
word of the accident, but Capt.
George e. NOVEL;, on the Norfolk
boat, said that he believed the
barge had anchored to await the
lifting of the fog and was cross
ways of the channel when it was
struck.
The barge, which was being
towed by a Government tugboat,
YCF No. 6, was returning a load
of guns from the proving grounds
at Dahlgren to the Navy Yard in
Washington. =.
Speed of the passenger boat at
the time it struck the barge has
been so cut down that it did MOTH
ing more than scratch the prov
of the large steamer. The tug lift
ed anchor after the barge had
been struck and resumed its trip
to the Navy Yard.
An eye witness to the crash, Z.
R. Alden, of ITS West Gr1xdaIe
Ave, Detroit. told The Washing
ton Times that the fog was so
heavy you could hear people yell
ing aboard both boats but could
not see them"
Relating his story of the crash,
Mr.. Alden said:
"The fog was aWIully IhiCA
and it was difficult to see any
distance ahead. The Navy tug
was towing the barge, which
was loaded with naval guns.
"YOu couldn't see where the
tug was but you could hear its
whistle and when it finally did
come into sight it was straight
ahead of the passenger boat.
Before you could see the Navy
boat and when it was apparent
that the crash was coming,
YOU could hear people yelling
aboard both boats but you could
not see them because OF the
fog.
"AlI passengers aboard the
NOrthIand were warned of the
impending crash and instructed
to brace themselves. None was
hurt. I heard the steamer
captain given the command OF
full speed astern and when the
crash came the Roadway had
been checked. There was no
material damage to either boat
that / could determine"
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10,
SHOT AND
STABBED
|NH0TEL
Inquest Delayed a S
AsheviIIe Police Rush
Investigation

ASHEVILLE, N. c., July II
Q.N.SO Authorities today were
looking for a man from Wash
ington' in connection with the
mysterious Staying here yesterday
of pretty Miss Helen Clevenger,
and an arrest may be made at any
time.
That was the announcement to-
day of City Detective r. c. Patton,
who has been working tire
lessly in an effort to pierce the
mystery surrounding the death of
the blonde 19-year-old Staten
Island college girl. He said:
eve are not at liberty to tell
why we. are looking for a man
from Washington or give any
indication as to his identity, but
we positively believe he can clear
up the mystery"
FOUND BY UNCLE
A coroner's inquest was unex-
pectedly postponed shortly before
noon until later in the day.
DR.. George Baier, jr., coroner,
in announcing the delay said city
authorities had requested it to
give them time to gather further
evidence.
The pajama clad body Of the
girl was found in her hotel room
here yesterday by her uncle, Prof
w. L. Clevenger, of the University
of North Carolina.
She had been shot to death, and
there were stab wounds about the
face. They apparently had been
inflicted with a knife or a pair
of scissors.
An exploded rs caliber pistol
shell was found on the floor of her
room, but neither the gun from
which the shell was fired nor the
weapons with which the cuts about
the face had been inflicted could
be found.
Shot While Kneeling
The room showed signs Of a
struggle, and medical examiner
stated her slayer apparently had
attempted to assault her.
The girl evidently had been shot
while kneeling, for she had fallen
backwards, with her feet doubled
beneath her.
Detective Patton declined to
Continued on Page 3, Col. A.
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FAIR, FORECAST
FOR CAPITAL

Continued uniformity of tenn
perature is predicted for Washing
ton today and tomorrow by the
Weather Bureau. High mark yes
terday, during the midafternoon,
while the low mark of IS was
recorded during the night. Today,
it is predicted, will be fair.
While washington is back to
normal summer temperature,
other parts of the country are not
so fortunate.
Cities in North and South Da-
kota reported temperatures as
high as 112 degrees.
Further Details on Page 81
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Bishop TO Avoid. Reich
As Nazi Protest Move

DETROIT, July II QN.SO.-As
a protest against Nazi religious
persecution, Bishop Michael j.
Gallagher of the Catholic diocese
of Detroit will not visit Germany
on his six-week vacation trip
abroad which started today. Be-
fore leaving here he declared:
'N0 person, regardless Of re-
ligiOn, should cOndOne the ac-
tivitieS Of Hitler and his anti
religious activities. The perse-
cutiOns that have been inflicted
on the religious of that country
have not been exaggerated in
the least, and everyone should
join in active protest"
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2Cuban Rebels Shot
In Attempted Ambush

HAVANA, July II U.N.S).
Two more Cuban revolutioniSts
were dead today after Antonio
Flores, former chief of police of
Vueltas, and Domingo Gonzales
were shot and killed near Cal
berien, where the Enforcement
group has been under seige for
more than 48 hours.
They were slain during a battle
when they attempted to ambush
a military contingent bringing in
reinforcementS. according to Off
cial reports received here. Their
deaths brought the total killed
in the seige to three.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
More Police on Guard
After Riot at RCA Plant

CAMDEN, N. j., July II Q.N.S0.
Augmented police details today
guarded against renewed violence
after the most bitter battle of the
three-weekS strike of RCA manu-
featuring employees here landed
1913 demonstrators in Jail.
Approximately 5000 workers
who refused to leave their jobs
were victims Of the attack of 1000
former colleagues as they left the
plant, authorities said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
DR.. CamaIier Heads Dentists

SAN FRANCISCO, July II
G.N.SO.-Dr. C. Willard Camalier.
of Washington. D. c., today was
the new president of the American
Dental Association for the year
1878.
The election climaxed the sew
enty-eighth annual convention Of
the association. Atlantic City will
be the 1887 meeting place.
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Such Gratitude! Wife
BdW|s Out Policeman
Who Saved the KinQ!

LONDON, July IT (I.N.SJ.-An-
thony Gordon Dick, special po-
liceman who knocked a gun from
the hand Of George Andrew Nc
Mahon when the latter threat
ened King Edward VIII, looked
with up-lifted eyebrow at his wife
today.
Ordinarily he is a salesman,
but he was called out on special
duty yesterday-and became
hero in performing it. He had
to make out a report, and he got
home late to dinner and his wife
bawled him out!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
King Horse Third
In Rich Race Classic

SANDOWN PARK, England,
July II G.N.SO.-King Edwards
luck continued to hold today, al
though it was not as good as it
might have been, when his entry,
Fairey, ran third in the Eclipse
Stakes, richest racing classic Of
the English turf.
The race, worth $4,000, was
won by Lord Astor's Rhodes
Scholar, and Lord Carnarvon'S His
Grace ran second.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
Camera Man Killed
In News Photo Race

BIRMINGHAM, Mass, July IT
illustrating to get scoop"
photographs of Southboro auto
mobile crash, Harold Weeks, 40,
Wellesley photographer, was IA
tally injured today when his au-
tomobile collided head-on with a
truck on Worcester Turnpike.
Three men occupants of the
truck were taken in critical con-
dition to a hospital. They are
Richard Hawthorne, 81, of Am
herst; Alexander Caskey, IT, and
Joseph Jakimo, 81, North Hadley
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-17
Lindbergh Accepts
Bid 10 Visit Berlin

BERLIN, July IT Q.N.SD.-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh today mott
fled Air Minister Hermann Will
helm Goering he will accept the
latter'S invitation to visit Ger,
many.
On the trip Lindbergh will get
q first hand view of German mill
tary and commercial aviation. He
Is expected to arrive by airplane
near Berlin July o..
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WASHINGTON FORECAST
MEAN TEMPERATURES

weather Details on Page 23)
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Lindbergh Home
Dark Last Night

WEALD, England, April A
CUP).-CoI. and Mrs. Charles A.
] indhcr,%h apparently were sleep
ing at the moment that Iaupt-
r?ann WAS executed at Trenton,
n. J., for the murder Of thcl
frst-born four years ago. ....
Lights in the Lindh@rgh home.
Long Barn. were eXtinguished be-
fore midnight and the entire VII
lage was in darkness when Bruno
Hauptmann's life was snutfed out
in the Trenton electric chair.
Villagers slept peacefully cX-
ccpt for one LEGAL policeman, VINO,
dressed in plain clothes for the
occasion, carefully scrutinizod the
darkness for suspicious persons
who. might be prowlinG around
the Lindhcrgh home.
Although no serious trouble was
feared, police officials ut Seven
Oaks. two miles from Weald, or
dered an exceptional watch around
the ncighbOlhood throughout the
night.
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BABIES AND A BACHELOR

No longer do they say--in Canada-"The hahd
that rocks the cradle rules the world" A famous
quintet in a small Ontario town has changed that
philosophical abstraction to more practical con-
sideration From the humbest habitant in Trois
RiviereS to the legislators in the Parliament at
Ottawa comes new refrain and it's note is one
of jubilation: The hands that rock the Dionnc
cradles balance budgets"
Pulling their country out of financial quick
sands, however, only occupies part of the quintup
lets playtme. They have put the brakes on one
of Americas most interesting phenomena-thc
flight OF the newlyweds to Niagara. Thereto alas,
is tagged tale of lesser jubilation For, Statistics
ever at the service of Midas show the Falls of SEN
timental memory neglected and Calandar Mecca
for benedicts and brides and American tourist dol
lars to the tune of 2OO,OOO,OOO dropped during
1885 into the lap of Canada
But rescung the Minister of Finance and chang
ing honeymooners' habits still leaves time heavily
hanging in the Dionne nursery. Making Donne
pere their amanuensis the babies keep His Majesty
King Edward XIII sitting up nights reading letters.
As a nurse, they tell him, the Ontario Government
is rather fussy.
Now ,Britain's ruler is man Of many talents,
but--he's bachelor. Wisely he decides that when
IL comes 10 bringing up baoleS MS knowledge is only
secondhand SO he turned the problem over to the
Governor General of Canada, who turned it over
to the Dominion Secretary of State, who turned it
over to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, who
turned it over to the Provincial Minister of We'll
fare He will decide whether Mr. and Mrs. Dionne's
five daughters shall be returned.
Perhaps now that Niagara Falls are said to be
longer Americas first stop in the matrimonial ex-
cursion they could be given to DR.. Dafoe's charm
ing little ladies as passing toy suitable to their
lively ispositions.-Christian Science Monitor.
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years we held what we had. All
that time Of course, the political
ring was striving to come back
through trying to get their men
elected to the legislature to re-
peal our good government laws.
Eventually they succeeded and
with the cooperation Of Il poIiti-
cal machine legislature they re-
pealed our good government laws
and substituted for them statutes
which made it easy for them to
work their devilment.
perhaps you wonder how that
was done. 1t was done because
the people who were actually III
favor of good government were
too narrow or too selfish or too
gullible to be true to their prin-
ciples. For instance, three of the
important leaders Of our good
government movement supported
the political ring candidates for
the legislature. Why did they do
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-04
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
AN EXPANDING BUREAUCRACY

Tn WASHINGTON is more or less promise of cur
.o;h,,or+ Of federal payrolls but the bureaucracy
Is expanding nonetheless In other words, there Is
nromise of economy but there is no economy The
government would make one blade of grass grow
where five blades used to grow IN order TO cause
the grass demand to exceed the supply. But no
GRASS can grow on the New Deal lanes for they
arc much too travelled. The labyrinth of federal
bureaucracy is coming into additions even as there
is \ political gesture of simplifying the maze.
Tho S,,preme Court of the United States SEEM
ed to knock out some expensive activities under the
New Deal and the president said something about
having TO return to the horse-and-buggy days. The
hioh tribunal spoke. but the New Deal continues to
90 forward with its purpose of regimenting the
American farmer and the American taxpayer and
others of the Americans who at their service club
luncheon meeting sing loudly, If off the key, d
..sweet land of liberty" Farmers who cooperate
will be rewarded. Farmers who fail to cooperate
with no pcnaized To cooperate" is to accept
dictation.
It is the good old shell game. The little pea
now YOU see it and now you dont-the hand Is
faster than the cye-hcre it Is, you iose-So You
think it is under this shell-we shall see--haW,
haw, it isn't under this shell-the hand Is faster
than the eye The pea is not under the she'll the
Supreme Court believed it was. There are plenty
of shells One of them is called the soil conServa-
ton plan If the Supreme Cohrt should guess that
the pea was under it, another she'll would be COW
ering it. And if the old shells should break, new
shells are to be had for the asking.
Bureaucracy is expanding The taxpayer is
called upon to support the men and the women VINO
are called into service He has no voice in picking
his employees He is outnumbered at the polls, or
at least taxpayers who are benefiting and persons
who are without property in the majority As
a matter of fact persons without property are
paying plenty of taxes, but they don't know IT.
Taxes are collected from them in broken doses but
they supply the funds. Bureaucracy is riding tho
poor and the humble even more roughly than 1t IS
riding the rich and the tolerably rich. President
Roosevelt put the American people on notice tina.
taxes are paid in the sweat of mans labor; he put
them notice, but they had laughed it ott-so far
And expanding bureaucracy means that every
man, woman and child in the United States Will
have less than ne had for himself, for government
must have more and more for the maintenance OF
weeping and wailing and crashing of teeth among
millions of Americans who have permitted the
spending politicians to feel them. There will con-
tinue to be joy and gladness among millions of
eral bureauCracy.-Charleston News and Courier.
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OUR COCkEYED WORLD
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

so? One did so because he felt
that he had been sighted on a
certain occasion by one Of the
good government candidates. An
other did so because the political
ring had promised him to put
through a law that would give him
benefits in certain deal with
which he was connected. And the
other did 50 because the leaders
OF the ring had falsely told him
something uncompiimcntary one
of the good government candi-
dates had said about him.
"Thus those three men threw
down their high ideals, took off
their coats and went to work for
a lunch of political gangstCrS.
Can You beat it? What hope is
there for us? We deserve to get
everything we do get and more;
and We shall continue to get It un-
~ some sense IS beaten into US.
A DISGRACE TO MINNEAPOLIS
How much would YOU bet that
the murderer or the murdcrer= q.
Walter Figgctt, crusading Mime
apolis newspaper editor slain for
Uncovcrin- dcviltiT, will never be
caught?
And how much would You bet
that they would be caught if the
Omen were put on the job?
And how much would you bet
that Walter Liggctt ncvrr would
have hccn murdered had those
who plotted and executed his kill
ing known the G-mcn would take
up the trail?
In some Of our municipalities
the partnership between criminals
and politicians is so common and
frightful that il may become ne
ccssary for Congress to pass a law
the G-nen to take hold
Of local criminal cases when Pc
titioned to do so by certain
number Of citizens.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DUTcHER-

men were eager TO get ammunition
against the Townsenditcs in time
to use in primary fights.
In the first couple of days the
quiz revealed that r. E. Clements
brains" of the organization work
and co-founder of the movement
had been paid. S12,5S5 in 1935-not
very much for a big.time Washing
ton lobbyist-and that OARP had
collected at least a million dollars.
But the sessions in general were
very boring indeed, partially due to
the fact that so many repetitive
and apparently unimportant ques,
tons were asked the dapper, suave
Clements and partly to the ease
with which the committee managed
to get itself balled up, without even
trying.
MIR. JIMMY SULLIVAN, the as.
w sistant city prosecutor Of Kan.
sas City, acting as committee coun.
sci, contributed heavily to the
boredom. He spoke in a theatrical
melodramatic drawl and gave
Clements several opportunities to
rephrase Sullivan's questions SC
they would be clear.
The committee took one on the
chin when Sullivan, for the 10th
or nth time; quizzed Clements on
story in the Townsend Weekly
which was based on a congress.
mans charge on the floor that in.
vestigators had adopted "back.alley
tactics"
81 presume" Clements remarked
.that the Townsend Weekly placed
too much reliance on the authen,
tieity of the Congressional Record"
Whereupon everybody had a good
Ilaugh on the congressman and
Chairman Jasper Bell became in.
censed and threatened to clear the
room.
The committee may reveal much
more in its quiz to discover if the
Townsend movement is a racket
bnt its early efforts make it ap
naar that it will get all tangled ur
lin so doing.
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