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Evening star., 1936-08-27
ROOSEVELT POLICY
SPLITS BAR GROUP
Committee, Studying Legis-
Iation Affecting Rights of
Citizens, Divided.
By tie Associated Press

BOSTON, August 27-Members OF
the American Bar Associations spe-
cial committee to study legislation af-
fecting the rights of citizens split
sharply today over their report on the
policies of the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
In a report prepared for considera-
tion by the associations annual con-
vention as a whole, four majority
members declared: There is no indi-
cation that the (Roosevelt) admins
tration recognizes any obligations
whatever to protect the individual
citizen in his constitutional rights"
The three minority members, how
ever, recommended that the commit
tee be discharged on the ground that
they believed further consideration
served mo useful purpose in giving
citizens any helpful light on constitu-
tional questions in addition to that
already supplied by the opinions '''
of the Supreme Court"
The minority asserted that because
this was a presidential election year,
further consideration would result in
embroiling the American Bar Asso-
ciation, whether willingly or not, in
bitter partisan political discussion and
internal diSsenSi0nS."
Majority members of the committee
were John D. Clark of Cheyenne. Wyo.;
Fred H. Davis of Tallahassee, Fla;
George L. Buist of Charleston, s. c.,
and Charles P. Taft, I'd, of Cincinnati.
Ohio, son of the late william Howard
Taft, former President.
The minority members were Kenneth
Wynne of New Haven, Conn; Fred L.
williams and James G. McGowen.
Said majority members of the COM
mittee:
Zone who would preserve our con-
stitutional system must deplore the
action of President Roosevelt in recon-
mending that members Of Congress
set aside any doubts they might have
about the validity Of proposed legisla-
tion. Not even the court can compel
Representatives and Senators to de-
velop a responsibility to recognize and
to protect the Constitution
The majority also decided that 'if
|Coo DAD pooo AcN
Evening star., 1936-08-27
WEATHER FORECAST
is COOL AND RAIN
Cloudy, With Occasional Showers,
Predicted for Today-Mercury
at Normal Figure.

Cool and rainy weather is in store
for the Capital for the next 48 hours.
the forecaster predicted today. This
afternoon will be cloudy with oc-
casional showers, while tonight and
tomorrow will be overcast, with inter-
mittent rain and not much change in
temperature.
For the first time in a month. with
the exception Of one day. normal tenn
peratures appear due this afternoon.
A steady but light rain during the
night drove the mercury down to 10
degrees at 4 am. and at 10 o'clock it
was still at that level.
Yesterdays "high" was IS at 5
pm, but the average temperature for
the day was only Is, five degrees above
normal.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
NEW CUT ORDERED
IN PHONE RATES
Utilities Commission Directs
$251,800 Reduction, 55
Per Cent Domestic.

Reduction Of telephone charges
amounting to s251 800. effective Sep
tember 1. was ordered today by the
Public Utilities Commission.
Fifty-five per cent of the reduction
will be applied to domestic schedules
and As per cent to commercial sub
scribers, according to an announce
ment made by Richmond B. Keech,
acting chairman of the commission.
The individual fiat rate for resi-
Dental service is to be reduced from
S430 a month to s4.20 a month.
which would create a saving to such
subscribers amounting to $4,000 a
year.
Two-Party Flat Rate.
A new two-party fat rate for resi-
Dental service is established, which
will cost $3.50 a month, calculated
to effect saving Of $ls,500 a year.
The present rate for two-party line
messages would be reduced by a
change from 40 messages a month
at S225 to IS messages q month at
s225, or a reduction from an aver
age message cost from AZ cents to
4 cents, calculated to effect an an
nual saving of s50,000.
Individual Message Charge.
For the business service, the indi-
vidual message charge is reduced from
a rate of so messages a month at
$3.50 to so for $3.50. calculated to
effect an annual saving OF 11,200.
The individual business message
rate also is changed from 100 mes
sages a month at $3.50 to Ito at
$3.50. The change in this series of
business telephone service is calcu-
lated to reduce the annual cost by
s66, 400.
The reduction was ordered because
profits of the company have beer
found to be in excess Of per cent
on the capital investment of the con-
Germ. Under the decision of the Dis
trict Supreme Court two years ago or
the rates of the company, the courl
upheld an order for a reduction o.
rates calculated to allow the Chesa-
peak & Potomac Telephone Co. a re-
turn of 6 per cent on its investment
The reduced schedules were sub
mitted by the company in response to
suggestions from the commission fol-
a rate reduction.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
T,vO Children Drown as Sister
Of One Fails in Rescue Effort
Clayton Higdon, 9, and Shirley Rich
ards, 8, Victims While WadH'g Near
Summer Home Along Pdtuxent.

The heroic efforts Of 12-year-old
Avis Higdon to save her little brother
and cousin from drowning failed yes
terday when an excited rescuer pulled
her out of the Patuxent River with
out realizing she had been cIinging
desperately to the two smaller chill
dren, both of whom were under water.
Almost unconscious herself, Avis
screamed: There are two more there!
Get the other two" as she was being
pulled into the boat Of a colored man
who had seen her struggling in the
water. The colored man, however. ap-
parently failed to grasp the situation,
and took Avis ashore after jamming
Evening star., 1936-08-27
.LANDON DEMANDS
TAX LAW REPEAL
Corporation LevieS "CoCk.
eyed" He DecIares-Starts
Back to Kansas.
(Tert OF Ldndon Speech, A-1D
Rx the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
ABOARD LANDON TRAIN EN-
ROUTE TO TOPEKA. Kans., August
27.-Gov. ALI M. Landon left behind
him a charge of ''wasteful" New Deal
spending and "cockeyed" tax legisla-
ton as he swept through Illinois today
on a schedule of 10 rear platform ap-
pearances and visit to Abraham Lin
coins Tomb.
The Republican nominee was speed
ing toward Topeka on the return leg
of his first presidential campaign in
vasion of the East.
The special train paused at Chicago
an hour and half for switching today
and left at 9 am. (E. S. T) for St
Louis.
Before the special crosses the Mis-
sissippi River he was scheduled to
make 10 stops in Illinois, including
longer than platform appearances at
Bloomington and Springfield.
The Republican presidential nominee
slept late, but he arose and greeted
Chicago Republican leaders who
boarded the special for the swing
through Illinois.
A steady rain fell during the Gov
(See LANDON, Page A-30
Evening star., 1936-08-27
HaIy's Machine Guns Mo,vD vDO,Un
so Ethiopians Roped Into Line
Officer Buried Beneath Pile of Dead
Escapes-62 Fascist Laborers Slaugh-
tered in Camp by Abyssinians.

between the trucks and the shivering,
dazed line, chalk faced gunners at the
triggers, waiting to let 60 ,. soldiers,
bayonets fixed, In q rim on either side
an officer, grim-faced, ready to
carry out his orders.
Then q scufning in the middle Of
the line two thin ones In between
two fat ones duck under the ropes
the oficer yells, runs forward .
soldiers shoot the two down the
nervous gunners squeeze instinctively
the machine guns start their Bit
ter coughing every one screams
the officer in command Is some
where in that line.
Now the line Is wilted, all down
and the soldiers rush forward to drag
out the officer he's underneath q
pile they haul him out by the
feet he's unhurt, but saturated In
Ethiopian blood it runs down his
face from his matted hair he Is
very angry indeed.
Then, in that awful light. there's q
(See NEIL, Page A-2o)
Evening star., 1936-08-27
BARRING OF BR|TON
AS RED |SUPHELD
Hull Refuses to Reconsider
Banning Communist
in Parliament.
Hr The Associa ted Press.

Secretary Hull today declined to re-
consider the State Departments ac-
ton in declining to permit William
GALLAGHER, Communist member Of the
British Parliament. to enter this coun-
try because of his political belief.
Answering q protest by the Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union, the Sec
retary said GALLAGHER was well known
as a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist Interna-
tionale and that "his position in the
international Communist revolution
ary movement brings him within the
excluding provisions" Of the immigra-
ton law.
Facts Do Not Warrant Issuance.
Acting on the Civil Liberties Unions
request for reconsideration Of the de-
partment's action. Hull said:
'The department has again reviewed
the case and finds no new facts
which would warrant the issuance of
a VISA"
The Civil Liberties Union had as
serted that GALLAGHER, now travelling
in Canada, wished to come to the
United States only to visit his sisters
in Chicago.
The Civil Liberties Union said Gal
lacher wished to visit his sisters II
Chicago, but was refused visa.
Reconsideration Asked.
The Civil Liberties Unions letter.
which was received today by Secretary
Hull, asked that the department re-
consider its action and issue q visa to
GALLAGHER on the ground he did not
intend to engage in political activities
in the United States and particularly
because he is q member of legislative
body. 1t asserted that the department
public policy" in not exercising its
discretion in admitting GALLAGHER. 1t
said precedence for this could be
found in the admission to this country
of Henri Barbusse of France and Tom
Mann of England, both well-known
Communists.
The letter, signed by John Haynes
Holmes, acting chairman; Arthur
Garfield Hays, general counsel, and
Roger N. Baldwin, director, added this
was the first occasion Of its kind since
Secretary Kellogg in 1925 refused to
admit shapurji Saklatvala. also q
Communist member Of the British
Parliament, to attend q conference of
the Interparliamentary Union In this
country.
Evening star., 1936-08-27

an oar into the river bottom to mark
the place
The drowned children we're: Clay
ton Higdon, 9, of 2615 Twenty-sec-
ond street northeast and his cousin,
Shirley Richards, 8. Of 1903 Kearney
street northeast.
II had Clayton by the hand" Avis
told her father, Clayton H. Higdon,
"and I was holding on to Shirley's
trunks with my other hand when the
man came up in the boat. I was awful
tired. though. and when ne pulled me
out had to let go of them. I told the
man they were still in the water, but
(See DROWNING, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-08-27
Pope Is Weakened by Worry;
Soon May Haze to Be Carried
Concern Over Spanish Situation Leaves
Pontiff Scarcely Able to Rise
From His Throne.
pyrieht. 1886, by the Associated rress.)

tcopyright. 1885. by the Associated press.)
VATICAN CITY, August 27.-Pre-
lates disclosed tonight that Pope Plus
XII has become 50 weakened from
worry over the Spanish situation that
he scarcely is able to rise from his
throne at the close of audiences.
The increasing heaviness Of his
limbs, the prelates said, might soon
make 1t necessary for the 79-year-old
pontiff to be carried from one part Of
the Apostolic Palaces to another.
His brother, Fermo, suffered from
the same malady and q year before
his death, several years ago, was un-
able to walk.
Expiatory Ceremony Set.
The disclosure Of the Pope's con-
dition came after prelates had an
nounced that the pontif, assisted by
all the cardinals now resident in
Rome, would soon preside ct an ex-
piatory ceremony In st. Peters for
the killing of priests and the destruc-
ton of churches In Spain.
He also soon will receive Spanish
bishops and priests who have found
refuge in italy and. in addressing
them, protest to the entire world
against the sacrileges Of the civil
war.
His holiness now b aA Castel
Evening star., 1936-08-27
) KILLED, IS HURT
IN TRUCK CRASH
NEAR CONOW|NG0
Victims Were Potato Har.
veSterS Returning to
Homes in South.
DEFECTIVE TIRE AND
SLIPPERY ROAD BLAMED
Driver Among Those Dead-Sev.
eral Injured in Serious
Condition.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DARLINGTON, Md, August 81
Five persons, bound for their homes
in Florida and Georgia after three
months work in New Jersey potato
fields, died in the plunge Of q truck
down q steep embankment near here
today. Sixteen were injured, several
probably fatally.
George D. Hart, 81, Hastings, Fla,
driver of the truck and organizer OF
the group of itinerant workers, died
at the wheel. The other dead, three
colored men and one colored woman.
were tossed from the rear of the truck.
Only four or five of the persons
escaped serious injury and they were
cut and bruised.
Describes Crash.
Lawrence Yelvington, also Of Hast
ings and owner of the truck. blamed
the crash on q defective tire and q
slippery road.
The truck went sideways" he said.
Hart couldn't do anything with it.
All know Is that the last remem-
ber was when it hit the railing by the
road. 1t went on through and tum5led
down the embankment."
Most of the colored people were
asleep when the truck crashed into
the wooden guard rail short dis
lance from the Conowingo Dam,
which serves as a bridge over the
Susquehanna River, and tumbled down
the 100-foot embankment. The bank
is so steep there it is impossible for
a person to walk easily down it.
Some of the workers were tossed
from the truck as it rolled down the
hill; others were trapped and pinned
under it. Potatoes, brought along for
food on the long trip South, were
scattered along its path, as were
clothing and other possessions Of the
workers.
Taken to Elkton Hospital.
The injured were taken in an am
bulance and another truck to the
hospital at nearby Elkton. Other than
to say that several we're thought to
be dying. rushed hospital ofdcials
could give little information.
The workers left Hightsto~, N. j.,
where they had been working on the
farm of C. B. Probasco for five weeks,
last night. They had left Hastings
May IL and followed the potato har-
vest north, working in Meggetts, S. c.;
Greensboro, N. c.; Exmore, Va, and
Hightstown.
The dead. other than Hart. were
identified tentatively as: Clarence
Caldwell, st. Augustine. Fla; Junius
Mays and Annie Simmons, Micanopy
Fla, and another colored man, known
only as Sam and believed to have lived
in Millidgeville, Ga.
Survivors, other than Yelvington
(See CONOWINGO, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1936-08-27
FAMILY THREATENED
IN $4,000 DEMAND
Arizona Democrat Committeeman
Wife and Daughter Menaced
With Death.
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 27.-Federal
agents searched today for extortionists
who demanded $4,000 from Writ G..
Bowman, Democratic national com
mitteeman from Arizona, on threat OF
death to himself, his wife and their
baby daughter.
Several letters received through the
mails recently were turned over to
postal authorities and the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation by Bowman. who
had posted guards about his Beverly
Hills mansion.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
BOY, L, IS KILLED
PLAYING SOLDIER
Merton Brown, Son of At
torney, Accidentally Shot
at Bethesda.

Merton Brown, 11-year-old son Of
Wager Brown, patent attorney, of 1904
Wisconsin avenue, died in Georgetown
Hospital this afternoon after he was
shot through the heart by a .22-cali-
Der gun accidentally discharged by q
playmate.
According to Bethesda, Md, police,
the young victim was playing SOL
diers" at his home with Rodney Wheel
er, Is, of 40 Delray avenue. Bethesda,
when the accident occurred. Merton
was pronounced dead on arrival at
Georgetown.
The youngsters father represents
the E. l. du Pont Co., with Offices in
the National Press Building.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
WOMAN, 60, HIT BY CAR,
is CRITICALLY INJURED
Suffers Fractured Leg and Pos
sibly Internal Hurts When
Struck on Wisconsin Avenue.

Miss Julia Wilson. go, Of the High
lands Apartments, Connecticut avenue
and California street, was critically in
jured this morning when run down by
an automobile ct Wisconsin avenue and
Woodley road.
Miss Wilson. a lifelong resident of
the District. was taken to Mount Alto
Hospital in q taxicab. Physicians
there said she had suffered a fractured
leg and possibly internal injuries.
The driver of the automobile, Harold
H. Polk, Is, Of the Ontario Apartments.
went to No. precinct for brake test.
Police said Miss Wilson was struck
as she stepped from the curb, and the
impact threw her up on the fender Of
the car.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
Officer Halts Car
As Mrs. Roosevelt
Passes Red Light
By the Associated Press.

6y tilc ASSOC 'dicu HACoSs
NEW HAVEN, Conn, August
27.-Patrolman Michael Holly re-
ported today he had warned Mrs.
Frauklin D. Roosevelt to keep a
sharper lookout after her car had
passed a red stoplight here.
The policeman said the Presi-
dents wife had passed the light
Tuesday when it was obscured
from her view by a trolley car.
After halting Mrs. Roosevelt and
telling her Of her mistake, Holly
said, he permitted her to drive on.
Chief of Police Philip T. Smith
said the policeman learned Mrs.
Roosevelt's identity after the in
cident.
Evening star., 1936-08-27

Some people think that the
increase in the circulation of
The Star over last year Is
due to the Noon Edition. This
is not true as the sale OF the
Noon Edition merely offsets
the loss of papers that were
stolen from the street racks
in the business sections that
have been removed. The in
crease of more than 5000 In
circulation Is almost exclu-
sively in the homes in the city
and suburbs.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
Army Chief Placed in Oxygen
Tent in Last Housewife,
Two Daughters and Three
Sons Are Present at End.
ENTERED WALTER REED
WHEN STRICKEN JULY 13
Cabinet Member Was Taken III
While on Inspection Trip in
Pennsylvania-Word of Death
Flashed to Roosevelt-Funeral
Plans Incomplete.
BULLETIN.


range to attend the funeral of
Secretary Dern. Mr.. Roosevelt
was informed of the death when
his train stopped at Steele, N.
Oak. BY telephone from the train.
he Immediately ordered all flags
in the District of Columbia and
all Army posts lowered to half
staff. and requested Secretary Hull
to issue a public statement Off
cially notifying the people of the
United States of Mr.. Dern's pass
ing.
Secretary of War George Henry
Dern, former Governor Of Utah, died
at 1885 am. today in Walter Reed
Hospital after nearly year of inter-
mittent illness. Death was due to
heart and kidney complications re-
sulting from past influenza attacks. He
was "a years old.
DR.. Fritz Meyer, noted German
heart specialist. who had been called
here from Boston at the personal re-
quest of President Roosevelt. was in
consultation with Army doctors Just
before Secretary Dern died. Members
Of the Secretary's family, who were
called here several days ago, also were
with him at the end. These included
his widow. his daughters. Mrs. Harry
Baxter and Miss Elizabeth Dern. and
his sons, William, John and James.
Placed in Oxygen Tent.
During the night the cabinet officer
had been placed under an oxygen tent
in an effort to prolong his life. Mr..
Dern had been in q semi-conscious
condition some time before his death.
Friends Of Secretary Dern said he
had not been in good physical condi-
ton since a general breakdown which
resulted from a severe attack Of in
fluenza when he was Governor of
Utah five years ago. Since then he
has suffered from repeated influenza
attacks and severe colds. with conse-
quent strain on his heart.
Secretary Dern entered Walter Reed
Hospital on July Is for rest, treat
ment and a physical check" after he
became i'll during an inspection trip
to Army Engineer projects on the Del
aware River in Pennsylvania. Pre-
viously he had spent six weeks In the
hospital, beginning in April, after con-
tracting influenza during an inspection
trip along the Atlantic intra-coastal
| waterway. He was flown back to
Washington in an Army airplane to
enter the hospital at that time.
It was learned that President
Roosevelt and ranking Army ofhcer'
have been aware for nearly year ot
the seriousness Of Secretary Dern'!
condition and that specialists from
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
were called into consultation on the
case q month ago. The Secretary al
ready had become too weakened by hi!
repeated illnesses to respond to treat
ment, it was said.
Despite his illness. Secretary Derr
(See DERN, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-08-27
BY EDWARD J. NEIL.

.(copyrisht, 1885, By the Associated eressJ
NEW YORK, August 27.-More
memories of q war correspondent, re-
tiring from that business:
Sights you see just once :. TOO
often black Of night on the edge
of the aviation field in Adds Ababa
so shivering, dirty. smelling
Ethiopians stretched in line between
two ropes, one in front, one in back,
held taut so none can fall too soon
A hundred other Ethiopians, many
of them women, in another group,
screaming, wailing. forced to watch.
Beam lights pour down from trucks
30 yards away, lighting the scene as
II 1t were day .. two machine guns
Evening star., 1936-08-27
VIRGINIA BOY KILLED
AS CAR TURNS OVER
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GALAX, Va, August 27.-A gay
ride Of five Independence. Va, boys
and girls, IA or Is years Of age, ended
In tragedy last night when their
automobile turned over three times
on q sharp curve near the Independ-
ence School.
Tommy Tucker Smith, IA, son of
Mrs. Ada Smith and the late Dr..
H. r. Smith, member OF the Virginia
Legislature, was killed.
The other four suffered minor In
AlriAs.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
TWO HAWAII FLIGHTS
ARE PLANNED BY NAVY

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. Calf, August 81
Two flights will be made from Cali
fornia to Hawaii by United States
Navy planes now nearing completion
here.
Six planes are scheduled to leave
San Diego for Pearl Harbor December
l and six on January Is. They will
replace flying boats now based at the
Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
Rest Ordered for Goemboes.

BUDAPEST, August ~ @.-Pre-
mier julius Goemboes Of Hungary
was advised today by specialists after
a physical examination to withdraw
from politics for q time and undergo
treatment abroad.
Evening star., 1936-08-27
Pendergast on Mend.

NEW YORK, August ~ R.-
Thomas j. Pendergast, Kansas City
Democratic leader, who underwent an
operation Tuesday to drain away an
intestinal obstruction, was reported to-
day to be making favorable progress.