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Evening star., 1936-08-08
CUMMINGS SUED
BY EX-PRIS0NER
Seven in Justice Department Are
Named as Acting Illegally
to Terminate Parole.

Attorney General Cummings and six
other Justice Department officials were
sued for S2O8OO in District Court yes
terday by Percy Lang, former prisoner
In the Federal Penitentiary at Lewis
burg, Pa, who charged his parole had
been revoked Illegally. He asked dam
ages to compensate him for five months
additional time in prison.
Lang, who now lives in New York
City, acted as his own attorney and
told the court he was released at the
end Of his sentence, less time off for
good behavior. and was ordered by the
Federal Parole Board to go to Roch-
ester, N. Y. The length of the sentence
and the crime for which it was i'm
posed were not stated.
Instead Of proceeding to Rochester,
he went to New York City contending
the board had no right to control
where he should live. Subsequently,
one of the members Of the board is.
sued q warrant for his arrest and he
was sent back TO Lewisburg for five
months. He claimed he was entitled
10 hearing before being returned to
the penitentiary and that the action
OF the board was illegal and arbitrary
Besides the Attorney General, the
defendants were Arthur D. Wood,
Charles A. Whalen, T. Weber Wilson
and Ray L. Huff Of the parole board;
Henry G. Hill, warden of the Lewisburg
Penitentiary, and Sanford Bates, su-
perintendent of prisons.
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ly upon capture or after the dubious
justice of a court-martial. Even wom-
en- and children are not spared. A de-
fenseless woman in Palma de Mallorca,
with three small children in her care,
failed to understand an order to "Alto!
Stop! Hands up," and one of the
boy rebels put bullet through her.
Churches are in flames all over Spain.
Priests are being killed, their homes
violated and their property stolen. The
archbishop's palace at Siguenza was
raided and looted of 100000 pesetas
in valuables. The Convent of the Sis
ters Of Carmelita, in Barcelona, suf-
fered similar fate and was robbed of
2,000, 900 pesetas. The plant and funds
of the General Motors Co. and Ford
have been conflscated in Barcelona,
together with large American bank
and an English bank 1t is only ques-
ton of time, If the government forces
win, before all private property in
Spain will be abolished. In the mean
time, for the foreign resident, there is
constant danger to life itself and no
safe way out.
Foreigner in Great Peril.
Marching through the streets with
ones arms reaching for the skies,
lodging behind walls or lying face
downward In cutters, as machine gun
buttets whiz past, or an enemy plane
drops bombs, is not an experience that
many men would relish. Yet it is the
fate of the foreigner in Spain today.
Nor does the danger end when, as it
happened In Palma. the air raider Is
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The Old Guard organization loosely bound
leaders, virtually dspated with defeat
of Gov Hoffman elements
pubcans
ton and they way doing
Walter E..
taken campaign direction head of the Executive
spite efforts Henry w. Jes Republican State
the front line Edge been the organizer and the
decisions.
Campaign headquarters opened NeUak by
Edge Uho returned Maine UGcatton to be
Finghuysen former colleague Edge placed
Fnghuysen diUided
into two diUiaonS the first driue contributions
eahy Republicans and business secondly
hcitation smaller contributions uih certificate
participation all contributors OF 81
William W. Paterson former Assembly Speaker
dent Association
speakers Indications that his problem will be
speaking for the Governor New divided
sharply pan followers of the Governor
that difficult harmonious meetings
Friends of the Governor have made determined efforts to have M
listed national speaker by the Landon
to have Hoffman speak for Landon around
he will the popularity through
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Foreigners in Desperate Peril
In Spanish War, d. c. Man Says
Uncertainty of Who Is Who Causes
Danger, DR.. James I. Lo,ce of u.
Declares on Return.

brought down. Then the rebels began
to celebrate by firing their guns in the
air. cheering at the top of their voices,
and excitedly ordering every one to
repeat the watchword of the revolu-
tion-''Vive Espana!" To refuse, or
to fail to understand the command,
means being clubbed, possibly shot.
An Englishman there lost his life
while trying to rescue an American.
The terrible uncertainty in Spain
today as to who is who in the revolu-
ton exposes the foreign resident to
even graver danger than in regular
warfare. 1t is not uncommon for one
to be walking along peacefully at
night and to be suddenly frightened
by feeling the cold steel Of bayonet
sticking into ones stomach or back.
The usual gruff command is "Que
vive?" and the proper reply, of course,
depends upon who, in the dark, is back
of that bayonet If the force is rebel,
the answer is "Vive Espana" If it is
government, "Vive Republican But,
with only the disqueting touch of cold
steel to remind one that a password
is necessary, how is one to know which
to say? Americans found that the
only safe answer was-"Soy Ameri-
cano. No hablo Espanol" That was
generally safe enough but never to
the liking of ones interrogation, who
| invariably insisted that the next time
the American must give the password
of whichever force the man with the
bayonet happened to represent, Com
munist or Fascist.
Organization Lacking.
Curiously enough, for a so-called
Fascist uprising, the major reason
that there is revolution in Spain
today, instead Of a peaceful coup, is
the lack of proper organization on the
part of the rebels. The people of
Spain, the great middle class that
grew up as a result of Spain's war
prosperity, are almost to a man with
the rebels, but they are afraid to
throw their lot in with them because
of the consequences that are sure to
follow If the revolt should fail. Grip
pied by taxation, and intimidated by
ruinous demands on the part of the
present Communist government that
had promised them so much, the peo-
pie are anxious to assist in throwing
out the Communists If there seems
to be a chance. The trouble came
with the navy, which turned out to
be divided, and the civil guard, which,
with exceptions, has remained loyal
to their present paymasters. If the
rebels had properly arranged with
those two groups there would be no
revolution in Spain today.
A Spanish submarine arrived off
Palma one day and the crew, while
disembarkng, were met by a group
of friendly Fascist soldiers, who sa-
luted in the approved style, "Vive
Espana!" They were answered, to
their utter amazement, by the Com
munist watchword, "Vive la Repub-
lica!" Neither side knew quite what
to do, both were too surprised to do
anything, so each simply retreated,
the sailors to their submarine and the
soldiers to their barracks. Later,
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ward the debacle. 1t is the peoples, the
masses themselves, who are taking
sides and making neutrality exceed
ingly difficult.
The foreign Offices of France, Great
Britain and Russia are fully impressed
with the gravity of the moment. They
are getting together, and inviting
Italy and Germany to join in policy
of non-interference in the internal
affairs of Spain. But in no country
in Europe, and not even in the United
States, is there detached view on
the part of the masses, nor the feel
ing that the affairs of Spain are, can,
or should be purely the domestic
concern of that country.
Britain in a Quandry.
The Russian government pledges
ncn-interference, but the Russian
maSsss parade in the Red Square;
the Russian trade unions prepare to
tax every Russian worker to raise a
huge fund to help the Spanish Leftist
government. The French government
urges pact of eight nations to prom
ise hands off, but Frenchmen are to-
day joining the Spanish government
forces. and tomorrow other French
men may be joining the Spanish
FascistS.
Britain is in the most serious di-
lemma, for the victory of neither side
in Spain can be to the advantage of
the British Empire. But meanwhile
the British trade unions prepare tc
send financial aid to the Spanish 10y
alists. The trade unions of the United
States demand international peace
and one union-the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers-prepares to senc
money to the Spanish government.
To what extent can government
hold their people? The central aim
of Russian foreign policy at this mo-
ment is to win the confidence of Great
Britain, and hold Britain in the
French Russian Czechoslovak group
Soviet Trained for Sympathy.
It is a matter of the most vital con-
Germ to Russia, fearing as she does ar
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Scotland and Denmark.
Ninety stations in the Columbia
network have arranged to carry the
entire School of the Air programs.
HIGH lights Of the 5Oth anniver-
sary celebration of the dedica-
ton of the Statue Of Liberty on Bed
loes Island, in New York Harbor
will be broadcast as a feature of the
Magic Key program on N. B. C
August 16.
John B. Kennedy, N. B. C. COM
mentator, will sketch the history of
the statue. In addition, there will be
a number of musical features.
NJ B. C. has signed Ellsworth Vines.
jr., celebrated tennis player, to
aid in covering" the mems and
women'S national tennis champion-
ships at Forest Hills, September 8 to
IL. He will share the microphcre
with Nelson Case and Jack Fraser,
N. B. c. announcers.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Madrid by Third
reay private feeling
that State DepamenatstS became ercited
intended
to
to consider there
otherwise get mixed
a treaty to
a a either
Spanish here they do it. o
reported
Official herebouts not put much stock in continuing
provoked
Ethiopia They
they know much about here and they
Italy, will let the opposing Spaniards
while they sit the stands watching
interferes much in the fight
smalhane campaign contributions
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was no SuCll ooe 49,,
burst against Father Coughlin IN the
davs when he was pounding away at
president Hoover, yet there were IN
those speeches attacks just as pitter
and as vehement as are now pelne
delivered against Mr.. Roosevelt ana
Mr.. Landon.
But while the politicians hereabouts
uere confident a few weeks ago tnat
the authorities in Rome wouio liilo
some diplomatic way OF sllehcllis
rather Coughlin, people of a broad
paueed interest in public affairs are
rather glad that the Vatican dechneo
IN interfere. For had the head OF
the church interviewed it might nave
been construed as corroboratlon OF
charges that were heard in the 1870
camnaien to the effect that the Vatl-
can endeavors to exercise an lnHu-
ence in American political life.
Intolerance Like Partisanship.
Intolerance is a good deal like
partisanship. Persons Will DENY WIN
yehemence that they are partisan, out
they will refuse to read or listen TO
sneech that happens to express an
onnosite view. There are Republicans,
for instance, who boast that tney
never listen to Mr. Roosevelt on the
air and there are New Dealers VINO
boast that they will not listen 10
Mr.. Landon. Father Coughlln nm
self said the other day he didn't tune
in when Gov Landon is on the radlo.
The unwillingneSS OF the partisan
10 listen to or read both sides IS
characteristic of every campaign out
Il is rarely that a better lesson IN
the art of tolerance is taught than
NV those who themselves take extreme
positions. If Father Coughlln serves
no other purpose in this campaign
than to cause those who disagree
with their opponents or who are IN
tolerant of opposing doctrine to take
an interest therein, it will have been
q valuable service.
Ideas VS.. Abuse.
Not only Is this matter of tolerance
related to the readiness OF a 1ar-
minded person to listen to the other
side. but to the reading as well OF
positiye and oftentimes passionate
statements that appear in print. The
true test of tolerance is whether one
can read or listen to discussion
which one feels Is wholly unfair
and wholly wrong" both in logic
and fact.
The carrying on of political debate
Is at it's best when ideas are met
with ideas instead of abuse with
abuse. The present campaign shows
signs of being centered on personali-
ties. The public, on the whole, takes
it for granted that persons who
achieve the eminence of a presi-
dental candidate or of the presidency
are fundamentally honest and up
right and that efforts to besmlrch
their characters are ill-adviSed.
Thus it is being reported from
different parts of the country that
Father Coughlin made votes for MIR.
Roosevelt by his recent attack and
this may happen in turn with respect
to independent minded voters who,
observing the attacks on Gov. Landon
by New Deal spokesmen, will be in
clined to his side. 1t is an old rule
In politics that abuse of an individual
turns out to be boomerang at the
polls.
(Copyright. 1860
Evening star., 1936-08-08

A scene from THE Constant
Nymph." featuring Margaret Sulla-
van. of screen fame. will be one of
the highlights Of the Chateau pro-
gram on WRC at $3.50. On the same
program are Joe Cook, comedian;
Harry Adler. harmonica virtuoso;
Larry "Buster" Crabbe, movie star,
and Judy Garland, 13-year old singer
from the movies.
The Goldman Band will play mis-
cellaneous collection Of classical works
Evening star., 1936-08-08

and The sales TAX. SO Tar, these e1-
forts have been unsuccessful, the
Landon managers not relishing the
possibility of the Hauptmann case,
or the associated Wendell case, in
truding on the campaign.
Aside from the early Repub-
lican campaign organization, po-
litical interest centers in what the
Federal grand jury at Newark will
do regarding the charges of Paul
H. Wendell that he was kidnapped by
Evening star., 1936-08-08
New Ranger Arrives,

LURAY, Va, August (SpeciaD -
Leo Hanna, formerly stationed at a
national forest in Oregon, arrived this
week and began duties as the fourth
ranger for the Shenandoah National
Park. Two others are expected shortly
to complete the staff. Although the
main duty at present is directing
traffic, each ranger is a specialist in
Iome field. Taylor Hoskins is ranger
n chief.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

would be repeat
ed has been a
matter of much
discussion a nd
conjecture. 1t is
indicated no W
that Col. Breck-
enridge will not
lead a third party,
but there are in
huential leaders
at Detroit who
counsel such ac-
ton as a means
of dramatizing
conservative hos
tility to the New
Deal. il not Weld
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ptrlal purposes.
Reading the
dispatches from
Spain, and from
Paris, Lon d o n,
Moscow, Berlin
and Rome, one
thing springs i'm
mediately int o
prominence in
an international
situation which is
full of dynamite
it is this time
not the diplo-
mats, not the
governments who
a-z --zA;-- -
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tourist. S e v e n
t e e NY e a r-ol d
boys are armed
to the teeth and
shooting to kill.
They know Moth
ing about the use
of arms, and, of
course, it is the
innocent bystand-
er who suffers.
The ethics of
the jungle pre-
vail; no quarter
is given or asked.
Men are S h o t
down like rats,
either Immediate
Evening star., 1936-08-08
SCHOOL OF THE AIR
RETURNS OCT. 13
Foreign Broadcasts to Be Intro
duced for Programs Eighth
Season.

TINE American School of the Air
will start its eighth season
october 13, with two notable
i innovations-a series of broad
casts from foreign countries and con-
certs featuring the compositions of
such famous historical figures as
Henry VI, Henry VIII, Charles and
Charles II.
The foreign broadcastS will bring
programs from Ireland, France,
Spain. Italy, Germany, Holland,
Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Austria,
Evening star., 1936-08-08

during its concert over WMAL at
7:30. The selections include Heart
wounds" and Dance Caprice" by
Grieg. and Schubert's Unfinished
Symphony"
Two broadcasts from the American
bandmasters' convention at Inter.
lochen, Mich, are on the WRC sched-
ule. The first, at $50, will be a con-
cert by the National High School
Band, composed Of more than 30 high
school band players. A "bandmasters
Evening star., 1936-08-08

DR.. James T. LoiUe of George
town University arriUed in Wash
ington Thursday after escaping
from Spain, where he had been
making studies under a Carnegie
fellowship in international laU. At
the outbreak of the revolution he
1Dds on the Island OF Minorcd, of
the east coast of Spain. DR.. LoUe
is secretary to Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j., regent OF the School
of Foreign SerDice, and resides at
1909 Floral duenue. The article
Which follo,Us is part OF report
he is 11riting on the Spanish sit
1LdtiOn
Evening star., 1936-08-08
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

frolic" will be feature of the second
program at IL. Forty famous band
masters will share the post of con-
ductor during concert.
"These Foolish Things" winner for
the second consecutive week of the
"EIit Parade and Sweepstakes" poll,
tops the dance tunes to be played by
Harry Salter's Orchestra on WJSV at
9. Among the other numbers are
take My Heart" ION the Beach at
Bali Bali" and "The Glory Of Love-"
Evening star., 1936-08-08

Lndbergh
investigator Governor inquiry
involved Brooklyn authorities
seeking his extraditon indictment.
belief
vigaion regardless what action Brooklyn Both parties
watching Wendell
political scandal that might
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Masses Peril
Neutrality
inCrisis
Nations Attempt to
Hold Back From Span.
ish Intervention.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

w YHAT is threatened in Eu-
M rope is not war on the pat
w tern of 1914, however
ments may be. At the center Of
everything is the class war, and the
exploitation Of the class war by GER
tain nations for national and i'm
Evening star., 1936-08-08
MAY SIGN GRIFFITH

Zukor Discusses Return to Para
mount Studios.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August 8 Cp)
Gossip in the movie colony had II
today that D. w. Griffith, director OF
the first Epic" pictures, has been dis
cussing a return to active work with
Adolph Zukor Of Paramount Studios
Griffith smilingly denied the report
We've been talking" he said, "but not
officially. I'm still concerned with
writing stage plays"
Evening star., 1936-08-08
G. O. P. Ahead in Jersey
Having Uphill Fight, Republicans Organized Early:
Democrats Still on Defensive.
BY EDWARD M. GILROY,
Special Correspondent of The star.

>RENTON August 8-The Republican Jersey
organized today with the Democrats making effort line
methods
result the positions the respective parties hold the
national election
their followers the The
head defensive hold
their
Evening star., 1936-08-08

National Union
of Social Justice.
I'm d O u b t e dly
from v ri o u S
parts of the
United S t a t e S
mmunications
have gone to
Rome pointing
out that Father
Coughlin is do
ing a diSservlce
the church by
his pronounced
political activity
curl ousl ly
apo,,oh her
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Coughlin Stirs
Tolerance
Issue
Presence in Campaign
Can Show Blindness
of Partisanship.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

IRRESPECTIVE of the merits OF
Father Coughlin's views or ms
regrettable attack on the We
j racity of President Roosevelt
there can be no denying that the
Detroit radio priest has stirred up
q question of tolerance which goes
far beyond the issues Of the present
campaign.
It is an open secret that some OF
the supporters Of the New Deal hao
hoped that the Vatican would sup
nress the eminent organizer Of the
Evening star., 1936-08-08

1t is not a question of conservatism
versus radicalism as much as the
notion that the rebels are considered
"our kind of people"
The feeling will probably not in
fluence the handling of the situa-
ton in any important particular.
With Italy, France and Germany
slipping a helping underhand now
and then to opposing factions, it
behooves our boys to be careful.
They have, SO far, and promise to
Evening star., 1936-08-08
BY DIR. JAMES T. LOWE.

Spain is again in the agonizing
throes of civil war. The situation is
very tense, and consequently extremely
dangerous for the foreign resident or
Evening star., 1936-08-08

of thousands of Roosevelt nomi-
nators ct al. at 81 head. The Re.
publicans are selling participation
certificates, establishing buyers as
stockholders (unofficially) in the
Republican concern, for ST q share.
This kind of money raising is all
ways good publicity, but this year
it has likewise been developed into
an important money-raising venture.
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Cdl DC uO1It Ut1UIt LdUUI Udy 20
arouse the voters.
Nevertheless, politicians believe
1t was imperative for the Repub-
licans to organize early because of
the factional disputes within the
party. The only organization worthy
of the name in the Republican
party was the personal machine of
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, and until
recently the Governor has been
lukewarm at best to the Landon-
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Behind the News
Spanish Revolutionists Seem Be Getting Personal
Sympathy of State Departmentalists.
BY PAUL MALLON,

diplomatic crowd around the State
with Spanish revolutonists
suggestion officially of obvious
this will not alter the noticeable fact that
the r time in
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Breckenridge Shifting
TO Right Becomes
Old.Line Leader.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Henry Breckenridge, a matter
of considerable interest to CAM
paign watchers just now, may
be clarified at this weeks rally of anti
Roosevelt Democrats at Detroit.
For two years, Col Breckenridge has
been trying to shape some kind Ct
effective coalition of Conservative
Democrats and Republicans. Whether
the anti-Bryan bolt Of 40 years ago
Evening star., 1936-10-22
PRESIDENT SAVED
i. s., |CKES SAYS
Declares Recovery Is Here
in Northwestern UniVer.
sity Address.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, III, October 22.-Sec-
retary Of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
declared last night President Roosevelt
'has saved America and the people
know it"
Contending recovery is here" he
devoted a major portion of an address
at q Democratic gathering in Patten
gymnasium at Northwestern University
to criticism of the editorial policies Of
Chicago newspapers supporting the Re-
publican cause.
Ickes addressed a crowd which filled
most of the 1000 seats in the gym
nasium. He shared the program with
United States Senator James Hamilton
Lewis. Gov. Henry Horner Of Illinois
and others.
Hoover champion Boondoggler."
He referred to former President
Hoover as "the world champion
boondoggler"; termed Gov. Alfred
M. Landon, Republican presidential
nominee, "a somewhat blurred carbon
copy of Herbert Hoover; called Col
Frank Knox. Republican vice presi-
dental candidate and publisher Of the
Chicago Daily News, "the Paul Revere
OF DOOM" and described Col. Knox
and Col. Robert r. Mccormick. pub
Usher of the Chicago Tribune, as dis
ciples of despair"
"As one of your local papers puts
it, there are only l3 more days to
save America" the Secretary said
MY own conviction is that America
has already been saved by Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Il left Chicago in 1888 to 60 to
Washington" he related. Behind
me left dead factories, empty cars
stored on sidings, tenantless Office
buildings. vacant stores. Now see a
confident Chicago where lights are
blazing. business is prospering, people
are returning to work and building
Is going on as a result of the wise ad-
ministration of President Roosevelt.
Declares Landon Confessed"
Secretary Ickes asserted last night
that Gov. Landon had confessed" in
statement from Los Angeles that
"he plotted to set up a $4,000, ,00O
corporation in Kansas, without the
knowledge or consent of the people
to engage in the business of produc-
Ing and marketing natural gas"
He issued typewriter statement
upon his arrival in Chicago for his
speech at Northwestern University. It
was reply to a statement made by
Gov. Landon after a radio address
by Ickes Tuesday night, in which the
original charge of the secret oil cor
poration was made.
Landon had replied that the gas
negotiations were undertaken in a
successful fight to obtain lower gas
rates. He said he favored public
ownership as gun behind the door"
in adjusting rates.
That Gov. Landon deliberately
plotted" the statement continued, ito
keep the people of his State in ig-
norance with respect to his ambitious
scheme to put the State in the ma
tural gas business is frankly admitted
in his statement when he says: Ma
turally, asked Mr.. Roosevelt,s Sec
retary of the Interior to keep our dis
cussion secret"