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assets into cash at this point to help
unseat the Popular Front government
Of Francisco Largo Caballero, whose
leap into the forefront 10 days ago
brought the resignation here of all
but three of SPANS diplomats.
One of the rare pieces which
Franco will offer is a huge red and
gold English crown derby, one Of the
choicest types of china made. 1t has
the pigeon-blood background typical
of crown derby, with heavy gold
overlay In a vine-leaf decorative
motif. Other high lights in the sale
will be:
A pair Of old bronze copper Span
ish plaques. beaten into shape by
smiths Of the Renaissance. The fig-
ures are heads of Spanish knights,
bearded and wearing the steel visors
of the warriors whose swan song Don
sang.
A terra Gotta bust of q charming
Spanish woman, with graceful lace
shawl floating down from her high
comb.
An old Spanish treasure chest,
made Of walnut and carved with
delicate Spanish Gothic arches. When
the top is lifted the chest becomes q
seat, for within is secondary top
covered with red damask.
There are Chantilly lace mantillas
In the lot, as well as three silk en-
broidered shawls-one black deco
rated with Chinese figures. one ivory
decorated with green floral figures
and q third olive decorated with
colored floral figures.
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informally with reception in the
Willard last night. Showing of a
movie entitled Trails of the Great
Incohonee" and entertainment ar.
ranged by the local committee fea-
tured the program.
Other events on today's program in.
cluded addresses by william A. Mort-
arity, great sachem. on behalf Of Dis
trict Red Men, and Mrs. Louis Gill
great instructress. on behalf of the
Pocahontas Degree.
Sightseeing Tour Scheduled.
After the morning session. woman
delegates and their guests were sched-
uled to make a sightseeing tour OF
public buildings. The only other
event on the days program was q
memorial service, set for $50 pm.
Tomorrow's program will include
morning and afternoon sessions, fol-
lowed by shopping tours for the
women. and, in the evening, ban
quet in honor Of the great incohonee.
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UTILITY INDUSTRY
ANSWERS WARNING
Assails "Bureaucrats" ir
Reply to Statement
by President.

The utility industry hit back today
at President Roosevelt's warning Of
last Friday that additional meritorious
public power projects may be de-
veloped by the Government unless
private rates come down, the retort
taking the form Of an accusation that
further destructive and unconsitu-
tional Federal competition is being
planned by the Washington bureau
Gratis" .E
Philip H. Gadsden. chairman Of the
Utility Executive Committee. served
as spokesman for the industry in
today's reply to the administration
His Interpretation Of the Presidents
remarks before delegates Of the Third
World Power Conference was that
they constituted "a clear-cut admis-
sion of New Deal guilt in the abuse
of constitutional functions for the
purpose Of achieving unconstitutional
objectives."
From the lips of the President of
the United States" Gadsden con-
tinued. "at last we have an open and
an official declaration that the real
purpose of this hydro electric program
of the Government is not food con-
troll, not navigation, not conservation,
that the real purpose. is to force
further reduction OF electric power
| rates.
mo other Interpretation can be
placed upon the Presidents words
than that the recent official emphasis
upon navigation, flood control and
conservation are but a constitutional
smoke screen cloaking the unconstitu-
tional Federal power program.
"The statement before the Supreme
Court by Mr.. Stanley Reed, New Deal
solicitor general Of the United States,
arguing the Wilson Dam-T. v. A. case
last Winter. is pertinent. Said Mr..
Reed:
"'If we assume that this act-the
T. v. A. act-was primarily for navi-
CATION, then it would be valid. But
il We determine that this act, while
stating that it is for navigation, ma
tional defense and flood control, Is
actually for the purpose of developing
power and selling it commercially
the act would be invalid
1T is significant that the President
while making his first campaign year
defense Of his yardstick theory failed
to answer or explain the substantiated
charge that electricity sold from these
wasteful and unnecessary projects
costs the people much more than the
same energy if sold by the private
utilities. any ostensible saving by way
of lower rates being made up twofold
from taxes levied on everybody.
He has served notice upon the
millions Of citizens whose savings are
invested in operating utility COM
panies that, unless rates are adjusted
to suit the arbitrary views of WASH
ington bureaucrats, then the proper
ties in which they have invested their
savings are going to be subjected to
! furt '>er destructive and unconstitu-
tional Federal competition"
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MAN ROBBED OF $3.50
BY GANG OF THUGS
Attacked After Rushing to House
Where He Heard Wife
Scream.

A gang Of thugs who frightened a
woman and then robbed her husband
Of $3.50 was sought by police today.
The marauders include four colored
men and one white man, John S.
McCauley told authorities in report
ing the crime.
McCauley, who operates the Wash
ington Delivery Association at 3613
Georgia avenue, was walking at $50
pm. Saturday in front of the house
of Harry l.. Williams, zoos Eighth
street.
From inside the Williams house he
heard his wife scream. McCauley
ran to the rear to determine the
trouble and reached the back door
just in time to meet the four hood
lums scurrying out in retreat toward
the alley.
McCauley acosted them and they
halted their flight long enough to
throw him to the ground and rough
him up thoroughly. When they de-
parted they took his wallet containing
the $3.50. Mrs. McCauley had not been
molested.
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will create policies for administra ton
by the city manager But the cor
poration also will exercise its pre-
rogative as technical owner Of the
town and agency Of the sovereign
Federal Government.
Here. then, Is created the problem
Of overlapping authority. While the
corporation owns the homes, the
streets and utilities. and pays the
salaries of public employees. the council
sets those salaries and issues ordi-
nances affecting the corporation
owned streets.
For instance, the council might de-
cree a wage increase for the chief
of police. The city manager would
be instructed to pay that salary. But
the money would come from the cor
poration's Golfers The corporation
might object to the size of the sum
Or. again. the corporation might OBJ
ject to the location of parking signs
installed on its streets by a council
order. 1t might not approve of coun-
cil-decreed regulations on traffic.
In other words, when authorities
conflict, where does final sovereignty
lie?
CogniZant of this problem. Reset
tlement seeks to make Braden a hai-
son oficer between the two agencies
He would serve as city manager under
the council, properties manager under
the corporation. Attempting to fore
stall serious disagreement between the
governmental bodies, Braden would
paly the role Of peacemaker. Reset
tlement hopes his close connection
with the two authorities would enable
him to understand mutual problems
iron out differences. Contempla ting
some trouble, Braden has declared his
conviction that any serious disagree
ment could be settled through CO.
operative delibera ton"
Conflicts between the council and
corporation would not be necessarily
grave. per Sc. Such disputes would be
significant. however, in their reflection
by the community. in their effect on
this experiment with society.
(Tomorrow: Resettlement Socializes
Greenbelt.)
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FLEMING TO HEAD
RED CROSS GROUP
Financial Committee Goal
Will Be at Least 65, 900
Members.

Robert v. Fleming, president of the
Riggs National Bank, today was named
to direct solicitation of financial circles
In the twentieth annual roll call of the
District Red Cross Chapter Septempe.
81 to october 16.
AS chairman of the Financial COM
mittee. Fleming will have charge Ct
one of the largest of the 10 divisions
aiming to sign up at least IS 900 mem
bers. He will be assisted by I. J.
Roberts, assistant Riggs cashier, as
assistant committee chairman, and &
large group of bankers, insurance men
and other financiers.
A plan of organization was drawn
up in outline at luncheon meeting
last week at which Fleming gave
marching orders" to his committee.
The financial division of the Red
Cross drive was subdivided into four
units, with divisional and sectional
chairmen in charge of each
Every one is familiar with the work
of the American Red Cross" Fleming
said in statement after his appoint
ment by Lloyd B. Wilson, president of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephono
Co., and general chairman Of the roll
call. 1T speaks for itself"
Appointed to head the various sub
divisions of Fleming's committee
were:
H. G. Hoskinson. Riggs vice presi-
dent, chairman banks and trust COM
panies; Fred A. Smith. chairman
building and loan associations ann
real estate companies; John z. Parkc"
Of @. MI Murphy Co. chairman. anI
James P. Nolan, Folger Nolan and Co..
Walter F. Chsppell. w. ]. F1ather. Jr..
Inc, and C. H. Warrington, Credit
Finance, Inc, sectional chairmen in
vestnent bankers and brokers an
finance corporations; H. Lawrenc
Cnoate Mutual Benefit Life Insur
ance Co., chairman insurance con-
panies and agencies; B. A. Harlai
executive secretary Acacia Mutu9
Life Insurance Co.; Albert w. How
ard, secretary Firemen's Insuran,
Co.; A. F. Miles, vice president Dis
trict Title Co.; E. l. Oakes, treasurr
Mutual Insurance Agency; Char
F. Roberts, president Insurance Civ
| of Washington, and Charles '
ODonnell, general agent Minneso
Mutual Life Insurance Co., section
chairmen.
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On his first swing. the grip gave"
just enough to nearly break his back.
On the second, the club flew out of
his hands. On the third. he smacked
himself in the back of the neck.
Apparently that was par for the
course for at that point the chap
dropped everything and headed for
the nineteenth hole, where his wife
probably will find him now, still
drowning his sorrow.
CHEMIST.
James Smithson, the Englishman
uhoSe beQueSt made possible the
Smithsonian Institution here, tcaS
quite q chemist.
Dr. Charles Moore, chairman of
the Fine Arts Commission and keen
student OF history, recalls that
SmithSon once caught tear from
a ladys cheek and detached the
salts and other constituents OF
which it yas composed"
X X
ENVOY.
WHEN Randolph Zelov returned tc
W his home in Philadelphia after
a recent visit in Washington to his
grandmother, Mrs. Grace Porter
Hopkins, on Biltmore street, his local
relatives remarked that this 10-year-
old was more lively than Penrod,
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn COM
bined On his return to Washington
a fortnight later for a stop-over on
his way to visit other relatives in Vir-
ginia, Randolph was urbane, poised
and the embodiment of Emily Post S
ideas of well-mannered youth.
Mrs. Hopkins could not account for
the complete reversal of form, the
dying down Of the tumult and shout
ing. 1t developed, upon inquiry, that
the boys father, Victor Zelov, we'll
known inventor, had talked to the de-
parting Randolph something like
this:
Son, you are going to Virginia as
the ambassador of the Zelov family
II you conduct yourself properly, the
family will win respect; II you forget
you are gentleman, the family
loses"
The lesson must have fired Ran
dolph's imagination. Norman Davii
himself, that rowing Ambassador OF
the United States, could not have beer
more punctilious.
4
SIGN.
THE text and position of a sign on
a ready-to-wear store for men
definitely has disconnected an opera
tive with an eye to the unfitness OF
things.
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ROOSEVELT NOTE
GREETS RED MEN
Message Read by Attorney
General Cummings
Opens Session.

A message of welcome from Presi-
dent Roosevelt today opened the
eighty-seventh annual convention OF
the Great Council of the United
States. Improved Order of Red Men,
meeting in the Willard Hotel.
The message was read by Attorney
General Cummings. Recalling that he
had been a member of the order. one
of the oldest in the country. Mr.
Roosevelt said its ideals of freedom,
friendship and charity are such as to
commend themselves to Americans
everywhere"
Program Continuance Urged.
Continuance of the orders program
of militant Americanism," which in
cludes deportation of undesirable
aliens, was urged on the council by
Arthur j. rutland, great incohonee OF
the organization, in his opening ad-
dress. He responded to the welcome
of the President, District Commits
sioner Allen and James r. Madison
jr., past great sachem, representing
the Washington members.
Sessions of the convention, which
will continue through Friday, opened
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their rent, nor does It wish tenants
who might afford Greenbelt's stand
ards of living elsewhere. Other
requisites TO be met by the proSpec-
tive resident will include steady EN-.
ployment and personal histories un-
blemished by criminal records or cur
rently contagious diseases like tuber-
culosis.
The corporation. the Governments
agent, will be charged with operating
the town. 1t will collect the rents,
pay taxes, improvement and mainte-
nance costs. and turn over the bal
ance to the United States Treasury.
All charges for taxes. upkeep, depre-
ciation and utilities will be estimated
by the corporation and pro-rated
against the tenant as part Of the
rental charge. This. of course, pre-
supposes fulfillment of Resettlement's
avowed intention to make the project
-liquidating, possibility to be dis
cussed later in this series.
An important feature OF the cor
poration will be its non-profit-making
character This has been pledged by
Resettiement. Its personnel will be
prescribed by the Federal Govern
ment The administration has sug-
gested a board composed perhaps of
lawyer, a county commissioner, q
banker and d business man The cor
poration's representative to execute
its policies as business manager of
the properties will be Roy Braden,
former Arlington County. Va, man
ager. backed by many years expert
ence in this type OF. work.
According to tentative town char
ter, prepared for submission at the
next session Of the Maryland General
Assembly, Greenbelt will actually be
governed under a nearly dual-sover-
eighty set-up. The plan involves the
city manager form of government
If approved by the Legislature this
would be the first Of its kind in the
State.
Citizens Own Council.
The town will be partially regulated
by council elected from Greenbelt
citizenry by Greenbelt citizenry. An
agency of the residents. the council
Evening star., 1936-09-14
ROBERT ICKES NAMED
IN NEW AUTO CRi
Boston Police Investigates :
dent in Which Man Aske
Facts Be Suppressed.
he Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON. September 14-F
Capt. James Daley awaited re.
today of an investigation into
ported automobile accident in VIII
John F. Kerins, 81, of Boston s.
Robert H. Ickes, 81, foster son of S;
retary Ickes, was involved.
Recently young Ickes. ?. W.
clerk in Winchester, was found in
cent Of operating while under
influence of liquor after his car "
involved in minor collision in VII
chester.
Kerins told police yesterday fol
persons we're injured in the accidei
Saturday night. A young man, /
said. got out of the other car ar
said to him:
I'm Robert Ickes, so don't let tn
get out. If my father hears Of tn
I'll be disowned. because ! just g.
out of a scrape in Winchester a fe
weeks ago. Don't worry. ha'
plenty of insurance and everythir
will be taken care Of"
WINCHESTER. Mass, Septembt
IA (P.-Robert H. Ickes, 81, fostt
son of Secretary of the Interior Harol
L. Ickes, whose automobile collide
with another car in Boston Saturda
night, said today the accident wa
80 trivial" that two policemen al
tached no significance to 1t.
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ADMIRAL ST|CKNEY'
! DIES AT HOSPITAL
G. O. P. Candidate From
Second Virginia District
in 69th Year.
~ the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, September IA
Rear Admiral H. o. Stickney, U. S. N,
retired, and Republican candidate for
Congress from the second Virginia
district, died yesterday at Portsmouth
Naval Hospital.
Death resulted from kidney all
ment and complications for which he
had been under treatment for several
days.
Stricken with illness last week while
in the midst of his active congress
sional campaign, Admiral Stickney,
who was in his seth year, was taken
to the hospital. After a short period
of apparent improvement, he suffered
a relapse early Friday morning, fol-
lowing which his condition grew
steadily worse. .- p
Admiral Stickney had made his
home in Norfolk since his retirement
from the Navy in 1921, after SO years
service.
Upon his retirement from the Navy
IN 1921, Admiral Stickney took up the
study of law and was admitted to the
Virginia bar in 1923. Shortly after
ward he became associated with the
local Republican organization. served
for time as chairman of the Norfolk
City Republican Committee. managed
Menalcus Landlords successful cam
paigns for Congress, and last Spring,
himself was named as the Republican
nominee for Congress at the conven-
ton at Princess Anne Court House.
Party without Candidate.
His death leaves the party without
candidate. Lankford said some time
ago that he would not consider run
ming again, and it was believed likely
that the nomination will now go to
James NJ Wolcott. Norfolk attorney
and Republican leader.
In 1926-27 Admiral Stickney was
drafted back into Government service,
as United States commissioner to the
Sesquicentennial Exposition in Phila-
delphia, in charge of all Federal par
ticipation in the exposition.
Admiral Stickney was born on De-
cember 10, 1867, in Pepperell Mass,
the son of Walter Brooks Stickney
and Mrs. Lydia Jane Stickney. He
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1888 and in 1895, on October l6,
married Miss Jennie Griffin Mihaldo,
sister of Aaron Mihaldo of Norfolk
Served in Capital.
In 1918 Admiral Stickney went to
the Board of Inspection and Survey
in Washington, and the following year
became senior member of the Pacific
Coast Board of Inspection. with head
quarters at San Francisco. In July,
1921. he was appointed commander of
the train for the Pacific Fleet, and
retired December q of that year. He
then came to Norfolk to make his
home and take up the study and prac-
tice of law
Funeral services for Admiral Stick
ney will be conducted Tuesday after
noon at o'clock at st. Luke's Epis-
copal Church, with the rector, the
Rev. w. Taylor Willis officiating, as
sisted by the Rev. E. P. Diner, rector
OF st. Marks Episcopal Church. =
The body will be sent to Washing
ton Tuesday night by boat for inter-
nent in Arlington National Cemetery
Wednesday, the time to be fixed later.
Besides his wife, Admiral Stickney
Is survived by two sisters, Mrs Sarah
Gilman and Mrs. Eva Greenleaf, both
Of New Hampshire.
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and was awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross, Croix de Guerre with
palms, and decoration of the French
Legion of Honor.
When Robertson was elected to
Congress to succeed the late Repre-
sentative Tucker, he was opposed by
Menefee for the nomination before
the district convention. When Rob-
ertson won, he appointed Menefee as
his secretary.
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Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
GOLF.

GOIF.
THERE is new, very trick golf
club on the market about
which every golfer really
Il should know. 1t is so designed
that the grip sort of collapses If the
club swinger gets more right hand
than left into his swing. The purpose
of the club, Of course, is to tell the
user just what is wrong with his
swing.
A chap out at Indian Spring must
have been pretty disconnected by what
the new club told him the other day.
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ATTACK SUSPECT HELD.
3, /. Stan Correspondent of Tn. Star.

B. Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, September
IA 64-year-old man was under
arrest here today on charge of crimi-
nal assault on a 7-year-old girl.
The man. listed as Norman Sims
800 block of Montgomery street. was
arrested this morning on a warrant
sworn out by the girls mother. The
offense is alleged to have occurred
last night at the girls home, where
the man is roomer. police said.
He is being held without bond for q
preliminary hearing Of the charge
in Police Court tomorrow.
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H. e. Dameron.
During the past
two sessions Of
Congress. Meme
fee had served as
secretary to Rep
resentative Rob-
ertson of Lexing-
ton, and in that
capacity has been
sue c e e d e d by
Frank Stratton.
Menefee, who
has a distin-
guished war rec
ord, ives serious
ly wounded in
action in France
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Pitcher Lacks Support.

BLACKWELL, Okla. P.-Fred
Clapper pitched l3 hitless innings
struck out Is batsmen and lost the
game. to o. Held to one hit. single
in the first inning. the opposing
amateur team scored in the fourteenth
on three errors and fielder's choice.
Evening star., 1936-09-14

Greenbelt. the Resettlement Ad-
ministration's loU-rent housing
project at nearby BerDyn. Md, is
nearing completion. Within sir
months 1000 families piH more
into their neU homes there. This
is the second OF fue articles dis
cussing the parious phases OF the
New Deals experiment.
BY GORDON EAMES BROWN.
IF RESETTLEMENT ADMINS
TRATION plans materialize,
| Greenbelt will be turned over to
i a n-profit-msking corporation
shortly after the first Of the year.
This body will be the Federal Gov
ernment's agent in operating the
community. Although the town would
be leased or decided outright to the
corporation, the Government will re-
main its actual landlord.
Tugwelltown will be a tax-paying
community. incorporated as a Mary
land town under charter to be
granted by the State Legislature. Re-
gardless Of the type Of transfer.
through lease or deed, the Federal
Government will indirectly control
Greenbelt, because of two factors
Resettlement will dictate all provisions
Of the articles of transfer: it will
set provisions for repayment Of part
or all of the $7.500,000. spent for
planning and construction. to the
Government. In other words. Uncle
Sam will hold a mortgage to be fore
closed it repayments become delin-
quent. Is
Furthermore, the Government will
prescribe prospective tenants qualifi-
cations for occupancy of Tugwell-
town homes. Already, more than 5000
applications for Greenbelt residence
have been received. From an economic
standpoint, the Government can
afford to be discretional in renting
its houses.
Limitation Placed.
These qualifications, for instance,
would limit selection to family heads
who earn no more than $4,000. no less
than about 81 400 annually. Resettle-
ment wants no tenants unable to pay
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M. J. MENEFEE BECOMES
SECRETARY TO BYRD
Former Virginia Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Succeeds
H. E. Dameron.

Marvin ]. Menefee Of Luray. Va,
for 10 years Virginia commissioner of
revenue. last week took over the job Of
secretary to Senator Byrd, succeeding
Evening star., 1936-09-14

you look so good" says the sign,
which, apart from the English in
volved, is odd in that 1t can best be
read when one comes out of a tailor
shop directly across the street.
Our man, reading the sign as he
came out of the latter place, thinks
the sign has a sardonic twist. It has
made him feel so uncomfortable that
he goes around looking at himself in
shop windows and other handy re-
hecting surfaces.
So ~
PAST.
PHONE company officials, waxing
reminiscent, were chatting the
other day about the time in 1904
when telephone service was first in
troduced in st. Marys County, Md.
1t seems that line from Charlotte
Hall to Mechanicsville, thence to
Chaptico, had been built and it was
planned to extend the line to Brandy
wine, where it would meet lines from
Washington.
The service was welcomed with en-
thusiasm and the young people even
celebrated the event with a dance at
Leonardtown. During construction of
the lines, an elderly colored woman
was asked for right of way through
her property. it being necessary to
explain the purpose Of the poles and
wire. After listening to the explana-
tion with greatest attention, she re-
piled:
sure you can cross my patch, but
you must do one thing. After 10
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