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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-28
,,N CAME THE DROUGHT
Q in 6Ir FIGHT MAGAZINE

-. been seven years of depres-
q have t T drought. Willard Chase,
lG Gs w Williams County Farmers
G43iliston, N. D., writing in the
i s .nn9ber Of THE FIGHT, month
be- ~. nu' If the American League
g 5ia. and Fa8cism, 112 East 10Th
y y "a City, tells the story of his
~ lT Cnown as the "breadbasket" of
1oI o.l,ota was known once as the
l DTo' Millionaires; No Paupers."
.,a If farm-holder in that state is
S Ir with no harvest, and a long
pa' 5ofore the prospect Of growing
r. On the land. Mr.. Chase retails
If his native state from the time
l..r nj nioneers, the coming of the
s ssn' and the railroads to the pres
|. ..Ic II low prices, drought and little
federal relief.
Ameringer, dean of American
I. EDITORS to-day publishing and
Tbe American Guardian of Okla
ftT 0kIa.), has contributed to THE
\ IN ibe first chapter of the story of
/, which vi will be published in book
'store very long. He tells in only
sI IN Germany" of his birth on a
,wr and Of the times when he saw
Bismarck, Field Marshal Won
Ie Kaiser Gather of Wilhelm ~
IN Zeppelin, inventor of the airship.
bins his story simply:
Twas born in Germany in the first
Of August, 1870. My mother
me | was received by salutes of
hundred guns heralding the birth
prince. Mother was not a prin-
but a peasant woman farming an
BE Of twelve acres. She had been
king hay when the pains came on.
she managed to mount the loaded
wagon, and bring hay, COWS, and
safely home. The salute of one
Hded guns, as the readers may sur
h, was not for me. It was fired
m the baStiOn of the nearby fort
) Of Ulm in celebration of the first
man victory of the Franco
1San War. That is the war that
the World War, just as the
pa War win breed another world
Garcia, an American writer wht
n Spain for many years, presents
y analysis of Spanish Barricades,
aGe is an article on Hearst by Rich
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-28
COUCHLIN PRAISES ARTICLE
WHICH CALLS HIM FASCIST

keeping American workers frOA
embracing radicalism.
Up to date Lemke has not re-
pudiated the statement that Tho
program he is running on ID
closely akin to Italian fascism.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
ITALY TO DOUBLE
NAVY PERSONNEL
Rome's Aim Reported to Be
to Meet Mediterranean
Rearmament.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fIeSS.
ROME, October 31-Italy intends
to double its naval personnel. author
itatiye sources said today, preparing
to meet any threat from England In
the Mediterranean.
Naval sources also disclosed plans
for development and expansion of the
Italian war feet.
Doubling Of the naval personnel,
just increased from $4,000 to 10000
men, would raise it to at least 100000.
Purpose to Match Britain.
The purpose of the move, it was
said, was to match Britains naval
rearmament in order to maintain the
ratio of Italian naval strength to the
British feet.
Following Mussolini's recent an
nouncement to the cabinet that "sev-
eral scores of warships are now under
construction" naval sources said:
!. Many light warships. from sub
marines to cruisers, are being added to
the two 35.000-tol battleships Littorio
and Vittorio Veneto now under con-
struction. Ten new submarines, of 600
tons each, are now completed and, Of
short cruising radius, are destined to
remain in the Mediterranean.
2. The navy will complete its system
Of bases. A strong base has just been
finished on the Island Of Elba, pointing
at France and the northern Mediter-
ranean.
New works are to be constructed at
Taranto, in the arch of the Italian
Boot, to make that base one Of the
(See ITALIAN, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Group in Hollywood to Make
Final Effort to Talk to H0udii1i

Eve agreed upon message, phrased
in code. It was known only to the
two of us. The compact was to last
10 years and no longer. After that
period, the one of us still alive was
to abandon hope either in the posi-
bility of the survival Of the dead, or
their ability to communicate with the
living. The message has never been
received.
1.-THE fact that tonight is Halloween
Is q coincidence. My husband died
on Halloween 10 years ago."
She spent today alone in her hotel
room-"to clear my mind as much as
possible and guard against the danger
Of hypnotizing myself, or Of putting
myself in Q frame Of mind where I'd
be too susceptible to suggestion"
Simultaneous seances in is cities
Of the United States, In England.
Australia and Canada win be held at
the same hour - the Hollywood
gathering, she said
Evening star., 1936-10-31
MADRID WARNED
OF NEW AIR RAID
Sirens Send PopuIace In
doors-Yesterday's Death
Toll Hits 165.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Spanish ciuil uar, Which began
last july Uith rebellion among
soldiers in Morocco, moped s,Uittly
at first, couering coastal sections
OF mainland. Then it spread to
important French border area Dith
Fascist rebels continuing long
chain OF rictories. Then began
long, slow maneupers to be knoUn
as Battle OF Madrid. Cautiously
the rebels hare been moUing on
the capital from many sides, cut
ting Of communications and Leap
ing the c,ty Without food supplies.
On Madrid hangs the ultimate
outcome OF the struggle and the
rebels haze been sure OF rictory.
The Socialist Communist defend.
ers haze dug in for long seige,
determined the city shall not jail.
Ry the Associated Press.
MADRID. October 31.-The shrek
Of air raid sirens sent terrified Madrid
street crowds rushing pell nell for
shelter early this afternoon as deaths
from yesterdays insurgent air raid
passed the 165 mark.
The warning was sounded at pm
Two hours later, as tragic queues
wound away from the doors of morgues
and hospitals housing the dying and
dead from Fridays bombardment, the
sirens walled again.
The crowds. shouting in terror, ran
for subway exits, the doors Of tall
buildings, or any place which offered
shelter.
However, nothing happened and 1t
was learned later that three insurgent
planes had merely skirted the city
from the west, attempting no attack
and apparently heading for Barajas
airport.
It was believed the first alarm was
caused by sensitive aircraft detectors
(See SPAIN, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1936-10-31
PARADE FEATURES
HALLOWEEN FETE
Elaborate Festivities Ex.
peCted to Be Favored With
Ideal Weather.
pictures on Page A-14)

Ideal Fall weather, crisp and clear,
was expected to favor Washington's
most elaborate Halloween festival and
parade Of ghosts, witches, goblins.
huge comic figures, floats, bands and
marching units tonight.
While the city prepared for a gay
evening, the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted clear skies and somewhat
warmer temperatures tonight. Cloudy
and warmer weather tomorrow should
be followed by showers in the after
noon and lower temperatures tomor-
row night. The low this morning
was 80 degrees.
The first event Of the celebration
here win be reception at the Willard
Hotel at 6:45 pm. for the District
Commissioners and the mayors from
nearby towns who will review the
parade as special guests.
The parade of approximately 5000
persons will form near Sixth street
and Constitution avenue, moving
down Constitution avenue at 7:3O
o'clock to a disbanding point at Sew
enteenth street and the Elipse.
Balloon Comic Figures.
Spectators along the line of march
will be treated to a pageant which
will include IS huge balloon comic
figures. % commercial floats, Is civic
floats, II bands. so marching units
and more than 100 individual march
ers attired in every conceivable cos
tune.
The queen of the Halloween Festi-
val will meet the girls of her court
at the Willard Hotel prior to the pa
rade and will go from there to Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street to
join the column.
The parade will pass before a re-
viewing stand on Constitution avenue
between Fourteenth and Seventeenth
streets. This will be occupied by the
Commissioners, visiting mayors, men,
bers of the diplomatic corps and other
distinguished guests.
The queens section of the parade
will lead the column. This will be
headed by Maj. Ernest w. Brown, su-
perintendent Of police. This section
will include the Police Boys Club
Band. three chapters of Jobs Daugh-
ters, the court jester" the king of
(See HALLOWEEN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-10-31
CANDIDATES IN MAJOR
VOTE APPEALS TONIGHT:
RECORD BALLOT is SEEN
Laurence Predicts R0OseveIt's
Margin Will Shock Ne,u Deal
Observer After 10000 Miles of Trauel
Through 40 States Presents ''Ratio of
Doubt" Method of OfFOrecustine.

AS in preceding campaigns, I am
prepared to be surprised, prepared to
be proved wrong, and if am wrong
this time I shall have to console my
self with the knowledge that I will
have been right four out Of five times
at bat.
Oddly enough, most of the forecasts
we read today are based on guesses
and conjectures and not on an actual
Judgment derived from a personal con-
tact with many States. The two major
Nationwide polls, of course, represent
scientific method of canvassing a
cross-section of the electorate and I
shall refer to them later in this article
My own conclusions are based on a
study of 40 out of the 48 States-the
eight omitted being in the solid South,
which Is usually Democratic.
have Travelled 10000 miles in the
last three months and have followed
for the most part the route that I
have travelled before SO that an op-
portunity has been afforded me for
comparative judgments-how the elec-
(See LAWRENCE, Page A-9D
Evening star., 1936-10-31
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, October 31.-The man
who charted the course of every sue
cessful eastbound transatlantic air.
plane flight since Charles A. Lind
bergh's rolled up his maps today and
wrote this bold inscription on the
back:
capt. James @. Mollison: Last of
the solo heroes Of the ocean airways."
For DR.. James H. Kimball, New
York's weatherman, is convinced the
day Of the lone daredevils has ended.
There was no more glory to lure
them, he said. Mollison captured
the last Of 1t.
On his record-breaking lunch-to-
breakfast hop from Newfoundland to
London the English captain did the
one thing no one else dared before:
Flew into threatening ocean weather.
DR.. Kimball warned Mollison before
he took on that sleet and snow would
batter him, and that ice would form
on his ships wings. That happened,
but the flyer won.
The flight closed the busiest season
in trans-Atlantic flying history. Ten
croasings were made before Mollison's
Evening star., 1936-10-31
[ANDONNEARSEVD.
OF CAMPAIGN TRIP.
Works on st. Louis Address
After Hitting ''Waste"
at Charleston.
(Tert OF Landon Address, Page AL

'
By the Associated Press.
ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL EN-
ROUTE TO ST. LOUIS, October 81
Gov. ALI M. Landon drafted the
final summation of his presidential
campaign tour against the New Deal
today for Halloween delivery in St.
Louis, his eyes cast on Missouri's IS
electoral votes.
Smilingly reiterating confidence of
election, the Republican nominee ap-
pealed for support Of real Demo-
Gratis" as he campaigned through
West Virginia, en- route to Missouri's
biggest city to meet his wife, whom
he has not seen since his departure
two weeks ago upon his transconti-
mental campaign drive.
The Kansas Governor reserved the
morning hours for visiting with Mrs.
Landon, leaving the afternoon for
conferences with party leaders be-
fore delivering his address in the
Municipal Auditorium. The speech
will be broadcast nationally. l0:30 to
l. P.lAs NGJdobCl1 SId14ddlo bllllNls
Cheered by $4,000.
Landon capped his West Virginia
thrust with station platform speech
at Huntington before cheering
throng estimated at $4,000 by Police
Lieut.. M. M. johnson, after broad
cast at Charleston's Middleburg Au-
ditorium, in which he asserted house
hold budgets" must pay for New
Deal waste and extravaganza"
Discussing ISSUES as they relate
to the home" the nominee addressed
the Thousands Of men and women
who in ordinary years take no active
part in political contests"
He called the Constitution ''the
charter of our liberties-the charter
that keeps our homes" and told his
hearers New Deal misuse Of public
funds" threatened initiation through
disregard of ''the old-fashioned prin-
cipal of making roth ends meet"
In some foreign countries, he said,
''homes are no longer protected by
the law against invasion of the agents
of an ail-powerful government.
I'VE must never forget that the loss
of liberty in these countries followed
depressions: that the trends in govern
ment which preceded this loss of lib
erty were similar in many respects
to the trends in government which we
see in America today"
when I Am President"
AS he began when I am Presi-
dent" the crowd roared applause.
When he asked did it (the present
administrator tell you frankly in
advance what you were getting?" the
crowd responded mo"
"And do you feel you got your
moneys worth?"
NO" shouted the audience.
"Is it (the New Dea!l telling you
now what it proposes to offer you If
it should be re-elected?"
After chorus Of mo" a voice
(See LANDON, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1936-10-31
HALLOWEEN
Japanese Artillery
Roars at Peiping in
Maneuvers by 5000
BY the Associated Press.

PEIPING, October 31.-While
Chinese flags. honoring Chang
Kai-Shek's 50th birthday ami
versary. whipped proudly in the
teeth Of a gale, Peiping echoed
today to the roar of japanese field
guns.
The guns spoke in accompani-
ment to maneuvers by 5000 jap
anese troops outside the south
walls of the city. Formal pro-
tests against the maneuvers were
made to japanese authorities in
Marking yesterday.
A march on Peiping" and a
grand review on the Peiping Golf
Club course. four miles west of
the city, will climax the maneu-
vers next Wednesday. Last month
Japanese maneuvers tore up the
turf of the course and brought
q protest from the club.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
ROOSEVELT VISITS
At HEADQUARTERS
Tells Party Workers Voters
Increased Interest"
Points to Victory.
(Tert OF Presidents Address Page A-5.) J
Ply the Associated Press.

Ply the Associated Press
NEW YORK. October 81 Presi-
dent Roosevelt paid visit to Demo-
cratic national headquarters today
and in speech of thanks to party
workers declared the increased inter-
est the voters were taking in national
affairs indicated victory for the New
Deal next Tuesday.
Speaking from a balcony looking
down on a twentieth-floo ball room
of the Biltmore Hotel, the Chief Ex-
ecutive said the most important "im-
preston" he had obtained from the
campaign was that people were TAX
ing more Intelligent interest" and
becoming forum minded" on ma
tional affairs.
Il may be frankly a little preju-
diced at the present time" he said,
but I believe the more people that
go to those forums the bigger our
majority is going to be next Tues
day"
Pays Tribute to Farley.
The President also paid a warm
tribute to National Chairman James
A. Farley for having kept the CAM
paign on pretty high levep' and
said he had come to the definite con-
clusion that national headquarters
had been what we call in the Navy
a happy ship-no crossed wires,
everything clicking-and the result is
going to bear that out next Tuesday"
He visited headquarters with Mrs.
Roosevelt after a drive from his town
house on East Sixty-fifth street. The
greeting along the way reached its
top pitch at the hotel where heavy
paper storm rained down on his party.
The President remained at the
Biltmore for lunch and then stepped
out for a tour Of the Bronx, where
he was to speak briefly before a
group of women leaders.
He will then motor for awhile, and
return to his home to rest up for his
last major speech of the campaign
tonight in Madison Square Garden.
He brings the campaign to a close
Monday night with l5-minute radio
talk from his home in Hyde Park.
That his speech tonight would be
another sharply worded blast at the
(see ROOSEVELT, Page A-2I
Evening star., 1936-10-31
By the Associated Press,

HOLLYWOOD, October 3l.-Ten
years to the hour after Harry Hou-
DIM died group will gather tonight
-Hailoween-on q Hollywood hotel
roof in final effort to communicate
with the spirit Of the great magician.
They hope to hear his disembodied
voice from $3.50 to Q pm, Pacific
standard time.
The group will be composed equally
Of believers in psychic phenomena,
spiritualists, scientists and agnostics.
One Superior Court Judge Of Los An
geles will sit in the inner circle.
It win assemble at the request Of
Houdini's wife, Mrs. Beatrice Houdini,
his stage partner in life.
Long before he died." Mrs. Hou-
dini said, I'VE agreed that whoever
should go first would try to return to
the other. In his last hours he said
to me, Beatrice, I'll come to you
somehow. even though I have to 60
through hell
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Ocean Flyers Weather Guide
Sees Solo Hop Glory at End

trip. and no lives were lost. But a
fight made after this would be fool
hardy" DR.. Kimball said.
By the time another ocean-fying
season rolls around, next May, DR..
Kimball expects spectacular nonstop
hops will be supplanted by test flights
with two or three stops.
The safest route for q cross-ocean
air ferry. as far as weather is con-
cerned, he said, is by way Of Ber-
muda, the Azores and Portugal.
1t was along this route that the
Germans catapulted the flying boats
Zephir and Aeolus on six test flights
to Long Island this Summer.
Twenty-six persons died In the nine
frenzied ocean-hopping years after
Lindbergh's acclaim.
BY 1886, however, ocean flights
were almost commonplace. Dick
Merrill and Harry Richman went
across and back, Mrs. Beryl Markham
few west, Kurt Bjorkvall few east,
and Mollison made his fourth Allan
tic crossing.
"Yes," said DR.. Kimball, "the glory
Is gone"
And" he added, "I'm glad. I
never approved Of those flights"
Evening star., 1936-10-31

e xa C t electoral
table Il never
nave-but I mere
ly present each
time as convinc-
ingly as possible
the, "r a ito Of
doubt" cory
which has en-
abled me hereto
fore to answer in
advance the one
question that is
ppe rm os t in
everybody's mind
who will be
elected President
of the U nj t e d
States?
Evening star., 1936-10-31
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

T<HIS is the fifth time I have at
tempted to forecast the out
come of presidential election
4 and shall employ the identi-
cal formula that has made every one
of the four previous forecasts accurate.
I shall not attempt to predict an
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Paul Maddox of Indiana Victim
in Automobile Crash.

MARTINSvILLE, Ind, October 81.
R.-Paul Maddox, prominent
Bloomfield, Ind, newspaper publisher
and president of the Indiana Republi-
can Editorial Association, was killed
near here early today when his auto
mobile left the road and turned over.
Maddox, who was alone, apparent
ly lost control of his car at a turn.
He was in charge of the reception
given ALI Landon, Republican presi-
Dental nominee, when the Kansas
Governor spoke in Indianapolis last
Saturday.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Senator Bone in Hospital.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash, October
81 @.-Senator Homer T. Bone,
Democrat, of Washington, was con-
fined in a hospital here today after
canceling an appearance at a Demo-
cratic rally last night.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Joint Committee Agrees if
Employers Are "Sin-
Cere."
VOTES TONIGHT
ON WALK0UT ACTION
Miss Perkins Goes to New York
to Attempt to Stop Spread
of Trouble.

unions tDeTe gfUen IRe Ttgnt 10 con-
troll hiring OF labor. This agree
nent ,Dith employers expired on
September 80 OF this year. Since
then there haze been truitless
negotiations for reneual OF the con-
tracts. Arbitration efforts haue been
led by Assistant Secretary of Labor
Edward F. McGrady. Dho played
an important part in bringing
about peace in 1884.
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins made public a
telegram today from the Joint Mari
time Strike Committee on the West
Coast, in which it said negotiations
for a settlement could be resumed
at once if employers give sincere
expression of real desire to negotiate
rather than to continue to say no
TO fundamental union principles"
The Labor Secretary gave out the
telegraphic reply to her request that
the maritime unions resume negotia-
tions before she left for New York
to attempt to avert a spread of the
Pacific strike to East Coast ports.
The reply of the Joint Marine Strike
Committee to her telegram said:
Unions have been and are willing
at all times to negotiate acceptable
agreements with ship owners. If en-
ployers give sincere expression of real
desire to negotiate rather than to con-
tinue to say no to fundamental union
principles, then negotiations can be
resumed at once.
Unions will welcome any effort
you may make to cause employers to
resume negotiations provided employ
ers negotiate in sincere and honest
effort to settle present differences"
Negotiations Held "Farcical."
The Strike Committee described ne
gotiations preceding the strike as
"farcical" because of employees un-
compromising. stiff-necked and un-
friendly attitude and obvious desire
to smash unions"
LIE COIIlNltUee -IepreSeQUeQ Dy
Marvyn Rathborne, secretary-assured
Miss Perkins that the unions were
taking every precaution to preserve
peace"
Rathborne's telegram said "No vio-
lence will occur unless caused by en-
ployers or by civil authorities acting
beyond their legal functions as in re-
cent California labor controversies,
particularly Salinas lettuce strike"
Harry Lundeberg, secretary-treas-
urer of the Sailors Union of the Pa
cific, said in reply to a telegram from
the Secretary, I'VE are ready at all
times to meet ship owners in effort
to negotiate amicable settlement and
will cooperate with your department
to this effect
Lundeberg expressed appreciation
for Miss Perkins efforts to bring
about q renewal Of negotiations and
informed her that the sailors are
keeping in close touch with Assistant
Secretary Of Labor Edward F. Nc
Grady whose efforts up until now
have failed because of arbitrary and
unreasonable attitude of ship owners. "
E. B. O'Grady and George Chariot
officers of the Masters, Mates and
(see STRIKE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-10-31
BALLOONS DELAYED
Weather Prevents Stratosphers
Experiment by Picard.

. MINNEAPOLIS, October 81 R.-
The projected stratosphere flight Of
two small unnamed ballons, sched.
uled to be sent up by Prof. Jean Pic
card from the st. Cloud, Mimi, air.
port Sunday has been postponed be-
cause of weather conditions. the Uni
versity Of Minnesota aeronautical de-
partment announced today. The flight
will be attempted the latter part Of
next week If the westhAr is favorable.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

MANILA. P. l., october 81 P.-
Restlessness among the 1000 lepers
in the Culion Island colony, which re-
suited in request for troops two days
ago, is well under control Of authori-
ties. DR.. Eugenio fernando, acting
director of health, said here today.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
QUEEN MARY ILL

Flower Show Visit Cancelled Be-
cause of Cold.
LONDON, october 81 @.-Strick-
en- with a cold, Queen Mary was
forced today to cancel a scheduled
visit to a flower show.
The 69-year-old Queen mother was
confined to a room at Marlborough
House, where she recently moved
from Buckingham Palace. Her con-
dition was said to be not immediate
ly serious.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
NAN BURNS TO DEATH
ON BOAT AT CAMBRIDGE
Orville Lloyd, About 80, Found
Dead After Flames Sweep
Oyster Bateau.

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Md, October 81
Orville Lloyd of Cambridge was
burned to death early this morning
when the oyster bateau on which he
was living burned in Cartridge har-
Dor. The fire was discovered about 2
O'Clock by watchman, who sum.
moned the local volunteer fire com.
pany. Lloyd was dead when found.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

Forecaster Also Says Election Day
May Be Wet.
Cold and possibly wet weather on
the East Coast was indicated for
Tuesday-election day-in the weekly
weather outlook issued today by the
Weather Bureau.
This outlook was for New England
and down the Atlantic Coast to Vir-
ginia,