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Evening star., 1937-01-24
KANSAS JUSTICE
5OYEARSI DEAD
William AgneW Johnston Is
Heart Disease Victim
at Age of SO.
By tI:e Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans., January 23.-Wil-
liam Agnew Johnston, 80, for more
than so years a member Of the State
Supreme Court, died unexpectedly Of
heart disease at his home today.
He retired as Chief Justice July l.
1885. His friends claimed his record
for duration Of service was unsurpassed
in court annals He wrote more than
$500 judicial opinions.
At the time of his death a resolu-
ton was pending in the Legislature to
continue Indefinitely the full salary he
drew as Chief Justice.
Named Chief Justice in 1902.
Appointed to the Supreme Court De-
cember /, 1884. Justice Johnston be-
came Chief Justice in 1902. Attorneys
and jurists from over the Nation at
tended banquet in his honor in De-
cember. 1884, marking completion of
his half century on the bench.
A prohibitionist, he was credited
with leading the Legislative fight in
1880 that resulted in submitting Kan
sas' constitutional prohibition amend
ment. That year he was elected States
attorney general. post he held nearly
four years before his appointment to
the bench.
Admitted to Bar in 1872.
He was admitted to the Kansas bar
at Minneapolis, Kans., in 1872 and
three years later was elected to the
Legislature.
Upon retiring he said:
There's a very serious effort on the
part of our court today to get closer
to justice-and believe they're sue
ceeding."
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.
Samuel j. Brandeburg, Worcester,
Mass.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
FRATERNITY SPEAKER
URGES BETTER LAWS
DR.. Charles Pergler Declares Leg
islation Should Be Positive
in Nature.

Stressing the need of scientific leg
ilation in "our complex modern in
dustrial society,"" DR.. Charles Pergler.
dean of National University Law
School, last night told the Sigma Nu
Phi Legal Fraternity that legislation
today must be Of positive character
and cannot be merely "a series Of
thou-shalt-nots."
DR.. Pergler was the principal speak
er at the fraternity's annual dinner
in the La Fayette Hotel. Honorary
membership was conferred on him and
Prof. George E. Edelin,. member Of
National University faculty.
Discussing what he termed the need
for scientific legislation. DR.. Pergler
said:
THAT means that the lawyer-and
I include in the term judges and leg
islators-must develop such creative
faculties as at least some Of them
possess. We should BE much more
familiar than we usually are with the
experiences Of lawmakers elsewhere,
not because institutions can be trans
planted, or foreign examples slavishly
followed. if followed at all, but be-
cause they may at least stimulate con-
sideration Of problems of the country
which the profession must serve If it
Is to remain q profession and not be-
come horde of financial emolument
seekers"
Evening star., 1937-01-24
M0NEYBENEF|TS
FOR ILLNESS HIT
Medical Groups Trustees
Held Opposed to Any Com.
puIsory Plan.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSss
NEW YORK, January 23.-Adop-
tion Of any form Of compulsory health
insurance under President Roosevelt's
program for consolidation Of Govern
emphatically opposed by the trustees
Of the American Medical Association,
DR.. Charles Gordon Heyd, president
Of the association, declared tonight.
Referring to an administration pro-
posal for a new Department Of Public
Welfare, he said the board recon-
mends that such health activities as
now exist be so consolidated but
should not be subservient to any other
charitable, conservatory or other gov
ernmental interest"
Introduced at the annual banquet
Of the New York Post Graduate Med
ical School Faculty Association as the
spokesman of 100000 members Of the
American Medical Association, DR..
Heyd declared mo patient should have
cash benefits for being sick" because
it puts a premium on malingering
eAAAa CACNAAokOii Va ddyo Ok AuIlCoo.
He said organized members Of the
A. M. A. throughout the Nation "are
ready and willing to consider other
ways and means Of meeting the prob
lens of providing medical service and
diagnostic laboratory facilities for all
requiring such service and not able to
meet the full cost thereof"
''In the past" said DR.. Heyd. "the
medical profession has always been
wiling to give its utmost for the care
Of those unable to pay"
He held that compulsory health in
surance would create "a superior type
of medical service for the well-to-do
and a substandard type for those
in the lower economic brackets" be-
cause the latter would become largely
a prescription practice-a brief visit
TO the doctor, an inadequate, scant
history and prescription or the dis
pensing Of bottle Of medicine"
He said one of the great achieve
ments Of the organized American
medical profession has been the build
ing up Of "a diagnostic practice
the direct opposite of a prescription
form" and one in which the intimate
relationship of doctor and patient is
most important.
No other body Except the medical
profession) is legally or educationally
equipped" he said, Ito exercise con-
troll over medical service. The in
surance principle is acceptable only
in buying hospital lodging and ac-
commodations. food and general nurs-
ing care"
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Babies Born IN White House
Form Most Exclusive Club
JefersOn's Grandson Vas First and
Cleveland's Daughter Vas Only One
Born to President While in Office.

uct. She, Of course, was considered
more interesting on that account"
Esther Cleveland was the daughter
who in 1918 returned with her mother
to the White House for a dinner given
by the Tafts in celebration of Mrs.
Cleveland's announcement of her en-
gagement to Princeton professor,
Thomas j. Preston.
Esther went to Europe in connection
with World War work. and there mar
ried and English officer in the Cold
Stream Guard.
At least two babies not born in the
White House were christened there.
President Harrison once closed a
cabinet meeting with an invitation to
the red room, where his granddaugh-
ter, wee Mary Lodge Mckee, was
christened by her great-grandfathe
DR.. John w. Scott, with water brought
from the River Jordan by her great.
uncle.
And Mrs. William Howard Taft,
wife Of a later President, wrote in
her autobiography: MY youngest SIS
ter was born shortly after the election
of Mr.. Hayes, and was named Lucy
Hayes Heron after Mrs. Hayes, and
was taken to the White House to be
christened." Out in Ohio Mrs. Tafts
father and Rutherford B. Hayes had
been law partners.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
AttorneyP Petitions
High Court to Act
Against President
Says Roosevelt Message
Was COntemptuOus
of Tribunal.
By the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
Henry A. Alexander, an attorney Of
Atlanta, Ca, urged the Supreme Court
yesterday to put President Roosevelt
In his constitutional place.
A petition filed by him said the
Presidents annual message to Con-
gress was contemptuous of the court
and encroached on its authority.
Petitioner submits that it is the
constitutional duty of this court to
maintain its authority against all en-
croachment whatsoever" Alexander
continued.
He recommended that the justices
pronounce judgment ION the consti-
tutional relations between the execu-
tive and the judicial departments
The message to which Alexander
objected called for cooperation from
the courts and more liberal inter-
probation of the Constitution.
The Atlanta attorney made his plea
In connection with an appeal by his
client, Morris Sourino, from q lower
court ruling canceltng his naturali-
Eation. He said this case could bs
used by the court to adiudicate its
differences with the President.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
lob |NSUR|NG HELD
VALID IN ALABAMA
Wholesale Firms Attorneys
Plan Appeal to State
Supreme Court.
By the Associated Press.

81 tHC hboOSiulcu EIcbb.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, January a.
Judge Walter B. Jones of MONTGOMERY
Circuit Court ruled tonight the Ala.
bama and Federal unemployment In.
surance laws are constitutional.
In signing the decision, he sus-
tanned demurrers filed by Attorney
General A. A. Carmichael to a suit
brought by the Beeland Wholesale
Co. of Greenville.
An immediate appeal will be taken,
attorneys said, to the Alabama Su-
preme Court. A recent decision of
three-judge Federal Court holding the
Alabama law unconstitutional Is now
en- route to the United States Supreme
Court on appeal.
The Federal Court, with which
Judge Jones sat as guest judge"
did not rule on the validity of the
Federal unemployment insurance law
which the Montgomery iurist ruled
tonight was valid.
The joint system Of State and Fed
eral unemployment insurance creates
a program of benefit payments TO tide
workers over jobless periods if they
have contributed TO the fund while
employed.
The State law levies a tax Of IL
per cent on employees, and recaptures
from the Federal Government go per
cent of the Federal tax levied on Ala
bama employers-the latter reaching
8 per cent next year.
mo government can long ignore
these social effects of unemployment
which, when it becomes chronic and
widespread, threatens the stability of
government ITSELF" Judge Jones said.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
SURVIVING QUADRUPLET
GIVEN CHANCE TO LIVE

MONTREAL. January % canadian
Press. - Hospital authorities tonight
held hope for the life Of a tiny baby
girl survivor of quadruplets born
Thursday in a rural st. Thomas farm
house.
Two brothers and sister of the
baby, Marie Rita Rondeau, died yes
terday in st. Justine Hospital incu-
bators, to which they had been rushed
over icy roads, on which the ambu-
lance crashed into snow plow.
The driver Of the ambulance, Donat
Beaudry, was said at the hospital to
be in critical condition from injuries.
DR.. CASTOR Lapierre ordered the
baby. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
cads Rondeau. fed q spoonful Of milk
and two spoonfuls Of boiled water
every two and . half hours.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
PROSECUTOR ACQUITTED
OF PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STANDARDSVILLE Va. January
pa seven-man jury acquitted Com
monwealth's Attorney j. E. Parrott OF
Greene County yesterday on three
counts of public drunkenness listed
in an custer petition filed by county
residents.
The petition charged the prose-
cutor with public intoxication on June
3, August % and November l3.
The defendant took the stand Thurs
day to deny the charges after IS
defense witnesses and l3 witnesses
for the State had testified.
Judge A. D. Browning heard the
case at the request of Gov. Peery,
after Judge Smith disqualified him.
self. The jury deliberated As minutes.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
FRENCH FLYERS INJURED
LANDING UPON ISLAND
Tokio-Bound Plane Is Forced
Down After Taking Off From
1ndo-China.
b. the Associated Press.

D. the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
PARIS. January 23.-The air min
istry announced tonight two French
flyers attempting a record Paris
Toxic flight were injured when forced
down by bad weather on an island in
the Far East.
The flyers, Marcel Doret and Fran
co.'s Micheletti, radio operator, landed
on an island between Tien-Yen and
Point Pagoda. the ministry said
They left Paris Wednesday morn
ing. After landing at Hanoi. French
Indo- China. this morning, they took
OF for Shanghai en- route to Toxic.
(The place at which it was an
nounced they were forced to land Is
northeast of Hanoi and southwest Of
HongkonSl
Evening star., 1937-01-24
ACCEPTS POST
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, January
23.-Mrs. Holland Severy Of this place
has accepted the position of assistant
in this area for Miss Helen Collins,
county instructor in lip reading, it
was announced today by Mrs. Vernon
II. Brewster, chairman Of the Silver
Spring Branch Of the Red Cross.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

fore the Women's S
B ar Association
at a dinner to be
held at $50 pm.
tomorrow in Wes-
ley Hall. 1903 K
street.
A panel discus
sion. led by Mrs.
Pearl 3. Klein,
chairman Of the
associations a Leg
isla tive Commit.
tee, will follow
c ogs " ellis ad-
dress Sneakers
will include Mrs.
Elizabeth Cox.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

Mrs. Jean Howitz, Mrs. Burnita Shell
ton Matthews and Mrs. Mabel B. Sakis.
Miss Beatrice A. Clephane, president,
will preside.
The dinner is one of Winter series
being held by the association.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
BRITISH INCOME RISES

IOOO u UI6S olVW 1HIt6 bIIIIUu
and One-Half Gain.
LONDON (P).-Great Britain's ma
tional income is rising. The 1886 fig
ures are s3,50o,000,O00 higher than
1882, according to the Marketing Sur
vey Of the United Kingdom.
This means an average weekly wage
of sl8 for every wage Garner in the
country. Only six persons out of
every hundred. however, receive more
than S25 a week.
The money is spent this way: Food,
$3.50, 100000; drink, s1.250,00O, 900;
tobacco, s750,o0o.o 900. and furniture.
$500, 1000, 900.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Movie in Church.

WOODSIDE, Md, January 23
Especially A talking picture, 'Ten
Nights in q Bar Room" will be shown
at the Woodside Methodist Episcopal
Church tomorrow at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
D. C. PROBATE LAW
TO BE BAR TOPIC
Womens Association Will Hear
Maj. Theodore Cogswell at
Dinner Tomorrow.

Proposed changes IN the District
of Columbia probate law will be dis
cusSed by Maj. Theodore Cogswell,
register Of wills for the District, be-
Evening star., 1937-01-24
ROBERT S. EMERSON,
NOTED COLLECTOR, DIES
Rhode Island Lawyer Had Stamps
Worth Hundreds of Thou
sands of Dollars.

By the Associated Press
PAWTUCKET, R. l.. January %.
Robert S. Emerson, 81, prominent
corporations lawyer in this State and
a former judge Of probate OF this
city, died here early today.
Noted Stamp Collector.
NEW YORK, January % (P).-
Stamp collectors and experts today
mourned the death of Robert S.
Emerson, who owned one of the
worlds outstanding collections
Judge EmerSon's stamp collection
probably was worth hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars" said NJ. Harry Lind
quist, publisher Of the Magazine
Stamps. He was one of our most
important collectors, and his collec.
ton of of nineteenth century United
States stamps on covers is probably
the finest in existence.
His collection is of great scope
and importance, the result of life
time of careful selection"
Evening star., 1937-07-08
INDIANS ASK RETURN
OF SACRED SKULL
Claim Absence of Thunder Bird
Relic in Museum Is Bring.
ing Drought.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Gros Ventres Indians of West
ern North Dakota asked the Indian
Office today to help them recover the
sacred skull of their thunder bird
from the Heye Foundation Museum
IN New York
Legend says the thunder bird prom
ised the Gros Ventres that as long as
they kept his skull in their possession
rain never would fail them nor would
they suffer want.
Severe droughts and grasshopper
plaques in recent years reminded the
older members of the tribe of the
promise. They failed to persuade the
museum to return the sacred bundle"
acquired when the tribal custodian
embraced Christianity.
The Indian Office will send a field
agent to negotiate with the founda-
tion. Heye officials contend granting
OF such requests would mean the loss
OF some of the museums most impor-
tant specimens.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
DYER FACES CHARGE
IN DEATH OF GIRLS
Park Director Where Bodies Were
Found Doubts He Is the
Guilty Person.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July s.-Albert
Dyer, accused slayer Of three Ingle-
wood girls, was called to court today
to plead to an indictment charging
him with murder.
Indications were the State would
delay the pleading and specify the
32-year-old w. P. A. worker be held
for trial within 80 days.
Haskell Wright, director Of Gen.
tinela Park. from where the children
disappeared, told authorities he does
not believe Dyer is the man he saw
talking to the girls. Other persons
said they saw the victims, Madeline
Everett. Z, her sister Melba, Q. and
jeanette Stephens 8, ride away from
the park in an automobile.
Dyer, however, said they followed
Evening star., 1937-07-08

him afoot on 5l2-mile trek into
the Baldwin Hills.
Vada Sullivan, matron at the Coun-
ty Jail where Dyers wife is held for
her own protection, said Mrs. Dyer
told her, Il felt all along he had done
Evening star., 1937-07-08
MAE WEST ADMITS
WEDDING IN 1871
Actress Files Answer to Suit
of WaIIace---Won't Share
Her Earnings.
8S the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, July "a state
u1ent by Mae West that she was mar
ried Is years ago in the old Milwau-
kee, Wis, Court House to Frank Wal
lace, New York song and dance man,
was contained in a court action on
ale with the county clerk today.
The marriage of the pair, often pub
licly denied by Miss West until late
yesterday, was admitted in the answer
Of the actress to Wallace's suit filed
under the California civil statutes,
seeking court compulsion that she
recognize him as her husband
But If Wallace expects to share in
the hundreds Of thousands of dollars
Miss West has earned since the mar
riage. it was indicated he will find
Miss West opposed to him. Her
answer contains the statement they
never lived together as man and wife.
Miss Vests attorney, asked if she
would fight division of earnings as
community property, declined CON-
ment.
The blond and buxom actress topped
all film stars in earnings in 1885 with
an income reported to Federal and
State officials at $480833. The Fed
eral Government collected s234.O00
OF this amount, and the State obtained
S5O,50O
w. P. A. Workers Find License.
Its just pipe dream, and if you
want my candid opinion-and my
opinions as a rule are candid-Id
say this is a publicity gag on the part
OF Mr.. Wallace" the actress told re-
porters in 1885.
First indication Miss West had been
married came in the Spring of 1895
when Works Progress Administration
workers, delving into old court house
records in Milwaukee, uncovered a
yellowed marriage license applica-
ton bearing the names of Mae -est"
and Frank Wallace"
The document was dated April II,
1911, the day Wallace claimed he
married the actress, in an affidavit
filed before the New York State Su-
preme Court November 7, 1886. in his
night to have New York courts declare
him the husband of Miss West. The
action was later dismissed. the actress
not being legal resident of New York.
Doubts His Marital Status.
Wallaces suit was accompanied by
letters which the vaudeville actor said
he wrote Miss West. One spoke Of his
love and affection for the actress and
asked that she recognize him as her
husband. Another set forth that he
had a legal claim to community prop
erty.
Il say to you sincerely, Mae. that
my love and affection for you has
never diminished and through the
past years have proven this by living
up to the agreement We made that
neither Of us mention our marriage"
read one of the letters. in part.
Miss West, in her answer, however,
throws doubt upon the present marital
status Of Wallace, claiming that, to
her knowledge, there was no dissolu-
ton of the WestWallace union at the
time he married Miss Ray Blakesly
February 6, 1915.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
Vacation Proves
Disappointing to
Luckless Indianan
BY the Associated Press,

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, July 8.
Verne Rutherford feels he has
ample grounds for complaint
about his vacation at Hamilton
Lake, near Angola.
His speedboat floated away. His
automobile mired down In a
marsh as he tried to reach the
boat. He recovered the boat, but
it turned over He was rescued in
20 feet Of water. The rescue boat
overturned, throwing him into
the water again. He returned to
his cottage and slashed himself
with a sickle while trimming the
yard.
Disgusted, he came to his home
here to find his trees and lawn
ruined by broken gas main.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
|CAfFERY FAVORED
FOR BRAZIL POST
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Recommends
Others for Posts.

II the Associated Press.
The Senate Foreign Relations COM
mittee recommended yesterday that
Jefferson Caffery Of Louisiana, now
Ambassador to Cuba, be confirmed as
Ambassador to Brazil.
1t also reported favorably the
nomination of J. Butler Wright Of
Wyoming, Minister to Czechoslovakia,
to be Ambassador to Cuba in place Of
Caf1ery.
Other nominations approved by the
committee included:
Wilbur J. Carr Of New York, now
Assistant Secretary Of State, to be
Minister to Czechoslovakia.
George Messersmith OF Delaware to
be Assistant Secretary of State.
Ray Atherton Of Illinois, now coun-
selor Of the London Embassy, to be
Minister to Bulgaria.
Hugh S. Gibson OF California, now
Ambassador to Brazil, to be Ambas-
sador to Belgium and Minister to
Luxembourg.
Ferdinand L. Mayor Of Indiana,
Evening star., 1937-07-08

counselor 1T the Berlin Embassy, to be
Minister to Haiti.
Grenville T. Emmett Of New York,
now Minister to. the Netherlands, to
be Minister to Austria.
Evening star., 1937-07-08

William e. Chapman OF Oklahoma
to be secretary Of the diplomatic serv.
ice
Leland Harrison, Minister to Ru.
mania, to be Minister to Switzerland.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
it, but he beat me with belt and I
was afraid to say anything"

Englands minister of agriculture
has been asked to boost production OF
cheese.
Evening star., 1937-07-08
RHEUMATISM is FIRST
OF DISABLING DISEASES
Heart Disease No. Killer, How
ever, Public Health
Service Finds.

rheumatism ranks first, heart dis
ease second and minor circulatory
diseases third in the list of dis
aollng illnesses, according to the
Public Health Service.
No. l killer, however, is hear. dis
ease. according to statistics COM
piled by George st. ]. Perrott, princi-
pal statistician for the service.
Out of the total population ! of
every rs was disabled for a. least
week during the year surveyed
and l in every S persons suffered
from q chronic disease.
The Washington times., 1937-12-01

exclusive H Co. service
for
Evening star., 1937-07-25
G. N. {. WILL MEET
UNION LEADERS
Revision of Agreement to
Be OisCuSsed-Ford
Quiz Recessed.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 24.-General Motors
Corp. and the United Automobile
Workers of America will confer Mon
day on union proposals to revise their
wages and work agreement.
The same day the National Labor
Relations Board hearing on COM
plant against the Ford Motor Co. will
enter what may be its last week. The
hearing was in recess today.
Spokesman for General Motors and
the U. A w A. announced last night
that representatives of each will meet
at pm. tE S. t. Monday.
Union to Seek Revision.
The union has notified the corpora
tion it will seek revision of the agree
ment. signed after last Winters pro-
longed strike. and General Motors, in
reply. demanded written assurance of
no further unauthorized stoppages of
work before it would enter negotiations.
The agreement, under its provisions
may be revised or revoked after
August IL.
Floyd 0. Tanner, vice president in
charge of industrial relations, and
possibly William s. Knudsen, president,
will represent General Motors in the
conference.
The union delegation will be Homer
Martin. president; Wyndham Mortime.
and Ed Hall. vice presidents: Paul E.
Miley, Cleveland Howard Thompson,
GAINESVILLE, Wis, and Elmer Dowell,
Kansas City.
Foreman Testifies.
Richard Elberth, Ford foreman,
was on the stand yesterday when the
N. L. R. B. hearing was adjourned
until Monday morning The boards
complaint charges the company with
discrimination against, and brutal"
treatment of U. A. w. A. members.
Elberth testified that men under
him listed in the complaint as being
discharged by the company for union
activity were dismissed instead be-
cause Of unsatisfactory work.
He said there still were some unfon
men in mis- department, that he never
had been instructed to fire any one
for union activity, and that he never
knew any Of the dismissed men be-
loneed to the U. A. W. A. until the
n. L. R. B. complaint was filed.
Albert Rasmussen, a company police
man, was the first Ford employe
called to the stand who was present
when U. A. w. A. members dis
trlbutlng leaflets outside the Dear
born plant were beaten May 26.
He testified that he was directing
traffic near gate 4 when Richard T.
Frankensteen and Walter Reuther,
union leaders who were injured.
drove up. He said he heard Theodore
Cries, Ford employe, warn them to
stay off private property"
Cries is awaiting trial with seven
other men on a State court warrant
charging assault, issued after the
fight at the plant gates.