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Evening star., 1938-04-01
2,9)O IN ILLINOIS
MADE HOMELESS
Tornado Claims IL Lives
and Causes 100000
in Property Damage.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEKIN, ILL.,. April IA preliminary
survey by the Red Cross showed to-
day at least $500 persons were made
homeless by the tornado that ripped
across Central Illinois Wednesday,
killing IL, injuring more than 100 and
causing property damage Of approxi-
mately 100000.
]. M. Power of st. Louis, director
Of Red Cross relief activities in Illi-
nois, said registration disclosed 460
families without homes and declared
a further check probably would dis
close Others.
He estimated 2l3 buildings were
destroyed and 282 others were dam
aged by the winds which swept across
seven. Central Illinois counties. Ap-
proximately so persons were still in
hospitals
Troops Patrol Pekin.
Three companies of National
Guardsmen from Peoria patrolled the
devastated South Pekn area under
the command of Maj. John E. Vans
brough. Sixty State highway officers
and IS deputy sheriffs aided In re-
habilitation work.
Approximately 200 families remained
in South Pekin, picking over masses
Of debris in a dismal hunt for their
belongings. About the same number
took refuge with relatives and friends
in other communities.
The desolate community-only
half dozen houses in the village of
1900 population escaped destruction
received water and food by truck from
nearby cities
DR.. Sander Horowitz of Peoria,
representing the State Department Of
Public Health, ordered incubation
Of South Pekin residents as a safe
guard against typhoid.
Missouri Fights Floods.
POPLAR BLUFFS, Mo-, April L4D.
-Missouris boot heel" girded today
for its second tussle with flood waters
this year as the st. Francis and Black
Rivers threatened invasion of the rich
cotton lands
Army engineers were ready to re-
establish offices in Kennett, where they
directed fight in February and barely
saved the st. Francis levee system.
The river was rising rapidly after
the recent 6-inch rainfall. Crest of
the high water was not anticipated
until next week.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Reorganization
Continued From First Page J

Ready issued his statement from his
Offices here The administrative board
| OF the conference, he said, has
always on principle opposed the con-
ferring of administrative control on
Federal educational agencies" Then
he added:
IF, therefore, the present reorgan-
ization bill does not extend
the powers and functions of these
agencies beyond fact-finding and dis
semlnation of information, as at pres
ent exercised. there is no reason to
suppose that the Catholic interests as
such are concerned in the legislation. +"
Few references were made in yes
terday's House debate to President
Roosevelt's denial that he aspired to
become a dictator. Legislators who
glanced through the piles of kilograms
on their desks said not many men,
toned that subject.
Representative Woodruff told the
House we are moving in the direc-
tion of dictatorship" Representa-
tive Lamneck, Democrat, Of Ohio, said
labor fears the bill because it is a
definite move toward dictatorship"
Chairman Cochran of the Reorgani-
zation Committee, on the other hand,
recalled that in 1888 the President
had been given measure of authority
to reorganize and that again last
August the House had passed a re-
organization bill
Was there any cry of dictatorship
then?" he asked.
General Debate Begun.
General debate got under way yes
terday with a fiat pledge from Rep
resentative Cochran that the functions
OF the controller generals Office and
the General Accounting Office would
not. with consent of his committee,
be transferred to the Treasury De-
partment and Budget Bureau.
Il wish to set aside just one fear" he
said, that some members of this House
have. I feel violate no confidence
whatever when I make this state
ment. A large number of the men,
bees fear we are going to destroy the
controller generals Office and the
general accounting Office. The Sen
ate bill provides for practically all
the work in these Offices to be trans
ferred to the Bureau of the Budget
and the Treasury Department. The
nine men who compose this select
committee, your servants, will never
at any time agree to transfer the
activities of these Offices to the Treas.
ury Department. the spending agency.
or to the Bureau of the Budget as
long as it is under the Treasury De.
partment. OF this you can be as.
sured. Ii am in error, I will yield
to any member of the select COM
mittee to correct me-"
The oratory switched back and forth
from the serious to the ridiculous,
Even the most solemn arguments,
however, had to be shouted to be
heard. The Republican-Democratic
coalition of opponents utilized manv
time-consuming parliamentary maneu-
vers.
One Of the longer denunciations of
Evening star., 1938-04-01
GUILD AND PUBLISHERS
NEAR PACT ON COAST
Tentative Agreement Reached by
Negotiators on Several Of
Ia Demands.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April latter
three and one-half hours discussion
yesterday Negotiating Committee of
the Northern California Newspaper
Guild and the San Francisco Oakland
Publishers Association each reported
progress in their efforts to agree on a
1888 working contract.
Negotiations were resumed this
morning
Tentative agreements were reached
on several of the guilds IA basic de-
mands, but the question of guild shop
remained one of the stumbling blocks.
The Negotiating Committee is en-
powered by the guild membership to
call strike on all four San Francisco
dailies and one Oakland newspaper
should the publishers turn down the
guild demands
Papers which would be affected by
strike are the Hearst-oWned San
Francisco Examiner. Call-Bulletin and
Oakland Post-Enquirer. the inde-
pendent locally owned San Francisco
Chronicle and the San Francisco News
of the Scripps- Howard chain.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
CHURCH MERGER
HIT BY PETITION
Laymen Study Opposition
to Proposal in Session
at Memphis.
BY the Associated Press.

~ kAAS xoooSAate0 1iSoo'
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 1.-Metho-
dist churchmen today studied a petit
tion opposing unification Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, with the
Northern branch and the Methodist
Protestant Church.
The petition, prepared by a group
identified as the committee represent
ing the laymen's organization for the
preservation of the Southern Methodist
Church, meeting here to discuss recon-
mendations to the Southern Church's
General Conference at Birmingham
April %.
The committee cited five reasons
against unification:
l. The church membership is "al-
most totally ignorant" Of the meaning
and import of the plan.
g. The plan is couched in the most
general terms.
3. The church would surrender its
independent and autonomous status
for a minority voice in a larger Or
ganiZation
4. The plan attempts to settle the
Negro question in central jurisdiction
which will blanket other jurisdictions
of the new church.
S. The plan attempts to formulate
the mechanics of union before it is
certain that spiritual unity exists
among the three bodies
Annual conferences of the Southern
church have voted overwhelmingly for
unification and a two-thirds' majority
vote of the Birmingham Conference
would unite the units.
Bishop John M. Moore, senior
bishop, Dallas, Texas, said he was
confident" the unification plan would
win.
Evening star., 1938-04-01

anarchy reigning in Teheran. the
levies formed the only regular army in
Persia.
The story told in England is that
he strode swiftly down the ranks, pass
ing up native officers.
His gimlet eyes sought out a husky
non-com almost as big as himself.
What's your name" he barked.
"Renza Khan, sir" the man barked
back
You'll do" Sir William snapped.
Four years later the intelligence
and bravery of Renza Khan, once a
peasant, led him to the peacock throne
vacated by the deposed shah.
Ironside joined the army at 49,
After the World War he was sent to
Archangel as general in command of
all allied troops against the bolshe-
visits.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
SULTAN RIDES IN TANK

LONDON, April / (P).-The Sultan
OF Muscat and Oman. here on a visit,
tucked his resplendent oriental robes
around his knees today and took a
40-mile-an-hour ride over hills and
boulders in new army speed tank,
at Aldershot.
At the end of the ride he stepped
from the tank breathing heavily, but
insisted:
II was not at all upset"
The Sultan, who arrived this week
after a visit in the United States, al
ready has called on King George.
Evening star., 1938-04-01

be taxable. BY the present law
the Government was required to prove
that the accumulations were for this
purpose, a somewhat difficult task.
An added subject of bargaining un-
doubtedly will be the estate and gift
taxes, with the House expected to con-
cede on its provisions in exchange for
some other concession.
In its bill, the House provided for
combining the two existing estate tax
schedules decreasing State credits and
reducing the gift tax exemption from
$4,000 to $4,000. The Senate Commit
tee rejected all of these proposals and
voted to continue the present law.
In an -again-off again perform
ance, the Senate committee yesterday
disapproved of the twin proposals of
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, of
Wisconsin to broaden the income tax
base and raise surtax rates in the me-
dium income classification. Estimated
to raise an additional 1888 900 900, the
combination plan was defeated by a
9-to-8 committee vote.
Division of Vote.
Those supporting Senator La Fol-
lette in his combination proposal were
Senators Walsh of Massachusetts.
Bailey of North Carolina, Guffey of
Pennsylvania, Bulkley of Ohio, Har-
rlson Of Mississippi, Democrats, and
Townsend of Delaware and Vanden-
berg of Michigan, Republicans. The
nine opposition votes were cast by
Senator's King of Utah, George of
Georgia, Connally of Texas, Lonergan
OF Connecticut, Gerry of Rhode Island,
Brown OF Michigan, Herring of Iowa,
Democrats, and Capper of Kansas and
Davis of Pennsylvania, Republicans.
Senator La Toilette indicated later
he would carry his fight to the Senate
floor.
Earlier, the committee had approved
the surtax increase, but rejected the
idea OF broadening the base by low
ering exemptions. On a second vote,
the surtax plan then was defeated and
finally the combination was rejected.
Excise Taxes Reduced.
Reconsidering decision of Wednes-
day, the committee yesterday reduced
by one-third the present excise taxes
on automobile tires and tubes. The
action will cost the Treasury about
$13,000,000 in annual revenue, it was
estimated.
The committee also rejected the
House provision limiting deductions for
charitable contributions when made in
securities or property. The present
law allows such deductions at market
value when contribution is made; the
House provision would limit deduction
to value when property was acquired
by contributor.
Chairman Harrison said he hoped
the bill would be returned by the
craftsmen by Monday and ordered re-
ported at that time. Debate probably
would start on Wednesday.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
THAMES BANKS LINED
FOR FINAL CREW DRILLS
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 1.-The largest
crowds in recent years lined up along
the Thames today to watch Oxford
and Cambridge complete a three
month training grind for tomorrow's
boat race.
Cambridge, appearing first. merely
padded along and practiced racing
starts. Oxford's final drill came late
in the afternoon.
Exceptional summer weather and
interest aroused by Oxford's rowing
rejuvenation promised to bring out a
crowd of more than 100000 to-
morrow.
The only people not celebrating the
occasion were the tugboat captains
who churned up the river and made
the final trials difficult.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Red Cross Sends Workers.

Red Cross Sends Workers.
Dispatchlng two relief workers from
Washington to the scene Of the Mid
western storms of the last two days,
the American Red Cross is engaged
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Sir William Lronside, Army
Giant, to Command Gibraltar

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April britain yester-
day chose giant Gen. Sir William Ed
mund 1ronside to command Gibraltar
the rock which guards the empires
arteries in a war-like world.
The man who once picked out the
present Shah of Iran (Persia) from
the ranks of his own enlisted men,
was appointed governor and CON-
mander in chief of Gibraltar in rec
ognition Of a bold career which has
straddled three continents.
The army's tallest and heaviest off,
Ger, he stands feet S, weights $50
pounds and pierces his subordinates
with sharp, searching eyes.
In 1921 Sir William, after COM
manding the North Persian force, had
to find a native commander for his
levies before going home. With
Evening star., 1938-04-01

in administering all relief needed to
victims of the tornadoes which swept
five States, it was announced today
by James L. Fieser, vice chairman act
ing for the Central Committee.
Our workers have reached every
one Of the q counties in Kansas,
Arkansas. Oklahoma, Missouri and
Illinois where homes were destroyed" ,"
Mr.. Fieser said. He has received re-
ports that 484 homes were destroyed
and about 900 homes damaged.
The two Washington staff members,
John Gibson and Arthur Fifer, will aid
the workers from the Midwestern Office
of the organization in ST. Louis.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
REORGAN|z|NC HIT
BY RADIO PRIEST
Father CoughIin Says Plan
to Revamp Government
Should Begin at Head.
Py the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press
DETROIT, April 1.-Father Charles
E. Coughlin, speaking against the
Federal Government reorganization
bill, said last night, IF there must be
reorganization of government, let IT
begin where it should begin-at the
head"
He made his attack on the measure,
which has been sent to the House
with Senate approval, in a broadcast
over an independent network. The
Royal Oak (Mich) priest also criti-
cized the bill in mis- regular radio dis
course last Sunday.
"The emergency created by the re-
organization bill demands that I heed
the persistent appeal coming from
thousands of persons to speak on this
subject at this crucial hour" the
clergyman said. "* am
thoroughly convinced that the pres
ent reorganization is both untimely
and undemocratic."
Father Coughlin asserted that Con-
eress should concern itself with "em-
ploying the unemployed, with pro-
ducing instead of destroying, with CO.
operation instead of dissensicn."
Declared "Chloroforming."
He declared that abolishing the
Office of the controller general would
be "tantamount to chloroforming the
watchdog who guards the spending
of the public monies of the United
States of America
The priest also denounced the bills
provision for placing control of edu-
cation under the Department of We'll
fare. which it would create.
This bill is advertised to you as
one which is intended primarily to
curtail expenses of Government. +"
Father Coughlin said. by its very
words it admits that it is an instru-
ment aimed to centralize government
in totalitarian state, with education
of your offspring as one of it's most
outstanding features"
Il venture to forecast" he con-
tinued, that if this bill passes-and
1t must mott is farewell to free
speech and free press, farewell to free
education and free pulpit, farewell to
the democratic traditions which have
been bequeathed to u.s."
Wants Public Rule Maintained.
If there must be reorganization of
government. let it begin where it
should begln-at the head" Father
Coughlin said But let no one at
tempt to reorganize the Government
OF the United States by destroying its
framework of checks and balances ard
by relieving from the representatives
of the people the peoples power over
their own money by entrusting it into
the hands of any man, be he saint or
sinner, to spend without authorization
from the people"
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Missouri Fights Floods.
Flood Threats Abated.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April l R-
Flood threats abated in Arkansas to-
day as streams. swollen by torrential
rains. neared their crests and fair
weather was forecast for the week
end
Heavy rains in scattered sections Of
the State accompanied a series of
tornadoes that cost IL lives and caused
an estimated 100000 property loss.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
Taxes

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1938-04-01
IL DUCE IN CONFERENCE
(Story on Page A-1.)

Meets With Mission Which Will
Go to Japan and Manchukuo.
ROME, April / R).-Premier Mus
solini yesterday conferred with an
Italian economic mission which will
sail soon to visit Japan and Man.
chukuo.
The mission is composed of repre-
sentatives of Italy's most important
industries and includes an Official
of the ministry of foreign exchange.
1t is expected to expand Italian-Jap-
anese commercial relations.
An Italian cultural mission, dis
patched after Italy joined the Ger
man-Japanese anti-communism pact
last November 6, now is touring Japan
to prepare the way, for trade nego-
tiations.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
MISS HARRISON is NOW
MALTA'S POSTMASTER

Last Thursday Miss Marjorie M.
Harrison received her commission,
signed by President Roosevelt, as
postmaster of Malta, and Saturday
assumed her duties. Miss Harrison
succeeds George Davis who has
served for about a year, temper
arily, having been appointed follow
ing the resignation Of Mark B.
Strahl. Mr.. Davis services have
been of the best, and with his two
efficient deputies, Mrs. Bessie Wood
and Mr.. Harold Milligan, the pa.
irons of that office have had the
best of service.
Miss Harrison served for four
years as deputy in this office, under
Mr.. Strahl, and the duties of post
master are not new to her. She
demonstrated her efficiency. when in
the office, serving the public most
capably In the civil service exam
ination she was high with grade
of 81.7. Miss Harrison is daugh-
ter of Frank and Mable Glass Har--
rison of Ringgod. She graduated
from the Ringgold high school iii
the class of 81. In addition to her
experience in the postoffice, she also
attended business college, Colum,.
bus. She is 25 years of age, and
among the youngest postmasters in
the state, of a place the size of Nal
ia. The salary is $2,100 per year.
Mr.. Milligan will remain as an as
distant, and Miss Goldie Price,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. B.
Price will also be an assistant. The
latter has been taking a business
course in Columbus
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
SOMETHING NEW IN
STATIONERY

The Democrat office is in receipt
OF samples of "Time-saving Station
cry" which consists of writing
sheet and envelope combined. 1t is
designed by Mrs. Charles Harrison,
of 1897 S. E. 48th avenue, Port
land, Ore. Mrs Harrison will be
remembered as Miss Halle Rum
mer, a former resident of this place.
She has a patent on the stationery,
and has already established man
ufacturing plant at Portland, and
she writes 'our crew Of statesmen
turn in the orders almost faster
than they can produce it." The
item has been endorsed and COM
plimented by experts in the sta
tionery line, both in this country
and abroad Mrs. Harrison states
that her son by former marriage,
Robert Pickett, Fl years of age, is
one of Portland's best printers, and
is vice president of the Typograph~
ical Union, junior division, at Port
land. Mrs Harrison is sister of
John RUNNER, formerly of this
county, who is manager of Henry
FOrd's Dearborn country club.
Mrs Harrison would be glad to
communicate with anyone who
might wish to take up the agency
of her product in this county, or
southeastern Ohio.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
SCHEDULE OF AGRICULTURAL
CONSERVATION PROGRAM

Everyone connected with the ad-
ministration of the 1898 agricul-
tural conservation program has
been literally working night and
day in order to speed the program
as quickly as possible. To that end
the Morgan county committee has
set up the following schedule of
meetings at which time the main
features Of the 1898 agricultural
program will be explained. You
owe it to yourself to be present at
one of these meetings.: Hackney
school house, March %; Deavertown
grange hall, March 23; Pennsville
school house, March 23; Triadelphia
school house, March "a; Chester
h hill school house, March 24;
township, March "a; Meigs school
house, new, March "a Reinersville
school house, March 25; Roxbury
grange hall, March 25; Morganville
school house, March 25; Bishopville
township house, March 25; Eagle
port grange hall, March 28; Ring
gold school house, March 28;
Mountville school house, March %;
Centerville school house, March %;
Tunnel Hill school house, March 20;
McConnelsville school house, March
20; East Windsor grange hall,
March 20; Stockport school house,
March 20; Neelyville grange hall.
March 80. All meetings to start at
7:45 p. m.-Delmar M. Glenn,
Chairman, Morgan county.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
FRANK MCDONALD ACCEPTS
GOOD APPOINTMENT

Mr.. Frank Mcdonald who for the
past two years has been employed
in the office of the Brown-Maniy
Plow company, has resigned the po-
sition and accepted the appoint
ment as assistant relief examiner
of the division under the Auditor
of State Joseph T. Ferguson. He
will be stationed at Cleveland, and
will work under the chief examiner
of Cuyahoga county. He left Mon
day to begin his new duties. Mr..
Mcdonald passed the civil service
examination, which made him ell
igible for the appointment He is a
graduate of M. & NJ high school,
following which he attended Ohio
University for two years. The po
sition pays $3.50 per day, with good
chance for advancement. Mr.. Nc
Donald is a son of the late M. NJ.
Mcdonald. His mother, Mrs. Lew
wella Mcdonald, is quite prominent
in Democratic politics and at pres
ent is president of the Morgan
County Women's Federated Demo
cratic club
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
COURT APPROVES BENEFIT
ASSESSMENTS

A SO percent flood protection ben
eft assessment on property owners
who have withdrawn appeals since
the original No. l assessment has
been approved by judges of the
Muskingum Conservancy Court. The
new assessment, which does not af-
feet properties included in the No.
assessment, or property owners
who still have appeals pending, ag-
gregates $849,993 This represents
SO percent of appraised flood bene-
fits Of $1,699,986 Assessments ap-
proved by the Conservancy Court to
date aggregate $4,652,528, or SO
percent of appraised benefits of So
305,057.
Officers of the Conservancy Dis,
trict pointed out that the new as
sessment is not an additional as
sessment, that it affects only those
property owners who have with
drawn appeals since the original as
sessment was made TheF original
assessment affected only those prop.
erty owners who had not filed ap-
peals. = The Conservancy Court Of
which Judge Carlos NJ Riecker is d
member, met Saturday at New Phil
adelphia.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-03-24
LEGALITY OF CONSERVANCY
COURT Is QUESTIONED

Recent litigation beset the Mus
kingum conservancy district Tues
day as Coshocton County Prosecu-
tor Carl M. Patterson raised the
question of legality of the 18-judge
conservancy court. In common
pleas court suit, Patterson contend
ed that the court, comprising judges
OF the counties in the district, was
to run for six years, whereas an
Ohio statute limited such an organ
ization to five years.
The Coshocton city and county
school boards already have pending
a suit seeking to enjoin collection
of food benefit assessments, charg-
ing they are excessive.
On March Q, the fifth district
court of appeals at Mt. Vernon per-
manently enjoined the district from
issuing $1,500,00O in bonds for rec
reational and conservation develop
ment. The court held that the dis
trict was without authority to levy
general taxes on property not bene-
fitted by flood control projects.
Charles Hostetter of Massillon filed
the suit as taxpayer.
Robert Wilkin, counsel for the
district, said he intended to appeal
to the state supreme court, and
that an unfavorable ruling from
that body would mean curtailment
of the program so as to keep with
in limits OF funds raised by flood
benefit assessments