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Evening star., 1938-07-10
MORE HEAT FACING
WASHINGTON TODAY
High Of About IS Is Expected.
Lesser Humidity to Ease
Discomfort,

Golfers and bleacher occupants are
going to find 1t pretty hot In the
sun today, with the mercury climbing
to about the same high as yesterday.
though Weather Bureau officials said
the humidity would be less, making
for more comfortable" day.
Clear skies were forecast for several
days. With the lower humidity, the
forecaster said last night. 1t would be
comfortable in the shade, but pretty
hot out in the sun"
A high OF IS. or possibly q degree
or two over, apparently was In store
for this afternoon.
Yesterdays prediction Of 90 or more
degrees did not materialize as clouds
formed at an earlier hour than ex-
pected. it was explained.
Northwest Washington received
very heavy" showers yesterday. with
an unusually small amount Of thunder,
while other sections Of the city re-
ceived only a spattering of rain. 1t
served, however, to dampen the earth
and keep hundreds Of Washingtonians
from hocking to the city parks and
sleeping on the ground. though MAN.
mapped until early hours today in their
automobiles.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

up along the Newport News water
front. He takes his words OF wisdom
from Scripture and sends his follow
ers the dictionary for their meanings.
He had a considerable devoutness.
Sunday mornings he attended the
Baptist Sunday School. and Sunday
nights he went to the Presbyterian
Sunday School. He never drank or
smoked and in 1906 he married a
woman even more determinedly holy
than himself. He says his age is 4
secret even from his wife but in 1906
he apparently was 20. When Light
foot Michaux dedicated himself to
religion II years later it represented
the triumph Of years of effort on
Mary Michaux's part.
Michaux chose a spectacularly i'm
plausible setting for his salvation. In
1917 he moved his sea food business,
which he inherited from his father,
from Newport News to the boom town
Of Hopewell. Va, on the Appomattox
River. There, as the elder recalls
today. Everybody carried a gun and
everybody gambled and the police ar
rested people when they complained
about being robbed"
He had the contract to supply Camp
Lee. near Hopewell. with fish, ard
he was sure he could do a big business
among the thousands of laborers
brought into Hopewell by the Du Pont
Co. to man its wartime munitions
plant.
1T was wild and woolly place." the
elder says now with a shudder. 1T
was as tough as Tombstone. It was
. regular Gomorrah."
Nobody in Hopewell cared a halle
Evening star., 1938-07-10

lujah for Sunday worship. men who
shot craps for hundreds Of dollars on
week days played for thousands on
the Sabbath. The rampant sin was
more than the two Michaux could
stand. Solomon and Mary had an
intuition" 1t directed them to dis
pense religion to the Hopewellians.
Seeks Place Of Worship.
Their first problem was finding a
place of worship. Michaux heard
that the Y. NJ c. A. had = chapel
which he might use. 1t was one OF
three rooms IN a long frame building.
Michaux fotnd it empty. but the
center room, beer parlor, was
crowded. and the gambling hall next
to the beer parlor was packed. Mi
chaux decided to build . church OF
his own, far from the sound OF rolling
dice.
The Church Of God was an in
slant success. 1t was wholly non-de-
nominational and thoroughly evan
gelistic. The people Of Hopewell. most
Of them white, crowded to the serv-
ices. But to Solomon Lightfood 1t
was only . sideline. Mary Michaux
and visiting elders passed out the re-
ligion. Michaux himself remained true
to his fish until he met one Diaz. .
Filipino evangelist.
Brother Michaux." Brother Diaz
told him, the Lord had you to build
the church. and you try to get every
body else to preach. But he wants
you to do the job"
Michaux unused over this sugges-
ton. On its heels came . new in
tuition" stirring him to open his
Bible to st. John Nv and read verses
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ferences. but Senator Van Nuys and
Gov. Townsend have not seen each
other as yet. However. Senator Van
Nuys said he expected to call upon
the Governor before resumtng his
Michigan vacation. Gov. Townsend
said he would 'see" the Senator If the
latter called.
The feeling between Townsend and
Van Nuys fiared into heated words last
summer.
After visiting President Roosevelt at
the White House on a hot July day,
Gov. Townsend told newsmen:
4 don't believe any power in the
State could nominate him (Van Nuys)
and our organization is unaccustomed
to trying the impossible. I don't think
our organization could nominate him
even II it wanted to-"
A few weeks later the Governor told
the Indiana Democratic Editorial As
sociation at French Lick that Indiana
Democrats would not support for re-
election those public servants who
have not been loyal to the President" !"
Senator Van Nuys, who was in the
audience, lost little time in announcing
his independent candidacy for re-
election.
But I'm still Democrat" he said,
eyes swapping. Gov Townsend can't
read me out Of the party I've served
from the precinct up to the United
States Senate"
If the White House had any inten-
ton OF putting hand into the Indiana
situation. there has been no recent
indication Of 1t. President Roosevelt
will not visit Indiana on his current
tour and has made no comment on the
developments which point to Senator
Van Nuys' denomination.
Before the Republican State Con.
vention, which last week nominated
Raymond E. Willis. 50, Angola editor,
for the Senate. several Republican
newspapers urged editorially that it
be recessed until after the Democratic
convention and that Van Nuys be
offered the Republican nomination II
the Democrats didn't choose him.
Van Nuys didn't take to the sue-
gestion. He replied he was still q
Democrat and would accept the
Democratic nomination II 1t were
offered him by 'uncoerced delegates. u
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OIL PROBE LIST !:
INCREASED T08
Subpoenas Served on Two
More Companies and Five
individuals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON. WIS, July e.-Twenty.
two oil companies and individuals
connected with, the industry were
under subpoena tonight to appear
before a Federal grand jury which
will convene here next Tuesday.
The jury will consider other matters
before hearing testimony from the
oil men. John Henry Levin Of the
Attorney Generals stan in Wash
ington said he would not be ready to
present the oil case before July 20.
Announcement this week by Herbert
c. Hale, clerk Of the United States
District Court, that seven companies
and IS individuals had been called
to testify set the stage for another
influx Of oil men to Madison. The
city became known as the oil capital
Of the Nation" during trial last
Winter which resulted in conviction
Of Is major companies and 30 indi-
viduals on charges OF consptring to
fix prices in the Middle West in vio.
lation of antitrust laws.
Mr.. Hale disclosed today that two
companies and five individuals con-
nected with the oil industry had been
served with subpoenas since his ear
lier announcement that five compan-
les and 10 individuals had been
summoned.
The new group includes Tide Water
Associated Oil Co.. and the Texas Co.,
both Of New York; r. D. Ebbert and
p. E. Lakin. both Of the Shell Petrol.
cum Co., St. Louis. Mo-: w. F. Nc
Dermott, New York; j. w. Carnes,
Consolidated Oil Corp. New York,
and r. G. A. van der Woude of the
Shell Union Oil Corp, New York.
Defendants convicted last winter
are scheduled to appear before Judge
Patrick T. Stone here July l9 to
hear his rulings on motions to set
aside the verdict and to grant q new
trial. In the event he denies the
motions, Judge Stone has indicated
he will impose sentence at once.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

IS and 36: Say not yet. there are
yet four months and then cometh the
harvest? Behold. say unto you,
lift up your eyes and look on the
fields; for they are white already to
harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth
wages, and fatherth fruit until life
eternal: that both he that soweth
and he that reapeth may rejoice to-
gether."
Told to Harvest Souls"
The verses had only one meaning
for Michaux-he was to harvest souls
To the joy of his wife, who long be-
fore had heard the call Of an evan
gelist that she cast away temporal
interests. he turned over to an uncle
his sea food business, which had
grown 50 large that he was using q
refrigerator holding 1000, 900 pounds.
He prepared himself in Atlanta to
be q preacher, was ordained. bought
his license and began his new life
as . churchnan.
At Hopewells postwar deflation,
Elder and Mary Michaux returned to
Newport News. A tent revival gained
him $50 followers. In five years white
men and colored men in Tdewater
Virginia were comparing him with
Billy Sunday-to Sundays detriment.
By 1928 he had churches in Hamp-
den, Va. and Baltimore. Nd. He was
using the old Lincoln Theater, 900
seats. for his church in Newport
News. and he was locally famous on
the radio. Another intuition" pricked
him. and Michaux headed for Wash
ington.
/Tn1n orpo,p. Wnr ~, th> n-s,Si
Evening star., 1938-07-10
Lincoln
Continued From First Page.)

splendid" said the Texas Senator. Il
have already expressed my personal
view that the President is entirely JUS
tined in stating his own views with
regard to candidates for the Senate. :"
Other Democratic Senators who
have gone along 100 per cent with the
President take much the same view as
that of Senator Sheppard. although
even some Of them regard his entry
into some Of the States as risky"
An impression has grown up that
Mr.. Roosevelt will be careful in select
ing which States he will enter. But
with the assurances of support and
popularity that the President is receiv-
ing on this trip, he and his advisers
may throw caution to the wind and
go the whole route, opposing openly
all candidates whom he does not favor
While Democratic Senators who
have opposed some Of the Presidents
program and, therefore. may be con-
sidered fair game" for the New Deal
ers, insisted that the President was
playing q dangerous game, they ad-
mitted there is a great urge to follow
the leader" There Is q desire on the
part of Democratic voters who have
elected a President. to support him.
They were unwilling to predict how
the incursion in the Democratic pri-
maries would work out. They pointed
out, however, that in Indiana the
States Democratic leaders had ignored
the purge" committee in Washington
when they decided recently to support
Senator Van Nuys for reelection.
Agree Barkley Has Edge.
That Senator Barkley has the edge"
in Kentucky has been the general
opinion among Democrats in WASH
ington, whether or not they were for
presidential interference in Kentucky.
II Senator Barkley wins, they said yes
terday. the President would claim
credit for his denomination.
Interest was expressed here, too, in
Mr.. Roosevelt's remarks In Kentucky
dealing with the balanced budgets in
that State and In New York. The
President asserted that neither Gov.
Chandler nor Gov. Lehman Of New
York would be able to point to bal.
anced State budgets II he. ~ Presi-
dent, had not gone to their aid with
Federal money.
This Federal money. Of course, is
taken primarily from the States. New
York and Kentucky both contribute
heavily to the Federal Treasury
through Federal taxes. The opinion
was expressed that the recent state
ment by Gov. Lehman that, after Ave
years, he had been able to pay of the
500, ,o00, 900 debt left him By President
Roosevelt In 1888, had ranked in the
Presidents mind for days. Gov.
Chandler has made . campaign issue
Of the fact Kentucly's budget has
been balanced, too. Mr.. Roosevelt
sought to tear down this claim.
Aims at Complete Control.
The President Is aiming ut complete
control Of the Senate and the House,
1t was insisted here yesterday, and Is
using not only his own potential speak
ing voice to aid candidates he favors,
but also the power Of Federal patron
age. His recent appointment Of judges
opposed by Senator's Glass and Byrd
Of Virginia and Senator McCarran Of
Nevada are cases In point. The re-
moval Of Henry W. Webb from his job
- Federal housing administrator for
Maryland also y cited by some %.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

welt plan in Virginia. Peppery Senator
Glass. who often has opposed the
Presidents policies, declined to COM
ment. az did Gov James Price. SEN
ator Byrd, another Roosevelt critic,
gave no reply to . request for his
opinion.
The only voice from North Carolina
expressed the disfavor Of Senator
Bailey. Gov Hoey declined to COM
ment and Senator Reynolds was away
on vacation.
Smith Gives Endorsement.
South Carolina was on the Presi-
den's side Of the fence. Senator Smith
asserted:
Its about time for the Nation.
through its Government, to recognize
the monstrous treatment that the
South has received since the War Be-
tween the States.
"On account of our political solidar-
ity. We have been the victims of a
curious situation. We were so solidly
Democratic that when the Democrats
were in power they said What's the
use?' and when the Republicans were
In power they said the same thing"
Gov. Olin Johnston characterized
the Presidents action as "a move to-
ward q good cause. ." hope all
Southern Governors will join in and
cooperate We must work to-
gether."
Senator Byrnes could not be reached.
Prom Florida, Senator Andrews
spoke In favor Of the plan, saying it
clearly demonstrates his (the Presi-
dent'O sympathetic efforts perma-
nently to better the economic condi-
tons Of the South"
Assailing tariffs, freight difYeren-
tials and mentioning the burden" of
educating the Negro, he concluded:
All these conditions clearly account
- for the prevailing lower wages
and longer hours. The South is
ready to use every effort to help solve
these vital problems with the aid of
the only President who has ever
showed . desire to understand the
pAVSASAo A1AO AClp COItc CLlcH.
Gov. White Too Busy.
Mississippi's Governor. Hugh White,
said he was 80 busy with the Legis-
lature I haven't had time to read the
Presidents message" Senators Harri-
son and Bilbo were out Of the State.
For Louisiana, Gov. Richard Leche
indorsed the Presidents purpose, say
ing higher wages would mean more
industry for the South because ut is
only IN recent times, when wages and
working conditions have been bet
tered. that industry has shown q dis
position to come South"
Senator Radcliffe of Maryland when
asked for comment. replied:
I got the impression he didn't have
Maryland in mind 20 I didn't read
much about it. have only a general
idea OF what he said. I don't know
OF any such conditions in Maryland"
Evening star., 1938-07-10
Happy Am 1.-The Story Of Elder Miehsux
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Ten years ago . persistent voice
out OF the void exhorted Solomon
Lightfoot Michaux to bring his re-
ligion up from Newport News, Va. TO
Washington. In the Capital the un-
seen counsel argued an energetic
evangelist with the old-time teachings
could reap the souls OF imposing men
like Senators and Representatives and
leaders in the Government.
OF all the "intuitions," as he calls
them, which have directed the actions
of the Virginia crab and oyster mer-
chant who became the chief elder in
the Church of God, none has brought
him such magnificent material and
spiritual returns as the whispered
command to Go North. holy man, to
the Nations Capital" Today, for all
his colored skin and his skimpy edu-
cation, Michaux, whose name Is pro-
nounced "Meshaw," is national
power.
Close to President.
The President leans heavily on
Elder Michaux in the development Of
his program for winning the colored
American from his traditional alle-
glance to the Republican party, and
the elder in turn often gets magnifi-
cent favors from the administration.
His following is 50 large that several
weeks ago 10000 white men and
women crowded an outdoor amphi-
theater In Berlin. Pa, to hear his call
to salvation. He has baptised Chinese,
Japanese, Jews and Caucasians.
Nightly at his church on Georgia
avenue white as we'll as colored people
testify to their JOY at being saved
the Michaux way. Although no Senator
or Representative or statesman ever
has stepped along the road to glory
at the Michaux behest. at least George
E. Allen Of the District Of Columbia
Board Of Commissioners Is an hon
orary elder in the church.
Elder Michaux is the master Of
seven churches He lives in a sumptu-
Gus house on r street and walks
across the expensive furry hide of a
huge kadiak bear when he enters his
living room. He eats all the water
melon he wants. and he recently told
his congregation that he wants a lot.
He is so famous that when he stopped
a year ago at filling station in
Virginia for gasoline the white at
tendant recognized the radio parson
and refused to let him pay.
Il could be a millionaire il I
wanted to. I guess" he says, but I
don't care about money" He likes to
show a telegram from a New York
booking agent offering him $4,000 a
week to appear in a daily show with
his choir. But he hasn't got a bank
account in his own name. The Gospel
Spreading Association. which is the
business agent of the Church Of God.
supports him and his wife. He founded
the Gospel Spreading Association.
First Name From Bible,
Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, whose
first name comes from the Bible, on
which, along with Webster's Diction.
ary, rests his doctrine of happiness for
all and war on that "old pushpin."
the Devil, and whose middle name
honors an old Virginia Indian, grew
Evening star., 1938-07-10
VAN NUYS|SSEEN
CHOICE Of PARTY
McNutt Presidential Boom
Believed Background Of
Peace 0vertures,
Ey the Associated Press.


INDIANAPOLIS, July s.-With their
factional wounds treated for the sake
OF party harmony and doubtless Paul
V. McNutt's 1910 presidential chances,
Indiana Democratic leaders predicted
tonight the denomination of Senator
Frederick Van Mugs. bitter foe OF some
New Deal measures, at . "love-feast-
ing" convention Tuesday.
All obstacles to denomination Of the
recalcitrant Senator Van Nuys, who,
long at odds with Gov. M. Clifford
Townsend and the Democratic State
organization, had threatened to seek
reelection as an independent,/ ap-
parently have been removed at peace
conferences between representatives
OF the Governor and the Senator.
Party leaders say Senator Van Nuys,
who once said it would be suicide" for
MIN to permit his name to be present.
ed to the convention, probably will
get the nomination by acclamat ton.
Thus would be removed any possibility
OF three-way race. with resultant
rending Of party lines, for the Senate
seat which Jim" Watson, veteran
Republican, lost to Senator Van Nuys
in 1882.
McNutt In Background.
In the background of the Demo-
cratic State commands rapprochement
with Senator Van Nuys, followers of
Indiana politics see the McNutt presi-
Dental hopes. Zealously alert to any
menace to the McNutt chances, .
group OF party leaders headed by
Frank McHale, portly national COM
mitteeman, feared the consequences
OF any attempt to retire Senator Van
Nuys from public life.
They had notice from several Of
senator Van Nuys' Senate colleagues,
notably those With. whom he fought
President Roosevelt's court and Gov
ernment reorganization bills, that
they would retaliate against ex-Gov.
McNutt In 1910 in their respective
States unless Senator Van Nuys were
renominated.
When ex-Gov. McNutt. now United
States High Commissioner to the
Philippines, was in Washington in
February for his presidential coming
out" party, some Of the anti-court
bill Senators took direct means to
impress upon him that his own aspira-
tions had become very much entangled
with the Senator Van Nuys issue.
Other pressure for Senator Van
Nuys' denomination has come from
local Democratic nominees over the
State. who were selected in the May
3 primary. They feared Senator Van
Nuys. II he ran as an independent.
would cut deeply into the Democratic
vote in November and endanger their
own chances of success.
Olive Branch Is Extended.
Gov. Townsend, who previously be-
rated Senator Van Nuys for his fight
against the court bill and had said
the Senator couldn't be renominated,
extended the "olive branch" early
this week by inviting" Senator Van
Nuys to become . candidate in .
"wide-open'' convention.
Senator Van Nuys, vacationing at
Walloon Lake. Mich. replied he would
be very glad" to accept Townsends
invitation and permit his name to 60
before . "wide-open' convention. He
interrupted his vacation and returned
to Indianapolis for the convention,
which he originally had said he would
not attend.
Then came the series Of peace con-
Evening star., 1938-07-10
BEE CATCHER CROWNED
Maryland Championship Won by
Reinhardt Refer,

BALTIMORE, July 9 LP.-Captur-
Ing 43 bees with his bare hands within
three minutes and escaping without a
sting, Reinhardt Refer OF Glenarm
won the State bee-catching champion
ship Of Maryland today.
Runner-up in the contest sponsored
BY the Maryland State Beekeepers'
Association was E. A. Andrews, who
caught % bees. in the three-minute
time limit
A sting by bee was SUFFICIENT to
eliminate any contestant and ls of
the original contestants were counted
out on stings.
Evening star., 1938-07-10

broadcast over the radio station in
Fort Worth purchased by his wife,
gave a rather astonishing talk in
which he praised highly Henry Ford,
who has been poison to the New
Deal, and otherwise talked very
much like an economic royalist.
President Roosevelt is going to visit
Elliott long enough to give him some
good fatherly advice or else a good
spanking. Peculiarly enough, the
Roosevelt adults are not much of .
hand at spanking their children.
If President Roosevelt really fs
using this trip as a barometer Of his
own popularity he must be well
pleased. Aside from the cool recep.
ton accorded him in Marietta. Ohio,
on the first lap Of his trip, he has
been enthusiastically received all
along the way. After Marietta, the
crowds at the stations have been
huge. As the politicians say, They
have yelled their lungs out at Roose-
velt." At Bowling Green. KY, last
night the crowd at the station was
thrice the total population of the town.
The Oklahomans turned out in
droves and there was no let-up As
the President proceeded into Texas,
Inspired by Receptions.
This writer happens to know that
the President has been pleased by
the demonstrations. Inspired by the
size and the nature of these station
crowds, he has responded in his Gus
tomary charming and brilliant style.
One Arkansas political leader
aboard the Presidents train, while
discussing the great turnouts, said
dryly: THE folks down here's don't
give q tinker's dam about the New
Deal. but they surely are crazy about
Roosevelt. believe they would vote
for him If he was running as a Re-
publican.
Another Arkansas political leader.
however, expressed himself to the ef-
feet that while the people Of that
State still like Mr.. Roosevelt, most
Of them are naturally conservative
and are not New Dealers. This par
ticular politician was elected to 4
high office some months ago a. q
conservative and the President saw
to it that this Arkansan received an
audience yesterday in his private car
with no one else present.
To sum up the opinions of the Ar
kansas politicians who boarded the
Presidents train en- route, the fieht
between Mrs. Caraway and Repre-.
sentative John L. Mcclellan is nip
and tuck, with the edge possibly IN
favor of the Senate's lone woman
member. The Oklahoma politicians
gave the impression that Senator
Thomas is faced with defeat at the
hands Of Representative Conner Smith.
Gov. E. w. Marland, the other can.
didate. who is an oil masnate, Is ex-
pected to run q poor third.