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Evening star., 1938-08-25
The Political Mill
G. O. Fears "Loading of Relief Army as Elections
Draw Near
Draw Near.

1t has been charged that when the
time is ripe. hundreds Of thousands Of
workers In Pennsylvania will be added
to the w. P. A. rolls. in the attempt
to prevent return Of the Keystone
State to the G. o. P. fold in the
elections this fall Well, that is the
kind Of thing that the Senate In
vestigating Committee was set up to
bring to public attention.
G. o. p. Fears Loaded" Votes.
Republican leaders in Ohio, Illinois,
as well as in Pennsylvania and New
York, are disturbed over what may be
done by the New Dealers to influence
elections through the use of Federal
relief funds. In both Ohio and Penn
sylvania the Republicans insist they
have excellent opportunities Of electing
Governors and United States Senators
this year. But they are fearful that
the electorate will be so loaded with
Federal dollars from the New Dealers
that the elections will be carried
against the G. o. P.s.
DO you want to eat or don't you
want to eat?" which Senator Guf1ey
said would be the sole issue In Penn
sylvania's election campaign, may be
the sole issue in Ohio and other
States, the Republicans fear.
President Roosevelt complains about
the use of Republican votes to defeat
Senator Pope, New Deal Democrat
in the Democratic primary in Idaho.
Pope was defeated by Representative
Clark, an independent Democrat.
Pope has told the President IS 900 to
10000 Republicans helped TO nominate
Clark. This, the President says, vio-
lates political morals. To be sure it
does. So did the use of Democratic
votes to nominate the La Follettes in
Wisconsin Republican primaries a few
years back violate political morals.
But that kind of thing was not so
olstasteful to Democrats in those days
Georgia G. o. P. for George.
The President does not like his
Democratic opponents-Represen
Clark In Idaho and Senator George
In Georgia, for example-to have
Republican support. The Republican
national committeeman in Georgia.
James w. Arnold. has urged the Re-
publicans in that State to swing in
behind George to defeat the Roosevelt
indorsed Lawrence Camp He prob
ably does not like the issue OF white
supremacy" which has been raised by
Senator Cotton Ed" Smith in South
Carolina against New Deal Gov. john
son. Roosevelt candidate for Smiths
seat
The race issue, however, was handed
to Senator Smith by the New Dealers
when they sought to push the Federal
anti-lynching bill through Congress at
its last two sessions. The New Dealers
to man were lined up for the anti
lynching bill. except some of the Sena-
tors from the South. 1t is easy for
Senator Smith, however, to charge that
the anti-lynching bill was given every
support by Senator Barkley, President
RooSevelt's chosen leader in the Senate.
and by other New Deal Senators who
have the ear of the President. Few
political campaigns are ever so bitter
as those in which men of the same
party are pitted against one another.
The bitterness which has been injected
into the present Democratic primary
contest is double distilled. The Pres
ident himself, by his personal partici-
patton, has increased this feeling.
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on merit. He has no political afnlia-
tions-for he has never voted. He
was catapulted from school into the
World War and served in the A. E. F.
as a private in the 30lst Engineers
from 1917 to 1919 When he returned
to this country he became law clerk
in the Emergency Fleet Corp.
The new administrator is living
contradiction to any suggestion a man
stagnates in Government service. AZ
he worked here Mr. Hester took an
A. B. degree at George Washington.
an L. L. B. at Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School. AS a Governments
attorney he has served the Interior
Department, the United States Ship.
ping Board, the Office of the Alien
Property Custodian, the Department Of
Justice and the Treasury Department.
His last two positions were chief at
torney in the Department of Justice
and assistant general counsel Of the
Treasury.
1t was while he was serving in the
latter capacity that Mr.. Hester was
assigned to collaborate with the con-
greSsional committee in writing a new
air commerce law. He worked inten-
sively on the problem for about a
year He knows the law backward
and forward and what it Is intended
to do.
Mr.. Hester knows something Of the
wide-open spaces. He was born in
Iowa and went as boy to Missoula,
Mont, which he still regards as
home" His early education was in
the public schools there and at Phil.
lips Exeter Today he is big, black
haired man, with pleasant, keen blue
eyes and small mustache. He mod
estly protests his surprise at his re-
cent appointment and admits he ex-
poets to encounter plenty of grief"
| His panacea, however, is hard work.
The aeronautics industry itself, Mr..
Hester says. sought this new legislation
and Is pleased with it. The division
Of work between an authority, vested
with quasi-judicial powers, and an ex-
ecutive administrator is new wrinkle
in Government agencies. The new
/ law is to the airWays what the Inter-
! state Commerce Commission is to the
| railroads and motor buses. An ad.
vantage is it comes early in the de-
velopment of air commerce The law
provides for a safety board, an inde-
pendent three-man board, to study
problems Of safeguarding travel in the
air
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the negotiation 900
sovak determined
Ine
1t is the same idea the
Ever have been in
mourning for the
sovakA
ne words Never will
under q
1t Is hardly conceivable that
military will
thelr and
long as the relations between Rumania
remain as friendly they
their attention the
neo Win some mild
en
lhee is serious shortage of labor
policy OF the
all unemployed in
Inc Helch neghbors
from " ahah lyro are being given permits
IN private factorwhch
number of Poles to Germany and
hep with the harvest But
because OF thS shortage
penoeo ndenniey Women Hitler
stay nome and look after
e huoands or the fathers meals permitted accept
ployment If they
VI course As
race is noed and the avodd avodedthere will be
hunoreds OF thousands out Of
Hitler still talking about the absolute
The WORRYING the oovernmep
Daader not much afraid Of
he Is Of the reaction ~ ~
of the
the Democratic plans The French ar. sf.d
aci-
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have been Demon
strated that the
administration is
m o r e anxious to
eliminate recalci-
trant D e mocrats
than to d e ( e a t
bona f1de Repub-
lican opponents. ,
Senator B 9 ry
Of T e n n e s s e e,
one = time ardent
supporter of Pres
ident r 90 Sevelt,
has asserted in q
letter to Senator
Sheppard. chair
man NJ the Sem
Evening star., 1938-08-25

w. p. line
recently antiNew
He only dropped in to say hello
leader of the New Deals liberal wing
and a close adviser of the President
done Maryland both
Undersecretay OF State Sumner
vacation and William Stanley Maryland friend of
politician
the Maryland situation somewhat goomy
problems before the meetinghow
Federal oceolders The meeting
problems for Maryland for the
found du to them
Representative John j. OConnors
New York
promises from Maryland leaders,
mentably lacking
clear notion
influential
each Maryland county
spending
Evening star., 1938-08-25
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

IF THE w. P. A., as charged in .
number Of States. Is being used to
defeat Democrats for renomina-
4 ton, what may be expected when
it is q question Of defeating mere Re-
publicans? Either the reliefers will be
used" in greater measures, or 1t will
Evening star., 1938-08-25
ours every week and receive

hands
the ordinary
Secretary Morgenhau
dAnibes
reporter who had received definite
TO say something suggested the Secretary of the
along the usual lines Il happy be
Riviera" Morgenhau
saying: such statement might be
Evening star., 1938-08-25

m o n opolis t 10
m e r 6 ers, has
been set up. And
an administrators
Of civil aeronau-
tics to see that
the rule Of air.
ways Is enforced
has been created.
President Roose-
welt has selected
Clinton w. Hes
ter for this i'm.
portant job.
Mr.. Hester is q
Government ca.
reer man. He
has made his Way
Evening star., 1938-08-25

they are weak in organization.
Senator Tydings, Senator George
and the other purgees have received
huge contributions from business
men, both in and out of their States.
But the New Deal candidates can't
get cent from the Democratic
party's usual fat cats. and can
hardly draw on the Federal Treas
ury to pay their campaign workers.
The meeting frantically picked over
the short list Of rich men really
Evening star., 1938-08-25

tIIuV q BcIIcI dI SII IKE lUIRNC lHCIII-
tate the German action against
Czechoslovakia.
On the other hand, the French
government cannot see how it can
cope with the German and Italian
rearmament If it continues to have
the 40 hours a week In both totali-
tartan states. where strikes are for
hidden by law. the workmen work
as long as the government orders
them to. 1t is not rare to see fac
Evening star., 1938-08-25

AooOy Hlcu VORS
are welcomed.
I n d e e d, Mr.
Roosevelt publicly
appealed on the
radio for such
transfer Of party
allegiances. But
when other Re-
pubIcans, having
had their fill of
New Dealism, seek
an effective way
to repudiate it,
they are accused
Of violating "po-
litical morals"
Mr.. Roosevelt OBJ
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and Mr. Roosevelt next November may
regret his accusation of political un-
morality which he has leveled at mil
lions Of Independent Republicans.
(Copyriaht, 1889
Evening star., 1938-08-25

HE opinions OF the Driters this page their
nscessariy The Stars Such opinions presented IN
The Stars etort to gDe all sides OF questions interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1938-08-25

when they participated in the Demo-
cratic primaries. 1t certainly is not
liberalism. but much closer to toryism,
to try to tell the American voters they
have no right to switch their party
Evening star., 1938-08-25
An American
Should
Know
Hester Expects Grief
in His New Job as Air
Administrator.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

7NAKING time py the forelock,
Congress has established the
rule of the airways. A Civil
L Aeronautics Authority to hx
reasonable rates-for passengers, ex.
press and airmail-to provide for fair,
not cutthroat competition, to prevent
Evening star., 1938-08-25
The Capital Parade
Purge Managers Gloomy Over 'Davey' Lewis Lack
of Funds and Organizations.

By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
public Of
dental anonments the
Roosevelt Roosevelt
tesomy familiar But Just how is managed
to day? What happens when President
his ieutenants?
to these questions
other evening at the Carlton Hotel David
A. deputy administrator undercover the
wing
evening question:
alton gathered in Niles
bitter conference
present
r. Muikn Democratic
gates and campaign the Davy
lewis nile eDayvIe wis shasste
Evening star., 1938-08-25

those diplomatic manifestations to
indicate to the other countries that
Hungary is in full agreement with
the foreign policies of the Reich.
1t was noticed In particular that
the signatories Of the Bled release"
agreed that Hungary should nego-
tiate bilateral Hitlers
pet policy-rather than the French
idea of collective agreements.
There is a good deal of skep-
Evening star., 1938-08-25
This Changing World
Rearming of Hungary Considered Victory for Hitler
and Mussolini as Necessary Formality'

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN
ME Bed agreement whereby
Yugoslavia Rumana considered
diplomatic quarters another Hitler
OF course there is good deal Of hypocrisy
performance Hungary has been amng
German general
Budapest to help the Hungarians army
Ine ocial OK Of the
necessary formaly to indicate
concluded after the last war really
TACT that Admiral
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Sauce for Both
Goose and
Gander
Roosevelt Himself Was
Advocate of Shifts
in Vote Allegiance.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
~ RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
u an amazingly subjective view
| about politics. When Republi-
L cans turn over by the millions
TO help him win the presidency, as
they did in 1892, or when they assist
IN re-electing him, as they did in
Evening star., 1938-08-25

fastly insisted on padding his own
canoe, Mullikin has maintained
contact with the Federal burgers.
Joseph B. keenan,, officially
assistant to the Attorney General,
unofflcially the, chief political fixer
of the New Deal liberal wing. Genial
and astute, he is the solitary prac-
tical politician among the burgers.
David K. Niles described above.
In the various purge primaries, his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
MAXINE DOYLE
WEEDS DIRECTOR
Maxine Doyle is married.

Maxine Doyle is married.
The pretty young former mis-
tress of ceremonies at the Earle
Theater who deserted the Capital
for Hollywood and a career on the
screen, eloped to Las Vegas, New,
and was married last Monday to
William Whitney, 81, youngest
film director in the business, &C
cording to word received here to-
day.
Announcement of the marriage
was made by Mrs. Laura Doyle,
mother of the bride, who lives in
Hollywood.
For more than a year the film
colony has been buzzing with the
rumor that the couple were altar
minded, but no official announce
ment Of their engagement was
forthcoming.
Miss Doyle, who is %, left here
about five years ago, after scoring
a tremendous success in local the
atrical circles, and she appeared
in a number of Hollywood pro-
auctions.
Since leaving here, she has re-
turned several times to make per-
SonaI appearances.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07

In Washington the city is
drenched with cold rain. which
drizzled through the night under
temperatures varying from SO to
A. However, the cherry trees are
believed to have withstood the
storm.
STREAMS IN FLOOD
Floods burst in Missouri and
Arkansas streams, gales destroyed
5000 telephone poles in Iowa. tor
nadoes ripped through Alabama
and Louisiana, creating havoc in
the Negro Hospital for the Insane
near Mobile.
Fruit crops shriveled in the grip
Of icy winds in Indiana, where the
damage to wheat and fruit is said
to be several million dollars.
In New York, $4,000 men
wrestled with record April snow,
and temperatures ranged from
below zero in Colorado and Wyo'
ming, to a 25-degree record low
in Boston, and "a in Hartford,
Conn.
STORMS IN TEXAS
Storms swept north Texas
prairies, and the path Of the
storm left higher snowfalls than
any April within memory.
At Lander, Wyo., IA inches OF
snow is reported; IL inches at
Mason City, Iowa; Chicago is dig
ging out from under 81 inches;
in Cleveland, IA inches set a new
April record, and 4 inches covered
New York city, with more falling
Kansas City waited promised
snow and Detroit expected freez
ing temperatures and snow. Al
Columbus, Ohio, shivering citizens
waited snow after an inch of chilly
rainfall. Pittsburgh, already rain,
soaked, expected snow by tonight.
ONE MAN KILLED
At Hammond, Ind, Edward
Utesch was killed by a fallen
power line.
Extensive damage is reported to
Mid-WeStern highways from swift
erosion.
Hail is damaging crops in Texas
and Gulf storm warnings still fly
from the coastal weather stations,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
NAILS
VOTE ON LIBERTY

PARIS, April z Q.N.SO.-A
veritable secret plebiscite for in
of the 100000 Ger
mans in Czechoslovakia is now 60
ing on by mail, according to in
formation received here today.
Corroborating word reaching the
foreign office, the newspaper
PariS-Midi said the Sudeten Ger
mans in Czechoslovakia are vot-
ing in the Austro- German plebis-
cite by letter.
This revelation, said Paris-Midi,
increased fears that Reichs-Fueh-
rer Hitler will use the result
when it is made known-as an
excuse to move against
Czechoslovakia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Lefty Must Put
$3.50 Over Today

NEW YORK, April Z G.NS).
Vernon Lefty" Gomez, star left
handed pitcher of the New York
Yankees, was due to pitch $3.50 in
cash into the New York supreme
court today as back alimony and
counsel fees for June O'Dea Co
mez, his beautiful wife. An attor-
ney will turn the cash over and
Lefty" will be given a postpone
ment in the suit his wife has
brought against him for separa-
tion-provided he pays $75 week
aIimony without fail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
.OsfOrd Quits U. S.
Coal Commission

Q.N.S.) President Roos welt
has accepted, effective at once,
the resignation of C. F. Hosford,
jr., as chairman of the United
States Coal Commission, it was
announced today. After a long
standing row within the commits
sion, Hosford recently rendered
his resignation. Yesterday, by
long-distance phone, he advised
Mr.. Roosevelt he would like the
resignation accepted Immediately.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Mrs. Padway, Ruth,
Hurt in Auto Crash

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, April z
GN.SO.-Mrs. Joseph A. Padway,
40, wife of the general counsel for
the American Federation of Labor,
and her daughter, Ruth, were re-
ported recovering today from seri-
GUS injuries suffered when their
car collided with another ma
chine near here last night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
LITTLE HOPE
HELD FOR LIFE;
LEAVES NOTE
Wife Near Collapse
At Hospital
BY CARROLL PEEKE

Leaving a note to his family in
which he wrote, Remember, love
does not die with DEATH" Win.
throp G. Batchelder, 80, promi.
nent civic leader, shot himself this
morning in his offices in the
Woodward Building.
Taken to Emergency Hospital,
doctors said he has slight chance
to recover. The bullet, from q
.38 caliber automatic pistol, pene.
trated the brain. i4t
WIFE NEAR COLLAPSE
Mrs. Batchelder, who was sum-
moned to his bedside, was on the
verge of collapse when doctors
told her he would probably die.
Although he had lived in Wash
ington only about three years,
Batchelder had taken an impor-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Quits President
For crest Up" in Hospital

few months and that on the ad-
vice of the President himself, as
well as the Presidents White
House physician, DR.. Ross McIn-
tire, the secretary decided to take
a little rest"
It is expected he will be back at
his desk within 10 days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07

tant part in civic and business az
fairs, and last January was
elected president of the Chevy
Chase Citizens Association, one Of
the largest in the city.
Coming here from Cleveland,
Batchelder was manager Of the
Washington office of the Connecti-
cut General Life Insurance Com
pany. He was elected chairman
Of the board of the Life Insurance
Institute of Washington and vice
president of the Life Underwriters
Association.
FOUND BY CASHIER
Police believe Batchelder shot
himself about 8 o'clock this morn
ing, about an hour after he had
left his home at 5425 Connecticut
Ave. N. w., where he resides with
his wife, a young son, Gardner,
and a daughter, Carol.
Miss Lillian A. Hammer,
cashier of the company, entered
the offices about $3.50. She saw
a light burning in Batchelder's
private office and heard means.
Frightened, she waited until two
agents, Frank Smith and George
Junkins, entered and told them
what she heard. They went into
the office and found him lying on
the floor in a pool Of blood, the
pistol nearby. On his desk was a
Continued on Page 4, Col ~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07

Col. Marvin H. Mcintyre, presi-
dental secretary, entered the
Naval Hospital today for a rest
and general checkup.
It was explained at the White
House that Colonel Mcintyre had
been under exceptional pressure
Of work and business for the last
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Cherry Blooms
Slowed by Cold

Cautious double blossom
Japanese cherry trees, SEIZED
uled to bloom this weekend,
have been stayed by the cool
weather and will not unfurl
their petals until the middle
of next week.
Since the double blossoms
remain on the trees for about
10 days the pink and white
spectacle in Potomac Park
will be at the height of its
beauty Easter Sunday, it was
predicted.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Chamberlain Visit
To Duce Reported

LONDON, April 7 G.N.S0.-The
London Daily Mail reported from
Rome today that Prime Minister
Chamberlain would visit the Ital-
ian capital before summer. Should
he make such a trip, it was be-
lieved, Chamberlain would hold a
series of talks with Premier Mus
Solini.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Ready
To Move Capital

LONDON, April 7 Q.N.S).-Re.
ports received here today from
the Franco-Spanish frontier said
the Spanish LoyaliSts contemplate
moving their government from
threatened Barcelona to Alicante.
Cortagena or Valencia, probably
Alicante.
(Other Details on Page 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
Gandhi in Relapse
From Old Illness

CALCUTTA, India, April 7
G.N.SO.-Mohandas K. Gandhi,
nationalist leader and idol of In
dia's "untouchables," suffered a
relapse today in his recurring ILL.,
ness. Physicians described his con-
dition as weak.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
MERGER FOES
gain POINT ON
civil SERVICE
New Concession Is
Third Since Revolt

(I.N.S.) A powerful Admin
iStratiOn drive to pass the reOr-
ganizatiOn bill gathered strength
today as crucial votes on the
issue neared in the House. I'm
dersecretary of the Interior
Charles West, White House con-
tact man, who has been mystic
riOusly absent from the Capital
for weeks, reappeared in House
corridors today. West conferred
with leaders in the fight and
privately predicted the bill will
pass by rs votes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-07
LOAN COMPANY
OFFICERS FACE
RECOVERY SUIT
Auditor Reports on
Montgomery Firm

Possibility of court action
against some of the former Off
GERS of Montgomery Building and
Loan Association to recover ap-
proximately 100000 was indi-
Gated today in report Of the audi
tor of the United States District
Court.
The court action, the auditors
report indicated, would be on be-
half of the association and would
arise out of the sale Of $S2O,5lS.4S
worth of foundation surplus GER
tificates" in connection with the
early promotion of the association.
ASSOCIATION SOLVENT
However, the auditors report re-
vealed that, beyond the question
of the foundation surplus certiti-
Gates, the association is in a sol
vent condition and the sale Of its
tangible assets amounting to 1884,
916.79 to the Perpetual Building
and Loan Association should be
approved by the court.
Sale of the assets would realize
a sum sufficient to pay the $780,
024.40 in obligations, exclusive Of
those arising out Of the sale Of
foundation surplus certificates.
The association filed its petition
for dissolution on February 2,
pointing out that it has been I'm
able to find a profitable invest
ment of its funds and that unless
the dissolution was approved by
the court, the available assets
might be dissipated through suits
of the foundation surplus certifi-
cate holders, three of whom have
already obtained judgments to-
falling $1,000.
Hearings before the auditor dis
closed that the foundation surplus
certificates were sold for raising
operating funds and paying over
head expenses of the association
during the early days of its pro-
motion.
80 CENTS TO COMPANY
Originally, the certificates sold
for IS each. Testimony revealed
that only 80 cents out of each sale
actually went into the associa-
tons Golfers. The remainder was
used in the payment of commits
sionS and overhead expenses of
the association.
A bitter controversy flared in
hearings before Justice Bailey last
month over priority of claims of
the surplus certificate holders. It
is commended by present officials
Of the association that the certifi-
Gates are not shares of stock in
the association but merely entitled
the holder to purchase certain
shares of a highly desirable class.
The auditor today recon-
mended the question of priority
be fought out after the dissolution
Of the association, when diStribu-
ton Of money realized from the
sale Of assets will begin.