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Evening star., 1938-07-17
HEALTH CENTER ASKED
La Roe Suggests Project Be Built
Here by P. W. A.

A request for a 100000 health
center in downtown Washington. to
be built as a Public Works Admins
tration project, was forwarded to
Secretary of the Interior Ickes yes
terday by Wilbur La Roe. jr., chair
man of the Committee on Civic
Affairs of the Washington Federation
OF Churches
In his letter Mr.. La Roe said his
group Is interested in the matter
primarily for venereal disease control.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
FUNERAL SET TUESDAY
FOR HENRY J. KELLY
Treasury Architect, 55, Native Of
Scotland-Connoisseur of
Antiques and Oils.

Funeral services for Henry James
Kelly, s5, architect in the Procure
ment Division Of the Treasury De-
partment, who died Friday nigh. at
Evening star., 1938-07-17
FACTS INSPIRED
HORL|CK INQUIRY
Ontario Attorney General
Set Probe of Death
for July 26.

TORONTO, July 16 canadian
Press) General Gordon CO.
nant said today the inquest into the
death Of Mrs. Maybelle Horlick sidley.
heiress to the Horhck matted milk
fortune, had been ordered because Of
facts in our possession"
With the facts in our possession.
not to mention the many disturbing
rumors in circulation, l would not
be doing my duty if I failed to order
an inquest" the attorney general ex-
planned.
The inquest was set last night for
July 26. The 6l-year-old woman died
July at the home of w. Perkins Bull,
an attorney. A partial report of a
private autopsy. performed then with
the consent of her son, William, found
death due to brain tumor that
followed spinal lesion. The next
day, however. police began an investi-
CATION at the request Of the attorney
general.
Bull himself was served with a sub
poena to appear at the inquest. .,.-
"A summons also was issued for. his
son. Thomas Henry Bull. who left
the Linder Duchess of Bedford early
today at Father Point, on the lower
st. Lawrence, when a radiogram in
formed him Of the subpoena He
sailed yesterday from Montreal Tor
England. """ 't".
Under terms OF Mrs. Sidley's will,
made public yesterday at Racine, Wis,
the elder Bull and Mrs. Sidley's son
each were bequeathed one-third of
the residual estate, the total value
Of which was estimated at $4,000 600.
viii Contest Is Studied.
RACINE, Wis. July Is R.-A
member Of the Horlick family said to-
day the question of a contest of the
will Of Maybelle Horlick Sidley, malt
ed milk heiress. is being studied by
counsel for her son, 26-year-old Will
liam Horlick Sidley.
The attorney is William p. Sidley
of Chicago, the young mans uncle.
This information was given today
in a telephone conversation between
Attorney Sidley and the Horlick fam
lily member, the latter said.
Attorney Sidley did not indicate
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Business

In the u. S. last year were $685.
$4,000, 900 in securities wholly or
partly exempt from federal income
tax. OF these, $50, 522, 900, 600 were
eligible for assessment if the U. S.
should change its mind about ex-
empting government securities
federal, state, locaD. In 1887, this
investment brought security holders
an estimated Sl,544, 900, 600 interest,
which at the per cent normal tax
rate would yield S62, 100000. Actu-
ally, the tax would be higher. since
most exempt securities are held by
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Politics

Among candidates in Pennsyl-
vania's primary election were Phil
adelphia Mayor S. Davis Wilson and
Gov. George H. Earle, both running
for Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton. Candidate Wilson lost, was
subsequently indicted for miscon-
duct in office by a grand jury sum-
moned by Candidate Earle. In an
other phase of the campaign, Atty.
Gen. Charles j. Margiotti ran for
gubernatorial nomination, using as
campaign fodder the charges that
Governor Earle had extorted money
from state contractors and en-
ployees. and sold legislation.
Appointed to investigate was a
Dauphin county grand jury. Almost
Immediately Governor Earle sprang
into action, summoned the legisla
ture and rushed through special
bills which would defeat the grand
jury's investigation, would instead
leave the quiz up to the governors
hand-picked legislative committee.
Fortnight ago this committee met.
yawning politely over six days of
perfunctory testimony. Not until
Accuser Margiotti himself took the
stand was there much interest. His
testimony: Cd That Governor
Earle's administration leaders had
sold" legislation to beer and movie
interests for S150,000; (2) that Gov
ernor Earle prompted him to go
ahead with the probe of Philadel-
phia politics; 90 that the governor
had borrowed money from Matthew
H. McCloskey Jr., contractor work
ing on many state jobs. When Wit
ness Margiotti had finished, admin
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Some Heads May Fall;
NeW Spokesman Appear

In consequence of these things, l
have an idea that there will be
many, many moves made during
the next session and in the session
just before the 1910 convention de-
signed to take the Democratic party
out of the hands of the Roosevelt
advisers. l think you will see dele
gates being groomed here and
there, 18 months before they are to
be formally chosen. l believe also
that state political bosses will be-
come quite active next summer as
they watch which way the wind
blows. Some will guess wrong, some
right. Some political heads will fall
and new spokesmen will appear on
the scene.
All of these things, l predict, will
happen, barring one thing. That
one thing is war. If there is gen.
eral European war on the horizon,
then we may expect a different
course Of political events in the
OnlLeQ SIdLSS.
What am about to say, now, is
not said in discredit of the Presi-
dent. 1t is merely voicing fact in
politics. If there be a general war
abroad, and, more particularly, if
American relations become involved
in it, then Mr.. Roosevelt unquestion-
ably will appeal for solidarity Of
public opinion, for unanimous sup
port for the government of the ma
ton. His spokesmen and henchmen
will be busy as bees showing him
to be the only man for the job, the
only man capable of saving the ma
ton. That happened in Woodrow
Wilson'S time and it has happened
in every other war, and it will hap
pen again.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
HERE'S REAL
FISH SCHOOL

No textbook Information
for the marine zoology class
at the University OF Miami,
Fla. Students under Prot. !.
F. Pearson, tchO created the
unique department, actually
''gO TO school" in an under
sea classroom Uhere marine
grOwih is studied at first
hand. Equipped ,oith diUing
helmets, operated from a
special yacht, students get a
different location for study
each trip. Naturally, they're
the enUy OF The entire school.
Here pretty coed poses on
the ladder while a feIlOtU
student places the heavy he'll
me. Orer her head. Adranced
students ,UOrk as deep as so
feet belO,c surface.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Ffruclsara's Washington Digest
Three Times in Row Presidents
Purge Attempts Prove Futile
Roosevelt Unable to Transmit Personal Popularity
His Followers Political Prestige Suffers rreparabe
Damage; Forced Realignment Seen Complete Flop
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington d. c.

WASHINGTON.-There was quite
sermon, for me, in the telegram
Of congratulations that Virginia. S
great leader, Sen. Carter Glass, sent
to Senator George upon the occa-
sion of Senator Georges victory in
the attempted New Deal purge"
in Georgia. l don't know why that
telegram was not more widely print
ed, but it was typically like Carter
Glass, so cryptic, so full of mean
ing, that I am going to reprint it
here:
Senator Walter F. George. At
lanta, Ga.
God bless you, Walter. Like
wise, the sovereign State of Geor-
gia.
Signed. Carter Glass"
To get its true meaning, one
has to recall that Senator George
was the third democratic sena-
tor, in a row, who was openly
opposed by President Roose-
welt; the third marked to be
"purged" from the Democratic
party and the third in a row to
be victorious over the Presi-
dents ill-advised attempt to
dominate voters of a state, and,
in due course, the congress of
the United States, by person
ally picking the Democratic
party nominees.
Next, Mr.. George had been SUBJ
jected to perhaps the strongest New
Deal slap by the President, of any
Of the nine senators whom the Pres
ident originally described as men
behind the times. 1t will be re-
called how Mr.. Roosevelt, with Sen
ator George on the platform, spoke
his blessing of United States Attor-
ley Camp at Barnesville. Ca, and
nnounced his conclusion that Mr..
ieorge represented the past, not the
Jture. 1t was on that occasion, too,
lat Mr.. Roosevelt uttered the now
lmous: God bless you, Walter; l
ope we will always be friends"
The third feature to be remem-
1ered is that Mr. George won, that
former Governor Talmadge was
second and that the New Deal can
didate was third in the race, and
that Mr.. Georges victory was so
overwhelming that there was no
need for a run-off primary-the
method in the solid Democratic
states of choosing between the two
highest candidates from the prima-
ry vote. This means that a ma
iority of the voters-more than so
per cent-voted for Mr.. George.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Presidents Prestige Has
Suffered HeaUy Damage

Couple these facts with Senator
Tydlngs' victory over Rep. David j.
Lewis for the Democratic senatorial
nomination in Maryland, and Sen.
Cotton Ed" Smiths substantial
margin over Governor Johnston in
South Carolina, and it appears to me
that several conclusions are proper
and justifiable. Mr.. Roosevelt went
into South Carolina in behalf of Gov
ernor Johnston and he went into
Maryland to promise construction Of
several huge Chesapeake bay
bridges and to point to the good
qualities of Representative Lewis.
Yet, the Presidents wishes were
well ignored.
The conclusions l have reached
and I believe they will stand the
most critical test-are:
l. Mr.. Roosevelt is unable to
transmit to his followers the same
personal popularity that he has en-
joyed since entering the White
House.
2. His prestige as political lead
r, which undoubtedly was slipping
some extent before, has now suf-
red irreparable damage.
8. The congress that will be elect
/ In November will be the most
dependent, indeed, probably the
lost obstreperous, that the Presi-
mt has faced, and that spells trou-
in big way.
t. There can be no discounting the
uence that victories for the con-
tvatives, like those won by Tyd-
IS, Smith and George, will have
/ the rest of the country in the
ovember elections. 1t is an hon.
st statement, l believe, that there
re numerous voters who have been
avering between the New Deal and
le conservative school of thought,
nd large percentage of them will
urn to conservative candidate when
hey have a chance. They will be
influenced strongly, and that fact
worries the New Deal thinkers at
he moment.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29

were playing ball with Adolf Hitler,
were willing to sacrifice Czechoslo-
vakia to keep Der Fuehrer salts
fed. After a week-end's study, the
French statesmen went home. A
few hours later, from simultaneous
cabinet meetings in London and
Paris, came announcement of the
scheme that spelled Prague's doom.
The scheme: Cd Cession to Ger
many of Sudeten areas in Czecho-
slovakia which are overwhelmingly
German; CD plebiscite to deter
mine future status of Sudeten areas
where German population is more
than so per cent; 90 international
guarantee of Czechoslovakia re-
manning boundaries.
1t was plain that Prague had been
sold down the river without hear
ing, since the British-French plan
received French cabinet approval
before Czech Minister Stefan Osus-
ky was officially notified in Paris.
When he finally was told, Minister
Osusky's lips trembled as he asked
newsmen: do you want to see
man convicted without a hearing?
Here l stand"
Though immediate responsibility
for the Sell-out was directed first at
Neville Chamberlain, observers
soon placed it on Frances doorstep.
Actually. Premier Daladier had in
spired the English conversation
with Hitler, had urged Britain to
back down on Franco-British agree
ment of April 20 to defend Czecho-
slovakia. But whatever the cause
of this capitulation, it probably cost
both Premier Daladier and Cham
berlain good-sized chunk of public
support. AS before, democracy had
capitulated before the bluff of
totalitarian state.
Still left to straddle was Czecho-
slovakia's uneQuivocable opposition
to the scheme. Shouted Premier
Milan Hodza: ''In the name of the
lawful authorities of this state de-
clare that the government will
defend completely the integrity of
the state. A plebiscite would be
unacceptable. While Hungary and
Poland began looking for liberation
of their minoritieS in Czechoslo-
vakia, while Soviet Russia consid-
cred coming to Prague's aid moot
question was whether the orphaned
nation might not become another
Spain, in which Communistic Rus
sia and Nazi Germany would fur
nish the manpower for civil war.
Business
In the u. S. last year were $685.
$4,000, 1000 in securities wholly or
partly exempt from federal income
tax. OF these, $50, 522, 900, 600 were
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Foreign

A month ago, long before Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler challenged the
world at his Nuremberg Nazi con-
gress, before Godfrey Dawson's
London Times editorialZed on the
advisability Of giving Germany her
way, Great Britain showed signs OF
weakening in the struggle to keep
CzechosloVakia intact. ALI summer
her Viscount Runciman had tried
to make peace between Prague and
3,500,000 Sudeten Germans who
wanted autonomy and eventual an
nexation by Germany. yet nothing
was accomplished. Moreover,
though Britain was pledged to aid
France, who has pact with Czech
oslovakia, it has long been apparent
that what England wanted, above
all, was peace.
Fortnight ago. as Berlin and
Prague veered on the edge Of war,
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain took his first airplane ride,
speeding to Fuehrer Hitler's chalet
at Berchtesgaden in a desperate ef-
fort to stave off conflict that would
certainly involve all Europe. Next
day he flew back. hastily calling his
cabinet into session. To France
went an invitation: Would Premier
Edouard Daladier and Foreign Min
lister Georges Bonnet come to Lon
don for a conference? They would,
and did, rushing across the channel
like hungry dogs after bone.
By this time it was apparent
Europe's two greatest democracies
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Political Destruction
Of Roosevelt Threatened

! know that Mr.. Roosevelt is no
more anxious to have the United
States become involved in war than
you or /. He realizes its cost in
blood, as well as the disarrange-
ment of world economics that fol-
lows. And if war comes, he natural
ly will want a united nation back
of him. But, coldly and abstractly,
l repeat that war conditions are the
only set of circumstances that l see
now which may prevent thorough
going movement on Capitol Hill for
the political destruction of Mr..
Roosevelt. When l say, political de-
struction, do not mean to imply,
or to hint that opponents of the Pres
ident within his own party want to
send him to oblivion. They viii
Seek-they are seeking, now-to de-
throne him in every way except as
titular head of the party. They
want the guidance to come from old
Democratic leaders and they want
adherence to old Democratic prIncl-
pies. That is to say, the longtime
oracles of the Democratic party
have witnessed stupidity, sheer
dumbness, on the part of the young
squirts who have crowded close to
the President, and they want to
send those quacks back to the oblivi-
on from which they came. Further,
the old line Democrats want to avoid
a wide-open split in their party. Un-
less that can be done in 1910, there
will be a Republican victory fol-
lowed by exactly the same condi-
tions that wrecked the Republicans
after the purge" that the voters
gave the G.. o. P. in 1882 and 1896.
G Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Labor

Mushroomed in little more than a
year from 10000 to 400, 600 men,
bers, c. l. O.'s United Automobile
Workers of America is headed by
Homer Martin, one-time preacher,
is run by young zealots who split
last June into two factions accusing
each other of communistic leanings.
Result was President Martins dis
missal Of three vice presidents and
a secretary-treasurer, temporary
suspension of another vice presi-
dent.
Fearful lest his pet union be torn
asunder, disliking U. A. WIS pub
licity, John L. Lewis finally secured
Homer Martins permission to inter-
vene after the latter insisted U. A.
WIS autonomy be preserved. To
Detroit went c. I. O.'s Sidney Hill
man and Phillip Murray for two
week study.
Outcome was labor peace, tempo
rarily at least. Though Homer Mar
tin won his autonomy plea, he
gave in on other points, allowing
Peacemakers Hillman and Murray
to decide whether u. A. WIS sus-
pended officials shall be reinstated.
In the future, they will help U. A. w.
settle inter-union squabbles.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29

thinkers who surround the Presi.
dent and give him such poor politi-
cal advice.
There will be a condition In the
next congress that will be worthy OF
watching. Surely, no one will ex-
pect Tydings and Smith and George
and Clark Of Missouri and six or
eight other senator's to go out Of
their way to support a Roosevelt
program in which they may not
believe. There is the nucleus. There
were already 20 or more senators Of
that mind. With those reelected
after overcoming the purge" it
seems reasonable to suppose that as
little political credit as possible will
be given to the President.
House members nearly always
keep in close touch with the sena-
tors of their respective states, par
ticularly if they are of the same po-
litical faith. They will take encour-
agement from the forthrightness of
their seniors and, quite naturally,
will be bolder and more outspoken.
1t will be much more difficult for
Democratic Leader Rayburn to hold
his majority together in the house
of representatives because of this
new-found courage and, in some
cases, resentment.
All of which leads into a third
phase. Few Presidents have been
able to withstand bushwhacking
from Capitol Hill. It confronts Mr..
Roosevelt to an unparalleled degree
because of the purge" Thus, a fur
ther analysis seems to offer evil
dence, at least a hint, that Mr..
Roosevelt's control of the Demo-
cratic party may be broken. If it
is not now an accomplished fact,
see no reason to expect that the
President can control the Democrat
ic national convention of 1910. That,
after all, is one of the things at
stake in the Presidents ill-starred
purge" attempts.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Medicine

Hand in hand with hard times
goes poor health, an outgrowth of
public inability to pay doctor bills.
Since Depression, government has
supplied health service to relief eli
ents, but thousands of borderline
cases have gone unaided. Last July,
President Roosevelt called a public
health conference in Washington,
where ENJOYS of the potent Amer
lean Medical association fought a
federal plan for compulsory sick
ness insurance. Their reason: A.
M. AS historic opposition to So
cialized medicine.
But medicine, like other profes-
sions, has suffered with depression.
Since crisis loomed, since the ma
tional health conference offered 9TH
er proposals less disfavorable to
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29

highly ethical U. S. doctors, fort
night ago A. NJ. A. called an emer-
gency meeting of its house of dele
gates at Chicago.
Opening day they heard DR.. Irwin
Abel of Louisville, KY, president,
explain that A. M. A. has constant
ly opposed any attempt on the part
Of governments to make med
ical care a political issue" They
also heard President-elect Rock
Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis, whose
state house of delegates had just
recommended a trial of sickness in
surance, warn that: ut is our
duty to oppose in every way e.
unSound doctrines.
Second day, delegates voted to
take every concession government
offered. so long as government
could be held in check. Opposed
was sickness insurance, which
would work like social security. Fa-
vored were: ID Hospital service in
surance, particularly as a commu-
nifty project; (2) extension Of y. S.
public health service; (3) creation
Of a federal department Of health;
(4 disability compensation; t5) help
for INDECENT.
Wherever government must be
mixed with medicine, A. M. A. ia
vored local and state control. Ex-
planned resolution: The role Of
federal government should be prin-
cipally that Of giving financial and
technical aid"
If A. NJ. AS resolutions showed
a trend to changing ethics. an even
greater trend was shown in the sug-
gestion offered by DR.. Charles A.
Dukes of Oakland, Calf, who wants
district groups of physicians to ad-
vertise their service and its cost.
Though it never reached a vote, the
Dukes resolution received approval
of a committee on miscellaneous
matters, indicating what may be eX-
pected at A. M. AS next annual
convention.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Domestic

Massachusetts sent 5000 delegates
campaigning for the 1910 conven.
ton. Wisconsin's 700 carried milk.
pals and Maine sent Rudy Vallee.
who joined the navy at IS and was
sent home sick. Thus, at Los Ange-
les convened $50, 900 members of the
American Legion. Before the week
long meeting opened, most fireworks
had exploded. Resolutions were
mostly against isms and aliens, and
Chicago was virtually assured the
1899 convention. Slated for certain
election as national commander was
Stephen F. Chadwick. Seattle attor-
ney, whose three opponents with
drew one by one.
Var
In Spain, where Europe's Czech
oslovakian crisis was bound to have
an effect, Germany repeatedly with
drew much of her war equipment
from Generalissimo Francisco
Frances insurgent army, while all
fronts settled down to watch the
game of diplomatic chess being
played by Britain, Germany and
France. Only action was at Span
ish Morocco, where 35 died in 10y
alist uprising, and at the Ebro front,
where loyalists recaptured trenches
previously taken by rebels. Hope
fully awaited at Barcelona, where
air raids had just killed 81, was an
agreement by combatants to COOP
crate in preventing future civilian
bombardments.
0 In China, while one invading jap
anese force reached within rs miles
of besieged HankoW, nine Nipponese
warplanes flew over Canton and
made five direct hits on the Stout
Memorial hospital. operated by the
American Baptist mission. Shanghai
harbor. which once teemed with
warships of all lands, showed by
nose count to have no British ves-
sells, two French, three Italian, two
American, seven Japanese.
o In Palestine, 13 British air force
planes clashed with rebelling Arab
tribesmen, killed 130 to write anoth-
2r chapter in the Holy Lands war
between Jews, Arabs.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29
Weekly News Review
'SeUOut' of CzechOslOudkia
Fails to Erase Var Dangers
-By Joseph w. La Bine

individuals and corporations paying
higher tax rate.
For years, men have run for Of
fee on promise Of outlawlng tax
exempt securities, and next winters
congress will have a chance to full
fill the promise. Backed by White
House favor, new tax measures will
include not only this feature, but
also a plan for levies reciprocaly
arranged on salaries of state, local,
federal officers. Still uncertain is a
proposal to broaden the tax base by
including lower income brackets.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-29

istration critics admitted he had
been permitted to speak more freely
than they expected.
Still to be heard from were scores
of witnesses including State Rep.
Charles Melchiorre, Philadelphia
Democrat, and Governor Earle him.
self, whose senatorial campaign will
be decided a bare two months
hence. Also to be heard from was
the state Supreme court which is
deciding legality of the legislatures
rubber stamp" bills, one of which
would remove District Atty. Carl B.
Shelley from supervision over the
grand jury quiz. In his place would
be Atty. Gen. Guy K. Bard, a gov
ernOr's appointee. Moreover, no one
knew if the grand jury would be
permitted to investigate before the
legislative committee concluded its
hearings.