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Evening star., 1938-08-25

$4,000 to $4,000 in campaign funds
at its disposal, made it clear that
before its support was withheld from
a duly nominated party candidate,
1t must first receive representations
from party organization in the state
that the primary election was improper.
Battle for Control.
Senator Pope, an administration
supporter was beaten by Representa-
tive D. Worth Clark, who asserted
during the campaign that he would
not be a." administration Yes man"
Reports from Idaho say the two are
now engaged in a contest for control
OF the State organiza ton. Meanwhile,
Senator Pope is considering accepting
the nomination of the Progressive
party or running independently. Asked
about that situation, Senator Brown
replied:
That's a difficult question. l would
say offhand that unless there ap-
peared to be something fundamentally
wrong in the primary We would sup
port the nominee"
He said he agreed with President
Roosevelt that political immortality
was involved in the reported Republi-
can participation in the Idaho Demo-
cratic primaries. Mr.. Roosevelt's state
ment that $4,000 to 10000 Republi-
cans cast their votes against Senator
Pope, he added. indicated that there
was evidence to be considered by the
committee"
Evening star., 1938-08-25
MISS MCCONNELL
TO GET WAGES POST
Will Head Staff in Charge Of
Children's Employment
Under New Act,

BY the Associated Press.
Beatrice Mcconnell went to work
summers while college student to ee,
a practical idea of labor problems.
For sl2 a week, she watched ma.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
PARTY WILL BACK
PRIMARY V|CTORS
Democratic Committee LAYS
Plans for Fall charge
Denied by G. 0.P.
BY the Associated Press,


This years bitter primary fights,
complicated by Intervention of ma
tional leadership Of both parties in
the State contests, continued today
to stir reactions here. Touched of
anew by President Roosevelt's de-
nunciation Of alleged Republican par
ticipation In Democratic primaries,
the following developments were noted
here during the last "a hours:
l. Chairman Brown, Democrat, of
Michigan, OF the, Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee-with d.
rect reference to the Idaho situation
where friends OF Senator James p.
Pope blamed his primary defeat on
Republican votes-said party nomi-
nees could expect the committees
support, unless there was something
fundamentally wrong" with the pri-
maries that nominated them.
2. Chairman John Hamilton Of the
Republican National Committee said
in a statement that, In view of his
recent political activities, Mr.. Roose-
welt must have had his tongue in
his cheek when he asserted that Re-
publican participation in Democratic
primaries violated simple political mo-
rality.' The Chief Executives as
sertion, he added, constitutes IAN in
dlctment Of the election laws OF a
NUMBER OF sovereign States"
Favors Amendment.
5. Senator Sheppard, Democrat. of
iexas said he favored adoption of a
constitutional amendment giving Con.
sress power to deal with primary
campaign expenditures, an authority
which the Supreme Court said it did
not nave In the Newberry case.
He also said he favored an amend
ment to give Congress the right to
prescribe the conditions under which
primary elections for Federal offices
shall be held, but on reconsideration
issued a statement saying he did not
approve such course.
Senator Sheppard said. however.
that he thought the President was
right in comdemning voting by ad-
herents Of one party in another party's
primary. Such action paralyzes
party procedure" he said.
Meanwhile. Chairman Sheppard re-
ceived from the Workers Alliance an
explanation of its plans for spending
$4,000 fund 1t proposes to raise from
contributions by w. P. A. workers and
others.
Sheppard said he told David LASER.
president OF the alliance, in a con-
terence today he felt the fund might
constitute border line" case violat-
Ing the law governing solicitation of
persons receiving Federal compensa-
tion. He said he would present Las
ser's explanation to the committee.
Mr.. LASER said the alliance did not
propose to contribute to any candi-
dates campaign fund, but would spend
the money on its own political activi-
ties
We want to emphatically declare
that not one penny Of this money Will
be turned over to any candidate for
once, Mr.. Lasser's written statement
said. 1t added that the money would
be used in general furtherance Of
our purpose-which is to make it clear
to the unemployed and w. P. A. work.
ers what the political issues are in the
campaign and where the interests of
the unemployed and w. P. A. workers
lie"
Senator Brown. who told reporters
he expected the committee to have
Evening star., 1938-08-25
BROTHER INDICTED,
HOLT BLAMES FOES
Senator Says Enemies Trying to
Shut Me Up as Forging of
Checks Is Laid to Kin.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Aug 25.-
Senator Rush D. Holt, youthful Demo-
cratic critic of the Roosevelt admins
tration, charged last night his enemies
were trying to shut me up" as a Fed
eral indictment was returned accusing
his brother of forging Endorsements of
two w. p A. checks.
The brother, Matthew S. Holt, jr..
40, was w. P. A. district engineer in
Parkersburg, w. Va, from July /.
1885. to February 81, 1886.
Senator Holt said in a statement at
his home in nearby Weston:
Since I started to expose the cor
ruption Of a rotten political machine.
my family, my friends. as we'll as my
self, have been the targets of malicious
attacks. Every type has, and is, being
used
"One high official said. We will shut
Holt up They are mistaken. The
fight to expose corruption will 20 on"
Matthew Holt was charged with in
dorsing checks issued two years ago to
Max Lynch. Parkersburg w. P. A.
worker. He posted $4,000 bond for
appearance in court Monday at Fair
mont.
Matthew Holt was discharged from
w. P. A. less than week after his
brother had charged in the Senate
that F. w. Mccullough, then State
w. P. A. administrator, was using the
w. P A. to elect himself governor"
Mr.. Mccullough, who now is secre-
tary of the National Bituminous Coal
Commission, told Aubrey Williams,
deputy w. p A. administrator, short
time after the charge. he was not
candidate for any Office He did not
r1ln
Evening star., 1938-08-25

speech In favor of Mr.. Lewis instead
OF going to Baltimore.
Senator Goldsborough, close friend
OF Mr.. Lewis. already is reported to be
quietly working in the Eastern Shore
regions in an effort to offset the
reputed strength of Mr.. Tydings. The
Eastern Shore is in Senator Goldsbor-
ough's district, and Mr.. Lewis sympa-
thizers feel he will be able to undo
much OF the progress Senator Tydings
is reported to have made in that
section, and wreck as we'll the organ
ization that is supporting Senator
Tydings.
Mr. Lewis already has been on the
Eastern Shore during his campaign,
but he is expected to return in the
next week. His advisers have sug-
gested that he speak at Ocean City
Labor Day, when this famous Mary
land resort will be crowded His ad-
visers also hope the President will
speak there at the same time.
II Mr.. Lewis takes Maryland's rich
est farming section, which is Freder-
lex County. away from Senator Tyd.
ings it will be due largely to the
sympathy" vote.
Lacks Organization.
Although Frederick County is his
present congressional district where he
has hundreds Of personal friends and
the districts population Is made up
largely OF farmers who have lean
ing" toward him because of the help he
has given them in the dark days of
the depression. Mr.. Lewis lacks an
organization in Frederick County that
would get his supporters to the polls.
There are no Lewis for Senate" Clubs
in Frederick County, and the people
who say they will vote for him declare
they will do so solely out of SYM
pathy"
Little 'Davey' Lewis, as he is called
by those who know him intimately. is
not an organization candidate. And
that in itself is a decided handicap.
The bankers in the town of Frederick
and the businessmen are mildly op.
posing Mr Lewis solely because he is
a symbol OF the New Deal program,
and many of them have no use for
that.
Workers Appear Favorabl
But the factory workers and the
working man in general, as we'll as
the organized employees in the Balti-
more d Ohio freight shops in nearby
Brunswick seem to be Lewis SUD-
porters But elsewhere throughout the
county there appears to be an attitude
Of indifference.
Another factor ravoring Senator
Tydings in Frederick is the fact that
President Roosevelt in his purge" has
attempted to dictate" to voters.
Marylanders in this section saw they
don't like dictation, even from the
President.
Mr.. Lewis, in his appearance before
postdasters Of the State in Frederick,
carefully avoided politics" and his
campaign 10 defeat Senator Tydings,
His course was dictated by the post
masters. who told him in advance
they did not want him to even mem
tion-for obvious reasons-the sen.
atorial campaign.
Mr.. Lewis paid glowing tribute
to the Post Office Department, in
which he has been intensely inter-
ested since becoming q member of
Congress.
Evening star., 1938-08-25

represent you before they owe allegi-
ance to anybody else"
Charging that the position being
taken by Mr.. Lewis in the campaign
is equivalent to a pledge in advance
to support everything the administra-
ton recommends, the Senator inquired:
Suppose the President asks him to
vote for war-and who knows how
far of war is. Now, if Mr.. Lewis
means that to be a good Democrat
means being 100 per cent subservient
to the will of the Executive, and if
the President should recommend war,
he would be honor bound to vote for
war"
After giving several other illustra-
tions OF important legislative proposals
that might be submitted, such as
broader Executive control over appro-
priations or the levying of taxes, Mr.
Tydings said he did not mean to imply
that the President is going to do those
things. He said he was merely trying
to show the futility and childishness
of contending lawmakers should not
exercise their judgment on questions
presented.
Answering attacks Mr.. Lewis has
made on his voting record in the
Senate, Mr.. Tydings said the conten-
ton is that there were II or %
occasions on which I did not goose
step, when should have goose-stepped
100 times"
After leaving the headquarters of
the Eleventh Ward Democratic Club,
the Senator hurried uptown and re-
peated substantially the same address
to members of the Associated Demo-
cratic Club.
The Senator is scheduled to make
anothtr speech in this city tonight.
He declined today to make any COM
ment on the telegram which DR.. H. C.
Byrd, president of the University of
Maryland. sent to President Roosevelt
inviting him to visit the State to pre-
sent his philosophy of government.
Senator Tydings and Mr.. Lewis met
on the same platform at a tobacco
growers outing at Seaside Park several
weeks ago, but the discussion on that
occasion was brief and devoted mainly
to the problems of agriculture.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT
ON KEYSTONE RELIEF
Refuse to Discuss Outcome of
Conference on Method of
Selecting Employees.


By the Associated Press.
Social Security Board officials and
two members of Pennsylvania Legs-
lature refused any enlightening COM
ment today after two-hour discussion
of controversy over the States system
of selecting employees for the admin
istration of relief.
Godfrey May. assistant executive
director of the Social Security Board,
said the Pennsylvanians asked for a
statement of policy of the board toward
State regulations. He said the board
required job appointments to be made
ION basis of objective standards"
He refused to define objective stand
ards and said any disclosures about
the conference must come from the
Pennsylvanians
The Social Security Board has in
formed the Pennsylvania public as
sistance department that any proposed
changes in the merit system of lob
appointments must be approved by the
board or the Federal contribution of
$l,500,000 month might be withheld.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
ROPER SUPPORTS
CHARGE BY LEWIS
Tydings Questioned His
Contract Authority,
Secretary SAYS.

A member of the Presidents cabinet
was an added starter" in Maryland's
troubled senatorial primary today as
Secretary of Commerce Roper gave
support to charges of Representative
Lewis, New Deal-favored candidate
for the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton. that his opponent, Senator Tyd-
ings, had acted in the interests of
scrap-metal company purchasing ships
from the Federal Government.
Secretary of Commerce Roper told
press conference yesterday that the
Maryland Senator had repeatedly"
questioned the Secretary's right and
his reasons for abrogating a contract
involving the sale of 124 laid-up Gov
ernment ships to the Boston Iron g.
Scrap Metal Co. of Baltimore in 1882.
On November S, 1882, Mr.. Roper
said the United States Shipping
Board under the Hoover administra-
ton agreed to sell its 124 laid-up
vessels to the Boston Iron & Scrap
Metal Co., of Baltimore, for scrapping
at $l51 per gross ton of metal in the
ships.
Secretary Roper said he thought
the price was too low and that the
contract was illegal, because there
was a law against selling vessels for
scrap when they could bring higher
price for operation. So, in August
1888, when the Commerce Department
absorbed the Shipping Board, Mr..
Roper abrogated the contract
Thirty-four of the ships had been
delivered to the company at that
time. The dispute continued for two
years and was settled by turning all
but 46 of the remaining ships over
to the scrap metal company. Through
out the controversy, Mr.. Roper said
Mr.. Tydings came repeatedly to my
desk and questioned my authority to
abrogate the contract"
Evening star., 1938-08-25

ployment under the Wage Hour Act.
Miss Mcconnell as head of the in
dustrial division of the bureau, has
been checking up on child labor for
the last three years. She has studied
occupational hazards, assisted in draft
ing standards for State laws and served
the States in an advisory way.
Il wouldn't say l was crusader"
Miss Mcconnell said today, without
pausing as she signed letters.
She said the last decade had seen
great advances in Federal and State
legislation, land what is more i'm
portant-advances in public thinking"
Evening star., 1938-08-25
Request Filed
For Federal Job
As Lion Hunter

A Pennsylvania applied today for
Government job as a lion hunter
and the Civil Service Commission
hastened to explain that there aren't
any.
The applicant wrote the commission
that he noticed Your ad regarding an
examination for civil service jobs as
lion hunters"
Puzzled officials said they held an
examination In 1884 for squirrel hunt
ers-the Public Health Service needed
squirrels In studying certain diseases
but we haven't any lion hunter jobs
and never have had them"
Evening star., 1938-08-25

chlnes IN a hosiery
factory. Later she
worked in a Mil
waukee C an d y
factory and in a
clothing plant.
Today. her urge
for fact-fnding is
centered on child
labor problems.
She is slated for
the key job when
M ] S S katharine
Lenroot, chief of
t he Children's
Bureau, sets up a
staff for regulat-
ing rhildren's en-
Evening star., 1938-08-25
Lewis Club to Meet.

A mass meeting of hackers of the
Lewis-for-Senate Club Of Montgomery
County will be held at pm. tomor-
row at the Rockville Courthouse for
the purpose OF organizing workers for
the campaign. Organization and in
dependent sympathizers alike are
urged to attend. There will be no
speakers. Bowie Waters, chairman of
the Organization Committee, will pre-
side
Evening star., 1938-08-25
AIR BASE MOVE HIT

County Officials Protest Plan to
Convert Area.
YORKTOWN, Va, Aug. Is P,.-
Proposals to set aside certain areas in
Back River for use of the air base at
Langley Field and to prohibit the erec-
ton in the area Of oyster stakes, Ash
ing structures and the like have
prompted a report signed by three
county officials to the War Depart
ment asking that the Armys request
be denied.
Application has been made BY the
commanding officer of Langley Field
that certain areas be set aside in Back
River, abutting Poquoson district, for
exclusive use by the Air Corps for its
maneuvers.
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prisoners included both felons and
those sentenced for misdemeanors.
Conditions would have been far
worse. Mr.. Huff pointed out, but for
the policy of not keeping long-term
prisoners permanently in the Jail.
Individual Cells.
Tentative plans, he explained, pro-
vide for 564 separate cells. THE new
,plan provides for not putting more
than one man in a CELL" he said.
With the addition of dormitories, the
new construction will make it possible
to take care of an overflow CAPACITY
Of 1,066 inmates.
To meet the urgent demand for
space in the old cell block, Mr.. Huff
said the arrangement was revised
some months ago by making two cells
out of one. Even with this arrange
ment, the increase in the Jail popula-
tion made it necessary to place several
prisoners in each of these small cells
at times.
The new Improvements will give
the District a practical Jail of good
utility" Mr.. Huff added 1T will give
us also better control system over
the prisoners. This system is now
being made the subject of a thorough
study
The improvements also will provide
good sanitation and decent care for
the men and women forced to live
there"
Present sanitary conditions, especi-
ally in the washrooms and toilets, long
have been an object of worry to Dis
trict officials. Even necessary i'm
provements from time to time failed to
provide facilities such as desired in a
thoroughly modern building.
The two existing wings will be
wrecked inside under present plans
The work is of such an extensive char
acter as to provide almost a new
building
In justification of the approval of
p W. A. funds for this work. it was
described as essential to provide
proper detention facilities to handle
the present requirements and allow for
future growth There was no esti-
mate at the p w. A. of the prisoner
capacity of the four new cell blocks.
The prison project. one of the most
important on the list of l3 proposed
Improvements submitted by the Com
missioners, is the ninth to be ap-
proved. While officials at the District
Building refuse 70 discuss the P. w. A.
program, it is known that they hope
majority of the remaining projects
will be approved before long.
With considerably less than $780,
100000 remaining for non-Federal
projects throughout the country, the
P. w. A. is putting the brakes on its
pump-priming program. Still pend
ing are nearly 1000 applications from
cities in every State, and funds must
be spread as evenly and as fars as
possible
The District program, originally
calling for $18,150,00O from the p. w
A., was submitted among the earliest
OF the new applications, despite an un-
fortunate setback at first. To this
amount. the Commissioners added three
other projects. including the Fort Reno
drive extension calling for a total of
$l.375, 900.
Since construction work must start
by January l on all projects approved.
the engineer force at the District
Building is Fastening plans and con-
tracts for the projects which already
have been approved. They are con-
fde~. ---.'. -I':,,o
-unuon supways may be used as air
raid shelters.
Evening star., 1938-08-25
FORMER D. c. MAN DIES
Charles McC. Chapman Was Once
Patent Office Examiner

Charles McC. Chapman, a former
examiner in the Patent Office here,
died last night at his home in New
York City, it was learned today
through a telegram from his widow
to Assistant Postmaster w. M. Mooney
here.
A graduate Of George Washington
University, Mr.. Chapman has prac-
ticed patent law in New York.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-05-05

weight from 35 to IS pounds are
furnishing eggs for the new hatch
cry at Nevis on Belle Tain Lake.
Over 800, 900 eggs have already been
taken, and by May Is there will be
100000 muskies one inch long swim
ming the waters of the hatchery
pond.
All previous attempts to propa-
gate the wary muskie have failed
in Minnesota, but after thoroughly
studying the habits Of the fish, Mr..
J. o. Nelson, superintendent Of fish
propagation, has become convinced
they can be propagated successfully.
"A special rearing pond Of about
II acres Of water has been prepared
for receiving the fry. 1t has been
seined out so no adult fish remain
and is rich in insect life, such as
water fleas, fresh water shrimp and
daphne-ideal for young fry. When
they have grown in this pond to
two inches, they will be fed TOP
water minnows to prevent canni.
ba1ism.
When they are three to four inch.
es long, big sinner minnows will be
dumped in the pond as food. BY
July 20 the fry are expected to av
erage six inches in length. But
they will be held in the pond, pro
tected from other fish, until they
are eight to ten inches long ant
next fall will be planted" in Belle
Tain, Mantrap, Boulder and othel
lakes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-05-05

stands transfixed before the un-
folding heaven of Babylon; he ac-
companies the Kings Amounted son
into bondage, follows the Lords
people into captivity, and stands at
last upon the sill OF the ruined Holy
Of HOLES, grasping in his hand a
remnant of the shattered tablets of
Sinai-God's promise of the days
to come. But, though he walks in
these ancient paths and acts in
these ancient ways, he reasons and
struggles and suffers as men of his
tempered spirit have always done
and will always do.
From the day Of Millions Para
disc Lost" to the day of Thomas
Mann's Joseph and His Brothers"
writers have found in the Bible the
spark which kindles in them story
that shall be ageless. 1t may be
said that, in jeremiah and his life
long struggle to bring light to the
blind souls of his fellows, Werfel
has again found this spark.
New Books
Here Is a complete list Of new
books just received by the library
from Sinclair Lewis:
Rush to the Sun-William Brown
Meloney.
Strangers-Claude Houghton.
In Praise of Life-Walter Schoen-
stedt.
The Last Genro-Prince Saionji.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Fora Neale Hurston.
The Oxford Book of English
verse-Arthur CUTLER Couch.
Action at Aquila-Hervey Allen.
When Thieves Fall Out-Sir Basil
Thomson.
Village Tale-John De Meyer.
Here Are My People-Arthur j.
Burks.
The Turning Wheels-Stuart Clio
etc.
OF Great Riches-Rose Franken.
This Is My Affair-Lola Kinel.
Laughter in the Dark-Vladimir
Nobakoff.
Moscow Yankee-Myra Page.
Straw in the Wind-Ruth Lin
niger Dobson.
Youth in the oils-Leonard v.
Harrison.
The Cairo Garter Murders-Van
Wyck Mason.
Free Land-Rose Wilder Lane.
Mortal Storm-Phyllis Bottome.
The Tyranny Of Word-Stuart
Chase.