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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-01
Social and Personal
q MINNEAPOLIS 9

Mrs. Leonard Allen Of Los An
geles is visiting her husbands par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Allen,
$50 Bryant avenue north, after five
years absence from the Twin
Cities. She plans to visit the Aliens
and other relatives during the re-
mainder of the winter.
Send former residents this paper
for a Christmas gift. Fifty-twO
copies, one each week, will be a gift
that viii keep for a whole year
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-01
Social and Persona
9 ST. PAUL

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Doctors and Mesdames Lee Fer
guson Of Waterloo, Iowa, Charles
Williams and J. Walton Crump of
st. Paul, Mesdames Leah Mae
Minor Young, Hector P. Vassar,
George Berry, the Misses Marcella
Copeland, Elizabeth Schuck, Char
lotte Crump Of Pittsburgh, Annette
Hatton, and Messrs. Earl OnQue,
Sam Reed, August Piper, Warren
GrissOm, Clifford Rucker, George
Baker Of Dallas, Texas, Clarence
Taylor, . pledge from Xavier chap
ter, West Virginia, Leroy Gentry,
Perry Niece, Steve Maxwell, and
Rufus o. Webster of st. Louis.
Minister Visits HereI DR.. John E.
Ford, pastor of Bethel Baptist In
stitutional Church in Florida, Wis
tied his sister, Mrs. Benjamin F.
Edwards, Pa W. Central avenue,
for four days of last week.
Frem Waterloo, Iowa! DR.. and
Mrs. Lee Ferguson of Waterloo,
Iowa, spent the weekend in st.
Paul.
Adelphai Club Meets! The Adel-
phai Club met Tuesday, November
%, at the home Of Mrs. George w.
Brooks, ITO st. Anthony avenue.
Come-As-YOu-Are! The Ladies
Auxiliary of the st. Paul Urban
League sponsored a Come-As-You-
Are Party, Monday, November q,
at the Halle Q. Brown Community
House. The members were all
picked up by the Committee and
brought to the party just as they
were when the door bell rang. First
prize for the outfits went to Mrs.
Julia Douglas and the second to
Mrs. Benjamin F. Edwards. Door
prizes were won by Mrs. Richard
Stokes and Mrs. Edwards. About
80 people attended.
Majesties Meetl The Majestic
Club will meet Saturday, December
2, at the home Of Mrs. Leroy
Lazenbury, 99S W. Central avenue.
18th Anniversary! Mr.. and Mrs
Harry 8. Brown, 626 st. Anthony
avenue, celebrated their 29th we'd
ding anniversary, Thursday, No
vember %. They were dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Davis alberta BROWN, 947 st.
Anthony avenue.
Bridge Club! The Bid-Rite Con-
tract Club met Thursday, Novem-
Der %, at the home of Miss Evalyn
E. Kelly, $50 St. Anthony avenue.
First club prize was won by Mrs.
John L. Banks, second by Miss
Kelly, and the BOBBY by Mrs. TheO-
dore f. Ruffner. Mrs. Norman 81.
Howell was a proxy. The next
meeting win be Thursday, Deeem-
Der z, at the home of Mrs Ralph
Gardner, $40 N. Western avenue.
Self Culture Club! The Self Gull
ture Club met on Friday, Novem-
Der 10, at the home of the presi-
dent, Mrs. Jay P. Williams, CTS
Iglehart avenue. Following a de-
licious dinner, plans for the Forum
program to be given by the club
were perfected. The regular cur
rent events was a part of the
afternoons program, and during
the social hour, Mrs. Hilda Park
er's birthday was celebrated.
In Graduate School! Mr.. John
Brooks of Indianapolis, Indiana,
who graduated from the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, is in the Grad
uate School.
Dinner Party! Miss Charlotte
Crump, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-01

]. w. Crump, $50 Fuller avenue,
was the guest of honor at a dinner
given Friday, November "a, by Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence w. Wigington,
679 st. Anthony avenue. Covers
were laid for nine.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Smith (of San Quentin Prison. to
now release you to the freedom
which I expect you to exercise with
the high ideals have tried to indi-
cate"
Burst Of Cheering.
There was burst of cheering.
Spectators stood in their seats and
applauded for nearly two minutes.
Mooney stilled the applause with a
lift of his hand.
Your excellency." he said, II
am not unmindful of the signifi-
canoe of this gathering and the
forces behind it. They are the signs
of democratic expression of the peo-
pie Of California. I am fully con-
scious of the fact that new political
and economic powers are at work.
This is far cry from the time
when the State was controlled by
a reactionary corporate machine
which turned thumbs down every
time through the years when Tom
Mooney sought justice.
Il recall the night of my convic-
ton, when the jury filed in with
its verdict and one of them, facing
the prosecutor, drew his finger
across his throat"
At that point MONEYS voice
broke. His wife Rena, who was
acquitted of the same charge, and
who has helped him in his long
battle, sat to the left of the rostrum,
weeping silently.
Pledges Fight for Billings.
"The prosecution" Mooney con-
tinued, 'rested upon false founda-
ton of criminality to dispose of a
very dangerous man. I can remem-
ber the screams of my old mother,
my wife, and of officers leering at
my loved ones"
Again MONEYS voice wavered.
Il recall" he went on, the state
ment of one Of my stanchest at
torneys, that Tom Mooney was the
calmest man in the ROOM"
Mooney said his case was not that
of an individual but one involving
political and economic life"
He asserted the present economic
system" had reached its ultimate
in growth as natural process and
had taken the path of retrogression.
"The present system" he said, 'is
in a state of decay-not just here
but throughout the world. 1t will
be replaced, I hope, and by new
and better social order.
Gov. Olson, to that cause I dedi-
cate my life. I shall try also to help
California lift its shame by working
constantly for the release of Warren
Billings"
With full composure Mooney spoke
Of the dark sinister Fascist threat
Visits Friend at Folsom.
"You have heard much lately u
he said, "of the persecution of the
Jews. But the Jews were not the
first. First it was labor, then Social
ism, then Communism. Now soon
1t will be Catholics, and Protestants
and all of us"
AS Mooney finished there was q
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Marco, testified that after two days
confinement the cells became a
living hell so hot we couldn't
breathe"
He said a guard, one of 10 sus-
pended prison officers accused OF the
four deaths, ignored his pleas.
Another survivor, Stanley Martin,
said he heard one Of the prisoners
who later died saying he thought
he was q goner"
II felt as If was about to cash
In so I tried to hang myself" he
said.
Morris Spatz, another Of the men
locked in "Klondike" for participa-
ton in hunger strike, told of the
last hours of Frank Comodeca. with
whose death Craven is charged spe-
cifically.
He hollered for his mother all
night" Spatz said.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
By the Associated Press


CINCINNATI, Jan. 7.-Declarine
that he really had only been pinch
hitting In the lead Of his new play.
Angela Is Twenty-Five" Author
actor Sinclair Lewis announced to-
night to an audience which had
applauded him thunderously that
Philip Merivale would replace him
as DR.. Hilary Jarrett.
Mr.. Merivale, star of Death Takes
a Holiday" and the dramatization of
Mr.. Lewis novel, "Dodsworth," ac-
cepted the role of the middle-aged
doctor who marries a young woman
and said he would take Mr.. Lewis
place "in about two weeks"
Mr.. Lewis, who in previous public
announcements described writing
books as a lonely art" and ex-
pressed himself as completely happy
as an actor-playwright, told the
audience after taking several cur
tain calls at the end Of tonights
performance, the last here:
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Sinclair Lewis, only Pinch Hitting,'
To Quit Leading Role in PIoy

I'VE have chosen the great actor
Philip Merivale for the role of DR..
Hilary Jarrett, the role In which !
have been pinch hitting-and !
hope not too badly-for the past
two weeks.
II am going to write into the play
small part for myself which won't
take 50 much of my time. 1t has
been a lot Of work the past two
weeks. I had always heard about
the glamor and glory of the theater
but never knew how much work
there was to it."
Mr.. Merivale was greeted with
prolonged applause when he ap-
peared with Mr.. Lewis on the
proscenium.
Mr.. Lewis was expected to devote
considerable of his new spare time
TO revising the play, which goes
from here to Indianapolis and other
Midwestern cities before hitting
Broadway.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Replying to charges made before
the committee that the league has
engaged in "un-American activities
DR.. Ward told Chairman Dies: THE
record of your hearings shows a con-
tinuous violation of the fundamental
principles of fairness and decency
You failed to call single represent
ative of the league to make any IN
quiries of the league, or even to per-
NIT the league to submit the facts
to your committee. Instead you re-
lied upon the testimony of persons
whose record and reputation must
have informed you of their prejudice
toward and hatred of the American
League, and whose testimony, there
fore. was subject to doubt from the
outset"
Evening star., 1939-01-08

mighty roar from the crowd.
Tom Mooney was free at last. His
nrst act was to visit his convicted
friend at nearby Folsom Prison.
Mooney met Billings in Warden
I Clyde T. Plummer's Office and after
the two clinched in an embrace for
several seconds, Mooney asked:
Did you hear the broadcast,
Warren?"
Yes, I heard everything you said, +"
Billings replied.
After a half-hour conference be-
hind closed doors, newsmen were
admitted to the room.
George T. Davis, Mooney's at
torney. said notice of intention
10 apply for a pardon for Billings
was filed with District ATTORNEY
Matthew Brady at San Francisco.
The application, Mr.. Davis said,
would be presented to Gov. Olson
and then be submitted to the Cali
1ornia Supreme Court for recon-
mendation.
Court Can Block Pardon.
IT the Supreme Court recommends
the pardon, the Governor can issue
or deny one, as he sees fit. But If
the high court recommends against
1t, the Governor cannot pardon Bill
1ngs because he was convicted as a
second offender.
Mooney also converSed for several
minutes in the wardens Office with
j. B. Mcnamara, who was convicted
OF the Los Angeles Times bombing
In 1910. McNamara has been in
prison n years.
The crime for which Mooney was
convicted was pushed half way into
the realm of unsolved mysteries.
On July %, 1916, San Francisco
was parading to stir up the spirit of
preparedness. Mooney, a labor agi-
tator in the midst of bitter industrial
controversy, was preaching against
imperialism and war. He was known
to police and prosecutors as a direct
actionist. They later called him
"dynamiter, assassin, murderer"
AS the Spanish American War
veterans were lining up in lower
Market street powerful bomb ex-
ploded. Its flying fragments tore
through mass of humanity, leaving
10 persons dead, 40 manned or in
jured.
Evening star., 1939-01-08

Harry F. Ward, professor at Union
Theological Seminary, president Of
the league, presiding.
Dashiell Hammett, writer of de-
tective stories and now active in
anti-Nazi organizations in Holly
wood, failed to arrive last night to
deliver scheduled address. Play
ers Of the Contemporary Theater of
Washington presented a play, THE
Informer," written by Bert Brecht,
German playwright.
Affidavit Text Revealed.
DR.. Ward released yesterday the
text of an AFFIDAVIT he has filed with
the Dies committee protesting "the
un-American manner in which your
proceedings have been conducted" !"
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Dies Committee investigating un-

Dies Committee investigating un-
American activities.
Attorney General Frank Murphy
is putting the skids under the Dies
Committee" Mr.. Kent said in an
interview. "The Dies Committee has
done more than any one else to
spread an intelligent idea of what
kind of people are behind the Com
munist movement. Radicalism is the
spirit of our people"
The artist, now occupied in New
York painting a mural for the
Worlds Fair, declared elements sub
versive to democracy should be out
lawed.
Are you going to use freedom
of speech to kill what gave us free
dom of speech?" he asked. That
would be like killing the goose that
laid the golden egg"
Miss Si-lan Chen, exponent of
modern Chinese dancing and daugh-
ter of Eugene Chen, former Chinese
foreign minister, was a feature of
last nights league session. Swing
ing large sword. she presented a
dance entitled Death from the
Skies" depicting the Chinese-Jap-
anese war and returned to the stage
with a Far Eastern folk dance.
Retains Chinese Citizenship.
There is no dancing in China"
you know" Miss Chen explained in
an interview Mine is based upon
the Chinese classical theater with
modern subject matter" She has
been dancing professionally since
1888, in recent months chiefly at
benefits for Chinese war sufferers.
She is married to an American, Jay
Leyda. assistant curator of the Mu-
scum of Modern Art, New York, but
retains her Chinese citizenship by
virtue of the Chinese Exclusion Act
of 1924.
Today's session of the league will
begin at 10 am. at the Rialto, with
final adjournment scheduled at s
pm. Labor resolutions will receive
primary consideration, with DR..
Evening star., 1939-01-08

the writ was based upon the con-
tention that perjury and false evil
dence allegedly presented by the
prosecution was violation Of his
constitutional rights.
MONEYS whole story of frame
up was put into the record of that
case, but the State Supreme Court
sweepingly rejected his final court
fight for vindication and freedom
The United States Supreme Court
refused to review that decision.
Gov. Olson said his review of that
case agreed with the single dissent
ing opinion rendered by Associate
Justice John w. Langde a, who con-
cluded Mooney should 1--we won.
Gov. Olson recalled how the pre-
vious Governors, C. c. Young and
James Rolph, jr.. reviewed the case
Gov. Rolph held a hearing before
which former Mayor James j
Walker of New York and others
pleaded in MONEYS behalf. Gov
Rolph turned the case over to his
legal adviser, the late Matt I. Sulli-
van, for decision. Mr.. Sullivan held
Mooney was guilty and wrote at
great length of the labor leaders
long association with extremists.
Report Reflected Bias"
Gov. Olson said Mr.. Sullivan's re-
port reflected bias which he could
not escape
The Governor said his own study
led him to the same conclusion as
that reached by the original trial
judge, Franklin I. Griffin, by several
Of the jurors and by numerous per-
sons once connected in one way or
another with the. prosecution-that
Mooney was innocent and was con-
victed solely because he was hated
by oficialdom for his Radical ac-
tivities.
Within the last 48 hours, Gov.
Olson said, he had received q tele-
phone call from Maxwell McNutt, q
California Superior Court Judge now
visiting in Montana, in which the
Jurist reported he had been told by
some OF MONEYS prosecutors that
Mooney was "shadowed" every min
ute of that fateful day the bomb
exploded, and that he never was
anywhere near the place where the
crime was committed.
Before becoming Judge Mr.. Nc
Mutt was an attorney for Billings
He had never wavered from belief
in the innocence of Billings and
Mooney.
"The fact that Mooney was not
hanged in accordance with the
original sentence imposed upon
him." said Gov. Olson, and the
fact that three others similarly
accused were acquitted stands a.
evidence that he is innocent - I"
Acting on Own Convictions.
II am acting now on my own con-
victions ="
Turning to Mooney, who had en-
tered the chamber quietly after Gov
Olson started speaking, the execu-
tive said:
II shall hope and expect that you
will, with every other true friend
of American liberty and American
progress toward the industrial and
social justice, urge only the intelli-
gent exercise by the people of thi.
democracy, with the realization that
they can have any kind of govern
ment they want by peaceful process;
that any violence of person or prop
erty will defeat it,"
Turning to the graying convict
the Governor said:
tom Mooney, will you stand up?'
Mooney arose, smiling and COM
posed.
Il have signed" said the Gov
ernor, and I now hand to you, Tom
Mooney, this full anu unconditional
pardon. I now instruct Warden
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Frankfurter Helped
Save Mooney'sLife,
Speaker Reveals
League for Peace Told
Of Part in Getting
Sentence Reduced

The part that Prof. Felix Frank
furter of Harvard University
newly appointed associate justice O.
the Supreme Court, played in saw.
ing the life Of Tom Mooney in 1917
was disclosed by Prof. Morse Low.
EFT of the University of Chicago
last night in an address before the
American League for Peace ane
Democracy.
Prof. Lovett credited the noted
Harvard legal authority with paw.
ing the way for communication te
life imprisonment of MONEYS death
sentence in connection with the
Preparedness Day bombing in San
Francisco in 1916.
Citing his assigned subject, "An
Aspect of Democratic Culture" the
heavy-set, white-haired Chicago
. professor said two events of the
last week have narrowed my concep-
ton somewhat.
II refer first to Felix Frankfurt
ter's elevation to the Supreme Court
of the United States. The other
event is-Tom Mooney is free. Do
you realize the connection between
these two events?
Commission Named by Wilson.
Felix Frankfurter saved Tom
MONEYS life in 1917. Therefore,
Prof. Frankfurter is responsible for
Tom MONEYS life today. Prof
Frankfurter told me a year ago of
his connection with the Tom
Mooney case"
Prof. Lovett recalled that Presi-
dent Wilson in 1917 named a COM
mission to investigate a mine strike
in Arizona and made Prof. Frank
furter its secretary. The Presi-
dent heard that the Mooney case
was arousing distrust among work.
ers IN Russia and Italy, who believed
an American labor leader on the
Pacific Coast was being framed. He
lasked Prof. Frankfurter to investi-
gate the case"
Prof. Frankfurter arrived in San
Francisco and found Mooney al
ready convicted and under sentence
of death, with his case already be-
fore the Supreme Court of California
and apparently no chance for
new trial, although the judge and
jury hearing the case had requested
one, Prof. Lovett continued.
After an investigation, Prof.
. Frankfurter suggested that Presi-
dent Wilson recommend that the
Governor of California pardon
Mooney so the labor leader could
face trial on another murder in
dictment pending against him.
THE Governor finally commuted
MONEYS sentence to life" Prof.
Lovett said. That was % years
ago, and today he was freed"
Cheers Interrupt Address.
The Chicago professor spoke be-
fore the fifth annual congress of
the league, formerly known as the
American League Against War and
Fascism, at the Rialto Theater. His
references to Mooney brought a
burst of applause and cheers that
interrupted his address for about
two minutes.
Rockwell Kent, artist and writer,
presided over the session and de-
livered speech in which he defend
ed democracy and condemned the
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Survivors Describe
Punishment Cell
As Living He'll
Convict Witnesses Tell
Of Sufferines and
Death Of Prisoner
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. IA "Liv-
ing hell in which four county pris-
oners perished horribly, fifth tried
to hang himself and a score of
others gasped for air, was described
to a murder jury today by parade
of convict witnesses.
Assistant District Attorney John
A. Boyle, prosecuting former Deputy
Warden Frank A. Craven on murder
and manslaughter charges. put the
men on the stand to relate their
suf1erings during an August week
ends confinement in "Klondike"
punishment building heated by a
battery of steam radiators.
Joseph Palumbo, alias Patrick de
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Vinina Gets New Post

BALTIMORE, Jan. 7 P.-Robert
E: Vining, recently appointed to the
State Board of Welfare, resigned
today and accepted an appointment
by Gov. Nice to the State Board Of
Education.
Mr.. Vining took the place created
by the resignation of Edward H.
Sharpe Of Frederick. whose term
would have expired in 1943.
Evening star., 1939-01-08
Mooney
fContinued From First Page.)

48 hours supporting his belief in
Moneys complete innocence.
Mooney stood to receive the docu-
ment, mounted the rostrum by Gov.
Olsons side and said:
Gov Olson I shall dedicate the
rest of my life to work for the
common good in the bond of democ-
racy. Dark and sinister forces of
Fascist reactionism are threatening
the world.
The present economic system is
In a state of decay-not just here
but throughout the world. 1t will
be replaced, and, I hope, by a new
and better social order.
ITO that end I pledge my efforts,
and to work for the common good" +"
MONEYS Voice Breaks.
Although Mooney spoke smoothly
and with apparent calm, his voice
broke as he promised also to seek
freedom for his convicted colleague,
Warren K Billings, who is in Fol-
som prison for life and at present
technically ineligible for executive
clemency.
Officially the hearing was to give
opportunity for protests against the
Mooney pardon. to which Gov. Olson
long had been committed.
In the course of his address the
Governor said he had received but
one protest-presumabl that from
Ben F.. Lamborn of Alameda, Calf :,
brother of one of the bomb VIC
TINS, who warned the pardon would
form the basis for an Impeachment
or recall action" against the execu-
tive.
Gov. Olson asked any one with
objections to "step forward and
state to me here and now the in
formation he desires to impart"
For q full 80 seconds the Governor
stood in silence, facing the audience
of about 500. No one spoke. Absent
were the prosecutors and State off,
cials who fought and defeated
Mooney at every major turn in the
courts for more than 20 years.
Court Powers Limited.
The Governor, however, took cog
nizance of letter from newly elect
ed Attorney General Earl Warren,
who professed lack of knowledge
of the Mooney case, but who ex-
pressed the hope that the hearing
would develop mo reflections on the
judiciary"
II am impressed" said the Gov
ernor. "by the fact that many thou
sands of Californians still believe
that Mooney is guilty. I am i'm
pressed by the fact that his case
has been heard, in one form or an
other, in all the courts. I am i'm
pressed by the fact that five of my
predecessors have not pardoned
him. s@s
LAS lawyer I can we'll under
stand the reasoning of the courts
In refusing new trials. They were
limited by statutory restrictions
upon their power to review newly
discovered evidence, merely because
1t did not develop within the short
period described by the law"
Gov. Olson asserted disclosures of
alleged perjury in the. Mooney case
developed only one day after lapse
OF the period during which the con-
victed man could have asked a new
trial on grounds of newly discovered
evidence.
Accepts Dissenting Opinion.
The Governor said, however, he
"could not understand" why the
California State Supreme Court
ruled against Mooney in his last
great legal battle for freedom on q
writ Of habeas corpus. His bid for
Evening star., 1939-01-08

California produces more lettuce
than all other States combined.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-24
TALMAGE E TO SUCCEED WOOD
 AT GAME COM.
Junior Assistant Appoint ed fo New Job in Idaho
 -Cdptdin Steps Up

Confirmation of the appointment of David Wood Jr., Junior Admin istrative Assistant of the Alaska Game Commission for the past three years, as director of predatory anil nal station at Pocatello, Idaho, was received today from Washington.
 Wood, with his wife and children, will leave next week for the new post. He came here from Biologi- cal survey position in Colorado.
 Capt. w. c. Talmage will suc- ceed Wood as Junior Administrative Assistant, Executive Officer Frank Dufresne announced. Talmage has been with the Game Commission since it's establishment in 1925 and had been a Biological Survey em- ployee four years previously Re- gently he has been skipper of the vessel Bear.
 Dufresne expressed regret today at the Commissions losing the ser vices of Wood, whom he character ized as a good man who will be very hard to replace"