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Price 3ci Newsstands 5c
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--Paul Haiuer'j Column
.The lata Edgar Wallace wrote
over 200 novels, a acad of short
stories and article and about a
dotes, plays He
'could . sometime!
banc bat a mtxr
der . mystery that
could, cbtll yon
in tbe middle of
the Sahara, in
two or three
days. He w a
probably the
most prolific
writer of these
days.
Lately there B- . i
haa been published a biography
of Wallace, and Ethan Grant
went to the library and asked if
they 'bad it. The girl whom he
asked aaid she would look In the
card files.
Presently she came back.
-We haven't Mr. Wallace's
biography," she said. "But he
DID write A book and we hare
that."
O
Another friends of ours with
rather intellectual tastes in lit
erature went into a local book
store the other day.
"Hare yon anything by An
dre MaurolaT" sh asked.
"No," responded the clerk.
"Well, hare you Aldous Hux
ley's latest book?"
Tbe clerk admitted there
wasn't a Huxley in tbe bouse.
How about Xoel Coward's
First Person Indicative?"
"Nope."
"Well," said our friend, "I
guess you just haven't anything
I want."
The clerk frowned, obviously
unhappy. "Say," he said, help
fully, "Did you ever try Zane
Grey? Awfully good reading."
O
TbM galloping tea wer
started for th purpoia of rais
ins mocej. The person last
"allopsd on" takes ker car
ana gathers op four mors ladles
who most go just as they are
tksr are fined If tker change
clothe then they all go to the
koae of anotier lady for re
freshments. She sanrt seres Jnst
what she kas en hand. Each lady
pay a dime for the privilege of
galloping. Qnlte s bit of money
has boon raised daring the win
ter In this ssanner. The ladle
voted at the last Meeting to
contincs wttk the tea nntU
every one kas bees galloped en.
Corvallii Gaaette-Times.
Slow down to a trot, girls.
This pace is killing us.
O
Dare Eceles, who keeps the
little black budget book for: this
commonwealth - of Oregon, '"'was
oat talking finances with Warden
George Alexander the other day
and lamenting how the state
could use "It little more money
In a few spots.
"Why if it's money you need.
Dare," George said, "just turn
loose a few of the boys out here.
Some of them are pretty good at
going out and getting it."
O
A California physicist has
received a Nobel prize for his
work in smashing the atom.
Unlike Finland, the atom
doeaat fight back.
Cake Considering
Committee Race
Ralph Cake, prominent Port
land attorney, was reported here
yesterday as a probable candidate
for republican national commit
teeman from Oregon at the May
primary election.
This post is now held by Ralph
Williams. Portland, who has not
yet disclosed whether or not he
will seek reelection.
Cake has been a life-long repub
lican. Coon Guilty Plea
Is not Accepted
GRANTS PASS, Feb.
Clrcuit Judge H. D. Norton re
fused today to accept s plea of
guilty for F. L. Coon, former
county clerk charged for a sec
ond time with larceny of public
funds., pending a thorough check
of his records.
District Attorney Onral J. Mil
lard told the court he was certain
that a 654 shortage found was
not the total. Coon previously
made 1354.51 restitution for
other shortages and was paroled
from an 18-month priso nsen-tence.
Great Northwest Expansion
Ahead Say Raver and Ickes
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb, I.-Off)
The administration of Bonneville
dam, the government's huge hydro-electric
power project on the
broad Columbia river, . looked
ahead today to Pacific northwest
expansion through new Industries.
Administrator Paul "J. Rarer,
Is his annual report to Interior
Secretary Ickes, announced signed
contracts would yield nearly ll
4)00.010 - revenue ' for the fiscal
ear. 1140 and $2,200,000 tor the
fiscal year. 1141. The. Aluminum
Corporation, of America, a Pitta
burgh' firm which,. will, erect a
plant nearVancouTer,' Wash-, will
guarantee the government f 1,
000.000 over a 20-year period.
Feasibility V studies "indicate
that if the wholesale rates are
maintained, the fOTirnnBt
would recover within li years of
the completion of all power gen
erating units in Bonneville dam
not only the full investment allo
cated by the federal power com
mlsalon to power production but
British Losses
To Nazi Fliers
Claimed Heav-
DNB Mentions U SI
Admiralty Makes a.
Specific Comment
Trio of German Raiders
Shot Down; Norway
Vessel Struck
By J. C. STARK
LONDON, Feb. 3-tf)-Britains
royal air force, fighting to pro
tect her vital sea lanes from Ger
many's bomb blockade, today
shot down three nazi war planes
in the fiercest air battles over
England since tbe war's start.
British observers estimated
that at least a score of German
fJombers joined in the wave of
attacks on British and neutral
shipping up and down 400 miles
of the east coast.
The admiralty late tonight had
"nothing to say" regarding the
reports by DNB, official German
new- agency, that 14 ships in
cluding nine merchantmen, four
British patrol boats and one mine
sweeper were sunk during the
day.
Survivors of one plane attack
on the 629 -ton Norwegian
freighter Tempo landed with a
story of having been both bombed
and machine-gunned by three
nazi planes. At least four of her
14 crewmen were known to hare
died.
New War Minister
Makes First Appeal
The British airmen's reply to
the third German attack within
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Budget Reduction
Slight Says Glass
Tendency to Spend Other
People's 3Ioney Is too
Strong, His Verdict
WASHINGTON. Feb. l.-iJPy-Despite
dep cuts in President
RooseYelt's , spending requests,
Senator Glass (D-Va), a leading
economy advocate, said today
that there was little chance for
"any substantial reduction in tie
total budget.
The S 2-year-old Glass, chair
man of the senate appropriations
committee, told reporters that
"people like to spend money too
well especially when they are
spending other peoples' money."
While Glass was talking, the
senate farm bloc was organizing
for an attempt to add hundreds
of millions to the house-approved
1722,001.084 farm bill, and
Glass said it was unlikely that
the house figure could be re
tained. Besides restoring some
house reductions, the senate farm
groujp wants to add at least
$200,000,000 for parity pay
ments. The house measure, providing
money for the fiscal year be
ginning July 1, was $66,928,435
under the president's budget es
timate and $579,339,231 below
the funds available for this fis
cal year.
Despite pressure from farm
leaders, the house stood by many
cuts suggested by its appropria
tions committee. Before approv
ing the bill late last night it
added about $89,000,000 for su
gar benefit payments and for ac
tivities of the rural electrification
administration.
Budget reductions effected by
the two chambers and their
committees, as the various appro
priation measures stand now,
total $155,000,000. Some farm
senators are urging that this
money, plus part of any future
savings, be turned over to the
farmers.
In that connection, one farm
senator suggested that the farm
measure be delayed until after
Che senate has acted on tbe $1,
800,000,000 national defense bill.
He said that if substantial savings
could be effected on the latter
measure, then the chamber would
be justified in making additions
to the agricultural measure.
Senator Lucas (D-IU) sug
gested that $500,000,000 might
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also Interest at tH P cent," the
report aaid.
Raver.' commenting on a grow
ing scarcity of hydro-electric
site in other sections of the
country, stated that more than SO
inquiries had been received from
firms and Individuals Interested
in utilizing Bonneville power for
manufacturing operations.
"While most of these inquiries,
which eover such fields as eleetro
metalurgical. electro-chemical and
allied operations, are not likely
prospects for immediate deliver
ies of power," he explained, ne
gotiations are being actively con
ducted with a number of those
Industries' having aggregate de
mands approaching 100,000 kilo
watts." He advised Secretary Ickes of
12S inquiries and applications
from other agencies with a total
prellminarj demand of more than
CO 0,0 00 kilowatts of firm power.
Most of these applicants are
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tain of Bombs
Takes Toll in
Finnish Towns
78 Planes Raid Kuopio,
Inland Gty; Fifty
or More Killed
Defenders' Aircraft Is
Active; Mannerheim
Line Bombarded
HELSINKI. Feb. 4-(Sunday)-(JP)
Finland's most terrible pun
ishment by bombs in a little more
than two months of Russian In
vasion was reported early today,
with a total of 78 planes raiding
one city alone and many other
cities suffering deadly raids.
First estimates of Saturday's
victims said at least 50 were
killed and 100 wounded in the
south half of Finland, but that
was before the 78 planes, in three
waves, made an evening attack
on Kuopio, tbe second of the day.
Kuopio, a railway city of some
10,000, is located in the great
lake country of middle Finland.
Big Red Guns Shell
Mannerheim Line
While these raids were going
on, big guns of the red army
shelled the Mannerheim line from
one end to the other, after two
days of direct attack had been
broken on the battlefield of Sum
ma. In a raid earlier in the day.
30 people had been killed at Kuo
pio. Casualties from the second
raid were not known, for the
populace was huddled in air
raid shelters far into the night.
Three Finnish fighting planes
fought a fleet of 20 soviet bomb
ers in a spectacular air battle over
Kerava, near Helsinki, late in
the day. The Russians dumped
all thetr bombs and turned on
their machine-guns. Residents
of the town came out of air raid
shelters to see one soviet bomber
fall and the others turn tail and
run.
TvJ.'people were killed when a
16-plane Russian squadron bomb
ed a chapel at Blenajokl.
At Port, on the southwest
coast, there were many dead and
wounded. Several others were
killed at 11puri, main target of
the red army's Mannerheim line
drive, and heavy damage was in
flicted. Lovisa and Kotka also were
raided.
Thirty six planes set aflame
the little city of Kerava, 20
miles north of Helsinki, while
the mad music of air raid sirens
howled in the ears of capital
residents. Authorities said the
raids were fully as extensive as
those of the previous day, when
400 Russian planes were counted
over Finland.
Saturday's estimates of air
raid casualties brought to ap
proximately 150 the civilians
known to have died in the week'B
bombings.
Saturday's continued bomb
ings (which the Moscow com
munique again said were di
rected at military objectives) and
the incessant shelling of the Man
nerheim line were the aftermaths
of two red army attacks in the
snows of Summa.
Here, 20 miles south of Vlipu
ri, tanks, armored sledges, para
Chute troops and infantry
smashed at the strongly fortified
area of Karejian Isthmus. Both
these attacks failed.
Roadmaster Killed
ST. MARIES, Idaho, Feb. 8.-(yp)-Rotiger
Gallagher, 54, road
master for the Chleago. Milwau
ke and St. Paul railroad, died
shortly after midnight when or
before his speeding motorcar
crashed into an eastbound pas
senger train.
CANBY IS THIRD BONNEVILLE CUSTOMER
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While Commissioner Raver aad Secretary Ickes predicted extensive ttse of Bonneville power, the city ef
Canby became the bis project's third actual customer late Inst week whom first "Juice was delivered.
At left, George Illbbcrt and T. TV Smith, Bonnerine engineers, with Louis Xent, light superintendent,
and Mayor J R.. Vlnyard of Canby inspect sneterbig equipment aft the Canby substation of the Port
land General Electric company -Cut conrtesy Uregost Journal. . - - . . :
Name Filed
Pulpit Crusader
Said Near Death
MARK A. MATTHEWS
Popular Mnister
Lapses Into Coma
Recovery From Pneumonia
now Unlikely; Career
Is Notable One
SEATTLE, Feb. 1-JP)- The
Rev. Dr. Mark A. Matthews, not
ed Presbyterian minister, lapsed
into a coma tonight from which
physicians said there was scant
hope of recovery.
The colorful pastor of the na
tion's largest Presbyterian con
gregation was recovering from an
attack of pneumonia that caused
his collapse last Tuesday when
he suffered a stroke yesterday.
This sudden complication re
moved hope that he would re
cover, Dr. J. H. Berge said.
Thousands of persons have
telephoned the Seattle General
hospital during tho past four
days to wish . Dr. Matthews a
speedy recovery and to ask his
condition.
His wife and son and daugh
ter, Mark A. Matthews, ' Jr., and
Mrs. Norman E. Scott, of Los
Angeles, were constantly at his
bedside.
Dr. Matthews, former modera
tor of the church, has been pastor
of the First Presbyterian church
here for 88 years. During that
time be conducted sensational
vice crusades, one of which ended
in the conviction of a Seattle
chief of police.
Burglars Active
Saturday Night
Three Homes Prowled and
Articles of Value Are
Taken, Police Told
Burglars were unusually active
in Salem early Saturday night
judging from reports investigated
by city police.
Two neighboring houses, the
Warren Lindsay residence at 975
Garnet street and the Bertha Wil
liamson home at 965 Garnet, were
visited. At the Lindsay home an
ivory-finish radio set valued at
$15 was taken.
Time of the visit to the William
son home was Indicated by the
fact that a clock had been
knocked down and had stopped at
6:45. There a barrel bank almost
full of money, the exact amount
of which was unknown, was stol
en, but some other articles of val
ue were passed up.
At the Walter Oldenberg resi
dence, 989 North Winter, burglar
ized sometime between 2:30 and
7:30 p. m., a Hamilton watch
worth $50 was stolen.
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Drager's Trial
Opens Monday
In Court Here
Nine Days Required for
Testimony, Forecast;
Grand Jury Meets
Jones Case May Be Eyed
Again Depending Upon
Action of Judge
Trial of David G. Drager, coun
ty treasurer charged with larceny
of $23,000 of county funds, which
opens before Judge L. H. Mc
Mahan tomorrow morning, will
share the local judicial spotlight
this week with a meeting of the
county grand jury and hearing of
several cases by Judge L. G.
Lewelling.
The Drager trial, postponed or
iginally from October 3C, and set
over a second time last week be
cause of the illness of Custer Ross,
a defense attorney, is expected to
occupy about nine days In the
courtroom of Judge L. H. Mc
Mahan. Frances Marsh, McMlnn
ville attorney and special prose
cutor for Marion county, will pre
sent the state's case, while George
Rhoten will act with Ross for the
defense.
Expect Repetition of
Previous Testimony
Present trial of the county
treasurer is expected to bring
repetition of much of the testi
mony used in the hearing last
June of W. Y. Richardson, Dra
ger's former deputy with whom
he is jointly Indicted. The trisi
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Balkan Pact Vain
Diplomats Agree
Interests too Divergent
for Joint Action; now
Each Goes It Alone
By ROBERT B. PARKER, Jr.
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, Feb.
3. (VP) The four members of the
Balkan entente las surviving Eu
ropean alliance for the defense of
small nations recognized tacitly
tonight that each one must look
individually to big powers to keep
them out of Europe's war.
Sources close to the Yugoslav
ian, Rumanian, Turkish and Greet
delegations to the entente confer
ence here confirmed that their
foreign ministers, meeting in a
two-hour session today, found
their national interests too strong
ly divergent to permit extension
of their anti-Bulgarian pact to
save them collectively from the
warring big powers.
Foreign Ministers Grigore Ga-
fencu of Rumania, Sukru Sara
coglu of Turkey, Alksander
Cincar - Markovic of Yugoslavia
and Premier General John Me-
taxas of Greece were understood
to recognize frankly the impossi
bility of making any Important
decisions whatsoever at this con
ference.
Even the Yugoslav - Rumanian,
plan for "economic neutrality"
was understood to have petered
out to mere "suggestions" which
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Mrs. Ida Menzies
Dies; Is Pioneer
ALBANY, Ore., Feb. $.-(iP-
Mrs. Ida Menzies, 76, horn In a
covered wagon Aug. 9, 1864,
somewhere near tbe Black Hills
of North Dakota, died here today
Because her parents, migrat
ing from Wisconsin to the coast,
were uncertain of tbe exact lo
cation, she was never sure of
her native state.
H'b - i
for Illinois
Clash- Over Federal
Domination of State
Rule Heads up Here
Oregon Delegation in Congress Is Predominantly
of Opinion Issue Is Vital; Next December
to See Final Compliance, Is Schedule
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER
Is Oregon, which scarcely two years ago "smacked" pres
ent national administration efforts to run local politics, about
to become the scene of another struggle, this time against
domination from above in administration of local govern
ment? Settings for such a scene may be here: In the social se-
. nTTri
Debaters 01 Sli
Win Oregon First
Lose Only to Caldwell at
Linfield Event; Other
Local Youths Win
First place in Oregon high
school competition at Linfield col
lege Saturday was won by the Sa
lem high debate team. The foren
slcs squad returned from McMlnn
ville last night with other prizes
from the speech contest.
Competing with approximately
20 other teams, Salem lost only
to Caldwell, Idaho, which took
the northwest trophy. Don Bur
ton, Jack Hayes, Imogene Rus
sell and Zeral Brown composed
the team, coached by Norborne
Berkeley and Lawrence Morley
The question this year is
Re -
solved: That the United States
government should own and oper
ate the railroads."
A first in poetry reading was
won by Jack White, and second
in extern pory speaking by Imo
gene Russell. Harold Hamm won
second In the B division and Bar
bara Hathaway third in the A
division of humorous declamation.
Other students making the trip
were Ronage'ne Belike, Robert
Woodbnrn, Robert Lemon, Elea
nor Purcell, Marian Horn, Cam
eron McDonald, V a 1 Sloper,
Woody Carson, Schuyler Gile,
Maye Oye, Gladys Crawford, Eve
lyn Collins and Bob Mundt, foren
slcs manager.
One-Hour Parking
To Be Advocated
Police Committee to Ask
Restoration, Council
Meeting 3Ionday
Return to one hour parking for
downtown zones where a 45 min
ute limit Is now In effect and or
ganlzatlon of a volunteer police
reserve will be recommended to
the city council by Its police and
traffic committee when it meets
Monday night.
The council has before It a res
olution to affect the parking lim
it change, introduced by Alder
man David O'Hara, and will pro
bably pass it on the traffic com
mlttee's recommendation.
Merchants expressed desire
that the change be made at a
hearing held by the committee
last week and several civic organ
lzations have gone on record fa
voring it.
The police reserve would pro
vide a group of volunteers to be
called in. cases of emergency and
to aid police at parades, fires and
in other cases where men are
needed to handle crowds.
Also expected to be before the
council Is selection of a lessee for
the municipal airport. Bids were
submitted at the last council
meeting by Lee U. Eyerly of Sa
lem and Howard Burleson, Al
bany. The meeting will be the first
for Alderman Chandler P. Brown,
elected at the last session to fill a
vacancy In ward three.
Dutch Crew Wins
Fight With Blaze
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 2 .-(Sun
day )-) Radio messages from'
the " 5,825-ton Dutch steamer
Laertes 'early today told ,of a
suecessmi ngnt by 100 crewmen
against fire which swept the ship
after the vessel had sent an
SO S" saying she had struck a
mine in the. English channel.
; . Late messages said the Laertes
was preceding at half , speed-' af
ter-the crew, which at first; took
to the boats, had climbed back
on board, and put out the flames
No one I was. reported , hrCH. . ".
A tugboat was on its way from
Flushing , to , help the - crippled
steamer. -The Laertes, owned , by
the Navigation Company. Oceaan
of T Amsterdam., was en Its war
here from the British contraband
control .base at : Weymouth.
We are taking in the lifeboats
andvwilt try totstay aboard, the
second message from the Laertes
saiu. "Shlp is burning and crew
Is trying desperately to exting
uish flames.
"Norwegian tanker Buccaneer
In vicinity."
Ocurity board's recently-delivered
I ultimatum to Oregon to comply
with its pet ideas of a merit Sys
tem, or else; and in the state pub
lic welfare commission's accept
ance, under protest, of this, an
other new deal ukase.
To be watched mav be the time
when the welfare commission has !
agreed to reach a state of full
compliance with or subservience
to the Washington board's de
mand. That time is next Decem
ber. Oregon's present state admin
istration doubtless wouldn't be
unhappy if political complexions
should change a bit within the
democratic party or otherwise
by the time the quadrennial pres
idential campaigns are burled in
the ballot boxes next November.
Meanwhile it is unlikely that
Governor Charles A. Sprague will
get his state in such a fix as did
Ohio's Governor Bricker in buck
ing the national capital's hard
head bureaucrats.
Watchinr the increaslnar fpdr-
ai pursestrlng-control of local af-
W a ...
iairs are at lease tnree Oregon
congressmen who agree in vary
ing degree with, forceful objec
tions recently expressed by Gov
ernor Bprague in letters to this
state's delegation.
-Even Congressman Walter M.
Pierce, new deal democrat that he
has been, replied with a modicum
of agreement with the governor's
letter: Congressman ' Homer D.
Angell concurred "heartily and
Senator Charles L. McNary de-
ciarea tne issue "real.
Ia one breath Representative
Pierce adjured the present state
administration to "make good use
of every penny of federal money
entrusted to it" but in the next he
urged Governor 8prague "to use
your great Influence to check fur
ther federal encroachment which
will ensue if the federal govern
ment Invades the afield of public
education, with a demand for con
trol." Pierce, of course, also suggest
ed that if Oregon didn't want any
federal dictation, it should with
draw its hand from the direction
of the federal treasury; he failed,
however, to note at the same time
that the states will pay the bill in
tbe long run for the "handouts"
they are. now obtaining from that
source.
It all makes observers wonder
if a western state, little in the
eyes of a blase east, may lead the
way In a new fight for freedom.
Lincoln Banquet
Plans Announced
Mt. . Angel college will provide
the music for the Lincoln day
banquet to be held at the Marlon
hotel at 6:30 p. m. next Thurs
day under auspices of the Mar
lon county republican central
committee, Lewis Judson, gener
al chairman, announced" yester
day. Dr. P. O. Riley will serve as
the toastmaster. Principal speak
er will be Charles Walker, Port
land business college executive.
Rev. Robert A. Hutchinson of Sa
lem will deliver the Invocation.
Reservations for the banquet
must be made by Wednesday, Jud
son said. Seats may be reserved
by calling the Marion or Herman
Lanke, ticket chairman, 6037,
Ben Lomond Death Mystery
Just Junior High Dramatics
The Ben Lomond Murder Mys
tery," a nice bit of amateur thriller-killed
melodrama, is over and
the police can quit looking for the
.dastardly murderer and for the
corpus delicti that -was never; a
Corpus. .!
The police were late comers to
the piece, produced, directed and
played by a group of talented Jun
ior high students ' of undisclosed
Identity, and so were unable yes
terday to give a critical opinion of
the merits of the vehicle. They
didn't show ap, until . the second
act was over and played the third
act all by themselves.
The first act was done with gus
to and realism before the inter
ested ' though perhaps skeptical
yes of ; George Stewart, 1105
South 12th street, and girl friend.
The setting was the top of Ben
Lomond hilL .-
Building rapidly to a climax.
the dramatis personae, as Mr.
Stewart told police, argued, threat
ened and swore. One of the char
acters , was invited to take his
glasses off.
Mace
Kelly Machine
Acts Wkhout
Okeha Sunnise
14,000 Names Are Filed
in Surprise Action;
President Silent
Vote Is Advisory; Open
Pennsylvania Choice
Is Demo Decree
(By the Associated Press)
Petitions were filed Saturday tm
place President Roosevelt's name
on the Illinois primary ballot.
First Washington reaction in
cluded expressions of surprise, but
it was generally assumed that tbe
White House had not been con
sulted. Reports from Springfield said
14.000 persons had signed peti
tions asking that Mr. Roosevelt's
name be entered in the April t
presidential preference primary.
The petitions had been circu
lated by the Cook county demo
cratic organization, headed by
Mayor Kelly of Chicago. Kelly
has advocated ' a third term for
the chief executive.
While tbe petitions were not
accompanied by a certificate of
candidacy from Mr. Roosevelt, tbe
Illinois secretary of state said that
the president's name probably
would be placed ou the ballot.
The Illinois primary is merely
advisory, and does not bind tbe
delegates. Tbe voters' expression,
however, is regarded as an obli
gation on convention represen
tatives. Thomas E. Dewey, tbe New
York prosecutor, formally entered
the Illinois republican primary.
Others Won't Enter,
Washington Forecast
Most Washington politicians
predicted that if Mr. Roosevelt'e
name went on the Illinois ballot
there would be no' other demo
cratic entries, asserting that Paul
V. McNutt. the federal security ,
administrator. Senator Wbeelcr
(D-Mont), or Secretary Hull -certainly
weald not, oppose , t h 1
chieftain.
Other political developments:
Pennsylvania's democratic com
mittee voted for a "free and epea
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Take Leadership,
Gannett Advises
Demand for 'Blank Check
Authority Repeal Ia
Candidate Plea
NEW YORK. Feb. -()-.
Frank E. Gannett, a candidate
for the republican presidential
nomination, called for his party -today
to "assume leadership now,
not wait until next year, to de
mand repeal of the blank-check
powers of the presidency."
"Government must be restored
to its proper function as umpire,
not player in the game," he told
a luncheon meeting of the Nation
al Republican club in an addrese
broadcast nationally (NBC).
"We are ted up on tbe umpire
playing quarterback, dictating tbe
rules, changing there In tbe mid
dle of tbe game, calling the sig
nals, running the ball, and threw
ing pop bottles at anyone he hap
pens to dislike In the grandstand
or the bleachers."
Charging the new deal was
leading America "straight 1st
collectivism," Gannett said: "We
cannot pussyfoot and walk em the
fence on this fundamental Issue."
I teaching for More
Power, Be Charges
Under the heading ""emergen
cy," he continued, "the new deal
ers are reaching for more power
such power, tor example, as -the
president's assumed tight te
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Even with, that things were 4
little dull and Stewart wee about
ready to leave when one of the
characters drew back, pulled
gvn and a shot rent the a let
night air. A man fell.' crumpling
slowly to the ground.' "Get that
gun away from him, one shouted.
" Fear and panic in his voice, an
other shouted, "Get "him in the
ar and let's get out of here."
The corpus delicti was loaded tn
the car and the group tore out.; ;
i Stewart tried to get the car's
cense numbeK The young the
plans, all of whom expect Holly
wood contracts soour- eluded bins -by
dousing their lights and turn
ing into a side road. -
Stewart , . went "to" .-' police who
found no gore, no signs et a strug
gle and only an old '.It cartridge
at the scene. It had been dropped,
for a touch of realism, by one ef
the actors. ; :. -
There will bs no return showing
of the piece as the actors report
it too difficult to tiad a coopera
tive audience.