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The Weather TVsHSX J w 1111 111 Pull Associated Presi mm " The Very Thing Devote a put o! your time thl morning to reading tha CLasaW fled page. Vou my not be Interested IB ft thing advertised and again you may find tha very thing advertised you aro looking for RIBUNE Full United. Presi ; Thirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1938 No. 129. The Capital Parade - By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The . North American News- paper Alliance, Inc. PURGE SEEN AIMED AT PARTY CONTROL IN 1940 NEW DEALERS FEAR CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE MANY SOUTHERN LEADERS FAVOR McNUTT CANDIDACY " GARNER DICKERS; DECIDES NOT TO RUN WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. The beat way to understand the purpose of the president's party purge Is to take a brief look at the sort of thing the purge is Intended to avoid. The ob ject of the purge is not control of congress. With only the reorganiza tion bill remaining 'on the agenda, the White House cares comparatively little about congrese In the next two years. Control of the Democratic party In 1940 is the great prize at stake. The president and his trusted lieu tenants believe that they cannot per petuate the new deal unless they tan control the democracy two years hence. They fear that, if . they lack that vital control, a candidate will be nominated who will do more harm to the liberal cause than any Republi can could. And It may be added that recent events have begun to Justify their fears. The truth Is that outstanding men In the conservative southern wing of the democracy are casting a favorable eye on the presidential candidacy of the egregious Paul McNutt of Indi ana, The nestor of the south. Jack Garner, Is not known to have been directly approached as yet. But such senators as Pat Harrison of Mississippi, deep In the somewhat mysterious Garner counsels, have been talked to by the McNutt bag man, Prank McHale, and they have met McHale's advances ' more than hali-way. - Some of the more sordid features of the McNutt candidacy were noted In this space many weeks ago. The huge campaign fund, scrounged out of the business men and state offi cers of Indiana; the vulgar McNutt debut party In Washington; the Mc Nutt record of dictatorial opportun ism these are matters which need not be rehearsed again. But the rea son why the Ironclad McNutt organi sation consented to the renomlnatlon of Senator Fred Van Nuys, after swearing by ail the gods to have his blood, does deserve an airing. It has been wrongly stated that the McNutt crowd, under McHale's dlrec tlon, gave In to Van Nuys because he was able to beat them in their own state. This Is about a quarter the truth. It has also been said thalt they gave In to Van Nuys as a geaturo toward the conservative Democrats, for whose 1940 support McNutt hopes. This Is also a quarter of the truth. The other half, and much the impor tant part of the truth Is. to put it brutally, that Van Nuys sent word he would start telling tales out of school. The methods of the Indiana gov ernment under the McNutt organiza tion have not been pretty. To have 1 them aired by a former member of that organization. In a position to name names, give dates and describe Incidents, would not help the heads of McNutt's men, and they surren dered without a whimper. The vice president is often thought of as a candidate himself, and most men less foxy than he would have become a candidate long before this. If they were so constantly persuaded and urged as he is. But word comes that, because of his' age, and his sense of the president's probable re action, he has abandoned his per sonal ambitions. Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri Is also frequently named as a Garner candidate. He has certain obvious suitabilities. He Is deeply conservative. He Is tin organization Democrat. He has a good vote get ting record back home. He Is mem ber of the senatorial inner circle, which meet in the Garner "office of education" to discuss the problems of the day and the repeal of prohibi tion He Is held In high personal esteem by the vice president. But word also comes that, because Clark Just does not measure big enough as presidential timber. Garner Is not too hopeful of anything from him. And so the Garner gang Is coquet ting with Prank McHale and through him with Paul McNutt. The chances are that the overtures will come to nothing, simply because Postmaster (Continued on Page Six.) cry Rarv! BOIPB. Idftl.o. Aug 30. i M. L AlMip. executive secretary of the Ida ho Progressive association, said today his organization was sounding out sentiment on a proposal to offer a place on Its ticket to Senator Jam- P. Pope. Defeated in the Idaho primary for the Democratic renomi n a lion by Representative D. Wort'. Clark. COMMUNISTS- USE FIRST LADY FOR PUBLICITY, CLAIM Former' Red Organizer Given Bodyguard After Startling Testimony Inner Workings' Revealed At Hearing. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. rTP) The house committee on "un-American" activities assigned a' bodyguard to accompany Dr. J. B. Matthews, writ er and educator, when he left the committee room today after telling how communists "exploited", the names of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and other prominent Americans. The plainclothes guard was assign ed after Matthews had reported re ceiving threats by telephone of bodily harm If he persisted in his testimony regarding the purported inner work ings of the communist party. ' Ho is scheduled to return to tlw witness stand Monday with testimony which committee members said woul-J be even more startling than that nr. unfolded today. Hu charged the world youth con gress now meeting at Vassar, wht:h was addressed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt this week, was "nothing more nor less than one of the 'united front' maneuvers dedicated to tor warding the aim of the foreign pol icy of the Soviet Union." At least 35 of the 50 American delegates belonged to communis front organizations, he said. In response to direct questioning. Matthews, who said he had mode five trips to the Soviet Union i-lnce 1928, said the communists exploited the publicity value of such a speaker a Mrs. Roosevelt, who could thus inno cently be aiding the work of th; party. The witness said he Wis organizer and first secretary of the American league for peace and democracy, an organization to which several gov ernment officials belong. Relating that he had been an ai tlve participant In the organization or work of about 30 organizations which he said formed part of the communist front. Matthews told the committee many Intimate details of his link with the communist party. He said he did not belong to the party but worked with It as a "fee low traveler," that was the name giv en communist sympathizers who, for strategic reasons, did not carry party cards, he testified. ' . As a "fellow traveler," ne sold, ho was Identified with the students con gress against war, the American stu dent union, the American youth con gress, the unemployed council, var ious groups to aid or free Tom Moon ey, the International labor defense, the federated press, and other orgon lzatlons, The American youth congress Is an excellent example of the methods and purpose of the communist party's united fronts." he said. "Among the organizations which have been per suaded to endorse the youth congress and to participate in Its communist- guided work we find numerous groups of Christian youth people, J such as the national council of Meth odist youth and the Christian youti conference of North America. "Among the individuals sponsoring the youth congress, as members of Its so-called national advisory com mittee, we find, in addition to the usual left wingers who appear fre quently on united front committees, the name of Ralph S. Cushman, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, Harold G. Hoffman, former governor of New Jersey nnd Henry N. MncCracken. president of Vassar"' "Ostensibly, these organizations and Individuals arc associated with a youth organization which Is dedi cated to peace as one of Its major goals. Actually they are being made the Innocent dupes of a carefully contrived communist maneuver. By peace, as the communists understand and work for It, is meant a breath ing spell during which the world rev olution of the proletariat may be prepared." Among others he named on the tn vlsory committee list were Senator Frazlcr of North Dakota, Jeremiah 1 Mahoney, president of the amateur athletic union; William F. Quintan, general secretary of the general boari for Christian education of the Meth odist Episcopal1 church, south: Wil liam Allen White, famous editor of Emporia. Kas.: Gov. Elmer Benson of Minnesota, and many teachers, pro fessors, end others. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. Sec retary of Labor Perkins rcoorted to day that for the first time since 19H5 public employment offices place i more persons In private Jojs In July than during June. Th Increase was 1.7 per cent, she mid, and placement of person in public employment decreased I S per cent In the same period. Gains In the rate of private pluon meats were reported, Mim Perkins disclosed. In 31 states, the largest n the west north central area and .; New England. 'Th' betterment in private plice- i mem was centered In jobs of regu j lar duration," she noted. URGE TO J V:;, . V-J Jfv J k 41 iXiO BLESSING OF F.D.R.,. bestowed on senatorial nomina tion candidacy of Lawrence Camp (left), was accepted as a chal lenge by Walter F. George (right), conservative New Deal foe and Georgia's senior senator whose defeat was bluntly asked by the President at Barnesvllle. Ga- M'NARY DISLIKES FOR IRE POWER SALEM, Aug. 20. fP) President Roosevelt's effort to "lay aside the will of the people and substitute hi own" was called the most dangerous tendency In American life today oy Senator Charles L. McNary. McNary spoke before Oregon Re publicans at a party picnic at his farm home near here. ' "I'm not saying the president wants- to be a dictator," the senate majority leader declared. "I'm saying that he wants unusual and stupen dous powers." ' McNary added that he had bteii criticized for supporting the presi dent In the past and that while he personally lUed .Mr. Roosevelt he had found himrelf unable to support later measures the executive wanted. PRESIDENT READY- IN HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Aug. 20. (AP) President Roosevelt Is ready (o seek changes In the Wagner labor act. William Green reported today. The president of the American Federation of Labor, after a long talk with Mr. Roosevelt here, told re porters: "We discussed possible change In the (labor relations), law thorough ly. We are in accord on the necessity of making some changes In the law to overcome the objections the A.F.U has offered regarding' the board's ad ministration." Green referred to the national la bor relations board. He said its mem bers should be "more Judicial mind ed" and averted be had given U-e president numerous specific com plaints against Its activities. The labor, official said he had talked with Mr. Roosevelt about? the personnel of the board, and had mentioned that the term of Donald W. Smith will expire soon. Green would not say however, whether he had expressed specific opposition to Smith. "I rather complained. Green sa'd, "against the administration of the labor act by the boaid as a whole. I did not express objections to one specific person. "The members of the board should be more Judicial minded." SHANGHAI. Sunday Aug. 21. (AP' With YangWe floodwsten slowly receding In the battle eone east of Hankow. Japsnese troops to day were reported concentrating on ihe north bank for an overland thrust against the provisions! Chi- I 8ALT lake CITY. Au?. SO. (UP) nese capital. i p,trlclc O Helly. 27. confessed "tov The fresh troops were said by Chi- pi,tor bandit and former Folsora neie military advices reaching Shsng- prlson convict, pleaded guilty on rob hal to be massing between Hwanamel j bery cnri? ner, today and tJld and Susung. along the Hupeh-Anhwel Diatrct Judge Heiuert Schiller. "I nmvlnrl.l hnrrier .hntit 11S tnH.ii . - . i. t ... I east southeast of Hankow. Repea'ted Chinese counter attacks had failed to dislodge the Japanese from these two towns won In the six-week offensive from Hofel in mid Anhwet. Irate Traveler PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 30. UP. EHrabeth Relmann, Portland, board ed a traction company bus 'June 4. became Incensed, she said, when the driver wrorwfully accused her of not psvlnc full fare. Her aiwer persisted and today she filed suit for $15,100 damage. PURGE FUMES IMPERIL AT CRMS PASS GRANTS PASS, Ore., Aug. 30. (;P) Flames from a fire that broke our; one mile northeast of here late today threatened the city reservoir toniglr; and caused a dozen families to evac uate their homes. None of the dwelltugs, all of which had been wetted down with garden hoses, took fire although the flames twice Jumped Highland avenue Into the city limits. Nurses at the County hospital were packing furniture and clothing preparatory to leaving be fore the flames were turned. GRANTS PASS. Ore., Aug. 20 (UP. All available fire . equipment and hundreds of volunteer workers gained control tonight over a forest fire that burned to the city's edge, threatened more than 60 homes and choked the city with amoke. ,-. Authorities .. the,. ,1 Ira either started, from a burning cabin, was set by an theendiarlst." I ft The blaze swept Inside the city limits at one point, from Its three mile front farther out. It was halted 100 yards from the Josephine County hospital, and excited nurses hastily moved their belongings out of their home near by. A -few woodcutter's shacks and one barn was believed the only loss. Two city residences were barely saved, however, und- many others were threatened by burning embers. Patrolmen -were assigned tonight to watch the blaze, which was swept before a .high wind earlier In the day. When the fire was at its height, trucks backed up to numerous homes to remove furniture. TEXAOPPROVES T HUNTSVILLE. Tex.. Aug. 20. (UVl A Texas prison board committee and a county grand Jury approved the custom of guards at the EaaV ham prison farm of shooting first and talking later. The two bodies Investigated this week's Eastham escape. Ouards kill ed four of the right fugitives, Two drowned. One was captured. "You cant treat these lncorrtgi blea with kindness.' antd State Sen ator Gordon Burns. "The only rem edy for recurring breaks is for the guards to shoot quicker." Bums, chairman of the senate pris on committee, represented Rob Par ker, tbe sergeant who killed John Hendrlx, allegedly while Hendrlx pleaded for mercy, his arms above his head. The grand Jury tefused to sustain the murder charge lodged against Parker by the county sheriff, who witnessed the shooting. FELON'S YEARNING FOR CELL CALMED ! where t have spent nearly half of my Mfe.'" I The court "obliged" ond sentenceu ' him to serve five years to life In '.ne U'ah-stAte penitentiary. O'RiMly was released two weeks ago from Folsom prison after serving a term on first degree burglsry charge In Long Beach, Cal. I nr reaped Enrollment PORTLAND, Aug. O (AP) Edwin J. Fltxpatrick. Portland unlerslty ! registrar, aald advance application 1 indicated the school's enrollment! j would go above $00 this fall. ' GEORGIA PRIMARY HELD CHANCE TO SPLIT DEMOCRATS Republicans Urged To Vote For Sen.- George And Balk New Deal Plans. ATLANTA. Aug. 20. OPV-A letter from Georgia's Republican national committeeman urging the election of Senator Walter F. George as a means toward splitting the Demo cratic national convention in 1940. was disclosed tonight. James W. Arnold of Athens, who ran against George on the Republican ticket in the 1932 general election. confirmed he had written key Repub licans that "the fate of this spilt rests upon the shoulders of a few men." , Most Important of these, the letter said, are Senators George, Carter Glass of Virginia, Pat Harrison of Mississippi and McCarran of Nevada "It is absolutely necessary In order to save this country that there be a split in. the national convention of the Democratic party In 1040,' the letter said, "because If the New Dealers control that convention there Is going to be plenty of hell turned loose In this country, "It therefore becomes of paramount; Importance to the country as a whole and especially to the life of our form of government that Walter F. George be re-elected to the ' senate from Georgia, "It la most Important that ever Republican In. Georgia enter th-a Democratic primary in September and oast his or her vote for Senator George. " Arnold polled 18,151 votes on Republican ticket in 1932 as against 234,490 for George. There has been no Republican senatorial candidate since and had been none for many years previous. "I have not spoken to Senator George about this that I am writing," the letter said. . A similar letter purporting to have been written by Arnold was displayed by Lawrence 8. Camp. George's Roosevelt-Indorsed opponent, today in a speech at Marietta defending the president's intervention In the Geor gia "primary,'.. LEADER ON TRIAL. GRINS NEW YORK. Aug. 20 A pic ture of Dutch Schultz as a vicious, profane, gun-totting racket boss was left today with the Jury In the trial of Tammany District Leader Jimmy Hlnea. Still appearing affable after the first week of listening to charges that ho served as political guardian angel for Schultp'a aioo.000.000 policy ayn- aicate, Hlnea left the courtroom grinning yesterday as the trial was recessed for the week-end. Thn lRt. wiitiMui f th. r,.L- ander Pomper, onetime policy king in Harlem, had Just testified thct the Schults mobsters contributed thousands of dollars in tainted racket money to election campaigns of 193J 4 F E ROME. Aug. 20. 0P Through the good offices of a 77-year-old Jesuit priest, Pletro Tacchl Venturt. Premie: Benoto Mussolini and Pope Plus XI, have again smoothed over the differ ences between the Catholic church and "the fascist party. A new accord was announced today by the fascist party. It called a nalt to the renewed controversy between the church and the party over ac tivities of the Catholic action, a Say society. Both clerical and lay sides private ly expressed hopes that thla llmlttd agreement also would have pacify ing effect on another point of dif ference the new fascist race party. BULLETIN The Seattle Ralnlers made it foot In a row over the Sacramento Sena tors, shutting out the Sacs for tlx Innings and, taking a 10-8 victory. Three lusty wallops broke the heart of the Sacramento team. Bill Law rence smacked a triple In the second after Newsome had walked twp men to open the scoring. Pemandea hit a home run In th fourth with one aboard, and the destruction was com pleted In the fifth when Oabrlelson also homed with one aboard. The Sacs defense collapsed after Oabret'. son's homer end five runs were totaled in the inning. NlR.it Game Score: r. n. e. 8 7 0 10 18 1 'Sacramento ; Seattle Newsome, Humphries and Orobe; Barrett and Fern and ea. SETS DATES nnn First Scheduled For San Jose August 26 Twelve Representatives For Coast Districts Planned. " SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 30. ffl The Agricultural Adjustment admin istration announced today that pub lic hearings would be conducted on the proposed marketing agreement program to regulate handling In in terstate commerce of five varieties of winter pears grown in Oregon, Washington and California. Hearings were scheduled for Svn Jose. August 26; Placervllle, August 27; Hood River, August 31; Taklma, September 1, and Wenatchee, Sep tember 2. The AAA said requests for the hearings were made by growers and shippers who represent 70 per cent of winter pears grown in the three states. , The proposed marketing agreement provides for regulation of shipments of five varieties of winter pears by grades and sizes, federal-state Inspec tion of all interstate shipments, pro ration among handlers of adminis tration expenses and administration by control committee of 12 members. One will represent handlers and one growers In each of the six districts of Placervllle, Santa Clara, Medford, Hood Rlver-Whltesalmon-Underwood. Wenatchee and Yakima. The program would apply to Beurre D'AnJou, Beurre Bosc, Winter Nells, Doyenne Du Cornice and Beurre Hardy varieties. T TO AS NAZIS STRUT LONDON, Aug. . 20.-(AP) Oer- many is flexing her military muscles and wooing aggrieved Hungary while the world hopefully watches British efforts to wet down Europe's tinder box, Czechoslovakia. New and old problems for Britain and France were popping up at both ends of the Rome-Berlin axis but there were no Saturday Jitters a re current ailment In London or Paris today. Not the least of the British-French problems were the offers, promises or even' demands Relchsfuehrer Hitler may make to Hungarian Regent Horthy on his state visit to Germany starting tomorrow. With Germany all but mobilized for vast war maneuvers, Hitler order ed a splendid welcome for the head of Hungary a move that could be nnotner stepping awne xor mo mcn- rer8 political-economic hopes of a i w The great democracies looked earn estly to Viscount Runciman. Britain's I unofficial mediator In Czechoslovakia, to find a new key to the deadlock , between the Hitler-backed Sudeten I German minority and the proud, young Czechoslovak state, Tli ere was real hope In London that next week might bring success In ; meeting an Issue vital to the peace of Europe satisfaction orMhc auton omy demands of the 8,500.000 Sude ten Germans without causing the Praha government to lose face. Dispatches from Praha said Runci man suspended negotiations for the week-end, a spokesman denying re port that a "Runciman plan" was about to be presented a plan which, as some reports had It, would cut Sudctenlsnd up Into largely self-governing cantons. Elsewhere the paths for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's longed for European "appeasement" seemed closed, at least for the present. The arrest and expulsion of a British passport officer assigned to Vienna on what Oerman authorities ! termed proof of espionage, threw a new shadow across Anglo-German re lations. Oenerallsslmo Franco's reply to a British plan to get foreign soldiers out of Spain not ret published was reported so hedged by reserve - lions as certain to force an Indefin ite delay In the long overdue scheme to give the Spanish war back to tbe Spaniards, exclusively. In that connection, frost was be ginning to form on the Incomplete Anglo-Italian friendship pact. COLLIERS BARRED BY NAZI RULING BURUN, Ami. 30. irp The of tidal gazette announced today tht Collier's magazine has been Indef initely banned In Oermsny by order of the police and pr:pnaanoa minis tr. No reason for the order was given Life In Turkey , ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 20 &) People live a long time In Turkey. Sari Fatma. aged US, celebrated her birthday In Kozane, Asia Ml nor, with four of. her children, aged 07, 95, b2 and 90, and 117 other descendants. Sari Fat ma's husband wasn't there. He died In 1928, aged 110. A 70-year-old woman In Sam soun, the Black seaport of Ana tolia, was charged with enticement after an 18-year-old girl alleged the woman ran away and married her 22-year-old fiance. Two old army pals In Slvaa. Anatolia, married cousins. The bridegrooms were 84 and 88 and the brides, who were spinsters, were 79 and 82. LOS ANGELES HAS MOST PROMISING Guarantees To Try Every 'Screwy Idea And $30 Every 30 Minutes Pen" sion To People. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (UP) A candidate who frankly promised 365 days of sunshine every year and a pension of 930 every 30 minutes, entered the lists today against Mayor Frank Shaw, facing recall In an elec tion Sept. 16. Col. B. Tarkington Dowden, broker for an express service, was the 19th person to secure a nominating peti tion to run for mayor. "I feel that It Is my duty as a Cal ifornia n and a citizen of Los Angeles to put my name before the pee-pul and by doing so, lend an element of respectability to the ballot," Dowden declared. "This recall has been brought about by those two great sinister forces supply and demand. We can have only oce mayor at a time. That Is the supply. The demand appears to be that every carpetbagger in the 'cl,y desires to ts'-.e over the power, ad ministration and emoluments of the office and try every screwy Idea' jut -of .Utopia. ' . . "If elected, I guarantee the sun will shine 36S days In every year. I promise 30 free meals at a downtown cafeteria where one only has to us. their right eye for security, and to the pension -minded, I promise 130 every 30 minutes. "Who knows? Perhaps I, too, will receive a couple of threats against my life. Perhaps some sterling citi zen will slip me 850,000 to stay In the race, or out of It. Anything could happen. "And so, with an eye to the futura and an ear to the ground (which is an embarrassing position to be caught In), I promise you folks a new high In political campaigns.' BOY WHO SLEW AT 15, SALEM. Aug. 20. (P Dale Law- son, who at age 15 shot Mrs. Oeorte A. Dickinson to death with a shotgun near Independence, Ore., will leavo the state penitentiary here Sep tern ber 1 under a pardon granted by Gov. Charles H. Martin in order that the young man, now 33, may con tinue his study of dental mechanic He will be under the supervision of Dr. Floyd H. Utter, member of the parole board, and E. M. Duffy, parole officer. Since entering the prison Lawson has been Isolated from other prison ers, being employed (n the prison hospital, and has been thoroughly rehabilitated, parole board members reported to the governor. Furthermore he has ahown excep tional aptitude In medical and dental study, and plans to prepare himself to be a dental technician. The boy was employed on tle Dickinson farm, and shot Mrs. Dick inson In the course of an altercation, April 30, 1930. COOLER WEATHER Northern California: Mr 8undy but fog on the coast: slightly cooler In Interior central portion Sunday; gentle changeable wind off coast. Oregon: Pair Sunday but fog on coast: cooler In Interior of west por tion Sundsy: moderate to fresh northwest wind off coaat. Outlook far western atatea August 23 to 71 Inclusive: Mr weather but unsettled In Pacific northwest lat'er part of week: temperatures general); slightly below normal. , MOSCOW. Au. 20. (AP) Col. Charl' A. Mndbergb visited Indus trial plants outside Moscow today. while Mrs. Lindbergh, her, on an aerial trip with him. remained In the capital and toured museums and art galleries REPUBLICANS HIT POLITICAL TINGE IN RELIEF MONEY New Deal Spending Scored, Along With 'Pump Prim ing' In National Body Report. WASHINGTON, Aug. tO.-AP) The Republican national committee charged today the Roosevelt admin lstratlon'a work relief system waa the most expensive In the world. The average cost of each relief ease has "sky-rocketed," the committee satd, from I1S.15 a month In May,' 1033, to 930.66 tn 1035 and current under the . Works Progress adminis tration to $83 a month. The committee reported the na tional administration had spent over $16,000,000,000 for relief and publlo works in little more than five years. At the end of six years, relief -.nd attempted "pump-priming" of busi ness will have Increased the figure to over $20,000,000,000. It said. If to this "staggering total" la added federal loans through the Re construction corporation, the Publlo Works administration and other agen cies, the committee said, "the Roose velt expenditures and loans have totaled at least $47,000,000,000 up to March 4. 1938." The committee made its analysis In the "Republican Reporter," a publi- cation. Condemning "wasteful pump prim ing," it satd: This theory Imported from an- economlst in England where it never was accepted has proved a tragls fallacy in light of the 1037-38 indices of declining production ' and prices and rising unemployment which have practically taken us back to the economic situation existing In 1038." The Republicans replied to charges that their last national administra tion did nothing to combat depres sion. "When the New Deal came Into power in March, 1033," the report said, "there were, contrary to the charges that the Hoover erglme had done nothing for the needy, 5.463,000 households embracing 21,470,000 pv sons who were receiving public as sist mice.". :;1 The report aald It was lm"poaslbe, to administer relief from Washington and not have politics Involved. It pointed out that Republican legislators have urgad legislation prohibiting the use of federal funds to influence voters and returning the administration of relief to the "nor mal local administration system." LESS THIS YEAR WASHINGTON, Aug. 80 WV-The bureau of agricultural economics es timated today that farmers cash In come this year would be ,'J.JOO.OOO, 000, of 12.7 per cent less than last year'a and the smallest amount slnca 1935. ' The estimate was based on sale of farm producta and government ben efit payments. , , Laat year's rash Income was re- ported at a.80O,OO0,OOO, or the largest since 1930. Ihe cash Income for the first seven months of this year was 3.085,000.000, of 13 per cent less Mian for the January-July perlcd Inst year. ' the bureau aald. Dr. A. a. Blaclc. chief of the bu reau, attributed the smaller Income thla year "largely to the marked de cline In Industrial activity dtirlnr the past year, and to the lower level of the Income of urban consumers wnicn nas greatly reduced the de mand for farm products." HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. ao(AP) Hope for the recovery of Mrs. Emlta Krueger from wounds Inflicted In a strange "Jealousy" shooting on Hollywood boulevard, waa held by physiclana today aa the eoclallte wtfa of Karl Krueger, noted eymphony or chestra conductor, rallied after addi tional blood transfusions. . Mrs. Krueger waa shot down and critically wounded late yesterday as she attempted to nee from her maid', estranged husband. While Krueger paced a hospital corridor, clenching and unclenching the slender handa that have led soma of the world's most noted orchestras, his wife alept fitfully, oecaslonslly becoming conscious. Once, through lips compressed with pain, ahe whis pered an accusation agalnat Charles I. McDonald. 30-year old electrician, who eurrendered to polios and. Detective-Lieutenant Oeorge Whaley aald, confessed the (hooting. rorrl-on In fhlrseo CHICAGO, Aug. 20. WV-DoUgU Corrtgan. hero of the fsmous aviation detour, landed In the midst of a whacking Irish welcome at the' Mu ninpal airport today. Ha goes to Milwaukee tomorrow FARMERS' INCOME
