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THE NEWS-PALLADIUM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 LEFT-WINGERS LOOM LARGE IN ELECTIONTALK TAKESSTANDTO Bailey Takes Issue With Sen. Vanden berg On World Court Entry GUARDS CONGRESS' PURSE FAGE SIX ADDS ROMANCE TO CAREER CLEAR NAME OF MCTJHARPE (Continued from Page One) Benton Harbor Man Taken Up he testified it was. his positive opinion that a left-hand Upright of the Lind iiliilllllilllli Washington Ponders 1936 Eventualities, Including Huey Long BY BYRON PRICE (Chief Of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) The activities of the left-wingers are almost monopolizing current political talk about 1936. The politicians are asking how seri-feus the organized labor deflection Jrom the Roosevelt camp may be; just what Huey Long's presidential candidacy is likely to amount to; whether such groups as the inflationists, the Townsenders, and the Sin-clairites will be able to find a means for organized expression in next year's election. There are those far over on the conservative side who refuse to take any of these things very seriously.

They insist the smoke is out of all proportion to the fire. They predict that Mr. Roosevelt is sure to be the liberal candidate in 1936, as he was In 1932, and that his chief opponent will be a conservative, or at least a eemi-conservative. Nevertheless, the talk goes on. Whether it is a bugaboo or not, left-Wing agitation easily outdistances all Its rivals as a topic of political speculation.

Liberty League Plans The talk and the speculation permeate to some unexpected places. Recently a partisan of the Liberty -J WM I i 'fa ....551 1 Jr Ss 1 I 111 the 74ih Ca.icr?s3, which is almost certain to appropriate more money than any Congress before, in this or any other country, the purse strings are held by a Texas farmer. He is James P. Buchanan, chairman of the House committee on appropriations, shown here at his desk in Washington. This has always been one of the most important House jobs, held by such giants as Uncle Joe Cannon and Martin Madden.

Buchanan, who has served since 1913, hails from Brenham, Tex. Her mother waited 60 years for recognition as an author, Gttie Stephens Prichard's childhood dream coming true at 67 with publication of her first book, but Margaret Prichard, above, New York short story writer, refused to wait for success or romance. Well on her literary way, she'll combine a matrimonial career with work, her wedding to be a summer event in Chicago, the bridegroom, with whom she grew up in Princeton, to be James A. Carlson, now of Chicago. ADMIRAL WHO HEADS WORK DRIVE KEEPS NAVY TRADITION Cudgels A Entanglements A challenge to Michigan's Junior United State senator, Arthur Vandenberg, to further enlighten his constituent on nis reasons for supporting American entry Into the World court, again defeated in the Senate, was issued today by J.

T. Bailey, prominent Benton Harbor Democrat. Not satisfied with Senator Vanden berg' explanation of his vote, as published in The News-Palladium earlier in the week, Mr. Bailey came out today against adherence to the court, as proposed by President Roosevelt. In a letter to the editor of The News-Palladium, Mr.

Bailey said: "Permit me to add a thought or two to the very interesting article carried in one of your Issues of this week anent Senator Vandenberg's "amazement" that anyone in Michigan, much less your good self, should be 'amazed that the senator should have voted 'yes' on the World Court protocols. Your able editorial of the following day developed the answer quite satisfactorily, and you deserve at least a word of commendation for it, as well as for having 'called' the senator in your telegram. They'll Try Again" "Men life yourself and the writer have been classed as ignorant, unintelligent, uninformed, radical and what not, by those who failed to get us tied up with the nations of Europe. Why? This is not the first time that the propagandists have gotten otherwise loyal Americans to a point where they have been ready to step over the very threshold of European alliances nor it It likely to be the last. The worst of it is that this time they nearly succeeded.

We can be assured that, after more months or years of continued propaganda directed toward the breaking down of our 'ignorance, they will try again. Is it not in order to ask Senator Vandenberg to open his files to his constituents and tell us what persons, organizations and influences have contacted him on this issue since he has been a United States Senator? The pressure brought to bear on him must have been very great, indeed, to cause him to cast a vote so at variance with the opinions and wishes of so vast a majority of Michigan's citizens, and it must have been while still under the spell of such influence that he should tell us that he, in turn, is 'amazed' that we should be "What part does Senator Vandenberg intend to take in the future to 'educate' us? Why should we have our mass intelligence increased to a point where we will regard it a virtue to make common cause with people who led us out upon battlefields that were not ours, to fight in Quar rels that they, not we, created, to furnish men for slaughter and money to spend for their, not our, profit, and then to Insult us by calling us 'Shy-locks' because we have the temerity to ask for payment of honestly con tracted debts, while they use the money they owe us to pile up for themselves, munitions, battleships, armies and engines of warfare? Quotes Washington "We can never understand the combined European mind. We can never comprehend the powerful influences that are constantly at work in the European arena, forces that are fighting for we know not what, and obviously striving to lead us into a chaotic morass of disaster. The best expression yet devised to cover the situation exactly Is now nearly a century and a half old. These things are, Indeed, as Washington said, 'foreign "Let us 'beware' of them! "Let us also from now on guard ourselves against in high places and low ones, when our deep seated, inborn desires for preserving the American traditionary policy are assaulted by unseen hands from across the sea." Bee owners along the Nile place their hives on boats and float them to regions where flowers are abundant.

it would Mft ENTERS LINOTYPE SCHOOL IN OHIO Harry Grenawltzke, for the past eight years a member of the circulation staff of The News-Palladium, has resigned his position and will enter a Linotype operating school at Mau-mee, Ohio. Mr. Grenawitzke is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Grenawitzke, 704 Thresher avenue.

ONE PAIR OF SHOES NOT ENOUGH SUES Charging her husband has bought her only a pair of shoes at $1.66, and a 49 cent pair of hose since their marriage last June, Mrs. Lucille Mead, 20, of Niles, today filed bill for divorce in the circuit court against Edgar Mead. Mrs. Mead, who charges non-support, asks temporary alimony. She is represented by Attorney Edwin J.

Donahue. DETROIT MURDER SUSPECT QUIZZED (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Feb. 9 Police today were questioning Wendell Force, 22, in connection with the death of Porter E. Sager, 63-year-old grocer, who was found shot to death in his little store, a bullet in his back, Friday afternoon. Detectives said that two bullets had been fired.

One struck Sager. The other tore through a door and into the snow covered rear yard where police made a' vain effort to locate it. A cigar box, which ordinarily contained the $12 or $15 daily receipts, was missing when Sager's son, Clark, dropped in to pay his daily visit to his father. TUGWELL TO SIT ON NEW AAA BOARD WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.

Prospects that the hew AAA operating council will not be strictly conservative were seen today when Rexford G. Tugwell indicated he will sit in on some of its meetings. During the past year he has paid little attention directly to the AAA, concerning himself primarily with the scientific work of the entire department. BABY MERRY SYNTHETIC RUBBER IS STEP NEARER (By Associated Press) URBANA, 111., Feb. 9 For the first time in scientific histcry, plant molecules have been brought within man's microscopic vision, it was announced at the University of Illinois today.

jThe announcement followed a series of experiments by Professor George L. Clark and colleagues in his X-ray laboratories. For 97 years botanists have been working on this problem insofar as cellulose, rubber and plant products are concerned. No product can be made perfect synthetically unless its exact molecular weight is known and used in the manufacture. Although synthetic rubber has been produced in the past it has not been wholly satisfactory because scientists have been under the impression that the molecular weight for synthesis was 68,000, Clark said.

The University of Illinois discoveries make it positive that larger molecules will have to be formed and, in the case of rubber, would have to be eight times as big as those now used to obtain a successful product. WEATHER WILL BE WARMER THAN USUAL Weather outlook for the period of February 11 to 16 for the region of the Great Lakes: Tempsrature mostly above normal; not much precipitation likely. TEXAS SHERIFF IS HELD FOR MURDER DALLAS, Feb. 9. Sheriff W.

F. Gato of Garza county and two others brought here from West Texas pleaded not guilty today to federal charges of muJder and complicity in the machine gun slaying at Post, Wednesday of Spencer Stafford, federal narcotic agent. Sheriff Cato is charged with murder. The others, Dr. L.

W. Kitchen, veterinarian, and Dr. V. A. Hartman, physician, are accused of complicity in the slaying.

s' Stafford, investigating narcotic records at Kitchen's veterinary hospital, was riddled with machine gun bullets outside the office. Sheriff Cato said he shot in self-defense and has declined to discuss 'the shooting. HAUPTMANN'S bergh kidnap ladder was ripped from the flooring of Hauptmann's attic in the Bronx; also that the plane marks on the ladder had been made by Hauptmann's own plane. The defense attacked the plane evidence with a demonstration to show that nicks in a blade left different marks when the plane was held at a different angle. Koehleis rebuttal to this was that the marks, though closer or farther apart according to the angle of the plane, were tell-tale.

He directly disputed one of the defense experts who brought to court two pieces of wood, and said they were of differenet origin though their grains matched. Koehler said they were of the same piece. The object of the defense had been to show that the matching of the ladder rail with the attic floorboard could be coincident, and not necessarily incriminating. One of the points made for the defense by two practical lumber men was that the attic board could not be a part of the ladder rail because it had mors knots than the rail. Both said it was a butt board, from the base of the tree, and that the rail was a top board, from the top of the tree.

Koehler said the opposite. The attic board, he testified, was above the rail in the tree. "It is common knowledge," he said, "that when a tree gets to be a size so that lumber can be cut from it, there are practically no limbs near the bottom of the tree, but the limbs are up at the top of the tree. It is also known by anyone who has any experience with cutting of logs and lumber that the butt logs produce most of the clear grades of lumber and the knotty lumber comes from the top logs. In fact, logs are sometimes left in the woods, top logs are left in the woods, simply because they are too knotty, or because they are too small." Koehler said he examined the ladder rail in 1933, before Hauptmann's arrest, and saw in it the four nail holes which he said jibed with nail holes in the joists of Hauptmann's attic.

Dr. E. M. Hudson, a New York physician who testified for the defense, said there was only one nail hole in the piece when he examined it. The federal wood man said he not only observed the nail holes but made a diagram of them.

Frederick A. Pope of defense counsel directed his cross-examination toward an attempt to weaken Koehler's calculations. The wood man appeared at no loss to answer any of the highly technical questions. The questioning became a duel with calipers for weapons. Both attorney and witness drew out each his own pair and began splitting inches into the ten-thousandths.

Jurors and spectators listened open-mouthed to the battle as calipers slipped over wood for fine measurements. Pope charged Koehler's whole premise about the plane marks failed since he had nof established the dimensions of the solids of the ridges on the ladder and the dimension of the nicks on the plane blade. "I can measure the distance between houses in a block without measuring the size of the houses," the expert retorted. Pope insisted it was mere opinion. "No," said Koehler, "I say that I am expressing a fact.

Those plane marks correspond." BIRTH CONTROL CONFERENCE TO OPEN ON TUESDAY WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Prominent residents of Michigan are among the 500 sponsors of the "birth control of age" dinner here next Tuesday. The dinner is to commemorate the twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the birth control movement in this country. Among those who will attend it are: John W.

Blodgett, Dr. Alexander Campbell and Mrs. Morton Keeney, Grand Rapids; Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, Kalamazoo; Dean W. W.

Whitehouse, Albion college; Prof. Udo J. Wile, University of Michigan; Fred M. Butzel, Mrs. John R.

Decker, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, Mrs. Frederick H. Holt, president Woman's hospital; Dr. Roy D.

McClure, surgeon- in-chief, Henry Ford hospital, Detroit. HURT IN ATJTO CRASH SOUTH HAVEN, Feb. 9 Frank Hungerford, hurt in an auto accident at 4 o'clock this morning on the cor. ner of Phoenix street and Bailey ave nue, was taken to City hospital here witn injuries to his leg and hip. Cheetahs are caught and trained to nunt Dy natives of southwestern Asia and northern Africa.

The cheetah hunts by sight rather than the sense oi smew. Almanac: February 9fr lTTX'William Henry narnson, resident of the United ci- a hoc. born. VJI'IA--? lg6VJeffersonPaviS ftp Ou CrxvfedfiTdcV. canals air xwii contracts, causing officials to gp upin the air.

i t'f a 4 -i i J. T. BAILEY FRIEDENBERG RITES TO BE HELD MONDAY Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 3:30 p. m. from the Clay Street Baptist church in Benton Harbor for Edward Friedenberg, 73, who died Thursday in Pipestone township.

The Rev. Leo F. Gassner, pastor of the will officiate. Burial will be in Crystal Springs cemetery. BOXER'S COLLAPSE JUST BEFORE FIGHT IS BLAMED ON DRUG (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Feb.

9. Dr. W. J. Vopata, physician for the Illinois state athletic commission, today said he was certain young Joe Flrpo, Philadelphia middleweight, was drugged last night just before he planned to battle Frankie Sagilio of Chicago in a 10-round boxing match at the Cicero stadium.

Firpo collapsed a few minutes before he was to have entered the ring and was taken to the St. Anthony hospital. Dr. Vopata said he was resting easily today and, probably would be discharged from the hospital tonight or tomorrow. "There is no question in my mind but what Firpo was given some drug that made him so violently ill," Dr.

Vopata said. "I questioned him closely this morning, but he said he couldn't recall eating anything except a light lunch yesterday noon. He said no one gave him anything. However, someone slipped him something. I don't think there is any doubt about that." Dr.

Vopata said an examination was being made of the contents of Flrpo't stomach, but that it probably would be two or three days before the results of the analysis could be determined. Meanwhile, the state athletic commission opened an investigation into the fight. All principals will be questioned. STATE HIGHWAY CONTRACTS OK'D (By Associated Press) LANSING, Feb. 9.

Contracts for more than half a million dollars worth of road and bridge construction today had the approval of the state highway department. More than half of the work is to be done in the upper peninsula. Included in the projects are: Chippewa and Luce counties 5.763 miles of 21-foot gravel on M-28 to Thornton Hancock, $199,888. Keweenaw county 7.59 miles of 18-foot gravel, to L. Whitehead, Sault Ste.

Marie, $24,725. ask for Oil Co. HARBOR league, which has Denino. a tremendous conservative backing, was refuting the widely-held impression that the league will be against Mr. Roosevelt in 1936.

"How do you know we are going to be against him?" he asked. "Suppose all this radicalism heads up somewhere, wrecks his legislative program, and threatens to put over a lot of scatterbrain policies next year. Will we have any choice but to Jielp him?" The trouble is, of course, that radicalism always has great difficulty "heading up." It is well known that the labor vote seldom, if ever, has been delivered to any one candidate In a nation-wide election. Radicals and liberals have a great reputation for fighting among themselves, and Undermining one another. The latest grapevine word to reach Washington is that Governor Floyd Olson will not be a serious farmer-labor presidential candidate in 1936, and that the.

LaFollettes are more likely to support Roosevelt than to try to establish their new progressive party on a national basis. That about leaves Huey Long the bne certain left-wing entrant in the 936 presidential sweepstakes. Long Plans Split? And what about Huey Long? Of course much depends on what happens to him between now and a rear from now: Conceding that he keeps his Louisiana regime together, however, the possibilities seem to sum up like this: Long's managers are not claiming he has a chance to win the presidency next year. They do insist that Unless times change, he could poll Enough votes in southern and western States to split seriously the coalition rtiich carried those states for Roose-jpelt in 1932. The Roosevelt men, having in mind the extreme difficulties of founding and maintaining a third party ganization even on a sectional basis, deny this.

They laugh (publicly at least) rat suggestions that Long might taVa turav prinnch Ipft-winffers to en hance greatly his prestige and power, and at the same time destroy Mr. pioosevelt by permitting the election tol a Republican president in a tnree way contest. A smokestack from a scrapped tocean-going vessel is used as a home by Charles Rebert. Portland, Ors. Re- bert has fluted the stack in ship shape style with kitchen and bedroom for housekeeping.

BLOSSOMS OUT It's springtime out on Catalina Island and the almond trees are In fclocm. Framed In blottoms which aht iIvbI (or beauty, Elisabeth Gregg, the fl-Ult rf (prfng, prrri (rem her air rerrh, I hat she's reveling In llfori tunhln while the east thudutti at mow (lurries whip by. 1 111 1- Jth WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples keeps the silence of his service tradition as events suggest his selection for the biggest job of a long career helping to spend $4,000,000,000 in the administration's new work pro gram.

This naval officer who never commanded a bridge whose weapons have been figures rather than guns is understood to be President Roosevelt's choice to direct one of three phases of the administration's big work relief drive. The dash and color associated with line officers have not been Peoples' in his 35 years with the Navy. His has. been the painstaking job of overseeing all the department's vast purchases, running into many mil lions annually, and more recently- doing the same work for the U. S.

treasury, too. Reticent About Self Ask Naval officers about the man and they tell you only the flat, offi cial facts of. his career. Ask Peoples himself and he tells you nothing. He turns away all questions, and refers questioners to his official Navy de partment biography which covers the subject in 150 words and says any discussion by him, even of his own life, would be "most inappro priate." His fellow officers have little knowledge of the details of his ca reer.

This much, however, emerges He made a record in keeping Naval expenses to a minimum, especially during the World war, and was decorated with the Navy cross. In the era of America's greatest Naval expansion in history he kept watch over the purchase of everything, from beans to millions of barrels of oil. He figued out a system of fuel specifications that saved a lot of time and money and, his friends vouchsafe, in all his official life he has been hard-boiled about spending government dollars. 'Business Man' Officer Peoples divides his time now between two jobs and three titles. He is head of the treasury department procurement division which means he is the" government's No.

1 purchasing officer head of the Navy's bureau of supplies and accounts and paymaster general of the Navy. He entered the Navy through com petitive examination not by way of the Naval- academy ana oecame a "business man" officer. From 1914 to 1921 he served as assistant chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts and was cited for "excep-tionallv meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility." His job was AUTO DIVES OFF CLIFF; 3 KILLED (By Associated Press) BEDFORD, Feb. 9. Three high school students were killed last night as their automobile, creeping along a fogshrouded road, plunged over Devil's Backbone, a 500-foot cliff 12 miles southeast of here.

A fourth member of the party enroute to a basketball game. escaped with lacerations and bruises. The dead are: Roscoe Duncan, 18, of Campbells-burg. i Miss Mildred Dixon, 16, of near Fort Rltner. Miss Lucille Lysinger, of near Fort Rltner.

The Injured youth Is Melvin Wll-llami, 18. of Fort Ritner, who was brought to a hospital here. BIRTHS Mr. und Mrs. Andrew Engle, of Berrien Springs, are the parents of daughter bora Friday Murcy hoe- COL REAR ADMIRAL PEOPLES to buy the supplies for a Navy at war, and to get them as quickly and cheaply as possible.

From 1921 to 1930 he served as general inspector of the west coast supply corps, with headquarters at San Francisco. Then he was placed in charge of the Naval supply depot at Brooklyn. Met During War President Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of the Navy, became well acquainted with the Iowa-born admiral during "the war. The extent of his admiration is gauged by the fact that the work relief post outlined for Peoples that of recommending suitable projects to the President is gomg to be "one of the biggest things in the administration. No dour wearer of brass buttons is this square-faced officer turning 60, despite his insistent silence.

He is jocular and there is a sort of unobtrusive heartiness in his manner. But, behind it all, is the long of a seiice man who waits for his superior officer in this instance his commander-in-chief to speak. KIWANIS CHIEF TO VISIT PAW PAW ON MONDAY PAW PAW, Feb. 9. Lemuel F.

Smith, lieutenant governor of Michigan Kiwanis, will pay his official call on the Paw Paw club Monday evening at their regular dinner meeting At the directors' meeting held during the week, County Agricultural Agent Wm. F. ''Johnston reported on plans in progress for the reforestation project. Sums of $40 to the local welfare organization and S36 to the boy and girl scout organizations were voted. David Anderson Jr, was elected ts a director to take the place of his brother Donald during the latter's stay In Washington, CHARGES CRUELTY Cruelty is charged in a bill for divorce filed in the Berrien circuit court today by Charles F.

Stanley, of Benton Harbor, against Mrs. Leu Dorothy Stanley. They were married in May, 1934, and separated last October, Truy have no children. Stanley Is represented by the law firm of Gore, Harvey Si Fisher. Distributed by Pyramid BENTON Bruno Hauptmann's baby, Manfried, proved he was anything but when Mrr.

Hauptmann took him out for an airing near the courthouse Flemington, N. J. While Hauptmann neared the end of his trial, his youngster was attracting so many people along the street that police had be called to hold back the crowds. (Associated Frew Photo.).