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Page JEFFERSON CITY POST-TRIBUNE mount Kjtsollsnea The Post Established 1908 Published every week das evening except TUB TRIBUNE PBI.NTLNQ COMPAKJ Member the Associated Press The Auscolated Press is exclusively entitled to Cfto use roi republlcatloa ol all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited ID Uiijt paper, end also the tocaj ncwi published herein. All rights ol replication oJ special dlsnatcbu hereto also reserved. "WHO Entered in the Postcffice at JeUerscn City, ts second Class Matter. Under the Act at March 3, 1373. RATES By Carrier in Jeffarsou City: .50 a month $1.25 for 3 months payable In advance $2.50 for 6 months payable In advanc- a year payable io advaoca By Mail in Missouri: J4.00 year payabla in advance 52.40 for months payable in advancf fl.25 for 3 months payable in advancf .50 a monto payable In advance By Mall Outside Missouri: $5.00 a year payable to advance $2.50 for 6 months payable In advanct for 3 months payabia in advance .50 for 1 month payable to advance TELEPHONE 6000 HIRTH'S CANDIDATE Bill Hirth, who is nothing if not naive, has a difficult time of it reconciling his conscience with the Truman candidacy.

When Senator Patterson reproached him for his adherence to Mr. Pcndcr- gast's senatorial selection, the Columbian admitted that the Democratic party could have done better, then suggested the thought that his organization must sometime clean house in Jackson County, preferably two years hence. It will immediately occur to the average citizen that the houseclcaning should take place this year. In 1936 Mr. Pendergast may own the Democratic party from top to bottom.

He made a gooci start two years ago, lie bettered his position when Truman was nominated. The Jackson County organization almost has the rural Democracy in its grip right now, yet suggests that the fight lor freedom be postponed. Hirth is a typically small-bore politician running true to form. He is a Democrat first, last, and all the time even though the party nominates a yellow dog. That form of partisanship has been the curse of Missouri and the nation.

It helped put a lot of scoundrels into office in the Harding landslide of 1920, it similarly afflicted the nation with rascals in the Roosevelt sweep of 1932. Hirth, who claims to be a friend of the people, especially the pal of the downtrodden farmer, is perfectly willing to see Truman elected even though he knows that the Democratic candidate is putty in the hands of Pendergast. That sort of thing disgusts decent citizens. It shakes their self-confidence in government. No party has a monopoly on patriotism.

Neither is 100 percent pure. Republicans in America have had their machines, machines which were in the end overthrown by loyal members of the G. O. P. bolting to Democratic candidates.

The Thompson organization of Chicago was discredited in just such fashion. The Pendergast grip on Missouri will never be loosened until the Democrats go and do likewise. It is increasingly evident that thes' intend to support Patterson in Missouri this fall as a rebuke to bossism. Missouri Democrats who do not want to take their orders from Kansas City find themselves sadly handicapped by demagogues of the Hirth school in their fight for a clean party. The victory of Patterson in November, made possible by the votes of independent Missourians aroused and enraged at the danger which faces the rural sections of the state, will constitute a merited rebuke to Columbia's dirt farmer.

THE FERGUSONS ARE FINISHED Almost a million Texans went to the polls last Saturday and gave Fergusonism its final death blow. For the next two years the governor of Texas will be one who owes nothing to either "Pa" or "Ma," in fact, he is totally independent of and hostile to them. Americans who feel that they have never had a chance under the old deal should consider the career of James V. Allred and marvel at the opportunities he has grasped. The next governor ol Texas is only 35 years old.

His father was a rural mail carrier, his pay meagre, yet three ol his sons bacame well-known lawyers. James V. Allred shined slices to work his way through college. He enlisted in the navy when war came. Discharged, he entered the law school ol the University of Texas, still working for his room and board.

He hung out his shingle at Wichita Falls and early attracted attention. He was elected district attorney of Wichita County at the age of 27, then ran for attorney-general of the state, being nosed out by 4,000 votes in a total close to a million. Two years Jater he was triumphantly elected for a two-year term, then chosen again to succeed himself. Staunch foe of Fergusonism like that other attorney general and governor, Dan Moody, he campaigned with the fervent plea to finish Fergusonism and all other isms in Texas. The voters evidently barkened to his words of counsel.

Like other states of the South and West, Texas has suffered because so many of its people have been willing to turn ready ears in the direction of demagogic outcrys. Allred was scored by his opponent, Tom Hunter, as a tool of the "big oil companies" which incidentally furnish employment to 500,000 wage-earning Texans. That attack failed and the self-confessed friend of the people ran second. Ferguson is on his way out, Murray is through, Brinkley a has-been. Huey Long alone remains to give the nation bad dreams.

James V. Allred, who will be the next governor of Texas, has a splendid chance ahead. He can make the state and the nation forget thu Fergusons by using his undoubted talent in the service of people who have been sorely tried politically during the past two years. We note that the Kingfish is still using the dot and dash system to convey his opinions to the American people. BIGGER AND BETTER ARMIES If it isn't the admirals, it's the generals.

The sea dogs crave dreadnauglits, their land rivals crave bigger and better armies. General Douglas McArthur, chief of staff, wants an increase of 50,000 men in the personnel of the regular army, He claims it is necessary for use "in time of emergency" and "to form a permanent force to repel any invader." It is an old, old story. Secretary Dem seems to favor the idea and the Texas Congressman who is willing to introduce the necessary legislation when Congress convenes supports the bigger army plea by making the naive point that an increase in the size of our military forces would take care of many unemployed men, following out the clever suggestion of the admirals that the construction of dread- naughts would put riveters and heaters to work in the steel shipyards of the nation. There is no apparent emergency justifying the expansion of our army at the present time. If General McArthur can name a possible foe, he should be invited to do so.

It takes a rather fantastic imagination to conjure up an invading force from either Canada or Mexico. Even if one were inclined to believe that a protracted European war will take place in the near future, the need for 50,000 new regulars is not particularly apparent. Military expenditures seem never to decrease, but if we have to pay for them, the average tax payer would prefer to see his hard-earned dollars spent on the aviation service of army and navy. It would seem that thousands of planes would better protect the coastline of the United States than 50,000 infantry. THE 'PIE' EVIL IS BACK Just abotit the worst news that has come out of Washington in recent months is the disclosure that the federal "pie counter" is open again in old- time style.

The old spoils system seems to have revived almost entirely, and the ancient game of using the federal governent as an agency to provide jobs for deserving party hacks is being played as merrily as ever. The New Deal seems to mean a good many different things, but one of the things that it ought most of all to mean is a break with the sorry old custom of handing out plums to ward-heelers. The abuse of party patronage has been a crying evil in Washington for generations--ever since the day of Andrew Jackson in fact. But Washington correspondents report that there has been a complete reversion to the old-fashioned spoils system this summer. If anything it is worse than ever before because the opportunities are greater.

WHAT OTHERS SAY THE JAPANESE IN ARIZONA The prompt assurances of the Governor of Arizona that the fights of the Japanese farmers in the Salt River Valley will be protected shows that the Governor fully appreciates the inherent dangers in the situation. The trouble arose over the alleged infringement of Arizona's law restricting the ownership of property by aliens. Similar laws have long existed in California, Washington and Oregon and have on occasion given rise to misunderstandings in those states between Americans and Japanese. The constitutionality of the law is not in question--many states have long had laws regulating alien land ownership--but rather supposed infringements of the law by individual Japanese. Local residents in mass meeting assembled threatened to have the Japanese "run out" of the Salt River Valley.

The Governor has correctly insisted that if the law has been violated the offenses must and will be dealt with through the courts, not by mob action. His decision has been communicated to the Acting Secretary of State, who in turn has passed it on to the Japanese government. In Japan the incident has aroused interest, apprehension and resentment because it is like similar incidents that occurred in past years, especially prior to the passage of the immigration restriction act of 1924. It is all the more unfortunate in that it comes at a time when the Japanese press has been assiduously fomenting anti-American feelings among the Japanese. The fact that no right-minded American approves such high-handed tactics as the group in the Salt Paver Valley has threatened to use is not brought to the attention of the Japanese public as forcefully as the threat of unjust and perhaps violent expulsion.

But, fortunately, our people have learned much during the last decade, and the Governor of Arizona can be relied upon to insure justice and protection for the Japanese. To do otherwise would be a disgrace to the state and the nation. Just as Americans may not own farm lands in Japan, so Japanese may not own farm lands in this country. But so long as these statutes are equitably and effectively enforced neither the Japanese nor the inhabitants of the Salt River Valley have just cause for York Herald-Tribune. IT'S GREAT TO BE A DICTATOR It must be great to be a dictator and indulge your personal whims without interference.

If you happen not to approve of lipsticks, then you issue a decree against their use. Kemal, the Turkish dictator, did not like the fez. So by decree he sent Turks scurrying to buy derby hats. If some man offends the dictator he does not have to grind his teeth and put up with the obnoxious person. He merely has to order him off to a concentration camp where he may' be held without trial, or expelled fro the country.

Dorothy Thompson, a competent and experienced foreign correspondent, offended Realm- leader Hitler by a critical article she wrote before he came into power. So now she is expelled from Berlin. Yes, it must be exhilarating to be able to give one's prejudices the effect of C. Times. Monday, August 27, 1934 Pretty Soon! Get Back Pay and Proceed to Pay Their Bills; Dentists, Grocers, Clothiers to Benefit.

CHICAGO, Aug. 27--(UP)--Once upon a time 18,000 persons, all in the same town and all at the same time, suddenly were granted that every day wish of the average man: I wish I had a thousand dollars. And it's no fairy story, beeauf" it happened today to 14,000 school teachers and 4,000 civil service em- ployes. They drew $26,000,000 in salary arrears, an average of $1,444.44 each The spending spree they started splashed all up and down famous old State Street and swirled into the nooks and crannies of the farthest suburbs. Association of Commerce statisticians estimated that release of the sum would move $100,000,000 worth.

of goods in three days as landlords' and dentists, clothiers and reaped and passed on the windfall! First in line before the City State Banking building when 36 pay clerks started passing out the long overdue checks was little, blonde, and excited Miss Agnes Fairstrom. She parked on the bank's doorstep before midnight last night, determined to get into the clothing stores "bo- fore these other girls pick everything over." "These other girls" were lined up for a block down the street at dawn with men teachers sandwiched in a'l along the line. "I'm going to draw $1,212.56," confided Miss Fairstrom, "and when night comes I'm going to have abort $200 left. What I'm going to do in the meantime is nobody's business." She did reveal that she intended to pay a $142 dentist bill, $90 bac.k rent and the $50 balance of a $100 loan. "Most of the rest," she said, "will go for clothes.

I haven't bought a dress for two years, a lot of it will go for books and some of it for a few pieces of furniture." A man high school teacher refused his name but grinned happily when questioned. "My two boys missed a year cf college last year," he said. "I thought they were through. Nov they'll be starting for Ann Avbo within a week." "It won't happen again," salt Mayor Edward J. Kelly.

Chicago is within its income and on a sounc basis." NO 1 A. PAY ROLL New Deal in Washington Sonic Heavy Jolts Will Be Handed Out In Munitions Probe Capital Attorneys Irked by "Lobby Lawyers" Good Argument for Klectric Rate Cuts Found Right in Washington. Dorothy Thompson In Paris Tells of Campaign of Terrorism PARIS, Aug. 27--(AP)--Germany in the opinion of Dorothy Thompson, American newspaperwoman who was asked to leave it, "is becoming the most comfortable and most hygienic prison in the Miss Thompson arrived in Paris yesterday, the day after secret police in Berlin asked her to leave the country immediately. The request, she said, "is evidently a part of a campaign of terrorism against foreign correspondents' but apparently was based on an interview she had with Adolf Hitler in 1931, before he became Chancellor.

"Hitler is no longer a man, he i a religion," she asserted. "Perhaps my expulsion is a direct application of the system of propaganda minister Goebbels." she continued. "He thinks the best way to conciliate foreign opinion is to suppress all information about Germany which does not emanate from Miss Thompson, the wife of the novelist Sinclair Lewis, plans to go to the Saar territory within a fev Says Roosevelt Is Foe of Press Charging that President Roosevelt is trying to throttle the press, Thomas D. Schall, above, blind Republican senator from Minnesota, declared the chief executive plans a government news service to drive other press associations the field. Asked by Roosevelt to reveal his facts, Schall intimated the request was an attempt to "fool the public." By RODNEY BUTCHER (Post-Tribune Washington Corresnnndent) WASHINGTON, Aug.

27--You'll find the secrets unearthed by the Senate committee investigating the munitions industry were worth waiting for. After a summer of burrowing Hu-'uimiiuo through sales records, correspond-! the fall and winter. known. One of the most prominent figures in American industry is scheduled to go on the stand. But he doesn't know it yet.

The committee has a New York office employing 50 or more people, most of them recruited in a federal relief work project. The office 5s under Investigator Robert Wohlforth, ex-army officer who recently wrote a grim novel of West Point life called "Tin Soldiers." The forthcoming hearings arc only a preliminary to many more hi kota will stage a hearings beginnin ence, income tax returns, and other papers of the "merchants of death," Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Da- week or two of Sept. 4. Most of the committee members will be here, including that grim liberal, Senator Homer T.

Bone of Washington, who is on his way from the west coast. A certain elderly Greek "mystery man of Europe," who has made millions in munitions by fomenting various wars and wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, will' enter the picture. It turns out that he owns a large' part of an American firm which supplies this government and others with one of the most important instruments of war. The committee's investigators, under Stephen T. Raushenbush, have been finding out how our armament makers keep busy betwean wars.

Chiseling Irks Lawyers Legitimate local lawyers are fed up with the horde of lobbyists who open "law offices" for the purpose of using political influence in practicing before government departments. Although a lobbyist can't represent a client in court if he isn't a member of the bar, there's nothing to prevent him from mas querading as a lawyer elsewhere. The District of Columbia Bar Association thinks Us members arc getting a bad name, cspceailly as many of the lobbyists represent themselves as qualified to legal advice and draw up legal documents. It seeks a law to protect the public against fake lawyers. Nothing has been heard of the administration's anti-lobbyist campaign for a long time, though it did lead to resignations of several national committeemen who are still iiiK iCUi Ur a nirals and doing business, both in politics and generals are going to be seriously embarrassed.

Admirals LcntI a Hand It seems the munitions boys concentrate intensively on selling that had plenty of active help from inside the Navy, War, and State departments. Admirals sometimes have acied as salesmen, if not as demonstrators. The committee has authority to files of government de- political favors. An Efeciric Rate Lesson Spokesmen in the administration's campaign for cheaper 5 as an object of rates right here in town. The Potomac Electric Power Company has been thriving under a contract with the city to reduce rates each year by an amount equal to half its surplus earnings over 7 "-4 per cent of an agreed valuation carefully transferred his most investigators didn't overlook the safe.

If some of the things the committee expects to briny into the open were revealed now, certain prospective i probably would take vacations in parts un- ,..,,11 a i 1 nyiceu valuation. well as those of pri- eight years rates have been manufacturerjcut from an initial base of 10 cents a. kilowatt hour to 3.9 cents, the company's earnings have increased from 2.2 times its bond interest to 12 times, and the 25 cents of every revenue dollar available for bond interest has risen to 40 cents. Increased distribution of tricity at the cheaper sponsible. rates is re- days.

Her case attracted wide interest here and many newspapermen interviewed her when she arrived She had memorized verbatim the letter asking her to leave. The German propaganda ministry- said Miss Thompson was not 'expelled" but "she was only advised to leave." I Judge New Head Of'98 Veterans KILLED IN CBO, 2 SIKESTON, Aug. 27--(AP)-Mrs. J. E.

Weatherford of Matthews, was killed and two others wers, seriously injured near here today i when their automobile collided with a truck. Mrs. Elderbrook Roberts, also of Matthews, suffered injuries of the spine, and Alfred Gossett, driver of car, a fractured skull and a spine injury. The accident occurred when Gossett attempted to pass two cars, lost control of his automobile attempting to avoid the oncom- ng truck. His car crashed broadside into the truck.

The truck was driven by Raymond Sample of Cape Girardeau. He was not injured. Political Wiseacres Think Liberty League a Prove Means of Shattering Beautiful Friendship. WASHINGTON, Aug. Capital, ever alert for political portents, wondered today whether the Democracy's one-time Damon an 'and having just another tift or have parted for good.

Tomorrow's meeting in New York, of the American Liberty League's executive committee is awaited for whatever it may contribute to the answer. Because of the colorful personalities involved, the question predominated among the many that have arisen since President Roosevelt's jolly but cool reception to the Union of rPoperty Owners fathered by Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, James W. Wadsworth, Jouett Shouse and others.

The meeting possibly will be held in Smith's office in the Empire State Building. Past alliances and the present distance between Mr. Roosevelt and his predecessor as Democratic presidential nominee has ceased to arouse much comment of late. But the Smith affiliation with the new forum for property interests and the White House hints that this organization forgets the rights of people in the uneasiness over the prospects for property, led to conjecture as to whether what happened two years ago could or would happen again in 1836. In 1932 Smith, old-time coworker with Roosevelt, left the Chicago convention a defeated and disconsolate contender for the presidential But he ultimately proved one of the strongest Roosevelt campaigners in the North Atlantic states.

It ivas a case again of "Frank" and "Al." as it had been back in 1924 and 1928 when Roosevelt extolled Smith as the "happy warrior." Whatever the cause, the two men haven't been as close to each other as in the old days. Smith has been conspicuously absent from White House councils and has evidenced distrust of basic new deal experiments, such as the one he called "the boloney dollar. 1 Now "the happy warrior" is aligned with a fighting organization expected to take issue, sooner or later, with some of the Roosevelt constitutional and economic philosophy. Despite its non-partisan flavor, few underrate the political might that it may come to wield. NAME 5 AS WAREHOUSE CODE AUTHORITIES North Carolina, Georgia.

Virginia, Alabama, and Texas prodncr the most peanuts. Of these, i Carolina has the greatest yield to the acre. The new comniander-in-chiet oE the- United Spanish War Veterans is Leon McCord, superior court judge of Montgomery, shown here in comfortable pose with his favorite pipe after his elevation from the vice commander's post at the recent annual encampment iu Pittsburgh, pa, WASHINGTON, Aug. 27--(AP) -Five men were recognized today ty the National Recovery Administration as members of the code author ity for the refrigerated trade. They were: Harry G.

Herschen, St. Joseph, Earle E. Heese, Chicago; William J. Rushton, Birmingham', Ala William A. Sherman, San Francisco J.

B. Shoemaker, Elmira, and Y. North Carolina timber owners. lOBEffLTML LEI NRA Chief Stamps Way Out of White House Conference; President Trys to Placate All. (Copyright 1934 by the Associated Press)' "pi WASHINGTON, Aug.

27. The deep-seated character of NRA's latest troubles became apparent today when it was learned that general Hugh 3. Johnson angrily walked out on last Monday's White House conference, resigned in writing, and reconsidered only on the firm insistence of President Roosevelt. The dispute arose over an NRA reorganization plan submitted to the president by Donald Richberg, the NRA counsel, and Frances Perkins the secretary of labor. Among other things, the plan was interpreted by Johnson as contemplating his own retirement to private life.

The general walked out when My. Roosevelt, seeking to sooth the ruffled spirits of his conferers, suggested that a decision "be postponed while Johnson took a rest and a trip to Europe. The reconciliation, so far as John son is concerned, was consummated just before Mr. Roosevelt's departure Saturday for Hyde Park. Under its terms Johnson stays on as administrator and probably will become, later on, chairman of a board controlling NRA.

The implications respecting Mr. Richberg and Miss Perkins are less clear. Richberg's friends say he will remain the Newaunsel. although there will be no further doubt thet Johnson is boss. Miss Perkins is expected to confine her activities more closely to the labor department.

Th inside story of the incident, as related to the Associated Press authovitatives, is this: Relations between Johnson and Richberg, although outwardly friends, have been undergoing a change over a period of months. Johnson had heard whispers that people were saying it really was Richberg who ruled NRA. On his side Richberg felt slighted when Johnson, last June, submitted a reorganization plan to the White House without giving him a copy. Acting under the president's later authorization to draft a program for general coordination of all activities, Richberg prepared plans of his own for NRA. Miss Perkins became interested because of the labor angles.

Together they saw the president last Monday. Later that day they were asked to return. Johnson also was present. He told the president bluntly that he felt an effort was being made to drive him out of NRA. There were denials and further words.

Ma-. Roosevelt suggested that the general needed a real rest after his unremitting- service, and might take a vacation trip abroad, surveying meantime recovery efforts in Europe. Johnson exploded. He said he would do no such thing and, without ceremony, departed. An hour later Richberg and Miss Perkins slipped out of a side door, evading questioners.

Late that night, just before the president retired, he received a let- tr from General Johnson, delivered by messenger. It covered three typewritten pages. It recalled Johnson's labors for NRA, paid his respects to his enemies, stated dir.ect.ly his determination to quit, and ended with one of Mr. Roosevelt's own favorite Latin phrases meaning- in free translation, "The situation speaks for itself." The president replied at once Writing in long-hand, he reiterated' his regard and appreciation, asked that the resignation be and, returning proverb for proverb' said he liked that old saying that friends always must be friends So matters stood when the president left on Tuesday for Illinois, to attend the funeral Speaker Rainey. It was because of this undetermined situation that he changed an already-announced plan and returned from Illinois to Washington instead of going straight to Hyr 1 Park.

He saw Johnson break was healed. however, that the general take two weeks rest, and Johnson consented and departed for the beach. At the end of the two weeks he will see Lhc President at Hyde Park, and they will settle details of the new NRA set-up. And in it the fiery soldier will have first rank. This does not mean a break br- tween Richberg and the president, or between Miss Perkins and the president.

In her own field, Mr. Roosevelt highly regards the secretary of labor. He greatly admire Richberg, and will have other for him should he retire from NRA. He even is said to have him in mind for elevation, some day, to the supreme court. For Johnson it means he will tie again and He did insist.

ot, oujuiauu 11, means ne will tie Shouse made cicar that it would staying on when he had been plan- carry its case to the people and the ning: for months to get out Be- polhng places. That this may poss- cause of the demands of his private miy mean something of a showdown business, and because he his con-- 00 mith 3 pleted the particular phase of iNttn pears obvious, but.when itwill come which led him to take the job, he -and indeed whether it will come at has been asking for release. The HTM he President, apparently, was ready to uj txjK Qdy. agree. But neither liked the manner of iiis going, as it shaped up duriivj the past week.

So he stays. SEARCH FOR SLAYER OF A STOREKEEPER HAYTT, Aug. 27 (AP -warehouse Search was being made today for the unidentified slayer of Floyd Wiliams Discuss. C8, a country store keeper in the Davis community, near here who was shot from am- iicrti 1 ailut i i a nish as he sat in his store talking N. to Ted Tillma'n, a clerk, Saturday night.

A coroner's Jury yesterday turned an open verdict Discuss is wood cutters, wood haulers, anr! i survived by his widow and two small marketing agents gain an annual children, who were in room at the income of $1,500,000 from market- rear of the store when the shooting ing pulp wood. took place..