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nn LINCOLN HOME EDITION Telephone B1234 New Police Number B5844 THREE CENTS SvtVJSSJSili THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR LINCOLN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1936 STAR THE WEATHER Nebraska: Partly cloudy, scattered ihowers probable tn extreme eat portion tonight and Friday; cooler tonight Lincoln: Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight and Fridayi cooler tonight cfo)rr Secretary Of War. George Henry Dern. William Phillips Is New Ambassador To Italy For U. S. Bar Report On New Deal Is Attacked Roosevelt At Bismarck For Drouth Study Former Nebraskan loses Long Fight Death Comes Quietly Thursday Morning As Family of Member of Cabinet Is At Hand.

Landon Hits At New Deal TaxProgram Calls Surplus Profits Measure "Cockeyed" Legislation is enrouTe HOME I THE WEATHER Tit Lincoln and Vicinity: rloudr an1 somewhat untrttltl lonlgtii and rloay; cooler tonight For Nebraska: Partly cloudy, reit'ered showers probable In eilreme east portion tonight tad frlflay; coo.tr tonight. kansas. Oenerally fair ttmlght and Friday; sot much chant la temperature. 7 be temperature (or pait 14 hour: p. I a.

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27 (AP) Sinking into a coma after a prolonged illness, George Henry Dca-n, 64-year-old secretary of war in the Roosevelt cabinet, died here today of cardiac and kidney complications following an influenza attack. He passed away at 9:35 Lincoln time, at Walter Reed hospital. Six members of his family were near at hand as he Deep Grief Is Felt By President WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 (AP) The white house said today that President Roosevelt would arrange to attend the funeral of Secretary Dern who died here this morning.

Mr. Roosevelt, now on a tour of drouth states, was informed of Dern's death when his train flopped at Steele, N. D. At Bismarck, N. President Roosevelt issued the following statement on Dern's death: "An upright, able and honest pub-lie ecrvant Is lost to our national life In tha feath of Secretary Dern.

Quiet and unassuming, ha mastered with alngular thoroughnesi all of the varied problems which fall within the Jurisdiction of the war department and administered his office with tact, discretion and good Judgment. "Tha armv of the United States has lost a devoted leader. "Por many years Ororge Dern end I have been close associates, first as governors of our respective states, and lately, for nearly four years In Washington. I am deeply grieved that he has left us." As soon as notified of the secretary's death, the president im mediately dispatched a message of condolence to the cabinet officer's family. By telephone from the train he ordered all flags in the District of Columbia and all army posts lowered to half staff.

Lieut. Moffett Courfmartialed Navy Officer Charged With Losing Confidential Documents WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 (AP) Lieut William A. Moffett, charged with losing confidential naval documents, has been court-martialed by the navy.

This was learned authoritatively today although findings of the courtmartial, which was conducted with great secrecy last May, have not been disclosed. Moffett an aviator stationed at the naval air station here, is the son of the late Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, who went to his death in the crash of the dirigible Akron. The officer drew the docu ments from navy files to aid him in preparing for examinations for promotion. Navy officials said it was customary for officers to be given permission to use confidential files when studying for examinations.

The missing papers were said to have been placed in Moffett's automobile from where they disappeared in some manner not known either to authorities or to Moffett The nature of the was a closely guarded secret although they were said to include confidential publications used in signal work. Committee Split On Policies of Roosevelt Administration DISSENSION FEARED Discharge Of Group To Study Legislation Affecting People Asked BOSTON, Aug. 27 (AP) Members of the American Bar association's special committee to study legislation affecting the rights of citizens split sharply today over their report on the policies of the Roosevelt administration. In a report prepared for consideration by the association's annual convention as a whole, four majority members declared, "there is no indicatfon that the (Roosevelt) administration recognizes any obligations whatever to protect the individual citizen in his constitutional rights. The three minority members, however, recommended that the committee be discharged on the ground that they believed further consideration served "no useful purpose in giving citizens any helpful light on constitutional questions in addition to that al- ready supplied by the opinions of the Supreme court." The minority asserted that because this was a presidential election year, further consideration would "result in embroiling the American Bar association, whether willingly or not, in bitter partisan political discussion, and internal dissensions." Menori of Committee.

Majority members of the committee were John D. Clark of Cheyenne, Fred H. Davis of Tallahassee, George L. Buist of Charleston, S. and Charles P.

Taft, II, of Cincinnati, son of the late William Howard Taft, former president. The minority members were Kenneth Wynne of New Haven. Fred L. Williams and James G. McGowen.

Said majority members of the committee: "One who would preserve our constitutional system must deplore the action of President Roosevelt in recommending that members of congress set aside any doubts they might have about the validity of (Confiouod Pooo Six) Quick Held To District Court Is Bound Over On Charge Of Second Degree Murder PAPILLION, Aug. 27 (AP) George Quick of Bellevue was bound over to District court here Thursday on a charge of second degree murder in connection with the death of Mrs. Lottie Hatfield of Bellevue last August 2. Quick was held without bail. County Attorney R.

J. Nickerson presented only two witnesses at the hearing before County Judge Harvey A. Collins and William P. Nolan of Papillion, defense attorney, presented no testimony, but questioned both state's witnesses Frank Hatfield, the victim's husband, and Dr. W.

H. Betz. Hatfield testified that he and his wife returned home from a road house at Avery shortly after midnight Aug. 2 and retired. Later, Hussong Quits Named To Post Two Other Changes In Personnel Announced By Director Felton J.

R. Carnahan was appointed acting director of the Lincoln dis trict of the Works Progress admin istration Thursday by State Director Dwight Felton to replace F. R. Hussong who resigned Wednesday evening. Carnahan, whose home is at 3860 Dudley street, has been assistant state director of operations for the WPA.

hi chief duties hav- CARNAHAN. ing been as liaison officer between the WPA and the national treasury office. Carnahan was formerly state director of the Civil Works administration and later work director for the Nebraska Federal Emergency Relief administration. Brief Statement. Hussong, district director since the setup of the WPA on July 11, 1935, issued in resigning only the brief statement: "Mr, Felton's ideas and my ideas of running a WPA office were not entirely har monious.

Felton said ne naa no comment to make. Two other personnel shifts were announced. A. A. Batson, who has been deputy district director, will (Continued oa Pee Six) Vaarant Confesses Fiendish Killing Of Colorado Girl CHEYENNE, Aug.

27 (INS) Police here today claimed a solution of Colorado's most shocking crime of recent years, the murder of Dorothy Drain. 15, by a fiendish attacker in her bedroom in Pueblo Aug. 16V Joe Arddy, 21, arrested were last night as a vagrant, confessed, Sheriff George Carroll said, to the murder. He said also, according to the sheriff, that he killed Bar bara Drain, 12 i mfM I I Is Taken By Death SIC. GEORGE DERJf.

Jobs Are Ready When Farmers Are, Says WPA Carnahan Reports Many Of Certified Are Now Busy At Home Following word that drouth relief farmers certified for WPA work in Lancaster county are complaining to the county agent and resettlement supervisor that they have not be-en given jobs. J. K. Carnahan, acting WPA director. said Thursday only 42 of the H) certified men have reported for work.

County Agent Purbaugh and L. C. Way, county resettlement supervisor, reported, however, that farmers continued to ask when the WPA drouth relief projects are to begin. Way said he knew one project was under way near Malcolm but had no information aside from that Says Time To Build. "Farmers should be given a chance to get at this work at once" Purbaugh said.

"They have to have money for feed. Now is the time to build these small dams for water conservation, before frost sets in." Carnahan said that from the information reaching his office, the farmers in this county have farm work of their own to do now and are not ready to take WPA jobs. Before the WPA can get projects started, he said, several farmers in one community must be ready and available for work. One or two men in one section cannot carry on a project, he pointed out. Farmers are now being assigned or will be assigned to the follow ing projects, Carnahan said: 1.

County road Improvement protect north of Lincoln Operatic now with room for mora men. 3. Roca quarry. Operating now with room for mora men I. Construction of vegetable cellar at poor farm.

Operating now with room for more men. 4. Bridie palnllnf and repair work operating at il point in the county. Room for more men. I.

General Improvement of county and townahlp roads, deilgned to accommodate farm labor. It li contemplated to work thle project at six different ootnta with a potential of working at il points. Carnahan said the WPA hopes to make food Improvements on these roads, serving several families, and ta not ofterlng tha project aa a "make-work" acneme. (. Small dams.

One new one started one repair Job started. Pour new dams will be started next week. 7. Construction of Panama achool, not yet started. S.

Street repair at Sennet, not. yet started. British Communist Denied Entry to U.S. State Department Turns Down Request For Temporary Visa WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (AP) permit William Gallacher, a communist member of the British parliament to enter this country, This was confirmed at the state department today when the American Civil Liberties union made public a protest over the refusal of the department to grant a temporary visa to Gallacher.

who was said now to be traveling in Canada The action was taken, it was explained, under the American immigration act prohibiting entry of persons who are members of groups that have as their object the overthrow of organized gov ernments by force and violence, State department officials said Gallacher not only was a member of the British communist party but of the central executive committee of the communist inter national, the headquarters of which are in Moscow. Scottsbluff Gets Rain SCOTTSBLUFF, Aug. 27 (AP) A light drizzling rain began falling here this afternoon. Skies were overcast giving prom ise of more rainfall. President To Attend Dern's Funeral If It Is Held In Utah TOUR CHANGE LIKELY Wallace Maps Three-Way Plan Of Attack In Restoring Region BISMARCK.

N. Aug. 27 (AP) President Roosevelt arrived In Bismarck today for his first official stop in a "first hand" inspection tour of the great western "dust bowl," which probably will be interrupted as a result of the death of Secretary of War Dern. Marvin H. Mclntyre, presidential secretary, said because of the importance of the drouth trip it would be continued for a day or two a scheduled, but if the funeral is held in Dern's home state of Utah the president would attend.

The remainder of the trip necessarily would be delayed, including the Des Moines conference. Some of the governor conferences may have to be omitted or consolidated. Mclntyre said future drouth tour plans depended entirely on the funeral arrangements, but he thought the president would go ahead with his tour of "North and South Dakota tomorrow and with his conference at Pierre, S. Saturday with the governor of South Dakota and Wyoming. If the funeral is held in Utah, the president probably will leave for the 30-hour run from trpid City, S.

Saturday nigf! or Sunday. President Roosevelt came to drouth damaged North Dakota today1 for conferences with federal and state officials and his own drouth committee, which he hoped would point the way to the shift In the northwest's economy he feels is esssential to bulwark this region against future calami ties of nature. In denying at the outbreak of the current dry spell that his administration would seek to depopulate areas hardest hit by recurring drouths, the president said the whole economy of this region must be changed, but with present populations kept where they are to carry on under the transformation. Presidential aides recalled this general bit of Roosevelt philosophy today as his special train neared Bismarck, for conferences with Acting Governor Walter (CoBiiaiatd 4a foee Six) Hyland-Adams Tourney Finalists Jack Wiedman and Roy Anderson Eliminated In Semi-Finals Jack Hyland and Byron Adams became finalists In the Lincoln Newspapers' seventh annual junior golf tournament at Pioneers by winning semi-final matches Thursday morning. Hyland, Lincoln high school athlete who won medal honors, and Adams, Grand Island city champion, were favored from the start Hyland eliminated Jack Wiedman, 8 and 3, and was only two over par for the 13 holes.

Hyland won the first four holes, halved the fifth, lost the sixth and won the last three holes of the first nine to stand six up at the turn. Adams found Roy Anderson a tougher proposition. The Grand Island champion was one down after five holes, but won six, seven and eight to be two up at the turn. Byron won the tenth and eleventh and Anderson's game bid went haywire on the (CoaUatmaf oa Pave frrehrej STINCHFIELD CHOICE FOR BAR PRESIDENT BOSTON. Aug.

27 (AP) Fred H. Stinchfield of Minneapolis was the choice today of the American Bar association's nominating committee for president of the association for the coming year. His name was presented for action by the assembly at the final meeting tomorrow. The committee selected George H. Morris of Washington, D.

C. as its nominee for chairman of the house of delegates; Harry S. Knight of Pennsylvania for secretary and renominated John H. Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. for treasurer.

Republican Nominee's First Invasion Of East At An End The text of Governor Landau's Buffalo addreaa Is en 4. WASHINGQTON, Aug. 27 (INS) Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau today struck back at Governor London's bitter criticism of the corporate surplus tax bill. "The policy being pursued by ii I. i i i me unuea states treasury nas with the approval of the country.

The acid test is the gov eminent bond market," Morgen thau said. ABOARD LANDON TRAIN Enroute to Topeka, Aug. 27 (AP) Gov. Alt M. Landon left behind him a charge of "wasteful" new deal spending and "cockeyed" tax legislation as he swept through Illinois today on a schedule of 10 rear platform appearances and a visit to Abraham Lincoln's tomb.

The republican nominee was speeding toward Topeka on the return leg of his first presidential campaign invasion of the east. In the last of three addresses, he told a Buffalo, N. audience that American youth faced "a heritage of debts and mortgages' through new deal expenditures. Calli It "Cockeyed." Landon demanded the immediate repeal of the law taxing corporations according to amounts of income withheld from distribution. This legislation the Kansan described as "cockeyed." He said the entire tax structure, federal and state, needed overhauling.

"This is the most cockeyed piece of tax legislation ever Imposed in a modern country, and if I am elected I shall recommend the immediate repeal of this vicious method of taxation." Four Principles. The nominee set forth four principles of government finance: "The government must guard and preserve its source of Income must make sure It gets a dollar's worth for every dollar it spends must not get in the habit of spending more than it receives must prepare for the rainv day." He was due to reach Topeka at 1:55 o'clock tonight. The governor's next trip will be to Des Moines. for a drouth conference Sept. 1.

Pope Weakened And Scarcely Able To Rise (Copyright, 143. by tht Aaeoelated Freas.) VATICAN CITY, Aug. 27 Prelates disclosed tonight that Pope Pius XI has become so weakened from worry over the Spanish situation that he scarcely is able to rise from his throne at the close of audiences. The Increasing heaviness of his limbs, the prelates said, might soon make it necessary for the 78-year-old holy father to be carried from one part of the apostolic palaces to another. suiierea before his death, several years ago.

was unable to walk. His holiness now is at Castei Gandolfo, his summer home, an hour's ride from Vatican City. Each day, Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli, the papal secretary of state, has gone to Castei Gandol fo to acquaint the pope with the latest news of the general Spanish situation. Yesterday their conversations lasted for three hours and consequently, prelates said, his holiness has had little strength for other duties. STOCK PRICES UP $7 TO $5 A SHARE NEW YORK, Aug.

27 (AP) Strength returned to the stock market today with many of the steels, rails, motors, farm implements and specialties rallying $1 to a share. A few soared about $10 at their best Highly favorable business news inspired buying in the leaders. There was some profit taking near the end, but this reduced extreme gains only moderately and the close was strong. William mIlpa. (abort) oa of lkm outifaadlaf carter ia too 0.

S. (tat department, has embarked lor fiabr wbcrv will btad lb Amorlcaa tmbaaay Ibtrt ei omboaj-odor. Ha auccaadi Irockaarida Loae who ntlnd btcatiM of lit btaftb. Small Twister Damages Area Close To York Two Inches Of Rain Fall; Near Bradshaw; Hail Pelts Territory YORK, Aug. 27 (AP) A small twister, accompanied by a severe hail storm and rain, damaged farm buildings In a section of northwest York county late Wednesday.

A number of small farm buildings were demolished. Large hail stones broke win dows, damaged roofs and siding on other buildings and damaged corn fodder In the fields. No one was injured but residents of the area, hurried to storm cellars when they saw the storm approaching. Downpour Near Bradshaw. More than two inches of rain fell quickly about two miles northwest of Bradshaw, but the town received only a quarter inch of precipitation.

Creeks and drainage ditches overflowed their banks near Bradshaw for a few minutes. Small buildings on the farms of A. C. Kauffman, Ray Reever, Lemuel Lincoln, J. C.

Rust, Guy Gray, Marius Anderson and Lowell Hvde were damaged. Damage to buildings on the farms of Ernest Hirschfeld and O. Jeffrey, southwest of Bradshaw, also was reported but could not be confirmed because of disrupted communication lines. Only a few drops of rain fell In York. Windstorm at Omaha.

OMAHA, Aug. 27 (AP) A brief 34-mile-an-hour dry windstorm from the north, which caused some minor damage here early Thursday failed to halt the return of warmer weather after the comoarative coolness of Wednesday. The reading at 8 a. m. was 76, eight degrees above the same hour Wednesday.

Bide On 3 State Road lobs Are Acceptable, Engineer Tilley Says State Engineer A. C. Tilley said low bids received on three projects Thursday morning were satisfactory. The projects and low bids follow: Hitchcock county. Max-Slratton.

1 Vila traval. W. B. Hall. St rat t20.

ruinaa-Cambrldat-Araoaho. S.7 nilln ravel. Plr.ttn Vallrv Comtruction Oran Itland 43.464. eotta Bluff eoniT. Hirrlrtmra-Oa'ln'.

Low bidder on I milra of fradlnf between HarrlaburK and Oarln In Scotta. bluff county waa Bert Steele of Sidney, with an offer to do the work tor 424 451. The Abel Contraction Co. and Olenn both of Lincoln, with Joint bida. atreed to Inatall eulrerta for and bridtea for 411.341 oa tba project.

Analysis of "Shift" Vote Presented Next Sunday How many Americana will renounce their 1932 political party for a rw affiliation in the November election? What are the reasons voters give for their twitch to another party? The Lincoln Sunday Jour-" rial and Star will answer these timely and significant questions next Sunday when it presents the first complete analysis ever made of the "switch" vote in a presidential campaign. This report based on an impartial nation-wide poll conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion offers an exclusive and unusually interesting view of the 1938 campaign. Watch for it in next Sunday's died. Word immediately was telegraphed to President Roosevelt, who at the time was nearing Bismarck, N. aboard his special train.

Simultaneously, ordets were drafted for army posts throughout the country to lower their flags to half staff and to fire a First To Die WASHINGTON. Aug. 27 (AP) Secretary Dern was the first member of President Roosevelt's cabinet to die in office, although two other cabinet officials have died since Roosevelt's election. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, attorney general designate, died on March 2, 1933 just before he would have assumed office.

William H. Woodin, who served as secretary of the treasury for 7 months, died on May 3, 1934. He had gone on leave because of illness in November, 1933, and resigned January 1, mourning gun every half-hour after reveille tomorrow. After the blowing of retreat tomorrow night 19-gun salutes will be fired at all posts. Plans for the funeral were not immediately announced.

It was indicated his body would be taken to Utah, where only four years ago he occupied the governor's chair. To Pay Homage. All of the army will pay him homage, with officers wearing mourning bands and black crepe upon their sabres for 30 days A guard of honor was ordered immediately to the hospital. There were scores of expressions of sorrow immediately after word of Dern's passing spresd through the capital. Harry H.

Woodring, assistant secretary of war, said "the nation has suffered an irreparable loss." Gen. Malin Craig, army chief of staff, said "Secretary Dern was a true friend of the army. He worked unceasingly in behalf of national defense." Members of the secretary's family at the hospital were his widow, Mrs. Dern, his daughters, Mrs. Harry Baxter and Miss Elizabeth Dern, and his sons, William, John and James.

During the night, it was dis- fCoatiaistd oa Pag Six) found the local chapter of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. Weaver managed the 1893 football team which won three games, lost two and tied one. At that time Dern was about six feet tall and weighed about 175 pounds. Weaver recalled Thursday that Dern was a "real football player, an excellent student and a popular man, splendidly equipped for public life." Secretary Dern was a Dodge county farm boy by birth. He was born near Fremont on Sept 8, 1872 and attended Fremont public schools.

He was graduated from Fremont Normal college before coming to the University of Nebraska. He got his diploma there in 1888 and worked in freight and lumber yards to earn money with which to pay his way at the state university. Cutting short his education at the University of Nebraska, he accompanied his parents when they moved to Utah, and began his business career as bookkeeper for tht Mercur Gold Mining and Milling company. He married Secretary Dern, Born At Fremont, Captained Early Day U. Football Squad a.

a XI 13 VIUUICI. XClIllVa BUUtlCU T1eJTJSe.lrVn0Wever' the same malady and a year killed but is still unconscious His brother. Fermo, he said, Quick, who lived at has refused to not in a Pueblo hospital, her skull crushed. Dorothy Drain was attacked and beaten over the head with a hatchet Barbara was likewise hacked. They were found lying in their blood-soaked bed by their father, Riley Drain, and their stepmother when they returned from a dance the following morning.

Asked why he killed the girls, Arddy was quoted as saying 'just for Seek Broadcast Of Husker Grid Games State Rep. W. F. Haycock, Callaway, demo floor leader, and Rep. Harry F.

Pizer, (D), North Platte, conferred here Thursday with Head Coach Dana X. Bible of the University of Nebraska on the request of western Nebras-kans for broadcasts of Cornhusk-er football games. The legislators," both candidates for election to the first unicameral legislature, said Bible assured them the request would be given consideration. Hatfield home in Bellevue, re turned home and ordered Mrs. Hatfield to get up and get him something to eat.

Hatfield said his wife got up and went to the kitchen but he remained in bed. He said he heard Quick and his wife arguing, but because he was afraid of Quick did not go to the kitchen. The last thing he heard his wife say was: "Oh, my." Woman Struck By Car; Suffers Injury To Lea Mrs. H. E.

Ziegenhain of Fair-bury suffered an injury to her left leg when struck by a car driven by Henry Strasheim, 252S South Twelfth street, on the sidewalk in front of the bus station on South Thirteenth street Strasheim. who had turned into the bus station and was backing out, was booked at police headquarters for turning in the middle of a block. He reported to police he did not know he had struck anyone. Mrs. Ziegenhain, after being treated by Dr.

George E. Lewis, was taken to the William Ziegenhain home at 1222 South Fourteenth. As well as being one of those Nebraskans risen to high ranks in national life. Secretary of War George H. Dern, who died in Washington, D.

Thursday, was a glamorous figure in pioneer days of Nebraska football. He played guard and tackle on the 1893 and 1894 grid teams, and in the latter year was captain. The gridiron sport saw its first season at the university in 1890, and in those days it was a game of slam-bang tactics, muscle and brawn. Dern weighed about 175 pounds and was six feet tall. He also played in the school's military band.

Military instructor was Lieut John J. Pershing, later commander of the A. E. in France during the world war. During this same period William Jennings Bryan, three-time democratic presidential candidate, and Charles G.

Dawes, vice president under Calvin Coolidge, were two of Lincoln's leading young attorneys. Notable Classmates. Ex-governors Arthur Weaver and Adam McMullen were classmates of Dern's and helped him ieauausa vq.jrvyw.