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0 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1936 News of the Week in Review, At Home and Abroad The Political Sideshow NO NAZI We went around to see Bartholomew Turecamo to find out why his towboata carry swastikas on their bows. We discovered they have no connection with Fascism in Germany. The swastika device on the Turecamo tugs was suggested a decade ago by Lt. Merritt Demarest of Brown Sc Demarest, naval architects of Tottenvllle, Staten Island. "The swastika Is a good luck sign used by the American Indians," explained Mr.

Turecamo. "I started using lt long By MIR RAY SNYDER ERROR A wild rumor that the State Constitution makes Illegal the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice for a non-Judicial office unless he resigns first hit the town the other day. rhe constitutional provision was whispered to be a weapon by which foes of Justice William F. Bleakley of Yonkers might disqualify him even though he got the 615 votes required to nominate a candidate for Governor at the Republican State Convention. Consultation with ihe Constitution and a couple of legal experts proved that the rumor was all wet.

However, the document does ROUND THE WORLD It will be a "sub- way World Series." The New York Oiants won the National League pennant this week. The Yankees hold the American League title. A dynamite bomb damaged the home of the newspaper El Pais at Havana, killing four persons and Injuring a score. Although officially denied, rumors persisted that Adolf Hitler would retire as Chancellor of Germany In favor of Gen. Goering.

Hitler would keep the position of "Der Fuehrer" (the The B. F. Goodrich plant at Akron, closed after a "sitdown strike" began, but the rubber workers agreed to return after plans were made for an election to determine bargaining representation. Secretary Hull denied that Lawrence Simpson, American seaman held In Germany on charges of espionage and treason, had not received proper protection from the State Department. National guardsmen were mobilized In Minneapolis to prevent violence in strikes In various factories.

A city marshal in Earle, was indicted on a charge of violating anti-slavery laws in a cotton workers' strike. The grand Jury action came a few days after a State conference discussed the sharecroppers' problem. The Senate Civil Liberties Committee heaard testimony that competition among tear gas salesmen sometimes led to "greasing" public officials; also that much tear gas had been sold to industrialists. NAMES IN THE NEWS Commander. The American Legion elected Harry W.

Colmery, a Topeka, attorney, as national commander, and chose New York for Its 1937 convention. Birthdays Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, 82; ing Ananda of Stam, at school in Switzerland, 11. Knockout Joe Louis, Detroit Negro boxer. before Hitler made much of a splash.

It had nothing to do with him, and I'm not going to change my luck now Just for him. The ancient Egyptians. Greeks, Babylonians and Buddhists all used the swastika before provide that a Supreme Court or Court of Appeals Judge must quit the bench before Electioii Day if he has been nominated for any non-judicial office or, all votes cast for him are void. This means that even if Bleakley gets the nomination and ripfpaffi finvprnnr jh man he By THEODORE F. KOOP THE FARMERS The question of crop Insurance entered the presidential campaign this week, with both President Roosevelt and Gov.

Alf M. Landon urging its consideration. Mr. Roosevelt appointed a committee, headed by Secretary Wallace, to recommend legislation for a plan of "all' risk" crop insurance. Its first year of operation, he said, should be limited to one or two major crops as an experiment.

The next day Governor Landon made pub-' lie in advance part of his Des Moines speech in which he said: "I believe that the question of crop insurance should be given the fullest attention." The Republican nominee said it was a question in which ''we have long been Interested in Kansas." A few hours later Secretary Wallace took occasion to deny that Mr, Roosevelt's creation of a crop insurance committee was timed to "steal the show" from Landon's address on the farm question. He vJas not aware, he said, that Landon Intended discuss crop insurance at Des Moines. The Kansas Governor told his Iowa audience that he favored continuing cash benefits for which farmers already had contracted the Government, but would limit them the scope of family-type farms. He urged amending of the Federal warehousing act to permit farmers to store grain on their own farms as security for loans. Gov.

Landon continued his Midwest tour with an address at Minneapolis, where he as-' sailed the New Deal's reciprocal tariff program. Then he moved into Wisconsin, center of the pro-Roosevelt LaFollette progressive movement. THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK: Sunday William Randolph Hearst replied to Mr. Roosevelt's denial that he accepted the support of "alien organizations" by asserting the President "willingly or unwillingly" received the backing of persons opposed to the American form of government. Monday Besides his crop insurance committee, Mr.

Roosevelt, named a group to submit plans to improve the economic security of farmers in the drought area. Tuesday He appointed a committee to study need for an expanded program of Federal aid for vocational education. Wednesday He chose three of the maritime commission which will supervise the merchant marine. Thursday After a conference with 27 Democratic leaders, plans were announced for r. 7 WHO SAYS LIFE IS DULL ON THE FARM? Thomas In the Detroit News.

Ktritone Photo Bartholomew Turecamo BEHIND THE viure wo loses two months' pay, the Gubernatorial term beginning Jan. 1. If Lehman wins, Bleak- ley will be practicing law again. Samuel Seabury quit the Court of Appeals In 1916 to lose the Governorship election to Murray Snyder have long been Interested in the naming of tow-boats. The local custom of calling them after loved members of the family of the owner started with the Moran fleet In the late 1870s.

The famous M. Moran was named after Michael (Commodore) six speeches in four Eastern States next week as the beginning of Mr. Roosevelt's campaign for re-election. Alfred E. 8mith, who will give an anti-New Deal speech in New York Oct.

1, set back his broadcast hour in order not to conflict with Mr. Roosevelt's Pittsburgh address. SPAIN AND THE LEAGUE The historic city of Toledo remained a storm center of Moran. Eugene F. Moran of 587 3d the present boss Earlier the Assembly agreed to seat representatives of Ethiopia in the face of continued absence of the Italian delegation.

The credentials committee first had voted to let the World Court decide on admitting Ethiopia. France and Great Britain, however, gave up the fight and the committee reversed itself, SHANGHAI TENSE The shooting of three Japanese sailors at Shanghai this week brought Japanese military control of two sections of the International Settlement. Japanese marines patrolled the streets. Just as they did at the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities in Shanghai In 1932. Foreign residents asked: Will this Incident, latest in a series that has increased tension, result in a repetition of that conflict? of the Moran fleet, told us recently that 22 out of his 27 towboats are named after members of the family.

The Dalzell and Meslck fleets follow the same custom. In the fleet of Bartholomew Turecamo, we learned, the Marie J. Turecamo is named after his Charles S. Whitman and Nathan L. Miller stepped off the Supreme Court bench four years later to beat Alfred E.

Smith. QPOILS SYSTEM There is propaganda afloat In organization Democratic circles in favor of a stricter invocation of the spoils system in Brook -m lyn. Theoretically the victor Is supposed to mop up, but when an old-line district leader Is knocked off by a youngster In the biennial State Committee elections, it rarely, if ever, happens that the county boss strips the defeated chieftain of his own job or those of his followers and turns the spoils over to the youngster. i "After all," the late John H. McCooey used to smile benignly, "they're all Democrats." And Mr.

Kelly goes along with this precedent to a great wife, the Barney Turecamo is named after himself. knocked out Al Ettore in the fifth round at Philadelphia. Superman Dr. Serge Voronoff of Vienna wants to develop a strain of supermen by transplanting chimpanzee glands in a 10-year-old boy. Injured Mrs.

Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde. former Minister to Denmark, broke a leg while pursuing her runaway automobile in Indiana. It stopped her campaign tour for President Roosevelt. Died Packey McFarland, once a renowned boxer; Frank C. Munson, head of the Mun-son ship lines.

Mercy Death The five-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Tafel died in Chicago after an operation for an Intestinal deformity. The father had preferred a "mercy death" to the chance the boy would be abnormal. the Turecamo Girls for his daughters, Marie and Frances, and the Turecamo Boys for his sons, T7RENCH FRANCS The monetary situation sbii! Vincent and Bart Jr.

It makes us almost wish we had some towboats to name after Avice, our wife, and Jeff, our son. gUCCESS STORY Bartholomew Turecamo is 50, witn a oarrei cnest and a complexion of a mariner. He lives at 174 84th St. and has his main office at the foot of 24th Ave. He came here with his parents when he was degree.

But the trouble has been that the defeated leader, by hanging on to his patronage, has maintained much of his prestige also, and he generally employs both to strike back at his conqueror in the succeeding primary. If the leadership doesn't happen to be at stake, the counter-attack is di in France became acute, with the government trying to save the nation's dwindling gold reserves. The discount rate of the Bank of France was raised in an effort to halt the flight of capital. International negotiations to align the franc with other currencies were in prospect. Premier Blum held that until an accord on International stabilization could be reached, the franc should not be devalued.

On Friday night it was announced that the United States and British governments would co-operate with France in a plan looking toward stabilization. The French Government decided to call a special session of Parliament Monday to devalue the franc by about one-fourth to one-third. "Switzerland also summoned her Parliament for the same day to consider realignment of her currency. Thus the European gold bloc appeared virtually to have ended, although the Netherlands Government planned to continue the parity of its currency. Security prices in New York rose.

eight, from Liparl, an Island near Sicily. He was one of nine children of a sick father who fought Gen. Quepo de Liand, commander of the rebel troops at Seville, and Gen. Emilio Mala, commander-in-chief of the rebel forces in Northern Spain. the Spanish civil war this week as Fascist troops pressed toward it in fierce fighting.

Government forces stopped, temporarily at least, the Fascist march on Madrid by releasing dammed waters of the Alberche River. Many insurgents drowned in the flood and their supplies were washed away. Uruguay severed diplomatic relations with Spain after reports that three Spanish soldiers had shot to death three sisters of the Uruguayan vice consul at Madrid. Before the League of Nations Assembly a representative of the Spanish Government charged that the rebels were receiving moral and material aid from Fascist states. The European non-intervention pact, he declared, worked hardships on the Madrid government but aided the insurgents.

shoulder to shoulder to keep the family afloat. His earliest Jobs were as a newsboy In Union rected at the new leader's candidate for Assembly or Congress or the Senate. County leaders usually keep their noses out of Square and as a vender with an old nag and a rack truck carting bananas across Brooklyn Bridge. r- Qisinci nents. at least lor numic connumntinn.

it's Today Mr. Turecamo handles the contracts for more than half of all the asphalt navine of Brook TROUBLE SHOOTERS Premier Antonio de Oliveria Salazar, Dictator of Portugal, who stemmed a reported revolt In his country this week. Right The new Japanese naval minister, Admiral Asumi Nagano, who took over the reins concurrent with an outbreak in Shanghai. lyn streets. He owns a coal business and a real REUNION IN NEW YORK Sarah Churchill meets her brother, Randolph, arriving from England, In an attempt to halt her reported elopment with comio Vic Oliver.

Pwsum TIAL ORUM. Roosevelt Letters Landon Letters Politics Restored as Force Pledge on Currency Broken Deal the Republicans have but a destructive word. For the economic realities that made them necessary and vital, there is not even recognition. They burrow in the sub-cellars of Washington for political scraps they might barter for votes. Unwillingness or Inability to recognize the changed status and function of political organizations indicates that the Republican leadership either quite frankly expects to move in the direction of reactionary policies and suppression of rights or that it shall immediately turn back the clock to the Hoover Administration and start from scratch again.

Bronx. M. T. Today, politics, after being beclouded as a progressive force in its own right by the comparatively untroubled years of the past, has emerged as a swift current reflecting the social and economic needs of the people. The Democratic party has made this adjustment to the new function of a political body, its dynamic program in the past and for the future proves this dramatically.

But the Republicans would have politics play an obsolete role in American life, exploiting traditions of the people and inflating minor problems of governmental administration to the status of election issues. For the constructive policies of the New As an enrolled Democrat I present one reason which renders it impassible for me to vote again for Roosevelt. The 1932 Democratic platform, which Roosevelt accepted 100 percent, pledged him in unequivocal language to maintain at all hazards a sound currency. Since the Bryan free silver campaign of 1896 the expression "sound money" or "sound currency" has had but one meaning in these United States, and that a currency at all times convertible into gold coin of the then existing gold content. Hoover explicitly charged Roosevelt with the deliberate intention of debasing the currency.

In his last speech of the campaign, deliv ered right here in Brooklyn, Roosevelt, in reply to Mr. Hoover, first quoted at length from a speech of Senator Glass that there had never been the slightest danger of going off the gold standard and then reiterated his pledge. Of the solemn pledge to maintain a sound currency nothing remains but the hollow sound of billion dollar deficits and the increasingly ominous "guaranteed" Government paper forced upon the banks to the extent of 40 percent of the total deposits 41 percent out of the dollar and 40 percent out of the bank deposits, in less than four years, leaving only 19 percent for the next four years. ANNA M. DREYER.

39 Martin Road, Verona, N. J. Sore Present Generation First a purely local question who wins a nomination for a legislative seat. But final returns from the Brunner-Prial primary row over the Aldermanic President nomination showed graphically how the local battles hurt Brunner's vote and, Indirectly, Mr. Kelly.

Prial carried 11 of Brooklyn's 23 Assembly districts, losing the borough by only 259 votes. In one of the 11, the leader, Pete McGuinness, came out for Prial openly. In four other Prial districts there were no local fights, so the assumption is that the leaders took a holiday completely, their sympathies probably being with Prial, If not their allegiance. In the other six lost by Brunner the rows over Assembly and Congress nominations were so severe that the Aldermanic President question was thrust into the background. The political life of a leader is contingent on the success of his local candidates.

When a leader's Assemblyman or Alderman goes into the discard, he soon follows. This situation forced party leaders who had local fights, several of which were ascribed to the patronage resources of insurgents, to concentrate almost exclusively on the nomination of the one man on whom depended their own prestige and future. Brunner was the forgotten man. pROSPERITY, INC. Edward M.

Waring, whose ancestors received quite a grant of land on Long Island from the British Crown, comes forward with a solution to the vexing money problem with which he hopes to sell a new third party to America the American Prosperity party. Utopia, says Mr. Waring, would be on our doorsteps if we would scrap our modern monetary system for one devised by him based on the principles of primitive barter 'and exchange. "When tobacco, skins and shells were used," he points out, "there was always present the element of decreasing value, which was an impelling incentive to further barter for articles of use, for things for immediate consumption or objects of more stable intrinsic value. The last became increasingly the more attractive and, eventually, metals, because of their relatively imperishable nature, and coins based on weight became the standard media of exchange." Hoarding of gold and other currency and the freezing of credit has retarded circulation, injured business and generally blocked full recovery something every one knows, says Mr.

Warburg. But how to restore circulation without inflation? That is the problem and here is his plan: "Congress has the power to regulate the value of money. We recommend that the element of decreasing value be given to all our media of exchange, including credits wherever found. Thus would the floodgates of finance be opened. All money would decrease in value, say percent the first year.

A dollar would be worth only 99 cents ifter Dec. 31, and exchangeable at that rate for Vew currency marked 1937 in large numerals. Treasury stamps would be sold to affix to wire-deemed bills to make them legal tender after the end of each year. In addition, all money on deposit anywhere or due and payable at the end of the year would decrease in value 1 percent, or as the statutes might provide. "All this decrement would be paid unto the Treasury as seigniorage due from the holder of the oney to the Government for the privilege of hold- on to the money.

To avoid the levy the money ifould have to be spent." Avaunt, prosperity! American System vs. 'New DeaV estate business and his beloved tugs. He takes special pride in his chromium-plated Diesel craft, the Turecamo Boys and the Turecamo Girls, which are among the best and biggest of their kind in the world. His rise he attributes largely to his love for horses and to a desire to work out of doors I JJORSE TRADER At an age when boys nowadays are still In grammar school, Bartholomew Turecamo bought a horse for $50 from a baker at Atlantic and 3d who had failed, and after two months, resold it for $150. That convinced him, he says now, chuckling, that he was a horse trader.

There was a German feed man, Francis Rachel; he lived at 59th St. and Fort Hamilton Parkway in those days," he recalls. "He told me there was going to be an auction Monday at Fiss, Dawes is Carroll at 24th St. and Lexington Manhattan, of old car horses. He said we were liable to get a bargain.

The Turecamos then lived at 60th St. and Fort Hamilton Parkway. Rachel bought a horse for $37.50 and Turecamo another for $47.50. Both proved to be awful nags. "Mine was up with one leg until he couldn't hold lt any longer, then down and up with another," recalls Turecamo, laughingly.

"He could only stand on three legs." The two decided to walk home the horses, which looked too bony and feeble to be ridden. By the time the Battery-39th St. ferry was reached, the Turecamo "bargain" sat down, and other drivers wanted to know when it was going to be shot. Somehow, the animal was lured to the Turecamo home, but there Bart's elder brother refused admittance to the stable, saying that the horse undoubtedly would die overnight. The upshot of it was that Young Turecamo sold the horse for which he paid $47.50 and endured hours of trouble, to a "cross-eyed fellow across the street, named Jumbo, who was four feet tall and about three feet wide." The price was $15, payable the next Summer.

Even so, he did better than Rachel, he now recalls, laughing uproariously. Rachel's $37.50 horse was stolen from his barn after the purchase and never recovered 1 JyO WHITE COLLAR By the time he was 16, Bartholomew Turecamo was a "little supervisor" for Liebman Brothers, indoors, at $20 a week, with regular hours and an assured future. He gave it up to work as a contractor for himself, endless hours, for $12 a week. When his mother protested, as mothers will, he squirmed and said that he liked to work with horses, outdoors, and that he figured being a contractor was the greatest business, and you had to start small. As his first contract he dug a cellar at Bay 25th St.

and Bath getting $225 for a Summer's work. LMA MATER As a result of his success, Bartholomew Turecamos children are getting all the education they want, and his son Vincent, for example, is finishing up at Dartmouth. Even so, the children will have to step to surpass their father. He went to the Electoral CoU lege the one which formally designates the President of the United States in 19321 Who of these same people crying out so loud raised a voice back in the days of 1917-1918 when an equal number of billions were poured out for the greatest waste civilization can know; "War?" And lest we forget; it was this useless waste which lies so heavily on the back of the taxpayer of today. Let us cease worrying about the future generations but concentrate to save what is left of the present generation, lest it and the civilization they represent perish from this earth.

REBA W. SHOOKHOFF. 1338 E. 36th Brooklyn. What type of man do we need in the White House during the next four years to continue whatever progress we have made since those dark days of 1932? I believe a man who not only possesses the qualities of high courage and honesty but who above all else is a humanitarian.

Such a man now occupies the President's chair and I believe all thinking mature citizens, especially the women, will agree he should be retained for another four years. This everlasting talk of our national debt. There is not the slightest uncertainty In my mind that present-day tendencies, which are leading us no one can tell where, are causing real consternation in the country; that the principles of our immortal forefathers, long tried and not found wanting, are slowly being stifled, abandoned and consigned to the hazy past. Never was there a greater need for maintaining the sound principles of our constitutional government than now. They have made us the chief-ranking nation on the face of the globe, and will continue to do so in the future.

The issues of the Presidential campaign are obvious. It appears that we have reached the point of the road where it forks. There are two evident roads to take. On the one hand we have Landon and the American system; on the other Roosevelt and the "New on the one hand liberty, with its responsibilities; on the other hand a paternalistic government preying upon the freedom of the individual. Which road shall it be? We should not be soothed into silent consent by the wail of emergency.

Let us have faith in the eternal principle of Americanism and our example will make this country a better place in which to live. NEWTON KENNETH PINCUS. 798 Halsey Brooklyn. Slavery of Machines Must End Roosevelt Appointees Mediocre if elected again, he will go on with the good work courageously and hopefully, benefiting by past experience. I am voting for Roosevelt because I do not W'ant the armed conflicts of Europe to reach our shores.

He represents the democratic middle way. A quotation from the Bible, repeated in my hearing during the present Summer, keeps running through my head. It runs thus: "When you swerve to the right or left you hear a voice behind you saying, 'This Is the way! Walk J. LOUISE OWENS. 83-44 LefTerts Boulevard, Kew Gardens, L.

I. Man whether rich or poor is slave to the machine in this machine age. The great questions to be settled today are, How can man be freed from the machine? How can the machine be made the slave of man? We cannot blind ourselves to the issue. These problems must be settled. A solution must be attempted now.

I am voting for Roosevelt because I believe what he has accomplished of an enduring nature will cause him to be regarded by future generations as one of our greatest Presidents. I believe that having accomplished so much in his first administration, Florida Canal. Nature he flouted and the Bible he scorned by plowing under crops In time of plenty. Forgetting all else, the President gave his word to defend the Constitution, balance the Given the greatest power for constructive action in history, Roosevelt has dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied his insincere way along. First, selecting second-rate theorists as advisors, he made a series of third-rate political appointments.

From them naturally followed such disgraces as the Farley stamp Issue and WPA political abuses. Against the advice of engineers he initiated such fiascos as the Quoddy project and the budget, and maintain the gold standard. He broke that word, and has lost the right to ask for the honor of the American people-the Presidency. DAVID R. ALLAN.

Midston House, 22 E. 38th Manhattan Quotes President's Mother Praises Limdon Accomplishments I shall vote for Roosevelt because I think most of his critics are wrong. The critics did not have much to say In 1933 when he took care of the bank situation; also when he twice vetoed the bonus bill. I wonder if he did that to catch votes or areas they again accuse him of playing poll-tics. But I believe his mother knows him better than his critics.

When she was interviewed in Philadelphia and said I can't see why they criticize my son, I'm sure he does the best he can for everybody and that balanced the budget in his home State he shows he Is capable of bringing prosperous and happy results to the people of the Although Roosevelt has been a good President, I favor Landon for our next President for the reason he showed such good management and results. From the way he E. O. DORN. because be believed in his country first.

Now goes for me. United States. WALTER E. MALES. 506 E.

Paterson, N. when he goes through the flood and drought I 348 Clermont Brooklyn. ft.