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JOHN ERSKIXE EDITORIAL CLASSIFIES TRAVEL iUAILY EAG riXAXCE" SrORTS RESORTS SOCIETY it NEW YORK CITY, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 193:5 M2 25 ihSEOOELYK A udience, Not Play's aw behind the Thing Pageant in Jewish Armory PAUL MALLON Thousands Gaze on Jewish Pageant TT OCSECLEAXING The farm credit bosses are so wrought up about rn the lailure or their organization to function that they are plan ning a'nlce little housecleaning. Heads of at least two Federal the sweepers. Their Identity cannot be surprising if the broom started to and St. Louis. Modified NRA Program Seen: Less Ballyhoi: Home Loan Corporator Urged hv Stevenso-to Speed Up Its Wor! By CLIXTOV L.

MOSI1ER Washington, Oct. 3 With lnn.i-tion chased back around the cornei the Blue Eagle Is scratching arour.i'. its nest for another type of foon The NRA was counting on inflation to put Its program across via increased purchasing power and general booming all along the line. Now that President Rooseveit has turned to the right, the NRA i attempting to shift its objectives tc harmonize with the new cry of stability, confidence and assurance a compared with the previous one o' experiment and change. For the moment, the shouting anc the tumult die down.

The bailyhoi phase of the NRA passes and General Johnson proceeds with a thor- -i1 1 Also the appraisal personnel In other sections is to be dusted off and renovated. The truth seems to be that Henry of his co-workers are not personally in Their appraisal work has been the subject of severe Inside criticism from farmers, Senators and Representatives. There Is evidence that in some Instances unduly low appraisals It is a delicate job to value farms for credit these days. There Is no real market for the land. If an appraiser wants to be tough, there Is nothing to stop him except his conscience.

A CTHOR The man who Is leading Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. He is known to have seen Morganthau about the matter, but neither will talk. The Senator knows there" are better ways to get results In l-M it f' A utttix Mipb: 4.4MtA?'1 "Ll'1L i '1 VH wJX-r; tfm Zzzgmm 1 ftiatmiiMiniiii in in ni-im, nhiiriiibMtteiitivMi WmMw' "Tr nii in wimuii-iii ihrnit rnmn -rn -Tn-ate- -amii ii rniwtiTaiiWrt iwmwfiN-'' shouting. CILVER Inside negotiations have been going on between the United States, Great Britain and France on the silver question. "Our diplomats have put out feelers on the idea of the three Governments going Into the silver market in a buying campaign.

Financial sources have been tipped on It. That Is the leading reason why silver prices have shown a rising tendency lately. The idea behind the move Is to help restore purchasing power In silver countries. Also to help our domestic producers. Some officials high on the inside believe there Is a chance that something may be worked out.

The majority, however, are skeptical. Nothing can be done unless the three large purchasing nations agree. Right now It would be a problem to get, them to agree on the weather. XJUMBERS There is beinning to be some criticism of General Jc-hn-A son among the Administration big thinkers. They are saying that perhaps he made a mistake in the choice of men who aided him In the NRA drive.

They attribute the growling among Industrialists to the fact that the Johnson regime is topheavy with labor sympathizers. The second guessers are convinced Johnson could have accomplished his purpose more deftly If the labor group had been less prominent. The real motive for this new feeling near the top may be the fact that the big shots are getting cold on the NRA. A movement is already under way to shift the limelight to Jesse Jones (R. F.

C). His credit and closed banks drive may have the center of the stage from now on. Johnson is being shoved back In the crowd. That is only natural. His work is nearly done.

T7ACTS Every person on the street 1 you think of the NRA?" or "Why doesn't someone tell the truth about it?" i truth has been told. People are forgetting about it in their Impatience. Some part of the blame must be shared by overly enthusi astic leaders of the NRA who made wild prophecies as to what it would do. The basic fact is that the NRA was a necessary thing in its original conception. The codes sought for the larger basic industries were essen iWmMmMm At Unity of City Jewry to Meet Hitler Men-ace Is Proven as a Night View Gigantic Spectacle By HARVEY DOUGLASS The audiences, rather than thl vast spectacle itself, form the overwhelming impression that is carried away from the great Jewish pagetnt, "The Romance of a People," now being unfolded In the cavernous Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.

The homogeneity of New York's cosmopolitan Jewry, under stress of a common danger, interest and purpose, has possibly not been so clearly reflected since days ot the World War. when every shade of Jewish adherence and opinion in America, was massed behind the object of rescuing European Jewry from the oblivion that threatened it in the great conflict and when the fortunes of American Jews, almost as a unit, were made avail able for relief of their co-religion-Ists In Coreign lands. This writer, though a Gentile, was in those days, publicity representa tlve of the united Jewish movement gathered under the banner of the Joint Distribution Committee, of which Felix M. Warburg, of Kuhn, Loeb and noted philanthropist, was the chairman and Herbert H. Lehman, now Governor, the treasurer and which collected more than $100,000,000 from the various and sharply defined factions of Jewry, Orthodox, Reform and Conservative, marking the first time in the history of American Jewry when these divergent elements were united.

The Hitler menace in Germany, with the hope of raising funds hete to transport large numbers of German Jews to the Jewish homeland in Palestine, has apparently accomplished anew the miracle of an equal unity in support of the main object of the pageant, If the vast audiences bing attracted to remote Kinsbridge may be accepted as an indication. Interest Intense But not even the size of the audiencesthe greatest ever drawn un der one roof In the history of the city form the full measure of this exemplification of the intense and purposeful enthusiasm the pageant has evoked among all classes of Jewry in New York. The Kingsbridge armory afforo easily the largest amphitheater In the country. No political convention or other gathering Indoors has ever brought Into one hall as many persons for a single event not, alone a series of hardly to be termed dramatic performances appealing most poignantly to a single constituent of the population. Vast as is the mechanism of the pageant Itself, with its more than 6,000 volunteer performers, the densely peopled drama, interpreting the life of the Jewish people in more than 4,000 years of its history, Is completely dwarfed by the spectacle of tier on tier of on-lookers, more than 30,000 at a time drawn from every section of the city, representing every strata of the social and pecuniary conditions of New York Jewry, forming a silent, fervid mass of humanity, ana which looks upon the spectacle both with reverence and with a seeming sense of suppressed spiritual exaltation which has no duplicate In any other audience of which this writer has formed a part.

We attended the pageant on Sunday evening and never were we en gulfed in a greater mass of struggling humanity seeking to find its way into an auditorium. Besides hundreds, if not thousands, of automobiles, subway, surface, elevated and bus lines discharged their passengers In an endless stream for fully two hours before the pageant scheduled to begin the auditors coming from every part of the greater city, seemingly unmindful of either distance or discomfort. Thousands In the audience, as well as in the volunteer cast, night ly make their may to Kingsbridge from all parts of Brooklyn and the members of the audiences cheer fully pay from $2 to $10 each for the privilege of attendance, an al together unprecedented circum stance. From Beggar to Prince Hundreds of police, mounted ana on foot, are In attendance to preserve order outside the building but have little to do other than to facll' Itate the Ingress and egress of the crowds. These Include In their number the aged and infirm, patriarchs and children, 'millionaire and push cart peddler, merchant prince and stenographer, In short every element of the city's Jewish population, drawn from every land of Jewish origin.

The exercises preceding the for mal unfolding of the pageant are themselves impressive. 'On Sunday evening the guest of honor was Sir Herbert Samuel, former British High Commissioner of Palestine, and, as Sir Samuel expressed him self, the first Jew to preside over the destinies of the ancient Jewish homeland in more than 2,000 years, Introduced to the audience by Nathan Straus son of the late great Jewish philanthropist and who is the pageant's general chairman. Sir Herbert, in America for the express purpose of witnessinu the pageant, was accorded an ovation that lasted for many minutes, as was Samuel Untermyer, the city's financial adviser, also on that night a guest of the committee. It Is Improbable that in the vast assemblage there was more than an infinitesimal number of Gentiles and while these could not ful Great ly appreciate the significance of the pageant, as seen tnrougn dewisn eyes, none coma remain unim pressed by its magnitude, beauty, dignity and the evident sincerity and enthusiasm by whicti eacn member of the cast, down to the hbmblest In the ensemble, was most evidently actuated. Recalls Brooklyn Pageant Muc4i as the audience impressea him, this writer cannot be unmind ful of the stupendousness of the pageant as represented in Its purely histrionic aspect, for it was his privilege, nearly 20 years ago, in 1915 to be exact, to have had a considerable part in fashioning and directing Brooklyn's great pageant of that year, called the Brooklyn Urges Approval Of Federal Loan to Central Library Maj.

Benjamin H. Namm has written to the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, asking that body's cooperation in urging the approval of a loan to the city by the Federal Public Works Administration for completion of the Brooklyn Central Library Building. He said he believes that $9,000,000 would be the amount necessary for completion of the project. Asserting that Brooklyn Is the only large community in the country without a central library building, Major Namm's letter calls the proposal "the ideal type of project contemplated by the Federal public works act." "Having served as chairman of the special committee of the chamber which made a survey of the library conditions in Brooklyn last year," the letter reads, "I am much Interested in the request of Borough President Hesterberg to the Board of Estimate that the city make application to the Federal Public Works Administration for a loan of $9,000,000 to complete the Central Library Building of the Brooklyn Public Library. "It would seem that only thorough a loan of this sort can Brooklyn hope to obtain the completion of this building at least for many years to come.

While Mr. Hesterberg Is doing all he can to obtain favorable action, It Is not at all certain that he will be successful unless public opinion Is brought strongly to bear. To this end I am sure that the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce will supply the I Ahove, Sunday mgft'. audience hrloK, two (periocular scene, In the JiMnrv of the Jetthh race unfolded in the pageant'i many p--H" Till As Washington. Oct.

3. land banks are already marked tor be announced yet, but it would not work In the vicinity of New Orleans Morganthau has discovered some sympathy with the farm credit act have been made. the Inner uproar is supposed to be Washington than by going around these days whispers: "Well, what do March, first and second vice presidents of the academy; Gary Cooper, Ken Thompson, Paul Muni. Chester Morris, George Bancroft James Cagney, Boris Karloff. Warren William, Robert Montgomery, Ralph Bellamy, George Raft and Frank Morgan.

A telegram expressing "unqualified opposition" to articles in the film Industry code providing for a salary control board was sent to Sol Rosenblatt, Deputy Recovery Administrator, by the 14 and also was signed by the non-academy artists Eddie Cantor, Lee Tracy, Hopkins, Spencer Tracy, Charles Butterworth, the Four Marx Brothers, Otto Kruger and Ralph Morgan. Ford N. J. Strikers To Invade Detroit Edgewater, N. Oct.

3 (iP) Striking workers of the Ford assembly plant here gathered at Cliffslde Pary today and. noted an Invasion of Detroit to picket the huge main plants of the Ford Motor Company. Frank Toohlll, president of the Local Ford Workers Union, in Issuing the call for the meeting, asked for between 200 and 500 volunteers to make the expedition to Detro.lt. Meanwhile the local assembly plant's production has been crippled by the strike. Only 150 of the 2,200 normally employed were at their benches yesterday and leaders expected those reporting today would ba even fewer in number.

'NY- Historical Pageant there were some 2,000 performers and audiences of 7,000 ea'h for tho three performances that were given. Despite what for then was a prodigious ex pencliture of nearly the Brooklyn pageant netted a profit for the charitable purposes for which it was held. Probably ten times the effort and certainly several times the expen diture are represented by "A Ro mance of a People." the results, howover, amply Justifying the faith of tlio producers and proving anew the greatness of the Jewish people in America in rising unitedly to meet a crisis affecting their own In a foreign land. inmorrow iinny uann Writes a Book. Catholics Declare All Arc Entitled To a 'Living Wasfe' Delegates to the National Confer ence of Catholic Charities today is sued a statement setting forth that "all persons who are capable of do Ing reasonably satisfactory work have a right to a living wage to decent housing and to tection against the hazards of unemployment, accidents, sickness and old age." The statement, which represents governing policies for diocesan directors in the coming year, "insists" that government "not only assume its responsibilities toward those in distress but that It discharge them according to the best modern stand aids." winns.

Jonn A. Ryan of the Catholic University in Washington la.st night stressed the necessity for a new deal for labor, including the unquestioned right to organize, in an address to the conference. secretary of Labor Frances Perkins told the conference that Industry has now had thrust upon It a new public and social responsl- Dimy. Straus Co. Appeal Decision Reserved The U.

S. Circu: Court of Ap vod derision on peals today reser three appeals taken by S. W. Straus Co. and its officers from orders of Judges Robert P.

Patterson and Alfred C. Coxe In the bankruptcy proceedings brought against the concern, mighly unemotional drive for a nev order of American business and Industry. Johason Modifies Campaign General Johnson has announced a sharply modified buying campaign which includes provisions for' keeping speculative price rises under control. Those responsible fcr sky-rocketing prices In the days immediately following the birth of tho Blue Eagle are to be prosecuted. These are signs of a ne deal on top of a new deal.

One very good reason for the erd of the ballyhoo is that it failed to accomplish all that was expected of it. General Johnson found the hysteria that made appeals to patriotic unselfishness during the war a success no longer can be produced. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam intends 'n redouble his efforts to save the old homesteads. Speed I'p Home Loans Aroused by criticism of the Horn" Owners Loan Corporation as a slow moving relief vehicle, Chairman Charles F. Stevenson has directed the managers In every State In the Union to do two things: Rush to Washington a full report of everything accomplished or attempted since the creation of the State bureaus.

Step on the gas and speed up refinancing of mortgages. The corporation has announced the shipping of $5,865,000 worth of Interim certificates to 41 States. Of this amount, $1,000,000 has gone to New York. The certificates are be- ing sent out pending the Issuance of the bonds, which are due to be printed during this month. Thp corporation proposes to do its part by Increasing the personnel In any one of the 3,000 county bureaus wherever it can be shown that more help is needed.

In some Instances tho personnel will be doubled. Incomplete reports obtained here show that on a nation-wide basis, approximately one-third of the mortgagees approached have refas- ed to accept corporation bonds in exchange for the mortgages they hold. The corporation does not regard these figures as any Indication of failure. There Is a wide variance in the number of refusals In d'fferent com munities, in parts of the Middle West where the rcali market has gone to pieces, acc ptance of the Bonds nas been as igh as 100 percent. In those cc- imunitles where the percentage a refusals Is high, the corporation proposes to demonstrate the marketability of the bonds as a means of stimulating exchanges.

Delayed Honeymoon 43 Years k) Fly Allerton, 111. (yr) Some 43 years ago Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davis, then newlyweds, told friends the day would come when it would be common to travel by air, and that they would take their honeymoon in a "flying machine." Now they are on that honeymoon. Their son, Wlnfield, wireless operator at the Indianapolis Municipal Airport, arranged it for them.

Viscount D'Alte Dies at Bar Harbor Bar Harbor, Oct. 3 (R Viscount Josef F. D'Alte, honorary counselor of the Portuguese legation and former minister to this country, died here early today. Viscount D'Alte retired as minister a few months ago because of age and at that time assumed the hon- orary position. Death was due to a heart attack and occurred at 4 a.m.

The viscount and viscountess, the former Norma Coleman of New York, had spent their Summers here for many years, maintaining one of the most palatial estates along the waterfront. Washington. Oct. 3 (D Viscount D'Alte retired from the post of Minister of Portugal at Washington May 12 of this year, having then reached 70. He had been 31 years at this post, the longest record of continuous service by a foreign diplomat ia Washington.

TRIED SUICIDE, CHARGE Richard Canter, 50, 415 Ovington was removed to the Kings Louniy Hospital at 6:30 this morn- 1 ing suffering from illuminating gas Poisoning. Canter was found in his bedroom with the gas jet partly turned on. The police of the Fort Hamilton Station, who investigated the case, say that Canter attempted suicide, although they failed to find any reason for his act. He will recover tial. These Industries were far enough advanced to take codes.

The disparity between their production volume and their working conditions (wages and hours of labor) was appalling. Difficulties came when they tried to apply the same principle in blanket form to every little crossroads drug and grocery store. The little fellows were living from hand to mouth on the verge of bankruptcy. The dissatisfaction aroused by this program obscured the real good accomplished by the basic program. The bigwigs here know that as well as the man In the street.

The credit drive is virtually an official admission of it. They are trying to save the little fellow by feeding him credit to meet his increased costs. History will probably give the NRA a better deal than its critics do now. XTOTES In connection with the prosecution of that gold hoarder In New York, you may remember that an attorney once told Harry Sinclair they couldn't put him in jail for what he did He found out the attorney was wrong, but It was too late Most lawyers here now agree that It would be unconstitutional to put a hoarder in jail, but they will not decide the case Some people seem to think the Constitution itself is unconstitutional. 14 Screen Stars Join Revolt Against Film Academy of Arts Historical Pageant, and which was held In the old 23rd Regiment Armory.

This event, which successfully undertook to represent 300 years of Brooklyn's history, was the largest indoor spectacle of Its kind held in New York up to the present one, although It engaged the services of but a third of the number of persons represented in the Jewish effort. It was, however, possibly more dramatic and stirring than "A Romance of the People," Its incidents woven Into a consecutive narrative by Martin H. Wcyrauch, then as now, a member of the Eagle staff having a greater variety and utilizing In the presentation not only human but equine actors. Great Neck Student Killed in School Fall The same problems, though lesser in extent, were involved in the presentation of the Brooklyn pageant as In today's spectacle. A volunteer cast of many hundreds of persons had to be recruited for the various episodes and were rehearsed for several months in Brooklyn halls and In private homes.

The Armory Itself had to be transformed for its unusual purpose. A vast stage had to be erected on the drill floor that would bear the weight of hundreds of persons and a score of horses. Electric lighting facilities equal to those of a thoroughly equipped theater 'had to be installed and seating arrangements had to be improvised for a vast number of people. In the case of the Brooklyn Lights In all dormitories are out at 10 p.m. and, according to custom, a student wishing to pay a lata night visit to a classmate must not use the corridor.

Messer stepped through the window of his room to a narrow ledge. They found him lying on the ground below his room window, his skull fractured. Virginia Voting On Repeal Issue Richmond, Oct. 3 (P) Virginia, after a listless wet nnd dry campaign, voted today on repeal of national prohibition and on substitution of a liquor control plan for the State dry act. i A comparatively light vote was forecast for the referendum in which Virginians are voting as the 32d State to record a choice between retention of prohibition and repeal.

Repeallsts have won in all the 31 states previously voting. Should repeallsts prediction of a wet victory in Virginia be correct only four more Slates will be needed in the wet column to end the Eighteenth Amendment. LlNDBKKGHS HOI TO PORT Oslo Norway, Oct. 3 M5) Col. and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh hopped today on a flight to Stavanger, a seaport in southwest Norway Hollywood, Oct. 3 VP) Rourtecn prominent screen actors were In revolt today against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a backwash of the hearings being conducted in Washington on the NRA code for the film industry. Declaring they felt no resentment against the Academy but that "an organization only for actors can produce better results," the 14 artists offered their resignation from the Academy. The Academy represents the five branches of the industry actors, directors, writers, technicians and producers.

In the group which resigned are Adolphe Menjou and Frederic Kidnap Hoax Case Concluded The first Brooklyn Federal Court prosecution under the so-called Lindbergh law which makes sending threats through the mails in connection with an extortion attempt punishable by a maximum 50 years imprisonment was concluded today. Dominick Quottroccl, 29, 1569 Atlantic codefendant with David Kahan, 54, 255 Eastern Parkway, was given a suspended sentence and placed on parole for two years by Judge Mortimer W. Byers upon the recommendation of Assistant Federal Attorney William T. Corwin. Quottroccl.

an employe of Kahan at the latter's restaurant, 1069 Fulton plealel guilty last week and testified against bis emDlo- Providence, R. Oct. 3 (IP) The death of 15-year-old Paul A. Messer, a first-year student at Moses Brown was attributed today to a student custom in vogue almost since the founding of the school. Messer, whose home Is at 215 Middle Neck Road, Great Neck, L.

died last night after falling three stories from, a narrow ledge outside his dormitory window. leadership in urging upon the city authorities and the Federal Public Works Administration the merits of the proposal." Citing the need of the building as a real necessity, the letter adds that "resumption of work could be started almost Immediately, giving employment to many in the building and allied trades, and It would provide the educational, cultural and recreational facilities of which the people of the borough have so long been deprived." Action should be taken at once as one-half of the Federal fund has already been allotted and sufficient applications have been received to take care of the remainder, Namm believes, and construction now would constitute a saving as costs are lower at this time than they are likely to be In the future. LUNCHEON HOSTESS Mrs. Edward P. Orrell Jr.

of 461 13th St. had as luncheon guests yesterday Mrs. Frank Lupton, MUs Hattle Lawlin, Mrs. Edwin E. Cor-bett, Mrs.

James Kelleher, Miss Alice L. Nellis. Mrs, Edward W. Orrell and Mis Joyce Orrell..