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THE BURNSVILLE EAGLE
BURNSVILLE, N. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
House Democrats Defy President—Lobbying for and
Against Utilities Bill to Be Investigated—
Senator Glass Bests Eccles.
By EDWARD
© Westetn Ne
W. PICKARD
!r Uni
R evolt in congress against al
leged dictatorial attempts of the
administration reached a cllinas when
the house, by the decisive vote of 258
to 148, rejected the
"death sentence” In
the utility holding
companies bill as
I passed by the senate
and demanded by the
President. The rec
ord vote came on a
motion to substitute
the house bill placing
utility holding com
panies under regula-
„ „ , tlon of the securities
Rep. Brewster exchange com
mission for the senate bill which pre
scribed the dissolution of the holding
companies of more than first degree be
ginning in 1940.
The adaption of this motion tilled
the “death sentence.” After substi
tuting the house bill for the senate
bill, the perfected measure was passed
by a vote of 322 to 81.
Immediately after this action, the
house voted unanimously for an in
vestigation of alleged lobbying by
both the supporters and the foes of
the utility measure. During the de
bate on the bill it was frequently
charged that the capitol was swarm
ing with utility company lobbyists, and
then came two serious accus-ations
against the other side. Representa
tive John H. Hoeppel of California,
Democrat, asserted an unnamed ad
ministration lobbyist had offered to
get California’s relief allotment In
creased If Hoeppel would vote for the
bill as the President wanted It. This
didn’t greatly Impress the house, but
later Representative Ralph 0. Brew
ster of Maine, Republican, charged
that Thomas G. Corcoran, a young
brain truster who is co-author of the
administration bill, had threatened
cessation of construction of the $37,-
000,000 Passamaquoddy dam proj
tors, subject to reserve board approval,
for five-year periods, and the reserve
banks need not buy additional govern
ment bonds unless they choose to do so.
rNVBSTIGATION of the administra-
I tlon of.the Virgin islands by a sen
ate committee was certain to be lively.
The very first witness heard, Charles
H. Gibson, was threatened with Jail
by Secretary of the Interior Ickes for
removing official documents from the
flies. Mr. Gibson, who was govern
ment attorney for the islands until
Ickes ousted him, had testified rather
vaguely against the regime of Gov.
Paul M. Pearson.
Gibson testified that Governor Pear
son had exceeded his authority under
the law, was unpopular with a large
section of the population of the
Islands, and was not frank in his ad
ministration. To support his testimony
Gibson introduced several letters which
were the docuioents to which Ickes
alluded.
pi EN. HUGH JOHNSON assumed
his new office of federal works
relief administrator for New York
city. “Robbie,” his ever present sec
retary, fended off the reporters for a
day, but let them In then, and to them
the general wailed:
“I hate this thing 1 It Isn’t helping
anybody, anywhere. When the source
of money Is cut off we’ll be right back
where we started. It’s disheartening
to sit here, knowing that when the
funds are gone, the jobs will be gone.”
A ttorney general cumotngs
announced that on July 29 a
school would be opened by his depart
ment In Washington for the purpose of
training state, county and city police
in law enforcement theory and prac
tice. A twelve weeks’ course will be
given to selected officers, the instruc
tion being free.
' iifewster should vote against the
“death sentence.”
Mr. Brewster said he did not be
lieve the President was aware that
such tactics were being used by his
aids or would countenance them, and
Rankin of Mississippi and Moran of
Maine defended Mr. Roosevelt. But
the President’s contact man, Charles
West, and Postmaster General Far
ley’s lobbyist, Emil Hurja, had been
so active among the house members
that the resentment of the lawmakers
was aroused and they gladly directed
that the lobbying charges be investi
gated.
W HAT would be the final fate of
the utility measure was doubtful.
Senator Wheeler of Montana, after a
call at the White House, said he was
confident a satisfactory bill would
come out of the conference, and if one
did not, the measure would be al
lowed to die, In either case the war
on the holding companies is likely to
be made a major issue of the next
Presidential campaign, and adminis
tration leaders are predicting that the
Democratic congressmen who dared
to vote against the “death sentence”
will be defeated at the polls. These
“doomed" men number 163, as against
131 Democrats who stood by the Presl-
Republican leaders were jubilant,
professing to see in the episode the
beginning of a real uprising against
the President and his New Dealers;
many neutral observers looked upon
It as only a battle between the two
lobbies In which the victory went to
the utilities lobby.
I N THE battle between Senator Car
ter Glass and Marrlner S. Eccles.
governor of the federal reserve board,
the former has, at this writing, scored
the most points. The
astute Virginian ex
tracted from the Ec-
cles-Currle banking
bill most of the radi
cal provisions that
would have led to gov
ernment or public own
ership of the federal
reserve system, and.
Indeed, practically re
wrote the
vised that former President Her
bert Hoover will not be a candidate for
the Republican nomination in the Pres
Idential race of 1936,
They were advised
tliat Mr. Hoover would
make the formal an
nouncement some time
this summer. He Is
staying out, it was
said, because he In
tends to remain in pri
vate life and has
planned his future ca
reer along that line
For his actl\-e criti
cisms of administra
tion policies the rea
son was given that, although he does
not “choose to run,” he thought the
party needed some sort of direction;
DOW that his candidacy is shelved, It
is expected that his political utterances
will be clothed in less authority.
The informers, however, assured the
senators that Mr. Hoover would get
behind the party’s candidate and enter
the campaign for him, and that he
thinks, with unification growing, the
Republican prospects are looking
brighter day by day.
W ORLD war veterans from both
tbe Allied and the Central pow
ers met ofliclally in Paris and debated
ways in which future wars may be
averted. They denounced as enemies
of their own countries those who
would seek to foment a new war. and
passed a resolution declaring: “The
respect for treaties being the basis
of international relations, this confi
dence can be durable only when inter
national accords and the resulting ob
ligations are mutually and sincerely re
spected.”
The meetlng.was hel^ under the aus
pices of Fidac. The American dele
gates Included S. P. Bailey, Winona,
Minn.; Julian W. Thomas, Salt Lake
City; Bernhard Ragner, McKeesport,
Pa., and Harold L. Smith, Coatesville,
i Pa.
Sen. Glass
Then his subcommit
tee handed it on to
the senate banking and currency com
mittee. which promptly gave the bill
Its approval, without a record vote,
and after making only two minor
Governor Eccles and Secretary of
the Treasury Morgentliau expected to
be called before the committee and
were prepared to tell wliy the bill
would not suit the administration, but
the committee didn’t give them a
chance.
As passed by the house, the banking
bill would give autocratic powers over
Che banking system to a politically
dominated federal reserve board; and
the party in power would have the au
thority to force the twelve reserve
banks to lend unlimited amounts to the
national treasury. Under the bill as
rewritten by Glass, reserve board mem
bers are to be appointed for 14-year
terms and are to be discharged only
for cause; chief officers of the reserve
hanks are to be chosen by their diree-
B URR T. ANSELL, a young attorney
whose father, Gen. S. T. Ansel!,
is suing Senator Huey Long for libel,
was enraged when Long intruded on
his party at a Washington hotel and
took a swing at the Kinglisli. One of
the senator’s companions seized An-
sell's arm and the young man says
Long then ran away.
S ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WALLACE proclaimed the estab
lishment of an AAA adjustment pro
gram for the 1935 rye crop which will
Include benefit pajments of amounts
not yet disclosed. Representatives
from 16 rye growing states met In
Washington to discuss the program
and outline plans for its operation.
Farmers from the principal wheat
producing states met with AAA offi
cials and gave their approval to a
tentative flexible plan for the payment
of benefits to wheat growers.
C APT. ANTHONY EDEN, England’s
Journeyman trouble shooter, elec
trified the British Isles by announcing
that Great Britain had offered to give
Haile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia,
a generous strip of British Somaliland
to replace territory acquired by Italy,
If tbe Italian government would prom
ise not to wage war against the domain
of Africa’s “Conquering Lion of
Judah."
Nothing doing, said Premier Musso
lini, who has turned a deaf ear to
all Britain’s proposals of an Italo-Bthl-
oplan compromise. He was reported
as Intending to go right ahead with
his plan of a four-years’ war to effect
the complete pacification of the Afri
can empire. He Insists that there
must be more room in Africa for over-
populated Italy to expand.
Mussolini has threatened to “remem
ber” the nations which have offered to
furnish Abyssinia with arms, and they
have withdrawn or modified their of
fers. The African emperor pleaded;
“If we are in the right and if civi
lized nations are unable to prevent
this war, at least do not deny us the
means of defending ourselves.”
The British parliament was no bet
ter pleased with Eden’s “offer” of land
than was Italy, and the colonial secre
tary, son of former Prime Minister
MacDonald, had a bard time explain
ing lb
Then Italy heard that the British
government was considering a proposal
to invite other nations to join In an
economic blockade of Italy to check
her aggression on Ethopla. Rome was
astonished by this report but didn’t
seem In the least alarmed. Neither
were the Italians frightened when they
learned officially that Ethiopia had
asked the United States to study means
of persuading Italy to respect the Kel
logg pact outlawing war. The em
peror himself made the appeal to W.
Perry George, charge d’affaires at
Addis Ababa.
.A NDRE CITROEN, f.amous f c;
-.is Vthe- of-
France” because he built most of that
country’s low cost motor cars, Is dead.
And probably he was happy to pass
on, for his vast enterprises had col
lapsed and bis once huge fortune was
T ub federal government began a
new fiscal year with intentions of
spending more money than in any pre
vious year of peace. Mr. Roosevelt an
nounced that he would spend $8,520,
000,000, of which $4,582,000,000 will go
for “recovery and relief.” He expects
the treasury to collect $3,991,000,000.
No, it doesn't add up, The deficit for
the new fiscal year will be $4,528,000,-
000, It is estimated.
The fiscal year just passed came to
an end with the public debt at a new
peace-time peak of $28,665,000,000, still
some shy of the $31,000,000,000 the
President estimated a year ago. To
finance the new budget, he had count
ed in part upon the $500,000,000 ex
tension of “nuisance” taxes just
passed by congress, but not upon the
tax-the-rlch program which the New
Dealers hope to jockey through some
time in AugnsL Estimates have It
that this will net another $340,000,000,
The expenditure for the past year is
only $7,258,000,000 Instead of $8,571,-
000,000 forecast at the start of the
year. The deficit was $3,472,347,000
instead of the proposed $4,869,000,000.
If the expenditures outlined In the
1936 budget reach the estimated total,
the public debt on July 1 next year
would stand at $34,239,000,000.
During the next year the President
expects to spend $4,880,000,000 for re
lief and tor the employment of 3,500,-
000 Idle workers. A general' upswing
in business would Improve the revenue
expected by the treasury. The Presi
ded counted on $3,711,000,000 coming
in during the 1935 fiscal year. Re
ceipts proved to be $3,785,000,000.
D avid lloyd georgb, whose
New Deal program was not well
received by the British government,
has resumed active participation In
politics, “reluctantly,” but with ex
pressed determination to “go on with
it.” The little Welsh veteran states
man addressed the national conven
tion of the peace and reconstruction
movement, and asserted the menace to
peace and the economic confusion
throughout the world are growing
.vorse.
lAPAN’S beautiful Inland sea was
^ the scene of a terrible disaster that
cost 104 lives. The steamer Midori
Maru, crowded with holiday passen
gers, collided with a freighter in tlic
foggy night and sank almost Immeili
ately. Rescue boats picked up 91 o
the 166 passengers and 56 of the crew
All the victims were Japanese.
T he week’s peak In ’crime was
reached when Detroit police found
Howard Carter Dickinson, prominent
New York attorney and nephew of
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
lying dead in a ditch beside a lonely
Rouge park road with a bullet through
his head and another through his chest.
Dickinson, a law associate of
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., had been
In Detroit on business of the $40,000,-
000 estate of the late William H.
Yawkey. Apparently, he had driven
to Rouge park while on a drinking
party after business hours. His com
panions on the ride, who were William
Schweitzer, Detroit underworld char
acter, and three burlesque-show girls,
all of whom he had picked up at his
hotel in the motor city, fled the scene
and were traced to Fort Wayne, Ind.,
where they were arrested.
After several days of grilling by po
lice, the four confessed they had plot
ted the murder to rob Dickinson.
Sweltzer admitted firing the shots.
Their loot was $134.
D etermined that what goes up
must stay up, Fred and A1 Key
endurance fliers, broke the world’.^
lime record for keeping a plane aloft,
landing afier 653'^ hours in the air
at Meridan, Miss. They passed th(
unofli@lal endurance record of 64'
hours, 23 minutes and 30 seconds sc
in 1930 by Dale Jackson and Fore*
O’Brien at St. Lcuis.
Britain’s Efforts to Avert
Clash Futile.
1. Miss Josephine Roche, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the NYA. 2. What Is to Become of These Young
People Now They Are Out of School? 3. Aubrey Williams, Executive Director.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
W ITH a snort of disgust the
young ma'ii tossed his hat on
the table. And as he sank into
the chair, his worn newspa
per, folded with the “help wanted”
ads to the outside, their gray columns
smudged with the sweat of much han
dling, fell to the floor; he didn’t bother
to pick It up.
He bent In defeat, his hands hung
limply from the arms of the chair. His
eyes fixed in a red stare on the thin
carpet, his nostrils widened In a
sneer and his lower iip pouted. He
looked as if he would do something
desperate—If there were anything des
perate to do. I
His throat was -,*ry as he spoke.
“I give up! jt„
‘Tve been in ef^ry darn place In
this town wh^e
body to do
en^net^r'witn'
in my class-
washing dishes,
three years.
“The jobs theA',1 are go to married
men who have families that need food
and a home. That's dll right, I sup
pose they should. But Lord, I want
to get married myself some day, and
here I am twenty-five without a chance
in sight of getting myself any kind
of a start. I’ve got a right to my life
and happiness. But I’ve got to work!
“And what do they say to me'r
‘You’ve no experience. We can get
good men with years of experience £«r
what we have to p.ay you.’
“Good Lord, how am I going to get
experience if I can’t get work?”
The man is, of course, a hypothetical
case. But if you think his counterpart
does not exist in reality and in ap
palling numbers, you are sadly mis
taken. The International Labor office
at Geneva has just Issued a statement
which declares that at least 25 per
cent of all the world's 25,000,000 un
employed are less than twenty-five
years old.
But wait, despairing youth! There
may be an end In sight for all this.
America has an idea. It may work
and It may not, but at least something
is going to be done. The President of
the United States is speaking . .
"I have determined that we shall do
something for the nation’s unemployed
youth because we can ill afford to lose
the skill and energy of these young
men and women. They must have
their chances In schnol, their turn as
apprentices and their opportunity for
jobs—a chance to work and earn for
themselves.
“In recognition of this gre.at na
tional need I have established a' Na
tional Youth administration, to he
under the Works Progress administra
tion.”
$50,000,000 for Youth.
Out of tlie $4,800,000,000 which con
gress in the emergency relief appro
priation act of April 8 turned over to
Mr. Roosevelt that he might sink pub
lic dollars into the mire of depres
sion to make a foundation for a sturdy
structure of sound prosperity, $.50,000,-
000 will be poured as a pylon to sup
port the new NYA during its first year.
As chairman of the execiirive com
mittee of tho NYA, the Pre.sldent
named Miss Josephine Roche, assist
ant secretary of the treasury. She
was long !i professional ciiamplon of
youth and Inter, as a coal operator,
waged tlie battle for the rights of
young men and women in different
r'orin. .As executive director she will
liave Auhrey Williams, first assistant
to H.arry L. Hopkins, works-progress
uiiministrator.
Tliese two will set up the organiza
tion which will execute tiie challenge
taken up hy the President to remove
youth from the depths of disillusion
and defeatism and the dangerous rad
icalism which so often arises from
such conditions. Youtli in tlie case of
the NYA is limited to men and women
between the ages of sixteen and twen
ty-five. Here are the services the or
ganization will attempt to perform;
1. Find employment in private in
dustry for unemployed youth. “Work
liesigned to accomplisli this shall be
set going in every state in order to
work out with employers in industry,
commerce and business, ways and
means of employing additional person
nel from unemployed young people.”
2. Train and retrain for Industrial,
technical and professional employment
opportunities.
3. Provide for continuing attendance
at high school and college.
4. Work relief projects designed to
meet the needs of youth.
An estimated 150,000 youths will re
ceive job training of some sort; 100,-
000 will be aided in finishing their high
school courses; ]20,0l}0 will be assisted
in pursuing a college education, and-ad
ditional thousands will be given finan
cial aid to enable them to take post
graduate work. Many more may be ab
sorbed without cost through the find
ing of jobs in Industry.
The smallest unit In the set-up will
be the local or community committee.
This will be under the supervision of
the state administration, which In turij
will report CO ' W'asnington neuaquar-
ters. Efforts will be concentrated upon
youths who are out of work and no
longer financially capable of attending
school.
The tasks of the various divisions,
according to the announcement from
the White House, will be “to mobilize
the industrial, commercial, agricultural
and educational forces to provide em
ployment and other practical assist
ance to the unemployed youth; to de
velop and carry out a co-ordinated pro
gram of work and work opportunities,
job training and retraining for unem
ployed youth, utilizing all existing pub
lic and private agencies, industries,
schools and various training facilities
which can assist in meeting various
phases of the problem.”
How Money Wili Be Spent.
These tasks will all be undertaken
with a view of furnishing youths
(who are eligible for relief) compen
sation for work they may do on their
new jobs, or expense money if they are
going to school.
Boys and girls over sixteen who have
been forced to stop attending high
school because they have no money for
car fare, lunches and incidentals will
be given an average of $6 a month to
enable them to complete their courses.
An average of $15 a month will go
to unemployed high school graduates
under twenty-five to help them finish
college. Institutions will receive no
subsidies; the students will be expect
ed to pay part of the cost themselves,
as they have in the past. There is a
rule now that those receiving work re
lief shall not account for more than
12 per cent of the enrollment of insti
tutions of higher learning, but this will
in all likelihood be revoked or changed
to make room for the NYA proteges.
Post-graduate students who have
been unsuccessful in their job-hunting
will be carefully selected for aid in
completing their study. A special ef
fort will be made to find jobs for grad
uates of the class of 1935.
An average of $15 a month will be
paid to youths given outright work-
relief Jobs; since one of the qualifica
tions is that they must be from relief
families, it may be assumed that the
head of the f.miily will be holding a
work-relief job at better pay.
Re.garilirig this type of worker the
plan says; “I’lirticulnr stress should he
laid upon rhe hnilding and use of recre
ational and community renters which,
depending upon loc.al conditions and
the energy, ability ami enthusiasm of
local youth grcaips, can be anything
from an old-fashioned “swimming
lioie” to a complete center Including
all types of athletic facilities, commu
nity houses, library, classrooms, etc.
In most communities these recreational
centers can be made self-liquidating.
Substantially all of the direct labor In
the creation of these centers shall be
performed by youths themselves, work
ing as apprentices under the direction
of skilled mechanics.”
Take National Census.
U’ork relief yoiitlis will also be kept
busy taking a national census of all
youths in the United States between
sixteen and twenty-five.
To secure employment, the NYA will
ask indiistri.nl employers to hire youths
as apprentices under special arrange
ments. Governmental bureaus, county,
municipal and slate, will be asked to
take apprentices and train them for
public service. Concerning the latter,
the NYA said:
"The opportunity afforded by this
type of work should be used to develop
a new type of trained public servant,
rather than to merely add to the Im
mense groups of men and women who
now clamor to get into -government
service.”
It has been called possible that this
may foreshadow a permanent civil
service organization, like that of Eng-
Job training and Job placement are
to be accomplished by:
(a) Utilizing available school shop
facilities for initial or basic trade
training, through special late after
noon or evening classes, taught as
work,relief projects by needy unem
ployed persons qualified to teach the
special field.
(h) Utilizing ajvallalde private fac-
tuiies, iuuustneis‘‘wp'fuut!!, ax ennes
when they are not in regular opera
tion, as places to hold training classes,
taught by needy unemployed.
(e) Using public libraries for train
ing youths to function as librarians
and enabling the libraries to be kept
open for the public a greater number'
of hours a d.ay.
Co-operation Needed.
“This undertaking will need the vig
orous co-operation of the citizens of
the sevef-al states,” said the President.
“It is recognized that the final so
lution of this whole problem of unem
ployed youth will not be attained un
til there is a resi^raptlon of normal
business activities and opportunities
for private employment on a wide
scale. I believe that the national
youth program will serve the most
pressing and immediate needs of that
portion of unemployed youth most se
riously affected at the present time.”
The NYA is a definite step toward
solving the problem of unemployed
youth In America. What will be done
about the remainder of the six or
seven million unemployed youths In
other parts of the world is being con
sidered by Geneva’s International La
bor office, with the object doing
away with the discontent that often
results in serious social dangers. It Is
particularly worried about the method
which Is being used to a wide extent
by many European nations—military
conscription. Forced labor camps and
Incorporation of young men in other
organizations more or less of a mili
tary character it deplores:
“Attendance at such unemployment
centers should be strictly voluntary,
should exclude any idea of military
training, and these centers should only
undertake work which under prevail
ing economic conditions would not be
carried out by workers in normal em
ployment.”
Serious Problem.
In the ILO, subjects usually re
ceive two discussions, one when they
are first called to attention, and an
other the following year, after all the
available information has been gath
ered. This question is considered too
urgent to hold over.
The real seriousness of the problem,
according to the ILO, “is to be found
in the particularly unfortunate con
sequences of continued Idleness for
young people, more than older persons.
If adults, after long years of work,
are unable to face the difficulties of
life, on the other hand how can young
people on their own resources success
fully resist the demoralizing effects of
prolonged unemployment?”
The remedies for the situation,
held up by the ILO, are pretty much
the s.ame as the plan which the Presi
dent has outlined for this country.
They Include work-relief, job place
ment and apprenticeships, and vo
cational training and retraining.
The ILO suggests that the minimum
age for leaving school and being
admitted to employment should be set
at fifteen years; that there should be
more technical schools, and that Its
plan, similar to the President’s, should
be carried out.
It will be interesting to see what
effect the President’s NYA will have
on the youth of our nation. Says he:
“The yield on this investment should
be liigh.”
© Western Newspaper Union.
MUSSOLINI SAYS WAR
STARTS IN OCTOBER
London.—A fruitless effort by Great
Britain to put the brakes on the threat
■ar between Italy and Ethiopia was
disclosed In the house of commons by
CapL Anthony Eden, minister for
League of Nations affairs.
He revealed that Premier Mussolini
had turned down as a solution of the
conflict Britain’s offer to give Ethiopia
a.seaport In British Somaliland In ex
change for territorial and economli^
concessions tor the African kingdom
of Italy.
The British government’s “trouble
shooter,” svho has just returned from
conversations with Mussolini in Rome
and Premier Pierre Laval In Paris,
told of the offer in a report on his
trip to the two capitals.
Before the session began, official
sources privately disclosed that Mus
solini not only had turned down the
British proposal, but also had assured
Captain Eden that things had now
reached such a pass that nothing could
prevent Italy from going to war with
gthlopla tn October.
But even that blow to British in
fluence is not worrying the London
government half as much as receipt
of word from France that that country
will be unable to support the British
before the League of Nations should
they undertake to invoke league ac
tion .-gainst Italy in behalf of Ethiopia.
According to this report, Premier
Laval has told the British government
that French public opinion is now so
bitter against British because of the
Anglo-German naval agreement that
no government in Paris would dare
collaborate with Britain In a move
ment against Italy. This resentment
against the British is supplemented by
the further fact of the present un
usually cordial relations between the
two Mediterranean powers. This would
also tend toward giving Italy a free
hand to launch her proposed attack
on Ethiopia.
Ferris Confesses Killing
Hughes Kin in Robbery
Detroit, Mich.—William Lee Ferris
and his three “party girl” confederates
confessed that Howard Carter Dickin
son, prominent New York attorney.
I by 1
'hlch
which all four participated
netted them only $134.
Ferris, dapper young police charac
ter, admitted he fired two shots into
Dickinson’s body “because he' wouldn't
put his hands up.” The second shot,
police believe, was deliberately fired
to make certain the victim was killed
so he couldn't return and talk,
Three confessions that followed in
quick succession brought the bizarre
slaying to a quick denoument and sup
plied the missing motive. Authorities
had refused to accept previous con
tradictory “confessions,” but now they
are satisfied that Dickinson, who was
a nephew of Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes, was slain in a planned
robbery.
O’Day, Veteran Baseball
Umpire, Dies in Chicago
Chicago.—Hank O’Day, former Na
tional Baseball league umpire, died
in the Presbyterian hospital.
O'Day who saw many years' serv
ice as both player and umpire, was
retired a few years ago. He had been
serously 111 for several months. Death
was due to broncliial pneumonia.
As long as baseball is played, may
be even long after the exploits of the
game’s greatest heroes have faded in
memory, the famous “bonehead play”
of Fred Merkle will linger as a never-
to-be-forgotten legend of the diamond.
Hank O’Day was the umpire who
called the play, thereby writing the
famous Giant player’s name Indelibly
in baseball’s romantic history books.
American Woman Dies in
Fall or Leap Into Sea
Boston.—Mias Angie Eames, forty.
Wellesley college graduate and daugh
ter of the late Francis Eames of Phila
delphia, leaped or fell to death from
the Italian liner Conte Grande at sea,
according to word received here.
The report of Miss Barnes’ death
was radioed by the ship’s captain to
Burton B. Eames of Wellesley, Boston
lawyer and first cousin of the woman.
Miss Eames, who had traveled
abroad the last four years, was en
route to Boston to visit her cousin.
“Henry Ford of France”
Dies After Long Illness
Paris, France.—Andre Citroen, not
ed automonile manufacturer, died aft
er a long Illness.
Citroen, the “Henry Ford of France,”
was fifty-seven years old. His auto
mobiles made his name famous
throughout all of France, but he was
an engineer by preference and a finan
cier only through necessity.
Killed in Crash
Kenosha, Wis.—-Merton F. Utter,
forty-five. Coin, Iowa, w^s killed, and
four others were seriously Injurerl. two
o'" them critically, in an auto collision
south of Kenosha. Utter was driving
north on a vacation trip with his wile
and two children. A car driven by
Lester C. Roloff. twenty-one, of Mil
waukee, going south on the highway,
left the road and In returning to tlie
concrete veered into the path of the
Utter car for a head-on collision, ac
cording to Coroner Janies Crossln.