12 THE SPRINGFIELD 'WEEKLY REPUBLICAN; SPRINGFIELD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1941. wAs: OBITUARY 6 HARRY DAUGHERTY DIES; WAS HARDING ATTORNEY GENERAL Maintained Innocence in Teapot Dome Scandals to the End Nicknamed 'President-Maker' Columbus, 0., Oct. M. died in his sleep today after a year's Daugherty, the "President maker," Illness. The 81-year-old former attorneygenerul of the United States conAidant of Warren G.
Harding, suci cuinbed to congestive heart failure in his Columbus apartment. Ile predicted Harding's nomination for President in 1920, sat in a conference where Republicans agreed upon the Marion (O.) publisher and then managed his successful campaign for the office. Daugherty was stricken In October, 1940, by two heart attacks and pneumonia as was writing a book to explain "political attacks" on him. The story involved the Teapot dome oil scandals and other alleged government irregularities of the twenties. book wits unfinished when he passed away.
At his bedside were his daughter, Mrs Emily B. Rarey. of Columbus: his brother, Mal S. Daugherty, retired banker of Washington Court House, his physician and two nurses. Daugherty had been bedfast for several months.
He retired from law practice in 1932 and spent much time in Florida and at Mackinac Island, Mich. Funeral services will be conducted here at 1.30 p. Tuesday burial will follow at Washington Court House, 0., his birthplace. "Clear Conselence" Harry Micajah Daugherty served three turbulent years as attorney-gen-eral eral of the United States after managing Warren G. Harding's a successful 42 campaign for the presidency in 1920.
During that period and for seren years thereafter he defended himself against allegations involving such cases as the Teapot dome oil scandals, veterans bureau irregularities, alien property conspiracies, the pardoning of Charles W. Morse and Eugene V. Debs and political-business deals. He resigned as -general March 28. 1924, at the behest of President Coolidge during a Senate committee investigation of alleged misconduct in office.
He never was convicted of anything, and in summing up his career in January, 1940. I did was done in the Interest of the American people and my action was sustained by the courts. Notwithstanding the abuse. I the same circ*mstances would not received, I can say now, that. given change an official or personal act of mine while I was attorney-general.
"That's a clear conscience for you." Daugherty took pride in pointing to the following of millions of dollars for the federal government in war frauds and prohibition cases. Appointment of J. Edgar Hoover as an assistant in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from which he later was promoted to chief. Establishment of the federal Industrial reformatory at Chillicothe, on that first-time offenders should not be mixed with veteran criminals. for women Establishment of the federal.
prison at Alderson, DAVID D. FIELD, 66, STOCKBRIDGE, DIES Stockbridge, Oct. 11-David Dudley Field. 66, scion of the celebrated Field family, long-time and high official of the died New York Telephone company, early this morning at his home on Pine street following a long illness. He was born at.
San Francisco In 1875, the son of Stephen: Dudley Field Mind (Celestine (Butters) Field. Though business life was for the most part at New. Tork, he came to Stockbridge as d. child. and throughout his life had been associated: with this village.
He graduated from Williams high school and later from Massachusetts Institute' of Technology. Soon after he completed his college course, he entered the employ of the New York Telephone company and at the time of Mice retirement, was. assistant. to the vice-president of this company. He spent two years in Europe in company with his father.
He was a great-grandson of David Dudley Field and grandson of Jonathan Edwards Field. He was a member of the Players' club of New York. of the Camera club there and of the Telephone Pioneers. Besides his mother, he leaves a sister, Miss Virginia: Field of Stockbridge. CARDINAL LAURI DIES IN VATICAN CITY AT 77 Vatican City, Oct.
8-(INS) -Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri. who ranked in the Roman Catholic hierarchy second only to Pope Pius XII, died today at 77. Cardinal Lauri, Chamberlain (Cam-(and erlengo) of the College of Cardinals, close friend and adviser of the pontiff, sank rapidly in spite of an operation performed Monday. Had the pope preceded him in death, cardinal would have become acting pontiff. Under Pius XI, he was chief penitentiary of the Catholic church, and gave absolution to the dying pope on February 10, 1939.
Lorenzo Lauri was born in Rome on October 15, 1864, and his first work in the priesthood was as a teacher of theology. He became an archbishop in 1917 when he was. named papal nuncio in Lima, Peru. After four years of service in Peru, Archbishop Lauri was transferred to the nunciate in Warsaw, until he was recalled to Rome and made a cardinal in 1926. Cardinal Lauri was made chief penitentiary 1927.
Pius Xl named Cardinal Lauri as papal delegate to the International Eucharistic congress in Dublin in June, 1037. MRS A. C. MINGLING DEAD Baraboo, Oct. 14-(AP)-Mrs Albert Charles Ringling, 89.
widow of one: of the six brothers who founded the Ringling brothers circus in 1886, died at her home here today. Mrs Ringling traveled with the circus for more than 25 years before her husband sold his interests to his brothers a few years before his death In 1916. 8 C. F. BIGGERT DIES Chicago, Oct.
13-(AP) -Cassius F. Biggert, 70, a retired vice-president panthe and the International Wisconsin Harvester Steel com- comdied at. His home in suburban Evanston. (FIVE GREAT SHIPS. TO CARRY ORE FOR NATION'S DEFENSE Great Lakes Freighters to Hold.
18,000 Tons Each Are as Important as Fighting Ships 4 Detroit-(The Special News Service) -Five great ships that will -never go down to the sea are being built to join America's drive for national rearmament. They will do their job on the Great lakes of the Midwest -hauling iron ore from the cavernous mines of northern Minnesota to the greedy blast furnaces of the East. In terms of national defense the tasks of these five vessels will be as important as those of fighting ships. For today the nation sorely pressed for more ore to go Into steel for guns, ships, tanks and othere weapons. Next summer the Pittsburg Steamship company.
will place these quintuplets in service--the longest, fastest and most capacious freighters on, the lakes. Today but steel skeletons, Inanimate and cold, they are being transformed swiftly into living ships by the rivet hammers and sweat of hundreds of: workmen. Three of. them are on the dooks of the Great Lakes Engineering works, Detroit, and two others are under way at the American Shipbuilding company, Lorain, O. "Only five ships?" you ask.
But lake freighters are tremendous things. Into the yawning holds of each of. these new vessels ty can be poured a capacity of 18,000 tons of iron ore. Three hundred heavy railroad freight cars, loaded to the top, can carry no more than, one of these boats. ships will take toads like that from Lake Superior's ore docks to the eastern industrial centers 'once every week throughout the entire sailing season.
These five new vessels represent the largest shipbuilding boon to hit the lakes since the 1929 depression threw the damper on all kinds of construction. Not a single ore-carrier was launched between 1928 and 1938. In 1038 the Pittsburg Steamship company added four vessels to its fleet. but after that came another. period of idleness.
Blueprints give the length of these new boats as 640 feet. A replacement draft depth of 21 feet, two feet 1 more than allotted the biggest orehaulers in commission now, will record-breaking cargoes. Before they can load to the full, however, the vessels will have to wait for deepening of lock facilities at the St Mary's Falls canal at Sault Ste. Marie. Pittsburg steamship officials expect this improvement in the near future, probably through construction of A new lock.
Boats will have a 67-foot beam and will be 35 feet deep, deck to keel. normal dimensions for lake craft with their hatch capacity. 3 About half the steel construction of a process thill has come to the lakes each ship be done by welding, from shipyards on the coast; and which saves steel and reduces the total weight of the hull. Great lakes yards 'are still changing over from riveting. to welding, but these boats will sail with more welding in their hulls than any of their predecessors.
the large size of the, ships, they. will ride the waves faster than older and smaller vessels. Powerful turbine engines, capable of 4000 horsepower, will turn the propellors. Cabins will be completely fireproof, the first time such precautions will have been taken in lake freighters. Cabins will be air Radio and wireless will be replaced by ship-to-shore telephone communication, now perfected so vessles can contact shore stations at: all along Great Lakes sailing routes.
Strong. and lean, lake freighters are things of beauty, despite their plain design. This grace comes from their dimensions, long and slender like a big, hollow needle. The needle of course, is the hull, built up of he plates stuck to hard steel ribs, and containing three vast cargo holds accessible only through. hatch-openings on the level Two chunks of superstructure poke up above the deck, at each end, housing cabins and machinery.
When a stranger the complex structure that is a ship he so quickly. There is so, much to a wonders how it can be put together ship--pipes and electric conduits, tanks and boilers, engines and cOndensers, shafts and tunnels and steering gear, 300,000 rivets, 350,000 feet of welding, 5500 tons of steel. And yet, the engineers in the yards promise, these sturdy quintuplets will be ready for: the battle of the Great Lakes in just nine more months. SAYS AMERICAN ARMY BEST FED IN WORLD Boston, Oct. 13-(AP)-Maj-Gen Edmund Gregory, United States quartermaster-general, said today that "the American army is the best fed in world and better fed than 60 per cent of the country's population." 44th annual convention of the Amera round discussion at the ican Bakers' association, he said that average army selectee had gained 10 pounds since his induction and unlimited ration system certainly is superior to Hitler's 'emergency rations' for a German army that has been forced to march as long as three days on a soy bean diet.
"Germany's food rationing for the army is the result of a food shortage and a shortage in such articles as tin." Gen Gregory pointed out, as an example of a tin shortage, to that eat their German soldiers were forced tomatoes, cheese, jam and applesauce in powder form. "Ample food containers just aren't a he said. Praising the bread industry for its "voluntary cooperation with science and government and the enrichment of bread with essential vitamins and minerals," Dr Thomas Parran, United States surge pointed, however, to serious thiamin or vitamin B-1 deficiency "in these crucial days when unshakable morale and buoyant health are 80 essential to all-out na- defense." DATA ON BRITISH FOOD ASKED BY VANDENBERG Washington, Oct. 13-(AP)-Senator Vandenberg Mich.) announced today he had written Secretary of Agriculture Wickard for information regarding the Pritish food situation but had received no reply. Vandenberg said he had sent Wickard two newspaper stories two weeks ago--one quoting Wickard as saying that the British were on short rations and that an additional $1,000,000,000 worth of American food would needed in the next five months and the other quoting the British, food minister as saying that the British had the biggest wheat stocks in their "Such apparent Inconsistencies and apparent disagreements should be clarified for the benefit of an enlightened public opinion," Vandenberg declared.
Rescued After Attempt At Suicide at Frisco Bridge John L. Evans Had Climbed Into Undergirding of Span and Slashed Throat and Arms Found After Spending Night 4 San Francisco, Oct. 11-(AP) -A death that would't come ended today with the spectacular rescue of John L. Evans from the massive framework of Golden Gate bridge. His throat and arms badly cut.
the 39-year-old man who. courted death was helped from a. precarious position 280 feet above the waters of San Francisco bay while boats cruised slowly below. Bridge riggers, painters and. firemen -some with safety ropes and some without -worked more than an hour.
to tie a line around the man, swing a ladder -net beneath him and encourage him to wiggle cautiously from the steel network into which he bad crawled a few feet underneath the span's six-lane roadway. At the end of the inch -inch return, Evans climbed back over the sidewalk rail, near one of the great towers, and then collapsed. Screams Heard and Nots Found Hospital attendants said Evans way suffering from shock, exposure and loss of blood but added he would recover. 2 Lieut N. Schou of the fire department said the man evident' climbed over the bridge rail about p.
m. yesterday and slashed his throat and wrists in an' attempt at suicide. 1. the had unexplained. not slipped into the bay was His plight was discovered by two soldiers who heard screams they walked across the bridge.
also found a which contained this note: "I have taken my a own life, due to ill health and despondency." Dated October 10, it was signed "John L. Evans." Mrs Prudence Evans, a nurse, said her husband, a city meat inspector, had suffered a nervous breakdown and was on a leave of absence. She had reported to police last night that he was missing. While still beneath the bridge, Evans was so covered with dried blood that Highway Patrolman Myron Smith said it appeared both arms had been mangled. The man at Arst could talk weakly but later passed into seeming unconsciousness.
When a rope was securely around him, however, and he saw the makeshift net beneath, Evans as able to help himself from a position in which his rescuers said his sagging body appeared trapped. Of the more than 30 persons who have' from the $35,000.000 bridge, only one has lived -Miss Cornelia Ierland. She. still is in a hospital. Football Saturday 4 7 New York, Oct.
11-(AP)-Stanford's Indians, Rose bowl champions and heavy favorites to snare their second successive coast conference crown, came to the end of football's undefeated trail today along with Tulane's mighty Green Wave and a host of other major powers in a series of spectacular upsets all along. the Stanford fell before Oregon State's hardy eleven in a tight battle at Corvallis, 10-0. breaking the Indians' winning streak of. 12 successive victories-nine during the regular season a year ago, a Rose bowl conquest of Nebraska, and triumphs In their first two. engagements this season.
Oregon State fairly earned its victory, gained by a first period field goal by Warren Simas and a third period touchdown by Bob Dethman. Tulane, hailed as the Southeastern conference's greatest power after its victories over Boston college and Auburn, came a cropper at Houston at the hands of Rice's Owls, 10-9, in a sensational duel. Bob Brumley scored all of Rice's points in this major upset. More First Defeats These were the victims of the day but the list of schools suffering their first defeat was 1. long one--Colgate, Princeton, Holy Cross, Yale, Illinois, Marquette, Oklahoma, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, to mention a few.
There was no stopping such powerful arrays, however, as Minnesota, Navy, Fordham, Penn, Duke, Michigan, Texas, Northwestern and Notre Dame. Minnesota, paced by Bill Daley and Bruce Smith, hammered Illinois into Alonzo Stagg's College of Pacific eleven, 34-0. In the lone conference test of the Baylor's Bears stopped Arkansas, 20-7. Fordham had to come from behind to halt North Carolina, 27-11, with Steve Filipowicz the mainspring ur the Rams' attack. Fullback Bert Stiff paced Penn's Quakers to a 28-13 conquest of Yale whose second half rally made the score respectable but left no 1 doubt as to which was the superior team.
Navy used reserves mainly in routing a 41-2. Holy Cross Loses to Syracuse A kick blocked late in the fourth quarter cost Holy Cross its unbeaten record as Syracuse won out, 6-0, but Colgate was soundly outplayed in the late stages by Dartmouth's surprisingly strong Indians, 18-6. Nor did Princeton have any chance with Columbia's Lions who won, 21-0, as Paul Governali picked up nearly 200 yards on his own. A pass, Ken Stofer to Lou Bufalino, carried Cornell to a 7-0 victory over Harvard. Boston college's Eagles, victors over Tennessee in the Sugar bowl a year ago, but beaten by Tulane this season, once again found southern competition too strong and succumbed to Clemson's Southern ference champions, Army had its hands full in handling Virginia Military, 27-20.
and its was V. M. Nelson Catlett who carried off the main individual honors. In the Southeastern conference, Vanderbilt came from behind to trounce Kentucky, 39-15. Duke continued its charge through the Southern conference, running up a 50-0 count Maryland.
William and Mary whipped 'Virginia Tech, 16-7, while Wake Forest and South Carolina played a 6-6 draw. Bill Dudley paced Virginia to a 44-0 conquest of Richmond in a nonconference tilt. Nebraska and Missouri chalked up easy. Big Six victories, the champion Huskers 'stopped Kansas, 3-0, while Missouri ran up a 35-0 'count on Kansas State. Michigan State upset the dope in nipping Marquette, 13-7.
Oregon made it a good day all around for that state by beating Southern California, 20-6, in a Pacific coast. conference game while Washington's' Huskies, rallying from 44, two successive. defeats, handed Washington State a 23-13 beating. California found Santa Clara's a Broncos too tough and went down, 13-0. Wyoming, 60-6, and Colorado defeated.
Utah State, 13-7, in Rocky mountain Big, Seven engagements. Exchanging Clothes Might Stop Spats Over Room Temperatures Tests by A. M. A. Committee Show Why Father Thinks It's Too Hot and Mother Says It's Too Cold Boston.
Oct. 13- (NANA) Father says it's too hot. Mother says it's too cold. Mother turns up the heat. Father turns down.
There is an endless squabble. Mother goes to bed to get warm. Father goes out and gets drunk. This is a familiar scene every winter evening in thousands of American homes. It helps maintain the high divorce rate, and supposedly is due to irreconcilable differences between the two sexes in skin temperature.
But let father and mother try wearing each other's clothes and much of the squabbling would end. A committee of the American Medical association has just reported on extensive tests carried on at the Harvard school of public health to get at the seat the trouble. Men and women were subjected to various temperatures in different kinds of attire. Special Test Made In a special test, men were dressed in women's clothing and vice versa. Precise measurements were taken of the temperature at the surface of the body, the temperature under the clothing over 18 parts of body, and the metabolic rates.
All the subjects were asked to report when they felt comfortable. Some basic differences were found, as was expected. At a temperature 'of 72 degrees Fahrenheit, the average woman. dressed in her ordinary indoor winter clothing, reported she was uncomfortable. Her skin temperature was about: two degrees lower than that of the average man, the mean temperature under her clothes was two degrees higher.
On an average the hands and feet of women were about five degrees cooler than those of men, the arms four degrees cooler, the legs and head 2.5 degrees cooler. There was only half a degree difference between the two sexes in the skin temperature of the trunk, constituting most of the body. All the men reported that they were comfortable at 72. To make the women comfortable, the and wall temperatures had to be raised to 76. 'Then the men protested they couldn't stand the heat.
In warm summer weather when air and wall temperatures averaged about 80, the women were comfortable, but most of the men were too warm. The mean skin temperature of the women still was about a degree lower than that of the But despite these differences, says Dr. C. P. Yaglou, who conducted the tests, "when men and women wore similar clothes, they were comfortable at about same environmental temperatures.
With a minimum of clothing, a temperature between 82 and 83 satisfied both sexes. When men were dressed in women's summer clothes, weighing about .8 of a pound, they wanted a temperature of about 80, which is about as high as that preferred by women similarly dressed. But when the men wore their own summer clothes, weighing three pounds, they wanted a temperature of 76. "Conversely, when women wore men's winter clothes, weighing six and a fifth pounds, instead of their own, which weigh a pound and a half, a temperature of 72 was required for comfort. 4 This is only half a degree higher than that preferred by men wearing similar clothes.
"In all hut a few subjects, comfort was associated with mean skin temperatures between 91.5 and 93.5 in both men and women, regardless of air temperature, which varied. from 53.5 to 84. The mean akin temperature of women appears to average halt a degree lower than that of men under comfortable "If women would dress in winter with clothes that are comparable in warmth to those of men, they would be comfortable temperature of 72 instead of 76 land there would be less discord. Conversely, if men would take off their vests, coats and collars in weather, buildings would not have to be cooled below. 83, instead of 76 to 80 as at present, and difficulties now experienced with sharp temperature contrasts would be alleviated." pt: Alabama Draft Board Backed Up By State On NLRB Ex-Official's Son Birmingham, Oct.
13-(AP) Board No 10, which: threatened to halt drafting unless Charles N. Feidelson, reported for induction Thursday, said tonight state selective service headquarters had ordered him inducted on that date. Following the board's threat last week, National Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey declared a misunderstanding apparently the statement. He said Feidelson, son of a former bor Relations board, merely wanted regional director of then National Ladeferment long enough.
to take an RULING EXPECTED ON COMMUNISTS' STATUS IN NATION A Supreme' Court to Review Schneiderman Case -Two Contempt Cases and Others to Be Washington, Ar Oct. 13-(AP)-The supreme court today promised a decision which may, clarify finally the status of foreign-born Communists in this country. It agreed to review case, of William Schneiderman, California Communist party secretary who came here from Russia at the age of three, became naturalized in 1927, and had his a citizenship canceled last year on the ground that he could not be loyal to the United States if he believed in communism. He was said to have concealed his 8 Communist affiliation at the time of naturalization. Question Posed in Bridges Case The question whether the Communist party advocates the overthrow of the United States government by force, as foes of communism have long contended, never has been ruled on by the supreme court although lower courts have held In a a a a a a a a number of immigration cases that it does.
The question was posed prominently in connection with deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges, West coast C. I. O. leader and native of Australia. A special justice department examiner, former Judge Charles B.
Sears of Buffalo, recently found that Bridges had been affiliated with the Communist party and that it advocatea the violent overthrow of this government. Attorneys for Bridges have served notice that they will appeal to the I supreme court if necessary. But if the court decides. this question in the Schnelderman case. it probably would refuse to review the Bridges deportation case unless the attorneys presented a different issue.
Another case involving Bridges-: contempt of court conviction for telegram he sent to Secretary of Labor Perking criticizing a California court's action in a labor case -was reargued before the supreme court today, along with a contempt citation against the Los Angeles Times in another case. Decisions may be forthcoming next month. In its first business session of the new term, the court passed petitions for reviews of cases. Justice Jackson disqualified himself from considering many of them because of his recent interest in them as attorneygeneral. Justice Murphy, another former attorney-general, also abstained from deliberations on a few cases.
One important question which court agreed to decide involves the subpoena powers of the federal wagehour administrator. The federal circult court at Boston held in the case of the Lowell (Mass.) Sun that the administrator could not delegate subpoena powers to subordinates; the circuit court at New Orleans in the case of the Cudahy Packing company, held that he could. The supreme court agreed to review both cases. In the field of politics, the' tribunal granted the justice department a review of a ruling by the federal district court at that the Hatch act regulating political activities does not apply to state primaries. It declined to review a lower court decision that a state (Tennessee) could require voters to pay poll taxes in order to vote in a congressional election.
Labor cases, as In recent years, bulked large on the calendar. The court agreed to pass upon the constitutionality of a 1939 Wisconsin statute outlawing alleged unfair labor practices by employes and a Labor board ruling, challenged by the Southern Steamship company of Philadelphia, that seamen striking while their ship 19 in a domestic port are not mutineers and may not be discharged. The court also granted an appeal of the justice department in its efforts to prosecute 1 local of the A. F. Teamsters' union under the 1934 antiracketeering act.
The union was alleged to have required all trucks entering New York city to pay for the unloading of the truck by a union for a large truck and $8.41 for a union small man actually one--regardless did of the whether work or not. The justice department charged that the union's "demands 'were (en the enforced driver, by threats threats of of personal lamage to injury the truck, and by other forms of intimidation, as well as by actual violence." Two appeals filed by the A. P. L. unions were denied.
One involved efforts of the Musicians' and Stage Hands' unions to compel Opera on Tour, a traveling opera company, to abandon the use of recorded music. The other was a decision by the District of Columbia court of appeals holding that the F. L. had the right to decide which of two rival affiliates have the right to organize certain. workers; the case at issue was a 40-year-old dispute between the Teamsters' and Brewery Workers' unions over the right to organize brewery truck drivers.
In three outstanding criminal cases, the court turned down appeals of Richard W. Leche, former governor of Louisiana; William Dudley, Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts of America; Thomas J. Pendergast, former Kansas City political leader, and Robert Emmet: O'Malley, former Missouri superintendent of insurance. The latter two sought review of their contempt convictions and twoyear prison sentences in connection with settlement of a $10,000,000 Are insurance rate controversy. Leche appealed his conviction on a charge of mail fraud in an alleged.
scheme to defraud the Louisiana highway commission by purchasing trucks at exorbitant prices. SUGGESTS F. R. CALL CONGRESS OF PEACE Chicago, Oct. 12 (AP) John Cudahy, former United States embassador to Poland and Belgium, today proposed that President Rooseissue "to all the nations of the including the warring powers, an invitation to attend a congress of peace." Speaking on the Northwestern university reviewing stand, Cudaby, an opponent of American involvement in is the great power of the world toda7.
the European war, said "Our A country the only power at peace, and my thought was to use our prestige and power 'in the interest of primarlly to avert- our entrance into the war." "The moral pressure that would be brought to bear on Hitler would absolutely compel him to entertain this proposal," Cudahy. declared. San Bernardino, Oct. 14-(AP) -Counsel for Mae West said today she would file suit in Los Angeles to divorce Frank Wallace, whom she in Milwaukee in 1911. Wallace recently lost suit here for $1000 monthly separate maintenance.
Miss West had sought to Ale her divorce action as an answer, but Judge Charles L. Allison ruled that because the actress lives' in Hollywoode the suit. should be Ailed in Los Angeles county, MAE WEST TO FILE SUIT FOR DIVORCE L. i. News of the Colleges GUS KAHN DIES 'AT 51 One of Best- Known American Song Writers Beverly Hills, Gus Kahn, 54, one of America's bestknown song writers, died of a attack today.
With Walter Donaldson, Kahn turned out some of Tin Pan alley's best-known popular compositions before he came to Hollywood eight years ago to compose for the his movies. widow, Surviving Kahn are a daughter, Irene, and a son, Kahn was born: in Germany, came to the United States when he was four years old. is. HELEN MORGAN DIES: IN CHICAGO; FAMED AS TORCH SINGER Star of Ziegfeld's 'Show Boat' and 'Follies' and Night Club Favorite Fails to Rally After Operation Chicago, Oct. 8-(AP) -Helen Morgan, the torch singer who rose to fame during the Ziegfeld era, died tonight in Henrotin hospital after an Illness of three weeks.
Miss Morgan, who was 41, been in critical condition for the pasteseveral days following an operation for removal of her spleen. She received many blood transfusions, both before and after the operation. Sho was stricken last month upon coming here to appear in a Loop theater, and was forced to cancel the engagement and enter the hospital. Her second husband, Lloyd Johnson, whom she: married last July 27, and her mother, Mrs Lulu Morgan of High Falls, N. had been at her bedside constantly for: the past sevdays when physicians gave up hone for her Second only to the late Texas Guinan, Helen Morgan used her sad eyes and tearful voice to make her one of the top flight queens of Broadway night life during that bombastic era when speakeasies were flourishing during the prohibition years in 'New York.
Audience Weep Born in Danville, in .1900 she went to the Crane high school In Chicago and from there to the Metropolitan Opera school to study singing. Her voice did not develop strongly. but it had a lachrymose quality that made her audience weep sentimentally when she sang torch songs. Too, she usually sat atop a piano or on the edge of the stage with her graceful legs hanging across the footlights when she sang. She was married to Maurice Mas.
chke, a Cleveland lawyer, whom she divorced in 1935, and she was mar-1 ried a second time in Miami Beach, to Lloyd Johnson, a wealthy Los Angeles automobile dealer. Miss Morgan made her first hit on Broadway In 1926 when she appeared in the musical revue, "Americana," and she followed this with an even more sensational performance as the original Julie in the Flo Ziegfeld production of "Show Boat" when she sang "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine." For three years she played in "Show Boat," with the exception of several leaves of absence she took to appear in motion pictures and night clubs. She also had leading roles in "The Ziegfeld Follies," "George White Scandals," "Sweet Adeline" and other musicals. Despite success as a singer, she long had the ambition to be a serious dramatic actress and sometimes attempted such roles in obscure experimental theaters name of Nagrom, her own where she always played under the named spelled backwards. Figured in Raid Miss Morgan also figured in one of the most exciting raids by dry agents during the prohibition era.
The luxurious Helen Morgan club, only a few steps from the Broadway theatrical district, was raided after midnight in 1927, and 350 guests were held for three hours for questionines while the agents seized a of liquor and proceeded to wreck the club with aves. She was later acquitted of a charge of maintaining a nuisance in a night club and the dry agents were ordered to pay for the damage they did: to the club. was the first major victory of the opponents of prohibition in their campaign to bring about repeal. 1: NONSMOKERS' LEAGUE LEADER DIES AT 86 New York, Oct. 8 (AP) Charles Giffin Pease, 86.
founder and president of the Nonsmokers' Protective League America, and a lifelong crusader against tobacco, coffee, tea. chocolate. meat. liquor, condiments and medicaments, died yesterday in his apartment. He began his campaign against what he regarded as noxious influences at the age of 12 when he pushed a cup of coffee away from the breakfast table and' lectured his mother on the virtues of cold water.
He smoked for a week when he was to abolish the tobacco industry. 17, then launched his one drive After acquiring a medical and dental education somewhat late in life, Dr Pease wrote dozens of pamphlets delivered countless lectures callling for teetotalism, vegetarianism and asceticism. TRICK BICYCLE RIDER DIES OF HEART ATTACK New York, Oct. -(AP)-Ten minutes after Sam Barton, 46, had exhibited his trick bicycle riding on ice for the time, he died of a heart attack dressing room in the Center theater. Barton, a comedian, was performing as a member of the cast of "It Happened On Ice," and his act drew enthusiastic applause.
FORMER N. Y. WRITER 5. DIES IN R. A.
F. CRASH New York, Oct. 13-(INS)-Peter L. Davies. former.
sports writer for the New York Daily Mirror, died in an airplane: crash. Sunday at Cranwell, England, it was learned today. Davies, 28, was an R. A. F.
fledgling in training for his wings. He served on the staff of the London Daily Star before he volunteered for service. CHARLES I. KAGEY Wichita, Oct. 13 (AP) Charles L.
Kagey, 64, Wichita attorney and United, States minister to Finland in the Hardier administration, died today. He was vice-president of the American Bar association in 1921-22. DIES AT 103 Strafford, N. Oct. 10 (AP) Mrg Mary J.
Cummings, one of New Hampshire's oldest residents, died today in her 103d year. 53 SAYS AMERICA FIRST MET HOUSING ISSUE Expert John Coolidge Hits View Housing Is an End in Itself Northampton, Oct. 18-Lay-cost housing is an American achievement of very long standing," said John Coolidge, housing expert, speaking today in Graham hall at Smith college. Mr Coolidge emphasized that America was the first country to face social implications of the industrial revolution in organizing large-scale housing projects in New England mill towns in 19th century. Due: to the scarcity of labor and the need of drawing on the farms as their source, it was necessary to offer advantages and enticements to workers, he said, and for this reason, new industrial cities were built.
following the principles of Frances Cabot Lowell, who had developed the first I conception a mill town: 4. Mr Coolidge, using the city of Lowell as an example, pointed out the openness of the planning and stressed the adequate sanitary facilities as well as the superior quality of the buildings, most: which were gabled boxes. the provision for the mill workers, he continued, there was no provision for day laborers, who lived in "miserable hovels on some otherwise useless piece of ground." Since this applied to only per cent of the population, Mr Coolidge said, they were important merely as symbols of the "social callousness" which has allowed the breakdown of the and the development of slums, toxich prevail today in industrial cities. "Although these communities are all washed-up Utopias. I don't feel that they deserve this neglect," he continued, for they solved housing problem, differing from the present conception of housing as a reward and an end in itself.
Sir Coolidge, in berating attitude toward housing existent today, said, "Housing is not an end in itself, but the precondition for attaining a higher, Intangible social ideal." COLBY JUNIOR COLLEGE TO WELCOME PARENTS New London, N. Oct. 10-The 15th annual "parents' weekend" at Colby Junior college will open tomorrow. This event, for which 400 guests are expected on campus, provides opportunity for parents and. friends to visit classes In session, meet informally with the members of the faculty, and discuss the college's with Dr H.
Leslie Sawyer, president, and Dean Amelia E. Clark. Airs Frederick D. Davis of 425 Sumner avenue, Springfield. will visit her daughter, Clarisse, who entered Colby in September and sings in the chapel choir which will present special music at the morning services Sunday in the New London church and at the regular chapel services Monday.
Miss Jean R. Wackerbarth and Miss Marjorie Campbell whose parents, Mr and Mrs Fred B. Wackerbarth Granby road, Granville, and Mr and Mrs Gilbert MI. Campbell of 203 Fort Pleasant avenue, Springfield, will attend, are both the Boot and Saddle horse show Saturday afternoon, one of the traditional teatures of parents' weekend. i.
Classes will be open for parents day. golf tournament for fathers Saturday a morning and all day Monand daughters at the Lake Sunapee golf course and a "dads and daughters" softball game have also been planned for 'Saturday along with the horse show. A "family supper" for the entire college community and guests Saturday, evening will be followed by an informal reception at which parents will have to meet and talk with their daughters' instructors. Colby's academic policies and future plans of development will be discussed at an open meeting for parents Sunday with Dr Sawyer and Dean Clark presiding. BAN ON STUDENT CARS IS MODIFIED Amherst, Oct.
13-Amherst students, who sincel the beginning of the school year have been forbidden the use of automobiles, in keeping with the gas shortage cited by Mr Ickes, now will be able to have cars on two of the seven days of the week, an experiment intil: Christmas. This plan, as announced by President Stanley King this morning in chapel, was developed: by the Student council as a means of assuring transportation over weekends, while at the saine time keeping gas consumption to a minimum. The plan is to be under the supervision of the Student council and is to include the provision that cars are to kept behind fraternity houses, unused, from Monday to Saturday morning. On Saturdays and Sundays, they may be used to. bring girls, mainly from South Hadley and Northampton, home games and dances.
but are to be kept off the campus and unused during the week. U. S. LOSES AGAIN 3 IN ALCOA BATTLE New York, Oct. 8-(AP) -The lost the second round in its three-point antitrust battle with the Aluminum Company of America today when Federal Judge Francis G.
Caffey rejected evidence of conspiracy. His ruling that the government failed to establish any conspiracy between Alcoa and Aluminum, or any of 48 codefendants followed by two days his similar opinion against the government's monopoly charge. WOULD ADMIT ACTING. A AS COUNSEL FOR NAZIS Washington, Oct. 13-(AP) -Frank B.
Burch, Akron (O.) attorney, offeed today to plead guilty to, an Indictment charging failure register under the foreign agents registration act. but Justice James W. MorHis declined to accept the plea, then postponed the case for a day to permit government counsel to furnish additional information. "I wish," said Burch in federal district court, "to enter a plea of guilty, except at no time I think I was using German money." He said he was 67 and felt he could not stand the strain of a a The indictment charged that In the last year and a half Burch acted as a public relations counsel of the German government in the United States. It also charged that Burch, acting at the direction of Karl Kapp, purchased about $10,000 worth books, distributed throughout the United pamphlets and or periodicals which he I States.
3 3 CONFERENCE DROPS GEORGIA UNIVERSITY FROM MEMBERSHIP Unanimous Action Based On Grounds Removal of co*cking 'Clear Case of Political Interference GRAFF BALLET GIVEN Birmingham, Oct. 13-(AP)The Southern University conference, charging removal of Dean Walter D. co*cking of the University of Georgia, constituted clear case of political interference," voted unanimously to-. day to drop the school from its ranks. The conference, meating in executive session.
approved an executive committee report stating. that ing, dean of the college of education, was "dismissed from his position without due and reasonable notice and upon charges which are not substantiated." The Georgia board of regents, vamped by Gov Eugene Talmadge, voted dismiss co*cking this summer. Gov. Talmadge charged he had advocated racial coeducation: Practically all of the South's major colleges are members of the Southern University conference. Some educators had expressed the belief that action by the Southern University.
conference would influence later action Colleges by the Southern Association of- of and Secondary. Schools, ficial accrediting agency. The Southern conference power only to remove the university from its ranks but. the association could drop the school from its accredited list. A WARM RECEPTION First Performance of Kind in Williamstown in Very Many Years 3 Williamstown, Oct.
14-A. near capacity audience enthusiastically received the Graff ballet in the initial presentation of the fall season in Williams college's new a a a Adams Memorial theater. Appearing in Williamstown for the first time, the troupe kept the audience fascinated during the complete repertoire. Most of the solo parts were done by Grace and Kurt Graff, whose dancing have made them internationally: famous in the ballet. Lively music and colorful costumes in "Vintage 1912" this dance the most outstanding of the evening.
Sponsored by the Adams theater company, the of its kind in many years Graff ballet is the first performance. The program was as follows: "Fanfare," "Garden Party," "Dance of Peace," "Ode to the Living," "Vintage 1912," "Romance" and "Singing Earth." NUTRITION AND DEFENSE CONFERENCE 17TH, 18TH COLLEGE LIBRARY HAS 232,286 VOLUMES Amherst, Oct. 12-Nutrition and tional defense will be the theme of held at "refresher Massachusetts conference" State to college be 17th and 18th, it was announced today by Prof Edna L. Skinof the State college division of home economics. 4.: Invitations have been sent to some 400 Bay state home economists and nutrition experts.
The sessions are sponsored by the college, the women's division of Massachusetts civilian defense, the Connecticut Valley Home Economics association and the State Nutrition Parmenter of Amherst, head of Speakers will include Mrs Robert: region two section of the women's division of the state civilian defense; Dr Elda Robb, director of home economics at Simmons college, Boston; Miss Melva Bakkie, nutrition sultant of the American Red Cross. Washington, D. Mrs Charles Foster, in charge of canteens, Springfield Red Cross; and Miss Lillian Gazarian of the community health association at Boston. State: members of the college also will discuss recent developments in nutrition and food technology. Amherst, 12-The annual report of the Amherst college library.
director, Prof, Newton F. McKeon, released today states that the total number of volumes in the book collection at the end of the year 1940-11 totaled 232,286, an increase of 5811 volumes over the previous year. Of. those added 4558 were by purchase and 1358 by gift. Not included in this last number are two of the most consequential gifts received during the year.
These are a collection of books on lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), presented by. Mrs Charles M. Pratt, and. a collection illustrative of the' history of Greek letter typography presented by Prof Harry deForest Smith, director emeritus of the libraru The total amount expended for 11- brary. Improvements, books and periodicals, was $18,309.71.
A 3 INTERNATIONAL CHAMP IS TEACHING ARCHERY. South Hadley, Oct. 13-Mrs Myrtle Miller, holder of the international championship in archery for a number of years and director of the Teeln-: Wooket professional school of archery in Roxbury, is on the Mount Holyoke campus today and will remain through tomorrow to hold spe-, cial classes for beginner and advanced archers. She will go from Mount Holyoke to Smith college Wednesday. Miss Joan De Mott, '43.
of Oradell, N. placed fifth in a lineup of 43. archers competing In the archery play: day held the University of Con-: necticut at Storrs Saturday. The event, entirely competitive, featured; the indoor. Columbia round of 40 and 30-yard shoots.
Jackson college. New Ilaven State. college, University of Connecticut and Mount Holyoke bowmen took part in the competition. RED GRANGE MARRIES AIRLINE STEWARDESS Chicago, Oct. 13 (AP) Harold Grange, the Immortal Galloping Ghost of Illinois 1923-24-25 football teams, and Miss Margaret Hazelberg of Sagola, were married today at the Crown Point (Ind.) courthouse.
Miss Hazelberg, a stewardess with United Airlines the past two years, is the daughter of Mfr and Mrs K. T. Hazelberg of Sagola. Grange met his bride while flying to Des Moines, on 8 business trip a year ago. Grange now is employed in on executive capacity by a Chicago bottling company.
4. A A 3 de 1: 42 3 4 examination at Yale university, but that the board believed he desired postponement for a year. The board denied this, however, and said Feidelson clearly had asked for deferment through June, 1942. Beach Chenoweth, board chairman, said Feldelson had been sent A. copy of the order and added: "It he doesn't show up Thursday, steps prescribed by law shall be taken to make him show up." Feidelson's examination date at Yale was moved up in order to allow him to be inducted on time, Hershey said.
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