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Mistrial Ruling in Hines Case
May Be Setback for Dewey
—By Joseph W. La Bine
New York
Long before a racket conspiracy
charge was placed against Tamma-
nyman James J. Hines, New York’s
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
was mentioned as a potential G. O. P.
gubernatorial nominee, even as a
1940 presidential possibility. By the
time the state finished presenting
evidence in Jimmy Hines’ trial,
Tom Dewey’s political importance
was pretty well settled. So certain
Was this importance that observers
tried to find political significance in
repeated clashes between the dis
trict attorney and Justice Ferdinand
Pecora.
Of'one thing they could be sure:
Justice Pecora’s political back
ground was the antithesis of Tom
Dewey’s. One-time assistant district
DISTRICT ATTORNEY DEWEY
He tripped over the poultry.
attorney under Tammany regimes,
later a New Deal district attorney
candidate, still later a member of
the securities exchange commission,
Ferdinand Pecora had a thoroughly
un-Republican background before he
was named to New York’s Supreme
court in 1935.
Political or otherwise, Justice Pe
cora has found cause- to sit em
phatically and repeatedly on the vig
orous young district attorney. Once,
when Mr. Dewey pouted that he
was being treated like an “inter
loper in the courtroom,’* the justice
shot back that he resented the re
mark. By the time he was through
presenting evidence, the 36-year-old
racket smasher could rest assured
he had built a good case, though his
courtroom conduct had sometimes
been irregular.
As the defense began its case, two
abrupt developments threatened
Tom Dewey’s attempt to convict
Jimmy Hines of conspiracy in Ar
thur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flegen-
heimer’s policy racket. First, De
fense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker
asked that the case be thrown out
on grounds of insufficient evidence,
but Justice Pecora denied the mo
tion after a day’s consideration.
Few minutes later, the district at
torney began cross-examining At
torney Lyon Boston, who made an
admittedly half-hearted, youthful in
vestigation of Jimmy Hines while
an assistant under William C.
Dodge, Dewey’s predecessor. Un
der discussion was William Fel-
lowes Morgan, commissioner of
markets, who testified regarding the
poultry racket before New York’s
famed “runaway” grand jury in
1935.
Asked Dewey: “Don’t you re
member any testimony about Hines
and the poultry racket there (be
fore the grand jury) by him?”
“One moment!” boomed Defense
Attorney Stryker. “I move for a
mistrial.”
The defense contended Tom Dew
ey had made unfair reference to
grand jury testimony about a pos
sible criminal matter with which
Jimmy Hines was pot charged.
Though the prosecution claimed At
torney Stryker had opened the sub
ject, Justice Pecora thought other
wise. Two days he pondered the
mistrial motion. Then, to a tense
courtroom, he read a two-hour opin
ion upholding the defense. Result:
One juror was ordered withdrawn
and the state’s laboriously built case
was thrown out.
Next day, Manhattan wondered
whether Tom Dewey’s defeat would
cost him a chance to be New York’s
governor. A more pertinent ques
tion was whether he wanted the job.
Biggest worry of Empire state Re
publicans who would run him for
governor is that no one knows
how he stands on labor, utilities, so
cial security, relief, civil liberties
or budget-balancing. But all-impor
tant to voters is the district attor
ney’s record of law enforcement.
So greatly is he feared that Frank
lin Roosevelt is willing to support
Gov. Herbert Lehman for re-elec
tion despite the governor’s opposi
tion to NeW Deal reform measures.
Foreign
The fact that he became a grand
father for the second time was only
one reason why British Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain felt old.
To offset a London Times editorial
urging German annexation pf
Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten popula
tion, the prime minister had to
speak louder than usual. Lest Adolf
Hitler think Britain was capitulat
ing, lest France think Britain had
deserted her in the hour of need, he
told Ambassador Nevile Henderson
to give Der Fuehrer another warn
ing for good measure. The warn
ing: That Britain means business in
demanding Czechoslovakia’s preser
vation.
Thus, armed with latest Czech
concession offers, watched by pro-
Czech allies that included Britain,
France, Russia and Rumania, Adolf
Hitler strode on the stage at Nur
emberg’s Nazi congress to speak his
mind on the subject as he had never
spoken it before.
His points: (1) That, if they can
not defend themselves, Sudetens
will “receive help from us”; (2)
that Czech President Edouard
Benes spread false rumors of Ger
man troop movements during re
cent Czech municipal elections,
thereby practicing intimidation; (3)
that, though Germany wants peace
with European democracies, noth
ing can prevent her from assuring
self determination for Sudetens.
Actually, Der Fuehrer’s only new
assertion pertained to Sudeten “self
determination.” Did this mean he
favored a plebiscite? That night, as
Europe pondered his words, the
consensus said yes. Did his speech
carry a dangerous threat of war?
Most observers thought not, though
jittery France had rushed so many
troops to her German border that
it might be almost embarrassing to
withdraw them.
Politics
In Maryland, Democrats could
choose one of three nominees for
the U. S. senate.
Senator Millard E. Tydings, whom
Franklin Roosevelt wanted removed
because his New Deal batting" aver
age is only .292. By record a polit
ical opportunist, Senator Tydings
was once a ragged boy on the docks
of Havre de Grace, rising to Mary
land’s house of delegates at the age
of 23. His helper was Murray Van
diver, state Democratic chairman
who helped him through school,
guided him into politics, was later
unseated from Maryland’s treasury-
ship with Protege Tydings’ aid. A
distinguished war veteran, he rose
to congress with the help of Vandi
ver’s enemies, was boosted into the
senate as compromise candidate by
Gov. Albert C. Richie and Frank
Furse. His favorable New Deal
votes: Miller-Tydings price control
act on trademarked goods, SEC,
neutrality and “pump priming.” His
handsome wife of two years is the
daughter of Belgium Ambassador
Joseph Davies.
Rep. David J. Lewis, whose elec
tion Franklin Roosevelt urged in a
Labor day speech at Denton, Md.,
since he has been a faithful New
Dealer. David Lewis dug coal in
Pennsylvania when nine years old,
studied law at night, finally began
practicing at Cumberland. In con
gress since 1911, he has fostered
parcel post, social security and
woipunen’s compensation. During
the World war he handled tele
phones and telegraph. He fought
the bonus, as did Veteran Tydings.
Arthur E. Hungerford, New Deal
er whom the New Deal ignored, who
closed his campaign by charging
“there should be a grand jury and
a federal investigation of the meth
ods used.”
- On election’s eve, PWA Adminis
trator Harold Ickes spoke encour
agingly of two proposed bridges
over Maryland’s Potomac and Sus
quehanna rivers. Anti-New Dealers
charged Franklin Roosevelt was
buying votes. Same day, the sen
ate’s campaign expenditures inves
tigating committee found M. Hamp
ton Magruder, Baltimore’s internal
revenue collector;’ had attempted to
coerce non-civil service workers
into voting for David Lewis. Thus
closed the most heated campaign in
Maryland’s history.
By the time Maryland’s first votes
were counted next evening, Millard
Tydings’ nomination was certain,
though more than one unprejudiced
observer mourned the defeat of a
great liberal, David Lewis. For gov
ernor, Democrats nominated Attor
ney Gen. Herbert R. O’Connor.
Meanwhile, Republicans chose Os
car Lesser and Gov. Harry W. Nice
for senator, governor, respectively.
• Nothing is more embarrassing to
a politician than unwanted support.
Hanging to the coat-tails of Maine’s
three Republican congressmen,
Clyde Smith, James Oliver and
Ralph Brewster, have been the Pine
Tree state’s Townsend pensioneers,
providing a juicy topic of speech
making for their Democratic oppo
nents. Principals in the race that
until 1936 was said to forecast
America’s political future (“As
Maine goes, so goes the nation”)
have been Republican Gov. Lewis
O. Barrows, seeking re-election, and
ex-Gov. Louis M. Brann, seeking a
third term. Maine’s political visi
tors included Republican Chairman
John D. M. Hamilton, Democratic
Chairman James A. Farley. Add
ing a touch of color, Candidate
Brann brought Crooner Rudy Val-
lee back to his home state, had
him sing Maine’s" “Stein Song.” If
the nation goes as Maine goes, next
November’s elections will go Re
publican, for despite Rudy Vallee,
despite Townsendism, the G. O. P.
elected a governor and three coi»
gressmen.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
' By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XTEW YORK.—In 1918, the Bolshe-
viks were fixing to shoot Maj.
Alexander -P. de Seversky, but he
persuaded them to let him go to
„ . i America so he
Seversky Gets could g e t a new
A Wealth of wooden leg. He
Things Here al /° a beau -
tiful wife, a $5,-
000,000 airplane factory, and a lot
of flying records, culminating in his
new east-west transcontinental rec
ord of 10 hours and 3 minutes, from
New York to Los Angeles.
Flying for Imperial Russia in the
World war, he engaged in more
than 100 dogfights with the Germans
and dropped 13 of them. But one
day they dropped him—into the Bal
tic. A forty-pound bomb, which he
had failed to release, exploded as
the ship struck the water, and blew
it to bits.
Recovering consciousness lat
er, he discovered that, witless
as he was, he had been clinging
to a pontoon. The water was red
around him. Shifting his good
leg over the pontoon, he made a
torniquet of his torn trouser leg.
He swooned again, as a Russian
destroyer picked him up. He
crow-hopped the Chinese border
on his wooden leg, as a stupid
border guard refused to recog
nize his papers.
Washington received him hospita
bly, in April, 1918, and made him
a consulting engineer for the army
air service. He later experienced
some rough going, but the only real
crack-up in his career was encom
passed in that drop into the Baltic.
He was steadily on the uptake, de
signing planes, flying and bringing
through his factory. In 1933, he
designed and built an amphibian
plane which made a record of 177.79
miles per hour. Trained in the Im
perial Naval academy, he has con
tributed greatly to aviation engi
neering and design.
Several years ago, using an alarm
clock and few electrical odds and
ends, he made a waltzing plane,
swaying rhythmically with band
music from below. His waltzing
days were over and he found this
a satisfactory substitute.
• • •
CIMON LAKE, the inventor of the
^ submarine, 72 years old, hopes
some day to get an under-sea peek
at the sunken continent of Atlantis.
_ , . In a mid-town ho-
Uut to tel ^ New Y ork,
Redeem the he is up to his
Submarine kn . eas “ Re
prints of subma
rine adaptations and gadgets which
he hopes will be found useful by the
deep sea boulevardier. His father
is 91; his grandfather lived to the
age of 96 and his sister to 102. Al
though his once red hair is white, he
thinks he is just now getting his
start in life.
His 25 basic patents alone made
the submarine possible. Like many,
possibly most, inventors, he could
devise a scheme for almost any
thing except getting what was com
ing to him. So, in his genial, casual
way, he is broke.
Reading Jules Verne, when he
was 10 years old, led him to capsize
a rowboat on the Toms river in
New Jersey and test his staying
powers in the submerged air cham
ber. In 1894, he made a wooden
submarine 14 feet long, with a soda
water tank supplying compressed
air. It worked nicely. In 1894, he
made the Argonaut, Jr., in which
he cruised under the water for thou
sands of miles on Chesapeake bay.
Like the Wright brothers, he
aroused little attention. He final
ly got Washington interested
when he telephoned to the capi-
tol from the bottom of the sea.
His working submarine came
through. Washington didn’t
seem to care much what he did,
so he took his invention to for
eign capitols. Czarist Russia
made him some impressive of
fers but he decided they were a
dissolute lot and, as a self-re
specting American business
man, he wouldn’t have anything
to do with them.
All in all, he became fed up with
bureaucrats and red tape and gov
ernments in general and turned to
deep sea treasure hunts. The sub
marines, of course, destroyed much
more treasure than they ever
dredged up. This troubles him. Vig-
orous and energetic, with a wrin
kled, knobby weather-beaten face,
genial and friendly, he plugs along
alone in his hotel to redeem the
submarine by making it a general
cargo and passenger carrier.
© Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
The Letter Writers
The average Englishman writes
78 letters a year; an American
writes 67; a New Zealander, 66;
Swiss, 60; German, 56; Dane, 46;
Austrian, 38; Dutchman, 34; Swede,
26; Frenchman, 26; Norwegian, 20,
Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese
write less than 20 letters a year.
Plaids, Stripes and Prints
Radiant With Fall Colors
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
A N EPIDEMIC of plaids is grip-
ping the entire fashion world.
It matters not whether you are a
grown-up or a juvenile, or a junior
or a between-age, you will never
be able to remain immune to the
wiles and winning ways of the gor
geous plaids that have come out in
such brilliant array at the dawn of
this new fall season. For that mat
ter who wants to if they could re
sist the witchery of anything so in
triguing as are the new plaids. So
if you would be fashion-wise enter
into the spirit of the current mode
and “go in” for plaids with a will.
It certainly is an exciting story
that the new plaids are telling. The
plot carries on and on in efidless
variety via costume suits that are
smartly tailored of glorified plaids
and as to the separate skirts that
are fashioned of plaid you couldn’t
keep count of their vast number if
you tried. Then there are the cun
ning flattering shirtmaker dresses,
the skirts of which radiate tucks or
pleats from a slim waistline. Al
most invariably the sleeves of these
youthful frocks are short in defiance
of most fashion reports that tore-
cast “long sleeves for fall and win
ter.”
The separate plaid jacket that is
tailored to a nicety is also an im
portant item and as for the plaid
blouse, it’s the rage whether in fine
wool weave, or’a synthetic material
such as rayon or it may be of taf
feta. Nor does the present plaid
craze stop at the costume proper,
but it carries on full force into the
accessory area. With your sweater
and plaid skirt if you play the game
of fashion as it should be played on
campus and in spectator sports*
womanship at the gridiron series,
you’ll see to it that your costume is
completed with a jaunty cap and
bag of matching plaid.
In the illustration we are showing
a plaid, a stripe and a gay print
school-girl model. These fetching
fashions had their initial showing at
a prevue showing of fall styles re
cently presented at the Merchandise
Mart in Chicago.
Off to school is the young miss to
the left in a clever Scotch costume.
The skirt is a red and black plaid,
with a matching Scotch cap and
purse. The sweater is also red.
“The Barber of Seville” is the ap
propriate name given to the gaily
striped wool afternoon dress cen
tered in the picture. The skirt is
pleated and the new longer-than-
formerly-shown jacket is striped in
jungle green and dregs of wine
(much exploited color this season)
A green ascot tie completes the
dress.
The peasant dress still dominates
in dresses for the young for fall, as
the model illustrated to the right
portrays. The dress is navy blue
broadcloth with splashy yellow and
red flowers, over which is worn a
brilliant front-laced peasant bodice.
The Scotch plaid dress pictured in
the inset below is typical of present-
day trends in wear-to-school fash
ions.
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^ A General Quiz
The Questions
1. How many kinds of twins are
there?
2. How many words are there in
the Bible?
3. What is the deepest hole in
the world?
4. Can the Panama canal ac
commodate the largest ships
afloat?
5. In French history what was a
dauphin?
6. How many teams in the ma
jor leagues have never won a
pennant?
7. What is the difference be
tween a majority and a plurality?
The Answers
1. Three—identical, unlike and
SI H1T16S6
" 2. The Bible has 3,566,480 letters
forming 773,746 words in 31,173
verses arranged in 1,189 chapters.
3. It is the Continental Oil com
pany’s K. C. L. A-2, which is 15,004
feet deep, or nearly three miles.
The well is four miles west of
Wasco in the San Joaquin valley.
4. No. The S. S. Normandie and
the S. S. Queen Mary are too long
for the lock chambers.
5. The oldest son of the king of
France. After the revolution oik
1830 the title was abolished.
6. Only one, the St. Louis
Browns.
7. A candidate receiving more
votes than any other receives a
plurality; one receiving more
votes than all the other contest
ants combined—more than half of
all the votes cast—receives a ma
jority.
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Add to creamed mixture alter
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Beat 3 egg whites until stiff. Grad
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Icing for Cake.
To 4 tablespoons butter, add 1
cup powdered sugar, and cream.
Add % teaspoon vanilla and 1%
squares melted chocolate. Add an
other cup powdered sugar. Beat
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honey until frosting will spread
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Bi-Cblor Suede
Autumn Costumes
Suede gains in style importance.
Now that this supple beautifully
colorful medium is being worked
just like fabric, the fashion-
minded are calling for it increas
ingly each season. Here, as pic
tured, an oriole orange suede
jacket is worn by Gloria Stuart of
cinema renown, over a simple
one-piece dress of paradise blue
suede. Short sleeves and a sail
or collar give the frock a youthful
look. The blue suede cap is ideal
for informal knockabout wear.
Favor Boxy Coats
Although the edict of finger-tip
length jackets is general for first
autumn suits, several French de
signers are defying this rule by in
troducing short, boxy ones to wear
with contrasting dresses.
One of these brief coats is little
more than waistline length and
flares in all directions. Its roomy
shoulder line and wide sleeves con
tribute to the carefree impression.
Some striking color combinations
are achieved with these jackets of
light weight wool worn over wool
dresses. Since mauve and violet
tones continue to be popular they
are being used extensively, often in
alliance with blue or dark red.
The suit which has a jacket re
sembling an overblouse or a brief
tunic is the one which designers
regard with favor and which looks
so much like a dress that it may be
worn during cold weather under a
fur coat.
Place for Watch
The new place for the watch, in
stead of hanging as a pendant on
the tailleur lapel, is with the vanity
and cigarette case, according to
Lancel, stylist. The case comes in
different shades of enamel and gold
and silver, modeled in an oblong.
New Bonnets Appear
Little lingerie baby bonnets, often
with a sophisticated nose veil, are
the latest millinery conceit. They
are not worn as dinner or evening
hats, but to complete day costumes.
Monogram Shoes
Monogram shoes are the latest
attention to the “personality” fads
that increase in popularity with the
seasons.
America in Print
A composite picture of modern
America is featured on a print
made into a simple evening dress.
Queen of Color
Pale pink is on the way to be thf
current queen of color.
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