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Iv F'- T 1/ f W ClltNT EVENTS PISS IN REVIEW JOHN DILLINGER It KILLED IN CH 1C AGO—BA K E R REPORT ON ARMY AIR CORPS By EDWARD W. PICKARD C by WMUrn Nawapapar Unlan. murdeferrbanir •J robber, outlaw and moat notorious of America’a modern desperadoes. Is dead. Traced to Chicago, be ventured a visit to a moving picture theater to see a film of the life of a man who ended In the electric chair. As he calne out of the thea ter federal agents and a police squad from East Chicago, Indiana, surrounded him. He drew his pistol and was Instantly shot to death. Melvin H. Pur vis, chief of the Inves- tTgallng forces of thw John -BIHinger Department of Justice in Chicago, led Ms men in this ftnnl and successful ef fort to get Dilllnger, dead or allv'j. The outlaw had sought to disguise himself by having his face lifted and his hair dyed and by growing a short mustache. His finger lips, also, had been treated with acid. His Identification, however, was Immediate and certain. It was credibly reported that a wotn- an bad given the tip that resulted In the killing of Dilllnger, hut naturally, her name was not made public, for five members of his gang are still at large and might be expected to avenge their leader. The Informant Is due to re ceive at least a considerable share of the rewards offered by the govern ments of the United States, Indiana and Minnesota for Information leading to the capture or death of Dilllnger. These rewards total •>18.000, Attorney General Cummings In Washington was elated by the news of Dllllnger’s death. He warmly praised the work of Mr. Purvis and his men, who had devoted most of their time for four and a half months to the elimination of the desperado. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the bu reau of Investigation, rushing to his office at word the desperado had been slain, told reporters: ‘This does not mean the end of the Dilllnger case. Anyone who ever gave any of the Dilllnger mob any aid, com fort, or assistance will be vigorously prosecuted." Three of the Dilllnger gang besloes the leader have been killed In battle with the law. Eight others are In pris on, two of them under sentence of death. of tha Middle West He allocated $15,- 000,000 from the (520,000,000 drouth relief fund for the beginning of work oo a $75,000,000 forest shelter belt a hundred mllesywlde and extending more than 1,000 miles through the heart of the drouth area from the Canadian border to the Texas Pain- handle. Announcetnent of the President’s ac tion and of the gigantic undertaking was made by Secretary Wallace, who authorised the forest service to as# up to $10,000,000 of the $15,000,000 al located to begin work on the project Immediately. v ~ The proJSct wITt Take ten yaira"fo complete and will embracers total of 20,000,000 acres, of which 1.820,000 acres will be actually planted to trees and will provide a hundred parallel windbreaks, or strips of trees, with a mile of farm land betweeff each two stripes. The hundred mile belt of trees will run through the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and well Into the Texas Pan handle, "as a means of ameliorating drouth conditions." Each of the hundred 'wlndbreblcs will be about seven rods wide, cover ing 14 acres of each square mile. It is alleged that more than 00 per cent of the cost of the project will go to farmers, largely for employment of labor for plowing, fencing, planting, and caring for the trees. A N ACTIVE campaign by the Na tional Economy league against further expansion of emergency spend ing by the federal government, on the ground that such spending will lead to excessive taxes or to printing press In flation, was announced. In Its annual report, made public by Henry H. Curran, director, following a meeting of the managing committee, the league also called attention to re cent "extraordinary" Increases In the personnel of the federal government as suggesting a tendency toward bu- resucracy. * The league will continue to work for a system which will place "the whole subject of veterans’ expenditure on a and a«wnd- haKls,’’. the report de- clared. The principal emphasis of the W ITH the collapse of the general strike In the Man Ersncisco area and the defeat of the radical element among the workers, the longshoremen at all porta of the Pacific coast were to submit to arbitration their differ ences with the ship owners. There was little doubt that the ballot would be In the affirmative, for the employ ers had agreed to arbitrate and at the same time had promised to bargain collectively with other maritime unions. In the San Francisco hay n*- glon there were 108 vessels In port and the work of loading and unloading these went on rapidly. In other re spects normal conditions there were restored. The "vigilante” bands con tinued their raids on Cominunlst hang onts and the police arrested a number of radicals. The hope that-the alien agitators captured can be deported was rather dashed by the attitude as sumed by Secretary of Labor Perkins In the matter of deportations. She Is waiting for the next congress to pass the leniency measure that would give her dictatorial power In these cases. became the labor riot center of the country, the striking truckmen there and the po lice engaging In bloody fights; and, as In San Francisco, much of the violence was attributed to Communist agitators. The striking drivers sought the stop page of all Industry but only the cab drivers Joined them. Gov. Floyd Ol- »on. who formerly was in. sympathy with the drivers’ onion, called about 4,000 of the National Guard to the city, and milk. Ice. beer and newspa per trucks moved without great diffi culty. Father Francis J. Haas and E. H. Dunnigan, federal labor conciliators, were working hard and hopefully and there was a prospect that they would bring the warring elements together In a peaceful settlement document reste<L however, on the sub ject of federal spending. The ref*ort called attention to esti mates that the national debt will reach $.74,000,000,000 by June 30 next year and stated that President Roosevelt’s announced plan for balancing the na tional budget In the fiscal year begin ning July 1. 1035, Is threatened by a trend toward “more borrowing and more spending." LJAVING given nearly three months to the study of the nation’s air de fense, the board headed by Newton D. Raker has submitted a report which calls for Immediate strengthening of the army air corps to meet "the most seri ous war threat against om country (hat can be conceived." The report says the army sir forces are de cidedly Inferior to American navy and civil units that lead S ENATOR WfLLTAtf O. McADOO of California was too fond of pol itics and travel to suit hit wife, whoso Interests were In sculpture, painting and home life. So the former Eleanor Wilson, daughter of the war-time President, went before a Judge to Los Angeles with her complaint and with in 42 minutes had been granted an In- terlocntory ^divorce decree. "Mental cruelty" was the charge, and Mrs. McAdoo testified that the senator bad been living almost'entlrely'ln Wash ington for two years, and that It was Impossible for her to reside In the Cnpltfll hennuw the there wgs Injurious to her health. Senator McAdoo did not contest the divorce, and there was a property set tlement the’details of which were not made public. The custody of the two children was vested In both parents. D AYS of torrential rain In the mountains of southern Poland re sulted in raging floods that poured through the valleys, drowning perhaps as many as three hundred persons. More than 55.000 were without fond and shelter. The property loss was tremendous, all the crops Just har vested being ruined. Many popular resorts crowded by summer vacationists were cut off. Eighty-three camps of Hoy and Girl Scouts were evacuated, after the youths expert enced- ha rrowlng -dlffleuU ties. Gendarmes saved 500 Scouts who were forced to climb trees fy safety. F OR several hours earthquakes shook all Panama and Costa Rica, but the Panama canal was unhurt The most serious damage was at David, Panama, not far from the Costa Rican border. There many buildings fell and scores of persons were Injured. Considerable losses were sustained also at Puerto Armuelles. the United Fruit compnay’s Pacific side banana headquarters: One American soldier was killed by Jump ing from, a. barracks. window at. Fort Davis. CONSTITUTIONALITY of the Bank- head cotton act Is to be tested la the federal courta. Gaston Therrell of Columbus. Miss., has served notice United States district court at Merid ian. directing It against Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, and Internal revenue and extension offi cials In the state charged with execu tion of the sot’s provisions. H OUSING conditions in the United States amply demonstrate the BRISBA THIS Who and WWre Are They? 1,000,000 Jumpers Hitler Keep# Hie Grip Baby Lama Is Found Clarence Darrow, most successful criminal lawyer, saya NR A' la led by amateurrthat flo not understand pollt-" leal economy. Who does understand political econ omy! Mr. Darrow rebukes the President for "falling to call In men versed In statesmanship." Who are those men In this country! Mr. Darrow should name them. You can do things, when you con trol a cotmtry absolutely, as Stalin controls Russia, with all money, earned by everybody, spent to carry out government plans. Having trained millions of young men and women In aerodynamics, as preparation for flying, the Russian government plana tn train one million parachute Jumpers, not ten thousand or a hundred thousand, but one mil- lion, by the end of this year. -. -f Russia does things In a big way. That Hitler still retains his power In Germany and bis grip on the Ger man Imagination Is shown in his latest relchstag speech. Hailed with frantic acclaim in the strecta of Berlin, loudly applauded by the subservient reichs- tag, with army and people under his thumb. It la difficult to see what can destroy his power short of a collapse In Germany’s economic resources. The plot that, according to his own state ment, Hitler punished with seventy- seven "traitors’" deaths, evidently did not have the people back of U. Thibetan Buddhists hare discovered the reincarnation of their late lament ed Dalai Luma.^ The last laima. ruling Thibet as that he will bring the stilt In the spiritual and temporal head from the need for new housing. Acting Secre tary Dickinson of the Commerce de partment said in making public re sults of a national "real property in ventory," now being conducted by the Commerce department Sixteen per cent of 1,811,482 dwell ings In 09 cities are In crowded condi tion "or worse," Mr. Dickinson said. An additional 1G.6 per cent are tn need of structural repairs and 44.7 per cent need minor repairs. The Incomplete returns show 32.442 houses, or 2.34 per cent of the total, as “unfit for human habitation." Newton D. Baker the world In strength and efficiency. The budget bureau and niggardly appn^trlatlons by congress are held to blame. Shortage of modem equipment, re sulting from the reduced appropria tions and stagnation Th promotion of army air officers, the board warned, has affected the morale of the.entire army. The report scoffed at reports the United States was vulnerable to air Invasion. It also opposed the unifi cation of army and navy klr forces under a separate national defense unit First giving assurance that Its recom mendations do not embrace a national 1 m»IIcy of aggression, the board pro posed : 1. A national aviation policy to be retained for a “reasonable” length of time. 2. Effectuation of the 1926 set which called for expansion of the army air corps to 2.320 planes with a larger ratio of combat units. 3. Steady program of procurement which would keep alive the nation's airplane building Industry. 4. Drastic changes In the air corps regulations which would Increase fly- Ing hours per pilot from 150 to 200 hours to 300 yearly; revisions in the promotion system for officers; Increased training in flying under dangerous con ditions and with instruments common N orth Dakota wa« in i rarcrur political chaos, with two men bat tling for the governorship and the con- A S PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT aboard the cruiser Houston was nearing Hawaii he took time to an nounce the membership of the na tional mediation board for the settle ment of railroad disputes. The men he appointed are: William Mr I^lserson, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for the term ending February,-1936. James W. Carmalt, Washington, D. CL, for the term ending February, 1936. John Carmody, now chief engineer of th# federal emergency relief adminis tration, for the term ending February, 1880. The President also named Murray Latimer chairman of the railroad retirement board, created by a recent act of congress. bn commercial planes. 5. Consolidation of the Joint agen cies of army and navy, such as the joint munitions board, the joint aeronautics board, etc., under the au thority of the army and navy board functioning as a superior board for both departments. 6. Purchase of smkll inexpensive commercial planes for tne In pilots In group night flying. 7. Continuation of experiments with small non-rigid airships as partial sub stitutes for observation balloons. 8. Increase of the air corps person nel by 403 officers. 8. More adequate provisions for ammunition and live bombs for train- lug. training Ols H. Olson trol of the state government and Na tional Guard. AVilll.ira H. Langer. according to a ruling of the state Supreme court, was n<> longer entitled to hold the office of governor because of his recent conviction on charges of con spiracy tn defraud the federal govern ment The court de creed that he must give up his office to Gov. Ole H. Olson. Langer defied tha court refused to .move out of office, summoned the National Guard to sup port him and called a special session of the legislature, which, it is alleged, he dominates. Olson countermanded these orders, and Adjt. Gen. Earle It. Sarles seemed to side with him, though he kept two companies of the National Guard on duty In Bismarck t» quell possible dis orders. It was reported that thou sands of farmers were on their way to the capital city determined to sup port Linger tn whatever action he might demand. It was believed the legislature ■ would rote wholesale 1m peachments of state officials, possibly including the members of the Supreme court, who voted to oust linger. linger and several co-defendants were convicted In June. The federal government charged that the I .anger group forced federal emloyees to con tribute to a political fund. Thlg fund. It was said, was collected supposedly for a newspaper. The government contended that the money eventually went Into the campaign chest Langer soon afterward was re-nominated by an overwhelming vote, and following this he was sentenced to 18 months In prison. J^ING GEORGE of England offl- cially opened the Mersey tnnnel connecting Liverpool and Birkenhead, the largest underwater highway of its kind In the world. More than half a mile longer than the Holland tnnnel JN AN executive order given out In Washington, the President set tn motion his great reforestation pro gram designed to help the plains area rrOURTEEN persons lost their lives Fin a spectacular tragedy at Ossin ing, N. Y. A bus carrying members of a Democratic young men’s organisa tion and their families to a baseball game at £lng Sing .prison got out of control and plunged nit a ramp over- railway tracks 85 feet down Into, a lumber yard. The gasoline tank ex ploded, the lumber caught fire and many of the victims were..burned to death. Twenty-three others were seri ously Injured. sey river stretches 11380 feet from the main entrance In Birkenhead. In addi tion to the main tunnel, which accom modates four vehicles abreast, there are two-lane tributaries connecting docks which give the whole undertak ing a length of 15,405 feet The engineers responsible for tha esign of the $35,500,000 tube, chief ng whom Is Sir Mott, eon- they owe much to the experience American engineers gained on the Hol land tunnel. ' •„ — crinwon and white palace of Lhasa, died last December. It then became the business of Buddhist priests to find a baby born at the exact minute of the Lama’s death. The baby must have certain marks on his head to prove that he Is the reincarnation of the dead man and contains his spirit. 7'he right baby with the right marks has been found tn a humble home far from Lhasa. A clever Buddhist priest will rule until the baby Lama reaches the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, the baby will be carefully looked after and highly honored. Unlike the ancient Buddhist rein carnations. he Is not expected to sit in the air without any support and deliver a sermon at birth. The wise merchant tells bis clerks: "The customer is always right/* James J. Pooling, new leader of Tam many hall, tells those under him, the entire human machinery of the blg- cest citi: ‘Tf nubile opinion Is against National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckaft Washington,-—Unless all signs fall stand by many of the Fight for country’s business In- LimitonNRA *>; * Uon on the provis ions of the national Industrial recov ery act when that question comes up tor congressional action next January Or February. An undercurrent of in formation, to the effect that -a move ment to that end is under way, has begun to seep into Washington In a growing volume. It Indicates that we will hear much about NRA during the coining campaigns. Indeed, some ob servers are convinced that President Roosevelt already is attempting to get the administration’s side of the story to the country by sending General Johnson, recovery administrator, out for a tonr of speechmaking to sell the Mae eagle to the country. The President, It will be remem bered, already has declared that NRA must be made a permanent part of our economic structure. I have found few persons who disagree with that There la a difference of views, however, and it is emphatic, as to the extent to which NRA should go in managing the country^ business on a permanent basis. It Is upon that question, there fore. that the battle apparently will be waged. From what I can pick up around here, it Is certain that a considerable portion of the business Interests Is de- slrous of a limitation on the recovery act provisions so that they will apply really Just to establishment of maxi mum hoars of labor and minimum wages, and to abolition of tbe sweat shop and elimination of child labor. cst cl iiythli anything there must be changes, be cause public opinion Is always right." Mr. Doollng as leader of Tammany Is very young, only forty-one. Tam many has always thought a leader should be over fifty. Croker and Mur phy were over fifty. Some 7'ainmany men leel that Mr. Doolihg is "too high ly eduented.** At Eordham rotfege, he- for ereating greater human happin***- studied law. Greek and Latin as as We have troubles In this country, but look at China. Her chief wheat regions are burning up under a tem perature as high as 115 degrees, many are dead, cholera Is killing others. Locusts In many places destroy what Intense heat and drouth have left of the crop."Widespread famine next whiter is Inevitable. Here, we manufacture our troubles. To unfortunate China, providence or nature sends them. They are determined tn their opposi tion to retention in the recovery act of provisions that give power to fix pricea, to control production and to grants of authority that bring private business hooka into the limelight when ever snooping government agents waul to dig into private affairs of Individ uals or corporations. Frankly. 1 think that feature has done more to discred It NRA than any other phase of the law under which It operates. On- the other band, only the meanest and cheapest of individuals can oppose any move that is designed to provide better working conditions and hours of labor for those who live by tbe sweat of their brow. While obviously none can foretell the result of this Issue at such an early date, the opinions that I gather among observers here make me be lieve that there Is qnlte a popular ap peal tn the argument which is being advanced for revision of the recovery set and limitation of NRA controL Folks generally will go along with prupiiBitInna.that work for beturment.- t0 rar gritOTSm OT tfiarrevgirTf but which do not at the same time In elude invasion of what they believe to be their |»ersonal rights. The admlnis tration contends, however, that exten sion of the recovery act powers—or at least, retention of the powers now ex istent In NRA—are not an invasion of personal rights beyond the necessity • Bertrand Russell says the British, ruling India, "act like Nazis." For the crime of desiring &lf-government, ac cording to Bertrand Russell, Hindus have been deprived of “the elementary liberties that make life toler$ You wonder when the Hindus pos sessed any such liberties, except, to a limited extent among Hliidus of the Tf;3»«R"~clS«r~TiS51vF •nMfrr horrible But the hard-headed business man, great or small. Is going to be hard to convince, it seems to me, that govern ment control to the extent ef fixing'his prices and doing some of the other things now permitted Is not an undue messing with his persona) affairs. The lessons of the four-year depres sion have been so severe that there Is little evidence of Important opposition to curtailment of hours of labor. Lika wise, sound business leaders cannot Justify opposition to minimum wages nor can they find a safe ground upon which to propose use of child labor or operation under sweat shop oondltiona Politically, therefore, labor will be In terested only in those four items; the women vote of the country probably will be Interested only In accomplish meat of those ends, and business in terests worthwhile will noLjobjecL • • • Attention was called above to the tonr which General Johnson is making -—-—— —-—la behatf af lh» Included the right to hafilct Injustice on the miserable outcast un touchables, also the rlghUto marry Johtuon Wants to Retiro blue eagle of the NRA. and ft will be recalled that little girls ten year* old and younger, and the right to have young widows burned alive wKh tbe corpses of their old husbands. The big telephone company til the first six months- of 1834 earned $61,- 999.000, net, after charges and federal taxes, which seems a good ileal of money. But It is only $3.32 a share on the company’s 18,662,275 sharea. of ■took. Prospects are Improving for tbe tele phones. however, and a net Income of $61,000,000 for six months is “some thing.” Mr. John Jacob Astor, Interesting youth of Newport, cutting short his of New York, the tube under the Her* trave ^ 8 ' returns t0 ^ ew 7 ork BDex ' pectedly and announces that he will take a Job and go to work “just as soon as tbe hot weather ends." Ar riving In New York’s Grand Central was met by "forty rail road detectives and alx private detec tives." This seems a good many de teettves for one young gentleman, Who. eo far me the world knows, has never done anything to make detective* some month* ago I reported on the probability of changes In NRA man agement During General Johnson’s absence, a board cf five men consti tutes the administrative authority of NRA. It seems to be In the nature of an experiment If It works oat sat isfactorily, we may expect to see the veteran army officer retire to private Ufa He has said as much. He wants to get.back Into private business. Mr. Roosevelt however, likes the fighting qualities of General Johnson, and It Is still possible that be will remain on the Job. He Is responsible for the general plan of NRA administration and the theories embodied tn the va rious codes. It would seem, therefore, that the man who worked out the codes should stay along and sift them down to the permanent level, tf permanency be the goal. t Whether General Johnson continues kt tbe helm, or whether the manage ment of that work Is entrusted finally io. -General Johnson’s—hand-picked group of five. It Ik certain that the * Kla* VMtsrM SyndlMtw summer and autumn will witness ellni tnatloo of many petty features ef coder thet have proved to be only an noyancea. I believe there Is agree ment among unbiased thinkers that development of cods* at the sate nee- •aaary to make the initial drive tar recovery naturally brought many pre- vlslons of a worthless characten M&ni.. times, it has been shown, those pre visions have very nearly upset the good that was obviously going to re sult from fair practice agreements. The job the five-man board has to do» if It remains as a successor to Gen eral Johnson, Is to go through the codes with a fine-toothed comb and eliminate all of the questionable and useless provisions. My opinion la. If this were done, there would be much less opposition \to the codes and con sequently to continuation of the in dustrial recovery act The prevalent thought tn Washing ton, then. Is that as a result of the annoying features contained in the codes, the administration Is likely to pull hard to revise as many of them as Is possible before next winter. Much V V •' t of this work obviously will have to be done before election and such political effect as may be will be reaped In the ballot boxes It always has been true that an In valid who Is convalescing passee through a stage on the way to recovery where he develops a genuine grouch. Ev erything hits him wrongly. Food Is not right and medicines are no good, and a thousand and one other things furnish grounds for complaint. This condition nearly always precedes the time when the i *1 Invalid Perks Up and takes a few steps again. The circumstance to which I referred Is such a -common occurrence that It seems to me there Is no better illustration of the condition la which— American business now Is represented to be. It Is highly slgniflcanL In the first Instance, It shows, according to the experts, that business has enough new life blood to start fighting back against administration plans and pol icies that cramp Its style, end, sec ondly, vigorous opposition never has railed to be a healthy thing for the country at a whole: From the Information I get In many quarters. It Is yet too early to tel) whether commerce and Industry Is go ing to be a unit lo any one course of its opposition. The strictly recovery phases of the New Deal are not going to be attacked, even by the Republican national bommittee. That question ap parent ly Is settled. But business In terests apparently and quite logically are distinguishing between recovery sod reform. Take the legislation that created the commission for control of security sales and policing the stock exchanges, as an example. I frankly do not see how the Republican leader ship or business Interests can expect fee- 11 Is solely a reform proposition. On the other hand, business Interests can and will attack such projects as the government manufacture and sale of electric power In open competition with private plant*, such as Is taking place under the experiment In the Tennessee valley; • • • Not the least of the problems that are arising out of the work so speed ily done lo creating Legal NRA and other ro- Questions covery H K erK ' ie8 the horde ef ieggU questions now on the horizon. One of these stands euL It relates to the rights of citizens after they bavo signed the codes of fair practice, and legal lights tell me It runs straight back to a base lu the Constitution of the United States. It is an old legal maxim that after a person has accepted benefits from s statute or regulation, which means a voluntary action, that person may net be heard to question the validity of the provision from which those benefits accrued. Now, business men signed tbe codes under what NRA lawyers claim was a voluntary act. Having done that, it Is claimed they cannot test the constitutionality of the law or rgg.ul.sUim» (or the rortes) written an- . V * the find re- two gov- der that law. It seems, however, that there is s difference of opinion between the law yers of NRA and the .lawyers af the Department of Justice. \Many lawyers outside of the government are under stood to be gathering up^ all of the pieces of argument they spec ting the positions of ernmental groups As 1 understand it, lawyers\ repre senting code signers have put fortji the argument that the signing was voluntary action. They contend throughout the making of codes oral Johnson and bis sides stressed the point that unlees those to whom the code was to apply, agreed the administrator would write a code for them and they would be bound by It I never beard It used as a threat, but It nevertheless Is n fact that moot of those who had dealings with the NRA were afraid they would suffer from tbe licensing of their plants If they failed to sign the codes These technicalities may appear In consequential, but they are of the iff AM imfWkFTo ^ ^ ~ A ttCfs? Big? gOlUg to.be court toots of some provisions of the recovery act and the authority ex- erdsetf-by NBA.' The consensus here seems to be that these tests will Is dude many suits that ought never to have been brought as well as some that win serve to clarify the laws tf they result la real court * Wwura M« r'.Vrf j