Show IV news L aws review of current events the world over norfolk boat builder confesses cruel hoax in lindbergh lindburgh case terrible yer tragedy at sea gossip of national politics by EDWARD W PICKARD BREAKING down under long contin aued tj aed examination john U curtla curtis the norfolk bont boat builder who had put himself forward as an intermediary in the lundbergh baby case confessed to inspector harry walsh of the jersey city police mot ills story was a boix find and his negotiations w with I 1 t it the kidnapers were entirely a n fake ile ho sald said lie ho never knew such persons as those ho he named to 0 colonel 0 I 1 0 n e I 1 lindbergh L in ill org h and to cwm tile dla dis meet choin W H stevens slovene trac teI father anthor made many trips to sea eca on n yacht in company with curtis in lils ills brief written confession of hla his cruel swindle curtis curels said bald ho he became insane ansano on oil the ilia subject for tho the time being which caused me to creato the story in its entirety and that lie ho was brought back to ills senses by a telephone conversation with ills his wife curtis activities the night of tho the were being investigated ito iio was locked up and later arraigned on charges of giving false reports that hindered the apprehension of tile the persons guilty of the crime if convicted he may be imprisoned for or three years or fined 1000 or both lie iio waived preliminary hearing arrested in brooklyn bro ghlyn for abandoning tits his family faintly frank a thirty year old narcotic addict told detectives and clung to alie story after more than twelve hours of questioning that ho he was one of ft a band of seven men who Id dripped the lie child and that tho the baby died after me ninn man carrying him down the ladder from the nursery window accidentally dropped him to the ground the police wore vere inclined to believe this story was false though the authorities of the entire country are of course hunting hunt lilg for the th L kid kidnapers naters find and murderers of tile the baby now new jersey Is still tile the center of the operations and the investigation there Is in the charge of william 11 stevens attorney general of the state and of prosecutor erwin marshall of mercer county neither of these men Is optimistic rearing the case will be added to the list of unsolved crimes because as mr marshall said vAnt whatever ever trail there was Is now virtually dead the necessary excessive caution of the police while the child was still thought to be olive alive lessened the chances for solving the mystery however attorney general stevens by no means gave up at a conference of state federal and county police and investigators in trenton a plan was established for coordinating co all activities in the hunt for the murderers E of the worst marine tragedies ONE of recent years occurred near the entrance to the gulf of aden when the new french liner georges of the Messa gerles suddenly burst into lames flames and was destroyed the loss of life Is uncertain at this writing but probably about persons perished perls lied the survivors were picked up by several steamships and landed in different ports two british vessels took of them to aden and they said at least of tile the thousand odd aboard the doomed ship were trapped in their cabins many others lost their lives la in the stormy sell sea bankers and industrial PROMINENT leaders convinced that public fear and uncertainty have prevented preen ted the federal reserve systems policy from taking full effect in tile the stimulation of recovery of prices and of prosperity have formed a committee of twelve to aid in putting to work the hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into the market by the system in its program for credit expansion these gentlemen gathered in new york at the call of george L harrlson alson governor of the federal bank of new york with owen D young as their chairman the follow ing statement was issued governor harrison of the federal itei erve bank of new york has called together a committee composed of bankers and industrialists for the purpose of considering methods of making the he large funds now being released by the federal reserve banks useful affirmatively in developing business sits its pur purias jose will also be generally to operate cooperate co oberne uh th the reconstruction finance corporation and ana other agencies to secure more coordinated co and so eo more effective action on the part of tho the banking and industrial interests 11 GARNER put forth his S SPEAKER own plan for depression relief and it was indorsed endorsed Indor sed by representative rainey leader of the house its main features are 1 appropriation of to be expended by the president in ills his discretion for the relief of destitution 2 increase In creaso of in the borrowing power of the reconstruction finance corporation for loans to state and ocal local governments corpora tlona fleas and individuals for the purpose of increasing employment 8 A bond issue of for construction of federal public works in tle the interest of revival of industry and increase of employment this ox or pense to lo be 10 met by a tax of ono one third of one cent a gallon on gasoline 0 OUR UR senn senators tors are not yet willing to give us real beer oven even as part of a plan to bring relief to tile the unemployed ily by a vote of 21 24 to 01 they ro ejected senator tydings amendment to tile hie tax bill this amendment would have localized legalized per cent beer with a tax of 24 cents a gallon upon it which was calculated to yield annually for amortization of a construction bond issue and tin an additional to that would have allowed that amount to bo be stricken from tile tho tax bill tile tho near approach of the W WITH democratic national convention speculation na as to tile the chances of gov franklin D roosevelt for the nomination grows intense tn ills II 11 1 s pre convention manager james A farley still believes ho he will bo be nominated on tho the first roll call lie ile asserts that roosevelt will be sure of votes to 0 o for till nil other aspirants and that before the ho tally clerk gets down as far as wyoming fiig Ii ig and tho the owen D territories e enough it 0 u g n young states i ft III change their votes from favorite sons song to put tho ilia now new york governor across the two thirds line votes one of the most prominent of the lark dark horses has taken himself definitely out of the running owen D young who had a largo and hopeful body of supporters though ho he never had find been an avowed candidate made the finni final announcement that he would not accept the nomination if it were offered him in a letter to john crowley publisher of the times of little falls youngs homo home town he said his reasons for this decision were so BO controlling as not to be open for argument it was assumed the chief of these reasons was mrs airs youngs III health AL A L SMITH has by no menns menna surrendered 1 1 in a radio address tie lie set forth his bis personal platform containing planks designed to curo cure the ills from which tho the country Is suffering buffering the main features were balance tho the nat national IonnI budget A manufacturers sales tax to meet the deficit reduction of national expenditures to an irreducible minimum opposition to a n veterans cash bonus repeal of the eighteenth amendment immediate modification of the net act to permit wines and beer ills previously proposed bond issue for public works to relieve unemployment the bo cotillis tillis to be amortized by proceeds from a wine and beer tax defeat of if president Ilo hoovers overs proposal to relieve unemployment through funds funda of the reconstruction finance board clothe tile tho president ident with power to extend if need be tile the moratorium on international til debts until a real solution can bo be reached suppress all blocs which bedevil legislation WATSON of indiana SENATOR majority leader of the senate does not think congress can possible get through its necessary business without a summer session before june 14 when the republican national convention opens so he proposed to other lenders leaders of both parties that a rece recess 95 be taken from june 4 to july 11 speaker garner demurred believing all legislation can be disposed of before june 11 so a decision was postponed until juno 4 if it appears then that congress can end its work by june 11 the recess plan will not be pressed U UNLESS reparations payments are maintained rumania and czechoslovakia will ref refuge to pay their international debts this was decided upon at a conference of these nations which form the little entente at belgrade and it will be their attitude at the coming lausanne parley it la Is not a new position for them and Is the same as that maintained consistently by france their great friend la Is especially concerned about reparations since the amounts due it were estimated on thu basis of damage done the jugoslava Jugo Jugos slavs layL fear germany r cannot be persuaded to resume payments in which caso case they will lose an increasing amount beginning with and reaching eventually or a total in all of war debts to the allies total about so that full cancellation of reparations nd debts debba would cause a loss of Tei it i A LOU T a during amor amer icon rvictor nv lator was tho the first of till this transatlantic years crop of would bo be clyora I 1 anil ho failed hopping off from harbor grace lie ho sought to fly to parts with a loading landing nt at dublin but ho he got lost in tile tho clouds when nearly across tho the ocean came down not far fro from M tho the south end of ireland and was picked up by the steamship Preal dent roosevelt whose commander captain fried find and chief officer unary man alan ning have rescued ninny many persons from benth at sea C CAPT APT ROBERT DOLLAR dollan tile the aged and spectacular dean of tile the shipping and lumber industries of the coast died nt at tits his homo home in san baa rafael calif after an illness of beveral weeks horn born in scotland in 1844 ho he began work no as a lad in quebec and rose steadily to the dominant position he bo held nt at ills his death dealt tho the coast guard lost its ablo commandant when rear hoar admiral F V 0 billard passed away in washington where ho he res ree led ile iio was fifty lafty eight years old and lind had been III two weeks dr 11 J cigrand founder and president of the american flag day association cia tion died at tile lila homo home in batavia L STIMSON secretary of state returned front from geneva says tits ills conversations there convinced him that europe agrees with tile united states on what can and must bo be lone dono in regard to the ilia far eastern situation and will co onerato with undo sam ile ho Is certain neither japan nor itus ilus sta sin wants war and lie ho indicates flint tile tho great powers will strive to keep tho the manchurian trouble localized nt at least for tho the present however tile authorities in washington are rather alarmed by tile the military situation in manchuria Man churla because of the continued conti nuel concentration of troops along tile frontier APAN Is in a of ferment anil and JAPAN tho the occidental mind can scarcely figure out what aliat tho the results may be premier tsuyoshi Tsuyo was assassinated by a group of young army men and at the samo same time military i terro terrorists raided and bombed various buildings and lid did f other domngo in tokyo these events signalled signal led the t li 0 outbreak 0 u t of tin nn actual all military revolt against tho ilia 0 existing ting government and its course T in n national al and espo c I 1 a 11 I 1 I 1 y international affairs Inu kals cabinet resigned and plans were made to install Kl Hi saburo suzuki new president of the lelyu kal party as pr premier emler but tho the representatives of tile tho army served notice that a national cabinet must be formed not based on parties the vice chief of staff declared tho the army would refuse to approve any nomination for war minister in a party cabinet the constitution provides that the war min minister tAter mu must S t be a general of the army so BO the army can prevent the formation of any ministry that it disapproves late dispatches from tokyo indicated that the army would have its way and nit all over tile tho world there was speculation as to what light bo be tile the eff effect L ct on japans relations with china and especially with russia prince kalonji Salon jl Ji last of tho the elder statesmen was called to tokyo to try to effect a compromise ARRY J LEIN LEIK superintendent of mount mckinley national park in alaska and three companions climbed both peaks of the mountain the first time this ever had been accomplished and discovered that tragic disaster had bad befallen a group of isto headed by allen alien carpo carpe who had attempted to scale ecale the mountain for the purpose of measuring cosmic rays carpe himself and theodore noven koven lost their lives ac K 0 ovens v e ns body was allen alien carpe carp found on muldrow glacier and it was certain that hat carpe had fallen into a crevasse the lost leader was regarded na its the ablest mountaineer in america ile he was working under the direction of prof arthur 11 compton Cor opton of the university of chicago who had expected to join him in alaska to continue the cosmic ray study two other members of carpels party B H P beckwith and percy T olton jr both of new york were safe encamped on the glacier belk reported beckwith was seriously ul with fever und and was vaa rescued by airplane N D also of the party had left the camp to seek aid and was missing HINDUS INDUS and moslems in bombay fought ench each other for days and about a hundred were killed and many man injured before the british troops could quell the riots with rifle fire and tanks the strife between the two races spread to calcutta and there also it was necessary for the pouce police to ore on cri the mobs PIUS XI issued an encyclical POPO POPE entitled charlies Charl Char lias tas christi Chrls tl in which he called ild the world to prayer prayers pra pe penance fiance and mortification to save itself from the per peril of terrorism and anarchy and the still graver evils that are threatening for this purpose he set aside a period of eight days for atlon on the octave of the feast of the sacred heart beginning june 3 0 12 western newspaper union |