OCR Text |
Show Scenes and Persons in the Current News Murder on the Fly Washington. A politician without a problem confronting him la virtually unknown. Political Whether he be a Problems tig shot In po litical life or Just a ward heeler, his life is constantly beet with difficulties. Those difficulties always have and always will force him to wiggle and squirm and sprout additional gray hairs. The newest problem worrying politicians is the Townsend old age pension proposal. Promoters of that fantastic scheme are gaining such a headway that even James A. Farley, postmaster general, chairman f the Democratic national committee and chairman of the New York state Democratic committee. Is currently reported to be developing frowns on his otherwise smiling face. When Mr. Farley begins to get worried, there is cause, Indeed, for ail of the other politicians, big and little, to get worried. The Republicans also are concerned about the Townsend plan. Rut It Is not quite as important to the Republicans as It Is to the Democrats to take a stand on the Townsend plan because the Democrats are In control of the national administration and obviously they are on the defensive. The battle being pressed by Mr. Townsend and his satellites is no email concern. Impossible ns it is of operation; doomed to ultimate failure os such a scheme must definitely be, it continues to expand in its scope of political Influence and has arrived at the point where It constitutes a powmr that must be reckoned w Ith by all. 1 am convinced that anyone who will analyse the Townsend plan cannot help arriving at the conclusion thaflt Is comparable to the fantasy of the Mississippi bubble." When the Mississippi bubble broke, not thousands hut millions were disillusioned, If not utterly destroyed, and their economic future, so glow-Inglwas completely painted, wrecked. v The Townsend plan which con- templates payment of two hundred dollars per month Townsend to the indigent Is of those one Plan things that develops invariably in periods of economic distress. It Is distinctly product of hard times. When people are out of work and without resources; when they are suffering, they are always prey to any and all argument offering them relief. The conditions exact even a greater toll, a toll lending to crime. Only a few days ago the chief of the secret service, W. II. Moran, told me that It was a characteristic of hard times that counterfeiters of currency were more active. Idle hands will find something to do and the clever crook will take advantage of the situation. While eery one who has talked with Doctor Townsend recognizes his sincerity, his earnest desire to accomplish relief for the aged and Indigent population, I believe it is an Indisputable fact that Doctor Townsends plan would not get to first hasp except for the fact that this country now lias millions of citizens who are almost If not quite without food. The point I am trying to make Is that Doctor Tow nsrnd s scheme. Idle drenm that It Is. has boon put forward at one of the few times In this nations history when It Is possible to amass a following of political Importance. It Is only In times such as ttiese that people would pay attention to It. It will die down and bis organization will crumble sometime In the future but this will not happen until It has caused plenty of grief, until It has wrecked political fortunes of countless scores f men and women who guess wrong and until probably It has produced a burden of taxation upon this nation the like of which never has been seen before. Townsend plan supporters In ail of their preachments have consistently talked of their proposition from Its beauteous side. It Is susceptible of that because It Is easy to point out what a blessing It would lie to have each aged person receive a monthly cheek of two hundred doliirs from the government. Rut there is another ship to the picture. It Is basic. Wheip will the government get thp money? Townsend spokesmen hive fl aired nut a vision irv fixation si heme to raise the amount of money required hut the thing tiiev do nil discuss thp fundamental fact that hv flielr taxation scheme they will depreciate Ottr ntiliii.il currency nnd wli load Upon llio--- e who are willing to wotk such a burden of taxation that soon tliete will lie a rlitnor from three oni of four of thp imputation for Some kind of a government pnwncnt. The end then would lie obvious because nrtcr nil government as stirh ptodtues nothing All tli.it I. pays out must be taken fruui those who product In adverting to the Townsend plan as I hare done, I have at- tempted to set forth le a manner what I believe to be one of the greatest dangers of the present day, namely, the absence of clear thinking. In the Townsend plan, as in many other problems that confront the nation at the moment. Individuals seem prone to Jump at conclusions without analyzing what conditions actually are and without considering what the ultimate effect would be. It seems worth while to consider another national problem which, though of an economic nature and less sensational In Its outward ap1 President Roosevelt addressing 100.000 Georgians at the stadium of Georgia Institute of Technology in pearance, is nevertheless very real This problem concerns our trans- Atlanta. 2 Director of the Gadget Daniel Rell studying budget estimates in his office in Washington. 3 Chaffer Khan Djalal, minister from Persia, leaving the State department after lodging formal protest against his arportation system. Shortly after President Roosevelt rest by Maryland policemen for speeding. took office we were deluged with argument that amounted to propaCalifornia Grower Shows ganda favoring government ownership of the railroads. There was a 14-lSweet Potato reaction against this idea. The reaction was so strong that few polMiss Gwen Steel of San Gabriel, iticians dared to unloose their Calif., displaying a huge sweet podemagogery In favor of government which is said to be a record tato eviownership. Yet, it Is perfectly It Weighs 14 for Its species. dent that those who favor perpetu3 ounces, and is 11 Inches pounds Is ating private enterprise which always more efficient and less wasteful titan any government are In danger of being lulled to sleep. Crack ' H' pots and misguided theorists In vfcw X M I great numbers still favor govern4 45 ( '? ment ownership of the railroads. , 4 , 6 Certain developments of the past V.' several months confirm the state' " t " ' , SLc. ment I have Just made. Taken sing'? y ; v V inly, these developments appear y. u significant. Collectively, they are , very Important A I have heard it charged that govX, Jj ernment ownership advocates have jKf- a well laid plan to wreck private s in rail the ownership Industry. This charge goes further. It asserts that those w ho seek to destroy our profit system are proceeding, piecemeal, XV to load a burden of charges upon I'V-XsX ' the railroads so that In the end It . i will he a physical Impossibility for tf the railroads to earn a profit. Site for the Seminole Storage Dam b. By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. a thrilling tale, boys and girls, with a dra tatl It is from Rudolph Schnurer and I hereby r inate Rudy, not only Distinguished Adventurer, but likenlO Worlds Luckiest Adventurer. You know, when you have hcG-deata dozen times in a few minutes and still manage to con T'""' out alive, thats luck enough for any one guy. j1 T HERES But Rudy wasn't satisfied with that He came out of that hair raj of his with his arms full of goldfish, and even then, Lady Luck didnt to olnette throwing daisies at him. After the goldfish stopped dropping into , m e indi lob he bad one more break that was worth all the rest put together p, 1flat wl of ahead Lets back to the begmnu. er Cliff my story. I dont want to get go You asked for action and excitement," Rudy says in his let. n year ter, so here goes." And from there one, Rudy's yarn goes on. It Aunt I jj she goes so fast I can Hardly keep up with it on this old editor "On 1931," 21, a says Rudy, I, taxi driver August typewriter. (.but i street and Boston road jman v was parked at One Hundred Sixty-nintthe Bronx, looking for a fare. It was exactly four oclock in the busies ji and afternoon. Suddenly, my attention was drawn to a north on Boston road." , Rudy goes on to explain that his attention was just an idle at first. A motorcycle cop was bawling a driver out for being too over to the left side of the road, and Rudy sat watching the argnue DECLi for want of something better to do. Then, all at once, both doorsV ttf 'ontle' cab opened and two young boys started shooting at the cop. ilasnt hi-- ! h g, loo fial These Were Desperate and Unmerciful Killers. They were blazing away unmercifully. They Says Rudy: seem hurried, but kept walking toward the officer, shooting as they said did! sitting wai long, stietch i now Tony. S 00, eonie i with ner m esentl; smil v ' - x . about knew there aid. " rS J-- )X . hit- Obviously, if that end were attained, bankruptcy would follow. Then, there would Means be no alternative but Bankruptcy tion legislative acplacing the railroads in government ownership. Our wartime experience ought to be sufficient to demonstrate how the costs mount when the government operates the railroads. It means more taxes on every one of us who has income whether It be large or ' .LX5 in width. Miss Steel and the poLooking into the canyon of the North Platte river In Wyoming, where tato give testimony that everything the Seminole storage dam, the main link in the Casper Aleova reclamagrows sweeter and better In Calition project will be erected. Planned to stand 2C0 feet tall, the dam will fornia. say natives. The picture The footbridge in the fore- here would seem to back them up be the Roulder Dam of the Northwest." in their statement. ground Is located at the approximate upstream toe of the dam. Waters of the River Rhone Inundate Avignon f. w small Rut to get back to the developments mentioned earlier. Whether there exists an actual plan to drive the railroads into bankruptcy or not, the developments certainly are subject to that surmise. One of the Items of exppnse, a new burden of cost that Is proposed to he loaded on the railroads, is the rail pension law. I have seen some statistical calculations which were convincing to me at least that the charges proposed to be levied upon the railroads by the law will not work out In the manner their proponents claim. The bill would assess each rail corporation 34 per cent of Its pay roll nnd each worker would contribute a proportionate amount of his salary toward his pension when he retires. I.lke the Townsend plan, no one can argu ngiinst the fine spirit actuating a move to protect the retired workers. Rut to go behind the figures at the stnrt one finds certain astonishing facts. Almost any way, almost any method, one uses to calculate tilts cost, forces the conclusion that after eight or ten years the pension system will have expanded to such an extent that the railroads will be carrying an annual charge cn their payroll of not S, 4 per cent hut approximately 15 per cent. I think It goes without saying that no industry can hear such a tax. In addition to the pension proposition. labor unions, aided by their cats paws In congress have kept up a steadv machine gun fire, demanding first one thing and then another from the carriers. For instance. one of the current deminds and tt Is likeiv to succeed In some form is flic movement for shorter hours for prictieallv the entire list of railroad empioxees Of course, the railroads cannot justify working their employees longer than eight hours exeept in an emergency. It is possible that a seven hour dav might he practiced. Rut even a seven hour div would me n that the railroads mn add to their operating costs and any Item added costs reduces the to operating chance of the corporations for an even break between Income nnd out go. There are ", , s . v. y.v v. x- y A ? f? 4 ; A jl s y"X - X: a - J erf- 'JJ J A $ V s 4: v t king h, m; That i until he fell about forty feet away from their cab, mortally woiinle Before the policeman fell, he wounded one of them. The driver of t into cab held the door open until the boys got back, and then the cab d 'e, th, away. or ani Boy, there was action enough for half a dozen adventure city, yarns, but for Rudy Schnurer, the action hadn't even begun yet a new scene. As the wounded cop fell, another man appeared on the Aw, ge He was a man Rudy knew Vincent Hyde, a city fireman and a lies former cop, himself. Vince Hyde ran over to the dying policeman ipathy. whose name, by the way, was Edwin Churchill and grabbed kind up Churchill's gun Rudy, who had arrived on the spot a little .bed. after Vince Hyde, took some loose shells from the cop's coat fl liatc pocket, and then both guys started running toward Rudy's cab i? Without a word, Rudy got Into his cab and started the motor. Hji Oh, h stood on the running board, and they were off hot on the trail of tl nasnl fleeing murderers car. inulTy It had only taken them a few seconds to get the gun and the si ell ling t The car abend had only a few blocks lead. Slowly, Rudy began to dw up the gap between them, while guns began talking from both cabs. )h, n Proving Its Always Exciting in the Bronx. unnir not j Up ahead of him were two killers doing their darndest iould to their list of victims. Plenty of men would have called it quits rlgn t!" a i there, but Rudy Just stepped on the gas a little harder and gained flhat other yard or two on the guns that were spitting death at him from u ahead. It was a merry chase, all over the Bronx, Rudy says, nlthtli He w bandits throwing plenty of lead at us. At One Hundred and Sixty first m ments Park avenue we got really close to them. Hyde was trying to get in sw j sat effective shots, and their tire was getting hotter. One of their bullet- - b table I my windshield and a Hying piece of glass made a cut on the bridge of ai d, nose. With the blood in mv eyes, it wns hard to drive, but we kept oi d to mus "We kept pretty close to them after that, and the chase led them Into Manhattan. Just before we crossed the Macombs bridge, Hyde got his He told me he was hit In the chest, but to keep going. ,ht to anyw The alarm must have been out for the gunmen by this time, bIt do ecause pretty soon, several police cars were in the chase. The a gi battle continued up Riverside drive Into Dyckman street, where b a c driver the bandit car was finally covered Both gunmen and the were wounded, and Hyde and I were there when they breathed r ann I'll t their last." aln ; Weil, sir, Rudy lie would give us action, and by golly, he t sta talnly did. He found 11 bullet holes In his cnb afterward 11 nt w Jacketed deaths that had just missed him. But after he counted up t( As T( more bullet holes. Lady Luck began giving him a couple things ties t thankful fur. Vince Hyde got a nice fat reward for his work in rum ar; a down those hand its. and like a gentleman, he split It with Rudy. "Hell And then well then comes the best part of it all. It cams lies Vince Hydes several days later, after accounts of that exploit of pa st and Rudy s had been printed in every newspaper in the city and e bre circulated all about the surrounding country. Several days after lied that, Rudy got a letter but here, Rudy you tell about II lrney When I enlisted In the army In Buffalo, lu 1!)10, Rudy explains, left my mother there. While serving on the Mexican border and oiers'H S icr In France, I somehow lost track of her. When 1 got back to the Sta Barn In lt)2t, I couldn't locate tier. I hadnt seen her for 15 years. T hen, oni jr ; reW depi day, I got h letter from Milton, N. J. It was from a woman who had Ct Vincent the account of the tunlit chase and seen my picture Uth well artec and In the New York son 1 be her papers. She thought might 1 was !" t j TonJ I1 r A r 5 .WWW AWVnVn Xv vvM a, VMVWX AVS'AVt'l r V- - iV J v 6XXrtWji Avignon, capital city of the Department of Vnucluse nnd ancient town of the popes, acquired marine highways recently when the Rhone river rose to unusual heights and Inundated most of the region. Motor and tram traffic was almost entirely suspended. Teachers Whose Ears Were Cut Off Cad Bugs Blood ) With Greatest of Ease Says " Alois Ilavrilla has been proclaimed by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to be the conn i.W A giant sun dial was used hy the Incas to inetiMiie their seasons Hie "Inti liuutana," or place where the sun was til'd" The shadow cast hy Hip cone on the stone platform beneath fonned the basis of the nn cient Indian method of reckoning fl V1 ,. ft time. 1 lie VI Inti liuatana in varying fotins Is found in tinny of the dend cities which bate been mien it lie I In Peru. Cueo. am lent cnpltal of Hie Inins. Is an con K fl V ter. nrihen1ogic.il lie outstanding characteristic of Cuzco Is Its walls made or huge Stones cut ami tilted In together some an sei ions manner without the asp of sharp Instruments, inor I J- it i trys best radio announcer for pro nunclntlyn, articulation, tone qual Jty, accent and culture. tar or cement These two rural school tern liers near J.illsco. Mexico "ere attacked hy w lull tlie .Mexican gmeiiime! leiuis religious rebels," nnd their eur weie cut off because they taught nihilistic police officials asset t many tencheis lime bet n mutilated anti jome lme been Ul'eL Another toother wus tied to u horse nnd dragged to her neath. (hu-nine- Slone ' Servlet. .NU Ancient Indians of Peru Used Cone as a Sun Dial 'Wi"l a number of other such demands nr movements under way or In the offing Rich one means a new burden, a new tax ou the railroads. C Western Newepeper Unto. ' Ji A Nope, It Was a Merry Chase All Over the Bronx." to add Tod wy. fSM. Is y: iV ? t last o V ar ive v ,v the to Other ruins inrliide remnants of baths, seats nrcliwnys ami staircases; the fa mens Itoiladcio. a steep naturally grooved rock used hv the Incas as toboggan s'l.le long linfoie the Spaniards arrived; und the "'lhrone V1!y' odny off of the Inca," a rounded on It Into cut with steps side the vantage point from It Is said, the Inca and construe gineets directed the Sacsahnanmn. of the fortress n, ,K J i o, i i j on 00 Device Finds Fih Sc a Large schools of comineitnn can lie located through on used sounding devhe. first t" rprnrus to make continuous The in. nee tint tom depth of the located on the , vessel Johan Hinrt, disclose schools of codfish, spawning on water, paying no altent fl I05 tom lint maintaining the a uniform depth from j lfre t Ml nP- - j 59 I (f TbpQ ! k I The Glory Lily The glmiosa. or gl;rv climbing hothouse g m-- 4, 11 ? 1l Vt , t er "fl reds nnd yellows. ' climbing lily, is 8 o'1 nnd Asia. African. grown out t L The'other Th- Of - .fn a jrs I,,. V'f'Z ( fli |