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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN News Review of Current Events the World Over President Cleans Desk for Hawaii Cruise - -. lief -Funds Allocated for Mkldku West Reward for Dillinger's Arrest. Drouth Re-Federal By EDWARD W, PICKARD C by Wtra Newspaper Union. der the NltA would be without constitutional con-stitutional sanction. f-'-ytn i il ( i "lily a Rudolph Forsttr pUKSIKKNt ROOSEVELT, back fmni his brief trip to New U Tea, New London and his home In Hyde Park, put In busy week clearing up his desk for bla departure on the long planned cruise through the Panama canal to the West coast and Hawaii. All thoHe who have had occa alon during the last generation to call at the White House are glad to learn that Rudolph Fors-ter Fors-ter was selected by the President to make the voyage with blm. 81nce the days of McKlnley this able and courteous gentleman, now executive ex-ecutive clerk In charge of the White j House executive offices, has been on duty and never before has he accompanied ac-companied any President on a trip. Now Mr. Forster Is going to have a rel vacation, and -Secretaries Howe, Mclntyre and Earle will re Dialo behind to take care of the White House. There will be no other civil officials aboard the cruiser Houston. On the way down to the canal Mr. Roosevelt will visit Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. From Pan ama City he will go to the Ha wallan islands, first making a brief atop In Colombia. Returulug to the Pacific coast early In August Mr. Roosevelt will travel overland by rail, and there Is a possibility he will aiake some speeches, probably In Minneapolis and Green Bay. Wis., where the tercentenary of the Badger state will be celebrated. IMMEDIATE relief for the drouth stricken areas in the Middle West was decreed by the President In an executive order which allo- cated tVUiiO.OOO for direct aid. The remainder of the first distribution of federal relief for the drouth area Included $43,750,000 for purchase of seed, food and live stock; 125,000,-000 125,000,-000 for seed and feed loans, $12,500,- 000 for purchase of lands In the drouth regions, and $12,500,000 for establishment of civilian consent Hob campa In the stricken region. I7INAL settlement of the questions - In dispute between the steel masters mas-ters and their workers la expected and the threatened strike probably prob-ably will be averted. The President, Presi-dent, Invoking bis new emergency powers, named a three-man board to arbitrate the industry's troubles, and both aides indicated they would accept Its decisions. The members mem-bers of the board are Admiral Henry A. Wiley. James Mullen- bach of Chicago and Judge Walter Wal-ter Stacy of the North Carolina Su preme court. The two latter have baa long experience as labor media' tors. Under the emergency Inn this group can order and police elections In all steel plants to determine which union shall represent the men In all collective bargaining. The beard can also hand down decisions on all complaints brought by either workers or employers. President Roosevelt ordered the board to report to him from time to time through Secretary of Libor Frances Perkins. IT MAT be necessary to reso.l to the emergency labor legislation to put an end to the street car strike In Milwaukee. A minority of the company's employees went out and by violence forced the suspen sion of service. The mobs fought the police and attacked the com pany's electric plant and Us cars. The American Federation of La bor unions are trying to compel the company to recognize their representatives repre-sentatives In dealing with employees Instead of the company union with whlrh it tins had a labor contract for 1(5 years. Rev. Francis J. Haas, formerly of Milwaukee and now chief concilia tor for the national labor board, was sent to the Wisconsin city with full authority to act, Mayor iloan, ft . . . . . ,. a &ociaii8i, neiu me company re sponsible for the 'strike and ensu ing riots. pKDKRAL JIU1GE J. P. BAUNKS of Chicago gave one phase of the New Deal a rap by granting an 1b Junction restraining the govern- aent from enforcing the provisions of the AAA milk licensing agreement agree-ment against the Independent milk dealers In the Chicago area. In ffect, the Judge ruled that the gov ernment, through the AAA, has usurped powt.'s which under the Constitution It had no authority to assume. The AAA officials In Washington 4eelared they would seek to have Judges Barnes' ruling aet aside. Jerome Vrank, general counsel for the AAA, admitted that If the de cision were upheld by higher courts, the fifty marketing agree ments now In force under the farm " ct and hundreds of the codes on DOSTMASTER GENERAL FAR LEY and Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Morgentliau came forward with an announcement of their plans for the spending of $110,000,000 In the construction of new post offices and federal buildings. In all, 0-0 communities In every state and four territories have been selected for new federal buildings, according to the announcement. Half of the program 302 build Ings will be undertaken with $05,-000,000 $05,-000,000 authorized for that purpose In the recently enacted deficiency-emergency deficiency-emergency appropriation bllL It was expected that 324 buildings would be constructed with "funds already available from other sources." GIVING tip hope for a disarmament disarma-ment pact at Geneva, the British Brit-ish government has under way extensive ex-tensive plana for strengthening lta air force for defense of the country. coun-try. This was announced to jnr-liament jnr-liament by Lord Londonderry, secretary sec-retary for air. He turned down a suggestion for an Imperial air force for the defense of the empire, but said there would be close, co-opera- t. J 1: A'i I'iy'l.'' ..'. ' ' An. lion wun ine air Hirer vi -minions. 1 11 A note to Secretary of State Hull, the British government re jects his suggestion that the war debt might be paid In kind, holding that such a procedure would be Impractical Im-practical and dangerous to Anglo-American Anglo-American trade, The British expressed ex-pressed a wish for settlement of the debts problem "whenever It may appear that the present abnormal abnor-mal conditions have so far passed as to offer favorable prospects for a settlement." N' TT ARRIMAN hosiery mills, the concern that was deprived of Its Blue Eagle last April, has been forced to close down, and Its 653 workers are out ef Job.- The little lit-tle city of Harrlman, In Tennessee, depended largely on the mills and the company had the support of practically all the people there In Its dispute with the NRA. The offi cials of the company sent to Ad ministrator Johnson and to President Pres-ident Roosevelt a vigorous protest. asserting the concern had been un-. Justly and unfairly deprived of Its property rights In the Blue Eagle. "We would like to know," said the letter, "If the Blue Eagle Is the property of the United States or If It Is a plaything to be held over the heads of honorable and decent employers em-ployers as a cudgel to browbeat and bulldoze them into surrendering their constitutional rights for the benefit of outside agitators whose only purpose is to exploit labor for their own personal gain." General Johnson's reply was In effect that the company could stay closed forever If It wished to, but It must comply with the NRA regu lations to get back its Blue Eagle. The dispute started last October, when about 300 employees went on strike with the claim that the com pany would not reinstate twenty- three workers who had Joined the United Workers' Textile union. Fred Held, vice president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, went to Harrlman after the mills closed, but was taken from the train by a band of armed men, taken some distance In an au tomobile and released on promise not to return. U NCLE SAM Is determined to get most notorious desperado. A few daya ago Attorney General Cum- mings offered a re ward of $10,000 for the capture of the murderer and bank robber, and half as much for Information lead Ing to his arrest At the same time the attorney genera) gen-era) offered $5,000 for the capture of Lester M. G 1 1 1 1 a. Jotin Dttllnger ..Rh. r Nelson. Dillinger's right hand man. Information leading to GIUls' cap ture will be rewarded with $2,500. This action was follnwpd up by consideration of plana for co-ordinating federal, state, and local efforts to catch Dlllinger. It was understood that plans using the army and National Guard In the of fensive were under discussion. The federal charge against Dlll inger Is transporting a stolen auto mobile across the state line. Nelson Nel-son Is wanted In connection with the murder of W. Carter Raum, Dfr partment of Justice agent, near Rhlnelander. Wis.. April 23. In addition to the federal prize. the person who can catch Dlllinger will receive $1,000 reward from each of five states Indiana. Illi nois. Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota. AZI storm troops In Germany have demanded that the Stahl- helm, or Steel Helmets, composed of war veterans, be banned by the Hitler government. But the leaders lead-ers of the organization reply that It shall not be suppressed or absorbed ab-sorbed In the storm troops. The existence of the Stahlhelm, they assert. Is guaranteed by president Von Hlndenburg, Chancellor Hitler. and other. Nazi chiefs. ON THE twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Arch-duke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, the event that precipitated the World war, there were bombing outrages throughout AOStrTa directed direct-ed against the Dollfuss government and possibly Instigated by the Nazis. Certainly the disorder! were political In nature,: Power plants, railway lines, and one newspaper news-paper office were blown up. Wh e n jo u n a W! ITU congress adjourned and the President preparing for his Hawaii cruise, Miss Margaret Le Hand, confidential secretary to Mr. Roosevelt, decided de-cided to take a vacation, so she sailed for Europe. Now conies from Paris the positive statement that Miss Le Hand Is to be married to William U. Bullitt, American Ameri-can ambassador to 'ilL&(fJi Russia, Hnd ,na' was musing tni final arrangements In the French cap ital. The young lady would say nothing In confirmation or denial except to declare that she was not going to Russia, but the correspondents correspond-ents were sure the plans were well advanced for whal It had been hoped would be a secret wedding. It was"understood that Cornelius Vanderbllt, Jr., a close friend of the President, would act as best man for Mr. Bullitt, Mr. Vanderbllt Vander-bllt Is 1n the Riviera, and Miss Le Hand also was booked to go there before returning to America late la July. Ambassador Bullitt Is a widower and has a young daughter who Is now with him In Moscow. Margaret Le Hand C ITTING In his White House study, President Roosevelt talked over the radio directly to millions of hti fellow countrymen, seeking to reas sure those who have been alarmed by the frequent allegations that the New Deal Is becoming radical. He rebuked his critics as "doubting Thomases," "prophets of calamity" and "theoretical dlehards," and by implication defended the brain trust. He highly praised the depart ing congress for Its work In the lines of relief for the distressed, recovery and "reform and reconstruction." Mr Roosevelt told his listeners the simplest way they could Judge recovery was to consider their own situations. "Are you letter off than you were last year?" he asked. "Are your aeon less Diiruensomcr Is your bank account more secure? Are your working conditions better? Is your faith In your own Individual future mora firmly grounded? SOMETHING like a hundred thousand thou-sand Americans and Canadians gathered In Detroit for the good will celebration which was held on the Ambassador bridge under the auspices of the Anierlgan Legion. The bridge, w hich links Canada and the United States across the De troit river, was turned Into a huge playground and tfustoms and immigration immi-gration barriers were lifted for the day. CHARLES S. Thomas, former United States senator and gov ernor of Colorado, died In Denver at the age of eighty-four. Though a Democrat, retired from political life, Mr. Thomas denounced as "un democratic" the extraordinary pow ers granted to President Roosevelt, and defied the President's order to turn In all gold to the trearury Both he aud his daughter "hoarded" small Bums In gold, aud the latter was Indicted. Her case Is still pending. -frto, -; - I Vr 1U Goes to . p fjf I P the Fa i r Mi imWJ 1 2?k HERE Is more woe foi President Mendieta of Cuba. The A. B. C society, strongest of the secret political associations In the Island, has announced that It would no longer support the Mendieta government. gov-ernment. The reason given was "the lack of firmness displayed by the government In dealing with terrorists, ter-rorists, especially with men respon slble for the assault on the A. B. C. parade June 17." when a doeen men and women were killed and scores Injured. The A. B. C. manifesto said the society would continue to work foi the good of Cuba against terrorism and other forms of "gangsterism" which "are directly traceable to the Influence of Moscow gold." A crisis In the cabinet resulted and several members, who beloni to the A. B. C. offered their reslg nations, as did 000 employees of the treasury department. Also there waa a short lived naval revolt at Antllla, suppressed by the arrest of the leaders. A committee of conciliation wai at work on the government's trou bles and It was reported that II might suggest a parliamentary form of government headed by a prlmi minister. The A. B. C leaden would tgree to this If the premlei were chosen from their ranks. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON illl'RSDAY of every week Is Young America's day at the 1034 Century of Progress exposition In Chicago. For that Is the day when boys and girls under the age of twelve are admitted to the grounds for a nickel and the concessionaires make a special price to the youngsters. And does Young America take advantage of the opportunity oppor-tunity for seeing at this small cost the modern version of "the greatest show on earth"? ne (and she) docs indeed! They ronie by the scores, by the hundreds, by the thousands. thou-sands. Tl.t.v pour through the various entrances and scatter to all pails of the exposition grounds, there to see all the wonders of modern science and Industry and Invention which Is spread before them and to enjoy all the different forms of amusement Indulged In when youth takes a holiday. This day the world Is very much their oyster, and they know It, If "you happen to visit the fair on a Thursday and. In the midst of these juvenile crowds, find yourself saying. "1 didn't know there were this many children In the world where do they all come from?" ponder for a n ent upon this statement : The sight you may be seeing is as nothing, compared tb the sight which you would have seen at the fair If you had been there on Thursday, May 31, 1934. Aye, that was a day! The like of it has probably never been seen before and may never be seen again. It was the first "children'a day" of the 1934 fair. The Chicago schools had been closed for the occasion. To the youthful part of Chicago's three and a third millions were added several thousand more from the outlying Cook county towns, from other counties near by and even from points in Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Over :u,000 boys and girls, over half a million pushing, shoving, wrlggline-. whooping, super-charged-wlth-euergy units of young humanity descended upon the fair. They broke last year's one day attendance record of 367,004 mnde on Septemler 4, 1933. They broke all one-day attendance records of any fair anywhere, with the exception of the record of 761,942 on Chicago day at the World's Columbian exposition of 1S93. That wasn't the only thing they broke but that's another- story 1 Early on the morning of that historic May 31 they began streaming toward the fair grounds. Massed from rail to rail on the painted bridges, they moved forward slowly but unceasingly, toward the turnstiles. Half an hour before the time to open the gates they were packed tight about the seven entrances. From outlying parts of the city came the news that street cars, "L" trains and busses were Jammed beyond capacity with youngsters hound for the fair. Immediately orders were sent out summoning all exposition policemen off duty to report at once. Five hundred exposition employes em-ployes mere sworn In as special officers. Mean while every passing moment saw the crowds outside the gates growing denser and denser. Up from the milling mob rose a strange vari ety of cries "We want in! Let's go! Hey, stop your shovln'! Lay off. youse guys! Look out! Ya nearly Jammed me in the eye with that lollipop! Hey, that Ice ( ream bar Is meltln' and drlppln' all down my back! Oh, I've dropped the sack with my lunch In It! Stop pushln'! Quit your i rowdln'! Stop It, I tell yni !" IVuil.lered gatemen tried In vain to hold them hack. The turnstiles couldn't click fast enough to let them through. A hurry-up call was sent for 20 city policemen then for 200 more. In the administration building telephones were ringing wildly. Incessantly. From box offices came word of exhausted ticket supplies, of turn Miles out of commission and of guards trying vainly to maintain an orderly flow of eager youngsters through the gates. Then came the news that the crowds were becoming absolutely unmanageable. They were forcing their way through the service entrances through wlch supplies are brought Into the grounds. They were beginning to scale the walls. They were dropping down Inside by the hundreds and para lyzlng the bus traffic which runs Just Inside the western walls. 'thVials of the fair realized that something must be done-quickly In order to avoid Injury to I lie oiingsters Jammed outside the gates. "Let em ail iu free!" was the order flashed out. All gates, including the service entrances were thrown wide open. And then the deluge! Attempts to coin appropriate similes for the sight which followed failed. One observer suld "like a swarm of hungry locusts." Another compared com-pared It to the stampede of 8 vast herd of Texas steers. "The surge came up and across the cause ways in a spectacle seldom If ever seen before certainly never seen before in an American cltv." de lured one eye-witness. Can you visualize a crowd of 500.000 people? Remember there are only 13 Ani(rr cities which have more than a imputation of 500.000 nd in the largest. of these the density of population popu-lation is less than 5,000 to the square mile, or (110 acres. Now, the Century of Progress grounds comprise less than 400 acres of available "walking "walk-ing puce," Pour 500,000 people Into that amount of spine, and wl.at do you get? A crowd, of course. Yes, the fair was "crowded" on May 31. It would have been crowded even If the horde of youngsters had been evenly distributed about the grounds, which they weren't They streamed t'h T'hWt?'.. J J 6Ttr; iirH :a fell if mt j ipt ft u Hut J U a i U iw.-mwMMMtiwimH, i t "part k ... ,WA down the Avenue of Flags In an endless procession proces-sion of closely packed humanity to which only the milling crowds at Forty-second and Broadway Broad-way In New York and State and Madison in Chicago are comparable. From the terraces of the Hall of Science as far as the eye could see these thousands of boys and girls were moving north and south so close together that the streets themselves seemed to be moving. So steady was the stream of young visitors across the bridges over the lagoon that solid lines of policemen were stretched across the approaches to prevent the weight of too many from endangering the struc tures. Over on the Enchanted Island, the part of the fair most popular with Young America, the congestion con-gestion became so great that It was necessary to establish and enforce a one-way traffic rule. The eager youngsters massed ten deep around some of the amusement centers and from 25 to 7A) deep around others. Some of them spent most of their day standing In line, waiting for a chance to ride on the ferrls wheel, or roller-coaster roller-coaster or slide dowq a synthetic mountain. But If many of them were Intent upon such pleasures, there were thousands of others who Jammed the exhibit buildings until every aisle was packed solidly with a slow-moving throng, it was In some of these buildings that other things besides records were broken. In Justice to Young America, however, it must be stated that officials in charge of the Hall of Science, one of the principal points of attraction, say that the crowd there was mainly an orderly one aad more easily handled than an adult crowd of the same size. But sightseeing wasn't their only activity. There was the matter of eating and drinking to he taken care of. Early In the day It was announced an-nounced that 125,000 bottlea of milk would be distributed free. It was, and It vanished like a light summer shower on the face of the Sahara desert. In the struggles around the booths where It was distributed some of the bottles were broken brok-en and tbla caused the only serious Injuries of the day a few minor cuts from the shattered bottles. So the milk disappeared (as did hundreds of thousands of hot dog and hamburger sandwiches,' thousands of gallons of Ice cream and of soft drinks, and hurry-up calls for fresh supplies were sent out throughout the day) and there was left behind all over the grounds a trail of discarded dis-carded milk bottlea and pop bottles. A force of 200 extra workmen, called Into service to gather up the abandoned glassware, the papers, the Itoves and other trash, which was ankle deep in places, soon gave up hope of picking up all these things one at a time. So they brought shovels and scooped the debris Into wheelbarrows. wheelbar-rows. And they were scooping far, far into the night. - By the ndddle of the afternoon the surging crowds through the entrances had died down to a thin trickle. All over the grounds tired young aters, heedless of "Keep Off the Grass" signs. were sireicneu out in every available spot 0f shade. I'he hot sun had wilted most of them ami overcome sbme. These were rushed to the hos pltnl maintained by tha fair, given a bath and made to rest for awhile. Lifeguards In canoes and motor boats were kept busy patrolling the 1. "What's your name, little girt, af do you llva?" A Travelers' Aid Sc! talking to one of the 1,400 childm "lost" In the crowds. j 2. This Is how the Avenue of TW during most of the day when 500,081 invaded the Fair grounds. j 3. Guards and other employee! forrped human chains in an effort the children awaiting their turn toft lagoon to see to It that no ventorWj oiri iuiuuicu iu, uui i"- ; - them from doffing si s and . splashing hot, tired feet in the cool more than guards on shore could Mj from Jumping Into pools l font,ial ous stages of dress and undress. J Refreshed by such Interludes thj5 again to Join the mob still niilUnf through the grounds as Individual M In groups chaperoned by harassed Wj In Id vain to keep track of their cws teacher solved the problem by B,inJ i 6tring to tie 16 of them together, wrM -, As she led the way through the trailed along behind her like thetui" , that is. until they attempted tosir midst of the crowd. Then "tangle' 1U midst of the crowd, Sho. Hl.ln'f Insp nnv of her little . - but there were plenty of " chnd"g 1 ' to describe the resulting situation. J I 1.400 of them to be exa.t, rouri who became separated from V"'j . tt-iAemn 0 8 ...-.,oi...l K. O.o Travelers Alu " MKKltllll V. WIY"J to seek their rWj or companions. But thanl crs A'" "" ii. i rra i v, i... foiirw even iiauj. - " , public address system at the society s iieaouo." " . . n ..r hours "H and tencners sioou in "- - - , eil turn 1 5 1 I - . . .1 .... a iillvll men or rair iihii" i" ciiirr! tl.o oroul n-lth their wc'l'lnfl fM f ..." "..: " i hey ciiiiureii wiiu anew --.... Younger 0B" miuue hiiu ai-ui Women . ,jf edl1 forted by the young "elunrlmr Imima" anil all han'S"1 .. . . . I....I auull:llltS. By the time evening came ,i of twinkling lights which adorn i n me fair were immuk mni" the jtn i lagdon. an army of weary oii Ine Its way to the exit. By i.t..,n. i.u,i choed througno" ViriiJII'l TT II IV II !!' Inirs all dav was dying down were still thousands of hinu' " ..HI 1 (0 i BUM--J ID W'l f cept foruaforWjj till "n.dain.ed J but after the spectacle of me I tn..al deserted. ''7 them had gone exc . ..in siers w no were sun Ing house." But by 1 :W I" lhe w" lust of these hail been ''lurllflnce' And policemen. Fair attendant 1 htreet car conductors, exposl U and teachers and parents, Uo.) .... ... .ii.. i i,..ir live. J gesi sign oi rron , (M ' breaking firt "children's l) ! was over. rtS |