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Show Thursday, News Review of Current Events the World Over Fre sMent Cleans Debk for Hawaii Cruise Drouth Relief Funds Allocated for Middle West Federal Reward for Dillinger'g Arrest. GIVING up hope for a pact at Geneva, the British government has under way extensive plans for strengthening It air force for defense of the country. This wus announced to parliament by Lord Ixiiidonderry, secretary for air. lie turned down a suggestion for an Imperial air force for the defense of the empire, but said there would be close with the air forces of the do minion. 1 I When uoes 193 1 A M MW July 5, rounq America co rJM , . MA A note to Secretary of State Hull, the British government re jects bia suggestion that the war debt might be paid In kind, holding that such a procedure would be Impractical and dangerous to trade. The British expressed a wish for settlement of the debts problem "whenever It may appear that the present abnormal conditions have so fur passed as to offer favorable prospects for a settlement IN By EDWARD W. PICKARD C tr Wartara Nawipapar L'ntoa. der the MIA would Roosevelt, buck p:;Ksmi-:xfrom bla brief trip to New Havel, New London and bla home In bus; week Hyde Park. (ut .In I .1 I. ! Clearing up ilia ura for bla departure on the long plauned stitutional be without con- sanction. Anglo-Americ- GENERAL FARpoSTMASTF.il I. ICY and retary of the Treas ury Morgeuthuu tuine forward wltb an announcement of their plana for the spending or $110,000,000 In the the cruise through . Panama canal to construction of new post otllces and the Went count and federal buildings. storm troops In Germany In all, 020 communities In every NAZI Hawaii. All those demanded that the Stahl- stale and four territories have been helui, or Steel Helmets, composed who huve hud ocea loo during the hint selected for new federal buildings, of war veterans, be banned by the k v generation to can according to the announcement. Hitler government But the lead I 1 at the White House Half of the program 302 build ers of the organization reply mat will be SCV undertaken wltb lugs It shall not be suppressed or ab inui uuuoipn rors-te- r 000.000 authorized for that purpose sorbed In the storm troops. The Rudolph waa aelected by In the recently enacted deficiency-emergencexistence of the Stahlhelm, they Foriter to the President appropriation bllL It was assert. Is guaranteed by President 324 would that Since blm. buildings make the voyage with expected Von Hltidenburg, Chancellor Hitler. the daya of McKlnley thli able be constructed wltb "funds already and other Nazi chiefs. and courteoua gentleman, now ex- available from other sources." ecutive clerk Id charge of the White THE twentieth ennlversary House executive ofllces, baa been J1J ARRIMAN hosiery mills, the ON the assassination of Archconcern that was deprived of duke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, oo duty and never before baa be accompanied any President on a trip. Its Blue Eagle last April, has been the event that precipitated the Now Mr. Forster la going to hare a forced to close down, and Its G53 World war, there were bombing Secretaries workera are out of Jobs. The lit- outrages throughout Austria direct real and vacation, tle city of Harrlmnn, In Tennessee, ed against the Dollfuss government Howe. Mclntyre and Earle will remain behind to take care of the depended largely on the mills and and possibly Instigated by the White House. There will be no the company bad the support of Nazis. Certainly the disorders other civil officials aboard the practically all the people there In were political In nature. Power Its dispute wltb the NBA. The offi cruiser Houston. plnnts, railway lines, and one newsOn the way down to the canal cials of the company sent to Adpaper ofllce were blown up. Mr. Roosevelt will visit Puerto Itlco ministrator Johnson and to Presaud the Virgin Islands. From Pan- ident Roosevelt a vigorous protest, congress adjourned and WITH President ama City be will go to the Ha- asserting the concern bad been unpreparing for waiian Islands, first making a brief justly and unfairly deprived of Us his Hawaii cruise, Miss Margaret top Id Colombia. Returning to the property rights In the Clue Engle. Le Hand, confidential secretary to "We would like to know," said the Pacific coast early In August Mr. Mr. Roosevelt, deRoosevelt will travel overland by letter. "If the Blue Eagle Is the cided to take a rail, and there la possibility he property of the United States or If racation, so she It la a plaything to be held over the will make some speeches, probably sailed for Europe. In Minneapolis and Green Day, heads of honorable and decent emNow comes from Wis., where the tercentenary of the ployers as a cudgel to browbeat and Paris the positive bulldoze them Into surrendering Miss Badger state will be celebrated. i j statement that their constitutional rights for the Le Hand Is to be married to William IMMEDIATE relief for the drouth benefit of outside agitators whose In the Middle only purpose Is to exploit labor for C Bullitt, Amerl can ambassador to West was decreed by the President their own personal gain." General Johnson's reply was In In an executive order which alloRussia, and that she was making the cated $.10.2.10,000 for direct aid. The effect that the company could stay Margaret remainder of the first distribution closed forever If It wished to, but final arrangements Le Hand In the French cap- of federal relief for the drouth area It must comply with the NRA reguto Included $43,750,000 for purchase of lations get back Its Blue Eagle. ltal. The young lady would saj The dispute started last October, nothing In confirmation or denial seed, food and live stock; $25,000,-(towhen about 300 employees went on except to declare that she was nn for seed and feed loans, $12,500.-00for purchase of lands In the strike with the claim that the com going to Russia, but the correspondents were sure the plans were well drouth regions, and $12,500,000 for pany would not reinstate twenty three workers who had Joined the advanced for what It had bees establishment of civilian conservaUnited Workers' Textile union. tion camps in the stricken region. hoped would be a secret wedding. Fred Held, vice president of the It was understood that Cornelius American Federation of Hosiery Vanderbilt, Jr., a close friend of FINAL settlement of the questions between the steel mas- Workers, went to Harrlman after the President, would act as best ters and their workers Is expected the mills closed, but was taken man for Mr. Bullitt Mr. Vanderfrom the train by a band of armed bilt Is In the Riviera, and Miss Le and the threatened strike probably will be averted. The Presi- men, taken some distance In an au Hand also was booked to go there dent. Invoking his new emergency tomoblle and released on promise before returning to America late In July. board not to return. powers, named a three-ma- n Ambassador Bullitt Is a widower to arbitrate the Industry's troubles, and both sides Indicated they would f TNCLE SAM Is determined to get and has a young daughter who Is John Dillinger, the country's now with him In Moscow. The memaccept Its decisions. most notorious desperado. A few bers of the board are Admiral like a hundred Henry A. Wiley, James Mullen- - days ago Attorney General Cum mlngs offered a re SOMETHING bach of Chicago and Judge Wal and Canadians of ward $10,000 for ter Stacy of the North Carolina SuIn Detroit for the good gathered the capture of the will celebration which was held on preme court The two latter have murderer and the Ambassador bridge under the had long experience as lnbor media bank robber, and tors. Under the emergency law this of the Amerigan Legion. half as much for auspices The bridge, which links Canada and group can order and police elections Information lead the United States across the DeIn all steel plants to determine lng to his arrest troit river, was turned Into a huge which union shall represent the men At the same time In oil collective bargaining. and customs and ImmThe the attorney gen- playground were lifted for the board can also hand down decisions barriers igration eral offered $5,000 on all complaints brought by either day. the for of capture workers or employers. Lester M. G 1 11 1 s, President Roosevelt ordered the John Dllllnger alias "Baby Face" CHARLES S. Thomas, former board to report to Mm from time States senator and govright-hanman. Nelson, Dillinger's to time through Secretary of Labor Information leading to Glllis' cap- ernor of Colorado, died In Denver Frances Perkins. at the age of eighty-fouThough ture will be rewarded with $2,500. retired from political This action wa followed up by a Democrat . TT MAT be necessary to resort to consideration of life, Mi-- Thomas denounced as "unplans for co-o- r the emergency labor legislation state, and local democratic" the extraordinary powfederal, dinating to put an end to the street car efforts to catch Dllllnger. It was ers granted to President Roosevelt strike In Milwaukee. A minority of understood that the and defied the President's order to using plans the company's employees went out army and National Guard In the of- turn In all gold to the treasury. Both and by violence forced the suspen "hoarded" be and his daughter fensive were under discussion. sion of service. The mobs fought small sums In gold, and the latter The federal charge against Dlllme ponce and attacked the com lnger Is transporting a stolen auto- was Indicted. Her case Is still pany's electric plant and Its cars. mobile across the state line. NelThe American Federation of Lason Is wanted In connection with bor anions are trying to compel the the murder of W. Carter Baum, DeERE Is more woe foi President company to recognize their repre partment of Justice agent near Mendleta of Cuba. The A. B. sentatives In dealing with employees Rhlnelander, Wis., April 23. C society, strongest of the secret instead of the company anion with In addition to the federal prize, political associations In the Island, which it has had a labor contract the person who can catch Dllllnger has announced that It would no for 10 years. will receive $1,000 reward from longer support the Mendleta govRev. Francis J. Haas, formerly of of five states Indiana, Illieach ernment The reason given was Milwaukee and now chief conciliaOhio and Minnesota. "the lack of firmness displayed by Michigan, nois, tor for the national labor board, the government In dealing with terwas sent to the Wisconsin city with with men responfull authority to act Mayor Hoan, SITTING in his White House study, rorists, especially on the A. B. G assault for the sible over talked Roosevelt a Socialist, held the company re a dozen when June 17," millions to of his radio the parade directly sponsible for the strike and ensu-lnfellow countrymen, seeking to reas- men and women were killed and riots. sure those who have been alarmed scores Injured. The A. B. C. manifesto said the the frequent allegations that .t p rEDERAl, jnnorc ratinf.s by would continue to work for Is Deal New radical. society the becoming of Chicago gave one phase of of Cuba against terrorism the as good his critics rebuked He "doubting the New Deal a rap by granting an and other forms of "gangsterism" Injunction restraining the govern- Thomases," "prophets of calamity" which "are directly traceable to the ment from enforcing the provisions and "theoretical dlehards," and by Implication defended the brain Influence of Moscow gold." of the AAA milk licensing agree A crisis In the cabinet resulted ment against the Independent milk trust He highly praised the departand several members, who belong work In Its for the congress In In ing dealers the Chicago area. lines of relief for the distressed, to the A. B. C. offered their reslgffect, the Judge ruled that the gov atlons, as did 600 employees of ernment, through the AAA, has recovery and "reform and recon the treasury department usurped powbs which tinder the struction." Also there was a short lived Mr Roosevelt told his listeners Constitution It had no authority to the simplest way they could Judge naval revolt at Antllla, suppressed assume. The AAA officials In Washington recovery was to consider their own by the arrest of the leaders. A committee of conciliation wai declared they would seek to have situations. "Are you better oft than you were at work on the government's trouJudges Barnes ruling set aside, Jerome Frank, general counsel for last year?" be asked. "Are your bles and It was reported that II Is your might suggest a parliamentary form the AAA, admitted that If the de debts less burdensome? cision were upheld by higher bank account more secure? Are of government beaded by a prime, courts, the fifty marketing agree- your working, conditions better? Is minister. The A. B. C leaden ment now In force under the farm your faith In your own Individual would sgree to this If the premlet were chosen from their ranks. act and hundreds of the codes nn- - future more firmly grounded? - . I 1 'ft Aa o 0 v.s',i r. H r By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IIUIISDAY 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 oppo: rtunity for seeing at this small cost the modern version of "the greatest show on earth"? He (and she) does Indeed I They come by the scores, by the hundreds, by the thousands. They pour through the various entrances and .scatter to nil parts 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 duy the world Is very much their oyster, and they know It If you hapin to visit the fair on a Thursday and. In the midst of these juvenile crowds, find yourself saying, "1 dldu't know there were this many children In the world where do they all come from?" ponder for a moment upon this statement: The sight you may be seeing Is as nothing, compared to 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's 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 500,000 boys and girls, over half a million pushing, shoving, units of young humanity wriggling, whooping, descended upon the fair. They broke last year's one-daattendance record of 307,004 made on September 4, 1933. They broke all one-daattendance records of any fair anywhere, with the exception of the record of 701,942 on Chicago day nt the World's Columbian exposition of 1893. That wasn't tne only thing they broke but that s another story ! down the Avenue of Flags in an endless procesEarly on the morning of that historic May 31 sion of closely packed humanity to which only they began streaming toward the fair grounds. the milling crowds at' and BroadMassed from rail to rail on the painted bridges, way in New York and State and Madison in moved forward they slowly but unceasingly, are comparable. From the terraces of toward the turnstiles. Half an hour before the Chicago Hall the of Science as far as the eye could see time to open the gates they were packed tight these thousands of boys and girls were moving about the seven entrances. and south so close together that the streets From outlying parts of the city came the news north themselves to be moving. So steady was that street cars, "L" trains and busses were the stream seemed or young visitors across the bridges jammed beyond capacity with youngsters bound over the lagoon that solid lines of policemen were for the fair. Immediately orders were sent out stretched across the approaches to prevent the summoning all exposition policemen off duty to weight of too many from endangering the strucreport at once. Five hundred exposition em- tures. were in as Mean officers. sworn. ployees special Over on Island, the part of the while every passing moment saw the crowds fair most the Enchanted popular with Young America, the conoutside the gates growing denser and denser. became so great that It was necessary Up from the milling mob rose a strange varl gestion to establish a oue-wawant Inl Let's The eager and enforcemassed ten traflic rule. ety of cries "We youngsters deep around Hey, stop your shovin' I off, go Lay some of the amusement centers and from 25 to I Look out! l'a nearly jammed .10 deep around others. Some of them youse guys spent most me In the eye with that lollipop! Hey, that of their day standing In line, waiting for a ice cream bar is melt in' and drlppln' all down chance to ride on the ferris wheel, or r my back! Oh, I've dropped the sack with or slide down a synthetic mountain. tny lunch In It! Stop pushin'! Quit But if many of them were Intent upon such your crovvdin'I Stop it, I tell you!" Bewildered gateuien tried In vain to hold them pleasures, there were thousands of others who the exhibit buildings until every aisle back. The turnstiles couldn't click fast enough Jammed was packed solidly with a g throng. to let them through. A hurry-ucall was sent In some of these buildings that other for 2(H) city policemen then for 200 more. In It was besides records were broken. In Justice things the administration building telephones were to however. It must be stated Young America, box From offices ringing wildly. Incessantly. came word of exhausted ticket supplies, of turn that oflicials in charge of the Hall of Science, of the principal points of attraction, say stiles out of commission and of guards trying one that the crowd there was mainly an orderly one vainly to maintain an orderly flow of eager aad more easily handled than an adult crowd of youngsters through the gates. Then came the the same size. news that the crowds were becoming absolutely But sightseeing wasn't their only activity. unmanageable. They were forcing their way was the matter of eating and drinking to through the service entrances through which There be taken care of. Early in the day It was ansupplies are brought Into the grounds. They nounced that 125,000 bottles of milk would be were beginning to scale the walls. They were free. It was, and It vanished like a dropping down Inside by the hundreds and para- distributed summer shower on the face of the Sahara light the bus which runs traflic lyzing just inside the desert In the struggles around the booths where western walls. it was distributed some of the bottles were brokOfficials of the fair realized that something en caused the only serious injuries of must be done quickly in order to avoid Injury to the and this a few minor cuts from the shattered day the youngsters Jammed outside the gates. "Let bottles. 'em all in free !" was the order flashed out. AH So the milk (as did hundreds of gates. Including the service entrances were thousands of hotdisappeared dog and hamburger sandwiches, thrown wide open. And then the deluge! thousands of gallons of Ice cream and of soft Attempts to coin appropriate similes for the drinks, and hurry-ucalls for fresh supplies which followed failed. One observer said were sent out sight throughout a swarm of hungry locusts." Another com- left behind all over the the day) and there was "like grounds a trail of dispared It to the stampede of a vast herd of Texas carded milk bottles and pop bottles. A force of steers. "The surge came up and across the cause 200 extra workmen, called into service to gather ways In a spectacle seldom If ever seen before up the abandoned glassware, the papers, the certainly never seen before in an American city," boxes and other trash, which was ankle deep one declared In places, soon gave up hope of Can you visualize a crowd of 500,000 people? these things one at a time. So picking up all they brought Remember there are only 13 American cities shovels and scooped the debris Into wheelbarwhich have more than a population of 500,000 rows. And they were scooping far into the far, and In the largest of these the density of popu- night lation Is less than 5,000 to the square mile, or By the middle of the afternoon the 640 acres. Now, the Century of Progress grounds crowds through the entrances hn,l .uu,i .i,.surcinc less 400 acres than of "walkavailable comprise a thin trickle. All over the rrm,n,i, ' vomic- lng space." Pour 500,000 people Into that amount Jters, heedless of "Keep Off the Grass" signs, of space, and wbat do you get? A crowd, of were stretched out In every availuble spot of course. shade. The hot sun had wilted most of them and was overcome the on fair some. These were rushed to the "crowded" Tes, May 31. It would have been crowded even If the horde of maintained by the fair, given a bath and youngsters had been evenly distributed ubout made to rest for awhile. Lifeguards In canoes the grounds, which tbey weren't. Tby streamed and motor boats were kept busy patrolling the i qA 5 y y A-- K& iVri i - v- S it- - Forty-secon- d " y 1 roller-coaste- slow-movin- p p s. - hos-pit- 1. "What'a your name, little girl, and where do you live?" A Travelers' Aid Society worker talking to one of the 1,400 children who were "lost" in the crowds. 2. This is how the Avenue of Flags looked during most of the day when 500,000 children invaded the Fair grounds. 3. Guards and other employees of the Fair formed human chains In an effort to restrain the children awaiting their turn to get in. lagoon to see to It that no venturesome youngtumbled in, but they couldn't stop many of them from doffing shoes and stockings and splashing hot, tired feet In the cool water any more than guards on shore could stop others from jumping into pools and fountains In various stages of dress and undress. Refreshed by such Interludes they were off again to Join the mob still milling everywhere through the grounds as Individuals, In couples. In groups chaperoned by harassed teachers trying In vain to keep track of their charges. One teacher solved the problem by using lengths of string to tie 16 of them together, wrist to wrist. As she led the way through the grounds, they trailed along behind her like the tail of a kite that is, until they attempted to spread out In the midst of the crowd. Then "tangle" Is a mild word to describe the resulting situation. She didn't lose any of her little flock, howeve, but there were plenty of "lost children" that day 1,400 of them to be exact, fourteen hundred who became separated from parents or teachers or companions. But thanks to a "clearing house'' maintained by the Travelers' Aid society all of the lost were found eventually. Urg'ed by the public address system to seek their stray charges ster at the society's headquarters, anxious parents and teachers stood in line for hours until policemen or Fair attendants pushed their way through the crowd with their weeping charges. Older children who knew where they lived were given carfare and sent home. Younger ones were com forted by the young women in charge of the "clearing house" and an harassed staff of overworked volunteer assistants. By the tlnie evening came and the thousands of twinkling lights which adorn the buildings of the fair were being reflected in the waters of the lagoon, an army of weary youngsters wns trudging its way to the exit Hy 9 o'clock the shrill clamor which had echoed throughout the buildings all dny was dying down to a murmur. There were still thousands of children In the grounds but after the spectacle of the day those grounds seemed strangely deserted. By midnight all of them had gone except for 65 unfortunate youngsters who were Btill "unclaimed" at the "clearing house." But hy 1 :30 In the morning the very last of these had been returned safely home. And policemen. Fair attendants, concessionaires, street car conductors, exposition oflicials (yes, and teachers and parents, too!) heaved the biggest sigh of relief In their lives. The g first "children' day" at the 1934 fair w as over, kjr Waatara Kwiptptr Fnloa. record-breakin- |