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The Washington times., 1934-08-04
RIFLES, TANKS
INSUFFICIENT,
OBSOLETE
Munitions Supply Adequate
For Only Six Weeks
In Case of War
By KINGSBURY SMITH
International News Service
Copyright. 1884. by. international

Copyright. 1884, by international
- News Service)
The twentieth anniversary Of
the start Of the World War, finds
the American Army in a relatively
weaker position than it was
shortly before the United States
entered the European conflict.
This was disclosed today by a
high ranking military chief at
tached to the War Department
general staff. A national defense
survey by International News Ser.
vice confirmed his views.
Munitions Low
It was learned in authoritative
army quarters that, despite all the
easily lessons learned about lack
of preparedness in the World
War, this country's munitions re-
serve has dropped so low it would
not last more than six weeks if
the United States had to fight on
q scale comparable with that ex-
perienced in the last conflict.
Furthermore, the Army is al
most totally lacking in modern
rifles, tanks, field artillery, anti
aircraft guns and gas masks.
A deplorably low munitions re-
serve and lack of modern Army
equipment has placed the United
States seventeenth among the
world powers. The munitions
supply has dwindled so low that
for the past year the Army'S
combat troops have had no am
munition allowance for target
practice.
If the Austrian situation should
develop into another world war
and the United States were
dragged in, this nation would
have to rely for at least four
months on a friendly ally for
munition supplies or find itself
virtually at the mercy of the
enemy within six weeks.
Six Months Behind
It is estimated that under
present industrial mobilization
plans it would take six months
to convert commercial factories
to a munitions-manufacturing
basis sufficient to met the full
time requirements of the Army.
Existing Government arsenals,
working full blast, could produce
only 8 per cent of the Army'S
wartime requirements.
The Army is lacking in almost
every weapon Of modern warfare.
One of its weakest points is the
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Mew Empire
HsiionedBy
President
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES

GRAND COULEE. Wash, Aug
A GN.S0.-The Federal Govern
ment is in the power business to
stay.
This was the message Presi,
dent Roosevelt brought to the
people of the Northwest today as
his train twisted through the
tortuouS hills of washington and
Oregon overlooking the begin
nings of a great Federal power
empire.
Beginning Satisfies Him
Millions Of Federal dollars have
been spent in the beginning Of
the development of the Columbia
River basin. More will be spent
in the years to come. Mr.. Roose'
velt came into the area today
for a look7see, and he appeared
satisfied with what he saw.
Here in the Grand Coulee he
saw the beginning of a develop
ment that ultimately is destined
to rank with that at Muscle
Shoals in the Southeast, the
Boulder Dam project in the
Southwest, and the st. Lawrence
in the Northeast.
Some people look askance at
the irrigation and power develop,
ment of the Columbia River.
With the Federal Government
taking millions of acres out OF
cultivation, through hiring farm
ers to reduce their acreage, what
is the use, they ask, of artificially
creating more producing areas to
add to the surpluses already ex-
isting.
Answer Is Ready
To this and similar questions,
the Columbia River development
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
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D. c. Boy Baseball Star Dies
AS Auto Turns Over

their own expenses and furnished
their own automobiles.
Martin O'Phelan, director Of the
Merrick Boys Club of the Christ
Child Settlement, accompanied the
boys in one of the automobiles,
and efforts arc being made to
reach him.
Miss Cady said information
reaching here was that the wash
ingtonianS tried to avoid hitting
the other car, which was on the
wrong side Of the road, and turned
over.
Edward Smith, Eddie Caruzzi,
Wesley Taylor, Merle Goss, and
John Waldron, all in the Waldron
car, were treated at Greenwich
Hospital for minor injuries. They
are staying at the Greenwich Boys
Club until after the inquest.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
WILL ROGERS
Says:

HONOLULU, Aug. 4 (SpeciaD.
Well, we are heading today for
the broad Pacific. It's been .
wonderful week here, but it
would take months to see IL all.
They do lots Of playing here,
but these old missionary fami-
lies do lots Of work, too. One
good thing about 'en1, they put
all their money right back in
the islands. Attorney General
Cummings got in yesterday. He
is ROOseveIt's lawyer, and I
guess come out to straighten
out some deviIment his boss got
in while here. HHey Long u
getting more publicity out here
in the papers than Hitler. II !
am seaSick tomorrow You won't
hear from me.
Copyright, 1894. by McNauShS
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Aluminium Workers
Threaten to Strike

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 4 GN.S0.
Refusal of the Aluminium Com
pany of America to sign a union
contract threw another labor
problem-a threatened nation
wide strike of 10000 aluminium
workers-into the hands of
Washington officials today. Con.
fronted with the aluminium con.
Germs uncompromising stand
against the closed shop, check-off
system of collecting union dues
and seniority rights, officials of
the National Council of Alum
mum workers departed for Wash
ington.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
DELAYS
'CRACKDOWN'
ORDERS
Mob Attacks Truck Driver,
Hurting Bricks, Bottles;
Troops Increased
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. 4
G.N.S0.-Two picketS were shot
by a non-union man today in q
new outbreak of violence in the
Minneapolis truck drivers strike.
The wounded men are George
Schirts, %, shot in the forehead,
and Earl Collins, SO, shot in the
leg. They were taken to st. Bar
nabas' Hospital.
Leo Holscher, %, the truck
driver who did the shooting, was
arrested by the military police and
taken to National Guard head
quarters.
Pleads self,Defense
According to Holscher, Is
pickets halted the ice truck he
was driving. He said they started
to smash the truck and one OF the
pickets hit him in the back with
a brick. He reached into the car,
seized a shotgun he had in hiding
and fired.
Gov. Floyd B. Olson this morn
ing postponed until Monday his
sides in the strike.
The governor, fighting mad,
held his unprecedented ultimatum
in allegiance over the weekend at
the urgent request of Fathr Fran
els J. Haas, Federal mediator.
Conference Held
In a dramatic conference last
midnight, Father Haas told the
governor he believed if the con-
tending factions were given q
little more time they might come
to an agreement to end the strike,
now in its nineteenth day. The
governor said:
"AII right. I'll hold back
until Sunday midnight"
Midnight last night was the
"deadline" Governor Olson had
set as the time for both sides to
get together and end the strike.
Under the personal direction OF
the governor. National Guards
men raided the headquarters OF
the citizens alliance.
The raid was made by 10
troopers under the command OF
Lieut.. Kenneth Haycraft, former
all-American football star at the
University of Minnesota, and now
an investigator for the State Sc
curities Commission.
Records Seized
Guardsmen took possession Of
the office for more than an hour.
They seized books and records
which they transported to the
armory. The troops were then
withdrawn.
Shortly afterward Governor o.
son issued a statement, in which
he declared:
"The evidence seized corrobO-
rates my charge that a citizens
alliance clique dominates and
controls actions Of the employ
ers' advisory committee; that it
maintains q considerable num-
ber of stool pigeons in various
labor unions.
""The investigation disclosed
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Johnson Accused
Of Plot on Press

Los ANGELES, Aug. 4 UN.S0
Gen. Hugh S. johnson, NRA ad.
ministrator, today stood charged
with seeking to establish a dicta'
torship over the press under the
NRA, by Carl w. Ackerman, dean
of the School of Journalism OF
Columbia University.
In an address before the Cali
fornia Newspaper Publishers ASso
ciation, Mr.. Ackerman declared
that General Johnson'S recent Chi
cago speech was "a direct chal
lenge to the press to lead the fight
for freedom of public opinion u
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Farley Visits Fair,
Exudes Optimism

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 G.N.SO,
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley arrived here today to visit A
Century of Progress, following a
speaking tour that carried him to
the Pacific Coast.
Radiating optimism, Mr.. Farley
declared:
"Everything looks good. Things
are picking up all over. Industry
is ON the rebound"
The Postmaster General plans
to leave tomorrow for Washing
ton,
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Adrian ISelin Sd,
Dies After Crash

FREEPORT, N. Y, Aug. 4
QN.S0.-Adrian Iselin Sd, of
East Williston, member of a So
cially prominent family, died to-
day of injuries sustained last
night when a motorcycle he was
riding on the Freeport motorcycle
track crashed into a track roller.
Young Iselin had been racing at
the track regularly and was TAX
ing a practice spin after the
races last night when the acci-
dent occurred,
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
MAYOR DEF|ES
HUEY LONG
FORCES
WaImsIey Ready to Hold
City Offices With 10000
Police Against Guard

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 4 Q.N.S).
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley to-
day served notice on Senator Huey
P. Long that he is prepared to
recruit a police force Of 10000
men if necessary to defend the
independence of New Orleans.
Declaring he IS now ready to
fight to the last inch Of ground,
Mayor WalmSley said he would
not permit seizure of any mu-
nicipal office under the guise Of
partial martial law.
Fight to Last Inch
Mayor Walmsley's statement
was issued from city hall, which
is being guarded by a hundred
special policemen, rushed there
last night when he learned the
detachment of National Guards
men holding the registration Of
flee had been reinforced by SO
men equipped with steel helmets,
gas masks and tear gas bombs.
The mayor said:
'TIl match Huey Longs
militia with policemen. I'll re-
cruit 10000 men or more if we
need them. The city is now
ready to fight to the last inch
of ground defending its indie
pendence.
''NO seizure Of any municipal
office under the guise of
partial martial law is going
to be permitted without a fight.
IF Senator Long wishes to
parade militia and mount ma.
chine guns in his office; if he
wishes to equip State troops
with steel helmets and gas
grenadeS, that is his affair,
but if he tries to seize any
municipal office he will dis
cover he has started a fight"
Fleming Has Guard
Senator Long and Brig. Gen.
Raymond Fleming have refused to
obey the mandate of District Judge
Nathaniel Bond ordering the de-
mobilization of the National
Guard. Contempt charges against
the two loomed as a possibility.
Deputy sheriffs were attempting
to serve the court order on Gen.
eral Fleming, who remained at his
office in jackson Barracks, sur
rounded by armed guardsmen.
Senator Long emerged smiling
from a conference with Gov
o. K. Allen at Baton Rouge and
announced that his protege in
the governors chair had "defied"
his request to comply with the
court order and disband the
National GuardSmen.
Demand" Refused
He explained:
"YOu know / made that boy,
and for him to get cheSty this
way rileS me.
"I'm just trying to be a good
citizen. The court told me to
come up and tell the governor
to get rid Of the militia there
and did.
"But Allen just told me to
go to hell"
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Cancer Authority
Dies of Disease

RANTON, Pa, Aug. 4
G.N.S0 DIR. Jonathan M. Vain
wright, 60, surgeon-in-chief of the
Moses Taylar Hospital, and ma
tionally known for his research
work, died suddenly at his home
here today, a victim of cancer
the disease he had spent most OF
his life and fortune battling. DR..
Wainwright was a native of Hart
ford. Conn.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Kaiser's Wreath
Sent Hindenburg

NEUDECK, Germany, Aug. 4
U.N.S.0.-"To My Great Field
Marshal" read the inscription on
the wreath which the former
Kaiser Wilhelm sent today to be
placed on the bier of the late Presi-
dent Paul Won Hindenburg.
The wreath was made Of white
roses, tied with black, white, and
red ribbon, the colors Of the
former German empire.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Youth Sentenced
For SIS Forgery

William Pier, 18, Potomac, Nd,
was given a suspended sentence
in Montgomery County Circuit
Court yesterday by Judge Charles
w. woodward, after his convic.
ton on a charge of forgery.
Young Pier was convicted of
forging a check for SIS on the
Normandy Farms, a roadside tea
house near Potomac.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Invited
To Address A. F. L,

NEY YORK Aug. 4 Q.N.SO.
Mayor LaGuardfa was chosen to-
day by the American Federation
of Labor to deliver the Labor Day
address before 250,00O Of their
members in the Lagoon amphi-
theater at A Century of Progress
in Chicago. William Green, A. F.
Of L. president, John Fitzpatrick,
president of the Chicago Fedora
ton, and Victor A. Olander, Sec
retary of the Illinois State Fedora
ton, extended the invitation.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
3 Women Escape
Oklahoma Prison

McALESTER, Okla, Aug. 4
G.N.S0.-Three women convicts
Of the Oklahoma State prison
here sawed their way out of the
women's ward of the penitentiary
early today and escaped. The fu-
gitives are Iva Rhodes, Is, serv-
ing 35 years for murder; Bessie
Catlin, 20, serving 20 years for
manSlaughter, and Clarice Jones,
18, serving five years for robbery
with firearms.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Howell to Study
Air Service Abroad
By InternatiOnal News service

BY InternatlOnaI News service
The comprehensive investiga-
ton of American aeronautical
problems projected by President
Roosevelt's new aviation commits
sion continued today as Chairman
Clark Howell embarked for a
months survey of flying condi-
tions in Europe.
Other members of the commits
sion now are engaged in a 10000
mile inspection tour of the prin-
clpal air routes and centerS of
the United States.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
Chief of Chicago
Detectives Quits

CHICAGO, Aug. 4. Q.N.S0.
Chief of Detectives William
C"Shoes") Shoemaker, who d.
rected the long hunt Of Chicago
detectives for John Dillinger, re"
signed today. It had been ru-
mored the veteran police officer
would resign the post he has
held since 1881, and would be
replaced by Lieut.. John L. Sui
livan, ace investigator for the
States attorneys office.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04
OFF FOR CAMP

Capt. w. Cameron Roberts,
with three officers and 81 men
of the Alexandria Light Infantry,
will leave tonight at Z p. m,
for the state military reservation
near Virginia Beach for the
annual two weeks encampment.
The Washington times., 1934-08-04

MRS. DALI WITH REPORTER
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S only daughter, Mrs. Cur
tbs B. DALI arrived here at Union Station today from
Chicago where she turned over her children "Sstie'
and "Buzze to their daddy for visit following her
where she will work hard catching up with her writing.
Times Staff Photo. (Another picture on Page 81
The Washington times., 1934-08-04

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change
in temperature Full Weather Report on Page 9.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
ENCOURAGING G

IT isn't often that you get a second edition
of a worlds fair-especially in his mod
ern era, when a great explosion seems to
start under greater handicaps than was the
case a generation ago.
But the Century of Progress exposition, in
Chicago, has now officially begun it's second
season, and the record is a rather remark
able one.
1t indicates, in the first place, that Chi
cago is putting on a pretty good sort of show
for its visitors. If a large number of visitors
were not expected, the fair wouldn't reopen;
and there wouldn't be a chance of getting
them if those who went last summer hadn't
made favorable reports.
Furthermore, it shows that the country is
m better health financially than it was a
couple of years ago. A lot of money is going
to be spent at that fair this summer.
The mere fact that people have it to spend
is a pretty good sign of returning prosperity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
POLITICAL VOODOOISM

ESOTERIC inner circles of c.. o. P. propa-
II ganda are ,acclaiming the deity as their
instrument of vengeance upon the new deals
farm policies of crop control. The divine gov
eminent, they intimate, has stricken twenty
seven states with the scourge of drought to
teach the AAA economists the errors of their
way.
Such political voodooism might appeal to a
tribe of savages. For two very good reasons it
will not appeal to Americans.
First, Americans know that crop control as
a means of curtailing unmarketable SURPRISES
is neither a new nor a Democratic doctrine.
1t is so logical an answer that Messrs. Coolidge
and Hoover themselves proclaimed it loudly
and long. The only difference is that the
present administration cid something about it.
Next, the people know that the Roosevelt
administrations farm policy is not one of more
crop restriction, but Of economic planning.
Suen a policy can mean crop restriction one
season and crop expansion the next, depend
ing upon the practical need.
We believe that Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, one of the ablest men ever to sit in
a cabinet, will meet this new problem in agri-
cultural planning with the same honesty and
vigor that he and his assistants met the old
one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
TRIRITTE TO HI LIVING

H people in Shelby, Mich, VINO clupped
l. together to express their appreciation of
the services that a country doctor had rem
dered them over many years had an idea
that would stand a good deal of copying.
Probably you saw the story. The doctor
was William L. Griffin, who is rs now and
who, in his forty-six years of practice in and
around Shelby, has brought something like
$500 babies into the world.
Furthermore, he didn't stop at that; after
bringing these youngsters into the world, he
did all that he could to make the world a
pleasanter place for them.
Thus, during the years DR.. Griffin and his
wife provided a home and schooling for
ffty-two boys and girls. For decades their
house has always been open to young men
and women.
Through it all the physician made his
regular rounds, following the steady grind of
the hard-worked country doctor, despite the
fact that he had been left permanently
crippled by an accident in 1902.
So, all in all, the doctor deserved the big
celebration that several hundred of his
grown-up babies put on for him.
Now there are men like this in every town,
big and little; men of whom it truly can be
said that they are the salt of the earth. They
seem to have been born into the world for
no other purpose than to do a lot of hard,
ill-paid, and rather thankless work for other
people.
Nearly all of us, at one time or another,
have been indebted to some such person.
But usually we just take it for granted,
saying and doing nothing to show our thanks
until it is too late. BY and by the man dies;
and then we Loyalty send flowers to his
funeral, and fall in behind his coffin as it
goes off to the cemetery, and tell everybody
we meet what a fine man he was and how
much we owe him.
The interesting thing about this demon
tration at Shelby is that the people didn't
wait for the funeral.
A man like Dr.. Griffin never gets much
in the way of a material return for his
services. He does what he does because of
some inner compulsion, some light in his own
heart that makes the way of. service and self
sacrifice the only possible way for him.
The least we can do, when we know such
a man, is to copy these Michigan people-and
rally round with the flowers and the fine
words while he can still enjoy them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

with contracts, and is based on commerce
powers of the federal government.
Furthermore, the Arkansas law made the
error, as pointed out by the court, of basing
it's ban upon the emergency, whereas the
law was a permanent one and no end-of-
emergency expiration date was fixed. Most
of the other emergency laws" state and fed
eral, have such a period fixed.
Chief Justice Hughes opinion carefully
limited the courts ruling to attempts. such
as was here made, to curtail payment of OBJ
legations incurred before the act was passed.
The concurring opinion of the four con-
sentative justices, seeking to compare the
Arkansas law with the Minnesota mortgage
moratorium law which the court previously
upheld by a 5-4 vote, is not convincing. AS
Chief Justice Hughes pointed out, the mora
torium law had a definite date of expiration
and made an effort to be fair both to creditors
and debtors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02
AMERICA AS IS

NNE of the finest pictures of America and
~ American life as it really is, stripped of
the glamorous adjectives Of Fourth of July
speakers, is contained in the reports on hous-
ing conditions now being released by the
department of commerce.
Statistics on Columbia, S. c., are the first
released on a southern city. And Columbia is
not singled out as g horrible example. Her
housing conditions are, we suspect, as good as
other cities of her size.
And how do the people of Columbia live?
Out of 1880 homes in the city, $500 range
from crowded" to greatly overcrowded."
More than half Of them have heating
apparatus of less efficiency than a heating
stove.
A total of 4,1O2 have neither gas nor cleo
trio lights.
More than 7,100 housewives are without
gas or electric heating appliances.
More than 4.4OO do not have indoor water
closets.
Only $500 have tubs or shower baths.
Only 1895 have mechanical refrigeration.
We may talk of SURPRISES and lack of work
for the unemployed.
But if in the housing field alone, America
were to build herself to a point of decency.
there would be work for all for years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-02

said if she had taken a second
thought.
Seven weeks is a long time for
just one thought. She just couldn't
take it. When she didn't win every
thing she just laid down on the job.
I will say she is just n out
of that whole organization who feels
that way. I, for one, feel like we
have gained considerable Roadway.
No, we didn't get what we wanted,
but I will bet it will be a better
place to work from now on. I feel
like the national labor board treat
ed us like children, just trying to
pacify us until October.
We are just as strong now as we
were on strike, and when the Octo-
Der election rolls around there is
going to be some flying colors, but
not the E. M. B. A.
There will not be any underwear
makers or janitors to vote against
us, just those who are eligible to
have the honor of belonging to
branch No. 30.
If that vote last fall was On the
up and up, we would not get an
other vote this fall, but it would
have beeH in force for the duration
of the MIRA. That proves one thing
to me, that we were right in our
action, otherwise we would have
been forgotten entirely.