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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
FORTY.YEAR DELAY FAILS TO
EIDE HUDSON SPAN PROJECT
Lindenthal, Who esigned East Riuer Bridges and
Has DerOted Lifetime to Seeking Approval
of Structure, Still Holds Hope.

carried on and served for several years
as a consulting engineer for the Key
stone Line tunnels and later had Of
ficeS in the terminal itself.
Once more he formed his forces,
established a company and moved in
all directions to advance his project.
Hundreds of persons subscribed for
stock in the corporation. To his prof.
ect he gave all he could spare of his
own means. Year after year, he worked
and planned Ridicule, abuse, adverse
technical criticisms, reflections by the
Secretary of War made no difference
to Gustav Lndenthal.
The project was favored by some
local civic bodies, denounced by
others. The Fifth Avenue AsSocia-
ton, for example, maintained that
the building of the bridge would en-
tail the erection of huge terminal
in Manhattan and of approaches
which would obstruct traffic and dis
arrange the whole map of the
borough. The engineers of the War
Department continued to object on
the ground that the span would in
and commercial vessels.
Mr.. LindenthaFs reply to that was
to plan loftier towers, which meant
also more room for approaches to
reach the higher span. A few days
since he suggested that vessels un-
able to pass through the 200-foot
clearance could telescope their nnasts
and that his company would bear the
expense of doing so. Recently the
opponents of the Fifty-seventh street
bridge over the Hudson have main
tanned that it would compete not only
with the George Washington bridge
and the Holland tunnel, but also with
the proposed Thirty-eighth street
vehicular tunnel, for the construction
of which the Federal Government has
made a $37 5000 loan.
All three of these Port Authority
projects are deemed sufficient for the
handling Of traffic by the critics Of
the Lindenthal plan. Its protector
and prophet, however, is not discour-
aged. His company declared 1t can
start work on this structure, which
will cost at least 500, 000,0 900. almost
Immediately after approval is given by
the War Department.
Mr.. Lindenthal, to briefly review his
eventful life, was born in Brunn.
Austria. He was educated at several
technical schools and at the age of
20 became an engineer on an Austrian
railroad, and later practiced his pro-
fession in Switzerland. Seeing great
opportunities in this country, he emf
grated in 1874. Jobs were not as easy
to get as he had hoped. but he finally
got one as a mason in the erection
of the buildings for the Centennial Of
Independence exhibition held In 1875
at Philadelphia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
AUTOPLANTSFACING
LEVELING PROCESS
Heavy Retail Orders Are Caught Up
With-Seasonal Relaxation
IsNot Expected.

motor car manufacturers facilities
still are equal to whatever demands
the consumer market may place upon
them.
In the effort to take the industry
out of the deficit class, many econo-
mics were invoked. idle production
equipment being junked in many in
stances and a number of manufacture
ing practices acquired during the
boom days of 1928-29 abandoned. 1t
had been said that when the motor
car makers were rushing toward a
100000 unit output mark in 1929
they had their plants equipped to
produce twice that many vehicles had
there been demand for them.
The sharp about face that followed
1929 and the repeated appearance OF
operating losses in the balance sheets
led to the suggestion in some quarters
that the industry had so sharply
contracted its production equipment
that a sudden upturn in business
would find it unprepared.
The first four months of 1884, how
ever, have completely disproved that
suggestion. and the industry has alb
sorbed a huge bulge in retail demand
within that period after starting
virtually from scratch at the begin
ming Of the year.
As a point of encouragement for
the remainder of the year. trade au-
thorities have cited the fact that al
though the huge accumulation OF
orders has been absorbed, the produc-
ton schedules for May call for an
output approximately as great as was
recorded in April and, as one au-
thority phrased it this week:
The industry is not producing any
cars it cannot SELL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
RELIGIOUS CENTER
IN MISSOURI GAINS
Latter Day Saints Crowd
Community to Secure
Benefits.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo, May a.
Straitened economic conditions have
caused many members of the reor-
ganized Latter Day Saints Church to
look with new enthusiasm upon the
century-old plan of its founders to
gather its people about Indepen-
dence, the center place." says DR..
Frederick M. Smith, first president
of the church.
Our people have come to feel in
creasingly," says DR.. Smith, grandson
of the prophet" Joseph Smith, who
founded the sect, that in times such
as we have been going through they
stand better chance of economic sur
vival If they live together where they
may help one another"
Because of rigid immigration restric-
tons, DR.. Smith said, church authori-
ties have not urged members in other
countries to migrate to the regions
round about the center place"
However, movement Of church men,
bers toward the huge auditorium with
its vast spherical concrete dome, head
quarters of the sect, has been steady.
There are now estimated to be 5000
members in Independence and Kansas
City, and more than 10000 of the
church's 110,500 members living with
in 100-mile radius.
Church officers, under DR.. Smiths
direction, are seeking to work out a
definite plan for members now living
in other parts of the United States
80 20 bA ntar-
place" A number of cooperative
communities like the one sponsored
by the church at Anterior, Mo, would
be the ideal arrangement, DR.. Smith
indicated.
These communities, all operating
under the church's conception of
stewardship, whereby each member
turns into the common treasury all
his income above his just needs, would
engage in various agricultural and in
dustrial pursuits.
The "consecrated surplus" in the
treasury would be available to tide
communities over lean years, and to
aid families who might be in need at
other times. DR.. Smith contends uni
versal application of this plan would
end "depressions.
In the Atherton community. large
" self sustaining colony of about 80
families. agricultural produce is mar
keted by the growers as group rather
than individually.
His church's ideal community differs
from that of the Amana colonies in
Iowa. which until recently were purely
Communicate, DR.. Smith explained.
The community desired by the Latter
Day Saints would not divide all goods
and produce equally among members.
but would provide for each according
to his needs" with the surplus going
into the communal treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Fortune Telling
Boon's as Gypsy
Tribes Reap Gold
Rosy Prerie,c of Future
Brings Good Sum
to Travellers.

FORT SMITH, Ark, May u [P.-
The saying ''as carefree as a gypsy"
has won an intensified meaning in
1884.
The wandering Romany tribes
which make Fort Smith their head
quarters have discovered that the
troubles of the outsiders-the "gor-
gios"-can be transmitted into gold
for gypsy pockets.
"Dukering." or fortune telling, has
experienced a boom. Many staid
citizens who worry if their enter
prises are on the proper path to full
recovery welcome the appea ance of
the wildly clad women who engage
TO foreteu the future for a trifiing
sum.
Predict Good Fortune.
With inbred crGftiness, they are
sure to predict GOO fortune, perhaps
sudden wealth. for their clients A rosy
prevlew of the future usually brings a
liberal fee. With the unbounded energy
characteristic of the Romany folk,
they scurry about their trade for an
hour or so, then flash out of town
in a caravan of cars.
Fort Smith is the central post office
for gypsies throughout the world. Let
tiers and packages are sent here, ad-
dressed in care of w. H. Cole, an
adopted member of the tribe. AS their
unofficial postmaster" he continues
the work of his late wife. famous
wherever gypsies gather as the Cor
gio Mother" Cole knows thousands Of
the nomadS, and saves their mail for
months, it may be, before they call
for it.
Have No Depression.
"The gypsies have had no depres-
sion," said Cole. because they never
went into it. Rent-free abodes, no taxes,
and no insurance payments have been
of great benefit to them. There Is no
such thing as broke gypsy"
The "dukering" carried on by the
gypsy women has its counterpart in
the "dickering" engaged in by the
men. When barter came into more
general use a few years ago, the
gypsies were in their element. For
generations the tribes have matched
wits at trading. Several fortunes
were accumulated.
Fort Smith has more than a utili-
tartan attraction for the gaudly
dressed nomads. With no ties of pa
triotism to bind them to homeland,
they yet are fiercely loyal to their
leaders.
For the winding Romany trail ends
in a peaceful cemetery here. Here are
buried two of their foremost leaders
king Yanko Urick and Queen
Amelia John.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
GOVERNMENT DRIVE
ONTOUHYS PLANNED
Federal Authorities Prepare for Trials of
"Dutch" Schmidt and Basil Banghart
at Asheville, N. G..

thority of Al Capone, once Chicago's
gang overload, during the final months
of his power. The Touhys were gen.
orally credited with victory against
Capone's mobsters, but termination Of
prohibition soon ended their source Of
tribute.
They swung into the abduction
racket and encountered the full heat
OF the Governments war on GRIM
inalS.
A rural Wisconsin policeman, how
ever, it was who constituted the i'm
mediate cause of the downfall of the
gang leader and his picked crew. He
stopped them after their car hit a
telephone pole near Elkhorn and they
we're held for the Government after a
small arsenal was found in their au-
tomobile. Shortly after they were
hauled away to st. Paul for trial on
the Hamm charge.
Roger Touhy, Edward Gather Tom)
McFadden, Willie Sharkey and Gus
Schaefer, were acquitted in ST. Paul.
But Sharkey, fearing for the future,
hanged himself in his cell.
Three Are Convicted.
The surviving trio, with Albert
polly Nose) Kator as an additional
defendant. was vhisked back to Chi
cago to be tried and the three Of
them were convicted in the abduction
of John Factor, international specula-
tor. Ninety-nine-year sentences were
handed down and Touhy, Kator and
Cchoafar
let Penitentiary
Banghart, brought here from Balti-
more for a later trial, was melted the
same sentence.
Last week the Illinois authorities re-
moved him from Joliet prison where
his confederates are incarcerated to
Southern Illinois Penitentiary at
Chester. His removal came just before
Federal marshal attempted to serve
warrant asking his transfer to Char
lotte on the mail robbery charge. But
Schmidt was previously returned to
the North Carolina city and Illinois
prison officials said Banghart would
follow him when the Government was
ready for him.
McFadden Given Clean Bill.
Their prospects loom none too bright
in view Of the imprisonment of Costner
on the mail charge despite the aid he
gave Illinois authorities in convicting
his pals in the factor case.
McFadden was given a clean bill in
the Factor kidnapping only to be i'm
mediately accused of carrying guns in
Wisconsin, a memento of the first
capture of the Touhyites.
Jim Tribble and Charles lice Wagon"
Connors were removed from the crime
gang by death that left bullet pune
tured bodies crumpled in the gutter.
Tribble was shot in labor feud. Con-
nor supposedly by gangster enemies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
BEES WILL BE USED
IN GROWING CLOVER
Ohio Apiarist Works Out Plan
for Pollenizing American
Farm Fields.

MARION, Ohio, May II P).-The
hope of saving American farmers mil
lions of dollars in potential losses is
contained in a tiny package OF five
queen bees of unusual species, soon to
be imported from Russia.
The whole story hangs on the bees
vital Importance as a means Of pol
lenizing blooms Of red clover which
cover thousands of acres of American
farm lands Unless the blooms are
pollenized, the seed will not grow.
Potential losses to American farm
ers arise from the possibility they
sometime may find 1t necessary to
import red clover seed to get any
with a satisfactory percentage of fer
tility.
Fred Dittmer, operator Of an apiary
near Marion. is arranging the impor-
tation of the Russian bees. He says
the threat of having to import seed
from abroad already is slowly devel-
oping.
1t results, he explains. because most
of the pollenizing of red clover
blooms is the work of bumblebees,
which seem gradually to be becoming
extinct.
Only the bumblebees, says Dit
mer. have tongues long enough to ex-
tract the nectar Of the red clover, in
the act Of which they scatter the
pollen and thus make the seeds Ca
pable of growing.
The ordinary honeybee. this api-
artist says. is able to pollinate only 9
limited variety Of short-blossomed red
clover.
That is Why Dittmer Is turning to
Russia for the five queen bees Of a
long-tongued species found in a small
area in the Caucasus Mountains
From these five he expects to obtain
thousands of eggs from which to
spread the species in America.
"Other bee raisers have imported
bees from Russia. but never the right
kind" Dittmer saws
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

~ ETROIT, May IL tP).-Havine
caught up with the heavy &C
emulation of retail orders
- that poured in Immediately
following the introduction OF
new models four months ago, the auto
mobile industry apparently is facing
q period of leveling off.
Nowhere in the industry Is there
a disposition to believe that a sea-
sonal relaxation has appeared; rather
it appears to be the general sentiment
in trade circles that temporary de-
cline in consumer demand that fol-
lowed the stepping up of prices by
most producers has about run its
course and that continuance of good
driving weather will bring a noticeable
stimulus in retail demand.
The uncertainty regarding the re-
ouirements of the next few weeks
Is indicated in the fact that while
nearly a dozen producers have re-
duced their factory schedules for May,
nearly as many have increased them.
The falling off in retail sales volume
during the last half of April cut
sharply into factory output for that
month.
That the Midsummer months and
the early Autumn, normally season
of lowered distribution, will see good
demand for passenger cars seems to
be the conviction of most sales eX-
ecutives and heads of distributing
outlets generally. 1t appears to be
more or less generally accepted, how
ever, that the earlier prediction OF a
total factory output of around g.
500. 900 cars and trucks is impossible
of realization this year, barring an I'M
precedented trend durino, the latter
part of the year.
The leading producers in the low
price field continue to maintain de-
liveries at the seasons top level. and
it is from this fact that the indus
try's executives as we'll as the Stats
tical agencies gain the impression that
a definite tapering off still is some
weeks away.
Early this year the accumulation
of untitled orders was of such volume
that several producers felt justified
in the prediction that the years total
output would be we'll above the 3,000,-
O00-unit mark.
The stream of orders from dealers,
however. slowed down perceptibly
after the new models had been dis
played at all the dealers shows and
the fast moving assembly lines of the
factories turned out cars at speed
that soon caught up with the accumu-
lation.
The prompt filling of all these de
layed orders, of course. was demanded
by retailers to avert cancellations on
a large scale. The dispatch with
which the industry's production facili-
ties absorbed the accumulation is
pointed to in trade quarters as proof
of the fact that despite the sharp
reduction of factory inventory, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
NOnad Harvester Bands
Work Strawberry Fields
Professional Pickers Mark Epochs In Lives by
Crops as They Travel From
Place to Place.

r TITLE ROCK, Ark, May IL
R-Strawberries are ripening
in the Ozark foothills, bringing
the horde of nomadic pickers
who travel the circuit from
Maine to California year after year.
As the berries turn from pale green
to red, they arrive in all sorts OF auto
mobiles piled high with children, bag
gage and camping equipment.
And the cars barely come to halt
before the grown-ups and the older
children are hurrying down the rows
with big baskets. For the season is
short and minutes mean money. be-
cause piece work" is the basis OF
their earnings.
1t Is a strenuous life the wanderers
live, whether they are harvesting po-
tatoes in Maine, grapes in New York
State, apples in Oregon, oranges In
California, cotton and tomatoes In
Texas. strawberries in Arkansas-or
shocking oysters along the Mississippi
Gulf Coast. Always they work at top
speed.
Crops Mark Lives.
So closely are they attached to the
constant cycle that they mark epochs
in their lives by associating them with
the particular crop Of the moment.
Our baby there was horned In
Strawberries, chubby youngster will
tell you as he points proudly to his
little sister cooling in a shipping crate.
And a mother informs you. Our
Johnny there came in the Texas cot
ton," or perhaps Jude came down
with malaria while we were in toma-
toes
Some Of the families are fortunate
enough to find tenant shacks. For
the most part, though, they live I'M
der tents anchored to their dilapidated
automobiles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
CROSS.COUNTRYT TRIP
TO HONOR PIONEERS
Motorists Leave California to
Show Modern Auto Record
on Journey.

LOS ANGELES. May u (P.-A
modern automobile will leave here
next Tuesday for New York to show
the difference between rubber-tired
travelling now and on that day %
years ago when a venturesome ma
chine started blazing Americas first
real transcontinental highway.
That historic gasoline odyssey, pro-
NOTED by the Los Angeles Times. be-
gan here Tuesday, May Is, 1912. 1t
ended two months later when Coney
Island waters Tapped about the path
finders tires.
Pilot Bert C. Smith and Col. Dell
M. Potter, Arizona frontierSmen,
broke speed records. became lost,
we're nearly killed in an accident,
were arrested, and finally nearly
mobbed in New York-Which even in
those days was hard on heroes.
In commemoration of this trip,
which was mainly to further an ocean
to-ocean highway association and
stimulate fund raising, Harry Carr,
Times columnist and author, and Phil
Townsend Hanna of the Southern
California Automobile Club. will start
over the same route Tuesday. They
expect to emphasize "then-and-now"
contrasts on their journey.
Smith and Col. Potter crossed the
upper Rio Grande by humping across
a railroad trestle At Kansas City
the car, already sadly battered, led a
parade. Near Wheeling, w. Va, the
machine slid down slippery clay
bank. The travellers lives were saved
only because the back wheels caught
on a bridge projection. A policeman
shagged them at Baltimore because
they did not have a Maryland Il
cense plate President Taft received
them at the White House.
New York turned out for the jour-
ney's end in tumult. The New York
Times estimated about $4,000 per-
sons surged around the car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Future Ne,Usn,en
See Crime Driven
From, Front Page
journalism Students Set
Forth Their Ideas in
Campus Paper.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON. Ill, May 12.-Crime
will be crowded off front pages of
American newspapers of the future by
national and world politics, say North
western University students of jour-
nausm.
Not content with predicting the
trend of journalistic methods in the
years to come, the students recently
took over the Daily Northwestern,
campus publication, and in a single
issue set forth their ideas.
It appeared in tabloid size of five
columns with a liberal use of pictures
to illustrate stories.
Crime stories we're relegated to in
ner pages.
Bold face interpretations of the
contents marked the conclusion of
important stories.
Large Type Used.
All news matter was set in large
type and editorials in still larger type.
The news matter was in type larger
than generally used in papers today.
Dean Harry F. Harrington, director
of the Medill School of Journalism, is
in accord with the departure of his
students from present-day standards.
"Tomorrows newspaper will be
printed in a smaller, more convenient
size and in larger, more legible type, "
he says. 1T will give less attention to
so-called spot news and more to the
Interpretation and explanation so nee
essary in bewildered age.
Predicts Color Printing.
cit will use color printing extern
sively and will give more space and
attention to news pictures"
Dean Harrington has no fears of
the encroachment of radio upon the
newspaper business. OF it he says:
The newspaper of tomorrow GER
tainly will be greatly modified and
enriched by the radio, but it will. not
be supplanted as a recorder and in
terpreter of current events"
BY teaming with radio and tele-
vision, the dean believes newspapers
will be better equipped to provide
complete details and clarifying esti-
mates of all significant national and
international events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

special DlSpatcn 10 Inc otar.
"A YEW YORK, May 12.-Hope de-
M ferred for 40 years does not
VI make Gustav Lindenthal
i Y downhearted. More than half
of his career he has dreamed
and planned about that mighty bridge
which one day he expects to see cross
ing the Hudson River at Fifty-seventh
street to connect the New York and
New Jersey shores. His span OF lie
stretches more than four score years
to his birth on May 81, 1850, but In
his ambition is the fire of youth.
Again his project, SO often rejected,
comes to official notice in Washing
ton. Last week he and his associates
appeared before the Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committees Of the
House of Representatives to urge ap-
proval of the Kenney bill. This meas
ure provides for the appointment OF a
commission of engineers to determine
the proper height of the proposed
railway and rapid transit bridge as de-
signed and re-designed by Mr.. Lin
denthal. Whatever may be the find
ings of the commission, the bill re-
quires they be approved by the Sec
rotary of War. MIR. Lindenthal, presi-
dent of one of the original incorpor-
ators of the North River Bridge Co.,
told the committee the story of his 40
years campaign.
Mr.. Lindenthal began this engross-
ing project of his back in the COS,
when in the prime of life and with a
long record of engineering triumphs
back of him. This was before there
were tunnels for railways and vehicu-
lar traffic under the Hudson. long be-
fore the George Washington Bridge
plans were on the drafting board.
To give sufficient clearance for the
passage of large steamships he de-
signed towers more than TOO feet high
to bear the span 1t was the original
idea that the bridge would afford an
entry into New York City for such
trunk lines as the Baltimore & Ohio,
the Pennsylvania and the Erie. This
would enable them to compete with
the New York Central, at that time
the only railroad with a Manhattan
terminal for itself and its allies, to
which it leased its facilities. The
structure was designed, with its broad
roadways and its double decks to carry
not only trains, but rapid transit
routes and vehicles The project was
considered from all aspects by the
railroads. From the first it was OPP
posed in many directions as a possible
obstacle to navigation.
A blow to the hopes of Mr.. Linden
thai was the building of tunnels I'M
der the Hudson and East Rivers by
the Pennsylvania Co. and its creation
OF its present vast terminal between
Seventh and Eighth avenues at
Thirty fourth street. Nevertheless, he