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FRIGHTENED by what Ger
l. many is doing, France, Brit
ain, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Po-
land, Russia and other European
powers are speeding up their own
production and buying from
abroad.
A race for supremacy has be-
gun, and the United States is
profiting by this not altogether
reassuring windfall. It's 1870 and
100 miles an hour commercial
planes are everywhere in demand.
1 asked an American airman
here if these fast ships, capable
of carrying from ten to twelve
passengers at nearly 200 miles an
hour, weren't potential bomberS.
"Oh, heavens, mol" he exclaimed.
But slowly he turned his head in
my direction and solemnly closed
one eye.
The nightmare which every ma
ton of Europe has been having
for the last decade-a sky black
with planes bearing death and de-
: struction in the shape of lethal
gases and high explosives-now
seems about to come true.
II =
INFORMED persons in Germany
L no longer deny that, with the
reichswehr and its reserves, the
Nazi Brown Shirts, Steel Helmets,
and other organizations of a mill
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take part in field maneuvers or
be concentrated in strategically
placed military camps.
The regular Germany army, or
reichswehr, would be increased
from 100000 professional soldiers
under twelve-year enlistments, to
a short-term service 100000 strong.
II Il
HITLER wants short range
L l. military planes, but is willing
to exclude bombers. He would
accept so per cent of the military
aircraft possessed by France, or
80 per cent of the combined
strength of her neighbors, which,
ever proved the smaller.
At the end of ten years he de-
mands equality with his principal
neighbors.
Germans believe France faces a
bad situation at home, economi-
cally and politically, and a divi-
sion among her friends and allies
abroad. They do not think she
would dare risk another German
occupation at this time. And,
given another year or so, Ger
many would be too strong.
Certain British officials are
openly critical of the French po-
sition. Belgian Premier Count de
Broqueville has publicly stated
that "the lesson of history and
reality" is that no great nation
can be kept Indefinitely disarmed.
n n
DERLIN has become the mecca
- of American aviation experts
and statesmen. A single United
States concern placed an order
here for equipment for 1000
planes. And it was a rush order,
cash on delivery.
was sitting at a table having
supper in the Adlon bar, A group
of half dozen Germans and an
American entered.
champagne cocktails all round,
Fred" the American said to the
bartender. 1--WE want to celebrate.
This is no ordinary occasion and
your best is none too good"
The American had just signed
an important airplane contract
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mystery. They have had plenty
of time-a total of three weeks
to prepare an expression of opin-
ion. The long wait mas caused
anti-NRA sharpshooters on Capt.
toll Hill to sharpen their toma-
hawks. They interpret the silence
as meaning tacit assent to the
barrow thesis that the little bust
ness man has not been getting the
proper break from the blue eagle
as compared with big business.
OUIET Sumner Welles is busy
~ building himself an eternal
monument in Latin America.
1t is the Central American High
way, talked about for more than
twenty years, but only a dream
until he got behind it. . Work
ing with Honest Harold Ickes,
Welles secured 100000 of PWA
money to finance the production
and export of American road
building machinery, cement and
other materials. General Billy
Mitchell, of army air corps fame,
will be chairman of the new fed
eral aviation commission to draft
a national policy for aeronautics
if the White House can persuade
him to accept the job. Henry
Ashurst, Arizona's star senator, is
facing a tough battle in the home
state to hold his seat
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with the Nazi government or its
agents.
Germany may not be able to
meet interest payments on $780,
100000 worth of obligations held
in the United States, but she can
find the necessary foreign ex-
change to pay for something she
wants.
OUTSIDE Berlin I saw civil
" ian flying field. Dozens of
planes circled overhead. Others
were landing. Some were poised
for the takeoff.
Student pilots,7 German.
companion explained. Scores of
youngsters were awaiting their
turn for practice flight.
Many officers have quit the
army to take up commercial" or
sport" flying. There are airfields
all over the country devoted to
civilian aviation, all strictly under
General Goering, now national
aviation car.
Even the schoolboy's glider is
under his orders.
Forbidden military planes by
the Treaty of Versailles, Germany
is now definitely out to make her
self as nearly supreme in the air
as she can. Only she will call it
by another name.
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skunk. But for some days the
holiday continued.
McCarran gets what he wants.
WHATEVER else he may be
w as boss of the MIRA, Cen
eral Hugh S. johnson can claim
credit as a good prophet in at
least one respect.
Addressing the closing session
of the NRA code conference, on
the night of March 7, he warned
assembled business men that I'M
less they voluntarily increased
wages, reduced hours and recog-
nized labors right to indepen-
dent organization under Section
IA, the workers would take the
offensive to force them to do so.
I'VE know something" he
told his disapproving audience,
about what is coming in this
country this spring-the worst
epidemic of strikes in our his
tory"
Leaders among the executives
pooh-poohed the forecast, charac-
terized it as scare talk" to get
them to accept the Presidents
proposal for a general 10 per cent
wage increase and 10 per cent
hour reduction.
That johnson was not painting
rhetorical scarecrows is being
proven on the front pages of every
newspaper. From the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and from the Great
Lakes to the Rio Grande union
labor is militantly on the march.
More, the steel workers have
sent word to their employers that
unless wages, hours and recogni-
ton demands are met, they will
take the picket lines on June Is.
These men have a bitter and
bloody strike tradition behind
them.
THE cat-and-dog war of words
Il between the MIRA moguls and
the Darrow board has obscured
an important fact concerning the
latter's provocative report.
When the document was re-
ceived by the President he an
nounced that he had turned it
over to the department of JUS
tice and the federal trade COM
mission, as we'll as the NRA for
study and comment.
The NRA's sulphurous rejoinder
is now history. But from the
other two agencies not word
has been heard.
The reason for this silence is a
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In Pennsylvania, which was one
of the six states carried by the
Republicans against Roosevelt, a
Republican, Governor Pinchot,
running as a supporter of Roose-
welt, polled about As per cent of
the votes in the Republican pri-
mary. IN New York, the Repub-
lican state chairman openly is
opposed to attacking the ma
tional administration. The west
ern Republicans are, of course, as
insurgent as ever, and what seems
to have happened is that their
insurgency has pervaded the east.
Franklin Roosevelt seems to have
produced about the same sort of
division in the Republican party
as did Theodore Roosevelt.
That the Republican party
should find itself divided without
an issue and with no leaders
whom the whole party trusts, is
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-G GO -ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON June Headers Capitol
W to know what's what putting circle
the
This racing days if ali the
measures the President passed put through
But there potent picking particular day
legislative
June is Saturday the session should
Ing Monday t
sideep would be able to force
ton of their bills
lhee projects are the Connery hyhour the
enKe billions
- 0
because this IS congressional election
practically certain # they
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ThlS would not, Of course, mean
their enactment, since the senate
would have to concur.
But in order to avoid a pro-
tracted and complicated legislative
battle, Roosevelt wants to stop
both bills in their tracks by send
ing congress home before action
can be forged.
A THOUGH a rookie on Cap
L N itol Hill, red-faced Pat Nc
Carran of Nevada has been almost
continually in the senatorial spot
light.
Newcomers are supposed to be
seen and not heard. But Nc
Carran led the fight for pay resto-
rations in which veto was over
ridden. Then, with the admins
tration intent upon its own Black
McKeller air mail bill, McCarran
introduced his own measure and
attempted to steal the show.
This was not surprising. At
the early age of II McCarran stole
his first show He used a live,
wild skunk to his own advantage
without getting contaminated. In
politics, that is a valuable ability.
1t was spring and Pat McCarran,
with his schoolboy cronies had
spring fever. They wanted a
holiday.
Amoling home about dusk, they
saw full-grown skunk which ran
into a culvert. Pat was struck
Immediately with the potent pos
sibilities of the situation.
They got sack, held it open at
one end of the culvert, then poked
sticks in the other end, shooting
the skunk into the bag. So deli
cately was this done that the
skunk took no offenSe and gave
none, even when they gently tied
up the bag and carried him to the
school house. where they put the
skunk in the bottom of the organ.
Next morning all went well. The
teacher opened school as usual by
announcing music. One of the
girls sat at the organ and began
playing, her feet pumping vigor-
ously on the pedals.
To the skunk, fun was fun, but
getting walloped on the back by
pounding pedals was something
else again. There was sudden
scuttling inside the organ, then
came an overwhelming, terrific
pungency.
School was dismissed. A man
in rubber boots was called by the
school trustees to remove the
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Haywood BROUN

THE indianapolis 50O-me automobile Speedway
4 race is the second great disappointment in the
life of every sports reporter. That was the lead
had designed for my current column And if any,
body asked, What is the f1rst?" it my intention
to answer, Niagara Falls" or possibly 1.-The Yale
Harvard boat race"
But am not one to dstort the truth in order to
make feeble joke. For almost two hours was
thinking in terms of concepts which found it neces-
sary to discard. Man is more than the machine.
That sounds well enough. would rather watch two
Indifferent selling platers going down the stretch
neck and neck than see some perfect product of an
engineers imagination sweep to a hollow triumph
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BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scr;unS.Howard Foreipn Editor
SCfippS-HOWard Foreign EuItOt
Copyright. 1884 by NEA Service, Inc.

by
ID ERLIN, Germany rearmng-feverishy have con-
ID hrmed this in American British quarters
be doubt
asked the of the world
Germany present
Europe accomp armng herself and trusting
to the upset o by with it,
Such fifty nations comprising the
of
other neighbors will
regulated unregulated.
whether shall unarmed
strengthening her military machine
is
consent what
that Germany is rearmng British observer told
the filters that nobody knows how
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at a hundred plus miles an hour.
Many an automobile can go
faster than Bonthron of Prince
ton and yet I would rather see
him jump his field upon the
inspiration of the final gun than
watch a Pierce-Arrow pull away
from a Chevrolet.
But my well-considered theor-
les came crashing down upon
my head because the auto race
suddenly took on drama and
personality in it's final stages. At
the moment of writing I under
stand that a protest has been
lodged and that the laurel
wreath can not be awarded I'M
til the technicians and the blue
,1x;,,f ~ n lyorc houo hppT1 rallied
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in. That is nothing to me. When this verdict is
rendered I expect to be far, far away All know
is the simple fact that for forty1ve minutes I was
standing on top of my toes shouting, Come on Bill
I don't even know Bill whose full name is wild
William" Cummings, the Indianapolis fash"
Neither Mr. Cummings nor for that matter Indian
apolis means very much to me. But by necessary
and theatrical miracle the gadgets of oil and gas and
Streamline took personality
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-01

AAOO AlCOCoooIAly ul6dIl tIl6 emu OF
goodness in the most exclusive
gentlemen's club in the world as
the statesmen of the old school
take pride in calling their little
group.
For the Honorable Francis j.
shoemaker, member of congress
Minnesota, is now campaigning
his state for election to the
upper house and, of course,
might be elected.
Anybody might be elected
from Minnesota in the present
disturbed social and mental con-
dition of the state.
Statesman Shoemaker is dis
tlnguished for many unconven-
tlonal experiences and remarks
h1If 1n
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Sort of a Fugitive

ME congressman is sort of fugitive at the pres
ent time, having left town to campaign for the
senate without troubling to appear in the local police
court Wnere he was due to go on trial on charge
oI oeatlng up taxicab driver.
The judge issued writ for him and if Statesmen
shoemaker should return as a member of the SEN
aCe ne might be sent to the local jail house for as
long as three months.
Judges here no not like to be casually ignored bv
oe4enoantS, even If they be members of congress
or perhaps it were more correct to saw especia1lv
II they be members of congress, because there are
more than 400 members and as a group thew man
age 10 make serious nuisance of themselves claim
ing many petty prerogatives for themselves and their
families in traffic and in general chucking their
oncal weight at the expense of people who live
here. w avg
Should the judge decide to send Statesman Shoe
maker to Jail for three months that experience will
De no novelty to the gentleman from Minnesota
he spent nine months in Leavenworth prison once
Tor sending letter to banker on the envelope of
winch he wrote for all who handled it to see robber
OF widows and orphans"
AT his trial he said ne wrote this DESIGNATION
merely as identification. He wanted to be sure that
the letter would be delivered to the right man
Inc judge paroled Mr.. Shoemaker for a wear and
ne went back home and began to tear the hide off
Inc honorable court in labor publication of which
he was the editor.
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not astonishing. 1t is in pre-
clsely the position of the Demo-
cratic party after The disastrous
defeat of 1920.
OUR national parties are really
~ loose declarations of sectional
parties and they achieve unity
while they are victorious. When
they are defeated they fall apart
and quarrel and they come to-
gether again only when the pros
pect of national victory is great
enough to overcome the necessities
of local politics. Thus Franklin
Roosevelt united the warning DEM
ocrats in 1882. Neither he nor
any one else was able to do it in
1924 or 1928.
The Republicans today are in
the position the Democrats were
in when they had to face the
popularity of Calvin Coolidge.
They do not know where to attack
so, like the Democrats at Madison
Square Garden, they attack each
other.
The attack on the Roosevelt adj
ministration which is being for
mulated by men like Mr.. Mills,
Colonel Roosevelt and Senator
Reed undoubtedly tends to crystal
lie conservative Republican senti-
ment, particularly in the east,
and to serve as a rallying point for
some discomfort.
But it seems to me to have one
incurable defect if it is designed
to attract the more or less indie
pendent voters who shift about
and really decide elections. 1t at
tempts to prove too much. 1t is
opposed to every major policy of
the administration.
1t is opposed to the policies of
RECOMMENDATION and it is also op-
posed to the monetary and expan-
SlonlSt policy.
+ Il
MY own guess is that the thing
4V1 which prevents the Repub-
licans from getting into an effec-
tive position is that their best
leaders do not really disapprove
of certain of the Roosevelt poll
cies and do not dare to approve
them.
This, for example, they feel
bound to take the position pub
licly that it was wrong to leave
the gold standard and wrong to
revalue the dollar. They feel
they must be loyal to the tradi-
ton of 1896. But at the same
time they are stumped when they
are asked to explain why a meas
ure which is now perfectly re-
spectacle in England, Canada,
Australia, Scandinavia, and &C
copied by conservative opinion as
necessary to recovery in all these
countries, was bad here.
Copyright, 1884
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Fair Enough
WESTBROOK PEG[ER

NTASHINGTON, June LIN a moment of com-
w parative calm, United States Senator Huey
Long of Louisiana remarked recently that he did
not like the United States senate or Washington
either and did not believe he would run for re-
election.
That decision, however, if it is a decision will
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one afternoon when he obtained permission to
aooreSs his colleagues his opinion of them
congressman Shoemaker then arose and said the
mouse of representatives reminded him of the dodo
bird. - wy wv"
Inc oooo bird" he hollered, always flies back
ward because it doesn't care where il is going hut
only wants to find out where the hell it has been att
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann


In signs
indicate the scsm which rent it in 1912
out IN is deeper thanev
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GERMANY ARMS HERSELF AGAIN
Vast Increase in Military Strength Is Adolf Killers Goal

of stories
his of the world oil
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Local Boy Makes Good.

HAVE not the slightest notion what type of motor
Il was being exploited by Wild William. I only
knew that a local boy" was about to make good in
the last half-hour with his machine, the brilliant
white number seven
Between him and victory stood number nine, a
coal black car, driven by one unidentified by
me. was with the come on Bill" crowd which
made other names Superf1uous Down the straight
away the cars of yellow and black would roar at
something like $50 miles hour And they were
almost neck and neck. Naturally there was some
slight diminishment in speed around the turns and
I think that Wild Bills final victory margin of Just
twenty-seven seconds could probably be traced to
thin edge of greater skill and daring in handling the
dangerous corners If he possessed advantage
it hardly could have been any more than the thick
500 miles and finish within the span of your saying
L have known him to write better columns" that
is race.
And since felt that the race would be won or
lost upon the Steep-banked battlementS which mark
the alternate ends of the track personally visited
the northernmost exposure, which is known
"Coroner's Curl" In the last few months it must
be that have eaten meat or benefited by some
change of tides in my ductless glands. I am less
tmorouS than was my wont. In fact stood some
six or seven inches away from DeadmanS Curve and
watched the cars go by with fascinated interest
One all but blew my hat off and another left me
with a wind-swept and eXophthalmic look from
which I may never recover But the net result was
that I moved little closer to the small wall of
fatality and cried, Come on Bill"
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Nine Months in Prison

60 the court revoked the parole and Mr. Shoe
- maker went to Leavenworth where he served
nln9 months and established relations with former
employe of bank who doing five years.
Ihey both were graduated about the same time
and when Congressman Shoemaker came to WASH
lngton he brought his old classmate with him as his
Office assistant.
during his time in Washington he devoted much
OF MS energy to single handed campaign to induce
the department of justice to adopt high test tyne
OF insect powder to relieve the personal discomfort
OF the undergraduates of his old school at Leaven-
worth.
one OF Statesman Shoemaker'S peculiarities is
haplt OF bunting automobiles from behind with the
lore emu OF his own car when he is stalled in traffic
lie was doing that the night of the disagreement
Win the taxi driver and another time policeman
on duty at the new house Office building saw him
puIC clCzenS automobile all the way down block
as the drlVer chung to his hand brake and hoered
for assistance
he old 1t again recently in Minnesota and hunted
one car into the car ahead which, in turn slammed
INTO the stern of the car next in line
lie was arrested for that and fined $50 and when
ne came out of court one had attached his own
automobile for debt.
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sic 1III6IINO 10 SU'
Which is true. Hitler is using
rubber yardstick which never
ceases to stretch. Less than a year
ago, at Geneva. Germany was Of
fered an army twice the size of the
present reichswehr. plus $1S,000,-
600 worth of new ornaments along
with it.
What she then demanded, in
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Today the yardstick is much
longer. For the fiscal year which
began April /. 1884, Germapy's
federal budget calls for increases
for the national defense amount
ing to 821 100000 marks, or $685.
100000 at the current rate of ex-
change.
OF this increase, $4,000, 900
~ 100000, OOO) goes to swell the
budget of the army and navy;
100000 ($64,000,000) to the air
ministry; and 25O,G9O,OO0 marks
exactly $1OO,0O0,00OD for an item
hitherto unknown to a German
budget-the Nazi Storm Troops.
Somewhere, somehow, therefore,
Adolph Hitler plans to spend on
the German war machine, this
year alone. and above normal,
more than five times what it
would have cost less than twelve
months ago fully to meet Ger
many's armament demands.
Chancellor Hitler has let it be
known that he is ready to accept
a convention which would freeze"
ornaments within certain limits
and provided for international SUI
pervision.
Under this convention, Hitler
would agree to disarmament" of
his own Storm Troops, now 3,000,-
600 strong. They would not possess
arms, receive military instruction,
be differed by regular army men,