The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-28

cial language, the army ar corps lists the death of End Lieut.. Durward F. Lowry at Deschler. Ohio, first army flyer to die car- rying the mail. In more eloquent language the wreckage of the plane testifies to his heroism.
 Heavy storms before he reach ed Cleveland told Lowry he couldn't land safely, so he decid- ed to save as much mail as possible before he crashed. In order to throw out the mail he had to climb outside the plane, rip the canvas of the rear cock pit, and drop the sacks one at a time.
 IRON NERVE e
 To do this, he had to take the plane to a high altitude, tie the controls, all the plane to go into a spin, while he jumped out of the fuselage and into the rear cockpit. It takes iron nerves to climb around on the outside of a cockpit even in straight flying. It takes nerves of steel to do 1t when the ship is in a death spin.
 But Lowry almost got away with 1t. His parachute strapped to his back, the mail dumped, he jumped into the icy air. And but for one thing he probably would have been alive today.
 He pulled his rip cord two sec onds too soon. The chute opened, caught on the revolving tail, and Lowry was carried with his plane to death.
 MINUS MARINES
 Nicaragua, under U. $. marine corps rule for two decades, now has weathered one year minus marines. But apparently 1t Is in for trouble again.
 President Sacasa, University of Pennsylvania physician, who bat tied 50 long to head the Nica- raguan government, has turned out to be q timid soul. Particu- larly is he timid regarding the national guard, trained by Amer ican marines, and the sole police force of Nicaragua.
 So much does he distrust the national guard that q group of friends from his home town Leon armed with rifles, have been placed around the presiden- tial palace.
 Already revolt has broken out in the extreme jungle areas forty being killed last week.
 The state department, how ever, Is determined not to send the marines back again. Regard less of Frank E. Kellogg's favor itc slogan Protection of American Lives and Property" Nicaragua win have to fight 1t out by herself.
 STARTING YOUNG
 Politics and publicity go hand in hand, as Senate Page Reds" McClelland discovered even in his IA crowded years.
 Fired from the senate a dozen times in the last two years for mischievous pranks, but each time restored to duty by the kindness of some senator, Reds Is now launching @ Washington to San Francisco bicycle trip next summer. All he needs Is the bicycle and the financial back ing. And, he explains: ..
 "TCll be great publicity for the bicycle companies. And I know plenty of senators who'll write letters and give statements about 1t. Won't have any trouble crOss- ing the desert. I looked into that when I was In the movies fin Hollywood, before came to Washington"
 And he adds, confidentially:
 And. boy, 1t would help me plenty politically"
 THE AUTO FIGHT
 Stripped of charges and coun- ter-charges the automobile fight has been about just one thing the right of the workers to or ganize independently and under their own leadership.
 Automobile men, paying com paratively high wages, always had been successful in warding off unioniZing efforts until last summer. Then, with the indus- trial recovery act and collective bargaining-the famous Section 7a-the A. r. of l.. sent organ iZers among the auto workers preaching that not only was 1t their right, but their duty to unite. The MIRA, the workers were told. was q joint under taking with capital given exten- sive self-governing powers and labor authorized to organize for collective bargaining.
 Confronted with this, the exec utivcs cast about for q counter move. As Section "a Is explicit. they had to abandon their tradi- tlonal hostility to any form of labor organization. But It was only strategic retreat. They said in effect: