davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-15

police reporters, singlehanded staged the biggest news scoop" in years.
 He was the only one, out of about seven ty-five newspaper men from all parts ot the country, to interview George And he inter viewed him lying on the floor of a speed ing taxicab with the boy. so rival reporters would not discover his find
 And after he had delivered the boy to the home Of his parents, where the door was slammed in his face. MT. Dreher panted up to his hotel suite fitted up as branch news room of The Seattle Times and began writing
 For three hours the 59-year-old reporter pounded out the story on a typewriter
 Dr. Dreher could not sleep that first Friday night when he learned George was missing He was downtown and ready to head for Tacoma before even the city editor was on the job next morning. Day and night he labored on the case.
 The way I've got it figured" he would tell any who would listen, they'll dump this lad out of a car somewhere along road, Knowing some will pick him up sooner or later. Meantime they'll be getting out of the neighborhood."
 Some of his young colleagues grinned be- hind his back But it happened that way
 MT Dreher heard this morning that farmer had called in and said he had found George Weyerhaeuser up Issaquah way in the woods.
 He "just grabbed myself a taxi and started out to meet that farmers car" the reporter declared
 Asked for statement, he said:
 Next year I'll be 60; I'll have been married twenty-five years on The Times thirty and in the newspaper business forty years"
 The Seattle Times, modestly reporting u chievement of it's staff member under the heal lg, "G-Men Change Tune Beg Reporter for News ays
 q wouldn't give you drink of water!
 "G-man" almost snarled that answer to John H. Dreher, gentle, gray-haired veteran of The Seattle Times staff in Tacoma the other day when Dreher asked some question about the Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping
 BUT
 Today "G-men" called on John Dreher at The Seattle Times suite in the Winthrop Hotel maintained for a large staff of photographers and reporters covering" the biggest crime in the history of the North west
 And they begged him to tell them what he knew
 Dreher had outwitted and outsped them to the kidnapped boy on his way back to Tacoma and was the first to get his story of the Kidnapping and his release.
 John didn't snarl back at the "G-men." Knowing Johnny we know that it all he course of days work to him. but at the sar ime, it's darn satisfactory reward, to scoop t martest youngsters and the wiliest oldsters in t business on crime story that headlini very paper in the country when you are turni ixty, and have been news-reporting for forty hose years
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-15

Rev Father Coughlin rakes the gutter for names to hurl at the press The padre is peeved His plan to run things in America is meeting with inSurmountabe obstacles Cincinnati Enquirer0
Evening star., 1935-08-26

Grafton and coordination of law en-
forcement activities is the Identified
ton Division OF the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, where are kept on
file more than 4,697, 296 flngerprints
OF criminals. There are 8,285 law en-
forcement agencies in this and for
eign countries contributing to this
file and continuously making recourse
to it for identiflcations of criminals.
The percentage of successful identifi-
cations is sos per cent. Three thou
sand times a day a fingerprint comes
to the identification Division from
some law enforcement agency.
The modern criminal is very fire.
quently an educated renegade with
out principle, but possessing sufficient
shrewd cunning to adapt to his ne
farious ventures modern devices. The
scientific facilities of the Federal Bu-
reau Of Investigation are ever at the
disposal of the Nations peace officers,
who, in many communities, are with
out adequate means to combat the
criminal forces.
Gratifying experience has shown
that, where the local police and the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation join
forces, the criminal element is routed
and brought to justice.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
INSIST
ON EQUAL NAvIES
Note Given London Demands
Principle as Condition Of
Conference.
Nv tha Associated Press.


LONDON, August 26.-A japanese
note delivered to the foreign Office to-
day insisted upon advance recognition
of naval equality with Great Britain
and the United States as condition
to the holding of a preliminary naval
conference here in October.
The note, delivered by Charge DAT
flares Fugii, made it clear Japan
would not participate in the four
power meeting unless Japanese pro-
posals for a common upper limit of
global tonnage as a general hmita-
ton of fleets as a whole formed the
basis of any new naval agreement.
Japan again outlined demands pre-
sented at the three-power naval con-
versation held here last year. These
demands were: Equality with the other
two powers; limitation or regulation
of the size of the fleets by q common
upper limit of tonnage, commonly
called the global tonnage plan; the
right of each power under such Imi-
tation to build any number Of the
size and type of ships it desired with
In the general blanket tonnage limit
for the fleet; elimination of the ratio
principle of limitation; recognition by
all powers of the right of each nation
to build whatever ships might be
needed exclusively for defensive needs;
elimination of battleships, large cruis-
ers and aircraft carriers.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
YOUTH CONFESSES
II DENVER FIRES
Police Claim California Boy
Has Admitted Thrill
BlazeS.
BY the Associated Press.

DENVER. August ga youth OF
II was said today by police to have
admitted he is the arsonist who set
a series of fires which struck terror in
the city's business district.
Sure set II of the fires, and be-
sides that I'm wanted all over the
country" Detective Sergt. Walter T.
Fox quoted the youth as saying.
Dave Eastes, a detective, said the
youth identified himself as Warren
Cramer, son of DR.. Harry r. Cramer
Oakland, Calf
IT got a thrill out Of It," Fox said
the boy told him. 1t was fun, eSpe-
cially last night, when started a fire
in police headquarters"
Disavows Three Blazes.
II set all the fires except those at
the Annunciation School, the Railway
Exchange Building and the Crescent
Flour MILL" officers revealed the boy
declared.
II started three fires in doctors
Offices that were never reported" he
told the officers. Il didn't want to
hurt any one-that is why I set those
kind of fires. I could have started
some good ones If I had wanted to-
The boy said he was wanted In
Colorado Springs and several other
Western towns for arson, grand
larceny and petty thievery.
He explained his rapid movements
about the city by saying he stole a
bicycle and used it to jump from one
spot to another.
Buildings Guarded.
Police maintained their guard over
churches and other buildings, how
ever, while they checked the youth s
statements.
Besides the blazes set In three
Catholic Churches, flames were found
in Office buildings, stores and the City
Hall. All of the fires were extin-
guished without heavy loss. although
a costly oil painting was slightly dam
aged in one of the church fires and
works of art were threatened at the
City Hall library. After the fire
at the police station last night the
youth was dragged from a night club
telephone booth.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
GUFFEY TO TALK
IN RADIO FORUM
Co-Author of Disputed Coal
Measure Will Explain
Law.

Senator Joseph F. Guffey Of Penn
sylvania will discuss the coal bill,
designed to regulate the bituminous
coal industry. in the National Radio
Forum, Thursday. at l0:30 pm.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over the network of the
National BroadcaSting Co.
Senator Guffey is one OF the CO.
authors Of this measure, which sets
up a commission to deal with the
soft coal industry and authorizes
the adoption of code" for the in
dustry. 1t has been called a little
N. r. A." Congress put the bill
through after President Roosevelt
had strongly urged its passage, even
though the members of Congress
might have reasonable doubts of its
constitutionality. The measure, 1t is
expected, will be tested in the courts.
The neutrality resolution recently
adopted by Congress, placing an en-
barge for six months on the ship
ment of arms and munitions to belllg-
erent foreign nations, will be dis
cussed by Senator Gerald P. Nye
OF North Dakota, in the National
Radio Forum Thursday, September 5,
at 1890 pm, Eastern standard time.
Senator Nye is the chairman OF
the Senate Committee which made
an investigation of the munitions
business and has sought to have
passed legislation to take the profit
out Of war He led the fight IN the
Senate. which forced the recent adop-
ton of the neutrality resolution.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
FOUR DIE AS CAR
DASHES |NTOR
Driver Surrenders to Police.
Says He "CouIdn't Stop
in Time"
BY the Associated P.-ess.

BY the Associated P'eSS.
BROWNSVILLE, Pa, August 26.-
Exhausted after wandering through
out the night, Peter Callahan, 40.
surrendered to police today and told
them he was the driver of an auto
mobile which plunged into the Mo-
nongahela River, drowning four per-
sons.
Callahan said he got on the wrong
road and was going too fast to stop
the car from falling into the river
from a ferry landing.
Mrs. Joseph Kolar. Al; her son
Joseph Kolar, jr.. 19, and two daugh-
tiers, Catherine, 10, and Elizabeth, 8,
were drowned.
The accident occurred last night
while the family was returning with
Callahan from a visit at the nearby
mining town of Denbo.
This morning Callahan walked into
the office of a magistrate. He ex-
planned he was unfamiliar with the
roads and took the wrong one.
I'VE were going between 80 and 40
miles an hour" he said. None of us
saw the river ahead until it was too
late. Then the boy yelled, There's the
river I tried TO stop, but We went
over"
Callahan managed to free himself
from the submerged car and swan
ashore.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
MINE IS DYNAMITED;
UNION WAR BLAMED
Machinery Wrecked in 100000
Explosion-Coil of Wire
Is Clue.
BY the Associated Press.

BENTON, Ill, August ga dyna-
mite blast, attributed by authorities
to the States inter-mine union war
fare, destroyed the engine room OF
the Waller Coal Co. mine early today.
Damages were estimated at 100000.
Boilers, hosting machinery and
other apparatus were wrecked by the
explosion, which leveled a one-story
brick building. No one was injured.
Deputy sheriffs discovered a long
coil OF wire near the building. which
they said had apparently been used
by the dynamiters in setting of the
blast from a distance.
This same technique was used re.
peatedly late last year in series of
coal train explosions, dynamite being
placed by the tracks and exploded
from a distance with blasting ma
chine as the train passed.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
SIGMA NU MEMORIAL
DEDICATION is HELD
Organization 66 Years Ago Re,
called at Lexington. Va,
President Yates Speaking.
BY the Associated Press.

LEXINGTON. Va, August &c -
Members of Sigma Nu Fraternity
dedicated a limestone and bronze me-
mortal here yesterday at the spot On
the Virginia Military Institute campus
where the organization was formed
66 years ago.
Three cadets, meeting in secret In
the shadow of a rock which formerly
stood on the institute grounds. started
the fraternity. which now has 96 COL
legiate chapters in 46 States. The
memorial was erected to honor those
three-JameS Frank Hopkins. Green
field Quarles, both of Arkansas, and
James McIlcaine Riley of Missouri.
The Sigma Nus who came here yes
terday are attending the convention
Of their fraternity at White Sulphur
Springs. In addition to several hun
dred fraternity members, some $50
spectators watched the dedication and
listened to the addresses
Frank L. Yates. Washington. D. C.,
national president of the order, made
the principal address.
Gen. j. A. Lejeune. commandant OF
cadets at the institute, accepted the
marker.
Evening star., 1935-08-26


are laid upon them. In the majority,
they are grossly underpaid, leaving
them open to temptation. Yet, in the
main, your average law enforcement
officer rarely yields. Further. he Is
courageous unto death, and no man
can give more.
Too frequently, however, the power
full hand of some town, county or State
politician stays the enforcing arm Of
the law and criminal, because of his
political influence, is allowed to escape.
No greater aid to police efficiency
could be given than the complete d.
vorcement of politics from law enforce
ment. Not until this separation is &C
complished will lawbreakers be forced
to obey our statutes.
Mere Transitory Phases.
Until political pressure is doomed
and until there arrives a continual
state Of cooperation between all arms
OF law enforcement, we must regard
the eradication of gangs like those OF
Dillinger, Floyd, Bailey and others as
transitory phases of condition which
can change overnight.
Consider the psychology of the GRIM
inal He rules by fear, and fear Is
the only weapon which can rule him
fear Of the certainty Of arrest and
punishment. The countries which
speedily find. arrest and adequately
punish their criminals have few major
problems. The fact that the con-
viction record of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation for the last year was
"a per cent is positive proof that the
criminal can be speedily found, ar
rested and convicted.
1t is my hope that always the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation of the
United States Department of Justice
may serve as willing and eager aide
to the goal which all law enforcement
bodies seek, the welding of a co-op-
erative machine which stretches from
coast to coast. every part functioning
perfectly against the common antag-
onist. We already have the ground
work for the best and only kind of
national police which America will
tolerate-local officers with a knowl-
edge of the local conditions and the
local criminals. These men, with the
support of the Federal Government,
are all that is needed, as far as per-
sonnel goes. But they must be freed
of their shackles.
A practical example Of the Coop
Evening star., 1935-08-26
MUNICIPAL POWER
SALE HELD INVALID
Ickes Says San Francisco Vio-
lates Act by Selling to
Company.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes ruled today that
the city Of San Francisco was vlolat-
ing the Raker act by selling power
from the Hetch-Hetchy dam to the
Pacific Gas & Light Co.
Declaring he came to this conclu-
sion with reluctance" Ickes said
there were two ways for the city TO
finance building its own distribution
system-either by holding a reteren-
dunn to sponsor a general bond issue.
or by amending its charter to permit
issuance of bonds secured solely by
the distribution system.
The case had been before the Inte-
rior Department in one form or an
other for the last II years. Several
months ago, while issuing permit TO
raise the height of the dam in Yosem-
ite National Park, IckeS summoned
the city to show that it was not vio-
lating the Raker act.
That law, under which San Fran
cisco originally obtained authority Tor
the Hetch-Hetchy project. provided
that the city must distribute the cur
rent itself.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
DR.. MARVIN HEADS
SCIENTIFIC GROUP
Named Chairman of U. S.
Delegates to Congress
in Mexico.

Or. Cloyd Eeck Marvin, president
OF George Washington University, has
been named by President Roosevelt to
serve as chairman of the delegation
from Che United States to the seventh
American Scientific Congress, to meet
in Mexico City September to II.
DR.. Marvin plans to leave for Mex
leo on September 8. Two other Wash
tngtonians, DR.. Neil M. Judd of the
DR.. france v. Scholes of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, are men,
bers of the delegation. Other men,
bers are DR.. Wallace Walter Atwood,
president of Clark University; Dr. j.
McKeen Cattell, editor of Science Dr.
Franklin Stewart Harris, president OF
Brigham Young University, and Prof.
Edward v. Huntington Of Harvard
University.
DR.. Marvin in accepting the ap-
pointment said:
This meeting of scholars from
the 81 American States has vast
significance, providing. as it does, a
striking contrast to those forces
which are dominant in the Old World
today. Never was there greater ne
ceSSity for emphasis upon the ideal
of freedom in human life. In the
Seventh American Scientific Congress
the American republics, furnished to
countries of Europe, which are grave
ly in need of recall from the brink
Of intellectual isolation, an example
of freedom in thinking and the free
interchange of thought among ma
tions. know of no more congenial
place for such a gathering than
Mexico City"
President Marvin yesterday called
on the Mexican Ambassador to con-
suit with him upon certain plans
relating to the congress.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
WATER PLANT BLAST
KILLS 2, HURTS IL
Acetylene Torch, Used to Clean
Pipes 35 Feet Underground,
Blamed.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 26.-Two men
were reported killed and IL O. lers seri-
ouSly injured today in a terrific ex-
plosion on the new William E. Dever
water supply crib, under construction
in Lake Michigan, 31z miles OF Navy
Pier.
Coast Guardsmen who hurried to
the scene reported that the blast had
thrown many of the workers into the
lake. Capt John Anderson. who led
several Coast Guard boats to the scene,
removed four of the injured to shore,
where fire department ambulances
waited to take them to hospitals.
One of the injured men said work
ers were cleaning out water pipes with
an acetylene torch IS feet below the
surface when the explosion occurred.
Early it was believed that escaping
gas from the acetylene torch accumu-
lated and then ignited.
Fellow workers expressed fear for
the lives of at least three men who
we're working in the pit at the time of
the blast.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
Endorsements Withdrawn.

The job of getting House rebels to
accept the holding company compro-
mise was performed adroitly. Jack
Garner, the Vice President. and
Speaker Byrns did it. They did not
waste time arguing the merits of the
measure in the cloak rooms. They
talked political turkey. What they
said substantially was this:
1T this bill fails, 134 House
Democrats and many Senators t0tH
90 back home to defend their &C
tionS. To defend themselves they
wiu hare to criticize the Presi-
dents stand. This UiI mean a
split party Furthermore, II the
issue goes into the merit campaign,
President Roosevelt ,DiH be put in
the position OF criticising his
wheelhorSes in Congress-"
During the fight the Presidents
leaders kept threatening to carry the
issue into the next campaign. but the
truth is this is what they planned to
avoid at all costs.
Two prominent business men who
do not want their names used have
the somewhat novel idea that the
country is entering an era Of credit
imitation similar to that which pre-
ceded the 1929 stock crash.
One is a former intimate Of Her
bert Hoover, now holding an important
banking position. He says the current
era will not last more than a year
The other, a wealthy member Of Con-
gress, who foretold the 1929 crash
thinks it will last until 1887.
A prominent Republican here wrote
a letter to Mr.. Hoover some weeks
ago, suggesting that Mr.. Hoover had
permitted himself to be put in the
wrong category.
What he meant Uas that pic
ture had been draun in the public
mind of Mr.. Hoouer and the G. o.
P. lacking sympathy for human
misery The iUriter OF the letter
asked Mr.. Hoouer for data to shoW
l0hdt the Hoorer administration
did to alleviate suffering in its
closing days
In reply, Mr.. Hoover sent long rec
ords and data in support of this theory.
The letter writer is now looking for
an outstanding Republican spokesman
to present them.
Note-Voluntee outstanding spokes-
men will please apply to c. Bascom
Slemp, formerly secretary to Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Evening star., 1935-08-26

The 1886 presidential campaign
really opened last Wednesday night,
instead of Saturday night. as adver-
tised. On Wednesday the President
addressed the people Of Sainte Gene
We've, Mo-, by telephone, commemo-
rating their bicentennial celebration.
When Presidents start making spe-
cial long-distance addresses to towns
the size of Sainte Genevieve, baby
kissing time cannot be far away.
Pens in Demand.
There was a heavy demand for
pens with which the President signed
the bank bill. About six interested
parties put in applications, including
Senator Glass. AS the President
handed pen to Glass, one of the as
sembled legislators whispered to an
other, Roosevelt should have given
him an eraser instead
The Vrginidn is supposed to
haze toorn out sir erasers rubbing
out the original Eccles bill pro-
Utsions. Incidentally, Glass does
not belieUe there is enough of the
bill left for Eccles ito light ciqa-
rette with."
Southern Senators we're wild about
tie, new cotton loan plan, because
tLey had been promised privately that
the 12-cent loan would be continued.
They thought the A. A. A. crowd let
them down.
The fIild-up for Gov. Landon of
Kansas is proceeding without en-
couragement from him. The two
largest weekly magazines and a large
monthly have lately sent men to write
him up. They will soon be out with
stories about "the Coolidge of Kansas. /"
Mr.. Roosevelt has tut-tutted con-
gressional hesitancies about the Con-
stitution. Consequently, three Con-
gressmen nearly tainted the other
day when he told them the original
Pittman neutrality legislation would
be an unconstitutional interference
with hi right to conduct foreign re-
lationS.
(copyright. 19350
Evening star., 1935-08-26
HUNT FOR SLAYER
IN FAIRFAX SLOWS
Sheriff Awaits Clue to Man Who
Killed Recluse With
Stone.
BY a stan Correspondent of The Star.

by u SthH Correspondent Oh Inc SthT,
FALLS CHURCH, Va, August 26.-
Absence of clues in the rock slsy-
ing of Truman Brush, 76-year-old
recluse. near here, has compelled Fair
fax County authorities TO adopt a
policy of watchful waiting in the hope
that the murderer, believed to be a
local man and one known by Brush,
will unguardedly drop some hint which
will lead to his apprehension.
Sheriff E. p Kirby, who is heading
the search for the man who waylaid
the recluse on pathway through the
woods Of his farm Friday and crushed
his head with a large stone, spent
yesterday interviewing residents Of
nearby farms and renewing his search
for cluses at the old homestead where
Brush was thought to have concealed
large sum OF money.
Failing to find anything Of value,
Kirby said today that he will await
developments.
Services were held yesterday for Mr..
Brush. He was buried in Oakwood
Cemetery in Falls Church. His two
only relatives, Mayor L. P. Daniel of
Falls Church and Mrs. jeanette Will
liams of Washington, and almost 100
friends attended the rites.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
Natiues Again Victims of Fish
Deadly Only in Certain Waters

the eye and taste there appears no
difference between safe and poisonous
fish.
Throughout the islands there are
other species of fish that possess this
popularity. Perfectly wholesome when
found in some quarters, they are dead
ly if caught in the waters Of neigh
boring isle.
The natives usually know by expe-
rience the safe and dangerous zones,
but even they make mistakes, as the
recent deaths, all on the Island Of
Huahine, show.
There are many varieties OF fish
safe In all seasons and places, but the
dangerous kinds are many and IN .
time Of poor fishing there are natives
who will take 0 chance.
Evening star., 1935-08-26
JAPAN DENIES FORTS
ON ISLES OF PACIFIC
Defends Handling of Mandated
Areas in Annual Report to
League of Nations.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, August 26-Japan de-
fends her handling of her inundated
Pacific islands in the annual report
for 1884 submitted to the League of
Nations today.
The report said no japanese mill
tary or naval forces were stationed
on the islands, given to her to hold
in mandate following the World War,
and that no Notifications or military
or naval bases exist on them.
Answering unofficial charges that
the development of some Of the island
ports was disproportionate to the
economic activities of these islands,
the Japanese report said that the
commercial harbors of Saipan, Palau
and Rota needed development 1t
was held the harbor developments
were not only justified, but hardly
adequate, and that the natives were
sharing in the prosperity of the
islands.