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ORT CO VINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON. N. Y.. THURSDAY. JULY 12. 1934. NO. 12, How San Francisco Bay Soon Will Appear News Review of Current Events the World Over \Second Revolution\ Smashed by Hitler and Its Leaders Put to Death—Roosevelt Names Five Boards and Sails Away. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © by Western Newspaper Union. FOREWARNED of a radical plot * within the National Socialist party to bring about a second revolution in <Jennany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler struck with swiftness and ruthlessness that completely smashed the revolt on the\ eve of the planned coup d'etat and left the malcontents, chiefly members of the Storm troopers, dazed and terrified. The Chan- cellor himself exhibit- ed resolution and per- sonal bravery with which the world had not credited him. Chancellor Hitler Flying from Berlin to Munich in the night, Hitler with only two bodyguards went direct to the summer home of •Capt. Ernst Roehm, commander of the brown shirts and long his personal friend. Roehm and certain of his as- sociates were found in situations that confirmed the often heard stories of their moral perversion, and as Hitler \was certain also of their complicity in the revolutionary plot, he personally -arrested Roehm, tore off his Insignia ^nd offered him a chance to commit suicide. This Roehm refused, so on Hitler's order he was shot to death, 3is were the others taken with him. Meanwhile, Gen. Hermann Wilhelm <5oering, premier of Prussia, directed « series of raids throughout the coun- try that resulted in the deaths of nu- merous prominent members of the con- spiracy and the arrest of scores. Chief .among those shot down was Gen. Kurt Ton Schleicher, Hitler's predecessor as chancellor and reputed head of the revolutionary plot His wife stepped in the way of the policemen's bullets *nd also died. Well-known Storm troop leaders in Munich and elsewhere \were put to death summarily, and so ^ras Heinrich Klausener, head of the •Catholic Action party. Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, Tvho had recently attacked the radical tendencies of the Nazis, was put under heavy guard, and forbidden to leave his home, and two of his adjutants billed themselves. Von Papen offered to resign from the •cabinet, but President Von Hinden- berg, his close friend, refused to ac- cept the resignation, and the.cabinet <urged him to remain as minister with- out portfolio to supervise activities in the Saar. Von Papen, however, will take a protracted leave of absence. Viktor Lutze was appointed to suc- ceed Roehm as chief of staff of all the Teichswehr units, in- cluding the Storm troops among whom the disaffection had •existed and the regu- lar army, which was -declared to be entire- ly loyal to Hitler. President Von Hin- •denburg all this time -was at his estate at Neudeck, East Prus- sia, and there were ,,., reports of his serious Vlkto r Lutz e illness, which were flatly denied. Two •days after the chancellor's drastic ac- tion the aged president telegraphed Hitler and Goerlng his approval of their course, congratulated them on their victory and thanked them in the name of the nation. Undoubt- edly, Hitler's personal position was ^strengthened for the time being, and the leftist elements in the\ Nazi party -were weakened and divided. Goerlng *nd Hitler professed pity for the \mis- Jed\ Storm troopers,-but the latter are now out of their uniforms tem- porarily and may never be, as impor- tant as they have been in the past \They had become something like a pretorian guard that threatened Hit- ler's supremacy. In various European capitals there 'were predictions of further outbreaks In Germany and the return of the Hohenzollerns. Hitler's \violent\ methods were crit- icized by Engelbert Dollfuss, Aus- tria's dictator, who said: \Does not the light at last dawn upon us that one cannot make a people happy with violent methods?\ Paris interpreted the affair as •victory for conservatives and as open- ing the possibility for a return of the Hohenzollerns. The violence, it claimed, revealed a breakdown in the unity of the Hitler movement In London the view was taken that Hitler had solidified bis position. Some papers accused him of employing the methods of gangsters and called the claying of storm-troop leaders \brutal murdera,\ T RADE war between Great Britain and Germany was averted by the signing of an agreement protecting Britlsa interests during the reJch's six months foreign obligations morato- rium, oi^iered in effect July 1. i Under the accord, Germany agrees to pay Young and Dawes plan obliga- tions when due in October, Novem- ber and December, on presentation of coupons on bonds by the Bank of Eng- land. For six months, beginning July 1, the German government Is to pro- vide sterling funds to the Bank of for the purchase In full at the nominal value of all coupons on these loans held by British subjects on June 15, when the moratorium was disclosed. J APAtfS cabinet resigned as a result of a financial scandal involving a vice minister, and the emperor called on Prince Saionji, last of the elder statesmen, for advice in selecting a new premier. The prince recommend- ed Admiral Keisuke Okada for the place and the emperor made the ap- pointment, which was generally con- sidered very wise. Okada asked Koki Hirota to remain as foreign minister, and. the minister of war and navy also were reappointed. The new govern- ment is expected to follow the general lines of policy laid down-by Saito, re- tiring premier. One of its chief aims will be to clean up graft. Japanese naval circles are con- vinced that Okada is the only man capable of safely piloting the nation through the naval conference next year. They feel that Saionji selected Okada because he realized that the conference will be of the utmost im- portance to Japan's future. P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT departed on his cruise to the Caribbean and Hawaii aboard the Houston, accompa- nied by. his two younger sons, Frank- lin, Jr., and John; Rudolph Forster of the White House sec- retarial staff; Com- mander Ross T. Mcln- tire, naval physician; Gus Gennerich, per- sonal bodyguard; Richard Jervis, secret service man, and '- fcP\^™ Pharmacist's Mate a ^sk nl George Fox. Oq ac- J M Landi* companying destroy- ° 5 ers are two secret service men and three representatives of three big press associations. Before sailing the President per- formed these seven important acts: Approved the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium bill Approved the railroad unemploy- ment and pension act involving ad- ditional burdens of millions of dol- lars on tne carriers. Appointed Joseph Kennedy, wealthy New York stock operator as chairman of the new securities exchange com- mission for a five-year term, and George C. Mathews, James M. Landis, Robert E. Healy and Ferdinand Pecora as members for terms ranging from four years downward. Named Eugene O. Sykes, Thad H, Brown, Paul Walker, Norman Case, Irvin Stuart, George Henry Payne and Hampson Gary members of the new communications commission for terms ranging from seven years downward. Set up the new national labor re- lations board with Lloyd Garrison, dean of the University of Wisconsin law school, chairman, and Prof. Henry Alvin Mills, head of the economics de- partment at the University of Chicago, and Edward S. Smith of Massachu- setts, labor relations specialist as the other members. Named James A. Moffett, former vice president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and a mem- ber of the planning and co-ordinating committee of the oil conservation board, as administrator of the new $1,000,000,000 housing program. Appointed five members of a com- mission to study federal aviation and air mail affairs and make recommend- ations to the next congress—Clark Howell, Atlanta, Ga., publisher; Je- rome Clarke Hunsaker, New York; Edward P. Warner, Washington, D, C.; Franklin K. Lane, Jr., California, and Albert J. Berres, California. M R. ROOSEVELT went ashore for the first time on his cruise al Cape Haitlen, Haiti, where he was met by President Stenlo Vincent and other officials of the Island republic. At the Union club he made an address, partly In French, in which he announced the forthcoming withdrawal of the ma- rines, adding that he hoped they would be remembered as friends who had tried to help Haiti. Marine detach ments have been on duty in Haiti, whose population is 90 per cent col ored, since 1015. M ME. MARIE CURIE, co-discoverer with her husband of radium and rated as one of the world's greatest women, passed away at Passy in the French Alps at the age of sixty-six years. Her physicians said that her inability to recover from an attack of pernicious anemia was probably dm to the fact that her bone structure was weakened by years of exposure to radium and X-rays. The Netherlands was thrown into mourning by the death of Prince Con- sort Henry. He was married to Queen Wilhelmlna In 1901 and the Dutch peo- ple had learned to love him deeply. A TTEMPTS to open the port of San Francisco, closed for some time by the dock workers' strike, resulted in bloody riots in which several men were killed and many injured. Gov. Frank Merriman called out 2,000 Na- tional Guardsmen. P RIME MINISTER RAMSAY MAO- DONALD of Great Britain, who is in Scotland on a vacation, was bitterly tiled In the house of lords by Vis- count Snowden, former chnncellor of exchequer and once close persona! 'rlend of the premier. Snowden de- nounced MacDonald as a traitor to his colleagues in the Labor party and to the country. 'The cabinet found the prime minis- ter such an amenable instrument or Tory policy,\ Snowden declared, -'that t has come to the conclusion thai&* there are no professions which he made, no pledges which he gave the country which he will not repudiate, no humiliation to which he will not submit If they only allow him still to be called prime minister. 'The Tories have no use for Mac- Donald except for exhibiting him on :heir platform in chains as the one- :ime Socialist who has seen the err** of his ways and found salvation In he spiritual home of the Tory party. \He will be used for the same pur- poses as the reformed drunkard at temperance meetings.\ S ENATOR BORAH of Idaho, inde- pendent Republican, opened his one-man campaign against the New Deal In a radio address attacking es- pecially bureaucracy and monopoly. Al- though his criticism was directed primari- ly against what he conceives to be these elements in the New Deal, he summarily indicted the national leadership of the Re- publican party on the ground that it \seems wholly unwilling to Senator Borah touc n tnl s vital i ssue » —namely, the monopolistic trend. The senator said the Roosevelt regime was establishing not Nazism, not Fascism, not Communism, but \simply that meddlesome, irritating, confusing, undermining, destructive thing called bureaucracy.\ And bureau- cracy he defined as \that form of gov- ernment which steals away man's rights in the name of the public in- terest and taxes him to death in the name of recovery.\ Bureaucracy, the Idaho senator asserted, \has destroyed every civilization upon which it has fastened its lecherous grip.\ It Is the common man who will be the chief victim of our new bureaucrat- ic form of government, the Idahoan as- serted. The Influential and powerful have demonstrated that they \can gen- erally obtain all the rights and privi- leges they desire under any form of government.\ But the \freedom and political rights\ of the toilers are be- ing -more and more limited, whether under European dictatorships or the American bureaucracy. W INDING up its ascal year, the federal government found that, counting emergency expenses, it had spent about $4,000,000,000 more than it had collected. Balancing receipts against ordinary expenditures, the government figured it was $28,000,000 \in the black\ for the year. President Roosevelt has estimated nearly $5,000,000,000 would be added to the national debt by emergency ex- penses during the next 12 months. This was predicated on recovery that would make industrial production av- erage 98 per cent of the 1923-25 leveL In July, 1935, the President hopes to start the payoff for the recovery program. By that time, he has said, the budget should be balanced. According to the federal reserve board's index, the industrial produc- tion figure for the year just ended was slightly above the 81 per cent av- erage on which the President based his hopes. T WO events in recent days have em- phasized the friendship that exists between the United States and Can- ada. The first was the dedication of the new International bridge span ning the St Lawrence between Roose- veltowu, N. T., and CornwelL Canada. Secretary of War Dern represented President Roosevelt at the ceremony, and the earl of Bessborough, governor general, was there for the Dominion. The second event on July 4, was tAe return to the Canadian govern mem of the mace of the parliament of up- per Canada that was taken during the War of 1812, at the battle of York, and had been in the Naval academy at Annapolis ever since. On recom- mendation of President Roosevelf congress authorized the restitution ol the mace. Rear Admiral William D Leahy, chief of the bureau of naviga- tion. * accompanied by his aid, Lieut Com. Ernest H. von Helmburg, 4 made the presentation at Toronto and at- tended the unveiling of a monument erected by the United States' Daugh- ters of 1812, to the memory of General Pike and others of the United States' forces killed during that war^ qpHERE was a general scattering o. A administration chieftains following the departure of President Roosevelt Secretary Roper went to Alaska an<* Secretary Morgenthau to a Montam ranch. Secretary Dern sailed for thi Canal Zone, and Secretary SwansoL and Attorney General Cummlngs were down on the lower Potomac on yachts. Secretary Hull took motor rides in th~ Virginia mountains. Secretary Farlej was in New York, and Secretary Wai lace went to Chautauqua. Secretaries Ickes and Perkins remained at their job. General Johnson went to Sara- toga Springs for a rest, Harry Hop- kins sailed for Europe and Professor Tugwell went to the Par West Lesser lights also left Washington. M EXICO elected a new constitu- tional president—Gen. Lazarc Cardenas—and it was the quietest election la the country's histgry. Howe About: Russia Begging Big Business Men'* Here is a when the grait n aerial bridge view of San Francisco bay, udded to which is an artist's conception of how the bay will looj from San Francisco to Yerba Buena island and thence to Oakland is completed. Texas Independence Centennial Coin Pompeo Coppini, sculptor, with his models for the commemorative coin in celebration of the Texas Independ ence Centennial, 1836-1936. Congress authorized the Treasury department to issue one and a half million commemo- rative half dollars, which the Texas department of the American Legion will undertake to sell for a dollar each. The money realized will be applied to the building of a Texas State Memorial museum on the university grounds at Austin Making Sign Language Lexicon Kichard Sanderville, seventy-year-old Blackfoot Indian, and probably the greatest living authority on what ethnologists regard as one of the most remarkable systems of communication known to man, has been brought to Washington by the Smithsonian institution to complete a sign language dic- tionary which was left half finished by the death of Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, veteran Indian tighter and peacemaker. The sign Mr. Sanderville is making. in the photograph means \gun.\ Oil Strike on a Delaware Farm This well, drilled on the farm of United States Senator Townsend, and which, struck oil at 400 feet, may be the start of an oil rush In Bridgeville, Del., to compare with those In many a Texas or Oklahoma village. The well was drilled by the Cleveland Petroleum company, which has been studying the region fofc. the past seven years and which has bought up options on farms within a radius of several miles of the strike. Old Box Causes Court Case Two women, charged with theft, re- cently were tried in Glamorgan, Wales. For two hours the jury lis- tened to counsel questlonin^witnesses, four of whom had traveled 50 miles. After the judge summed up the case, and the jury had duly deliberated, it declared the woman not guilty. JXhe theft consisted of taking a dilapidated woodeu box. It was valued at 12 Diamond Needle Though it will easily pierce your fin- ger, the ordinary sewing needle ap- pears anything but sharp under the microscope, and the diameter at the point usually measures several thou- sandths of an inch. Now engineers have produced a needle with a point one ten-thousandth of an Inch across. The actual point is a diamond set in the steel, and It is used' to test the smoothness of polished steeL HEAD OF A BIG JOB R. M. Priest is chief engineer for the United States government on the AH-American canal project, for which bids were opened at Yuma, Ariz. The $38,000,000 irrigation and water power project, wftich is expected to turn Im- perial valley into a modern \Garden of Eden,\ will be under construction soon. By ED HOWE T HERE are tactually a good many sensible features in the present Soviet government in Russia. The Idea that no public official should re- ceive more than $150 a month Is sound; so Is the habit of promptly pun- ishing officials when they are dishon- est or negligent . . . But the de- .ermination to live by Communist prin- ciples will wreck Sovietism. Com- munism is so palpably weak In so many respects it cannot succeed. The objection to the teaching of Karl Marx Is it will not fit human needs. Tb» poor man is entitled to justice; 1>Ut m is the man who refuses to remain poor. And in the human experiment there has never been found a tribe of men* wherein the majority were wining to remain in perpetual poverty. Nature provided means for all to become well- to-do, and the better specimens of men will nQt consent to forever remaining uncomfortable when comfort abounds and may be easily attained by not un- reasonable efforts 1 may not be here to see the end of the Russian expert^ ment, but let younger men remember the prediction that Communism must be given up there. Like whisky, it is \. a fool; It will not stand practical trial, * * • Negroes are very disagreeable inv bothering whites for gifts. I have spent the present winter in an apart- ment house in Miami, Fla., and have found everything satisfactory except my failure to satisfy the negro serv- ants. An old fellow living nearby Is so much annoyed that he will not let a negro maid come in; he does his own . cleaning up, and I often go over to* enjoy his indignation. I have been whipped into submission, but admire a man brave enough to rebel in a good cause. ... The poor whites are as bad as the negroes in begging. About the only real vigor shown in the Unit- ed States during the past winter has been displayed in begging campaigns. Everyone is apt to be a little preju- diced when discussing his own case, and it really seems to me I do my share in proper giving, but the Ameri- ran system of begging seems to me disgraceful. Much of it Is racketeer- ng; the selfish business of boss beg- gars who hide behind the scenes and browbeat timid citizens into engaging in charity campaigns they do not themselves believe in. Ask any Amer- ican what he is most disgusted with, and he will protmbly tell you it is com- mittee begging. The smart French do none of it; the Germans and English very little. It is an American weak- ness; one of many we all disapprove of, but do not quit Instead of quit- ting, the nuisance is becoming worse every day; leaders in it are trained as others are trained to become stenog- raphers, doctors, lawyers, machinists, to pull teeth, and receive large in- comes from the dishonest business. • * • There is more than the usual com- plaint lately about big business meiv A new charge is they do not manage their wives and .children with reason- able efficiency. . . . No American does; specially foolish women and chil- dren aFe as common among the poor as among the well-to-do. The manner in which American women muss up> their men has been the wonder of for- eigners since the foundation of the re- public; Americans no more assert themselves In their homes than they do in politics. And look at what the pol- iticians have done to them. . . . Americans need a lot of reform in a lot of ways. ENVOY FROM TURKEY An especially posed portrait of Mehmet Munir Bey, the newly appoint- ed envoy from Turkey, who has ar- rived in Washington and assumed his post He succeeds Mehmet Muhtar. Gr«*t Nett Builder Probably the most conspicuous bird of the prairie streams is the pictur- esque, long-tailed, black and white magpie, says Nature Magazine. He is the arch rascal of this bird commun- ity, but one of the finest of bird archi- tects, and his giant nest of sticks, as large as a bushel basket, domed over and weather proof, with the nest cav- itjr beautifully woven inside a cup of mud, is one of the crowning achieve- ments In nest building. . . I find I can't stand good times; my greatest mistakes have been made dur- ing good times. . .- . And I cannot appreciate now that times were very good when we agree they were at their best Times are always hard; we must constantly save and be carefuL * * « A traveler says that when an Amer- ican picture play is presented in Ger- many, the lingering kisses, the brav- ery of the Western heroes, the noble- ness of the heroines, attract whistling from those in the audience. . . . The Germans are making fun of us. . . . Have we not reached an age when we should recover from some «f the con- spicuous follies which attract con- temptuous criticisms in older countries! • • • The great Goethe had 14 Great Worries in his life, and was often In complete despair, but at last left much to his credit All the great have stag- gered along in the same way; so wor- ried by women they had little time left for anything else. As it is, always has been, and al- - ways will be, there have been some quite remarkable men; perhaps it is idle to speculate upon what greater thing they might accomplish if Jess hampered with love. • • • It seems to me managers of the pro- fessional charities should issue a card of thanks to those Americans who have kept out of the bread lines, and helped a little in relieving the misfor- tunes of others. During an excep- tionally hard winter a man who main- tains his family respectably, and does not bother his neighbors for assist- ance, is an especially good citizen. Be 'should receive an occasional kind word of appreciation, instead of daily insults from professional charity work- ers that he is a stingy brute wh d not Do His Duty I
