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'l.^s^**/•'-(!& SORT COVINGTON SUN VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1»34. NO. 15. News Review of Current Events the World Over Murder of Dollfuss by Nazis Creates Serious Situation in Europe—Bandit DiOinger Slain by Federal Agents in Chicago. By EDWARD W. PICKARD $ by W«rt«rfi Newspaper Union. E NGELBERT DOLLFUSS, intrepid little chancellor of Austria, has fallen a victim of his political enemies. A group of 141 Nazis, disguised in uni- forms, broke into the chancellory In Vienna and made prisoners of Dollfuss and a num- , ber of his ministers. The chancellor was beaten and shot and i left to bleed to death, his captors refusing to permit a physician or a priest to be called. Without revealing the fact that they had murdered the dicta- tor, the Nazis then surrendered on promise of safe con- duct across the German border, being *lded in the negotiations by K. Rieth, the German minister to Austria. When it, was learned that Dollfuss had been killed the promise was revoked and the Nazis were locked up. Meanwhile another small bunch of Nazis had seized the radio broadcast- ing office and had given out a state- ment that Dollfuss had resigned and would be succeeded as chancellor by Dr. Anton Rintelen, the minister to Italy. Rintelen was called to Vienna Immediately, put in a cell and there ahot seriously. Officials said he tried to commit suicide. President Miklas called on Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, minister of education un- «ler Dollfuss, to head the government and he, together with Former Vice •Chancellor Emil Fey and Prince Ernst •von Starhemberg, the vice chancellor, took charge of the situation with the toeimwehr to back them up. Soon aft- erwards It was announced that Von Starhemberg had been made chancel- lor. In the province of Styrta and «om« other regions civil war broke out almost at once and the Nazis, strong In numbers especially in Graz, \were desperately fighting with the reg- tuiar army and the helmwehr. Italy, France and Great Britain -were conferring as to the best meas- ures to take to carry out their pledges of last February that the Integrity of Austria should be maintained. Italy, -especially, was determined that the Austrian Nazis should not gain control of the country and was ready for Armed • intervention. Mussolini had •75,000 troops encamped near the Aus- trian frontier and personally assured Prince Von Starhemberg that he would -defend Austrian. Independence. The. JFrendi professwTto look on r the v Nazi revolt as an internal event not war- s-anting intervention at present but (the question of maintaining Austrian Independence is one of the few In •which they agree entirely' with the Italians. Naturally, everyone blamed Ger- many for the tragedy in Vienna, for the German Nazis have carried on a long and persistent campaign against Dollfuss, making use of the radio with- out restraint Hitler's government however, tried, to avoid, implication in the Vfetfft*> u**W*g.* MWSttrrllUKn -was recalled to Berlin because of his unauthorized action in helping the Ntitl group, and Hitler appointed Frans von Papra to succeed him. The Swrder was closed to all political fugi- tives from Austria, The German press, Always under control, was careful not to express joy over the killing of Doll- tfuss. On the side lines, waiting to see -what course would prove most advan- tageous to themselves, were Czecho- slovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Hungary, The situation In central Europe thus •was packed with dynamite almost as at was twenty -.years- age,: and In all the world capitals the danger of seri- ous international repercussions win recognized. Another general European war may be avoided for the present trot bloody conflict in Austria seemed -certain. F OR the first time in history a Presl dent of the United States set foot on Hawaiian soil when Mr. Roosevelt landed at Hilo. He went ashore there .especially to visit the great Kllaeuea \volcano and being driven to the edge of the huge flrepit of Halemaumau, he made a sacrifice to Pele, the fire god- dess, by tossing a bunch of red ohello berries into the crater. The city of Hilo gave the President a warm wel- come and staged a pageant Then he proceeded to Honolulu for the main -events of his visit His activities there Included a review of 15,000 troops and An inspection of the Pearl Harbor tiaval base. He was entertained at luncheon by Maj. Gen. B. H. Wells, .commandant of the army department attended a picnic given by the Har- vard dub. ate dinner with Gov. Joseph poindexter and, after a reception at the governor's mansion retired to the Boyai Hawaiian hotel at Waiklkl fceach. M INNEAPOLIS became the labor riot center of the country, the striking truckmen there and the po- lice engaging in bloody fights; and, as In San Francisco, much of the violence \was attributed to Communist agitators. \The striking drivers sought the stop- page of all Industry but only the oib Elvers Joined them. Father Francis J. Haas and E. H. Dunnigan, federal labor conciliators, offered a plan of settlement which was accepted by the strikers, but the em- ployers turned It down, asserting that the Reds were behind the strike and that they would have no dealings with Communists. Gov. Floyd Olson imme- diately declared martial law in the city and Hennepln county and Adju- st General Walsh of the National Guard became dictator. The decree even muzzled the press to a consider- able degree. Four thousand guards- men were mobilized and motor patrols toured the streets at intervals. Following a conference of delegates, J. J. Noonan, president of the Licensed Tugmen's Protective association, an* nounced in Detroit that a unanimous vote bound all unions and continued strike action In demand of an eight- hour day and a $2,400 yearly wage. Noonan said the next move was up to the shipowners, chiefly represented by John W. Cushing, Chicago, and G. A. Tomlinson, Cleveland. About ninety tugs have been tied up at Great Lakes ports since the men left their jobs June 1, Noonan said. J OHN DILLINGER, murderer, bank robber, outlaw and most notorious of America's modern desperadoes, is dead. Traced to Chicago, he ventured a visit to a moving picture theater to see a film of the life of a man who ended in the electric chair. As he came out of the thea- ter federal agents and a police squad from East Chicago, Indiana, surrounded him. , He drew his pistol and was instantly shot to death. Melvin H. Pur- vis, chief of the Inves- tigating forces of the Department of Justice in Chicago, led his men in this final and successful ef- fort to get Dillinger, dead or alive. The outlaw had sought to disguise himself by having his face lifted and his hair dyed and by growing a short mustache. His finger tips, also, had been treated with add. His identification, however, was immediate and certain. It was credibly reported that a wom- an had given the tip that resulted in the killing of Dillinger, but naturally, her name was not made public, for five members of his gang are still at large and might be expected to avenge their leader. The ;in|bsoiaat is* due to re- ceive at least a considerable share of the rewards offered by the govern- ments of the United States, Indiana and Minnesota for Information leading to the capture or death of Dillinger. These rewards total $15,000. Attorney General Cummings In Washington was elated by the news of Dlllinger's death. He warmly praised the work of Mr. Purvis and his men, who had devoted most of their time for four and a half months- to the elimination of the desperado. Three of the DllUnger gang besides then««(}eT>itwrb>ea4UlJe4' In-bt with the law. Eight others are in pris- on, two of them under sentence of death. W ITH the collapse of the general strike in the San Francisco area and the defeat of the radical element among the workers, the longshoremen at all ports of the Pacific coast voted to submit to arbitration their differences with the ship owners. The latter had agreed to arbitrate and at the same time had promised to bargain collectively with other maritime unions. In the Saa Francisco bay. re- ^oo there w©wtl«tv*«»eiSHn port and the work of loading and unloading these went on rapidly. In other re- spects normal conditions there were restored. The \vigilante\ bands, con- tinued their raids on Communist bang- outs and the police arrested a number of radicals. The hope that the alien agitators captured can be deported was rather dashed by the attitude as- sumed by Secretary of Labor Perkin In the matter of deportations. She is waiting for the next congress to pass the leniency measure that would glv< her dictatorial power in these cases. O LE H. OLSON is in the saddle as the acting governor of North Da- kota and matters political were quieter in Bismarck. The house of the state legislature called into session by Wil- liam Langer, the ousted governor, went home after naming a committee to consider impeachments. The senate couldn't muster a quorum and so it quit Acting Governor Olson declared a moratorium on every form of debt where the debtor can show Inability to pay. It is designed to protect the farmer, small business man and home owner from foreclosure. O NE HUNDRED miles of the Texa; Gu}f coast was swept by a ter rifle tropical storm that cost possibly a score of lives and did vast dam- age to crops and other property. An eighty-mile gale drove a tidal wav six miles inland, flooding towns, trap- ping the residents, breaking communi- cation lines and smashing boats am buildings. A LL American possessions «xcept the Philippines, Samoa and Guam are now under the direction of a single government agency. The division of territories and island possessions, cre- ated by President Roosevelt under au- thority of the government economy act has taken over control of Hawaii. Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin islands. Previously Puerto Rico was under the War department and the otters under the interior department The navy will continue to govern Guam and Samoa, and the War depart- ment will have charge of the Philip- pines until they accept independence r oted them by the last congress. I N AN executive erder given out in Washington, the President set in motion his great reforestation pro- gram designed to help the plains area of the Middle West He allocated $15,- 000,000 from the $525,000,000 drouth relief fund for the beginning of work on a $75,000,000 forest shelter belt a hundred miles wide and extending more than 1,000 miles through the heart of the drouth area from the Canadian border to the Texas Pan- handle. Announcement of the President's ac- tion and of the gigantic undertaking as made by Secretary Wallace, who authorized the forest service to use up to $10,000,000 of the $15,000,000 al- located to begin work on the project immediately. A S PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT aboard the cruiser Houston was nearing Hawaii he took time to an- nounce the membership of the na- tional mediation board for the settle- ment of railroad disputes. The men he appointed are: William M. Leiserson, Yellow Springs, Ohio, for the term ending February, 1936. James W. Carmalt, Washington, D. ., for the term ending February, 193a. John Carmody, now chief engineer of the federal emergency relief adminis- tration, for the term ending February, 1936. The- President also named Murray Latimer chairman of the railroad retirement board, created by a recent act of congress. OSCOW has finally realized that it cannot get trade credits in the United States until it in some way squares up the old czarist debts owed In this country. Therefore Ambassa- dor Troyanovsky and Secretary of State Hull hare begun preliminary conversations on the' subject at the Instance of the Soviet government Russia owes the United States gov- ernment $337,000,000 which this coun- try lent to the czarist and Kerensky governments during the war. The Reds repudiated these debts when they seized control of Russia. The Roosevelt administration has firmly re- fused trade credits to the Soviet gov- ernment until some sort of an agree- ment Is reached on these debts. Al- though the Reconstruction Finance corporation has had an export-import bank set up for months to finance Rus- sian trade, not a single loan has been made. Under terms of the Johnson act which prtefeats new American loans to foreign debt defaulters, the bank has held that it cannot extend credit to Russia. H AVING given nearly three months to the study of the nation's air de- fense, the board headed by Newton D. Baker has submitted a report which ^ ~v ~,~. ..^, caiig for immediate j strengthening of the > ^iik. »rmy air corps to ^|§|li? r meet \the most seri- JPW ouswar threat against Newton O. Baker M c be conceived.\ The report says the nrray air forces are de- ddedly Inferior to American navy an« civil units that leai the world in strength and efficiency, budget bureau niggardly appropriations by congress are held to blame. Shortage of modern equipment re- sulting from the reduced appropria- tions and stagnation in promotion ol army air officers, the board warned, has affected the-, morale of the entire army. The report scoffed at reports the United States was vulnerable to ai invasion. It also opposed the unifi- cation of army and navy air forces under a separate national defense unit First giving assurance that Its record mendations do not embrace a national policy of aggression, the board pro- posed: 1. A national aviation policy to be retained for a \reasonable\ length of time. 2. Effectuation of the 1926 act which called for expansion of the arm air corps to 2,320 planes with a Iargei ratio of combat units. 3. Steady program of procurement which would keep alive the nation' airplane building industry. 4. Drastic changes in the air <:orpi regulations which would increase fly ing hours per pilot from 150, to 201 hours to 300 yearly; revisions In th< promotion system for officers; increased training in flying under dangerous con- ditions and with Instruments commo on commercial planes. 5. Consolidation of the joint agen- cies of army and navy, such as th joint munitions board, the Jolnl aeronautics board, etc., under the au- thority of the army and navy boai functioning as a superior board foi both departments. 6. Purchase of small inexpensi commercial planes for use in training pilots in group night flying. 7. Continuation of experiments with small non-rlgld airships as partial sub- stitutes for observation balloons. 8. Increase of the air corps person- nel by 403 officers. Scenes and Persons in the Currant News Howe About: Honesty i A Firm Foundation \Soldiers of Fortune fe Bell Syndteau.—WOT S«r»lc«. 1—Pouring the first bucket of concrete for the $34,000,000 Norris dam on the Clinch river in Tennessee. 2—Four native Hawaiian dancers who danced the new \President Roosevelt Hula\ for Mr. Roosevelt when he was in Honolulu. 3—National Guard trucks from Fort Ripley armed with machine guns arriving in Minneapolis for strike riot duty Dutch School Children on a Good Will Tour By ED HOWS I HAVE never occupied official po- sition of any kind; I have always been an humble follower, forgotten ex- cept when leaders are considering so additional tax schedule, a new drive, or other foray. But if appointed chief of police I should have fewer street parades. I seldom go downtown without finding a street roped off for another parade, and thus suffer annoyance and delay. • * •• The president of a big New York bonding company writes me: \The following is a quotation from your last issue: 'I do not believe the people can be cured of their natural dishonesty, but. still have hopjFTBey can be taught honesty is the best pol- icy, if we teach it as industriously as we have long been teaching some of our untrue doctrines.' The ex- This group of 24 school children from Holland arrived in New York the other day for a good will tour of the United States. NEW RULER OF ELKS Michael F. Shannon, Lot Angeles attorney, who was elected grand exalted ruler of the Elks at Kansas City, Mo., and who called upon the half million members of the organiza- tion to become \shock troops\ in a \pro-America\ campaign against radi- calism. DILLINGER'S NEMESIS Melvin Purvis, chief of the Chicago office of the division of investigation of the Department of Justice, led the squad of federal men who trapped and killed John DUllnger, the- notorious murderer and bandit Want Mid WanUd Twenty-five years ago if a girl's shoes were full of holes, that denoted poverty. Today holes in shoes denote style, and the more the toes show, the more style. • - - King of the Iron Horses Here is Engine 6402 of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul and Pacific rail- road which recently broke all existing steam locomotive records for speed sustained over a distance of SO miles or more. Hauling a five-car train on the run from Chicago to Milwaukee, it averaged 90.6 miles an hour for the 68.9 miles between Mayfair, UL, and Lake, Wls. At one time it attained a speed of 103 miles an hour. This was a demonstration trip and is not to be main- tained as a regular schedule. Scene of Tragic Bus Accident All that remained of a passenger bus carrying fifty persons after it left the road and plunged down a forty-foot embankment at Osslning, N. Y. Sixteen of the passengers lost their lives when the gasoline tank exploded, enveloping them in a sheath of flame. ,— Co»»t Indiftna Traced The chants of Canada's Pacific Coast Indians have been traced to Buddhists of the Orient CUmt Can Kill Dtw Clams measuring three feet across In tropical waters south of Florida can clamp a diver and drown him* perience of this company in paying dis- honesty losses forty years convinces me that what is needed in this worjd is the teaching of honesty rattier than, preaching of it Our preaching has resulted in honesty being regarded as a 'goody-goody' doctrine, to be eulog- ized by Sunday school teachers and the public schools up to the fourth, reader. No real effort is made to Im- press young people with the practical benefit to be derived from honesty as an asset Anyone can acquire it, and it'will prove an inexhaustible resource throughout life. Dishonesty . starts when the Individual determines upon a course he knows is wrong; but the impression is not deep enough to hold him—he has not been sufficiently taught If children were sufficiently taught honesty from the beginning, and continuously, it would sot be so- easy for men and women to depart from honest ways, and get into the trouble dishonesty always brings. X hope you will elaborate en this theme in subsequent issues.\ I am regarded as a tiresome scold by a good many because I have al- ready elaborated on the theme in many previous issues. I believe we should teach honesty is the best policy as per- sistently and continuously as we teach the Christian religion. Honesty Is not a \goody-goody\ or Sunday school doctrine; it is the soundest article in the philosophy of experience. Good conduct is the sur- est and safest method of insuring suc- cess and comfort in life. Good con- duct pays; and it is easier in the long;, run than bad conduct I have taught this all my life, and shall teach it hereafter. • • * ; A country or a man may progress too rapidly. It was overprogress that caused Ivar Ereuger, v head of the Swedish match trust to commit sui- cide, and leave behind the record of a scoundrel It was overprogress on th part of the United States that brought us to the present great difficulties. Progress is one of the best principles, but the de- tails must be attended to with the old details of caution and common sense. If the foundation is not built on solid rock, there will be a toppling. Somewhere in the hymn book or Bible there is a line about the sure foundation. One must have it it everything, if he hopes to get along as comfortably and safely as^to pos- The stories of Soldiers of Fortune, as they appear la the newspapers sad magazines exaggerated by other sol- diers of fortune, make good reading; la my vagrant hours I sometimes read them myself. A notable Soldier of Fortune has Just died, missing the average goal of three score and ten by thirty yearn. He was in college when the war broke out, and made high grades in the foot- ball squad. Also, he sang in the glee club, and played in the band, but his grades in legitimate studies were low. Of course, he promptly enlisted, and I marvel that a man wounded so fre- quently and seriously, was able, after the armistice, to perform such feats of exploration as he displayed in climb- ing mountains, following rare speci- mens of animals In Tibet and Africa, and engaging in revolutions in South America. He hoped to fly across the Atlantic and thus appear in the mo- vies, but at thirty-eight he was found dead; whether by his own hand, or at the hand of one of his fellow adven- turers, is not known. Still, I prefer the story of Thos. A. Edison, and humbler men, who have striven in the more useful, If less ex- citing, fields of endeavor. I do not love life as ardently as some say they do, but possibly few have become more accustomed to tt than I am at seventy-nine . . . The things I shall dislike to give op are becoming fewer every year; still. I suppose I shall finally hate to go. The story told during the war that a German soldier ran his bayonet through a Belgian baby, and carried it all day as a trophy, was disproved. . . . But Americans cannot deny that an American stole a two-year-eld baby, brutally beat it to death because of its frightened cries, and later col- lected a fifty-thousand-dollar ransom from the distressed parents. I never say I have studied life; only that I have lived It I do not study anything,. I experience it, as one of laj natural necessities. I
