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STRIKERS RAIDED
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Truck Drivers Seized by
State Troopers.
Minneapolis. Minn.— Men In khaki
with guns on wheels seized headquar¬
ters of the 0,000 striking truck drivers,
arrested the ringleaders and smashed
before it got started an organized
movement to stop all truck transporta¬
tion in defiance of military law
With the Xational Guard in full
control and occupants of the building
dispersed, Adjt. Gen. L. A. Walsh
mapped a plan of action designed to
break up any other unauthorized meet¬
ing of strikers.
“The roundup of these officials,”
said Walsh, “was started because they
defied orders of military rule tty hold¬
ing a meeting at tiie parade grounds
without a permit. Effective immedi¬
ately, any pickets cruising the city In
automobiles will be arrested.'*
Among those marched off to the
fair grounds tor incarceration in the
stockade ttiere were Vincent Dunne
and Mose Itork, two of the strike lead¬
ers. Books and records of the union.
No. 574, were left in the building,
placed under a guard selected from
the 1,(KM) troops surrounding the place.
All were ejected from the headquar¬
ters, a doctor, two nurses and a few
strikers still ailing from wounds suf¬
fered In the outbreak of July 20 in
which 08 persons were hurt, most of
them shot by police guns.
The four field machine guns, drawn
up before the entrance, rolled hack to
the armory, the troops sheathed their
tommy guns and gas guns, and ail
except the few men left as sentinels,
hiked back to the armory within two
hours after they had struck at dawn
to meet no resistance.
Officers formed their men in a solid
line completely around the square
Mock in which strikers congregated
in a former garage.
Two truck drivers were beaten the
day before and a third was frightened
from his car. One vehicle was over¬
turned by pickets, whose activities
earlier In the day had sent a troop
car rushing to it South side address
only to collide with a private auto¬
mobile and kill Its driver. Another
occupant of the sedan and three
Guardsmen were hurt.
Kohler Village Placed
Under Martial Control
Kohler, WIs.—The once peaceful vil¬
lage of Kohler, a “model'' of industrial
communities, was put under martini
law. National Guardsmen took charge
of the town In an effort to halt the
strike rioting which claimed two lives
and caused injury to 40 others.
Military control was ordered by Gov.
Albert G. Sehtuedeman after Sheriff
Erast Zehnis asserted he was una
to stop the disorders caused by strike
pickets at tbe Kohler Manufacturing
company where a strike Itas been in
progress.
The first net of Col. John C. P.
Handley of Chilton, commanding the
Guardsmen, was to order the 200 spe¬
cial village deputy marshals, sworn in
by a justice of the peace at the first
threat of trouble, to disperse and dis¬
organize. The second act was to throw
down tiie police barriers and permit
flip rioters, surging about outside the
limits, to return to peaceful picketing.
The 250 Milwaukee cavalrymen, who
arrived here early In the day, were
augmented by six Infantry companies,
numbering 850 men. They arrived from
Camp Williams.
Mrs. Dali Is Given
Divorce in Nevada
Minden, Nev.—Behind tiie closed
doors of the little brick courthouse
here, where her brother, Elliott, was
divorced about a year ago, Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Dali, daughter of tiie Pres¬
ident, divorced Curtis B. Dali, a New
York broker, ou charges of “extreme
cruelty.”
District Judge Clark .1. Guild grant¬
ed the request for The private hearing
after expressing his disagreement with
the Nevada law which, upon demand,
permits private trial in any
ease.
“This Is an unusual situation,”
said. “Out of deference to tiie
dent of the United States 1 order
the trial be held behind closed
The usual speed in Nevada
eases attended tiie hearing and in
minutes it was all over. Judge
granting the decree immediately.
His III Luck at
Polls Kills
Dallas, Texas.—“If Fred loses
will kill me,” seventy-five vear-old
W. J. Patrick told members of
family.
She picked up a newspaper,
that her son, Fred Patrick, was
ing in tiie county clerk’s race.
She fell to the floor in a faint
a few minutes later was dead from
heart attack.
Child Torturer Sentenced
I.os Angeles.—Mrs. Consuelo
do was sentenced to serve 180 days
jail for holding one arm of her
year-old daughter over a flame.
arm was severely burned. Tiie
said she had s-mg’it “to : ke her
good girl.”
Ex-£en-tor McLaurin D es
Bennettsville. s. i .!< hn L.
I.anriu, former Dated S: tea s
died of a heart ailment. He was
enty-four years old.
PAUL VON HINDENBURG
Paul von Hindenburg, president of
Germany, died at his summer home In
Netideck, East Prussia.
CROP REDUCTION IS
TO BE CONTINUED
New Dealers Disregard the
Drouth Effects.
Washington.—With the wheat crop
cut by the drouth to a 40-year low and
retail foodArices at the highest level
in 30 months, officials of tiie Depart¬
ment of Agriculture maintained ‘that
the crop reduction program must he
carried on another year.
Nature lias taken the war on abun¬
dance out of the hands of the agri¬
cultural administration and accom¬
plished within a few weeks what the
administration could not do—the elim¬
ination of the surplus In all basic farm
commodities but cotton. But the
drouth, in the words of George E, Far¬
rell, chief of the wheat section of the
AAA, “Is an abnormality, and no man
can hope to base a program on an ab¬
normality.”
The estimated wheat crop for 1934
Is 484,000.000 bushels, the lowest since
1803. The country uses from 000,000,-
000 to 025 000,000 bushels a year, leav¬
ing a production deficit of from 110,-
000,000 to 141,000,000 bushels for this
year. The normal carry-over is about
120.000. 000 bushels a year and the car¬
ry over for next year will be about
120.000. 000, according to Mr. Farrell’s
estimate, dispelling all danger of a
surplus.
"Nevertheless, that Is sufficient to
prevent any danger iff a shortage, and
the reduction program will go for¬
ward,” Mr. Farrell said. “Farmers
will again lie asked to reduce their
acreage, by 15 per cent of the base, com¬
puted on the annual average of 1930-
1932.”
Desper Quails
Before Machine Gun
Tulsa, Okla.—Jim Clark, southwest¬
ern desperado, was sent back to the
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
from which lie twice escaped In daring
breaks in the last 14 months.
The thirty-year-old bank robber was
captured here as he started to drive
away from an apartment house where
he and five companions had been stay¬
ing.
Confronted by a machine gun in tbe
hands of a federal Department of
Justice agent, the fugitive put up his
hands.
Clark, serving a life sentence ns a
habitual criminal, fled from
Lansing prison with ten other
victs on Memorial day. 1933,
along the then Warden Kirk
as a hostage, releasing him later in
Oklahoma.
Five months later he was
near Tueumcari, N. M„ and
to the prison. On the morning of
uary 19. this year. Clark led six
oners over the prison wall after over¬
powering a cellhouse guard.
Cotton Pledged to U. S.
to Be Jtf eld Until Feb. 1
Washington.—None of the
bales of cotton pledged as security
producers’ notes and now held by
government’s Commodity Credit
poration will be taken over by
corporation prior to February 1.
without the producers’ consent,
credit agency has announced.
New Crater Discovered
by “Glacier
False Pass. Alaska.—Discovery of
new inactive crater even larger
the famous Aniakchak. tipar tiie tip
tiie Alaskan peninsula, is reported
Father Bernard li. Hubbard, the
cier priest." after a month of
ships and adventure.
Marie Dressier *s Dead
Santa Barbara, Calif.—Marie
ler, star actress of tiie stage
screen, died after a long illness.
was sixty-two years old.
’’Fox’’ Must Go to Cell
Washington.—Norman T.
; “Tiie Fox.” lost his appeal against
j eighteen-month sentence imposed
his conviction on a charge of
: ing with Gaston B. Means to steal
(W from .Mrs. Edward B. McLean.
Reds Crdered Deported
San Francisco. - flip deportation
14 alleged C-unniunists. arrested
in recent ra ds. has been ordered
with investigation of the status of
others seized in tbe raid-.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: AUGUST 16. 1934
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Hindenburg Sleeps
Important Stork News
Building Happiness
.Mr. Green Sees Danger
Through miles of tiuming torches
Hindenburg was carried to Ids grave.
No representatives of the Hohenzol-
lerris appeared. The United States
sent a wreath. The ceremony began
with the funeral march from Beetho¬
ven’s Third Symphony, “Eroica,” writ¬
ten In honor of Napoleon. Services to
honor Hindenburg’s memory were held
in various churches here. New York’s
Governor Lehman sent to tiie Zion
Evangelical Lutheran church a tribute
eulogizing Hindenburg as “a great
soldier and statesman.”
Italy reports that the stork will
soon have the honor to bring another
little Mussolini to the dictator’s house¬
hold. This delights the Italian nation
and causes more general interest than
would the arrival of quintuplets in any
royal family. If that new baby in¬
herits its father’s qualities, it may
play an important part in the world.
It is officially stated also that the
widow of Chancellor Dollfuss will
soon have interesting news for tiie
Austrian people. Dictators come and
go; the stream of babies, fortunately,
never ceases, and there is hope in
every one.
At “Two-Mountain Chalet,” “a beau¬
tiful lodge cradled among tiie Rocky
mountains,” Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt
had dinner after driving 125 mile3
through Glacier National park over
the Great Divide. After dinner, in a
broadcast speech, tiie President said
many tilings of interest to the people
of the United States.
He said, in the first place, that “the
stealing of the public domain is fin¬
ished.’’ That is most encouraging.
The {’resident says the nation has
entered "an era of building, the
kind of building—the building of grSB
public projects for tiie benefit of tiie
public and with the definite objective
of building human happiness.”
Mr. Green, head of the American
Federation of Labor, warns the gov¬
ernment that it must do something
for tiie 10,000,000 idle. If It does
not act swiftly, Mr. Green says, “so¬
ciety may take over the means of pro¬
duction.”
What is “society?” President Roose¬
velt's government has already “taken
over tiie means of production,” taking
charge of industries, payrolls, shops,
farms, spending public money by the
billion in an earnest, sincere effort to
restore prosi>erity by financial artifi¬
cial respiration.
Constantine, Algeria, report’s bloody,
fatal rioting between Mohammedans
and Jews. More than 20 Jews were
killed, many Injured. An Arab mob,
armed with blackjacks, revolvers and
“Arab knives,” invaded the city’s
ghetto, “setting fire to houses and
dragging Jewish men, women and
children into the streets, to stab and
beat them.”
Mild earthquake shocks have gently
rocked the coast of Maine recently,
but nothing cataclysmic happened.
Windows rattled, pictures were found
out of plumb on the walls. That is
an old country and the rocky coast
has probably done its important “set¬
tling down” in ages long past.
Some of our best minds, that have
been shipping dollars and securities
to Canada for safe keeping, out of
the teach of our “radical, confisca¬
tory” government, will shudder read¬
ing the speech of Harry Stevens, Ca¬
nadian minister of trade and com¬
merce. This gentleman says “big
business,” made up of “unscrupulous
financiers and business men,” exploit¬
ed Canada’s consuming public, starved
her producers, sweated her workmen,
gouged her pulp, paper and other in¬
dustries and left her with a choice of
reform, dictatorship or revolution.
Earl Beatty, admiral of the British
fleet, has common sense, lie thinks
Britain should regulate her own na¬
val strength, decide questions of de¬
fense for herself, not asking opinion
or permission from other countries.
Many Americans feel the same about
their own national defense, and won¬
der why a people of 123,000,000 should
be less independent than Washington's
U. S. A. of 4,000.000.
Cetinje, Jugoslavia, reports a
er stoned to death by villagers who
saw him using a toothbrush and con¬
cluded that it was “a magic wand for
practicing witchcraft.”
for the victim, tie was seen using
“strange instrument that he
just after a cow had ceased to
milk, two dogs had gone mad and
son of tiie richest man in the
had eloped with a gypsy girl.
Vincent l’isano, only twenty,
a room on the top floor of a
Brooklyn boarding house, retired
with his friend, Oresto de
twenty-one. Both were
both were hiding, both were "on
spot.” Hiding did no good.
Two gunmen came down the
light. shot I’isano five times in
abdomen, put several bullets in
Roberto’s head. Both young men
police records, had been tried and
victed and let ont.
Organized crime usually “gets
man."
King Features Syndicate, Inc.
SENATOR WAGNER
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York sustained two fractured ribs and
other painful injuries when he drove
his automobile over an embankment
to avoid collision with another car in
the Adirondaeks.
VON HINDENBURG IS
DEAD; HITLER RULES
German Chancellor Assumes
the Presidency.
Berlin, Germany.—Paul von Hinden-
Du-'g, warrior, patriot and president,
Is dead, and Adolf Hitler has become
the master of all Germany.
(Shortly after word came from Von
Hindenburg’s country estate at Neu-
deck, East Prussia, that the eighty-
six-year-old hero had died, announce¬
ment was made here that Chancellor
Hitler had assumed the presidency.
The president had been critically
111 only four days. Physicians ex¬
pressed amazement at his heart’s stub¬
born resistance to disease and the
Infirmities of age.
When word came Hitler and his
Nazi cabinet were prepared. In a
guarded session the cabinet adopted
a decree revoking a law of 1932, un¬
der which Hie president of the Su¬
preme court would become Interim
president.
When news of Von Ilindenburg’s
end was received Paul Joseph Goe-
bells, propaganda minister, rushed to
a microphone. He announced to the
nation that tiie two offices of pres¬
ident and chancellor had been merged.
Hitler thus assumed absolute pow¬
er over tiie third reich.
Members of his immediate family
were at Von Hindenburg’s bedside.
They were his son. Col. Oscar von
Hindenburg, and two married daugh¬
ters, Frau Irimearde von Brockhusen
and Frau Anna Marie von Bentz.
Von Hindenburg’s wife died In 1921.
John N. WUIys Weds
Divorcee in Florida
Miami, Fla.—John N. Willys, former
United States ambassador to Foland,
and Mrs. Florence E. Dolan of Fields-
ton, N. V., were married here.
Tiie marriage immediately followed
tiie granting of a final divorce decree
to the first Mrs. Willys, the former
Isabel Van Wie of Canandaigua, N.
V.. who charged extreme cruelty.
Tiie newly married couple left hy
train for New York and a European
honeymoon.
Willys, applying for the marriage
license, gave his age as sixty and ids
occupation ns an automobile manu¬
facturer. The former Mrs. Dolan list¬
ed her age as thirty-seven. She was
divorced from. Harold .T. Dolan of Kew
Gardens, L. I., In October, 1933, in an
action heard here.
Crowd Storms Jail
and Releases Brawler
Kenyon, Minn.—A crowd stormed
the city jail here and forced the re¬
lease of Bailey Tiller of Wanamingo,
who had been locked up following a
street brawl.
Following a jubilee and market day
celebration here youths from a neigh¬
boring town created a disturbance and
Tiller was taken in custody..
Immediately a group of ids friends
gathered and demanded his release.
The police were overpowered.
Federal Bank Cash Stolen
at Branch Post Office
Los Angeles, Calif.—Two bandits
i who swooped from a speeding car with
I drawn guns, robbed A. C. Murphy and
i Ray Davis, bank tellers, of a satchel
j 1 threshold containing of $18,000 the Alhambra currency suburban in the
I branch of the post office. The money
| was consigned to the Federal Reserve
bank. Murphy and Davis were armed
but had no chance to pull their
weapons.
New House Assured
Dionne Quintuplets
Callander, Ont.—Tiie Dionne quin¬
tuplets will have a new home this
winter—a warm and fireproof one—in
contrast to their present humble farm
abode.
The house is to be financed through
the Canadian Red Cross nod the north¬
ern Ontario relief commission. It will
be of brick, and a furnace will replace
the stove now used by the Dionnes for
heat as well as cooking.
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bruckart
Washington. — Word has reached
treasury circles in Washington indi¬
cating some fear
Depositors among residents of
Protected the drouth area that
the prolonged dry
period and its attendant effect on con¬
ditions may cause softie fresh trouble
among banks. I inquired among offi¬
cials of the Federal Deposit Insurance
corporation concerning those condi¬
tions, and I have assurances that
there is little, if any, danger of new
banking difficulties. Furthermore, the
officials reminded me that even if new
troubles should arise nearly ail of the
depositors in tiie distress communities
are protected under the bank deposit
guarantee law.
In reporting these assurances i do
not mean to imply that every bank in
all parts of the country has insurance
coverage for its depositors. But the
scope of the insurance corporation
membership is so broad that it is al¬
most possible to describe it as com¬
plete coverage among the small banks.
The corporation figures show that 97
per cent of ail depositors whose indi¬
vidual accounts are less than $2,500
per person are protected by the insur¬
ance. Something like 95 per cent of
all of the banks in the country are
members of the insurance pool.
The significance of these figures can¬
not be minimized. For example, a re¬
cent bank failure in Illinois was cared
for by the Deposit Insurance corpora¬
tion and it paid 99 per cent of the
number of depositors with a total of
$125,000, a figure that was exactly half
of the total deposits in the bank. That
Is to say that only J per cent of the
number of depositors in the bank had
accounts in excess of $5,000 each—the
maximum insured under tiie temporary
fund—but the total of these larger ac¬
counts was equal to the total depos¬
its of the other 99 per cent of the in¬
dividuals having accounts with that
Institution.
With respect to the fear that has
been indicated in the drouth-stricken
communities, it was explained that
many individuals thought there would
be a repetition of conditions several
years ago when the small banks were
unable to realize on loans and short-
time credits extended in the same
areas. The depression made it impos¬
sible for many borrowers to repay.
The officials told me, however, that
the conditions now are somewhat dif¬
ferent. They pointed out, for exam¬
ple, that many of the distressed farm
mortgages hitherto privately held are
now in the hands of the government
and that the home loan bank system
lias been doing the same sort of thing
for owners of residences in towns and
cities. This naturally has alleviated
some of the stress on the local banks.
It is true, of course, that many of
the banks have extended credit on
what normally would be sound liases,
and that the drouth and its conse¬
quent destruction of crops will cause
some loans to be uncollectible at this
time. But the point is that the strain
is not so great as it was early in the
depression and officials here generally
believe that the banks will pull
through with the very minimum of
failures.
* * *
It is a curious coincidence, however,
that this new fear of banking trouble
in the drouth areas
Nebraska should arise at a
Experiment time when the state
of Nebraska is just
closing out its 25-year experiment with
a state bank deposit guarantee law.
The Nebraska experiment was by no
means successful. Its life was very
short. Nevertheless, it has taken that
state almost twenty years to clean up
the wreckage that resulted from an
attempt to insure all deposits within
the limited jurisdiction of one state.
It Is to be recalled that during con¬
gressional debate on the federal law
much argument was advanced against
enactment of the national insurance
law on the basis of the failure of the
numerous state attempts. The answer
apparently lies in the fact that condi¬
tions in one state may be bad from an
economic standpoint, or they may he
bad in several states, but it is sel¬
dom that the whole United States suf¬
fers conditions of a character that re¬
sult in widespread wreckage of banks.
Another strength which officials of the
Federal Deposit Insurance corporation
see in their own law is that no at¬
tempt is made to guarantee all depos¬
its. As heretofore said, the limit is
$5,000 for any individual account.
While that limitation does not protect
the holders of great amounts of cap¬
ital It is sufficiently high, according to
the stftdies by the insurance corpora¬
tion to provide for immediate repay¬
ment to at least 97 per cent of the
Individual depositors in this country.
The federal corporation has more
than $41X1.000,000 at its command upon
which it can draw immediately for
payment to depositors in case of any
bank failure. It is ridiculous to as¬
sume that this amount would be suffi¬
cient to meet any such debacle as oc¬
curred in 1932 and early 1933, yet it
ought to be said that a great many of
the banks which closed their doors
during those black days would not have
been so affected had there been funds
available to pay off depositors in the
banks that closed early in those des¬
perate times.
There are many Washington observ¬
ers who still have their fingers
crossed as to success of the
Insurance plan. They V
placing a premium s
on unsound hank
mg. I think no one can doubt le
where psychology bank of this guarantee in ,,1
managers really desire to ®
be crooked. They can fed
that their .... .....
depositors will he protect
ed for the most part and if
“bleed” their bank tiie wrath of the
b h° f th ® CitiZens in a wmniunltv
will ni be dissipated , obviously by
repayment of their prompt
federal deposits from the
corporation. These observers
contend further that the federal i
has not had aw
an opportunity for a real
test. It Is their thought that a period
of five years or more will be required
to gain an idea of how the machinery
is going to function. It is to be noted
that there has been no assessment
levied on the banks which are mem¬
bers of the pool thus far beyond the
original cash contribution for the
membership purchase. The test will
come, therefore, when the $400,000,000
fund has been exhausted and the
banks which are members of the pool
must again dig up funds to replenish
the larder.
* * *
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North
Dakota, a Republican independent, is
_ .. on record with the
Nye Predicts prediction that a
New Party new political party
is bound to come,
and that he believes it is now gaining
rapid headway. The senator was not
quite specific in his declaration, how¬
ever, because he gave the impression
that he recognizes many of tiie prob¬
lems confronting organization of a
third party. He has shied away from
campaigning for Republican regulars
seeking senatorial seats this fall and
to that extent has definitely put him¬
self in the position to be active in any
third party movement.
The thing which Senator Nye and
other independents on the Republican
side are dodging is President Roose¬
velt’s direct action in drawing from
liberal members of both Republican
and Democratic affiliation. It is re¬
garded by political students here as
quite obvious that only a few of the
Republican independents ever will
stay put In a party organized as they
believe Mr. Roosevfit to be organizing
a new party. It is the old story of
new party ambitions existing in too
many spots. They exist among Re¬
publicans now in the North and the
Northwest and in some sections of the
Middle West, and they exist among the
radical wing of the Democratic party
in some sections of the South and in
most parts of the Middle West. But
as far as Washington information goes
there are few points upon which
these various groups are yet ahIP to
agree.
Old line Republicans and the con¬
servative wing of tiie Democratic
party are paying little attention, how¬
ever! to the threats of party talked defec¬
tion. Those with whom I liavp
apparently rely on history as the basis
for the conclusion that the current
political uprising will die down in due
time.
* * *
Many “efficiency experts” governmental are ap¬
pearing in the New Deal
agencies and the
FederalClerks heads of clerks are
Lose Jobs beginning to fall
The process of sep¬
arating workers from the federal pay¬
roll always is a difficult proposition
and so the efficiency experts are mov¬
ing very slowly. But authentic re-
ports indicate tliere will he a
reduction in tiie government payroll
shortly after election. It seem* pos¬
sible that a few will join the ranks ®
the unemployed even before ce' 1 -' 1
but the number is likely to be mwn-
sequential according to the in 1 rm *
tion I have obtained.
The appearance of the etti' "' ,K '
bovs, however, has started
Washington correspondents on
something deeper, '"id- ^
trail of hav
of them, as far as 1 know,
able to learn definite llnd ine J
to P^ ns Il(1 ‘ n0
information as - the P*. -oil
doubt in their minds that
reduction presages something ^
of tax legislation in the
way it will go ” ‘
congress. How far
taxation methods may ro
new tell.
of course, too early to 1
One of the best proofs of th« «
recent statement Virginia by Democrat Senator^
Glass, the outstanding
long has been an ^
the senate on finsneffi Vcb. ^
Senator Glass sa.d In > is
emphasis, that , ' , ere
said it with hig
pay day coming. e ■* 1 ’ viD g
a tent of ,
remark only to the ex - n?
that tiie tremendous rate I
eventually has to be oheckedan ^
if the credit of the fed era - ^ ^
maintained, l" -0 ' 1 ^
is to be , debt—
tirement of the
now in excess of $-3J""’-
be made very soon. ^diture
It is is causing this question aiarm i‘ ^ ” ^ many class
that d r
business attention interests to a that. " ’ p leSS con-
called sales tax of a
gress resorts to a bu si¬
eral character. lt nf ffie tax
must carry the h ™ nt last
ness sentiment [he
burden. The ^ pne
congress and several prior sa!e9
has been directly oPi’ np ‘ ccr;;"
tax. Tax legislation a| 9 ’ ;^ , D t b«
to be a bone of hot co
next congress. N#w*'* r,er “ n
(P. Western