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
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
aided 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killed the promise was revoked and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
shot seriously. Officials sald he tried
to commit suicide.
President Miklas called on Dr. Kurt
Schuschnigg, minister of education un-
der 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
heimwehr to back them up. Soon aft-
erwards it was announced that Von
Starhemberg had been made chancel
Jor. In the province of Styria and
some other regions civil war broke
out almost at and the Nazis,
strong in numbers especially in Graz,
were desperately fighting with the reg-
ular army and the heimwehr,
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
French professed to look on the Naz
revolt as an internal event not war-
ranting 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 oa a
Jong and persistent campaign against
Dollfuss, making use of the radio with-
out restraint, Hitler's government,
however, tried to avold implication in
the Vienna uprising. Miopister Reith
was recalled to Berlin because of his
unauthorized action in helping the
Nazi group, and Hitler appointed
Franz von Papen to succeed him, The
border 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 Dell
fuss,
On the side lines, walting 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
it was twenty years ago, and in all
the world capitals the danger of seri
ous International repercussions was
recognized. Another general European
war may be avolded for the present,
but bloody conflict in Austria seemed
certain,
Engelbert
Dollfuss
once
OR the first time in history a Presi
dent of the United States set foot
on Hawallan soil when Mr. Roosevelt
landed at Hilo, He went ashore there
especially to visit the great Killaeuea
volcano, and being driven to the edge
of the huge firepit 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
naval base, He was entertained at
luncheon by Maj. Gen. B, H. Wells,
commandant of the army department,
attended a plenie given by the Har
vard club, ate dinner with Gov, Joseph
Poindexter and, after a reception at
the governor's mansion retired to the
Royal Hawallan hotel at Walkikl
beach.
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 bul only the eab
drivers joined them.
Father Francis J. Haas and BE. 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
Cdmmunists, Gov, Floyd Olson imme
diately declared martial law in the
city and Hennepin county and Adju-
tant 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 assoclation, an-
nounced in Detroit that a unanimous
vote bound all unions and continued
strike action in demand of an eight
hour day and a $2400 yearly wage.
Noonan sald the next move was up
to the shipowners, chiefly represented
by John W, Cushing, Chicago, and G,
A. Tomlinson, Cleveland.
About ninety tugs have tied
up at Great Lakes ports since the men
left their jobs June 1, Noonan sald.
been
OHN DILLINGER, murderer, bank
robber, outlaw and most notorious
of America’s modern desperadoes, Is
dead. Traced to Chicago, he ventured
Ee pice gE a visit to a moving
picture theater to see
a film of the life of a
nan 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 acid. 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 Informant 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 £15000.
Attorney General Commings In
Washington was elated by the news of
Dillinger's death. He warmly praised
the work of Mr. Purvis and his men,
who had devoted most of thelr time
for four and a half months to the
elimination of the desperado.
Three of the Dillinger gang besides
the leader have been killed in battle
with the law. Eight others are In pris
on, two of them under sentence of
death,
John
Dillinger
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 Iatter
had agreed to arbitrate and at the
same time had promised to bargain
collectively with other maritime
unions. In the San Francisco bay re
gion there were 108 vessels in 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 hang-
outs and the police arrested a number
of radicals. The hope that the alien
agitators captured ean be deported
was rather dashed by the attitude as
sumed by Seeretary of Labor Perkins
in the matter of deportations. She is
walting for the next congress to pass
the leniency measure that would give
her dictatorial power in these cases.
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 foreciosure,
NE HUNDRED miles of the Texas
Gulf coast was swept by a ter.
rific tropleal 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 wave
six miles inland, flooding towns, trap-
ping the residents, breaking communi.
cation lines and smashing boats and
bulldings,
LL, American possessions except
the Philippines, Samoa and Guam
fire 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 Hawall
Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. Previously Puerto Rico was
under the War department and the
others 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
voted them by the last congress,
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 8£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
was 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.
At PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
aboard the cruiser Houston was
nearing Hawail he took time to an-
nounce the membership of the na-
tional mediation board for the settle
ment of rallrond disputes. The men
he appointed are:
William M.
Springs, Ohlo,
February, 1836,
James W. Carmalt, Washington,
C., for the term ending February, 1986,
John Carmody, now chief engineer
Yellow
ending
Lelserson,
for the term
tration, for the term ending February,
1034,
The President also
Latimer chairman of the rallroad
retirement board, created by a recent
act of congress,
named
realized that
it cannot get trade credits in the
United States until it In way
squares up the old czarist debts owed
in this country. Therefore Ambassa-
dor Troyvanovsky and Secretary of
State Hull have begun preliminary
conversations on the subject, at the
instance of the Soviet government.
{ussia owes the United States gov-
ernment 337.000.0000 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
loosevelt administration has firmly re-
fused trade credits to the Soviet gov.
ernment until some sort of an agrees.
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 prevents new American
loans to foreign debt defaulters, the
bank has held that it cannot extend
credit to Russia,
soe
AVING given nearly three months
to the study of the nation’s air de-
fense, the board headed by Newton ID,
Baker has submitted a report which
calls for Immediate
strengthening of the
army alr corps to
meet “the
ous war threat against
our country that can
be conceived” The
report says the army
air forces are de
cidedly Inferior to
American
fs F % civil units that lead
Newton D. the world In strength
Baker and efficiency. The
budget bureau and
niggardly appropriations by congress
are held to blame,
Shortage of modern equipment, re-
sulting from the reduced appropria-
tions and stagnation in promotion of
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 alr
invasion. It also opposed the unifi-
cation of army and navy air forces
under a separate national defense unit,
First giving assurance that its recom-
mendations do not embrace a national
policy of aggression, the board pro-
1. A nationai aviation policy to be
retained for a “reasonable” length of
time,
2. Effectuation of the 10286 act
which called for expansion of the army
air corps to 2.320 planes with a larger
ratio of combat units
8. Steady program of procurement
which would keep alive the nation’s
airplane building industry,
4. Drastic changes In the alr corps
regulations which would increase fly-
ing hours per pilot from 160 to 200
hours to 800 yearly: revisions in the
promotion system for officers ; increased
training In flying under dangerous con-
ditions and with instruments common
on commercial planes.
8. Consolidation of the Joint agen-
cles of army and navy, such as the
joint munitions board, the joint
stitutes for observation ballouns,
8. Increase of the air corps person
by William
Bruckart
Washington, ~The end of June state-
ments of all of the banks of the coun-
try are now a mat-
Bank Deposits, of record and
Increase surprisingly, nearly
all of the Individual
banks have shown Increases in de
posite and resources over a year ago,
A couple of the largest banks in New
York showed such astounding in
creases In deposits as $100,000,000,
compared with June, 1083. jut Irre
spective of the Increase in deposits—
that Is, the money actually in posses.
gion of the banks—almost none of
them disclosed any increase in the total
loans now outstanding, Indeed, the
rule was a decline from June 30,
1038,
Banking authorities In the govern-
ment and outside tell me these figures
on deposits and resources clearly indi
eante an improvement in the general
banking situation. The Federal Re-
serve board in its latest review of con-
ditions declared the banking structure
wis on 8 much firmer foundation. Yet,
segment of politiclans and alleged
economists as proof that the banks are
From very high
yvelps that the banks are
money, This condition, as
excuse for the existence of numerous
of the government loaning agencies
and for other activities under the New
out
the country.
The circumstances in the decline
bank loans, however, {8 to my mind
t must be remembered first of all that
¥ fire
you
bankers, when they mak
putting money bel
and to other de
sure of
rH
ous
back,
the Ved
be reasonably getting it
¥
even though we do have now
Deposit
that Is supposed to prevent
the depositors. Bankers, therefo
willing to make
of idle cash thelr banks hold If they
can only find someone who will put uj
security guaranteeing a return of the
borrowed funds,
While some of the critics of the
bankers have been continuing thelr at.
tacks, | note statements from the Pub
lie Works administration, from the Re
construction Finance corporation, from
the Home Owners loan corporation,
and the Farm Credit administration,
among others, which show very clearly
that the government or its agencies is
unwilling to less It can
foresee 8 reasonable cf for re
payment. Just the other day, the Pub
le Works administration withdrew an
allocation some JO8TT.000 for con
be
Insurance ¢
losses for
loans of the vast =
make loans u
ance
of
bridge In Chicago
ministrator Ickes, the political subdi
vision of that city having Jurisdiction
was unable to provide a guarantee of
repayment of that loan. Evers
local units of the Home Owners’ Loan
day
tions by home owners who seek gov.
ernment money through mortgages on
to ald them in what
ever distress they find themselves, The
Fnance
with In
the Reconstruction
in its dealings
loans by
dustry.
Lately the warious Federal Reserve
banks issued a weekly statement of
twelve reserve Institutions reported
having made Joans to industry.
. » »
I have Inguired In numerous quarters
for reasons why borrowers were so
few. The consensus
Why Borrow-g me by men
ers Are Few who should know, Is
that there are two
distinet reasons for the small amount
of loans being made by banks and, of
course, the same reasons apply in the
ease of government loans, except that
the government has been known to put
out money in places from which It
probably newer will be returned. One
of the reasons mentioned was that in
dividuals and firme who most need
money have nothing but their own
signed obligations to put up as a
guarantee. Obviously, If an individual
or a corporation has no resources, the
note of that individual or that corpora.
tion Is of Httle value, however honest
and well intentioned the borrower
may be.
The second reason, and one that is
quite as Important, Is the lack of con
fidence which business men tell me
exists to a large extent In commerce
and Industry. Whatever Is the basis
for this lack of confidence is not na
matter of concern in this discussion,
but its existence seem to me to be a
matter of the gravest importance.
Whether taxpayers are afrald of the
burden in levies which they can fore
see, Is the reason for their hesitancy,
is not now wholly apparent. Many
observers are convinced it 1s an In
fluential factor, There Is also the
question which one ‘hears so often
asked: Where and how far does the
New Deal Intend to go In socialization
and reform? It seems to be obvious
that each of these, and perhaps others,
nre factors in the way of a
sound expansion of business under the
In the meantime, the federal govern:
went is going ahead with its program
to spend our way out of the depres
sion. Here is one Item to show what
is happening.
This road building has resulted in
the construction of enough
more than 22,000—of new highway al-
miles
wis voted by congress in the last ses
sion as a means of creating work. Pro-
ponents of the appropriation, and ad-
ministration authorities, hold that the
ing would provide thousands of new
jobs. Bureau of public roads figures
indicate that this has been the
but I find many observers who
wondering whether the amount of
money that has been pald to labor for
part of the total
the purpose was solely
of jobs,
by
proportionate
aside, when
the making
Totnl figures
the publie
pleted and In use on July 1 of this
construction, with the probability that
Contracts have been awarded, the bu-
reau has sald, for the construction of
1.000 miles more, and
will be under way In the
about work on
this portion
late summer,
.
It ured to
economic condi
Still Use
Their Cars
were better situnted
howe
ver,
case ir
SOems
the last 3
istrations, while
» country and the whole
ator weh
i 1 have not
the sale
inform
much
add also that the
wniths
This
BOUrces
business was very
they
sales for 1934 In the first
have been exceptionally
iid Indicate
EX I
that a great
und money,
which the;
sw automobile,
ohservers
noticed increasing tendenc
throughout th
ratic or Reput
under
as yet If muc
told by
gonservatives
whether Dem
alien themselves one
The
embryo, but I am
movement
sari
servers who are acquainted wit
1itical trends that the alignment Is tak-
ing a rather def
Some months ago I reported in these
columns belief of many pe
leaders that Mr. Roosevelt, as Presi
dent, was definitely engaged In the
formation of a Roosevelt party that
would adhere strictly to liberal stand-
ards. Assignments which Presi-
dent has made, the legisiation which
he has proposed, and his general attl
tude on social matters coupled with an
absolute disregard of old-time Demo-
cratic principles, has ald the
iite shape.
the mitical
the
der a liberal and conservative align-
ment. It is to be noted in this connec
tion that Mr. Roosevelt is continuing
to expand his liberal doctrines under
the guidance of some of the political
leaders heretofore held to be radical
members of the two old parties,
. - *
Conservative husiness Interests on
Trend the conservative side
under the New Deal
which would result In the molding of
business interests, or the spokesmen
ng a means of combating policies of
the New Desi regarded by business
leaders as radical in character.
It is too early to attempt a forecast
aw to the scope of this move. Never
theless, it is quite apparent that a con.
centration of this strength I= under
way. Not only will these men and In
tereste oppose expansion of such pol
feles as NRA and the AAA but they
are organizing to fight the ever-increas-
ing burden of taxation and to oppose
extension of government in business,
It is a matter of record, of course,
that the tendency of government poll
cles In the United States sincd the
World war has been steadily to the
jeft. Conservatives have been unable
thus far to check this trend, largely
because the conservative element
never has stood together. It is Im
portant and significant, therefore, that
for the first time we are observing the
development of a conservative organi
gation in this country which has the
avowed purpose of turning the Ameri
ean government back somewhat to the
right and, as the leaders describe It,
back again to the Constitution as it
was originally drawn,
@ by Western Newspaper Union.
That Body
of Yours
By
JAMES W. BARTON, M. D.
The Diet So Helpful in
Epilepsy
LTHOUGH the cancer
has not been discovered lives are
being maved dally by the use of the
knife, the X.ray, and radium
Similarly with
the cause has not
cause of
epilepsy ; ithough
found, treat.
that
thousands of eplleptics are being kept
entirely free from attacks, and others
have aftacks that are extremely light.
The convulsions are prevented or
been
kept under falr control in the majority
Dr. D. 8. Pulford, Sacramento, Calif,
without the use of drugs. one-third of
intelligent and willing patients
can be kept free of attacks, another
one-third are benefited to the extent
Notwithstanding the fact that this
was dis-
is no nearer
now than when this diet
was discovered,
Any
come by the use of yeast,
lime,
treatment
danger from thi let Is over.
eral and
Another Interesting point is that just
insulin four
nher of uses besides
of diabetics, so
has been 1d
saving
aise has this diet
which starches
ther conditions,
Doctor Puiford sta
help in the
padache, In
of the
treat: )
asthma and in
bladder and
Persons taking this diet
be more free of the common
of the throat
nose, and chest sucl
colds and influenza,
Further, in the
ments of childh ¥
appen
otected from the atts
the children
of the attacks,
For the ordinary health
the
part meat and
fat meat, bu
starches—bread, potatoes, sugar,
try
wry.
diet shoul cor
In this special diet for epllepsy—th
ketogenic diet—
down 8 iy,
to about one part
and the fats
up for cutting
he meat and eggs are
cut the starches cut
down
four)
make
starches,
(instead of
are increased to
down on the
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Children Below Normal
Mentality
gratifying soe
FP IS vers i g to
change in the tr nt of
called mental d
the
what
that is
pals whose mental ability
livid
to normal or
iz not
100 as It
per cent
Tre.
Formerly they were simply thought
of as “crazy,” and the best treatment
to separate their fs
and everybody else, a8 some of them
had instincts that them unsafe
to those around them, .
However, careful investigation
shows that there are large numbers
of feeble-minded persons whose bee
havior In the community is not any
worse than that of persons who are
not classed as mental defectives
Nowadays they rank these defec-
from the idiot past the im-
becile and the moron to those of nor.
mal mental ability,
This means that while the idiot and
the next above him, the imbecile, may
need special care in an institution,
the next higher mentally, the moron,
may be so helped that he can return
to his family, and to the community,
where, under ordinary supervision, he
them from
made
up
The whole thought then is that In.
ns diseased or dangerous individuals,
that we think of them as having just
a little less mental equipment than
by giving this
tunity to do its best, progress may be
made In their development,
Dr. W. C. Sandy says that as most
perhaps a
menace If not cared for, an actual as-
urgent need for early discovery of
these oases, correcting any physical
defects, special training for certain
cases, and removal of unsuitable cases
to institutions,
In many cities now there are classes
for those who are not as bright as the
normal child, and the teachers In
charge of these classes are specially
trained for this work.
The thought then is that when a
youngster doesn’t seem to be able to
keep up with his class, when he seems