pnn ^TnrBT t —> \ _ The President at the Press Conference today said one thing which astonished the newspaperman. It concerned the public response to the tossing out of the big money lending bill> response in the form of mail, letters. Hitherto, whenever there has been a row between President Roosevelt and Congress, the White House has got a flood of mail from people xapxl supporting the Presidential stand. ’What about this last series of defeats which the White House sustained at the hands of Congress? The president was asked, "How much mall tax had come in?" and he replied - "None at all." No public reaction in the form of letters. ROOSEVELT — ^ t President RooseTeltt said something in Latin today. and of course he talked a hit of English too. in / \ A well-chosen vernacular - won’t appeal to the people against the congressional rejection of his huge lending plan. The President is scheduled to do some travelling in the West this fall, and he will make a number of speeches. But he won’t use the occasior to attack Congress for the defeat of the Administration lending hill. In explanation the President referred to the roll call of the lawmakers who voted for and against -- those who voted against the lending hill were on record, said he, and people could draw their own conclusion* Thereupon he burst into Latin. ,|fRes ipse loquitur,” said ?', D. R. , j with el a sa !»♦ elegenoe^—thing MTfiWwmU speaks for itself. CONGRESS Congress is speeding toward adjournment, polishing off the remaining necessary business with the greatest of haste. The Senate passed the appropriations bill, putting up money for expenses of Government. The Senators added a hundred and nineteen million dollars for farm relief, and it is believed the Lower House will agree to that, A oonferenoe of the senate and the House eame to an agreement on amendments of the Sooial Security Act, amendments to keep payroll taxes as they are, instead of letting them increase, thereby saving tax-payers almost a billion dollars. HOME LOAN Eight hundred und fifty thousand home owners who borrowed from the Government will have to pay less money to Uncle Sam, Today, the Home Owners Loan Corporation announced a reduction of interest rate. Interest on home loans Is cut from five per cent to four and a half per cent. Earlier in the week, the Federal Housing AdminIatration cut the Interest on its own loans - from, five per cent to four and a half. Thf^ffome Owners Loaip^orporat^n has about eight hundp^l and fifty thousand loan^/butstan^ifig, Ttyta represents a Arrowing of more jttfen thre^^illiorydollars,/of whic^'a good d^al has been Today * s reduction of interest represents a saving of between five and six million dollars for the home owners who borrowed from the Government .^v.w-wfiii;.*- . f GAMBLING In its rush to wind up the House of Xxn Representatives passed an Interesting bill today - a measure aimed at the gambling shins operating beyond the three mile* limit along the Pacific coast. Attorney General Murphy asked Congress to pass a law to put an end to the gambling ships, and this bill the lower house did today. They^«3fc| kq id it remains to the rush t® adjourn gambling dens on the Vbest Goa sent to the Senate^ in # seen whether the Senate wi^l pass ^ \ pass t\e bill to oLtlaw fIdating ■ BRIDGES On the Pacific Coast the trial of Harry Bridges goes on, with the C.I.Q. leader testifying in his own defense to keep from being deported back to Australia as an. alien. Bridges keeps on denying the charge against him - that he's a Communist. Under questioning today he made an admission concerning one of the things testified - that he attended meetings of the executive KooxaltK committee of the Communist party. The attorney for the government asked: "Did you attend any meetings, as a member of the party or ■ifcKXwiailXxxTa otherwise to seek Communist aid?" To this Bridges replied: "I attended caucuses with Communist party afflxa officials five or ten times." DEWEY We have a belated echo of the Jtxxlk trial of Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines, an echo In the form of an Eleven Thousand Dollar suit against District Attorney Dewey. During the long proceedings against Hines, the three convicted racketeers who turned State's evidence were not kept in prison, not in the Tombs. District Attorney Dewey had them under guard in a house In Bronxville, New York - Dixie Davis, George Weinberg, and Harry Schoenhaus. In this house Weinberg shot and killed himself. The piece was xa rented from a Mrs. Chappell, and now she goes to court, claiming that the presence of the three criminals and particularly the suicide # of Weinberg, injured the value of the house. Her complaint speaks of "wide, notorious and harmful publicity", so she's suing the District Attorney and a couple of his assistants. CRIME The nationwide drive against crime and criminals is headline news tonight. Attorney General Frank Murphy was busy today, directing a wholesale Investigation that covers many states. The Attorney General is urging grand jury proceedings far and wide - the expert prosecutors of the Department oX Justice to co-operate with local authorities. The anti-crime drive is on in a score of cities, including Chicago, Boston, New Orleans and New York, These latter gx two cities are the chief centers of Federal agent activity. Kuey Long, charges of alliance between the politicians and/the \ / / / y / racketeers. Is the New Orleans political machine in with the ( underworld, gangs? In New York everything centers around the mob chieftain called Lepke, whom District Attorney Dewey calls the most dangerous gangster in the United States . ^Federal agents'^nd poli>e are / . . V \ \ \ ling a lallllo aonduoting an intensive mhnhunt for Lepke, who is reporteaNto be in \ \ \ \ T \ \ x N jiNiuxurious and veil financed concealment, dollar racketvfrom his hideaway# ) \\ v Todayfs\report is that the G-n^en started looking for CRIME-S / / well known Brooklyn gangster named Joe Adonis - who is hardly as autiful a^/person as the name of , Adonis would imply. They ha-' word that he is supplying a good deal of the ^loney that Lepke funds is getting, ^iie xjc funds that enable the much sought fugitive to evade the manhunt. /Adonis is known/to the police'” as the mobster who took over the fat Brooklyn/f aoketa from, that former xsct underworld/boss, oalled "Little AXigie." Adonis took over in partnership with another gangster named Gurrah Ja^e Shapiro. And Gurrah Jake figures in the news today. The report is A that he is ready to squeal on the sinister Lepke. The reason for the surmise is that a police guard has been placed over Gurrah Jake’s wife and daughter - police protection twenty-four hours a day. The authorities are said to be afraid Lepke may kidnap the wife and daughter and hold them as hostages to keep Gurrah Jake from squealing. The underworld report is that Jake and Lepke were partners and then split - and Gurrah Jake promptly surrendered to the police to serve a prison term, he was tickled to be in prison., because he had learned he was on Lepke’s blacklist - the list of underworld associates who knew too much about Lepke and might squeal CRIME-3 on him and were therefore scheduled to be murdered. Five on the list have already been killed presumably at the direction of the gang lord in his hideaway, and several others are missing• One of the sensational reports in the Lepke melodrama brings in the name of Scarface Al Capone. They say that a large part of the information which the authorities now have was procured from the former kwwttwg Bootleg King of Chicago now a prisoner at Alcatraz. A couple of months ago, Johnny Torri©, who was Capone’s teacher and partner in the Chicago gang wars, was put on trial for income tax evasion. And testimony against Torrio was given by Capone - a written statement .ma.de by him at Alcatraz, Torrlo pleaded guilty in the middle of the trial, and the written testimony by Soarface Al never same up in the trial. Now the word is that the prisoner at Alcatraz gave the authorities a huge lot of information., not only about Torrio but also about other racketeers - including the fugitive Lepke and his New York gang operations. BRITAIN There’s a fine sounding headline in the news - the B^^ish Fleet may go to Chinese waters, Japan to be threatened by the King's Navy, However, it was just a matter of Prime Minister Chamberlain making one of those hypothetical statements to the Commons, Here are his words: ’’At present we have not got a fleet in the £m Far East superior to that of the Japanese1; We have such a fleet here. In certain A A circumstances we might find it necessary to send a fleet out W there." Yes, they might, but it doesn’t seem very likely - not with Hitler’s Germany so menacing right next door, prime Minister Chamberlain added in fact that much as Great Britain was concerned about the Far East, the state of affairs in Europe was much more important. These deliberations closed the session of the House of Commons. The Eondon Parliament adjourned and started on its way home, leaving Ckxshsxktn Chamberlain and his cabinet free to deal with the critical situation during the several months to come CHINA The Chinese National Capital of Chungking was savagely bombed today. Eighteen Japanese planes blasted the city, jOne feature was - damage to foreign consulates, British, French, German. the home of an American newspaper correspondent was demolished. There was wild terror among refugees, of whom^ there are tens of thousands in Chungking. In one case it was terror of the most peculiar sort. In the midst of the bombardment a baby giant panda got loose. Bsafet* 0ne of those queer, rare creatures which hove been ■ in the news so much, something like a racoon, something like a bear. The large and weird looking creature went dashing among the refugees. The panda is harmless, but it looks scarey - and the refugees scattered in a Danic. There, while the bombs were crashing, death raining from the sky, what they were afraid of was a funny looking panda. LONDON EXPLOSION London had a violent explosion today, the blowing up of a building. And of course the first Impression was - a bomb. The undercover Irish Republican Army has touched off quite a few bombs in England, in its terroristic campaign for the union of Ulster with Nationalist Ireland. However, there was no question of terrorism today - it was just an accident. Gas was escaping in a building near St. Paul's «xx Cathedral, and they were trying to find out where the leak was. The gas exploded, and the building Ulew up - the roof ripped off, flames leaping high. Workmen were buried In the wreckage - a dozen Injured seriously, Pipple - that is, the lawsuit against Farmer Waite — i He has a farm in Matanuska Valley, was one of thos ’ A FAHMER In Alaska they’ve settled the ease of Pe 7^e in^M cultivators v^hom the government placed on fertile Alaskan acres. And Pipnle did well. He made five thousand dollars a year out of his Alaskan farm - all because Pipple is one of those independent people. produce through a cooperative organization, but pipple wouldn’t do it. He sold the stuff he grew directly to the housewives of the town of Anchorage. In that way he made a better profit, — and run up a total earning of five thousand dollars a year. Proceedings were taken against him to nupi compel him to market his crops through the cooperative. They took him to court in the case of - people versus Pipple. After a year of litigation, there was a settlement today. Pipple sold his farm back to the m Matanuska project, and got Sixty-Eight Hundred Dollars for it. pipple is one of those determined oeople. He’s going to buy another Alaskan farm outside of the project and go on selling his produce as he pleases. The Matanuska farmers are required to sell their ESCAPE A prisoner taking © dive tkncs through the window of a moving train is a desperate sort of escape. It was tried at in California^ last night, in Santa Barbara, a desperado named James O’Connell, was on a speeding train in the custody of officers. Suddenly - through the window he went. He took the bruising bumr on the ground, and got away. He was recaptured today. A cordon of police was thrown around the vicinity of the escape, and they closed in - a narrowing circle. They m came to a tree, and high up in the top among leaves and branches, they saw the fugitive. He came down without resistance. FLAKE Here's a freakish oddity -- a snow-fall Inside of an airplane, while the weather outside was bright with sunshine. One of the Navy's giant patrol bombers took off on a routine flight and soared swiftly to nine thousand feet, and then the crew noticed it was snowing inside of the cabin. White snow­ flakes were swirling. Outside -- no sign of snow, only sunshine. How come? The bomber rose so swiftly from the warm humid air on the ground to the chilly temperature at nine thousand feet that the moist air^in the cabin fel chilled suddenly - and the moisture turned to snow. a- -“WiUc RAGS One of the rarest things in horse-raclng occurred today - a double dead heat, two races ending in a tie. At the Thistledown track at Cleveland Corinne and Blue play fought it out down the str*tcht and ended absolutely even. As the judges saw it, it was a tie. They studied the photographs registering the finish, and it was still a tie. Then in the third race fgk Giggle Lee and Precious Toy did it all over again, produced another head heat. Two on one day - the record books show nothing like it. IRON MAN Catcher Joe Sprinz, may be an "Iron Man," but he hasn't an iron face, so he had no business puttingehls face in the way of a baseball dropped from a blimp eight hundred feet high. Sprinz To be sure, Iron Man^apxt■ tx had his two hands in front of his face and his big catcher's aet^toett, but the ball was coming at such terrific A A velocity that it went right through and busted up Iron Man Sprinz *s face something awful. It's a classic stunt for a baseball catcher, hanging on to a ball tossed from a great height. It was a history-making exploit when an old-time catcher of the Washington Senators caught a ball dropped from the lofty x.±±±txm altitude of the Washington Monument. Iron Man Sprinz of the San Francisco Seals, was anm out to break all previous records. At the San Francisco Exposition, from a blimp eight hundred feet high and cruising at a hundred and | Ip: I forty five miles an hour, four baseballs were dropped. And Xxx ; Iron Man Sprinz took a sprint and got under one of them. The ball was coming down at a speed of a hundred and forty-five miles an hour and it hit with an impact of eight thousand and fifty foot pounds. Too many foot pounds even for an iron man. Hands, glove and all, he couldn't hold it, and it crashed right through, right in his face. IRON K a N-2 He sustained a compound fracture of the upper jaw, eight shattered teeth, and complicated bruises and lacerations of the with an error. - Xt was an error. Iron Man Sprinz will be in the hospital for two weeks and he won’t be back In the game for a month, lx He’s number one player on the San Francisco Seals, and they’re driving for the pennant in the Pacific Coast League. The loss of the Iron Man is a heavy blow to the team, but not quite as heavy a blow as when tht^baseball hit the Iron Man’s face. mouth. A