LOWBLL.Tn^lAS. .SUNOCO - l JTU£JDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1934 lihdbergh Startling claims of more and more evidence against Hauptman, connecting him with the Lindbergh money and with the clues left at the Lindbergh house* One detail comes from Chief of Police Hildreth, of Savannah, Georgia. Chief Hildreth wires that eight persons down his way have identified Hauptman photograph. They id entity him as a man who lived on Tybee Island near Savannah immediately after the kidnapping. ^This is just another item of various bits of evidence indicating that from the time of the kidnapping there was a great and sudden change in the life of Hauptman, the obscure, German carpenter -- travelling, no more work, tran­ sactions in the stock market, evidence of money and affluence. fcllo * limdbbrgh There is one suggestive social angle in the stories that have come to light about the stolid, silent suspect in the Lindbergh kidnapping. lt»s a detail with a distinct socielogieal slant* Hauptmann seems to have been a good soldier, doing his bit in the World War, esteemed by his officers. He vas active, athletic • He could toss a hand grenade almost tvo hundred and fifty feet. He got a prize for that. in the last months of the war he was employed in a munitions plant, "the pay was good, the seme in Germany as with our munitions workers over here. The young soldier had plenty of cash, had a good time, cultivated expensive habits — the old story of easy money* During the troubled time after the war was over, he missed the good times, couldn't gratify those expensive habits. And the people of the little town in Germany say that's tta he took to the ways of robbery,^ led to prison. t£W»* Still the old story of easy money. Then the ex-convict sneaked his way to America - the FOLLOW LINDBERGH -2 land of easy money* It was in the height of the boom time — the era of easy money* Well, howeYer the ease may turn out, no matter how they are able to connect Hauptmann with extortion and kidnapping ijrAt -i-y/hiv Nev, details concerning the resignation of General O'Ryan as hew fork's Police Comiaissionl^^iiaate that there were some sharp exchanges between Police headquarters and City ilall. A formal statement issued by tjae Cenei*?. 1 tells of warh^ae ana sharp^^trsnaaiSfetediad with the Mayor. These ii-ie Just v.hat ns ncivs been nearing — how the Mayor disapproved of the General's disciplinary ideas and counter-raanded the General's stern measures against labor disturbances and radical demonstrations. But later tidings todciy represent the arguments as being -earaat sck still warmer and sharper. Vve are bold of the immediate incident that led to the General's resignation. He was talking. on the ' phone to Mayor La Guardia.. They were having a lively difference of opinion. La Guardia, who is renowned for gettiiig hot under uie collar, started to flare up with all that Latin temperament oi nis. O'Ryan slammed the received on the hook, and huMg up on the Mayor, which is rather a novelty in* civic afiVirs. The Mayor, nothing daunted, called him back -nCi yicmed u:7^he^On^i^^ion where he had left off. Ibis time the || III: I 1 ! J-Jf Genei'al etrt^££r&==canv^ A n wv. 3=SSOC«r'4 •iihrr~xXtf -tEcars^ea* HI resign^” he shouted. I "Accepted," the Mayor shouted back. Thatfs the inside story of the resignation that so dramatically followed the break in the Lindbergh case„find/ it’s the first open rift in the Fusion concert at Mew York City Hall. General OfRyan was the first commissioner appointed by Mayor La Guardia, and now the first to resign. General v%m^ asa^teio^ter^cfcRfa "I resign*" he shotted. "Accepted^n the Mayor shouted bad. That* s the inside story of the resignation that so dramatically followed the break in the Lindbergh ease,4nd/ it* s the first open rift in the Fusion concert at New York City Hall, General 0TRyan was the first commissioner appointed by Mayor La Guardi a, and now the first to resign. democrats Hsre*0 a new turn in the practice of having government employees contribute to party funds. The Secretary of Agriculture comes out with a denouncing blast, Down in Elorida, the Democratic party needs some funds. It has a deficit to make up. So a letter was sent to government job-holders, asking them to kick in with ten dollars a piece. Government job-holders include all those on the Federal pay roll in connection with various relief projects. Yes, they got a letter, each man asked to put up a ten spot, but immediately afterward they each got another letter from Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture. Having learned about the way funds were being raised, Mr, Wallace wrote that he didn't mind if the workers employed by his depart- m nt kicked in with a contribution, but added that it would nave to be one hundred percent voluntary. "If you don't want to give you don't have to, and you won't be fired." That was the reassuring gist of his letter. They all contributed! Do you think they did? R03IKS0N Now about the Arkansas traveller, I don’t uean that legendary figure in the old song, but the modern Arkansas traveller. He’s been wandering around Europe, visiting potentat es and statesmen, and at the moment we find him in the most romantic surroundings of all. The news tells how Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas is being entertained in Turkey. He’s been sitting-in at the sessions of the Turkish Parliament, which is meeting at Con­ stantinople in the historic Yildiz Palace, The Turkish law­ makers are giving the Senator from Arkansas a glittering reception at their Parliamentary doings. He’s been sitting in a gorgeous chair of honor, a regular throne, decorated with gold, jewels, red plush, and peacock feathers. Good old Joe. They've given him everything but a harem. He says, "I'd just love to be a Sultan." The Arkansas traveller at the Yildiz Palace* That does evoke reflections. It was the favorite palace of the Red Sultan, Abdul Hamid the Second, whom they called Abdul the . And the sinister scarlet intrigue of the imperial divan Damned ftOBlNSON *8 I made pages of wleked, fantastic history, we see visions of the Red Sultan, the Grand Vizier, the secret splendors of the harem, Iff the veiled wives, Fatima and Suleika, the whispering, the intrigue, jl the mysterious plotting and swift death* II 111 I! The Arkansas traveller at the Tildiz Palace — that's almost as good as "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur A ■ i s, i! i 1 1 MSbiik The news from Hussia ti:.e after time has told us of those strange,Communist trials,those spectacular,grim and Jk startling^dramatic proceedings before the Red Tribunal of revolutionary justice. And once more today we have tidings of a trial in a Soviet court. The defendants are twins. They are black. They are limp. They are empty. They button up the aides. They are a pair of galoshes. les, a pair of galoshes are on trial, in b^^^^Russia. /V It’s another instance of the way the Awhirulers of Moscow like to dramatize an idea. There has been a lot of complaint about bad merchandise in the Communist Utopia, buckets that leak, stoves that won’t give any heat, watches Ilf that won’t keep time. The government-operated factories have ;|; 1 been turning out bungled and inferior products* So the || ComaisSfcrs of Moscow have started a drive for better merchandise f and they are dramatizing the drive. They have issued a decree -that anybody who is Mx displeased with the stuff he buys shall have the right to go nGooIii ki to court? butjtS sue the maker of the article. The government itself does the manufacturing', the court proceedings^gainst the articl-e itself_the defective merchandise ^ Soviet judge. led to court for prosecution before That explains the trial of the two galoshes. They are charged v.ith having seams that leak, soles that crack, and a shape that doesn't fit any human foot properly. I suppose if the judge finds them guilty, that pair of galoshes <?vv a. will be to Siberia. A, A KTNPENBURG Oscar Von Hindenburg, son of the late President of Germany has resigned from the German Army. He is only fifty- one, and that * a no age for a German officer to retire. It is being surmised that Hitler may have something to do with it. May be afraid that the son of the old Field- Marshal might become too influential with the troops. Anyway, the retirement of Colonel Oscar is being surrounded with considerable ceremony. Reichsfuehrer Hitler has made the formal announcement that the Colonel is retiring as a Major-General, and will be permitted to wear his Major- General's uniform in civilian life. This is a singular and distinguished honor OLY-aPIC Tomorrow the palatial liner, the lie de France will dock at New York. One man among the passengers will come ashore and will head str ight for the Woolwort^ Building where a committee will be waiting for him. The passenger is Avery Brundage of the Amateur Athletic Union. He* s on his way to make a report to the Athletic .Union Committee, and that report will decide whether the United States will participate in the Olympic games at Berlin. Avery Brundage has been in Germany investigating the charges of Nazi discrimination against Jewish athletes. If he tells the committee^ the charges are true, A. \ and that the Nazi discrimination against Jewish athletes is a substantial fact, why then the American Athletic Union will not send a team to the Berlin games. JUiiiplng Jeosaphath, here's Leaping Lena again, a fe, weeks ago Lena leaped in and arranged a beautiful garland of romance. Now the story is different. She leaped in and disrupted the romance * At least so says the fan dancer, who married the prize-fighter. Leaping Lena is both a sister and a manager, in her own uproarious way she conducts the pugilistic affairs of her brother, king Levinsky, of the Chicago Cauliflower LevinSKy' s. Lena was also trying to be both sister-in-law and manager to the fan dancer who was her brother's blushing bride. That was the trouble. -tU Yet, it was Lena who arranged the marriage, \ in her sisterly,managerial way. "He never knows what's good for him," she explained#^" And so she ma. ried him to the fan dancer. The wedding bells rang just a month ago, and today we near about the "I always gotta tell him. Eight now he's just plain A. lonesome but he don't xnow now to tell it." divorce papers. The fan dancer said — it was too much Leaping Lena. When Lena leaps in the door, love leaps out of the window. And then the fan dancer, just the bride of mis a month told a couple of reporters that her pugilistic husband used, as she said, "vile epithets." "That means cuss wqrdh,11 she explained obligingly to the reporters, both of tiaM*Harvard men. 9 SHIP Tomorrow John Bull will he giving three rousing cheers -- three rousing hear, hears for an ocean liner. England and France, in their maritime competition for the sup- remacy of the Northern Atlantic, are launching two great oceanic palaces, as rival queens of the seas. The French boat is the ^ormandie. ^ I don*t know the name of the new giant English liner. About the only one who does know is Queen Mary. At the great launching ceremony tomorrow, which will he broadcast over the H. B. C•, Her Majesty will smash a bottle of champagne over the bow of the giant Cunarder, and she will utter these words:- ,WI name thee ---M, and then she*!! speak the name, I donH know whether Her Majesty, the Queen knows it, but the big ship has already, quite unofficially been given a name, When the scaffolding was removed from the immense hull, staid British officials were horrified to see two names written in huge letters, six feet tall, one name on the starboard side, the other on the port side. And both in the place where the name of the ship should be. And the names were Jean and Agatha. A shocked investigation disclosed the fact that workmen often baptize ships in advance by painting in the names of their sweethearts, in giant letters. But, I hardly think that Queen Mary will take the cue and christen Britain's new pride of the sea with~-the—titune either sdl Jean or Agatha. Experts say that the name will probably be atlAhm Brittania or Victoria. It's a partiality of the workmen for lassies like Jean and Agatha that causes one rule of ship-building to be slapped on over in England. During the building of a giant liner no woman is ever allowed to enter the shipyards. The reason for this is explained by a Scotch official. "TherfeaS^so many w^Lnen, ” he eaSSSS** "That if they all stopped to look at it would cost fifteen hundred A- A dollars a glance." Juet imagine whet- it would—eoat if Mae—ffeet weD^ eurviag^throTagh-tfaat • sh: ^jiCrlT ihe yacht race has ended with the Stars and Stripes ' fluttering triumphantly in the breezej Old Glory flying victoriously at the masthead — Yes, the American flag, also the red flag, the Protest flag* Captain Sopwith called '’Foul1' in the fourth race on Saturday. He raised the red flag. find today both the yachts saiM in with the red flag flying. Some unsophisticated Communist might have thought that Newport- was going Bolshl It was. a victory that the American A cup-defender scored today, five hundred yards ahead at the finish. Auid that ends the thrilling series of yacht races with still another American victory* Uncle Sam,s eighty- fourth consecutive triumph. Of course those two red flags might tangle things up a bit with both skippers protesting against each others -5 i taeticsT^’lf the British protest were upheld, it would mean another race. I But as it stands, the glory goes to^kcB^* Vanderbilt, | the tall, bronzed shipper and bridge player. Be is a director | member of fifteen clubs, plays in fort y -1 wo c o ro r a t i on s, goli and pilots his own airplane, but these are really side­ lines. He devotes his summers to yachting and his winters to bridge. With both boats and cards he is a mathematically minded theorising expert. It was he who worked out the complicated scoring system of contract bridge, and he worked the Cup races out on paper in advance, mapped out the course of action for every emergency, the proper tactics for every imaginable turn of the wind. At the bridge table he plays so slowly that his fellow bridgers or bridgets get the fidgets.. But Vanderbilt, the yachtsman moves with^Lightening, swift speed, vvith thirteen j cards in his hand he never utters a word, is a monument of 1 silence. But on deck he doesn't merely talk fluently, he { bellows fluently, an old-time skipper roaring down the deck to ills ere1//. At card playing he is a regular sphinx, the old poker I face. And he is a yachting sphinx too, never a flicker of | I expression, winning or losing, a poker face of the bound tag main. UCg! o Most of his business associates call himnMr. V”. His fellow bridge players call him "Mike11, so. Congratulations Mr. V, Atta boy Mike, and — BO LOm Ui^lTIL TOkOfiROW.