mNGE. Some tiling like a declaration of aerial war was made in Paris today. It warns German planes that if they fly over French territory they will he attached, and brought down, The prospect outlined is one of shy battles, though not so filled with terror and tragedy as were the air fights in the World War^r with tracer bullets whizsing and flaming coffins falling earthward. The French Air Ministry declares that if German planes come winging over French territory they will first be arned by anti-air craft guns which will fire — blanh shots. I don't hnow Just what blank cartridges for AJT anti-aircraft guns might amount to. It may be^a case oi some hind of warning shell blazing into the shy. If the oncoming planes don't heed the warning, why then French combat speedsters will whirl into the shy, and swing to the at tack. hey^ won t open fire! A spuadron of combat planes will surround the intruder, maneuvring to make him sink earthward, strategically lorcing him 9 j-.l / 'Fh, down, % duswj ^ — - francs The reason for this rather drastic french declaration of SI aerial war is the fact that Gerraan planes have heen flying across the border and swinging low over that much talked about system of defenses which Franc© is building on her eastern frontier* is announced that four German flying ships were spotted during the past week, apparently spying on the secret fortifications, making photographs of that border of steel. ^We have had word from time to time of that intensive network of underground forts, a subterranean realm of war for the hurling of high explosives and the massing of machine guns# Because of the recent spy scares in France, and because of the fact that construction of the secret line of steel is now in a critical stage, the French Government is using, soldiers to do the building. Regiments of French and Algerian troops have been thrown into the construction work# HiLbher.t’O civilian workers have been used, many of them foreigners, some Germans. But jiow^to clamp on the secrecy^ the French Army is on the job, They say the new seereoy German planes tov® been flying over the fortified area. WASHINGTON. The reports xron Washington today began with considerable speculation about Harry Hopkins, the Federal Relief Administrator When President Roosevelt last evening made his newest Work Relief appointments and announced the names of men who are to direct the spending of the four billion, eight hundred million dollars, no mention was made of Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins. That caused wondering,-^or the Relief Administrator has been exceedingly prominent in the development of the Work Relief Program. It had been expected that he would be given a prominent post. Now-here was Secretary of the Interior lokes named as Director of the new Works Allotment Division, heading that board of twenty-two men, which will advise the President about handing out the money. But Harry Hopkins seemed to be left out in the cold-momentarily, at least. It was very momentary. Later on Hr. Roosevelt put tue name of Harry Hopkins on record. He is to be the Chairman of what is called the "division of Progress," a board that will check upon public works problems. It will make surveys and figure out ideas to stimulate work relief as a means or deorea "■ASHIMGTQi; - 2 unemployment - keeping count of employable persons on relief rolls who can be put to work, seeing that the needy actually get jobs; determining wages; purchase of material; and speeding up the program where it lags. So now the machinery of the Work Relief Program will operate as follows: Harry Hopkins and his Division of Progress will jump into different areas of the country, will look into industrial and employment problems, and then will submit the find­ ings to Secretary lokes and his Works Allotment. Division, There the data will be worked into the framework of a general national program and will fee submitted to the President for his okay. That leaves the President as the topmost pinnacle of She entire Work Relief pyramid. It is believed that Mr, Roosevelt will sit as Chairman, at least ex-officio chairman, of the entire Pour Billion, eight hundred million dollar project. The kej importance of the Secretary of the Interior as Chairman of the Works Allotment Division will give a new talking point to those in Washington who had been saying that See re-ary Ickes wants to get pretty nearly everything under his control. One of the recent charges has been that he was trying to grab off the Forestry Bureau from the Department ox Agricul-ure, &nd the Fisheries Bureau from the Department of Commerce, MSFINGT ON 0 OK TI NUN D forests and lish ior Honest Harold. Secretary of Agriculture^replies by saying,"Harold wouldn't do a thing lilce that to me." Further anti-IGlees gossip was set in motion when Senator J. Ham Lewis, of those famous whiskers that used to he pink, introduced a hill that would symbolize the consolidation of the Secretary's emergency powers. Senator J, Ham's bill proposes to change the name of the Department of the Interior to the Department of Conservation and Works. The change would signify that the Secretary's public works functions had become a steady business, a regular part of his Department, instead of being -= temporary relief measure. Washington reports say there there is little Ghana© of the bill passing. G0NGHS3S. \ there's an interesting chorus or grurablinss and complaints to be heard in Washington these days. The grumblings concern the usunl mode of legislative procedure as practiced in this country. The Congressman, the members of the lover house, are complaining that according to the way things are done — they get it in the nech. Let*s observe that a lav.' is created this way: It starts in the Lower House where it's debated and where amendments, riders, and what not are tacked on to it. After more or less wrangling, the Congressmen pass it. './hereupon—it goes to the Senate. 2?he Congressmen are pointing out that they have the first crack at everything. That might seem to be a privilege. But they point to such controversial and indignation provoking affairs as the Bonus, the K. R. A. ‘and taxation. Th^y do their P^rt right off the bat-while the White light of public discussion and argumentative bitterness is focused bright and bum' t They are in d- n.ver of offending anybody and everybody. They COHGREI.S JONl'INiJSD. tales the rap. By trie tine the trouble-malcing bill gets around to the Senate or the .enate gets around.to it—time has elapsed and the excitement has had a chance to cool down. The Senators do their stuff in an atmosphere of comparative tranquility. The orioles have stopped Hying, Constituents are not so vociferously up in ms. bo the Senators have much the less dangerous time of it. 'Andy say Congressmen, that's doubly unfair. Because the members of the Lower House represent small areas, are much closer to their constituents, much more, liable to immediate )) resentment, Moreover, they come up for election every two years, and things they've soil and the way they've voted are lively to be fresh in mind, /bile the Sen;itors--they represent whole states are not so close to indignant, constituents. dtnskMloreover, iA they serve for long terns of six year's^ test there's plenty of time for the voters back home to forget a lot of things, $®ta€the Congressmen are saying ;«fThev^c an take tl e r.ip u better than we can, but we have, to take if. e 1 e immediate line of fire* at home and also in fsshington. They're CONGRESS CONT'INIJED not 3iioii likely targets as .'e are, but they keep out of the line of fire* And so saying many 01 the members of the Lower House are expressing disoontent with the way laws are passed# Movement is on to let the Senate have the post of honor in the forefront of the battle. Let them take up a bill, debate its form, advise amendements and riders—and stage the show. And let the Lower House enter the legislative fray after the * barrage of popular agitation for and against has died down. The White House indioations are that the President sympathiz­ es with this attitude of the Lower House and that he would not make nny objections to a proposal to. reverse the usual procedure of emanting a law bonus bill Today's indioations oonoerning yesterday's Bonus development are not too promising as regards legislative peace and harmony in Washington, Of course, if the lawmakers would agree on the Pat Harrison Compromise Bill, it would mean sweet strains of mellifluous harmony between Congress and the White House. The President would accept the Harrison compromise. But it looks as if the middle of the road measure were going to find the center of the highway full of.bumps and ruts, rough going. fhe bonus compromise was launched by the Senate Finance Committee yes ter day-that is, it .was launched on that frequently stormy law-making lake known as the Senate. And it may not have such $ smooth sailing* Today's indications are that wren the bill gets to a vote before the full assemblage of the Upper House, there will be plenty, of ballots cast against it. Powerful influences are lining up votes agaiMsi the compromise bill and for the Vinson Bill. And even if the compromise should get through the Senate, the Lower House still has something to s"y• And the Lower House is exceedingly bonus-minded, a ocean for the voyage of the ark of the compromise,________ CRIME That latest Hollywood affair, which looked like a weird crime mystery, seems to be cleared up this evening-- murder and suicide, A man who was a dress designer for film actresses was shot and killed. Later on a law instructor of the University of California was shot and critically wounded. And along with this second episode, a chauffeur who had formerly Police say it all resulted from a studio apartment supper, during which there was a violent quarrel about money that the dress designer and the law instructor are said to have owed to been a navy ensign, killed himself . (The chauffeur had been the chauffeur. SCHULTZ. (l The fate o± the torraer Beer Baron, charged with income tax .A— violations, went into its final suspense shortly "before noon, after Judge Bryant had delivered his charge. The Judge emphasized one interesting angle. He referred to the testimony of a lawyer who related that in nineteen twenty-six he told Dutch Schultz that the profits of bootlegging could not be taxed. The lawyer had advised the then Beer Baron that since the liquor trade was illegal, it wasn't subject to taxation* In mahing his comment on that, the Judge told Schultz that if any man follows advice of a lawyer instead of following the lav/, he does it at his own peril. HK-Hew-Y urr-i»<wel-l----^Lhoraa», Htrtiiorlaftxa-^laea H^ote-l^G Phi** FAKIR. Among "trie various sources oi' turmoiX in this troubled old world, we find-the TTad Fakir of Alingar. That magioal gentleman does not figure so much in the large affairs of the world, but he does cut a lot of ice on the northwest frontier of India- (where ice is mighty scarce anyway^) Along that complicated borderland, always a possible foous for international•complications in Asia, any sort of incident may start a weaving of tangled skeins of war and diplomacy. That is ouite a serious angle, although the Had Fakir of Alingar seems more in the grand and farcical manner of the Arabian Nights. /dvu think of an Indian Fakir as a magician who sticks hat A pins through his cheeks, and crams live glowing coals in Lis 'V-l A mouth, the Kad Fakir can do all those routine tricks A * but the wonders attributed to him are rather more sinister He has a terrifying magic of vengeance. .ihen he puts a curs someone, that curse ooraes true At least that's what the tribesmen say on the northwest frontier His favorite curse is-'Hay You FAKIR perish hy fire." And then presently the viotim’s house bursts into a blaze in the most mysterious manner. Of course, we'd sets the houses on lire. But even ISuropeans are terrified by his supernatural powers, fhey relate'a story of how he walked up to an Snglish officer and told him that both his parents had died, fhe Englishman laughed--but soon got word that his ir father and mother had indeed died suddenly in England. His exploits occur so far and wide and in such quick succession that he seems to be in several places at one time. So some iU believe Mad i'akir is really several pe,rsons. The result of all this magic is that the wild tribes^in the mountains along the Afghan border live in terror ofAFakir, and do his bidding. He has them lined up, so that he is a power in the land. They say he has thirty-five wives and keeps adding to his harem all the time, because he has set up the claim that he is entitled to all the women captured within border range, or at le^. st pick of them. The tribes, who are always at war, make the surmise that the cunning Fakir was practice of stealing each others women. This claim to c-ptured women has led the authorities on the northwest frontier to fakir hope that the Mad Fakir would he assassinated, a fate which frequently befalls witch doctor leaders who become too arrogant. But thus far the - ad Fakir has been protected by his supernatural powers. And the British authorities remember how some of their most troublesome problems have been caused by the Mahdi, the Mad Mo11ah. wms: CADLE: Mm SFYTQP How to be three people, that's my chief concern tonight* lihe to be at home on the farm for the week-end; l *a like to be at that Dig woodchopping contest at Skytop in the Poconos where hundreds of woodsmen are now gathering to decide the championship, (if you want to see the chips fly and a novel .and thrilling sport just load up with Blue Sunoco and start for Skytop.) But l*m headed in the opposite direction* to appear tonight in the huge Cadle Auditorium in Indianapolis, But I had enough fun to last over the whole weekend today, watching the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds play ball, in this the best call town in the land, A lot of experts have teen saying that Cincinnati did a foolish thing buying up a lot of minor league players. They are calling it a minor league team. Well, they had been in the cellar so long they couldn't go from bad to worse. And it's a team of snappy youngsters who play a lightning brand of ball, Powell Crosley says they are getting ready to try out night baseball here; and just as he did with his high-powered W L W station he's going to overtop everything ever tried in that ■RttPS: CAPLE: AKD - 2 line by throwing double-as-much-candle power on the diamond as lias ever been use in night ball. More people can get awav from their work at night. Maybe it's a good idea - if, the evenings are hot enough. Today was ladies day at the Reds Park. 8000 fair fans with not a man in sight were massed in two of the stands, Just to hear them squeal and scream was worth the price of admission. I’ll now give you an imitation of 8000 dizzy blondes and equally dizzy brunettes squealing wkill the umpire." But, oh oh there isn't time. I’ve just fanned out for tonight. So, SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY,