LaGUABDIA r i. Congress heard some advice today from Mayor LaGuardia of New York, As he used to be one of them, the Congressmen will take Knickerbocker * s things from Fathej^MjiiadeexfcwJ^ Mayor that they might not — (f^^Lsz take from others ^ His advice was to set up a permanent committee to study and map out a program for the country^ business recovery. There probably wouldn11 be a keen scramble to get on that committee 7 ^ -VmJ as^& LaGuardia idea would be to have work all summer ? doing.-itr:would-be: submit a bill by next October, A tmm champion of the "LaGuardia-for-: President” cause up today, He1 s none other than William Allen White of Emporia, one of the staunchest of mid-western Republieans# White told Philadelphians that the Republicans* best bet for President in Nineteen Forty would be a city boy of the LaGuardia type. And he explained: **The country has gone from the rural to the urban state.” And he added: ”Even the rural states would not accept the clod—hopper -fc£c VVV<9^V."pWv>V country type any more CHAMBER Leaders of the United States Chamber of Commerce are taking their annual cracks at the New Deal. The Chamber held its twenty-sixth yearly meeting in Washington today and speeches were in order. The principal criticism came from John W. 0*Leary of Chicago,Chairman of the Executive Committee. Said he:- Supervision by government hampers and retards real a vital necessity fur bueiUMgt and in the public interest.” The Chamber, as a body, put in a plea for immediate reduction of the tax load. Federal, State and Local Government altogether take no less than thirteen-and-a-half billions a year out of the pockets of business. of Delaware when he said:- ftThere is no lack of capital today.”*1 f hFrrrlie^-rrddgd r-”There 1 3 business prog res. And,” he ^freedom of enterprise is etl^:th e --calin;-- A significant comment was made by Lament DuPont SHIPS The Senators today continued their wrangling over President Roosevelt» s big Navy bill. They * vd added an amendment limiting the size of Uncle Samis new battleships to thirty-five thousand tons. Just as they’d done this the Navy released some information recently gathered from Europe. The new men-of-war that Hitler and Mussolini are building will be so fast that they will make Uncle Sam’s battleships look like tortoises. The German and Italian dreadnaughts will have a speed of thirty knots, whereas the fastest^the same size American ships can do is twenty-three knots. So what? This means, of course, that there will change have to be a radic in the design and construction of our men-of-war FORD Here’s something that will interest the labor union world. The National Labor Relations Board backs down from its attitude towards Henry Ford. It filed a petition today with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Kentucky. In that petition it asked permission to withdraw the order that the Board had made against the Ford Motor Company, At about the same time there comes to light the background for this astonishing more. It follows on the heels of petitions that had been filed by the attorneys for the Ford Motor Company, ' . ; ''./V; \ - V i:- . /''V' The Ford lawyers asked the court for leave to make certain Investigations into the N,L,R,B.*s order against Ford, "Did the Board consult outside sources,n the Ford lawyers would like to know, ... and specifically they wanted to ask, ”Did the Board consult Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen,nwho are known to be the President’s legal advisors, ’’Did the Board consult John L, Lewis, head of the C* 1,0., or Homer Martin, President of the Automobile Workers Union, or any other officers of any union?,f Of course now that the Board has withdrawn Its order against the Ford Company, those questions don’t have to be answered-. BREAD There'll be no bread in Akron, Ohio, tomorrow unless mother knows how to bake it. The bakers are on strike, not a single loaf came out of any bakery-oven in the rubber capital. And the stocks of the stores, it is reported, are practically exhausted. That puts it up to the little woman, Ax&xx Can she make a loaf of bread. Billy boy, Billy Boy? Maybe he'll have to settle for biscuits. PULITZER Here^ big news in the world of literature and journalism. The trustees of Columbia University have announced their Pulitzer prize awards, the prizes left by the late Joseph Pulitzer in his will for the most distinguished achievaaents of the year. As the tirrgi novel of the—yeay dealing with American life, the trustees selectedby J. P. Marquand, wThe Late George Apleyj a character portrait of a rich Bostonian. For that—Mr» Mapqua*Hi^wHl/-»eQeIve one thou8and- dollars Critics and publishers promptly observed that the Prize Committee continues to lean emphatically toward the side of the more popular kind of books. People who knew Joseph Pulitzer tell us that it was his intention that those prizes should be awarded to works which otherwise might not bring their authors much reward. However, the terms of the will state merely that the prize should go to the most distinguished novel of the year, preferably dealing with American life. Last year it was won by Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind", and must have been a mere drop in the bucket to the royalties that her book earned. M£* Marquand*s novel, which appeared first as a serial in PULITZER 2 the SATURDAY EVENING POST, also Is a hook of the popular sort. The prize for the most distinguished play goes to Thornton Wilder for "Our '^own.0 The same &r. Wilder who ip Nineteen Twenty- Eight was awarded the Pulitzer book prize for "The Bridge ofSan Luis Rey Now for the journalism prizes. The gold medal av/ard goes to the "Tribune" of Bismarck, North Eakota, The Bismarck "Tribune” news reports and editorials entitled "Self Help In the Dust Bowl" are considered by the Comraitt e as "the most disinterested and meritorious public service by a newspaper," The Bismarck Tribune was not the only paper selected. A bronze plaque, a special public service prize, is given to the "Journal of Edmonton of Alberta, "for its leadership in defense of the freedom of the press in the Province of Alberta." One prize to Pittsburgh. Won by Raymond Sprigle, a reporter of the PITTSBRUGH POST GAZETTE. And it was given him b ecause of his distinguished reporting in the series which PULITZER - 3 revealed that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had once been a member of the Ku Klux KXan. Arthur Krock of the New York wTimes,, gets the prixe for distinguished Washington cor res pond enee*.-~T!sscfcsairtSr for the interview he wrote with President Roosevelt last year# eai^exclTTSAve.-arbiulw PresldeiYth^djgeeu—^d h1r political phi 1ogoptoy-et The most distinguished editorial writing of the year was dme by W. W. Waymack of the DesMoines "Register and Tribune". And the prise for the most distinguished cartoon goes to Vaughn Shoemaker of the "Chicago Daily News," TORSO visiting One of the nlaces that Amftrloans •yrf'rfV. Paris used to flock to. producing one-act plays so gruesome that they would have shocked A even Edgar Allan Poe. light at C level and, tha^m±ght~'1»v«^ervad-M>s=a»i;er4ai~£or=«Q3afr=©fU4%* play** For two years and a half Cleveland has been infested by a homicidal maniac. He not only murders his victims but dismembers them and throws the fragments in the water. The condltironrof-^frhe fr agments—has -indioa feed-1o-~the-poliee-thart—the -murderer—auet^hava *■ . t>eeit-a-butcherw—In—those two and a half—y^ers -the remains -e-f— “=“BmrFen up in burlap bags in and around Cleveland, The police have investigated literally thousands of leads without a«y success. Twenty- fgmg-4ays-ago, part- of—anothe-r~4inha ppy-»ur4ered pe raon wae^found,—the eieventh vietim-in-two- and a h€k-lf—yeare Today two bridge tenders on the A theatre of horrors / Grand Guignol .eleven or twelve A m. murky Cuyahoga fi vindetected madman ASSASSIN > ^ vwe. W ^ <k. ? vvi-^ \ Trem^dgnsrraixxtgtyi^Et ttaezited. rSearf^tr?^ x % •fr-- _ _ _ *^^ o JU zj -\ For several days a^^teiodrsanatja message has been out over the Russian air from a secret Short Wave station. The words of the message; "Joseph Stalin has been sentenced to death and the Liberators League will carry out his execution." Jiaturally the first and immediate result of this Vp«fc£zXftngc^ henomenom was to Eki&t heighten the terrorism in Russia. The bodyguard of* the Soviet Dictator has been doubled, although it was already the strongest and strictest ' its utmost to K in the world. And of course the 0GPU locate that secret Short Wave station. The big Government stations in Moscow have tried to jam the broadcasts but iJL i succeed^" The supposition's that this message was broadcast from an airplane high above the clouds. It is inferred that the Liberators League so mentioned consists of friends and admirers of Marshal Tuckhachevsky, Nikolai Bukharin, and other once powerful Soviet leaders executed in the blood purge* ASSASSIM - 2 Their threat to Stalin’s life"i|as ,varied from time to time by statements in praise of the men A HITLER follow Assassin There*s a peculiar timeliness in the latest threat to the Russian Dictator, For it comes just as the Gem an Dictator is on Mis way to visit the Italian. And the word from Mussolinifs capital is that never have there been such extraordinary and elaborate precautions for the life of any one,sis®* The extent of the danger to Hitlert*==£££?» may be of the Gestapo, the German Secret Police, have been in Rome for months, fen thousand agents of Mussolini*s Secret Police have been on special duty in Rome, Florence, Naples, all the bristling all over the peninsula, many of them women. In restaurants, cafes and other public places, every word spoken is taken down and reported to headquarters. For two weeks the Fascist police have been rounding up thousands who are not Fascists. They*ve even removed the flowerpots from the balconies and windows along the routes that Mussolini and Hitler gauged the extent of the preparations* High officials cities that Hitler and Mussolini will visit. Spies are •w. MISS1.Q.MM Kerens one that will interest Commander Donald MacMillan qn& Captain Bob Bartlett who will be sailing that way in a few weeks:- Eight days ago a motor bo t put to sea from a point on the extreme north of Hewfoimdland. It was a boat of the United Church Mission stationed at White Bay, piloted by the Reverend Roy Rogers, The missionary was taking five patients to a hospital further south at St, Anthony. Day followed day and no news was received from the missionary, Ms motor boat, or Ms patients. There was a genuine eamse for anxiety, since he had only a two-day supply of food and water aboard. The story of that perilous cruise came to light today 1 Soon after leaving the mission station at White Bay the motor boat got caught in drift ice. So instead of being able to speed, southward, they were carried north. For days they drifted, hungry and thursty. But men in charge of those remote mission stations have to do far more than spread the Gospel, They have to be men who can stand, just syicn hi iships, who can face long-drawn- out emergencies like that, in thos dangerous waters,Today Reverend Roy Rogers brought Ms boat to land at Fishoit Island, five miles off Hare Bay in northern Newfoundland. POKER Out in Hollywood there1s both weeping and chuckling over a poker game that v/as played one night last week. The principals in the comedy are Lew Brice, chibrother of hh»- great Fanny Brice; he was the winner in that game. And a Mr. Clifton of England, described as a wealthy young sportsman who writes poetry — wh9 was the principal loser. fc t According to his own admission^Ji^contributed to the party to the tune of one hundred and fifty thousand Boosevelt dollarso. The game got into the courts because the Englishman, .A after losing that one hundred and fifty thousand thought bette of itand stopped payment on his checks. The affair is now being investigated by the District Attorney's office. Just to settle matters they are going to play that game all over lATit£ again, just as it was played a week ago. gfaerwiMr-he one A difference. A on the table. Clifton says he renigged on the money because he learned that Brother £± Brice»s chips were backed up^cmly with^.O.U.ig whereas POKER - 2 ~MsJi tn-uje’fe ■eal dollar ’ A at called .chips had real dollars behind them. In ^ A legal phraseology that A. 4 obtaining money under rs. false pretenses of wealth. In other words^if Faxmy Erice*s brother had lost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars instead of winning, he could^t have paid in anything but conversation. Brother Brice denies the unsoft impeachment and says furthermore, that there never was any pot on the table with more than £ bk £ forty thousand dollars in it. The District Attorney’s offlee .entered into the game on account of the accusation that was made. The prosecutor also yearns to find out whether the game fchcy= was Draw or Stuft poker. According to the California criminal code. Stud poker is gambling, hence illegal. Draiff poker is not. SHARKS FOLLOW POKER To cap the story of that poker game here*s a bit of scientific news from southern California. Archaeologists made a discovery of real importance. And they made it almost within rifle shot of Los Angeles itself. Some contractors were digging in the sandstone of Palos Verdes hills in the suburbs of Los Angeles. In tha^sandstone they found fossils. When the fossils were examined the scientists decided they were the teeth of sharks one hundred and seventy-five feet long. Twenty-five million years ago when xmfcfc southern California was covered by the sea those sharks used to swim in those waters. It is not known whethersharks played poker. VWvO tv