POLITICS In Pittsburgh, the convention of Young Democrats was cheering Jenutoi Barkley of Kentucky, Floor Leader of the Democrats in the Senate. They cheered particularly his glowing references to President Roosevelt. A political story of a different sort comes from Omaha, Nebraska. There Senator Burke was indulging himself in a bit of political prophecy. He predicted a third party in Nineteen Forty, a radical party with President Roosevelt as its candidate fighting a coalition of Republicans and Conservative Democrats. the basis of President Roosevelts message to the Young Democrats 1 Convention last night. He said both the Democratic and the Republican convention will be sure to nominate conservative candidates. And that, said senator Burke, will induce Mr. Roosevelt, in line with his message of last night, to put himself at the head of kxx the new party. And Senator Burke continues:- "Mr. Roosevelt will gather together under his banner all the radical elements of the country." "In answer to that,n said Burke, "the real Democrats and Republicans will decide among themselves which of their candidates The Democratic Nebraska Senator made this prophecy upon POLITICS-2 ,n has the best chance and will support that yv And 'enator Burke added that the candidate supported by that coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats should be somebody like young Senator Robert A, Taft of Ohio SOCIAL SECUBITY I H One of the important bills passed by Congress at its last session was a measure revising the Social Security Act. And the best provision in it was the one that held down the payroll taxes to one per cent for the next three years. There had been great indignation over that point since in the original act kxx those taxes were increased. The revision saves employers and employees something like nine hundred and five million dollars. President Roosevelt signed that revision today and li It 1 l i i described it as another tremendous step forward in providing greater security for the people of this country. But deeeiHt seem to have been on ■■eteeoTmtr--of that Baling-ia fcaxec th»4 ho eoid t*-* The <4 clause that brought those words of praise out of him was the one ( i | ! extending the insurance benefits of the Social Security program to people in all lines of work. It affects more than a million workers hwi*w> not covered before# And people entitled to old-age pensions A will get themjnext^ January instead of January, Nineteen Porty-two. df the old-age Insurance system, Mr. rtoosevelt said that \ \ \ It has been converted into an old-age and survivorsvinsurance providing lifetime family security instead of only individual !!i : t 1 N li I old-age security to H»^ie workers in insured occupations. Also, he ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt at the Summer White House in Hyde Park was making ready today for a short vacation. He1 s going for a ten day cruise on Uncle Sam*s warship ttTuscaloosa,T in the waters off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The Tuscaloosa with the San Francisco and the Quincy constituted the heavy cruiser squadron tnat recently rounded Cape Horn, the first United States warships to do it since the Panama Canal was dug. Before the President left Dutchess County today he gave out a somewhat soothing report on the international situation. He held a press conference at Hyde Park and newspaper men asked him whether he medicated calling a special session of Congress before January. He replied with great d eliberation and careful choice of words that he imows of no reason at the present time why it might be necessary to call Congress back before January. However, he also said that in case of any actual war crisis, either in Europe or the Far East, he would Immediately summon Congress and ask it to pass special laws to keep the United States neutral according to the principles of international law. He told the newspapermen further that a President already has considerable powers, which, if pooperly used, will preserve ROOSEVELT-£ neutrality, ior instance, he referred to the sinking of I mx the "Lusitania." Before that tragedy in the Irish Sea, Williaia Jennings Bryan, then Secretarjr of State, had implored President Woodrow Wilson to publish a proclamation warning Americans to stay off ships flying the flags of belligerent nations. President Wilson refused and that was one of the reasons that led to Bryan’s resignation as Secretary of State. Mr, Roosevelt says that the President has ample authority, without asking any special powers from Congress, to warn Americans to stay offtime of war. And he added that this Government is not going to war with any country whose submarines sink a foreign ship carrying American citizens if those citizens had sailed on that ship in spite of warnings to stay off it. La BOR WAR For fifty-three days, a Senate committee has been i£sija^n. hearing evidence about war between the A.F. of L. and the Labor held those hearings with a view to reporting on requests for amendments to the Wagner National Labor Reletions act. But those demands originated as a result of the war between the G.I.O* and the A.F. of L. So part of those hearings simmered down to an investigation of the causes of that Labor War. Senator Thomas of Utah, says the hearings have convinced him that there is room for both the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the American Industrial World. But, he says, their leaders live in peace. There should be an amicable working agreement between William Green and John L. Lewis, so the cause of A C.I. 0. Tiig* committee is now taking a *recess and its chairman should Labor may not be hurt by the strife. ■Mmsam - CONTRik-CTS FOLLOW LABOR VfAR The National Industrial Conference Board has just finished a careful study of the labor situation throughout the country. And it reports that in the last two years, organized labor has made big strides. The unions have obtained more favorable contracts from the employers in the last two years than during any previous period ACTOKS The news from Atlantic City indicates that a big blow up is possible in show business* The actors of the screen and iisgi legitimate stage, are furious about their treatment by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor* Some of them declare that^William Green, PrbS4tfe#t*, treated them as though they are misbehaving children. And there is talk that many of the actors are now bitterly regretting that they, as artists, in forming a union should have put themselves under the thumbs of people who know nothing and care less about the problems of artists. The report from Atlantic City is that the American Federation of Labor is about to grant a charter to the vaudeville artists as an international union. This will be a slap in the face to the actors. And the tone of their grumblings indicates that they may even walk | out of the Federation as other unions have done. CRIME LIS1? The - eaeral Bureau of Investigation made public an interesting statement today. It's a list of public enemies, alleged criminaj.s vho are most earnestly wanted by the law. The G-man list, by the way, doesn't agree with prosecutor Tom Dewey of hew York, Dewey picked Lepke, the labor racketeer, as the country's most dangerous 'Criminal* J, Edgar Hoover puts his down number four A on the list. According to the F, 3. I., the number one public enemy is t I If ii an individual named Ciiarlie Chapman, a Texas bank robber who escaped from the Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville two years ago where he was serving a term for a bank robbery. Public enemies number two and three are the convicts who I ft broke away from Alcatraz in December, Nineteen Thirty-Seven, the most dangerous bank rcb-ber of tue Pacific Coast, r.e' s a ^an of twenty aliases. Though hefs only twenty-nine years old, his criminal record dates back twelve years. One of the ether uubllc enemies is a man cf only eight aliases. He comes from Knoxville, Tennessee, but it's the police CRIME LIST-2 of Ontario, Canada, who want him. He’s charged with having kidnapped John S. Labatt of the celebrated Canadian brewing family. Number ten on the F. B. I* list is a man who is supposed to be the country’s largest peddler of narcotics. There’s not one charge against /V A scores of MgKDBLSSOHN T,fay bacK in the eighteenth eentury, a famous family of German business men founded a bank, an underwriting house. The to founder bore a mime famous not only among business men but among philosophers* He was Hoses Mendelssohn. Among the celebrated kinsmen of the Mendelssohn family was the composer, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, whose name is known at least by every bride and groom because he wrote <£8*^ wedding march as part of the tmmx A- T ^ incidental music to Shakespeare’s wMidsummer Night’s Dream." For almost two hundred years, the Bank of Mendelssohn and Company, though not exactly famous so far as the general public is concerned, has been a well known house. It’s one of the largest private banks in Europe. Today, the Amsterdam Branch of Mendelssohn and Company applied to the court for a letter of license, which means that it is suspending payments* This suspension caused quite a flurry in European financial circles. The Mendelssohns were Jewish and last year Hitler’s Nazi Government ordered the liquidation of the Berlin branch of the bank r.RT.-EBRATlQN imost a hundred years ago, a Swiss pioneer, John Augustus Sutter, started something, it became a part of one of the most glamorous and romantic episodes in American history. The thing he started was the founding of Sacramento, now the capital of the State of California. It was on August twelfth, Eighteen Thirty-Nine that John Augustus Sutter built Sutterrs Fort and began developing the hundred thousand acres which he called New Helvetia# ever happened to man* In Eighteen Forty-Eight, a millwright from New York named Jim Marshall, found gold in the millrace at Sutter's Fort. Here is the irony of it. That discovery ruined Sutter# He implored Jim Marshall to keep it secret# But no man who discovered gold has ever been able to keep his mouth shut. The gold rushers, the famous Forty-Niners, swooped down upon Sutter's land# Pie was a prosperous fellow when that happened, had thirteen thousand head of horses, cattle and hogs. The gold rusr.ers swept over his land, stele his horses, ate his cattle, devoured his hogs# The only law in California in gorty-gtgtet- lay in the strength of Sutter was overtaken by one of the greatest ironies that a man's arm and the accuracy of his shooting . Sutter wasn't fixed N. to repel human parasites. C5LSBRATI0N-2 In Eighteen Seventy-One he was a ruined and disappointed man. He left California and. went to Pennsylvania, where he settled in the town of Lititz in Lancaster County. Ke picked Lititz because there were excellent Moravian schools for his children. For years he frequented Washington, trying tc upon Congress to compensate him for the losses he had suffered, Ji#-talked to deaf ears. was buried at Lititz in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, IS 1 in Eighteen Eighty. All this becomes news because Lancaster County is getting ^ ready today for a great celebration tomorrow^ ■&. ^ unveil a monument to John Augustus Sutter. And they1 re going to A A Join in the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the £u t | founding of Sacramento, the capital of California^ Of course fcfei* | is also being celebrated in the (JhidBii States A y r> - .er t.i€ fcasebail season opened the wmitm ehempion ICew Terh S eixkx Te^keee sbertec rith E^en cverwnelming sweej: that &t one time tne rest of xrje __mericen Leegue seemed to be literallj nowhere. But t-uis morning those chearplos Yankees were only fire and t he If IF* gemes ahead of Tom Ttwhey’s Boeton Bed Soz. hnd in the national / League the once lowly Cincinnati Bede owned by Bowel Crossly and managed by Bill 1 oilechnie are se^en and s half games ahead of the runners up, the St. Louis Cardinals, y kJit there we hare a baseball miracle. Dnly two years ago those Beds were way down in the cellar, as low as they could get. People are wondering whether Bill Ihllechnie worBed this miracle by rirtue of some talisman such as used to be carried by Ceorge Stallings, the old miracle man of the Boston Braves. I hare just been reading about that in an extraordinary booh eallec "Sight Unseen* by Bred Lieb, the oele - rated oasebalu writer* -ano by »-—e way it seems a strange sort of booh for a baseband writer to nave authored* It1s all about the occult and mysterious* jamcn^ the EtcritE tliEt Krrt rrefl Lieb tells in teie booi; eppeez-e the tale of Secrgt Stall in.-: e thi hie 1-sir piece. It wee a dime taez uec Deer I I I I 1 I i i blessee, by a legro fanatic ^or_.ng in Cuba rno called himse_f the BA.S SB ALL-2 Pop© BlackThe legend was that any coin which this Black Pope had blessed took on ten times its face value and anybody who carried it had ten times normal luck. Strangely enough baseball stories record that while he had that coin Stallings and the Boston Braves could not lose. They even won the World's Series over one of the greatest Philadelphia Athletic teams that Connie Mack had put together. So people are asking Bill McKechnie whether somebody slipped him one of those dimes blessed by the Black Pope. | FIJ; r 1 FLIERS I I: Up in the air over the mid-Atlantic are two young men from New York City, one of them thirty-two and the other gsSy twenty-three. They took off this morning from St. Peters, Nova Scotia, and said they were headed for Ireland* As these young adventurers, Alex Loeb and Dick Decker, were taking off from St. Peters, they said to a mechanic at the airport:- "After we land in Ireland we mightv»»a=gx* to Palestine," And they added that they have ^ A ab&e&trtely good instruments , Wocdcrfiii” jshipc, and just can*t lose A. a out. They also said that they gathered a lot of swell information I :j| ifi •V from Doug Corrigan, kkwxkk ? One-Way Corrigan, So there they are at the present moment, out in the air over mid-Atlantic• They have a cruising speed of a hundred and /\ (■’ ww W^Vk/7 twenty five and enough fuel for thirty-five hours, ^ A t -I 1 A little over a year ago, th^se same young men planned a flight to And before they had a chance to get started /\ /> both tires of their monoplane blew out on the runway of I-loyd Bennett Airport. An inspector then examined their plane, found it overloaded, and the aeronautics authority grounded the young pilots •1' | 1 :l 1 . ! | i i J This year they had a more auspicious take-off t : a>. | ! IS I) ) ji il / : j I At-r 1 Hi 1 ii