s»g—i YTOnD' 'tJvw -' /'V'V co:r ectixg : ^; yb ^ dy : --*€ Ho--t liepreientatires has just taken action on the reficiency Relief Bill, tne Preeifexit's deicand for iramediate aoney to be spent ey the V .P.i^ The Congressmen ~ i~ \\ " ' iip 2c i.-’ninisiraiion lost out. "Tie House si opted a the slash recontnended! % j by the Appropriations Committee/) Tr.e President v,anted ei^ht hundred and seventy-five million dollars. The Committee cut that tc seven hundred end t*erty-five million — a hundred mil_ion dollars less than the V.hite Horse figure. and fifty ikii v.hat Congress has ;’ust essayed. "ice debate ■ ent on all day, - ith administration earning that the hundred and fifty million collar cut v.oulc throw over a million reople off the relief rolls. This uas iterated -nd reiterated by the administration reaocrats. But it vas opposed by a coalition of Be publicans and conservative rfcmocrats.. They v,on out. "ne till ith the smaller fij.seven hundred end t emty-five mi-*-or^^sssw v.a. pfassec. spam The hearing on the appointment of Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was concluded today - after a bit of hot conversation. The former W.P.A. Administrator admitted that the W.P.A. did play politics - particularly in Pennsylvania. He declared th#local Democratic politicians in that state put pressure on the local W.P.A., using it for political purposes. "Did you go into Pennsylvania?" demanded Senator Hiram Johnson. The former Administrator said he had sent investigators into the state - because he himself had a great many things to do. at Whereupon Hiram Johnson insistently pointed out that^the time of the Pennsylvania affair, Hopkins v.ent to California and made a political speech there. He was also with the President in Georgia at the time of the attempt to purge Senator George of that state. sat ion was decidedly warm* e*. A couple of days at:o, a sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Commituee put its okay on the nomination of Frank Murphy as Attorney General. Nevertheless, Murphy appeared ■ before that same sub-committee today, and defended his handling of the sit-down strikes when he was Governor of Michigan. He said - A i "I never condoned the sit-down strike.” Urn added : "Of course the 4 sit-down strikers were guilty of violating the law,” il Then why did he not suppress the law violation he did not 1 I if x? condone? "the new Attorney General”1 faced a condition, not a theory.” He explained that when he became Governorjof Michigan there was, in his words, ”no operating legal il ! I ! machinery for settling labor battles.” Mx* af thnt tiine 'an bring diiiijmtmd—etrurs-^Ur^-uaidy not , n ji n 1 toq l go improvise ways of handling a aangeious situation. To the committee he presented letters praising the way he handled those automobile labor troubles - letters from President Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker, Professor Felix Frankfurter^ now nominated to the Supreme Court, _and - the dixEEisaxs director of JLfi jiURPHI - 2 -rfa personnel of the Ford Company, Ford personnel director commended the Murphy strike policy. 06^*3:;- ”1 3o feel,” declared Frank Murphy, ’’that the sit-down strike has now been thoroughly discredited. And I believe we have seen the end of it.” With that, the sub-committee took a vote and once more okayed the appointment of the new Attorney General - reaffirmed its previous decision E&GLM£ The revolt of Vermont has turned into a revolt of ^ev; England. Yesterday Governor ."ihen and she Legislature of the Green fountain state took measures to oppose the seizure of Vermont lands by th? Federal Government -- lands wanted for flood control projects. Today the Vermont Gov rnor lined up the other Governors of the New England States to support the , Be Vermont contention. The Gov rnor:_ TP’ - " A «^V Boston to further a drive against in anoilc ^»ralysis.^jdfUcznnicEiTLnrrdttssi of Vermont was joined by Governors yurphy of New ba^pshire. Van er lit of Phooe Island, Barrows of Laine, Baldwin of Connecticut, and Saltonst 11 of Massachusetts, in sending the follow* ng Resolution to President Roosevelt and Secretary V/ar V/oodring:- vreads the Resolution, nwe urge the Federal Government^o cooperate immediately with the New England .tates to accor pi' :;h flood control Jcoartodf-without de: sndin; the coi lete surrender to the Federal Government of basic rights which belongto the people in the Stat s ,v ^ sort of htv England declarati n of flood control Independence, Today at S^n FranciscOj a dense fo^ covered the city and the Golden Gate. The white mist was so thick that automobile traffic in places had to be suspended. In San Francisco Bay, the fog blindingly enveloped Alcatraz Island, that dread prison called The Rock. It was there at Alcatraz that the v eat her was observed with the keenest interest - by five men, five convicts. They were long term desperadoes - their leader one of u&v+n the most formidable outlaws this country has iUiownf— Arthur Barker A nicknamed rDocn. One of the Barker brothers of the notorious Barker-Karpis mob, robbers, kidnappers, murderers. The Barker- Karpis mob was the last and one of the most dangerous of the public enemy gangs destroyed by J. Ed^ar Hooverts G-men. Th* Lr end was signalized by a blaze of gunfire at a remote Florida cottage, itn the G-men trapped la Barker, mother of desperadoes, and 7-ith her was one of her sons. Outlaw mother and son fought it out to the death. The other brother. Doc Barker, was not there he had already been ceptured. Even•u .Isy he was w nt to /Icatraz, The Rock. And there today he was the head of the partj that obs-rved the • . ALCATRAZ - 2 --- ______________ They v.ere prepared to escape. Somehow they had got a 'irtZeg, <-iryJUI saw - nobody seems to know how. file# their way out of their cells^ ana they had found how they could get to the rocky hore of the prison island#Then they*d have to sv.im^^T. *^7 and a perilous undertaking that would be. Only two prisoners have ever escaped from Alcatraz,, and they have utterly vanished. s a- ¥& is believed they were drowned while attempting the mile A and a quarter swim through treacherous currents to the nearest shore. But Doc Barker and his pals were ready to take the chance. That they needed was fog. They would sjes risk a dash down the rocky slope to the water, take a chance with the guards on the wall above - guards and ^uns. But theyfd need a heavy fog to cover them for the swim, hide them from the marksman ^uards and the accurate =uns, as they beat their way through the water. Today was the day. The white mist on the bay was so blinding that you couldn»t see more than a yaras off short. Once they ^ot swimming out j.nto that iOg, no guord on ..Lc ..all could ever spot them. Jt* ALCATRAZ - 3 So tills morning they through bc;.rs, and somehow got to the rocks leading dov n to the water. - find they made the dash. The guards were alert - spotted the escapers. And instantly a fusillade rang out. The five convicts scamperiS^ down the rocks under a hail of bullets. One was hit, then another. They couldn’t ma.ce it, couldn’t get av.ay from the bullets, couldn’t get to the water and out into the fog. They knew it, but so desperate were they that they wouldn’t give up until one of them, a kidnapper serving a life sentence, dropped by a shot in the leg. Yes, until Poe Barker himself A was hit, bullets in the leg and head, critically wounded. Then they gave up. SPAIK r°'^ ':r Spain vras at its wildest^ ^he Franco push in Catalonia driving savagely on. The Left Wing offensive in distant Estremadura battling desperately, Timx Its purpose 9m to make Franco relieve the pressure on the Barcelona front. And today still another Gov,rnment attack is announced __ in the Madrid area. This xxin second Left Wing assault in still another regi ;n is like ise designed to relieve the desperate peril of Barcelona, 'riuy-jie sv.i-Mly- to dra1, uff UnrTl ane j iijin L T. B f npucting iiilu-tL-r? UeaiHi evacuating the long Southern strip which the Insurgents are ^ _ ......................................................... threatening to cat, ‘Tn^itr1!1- ih*iii ^ i MT . i '> the extreme Southern end of th. ‘ 'perilled strip, .r^.oo It ap ears that the Barcelona forces ar ha tily rm 1 t, ■ i t .n-a-p^ Today Fra ;co announces 7 fcf ( t - ii 11 ~ lime" n '^'ti iiiif -F “ ^ ^ l ^ pi 1 | ■» w r ^ ■egg—w~n■>*r—i l '■pair tr* iiilu"'Ci' hi rT SPAIH £ The-rC's a report that the Left Wing Gov rnment today ordered a transfer from Barcelona to Valencia, all the Governmental bur aus to leave at once — except two: the War Ministry and the Foreign Ministry. This in the face of the menacing Insurgent advance pmp CQaiT2REii.CE There re official German denialr. of the report that Hitler has advised Mussolini to take it easy for a year and not push his demands on France for that length of time , This — in the interest» of peace. From Rome we hear anew that the Chsmberlain- Mussolini conference ended in a de'dlock, with the Prime Minister assuring the Duce that Britain stands by France. Chamberlain ha' another conference to.ay — this one cone rning iO kkx dangerou.1 subject. The Prime ?. inister formal visit4ij> the Vatican, the Eleventh. The Pontiff urged an. ban a talk with Pooe Pius the British Statesmen to continue Ms • ork ior peace, and oppressed ids gratification over the position of tne Catholic Church in England. for Chamberlain on his part thanked the Pope^aa the recent creation of an Apostolic deleg't to laaeT&iwb* T-rnNGARX Hungary today officially swung into the orbit of the Rome-Berlin axis. The Budapest Government formally joined the German-Italicn-Japanese alliance against Communism. There has been no doubt all along Hungary stood, but now A * it is definite. Berlin has replic a to the represent" ti .ms made by Washington concerning the rights of American Jews in Germany. The reply Is not at all spicific — doesn*t r ally come to the ■pint* nt 1 'T^r'TurTm Ciiim *».iFPiirTTy~ /me Hitler Govcrnmfcnt has assured the American State Department that Germany will respect all American rights as affirmed by treaties# But it does not promise anything with reference to Jewish- American citizens SCARLETT Today at Hollywood the incredible occurred. (They’ finally selected Scarlett. Tru A a any number of times before. been selected the reports were \ 4 most positive that a heroine for "Gone With The Wind" had been found. Once it was Norma Shearer, more recently it was Paulette Goddard. The search for Scarlett for a year and a half has been an epic in motion pictures and something of a joke. It»s the theme of a highly successful play, "Kiss The Boys Good-Bye," in which our feminine newsreel voice at Movietone, Helen Clair^ scored a sensational hit. Helen too was acclaimed as a candidate for the role of that provocative ^±.rl of the old South - the more plausibly so as Helen herself is from Alabama* today1 s announcement /V seems to be unquestionably the real tiling - authentic .^The word comes officially from David Selznick,^who will produce "Gone With The Wind." 7ho’s the lucky lady? Why, Vivian Lei£h, tne rui&iish movie actress^) English? Yes indeed. It is explained that Vivian, chosen from amon0 hundreds of candidates, **as ohe only one -jj who had the luxurious c0brk tresses, the green eyes> SCABLETT - 2 slender seventeen inch waist needed for the portrayal of Scarlett of the ante-bellum South. yes - but English. Producer Selznick instantly stepped to the front with some philosophy on the subject. He explains that the southern aristocracy of Civil War Days took great pride in their British ancestry. I suppose David means that they won't object. Northern toirl playinfc Scarlett, because of the assumption that her Southern accent wouldn't be right? Hollyv.ood responds that Ma Vivian Leigh has already acquired a southern accent, and Hollywood adds the astonishing comment that the Southern accent is not so different from the native manne English girl* Do they meana that people talk about the same in A South Carolina as in L< ” ■*11 say. "Why, honey chilelr or It looks as if the finding of Scarlett^may lead to as much argument as the search for Scarxett. V S T RO£EEBI iV 4 . A Last nifcht «• big fellov. v.ith mm well known face made a telephone call - "I want to see the Colonel." And the word was 'A taivGn to t/h,© sick—bed oj . Colonel Jacob Ruppert, the millionaire brewer and owner of the New York Yankees. They told him - "Colonel, the Babe is corain^to see you." Yes, Babe Ruth paying a sick call to his old boss. the big fellov; with the well known face stood at the bedside, the sick man stirred restlessly and asked: "Where's the Babe?" Then he smiled and reached out for a handshake. Colonel Jake Ruppert was too ill to say a word ^ r\& m r tp i low nouia oru_v dxu _^ the big fellov; conld only blurb in a shaking voice: "Colonel, you're goin‘ to snap out of it. You and I are going to see the opening game of the season together .Tt The last words baseball's mightiest man to his old boss. B^lhe Babe was wrong. He'll never see an opening game with Colonel Ruppert again. For today Vm Colonel died. ?POTBALL f»ttari»ik¥ I j lif^nr-rr -hnri h; http M riC¥» K^r- in-«a-bl»e^ ^rom the University of Southern ^nrvj2^ California^- a blast against Duke. You’cL thii$; that the Trojan team of U.S.C. had blasted Duke aplenty in the last minutes of that Rose Bowl game, but now comes another forv/ard pass - which does CL. seem rather forward. accusation of poor sportsmanship flung at DukeJ by the U.S.C. 1!Alumni Review”. •Ske 'g4"trt of.liit .nct.iiarr ■Puir^" didnM:-unj'UT’lu^in^p gamL^. BB&WheA—ettt infc thrli Ii in1« ~",tTr «ftevi'CT11 - de oi.fti>e-s oh wouM-n-t-ti talk-a^t^ A 'I'jjyr tv.r ntij gup-^nd-li haT^ayo i s alliTTiiF" D 4 The bitterest allegation relates how ?/allace Y/ade, Wp»gjiL[Ji fujj Duke^ was walking right by Doyle Nane, the frojan ;ro who threw the final pass that beat Duke. And somebody said > CsauW v;ade - wouldn’t he like to meet the boy threw that A iss? And Wade was quoted as having replied profanely - "Blankety- , .ank No, I’ve already seen enough of himi” ^^-^robably ha4H U ] '* § iipif This simple declaration of y fact, w^ich may have been too ictual to b/ polite - i/ nov^ excoriated as>tad sportaAanshio/ it ■ su’t quiter in that spirit of character hunlding any idealism which | JU