hno^Vi^LT v One ol the most interesting items xxxxjtks from the special train carrying President Booseveit in Idaho concerns his grand-daughter, histie Dali. Somebody overheard the conversation between Sistie and her young brother Buzzie while they were eating their oatmeal at breakfast at Boise, Idaho. "There*s going to be a long automobile ride," said Sistie to him the yound lady’s views were not shared by her grand-father. He made a hit with the Idahoans, by a complimentxx to their favorite son. One subject of his speech in Boise was the waste that went on in past generations of the rich natural resources of America. And he said he looked forward to a better use of resources, to greater agricultural prosperity, and coordination A I don*t know anything about politics^" Fortunately for the Idaho crowd assembled to greet of industry and a wider distribution of tbe control of industrial activity." At th&t^he paused and remarked: "That sounds j-ike At that he paused and remarked: "That sounds like Senator Borah." Whereupon the crowd roared its cheers of approval. Altogether Mr. Roosevelt’s visit to Boise was oy way of baing a political love feast. On one side of him during his tour of the city stood Senator Pope v/ho introduced him to the crowd. Mr. Pope .as one of the President’s supporters in the Supreme Court fight. But on his other hand stood the aged Idaho veteran Senator William E. Borah who of course was one of the arch leaders in the fight against him. And the President, by the same token, conspicuously ^.voided all reference to the Supreme Court or to ihKX Mr. Justice Black. Unofficially we are given to understand that he will maintain this silence on those two subjects throughout his western tour. On the journey from Idaho Falls to Pocatello the presidential Special had an unexpected and uninvited guest. He was riding the brakes underneath one of the cars. When he was arrested by a railroad dick, he explained that had been fired by the Onion Pacific railroad and was on his raus way to Salt Lake to collect some wages* y LAWYERS The lawyers %^ve a grievance against President Roosevelt. At any rate, that’s the feeling of some of those who belong to the American Bar Association. The President of that body made a stinging speech at Kansas City, Missouri, today, when the Association's Convention opened. "Why does he pick on us lawyers?" asked Counsellor Frederick Stinchfield of Minneapolis. "He seems to have a positive hatred of the legal profession.11 .The belief seems to be that it's because, lawyers are the people pi he finds the greatest difficulty in controlling." A surprise was in store for the Bar Association. The barristers had expected to have an address from tUw A* -- W£EKP«.Van Devanter# nrT At the last moment, they were notified .that because of what he described as "personal reasons", Mr. Van Devantei would not be able to make the speech he had promised. LABOR American Federal! on of The tense fight between the Labor and dohn L. Lewls-s Committee for Industry Organlsatl jumped into the Amerl^potllght today> The ^ ^ Coloradoj where the •v-n ^ „ A**S Trades Department of the A.F. of L. 1S h0ldl“e 8 COnVe“tion- P. Frey, President of the Department and Its six hundred and fifty thousand members, fired the opening gun. He called for the expulsion of the C.I.O. unions from the A.F. of L. He charged them with terrorism, with recruiting their ranks by means of violence and threats. Another Vice-President of the A.F.’ of L. replied to this: "I told you so last year but now it's too late to bother with the C.I.O. unions. They will destroy themselves," he said. "They are rotten with Communism. In Minnesota, for instance,"/^ oh .:— ■e wj US j . "the ranks of labor are full,of Reds and they must be Y\ purged. LABOR - 2 In Washington, meanwhile, William Green, President of the A.F. of L. made a pronounced gesture of avoiding a meeting with John L. Lewis.- They had both been invited to attend the Conference of Census of the Unemployed. Mr. Lewis was present. Mr. Green sent a substitute. & In Vii anh 1 ngtofu In Tioga County, New York, a farm of some fifty-four acres was sold for unpaid taxes. Once upon a time that now poverty stricken farm was the birthplace of .one of the richest men in the world, the late John D. Rockefeller, Senior. Not a soul came up to the auction block to bid that property in, though the unpaid taxes were only ninety dollars and thirty-seven cents. So today Tioga County becomes the owner of the Rockefeller birthplace. in Chicago, there’s going to be an investigation into the attempt last month to corner the corn market. The Business Conduct Committee of the Board of Trade is going to hold a secret hearing tomorrow. When the Board of Trade suspended all dealing in corn on Saturday, It did something without any precedent in peace time. One rumor is that this attempt to corner the market originated in a grudge fight between two rival firm BREVITIES - 2 A business ua « just arrive^from England interesting story of a voyage spent in the company of Father Coughlin. The English visitor is Lord Mottistone. Managing One of the other passengers was the^Director of the Midland B&nk of England, one of the largest banks not only in Great Britain but in the world. "Father Coughlin told the Managing Director of the Midland Bank all about, finance,” said Lord Mottistone. "He instructed him how to run his bank. In fact, the Father gave that English banker the most illuminating and, if I may say so, diverting ideas.” Out in Seattle, Washington, a handsome lady stepped a bus in a highly respectable residential district. She beamed graciously upon the other passengers and remarked chattily: ”The weather has turned out rather warm, hasnft it?” The only reply she received was a vociferous silence and. c sudden epidemic of blushes. Even the driver Wushed. The lady, who suffered from thejdeat, had omitted to put on any clothes at all before she stepped £ii that bus. The blushing driver BREVITIES - 4 s q A hie rushed excitedly to a telephone to call the police. When the police arrived, bringing their blushes with them, the lady was taken off the bus, thus that classic Cubl st painting nNude Descending the Staircase.fr The lady, quite unexcited, protested when the nr / officers insisted upon hiding her charms under a blanket. It was much too hot, she said, for blankets. Afr latest poworfeo a&n wHirm boiittg; PMam iitter'L by n" i Lummf^ eAtfiin KIDNAP Sixty-three years a*o, a four year old boy, the son of a well-to-do Philadelphia grocer, was kidnapped. His name was Charlie Ross. Charlie was never found, though from time to time men have cropped up in various parts of the country claiming to be the missing Charlie Ross. That snatching was one of the earliest classic cases of the crime of kidnapping in this country. Today the Chicago police are hunting Charlie Ross who legendary afain, a rich elderly business manrsbears that^name. He*s no relation to the four year old boy who disappeared from Phila­ delphia sixty-three years ago. This newest Charlie Ross is seventy-two years old and, so his wife says, has a weak heart and high blood pressure Any intense excitement or shock might kill him. nut,she added, he knows how to get along with people. If the shock hasn’t been too much for him, he»s probably playing bridge with the men who captured him by this time. RNDEAVOB The ENDEAVOR is safe after all. Those reports of last week are true, — after having been denied. All anxiety about the missing English yacht was unnecessary. She was sighted at sea today, southwest of Fastnet, Ireland, and is calmly on her way home under her own power of wind and sail. She made her way through storms and heavy weather Just as though she were not a delicate racer, a millionaire^ plaything, but a stout schooner built for use. incidentally, this comes as a curious answer to criticisms made recently about those half million dollar sloops that compete for the America*s cup. They*re not only useless, people said. They would be suicide ships if anybody actually attempted to sail the seas with them. But the ENDEAVOR, after parting company with the motor vessel that was towing her, sailed the ocean blue, sailed it successfully, thru wild storms. GiliiiiiiuuM ¥ foreign potentates have paid state visits to Berlin but none of them ever got such a tumultuous reception as did Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy and head of the Italij Fascist!.j All factories and offices we^e closed an hour before the train bringing the tTO=ga*d**U.Mgaagfr arrived in the A ^ capital. They spent the morning inspecting the gigantic steel * and munitions works at Essen. And thenstreets A A to the presidential palace where Hussolini is staying during his IF visit. The sat side by side in an open car while hundreds of thousands cheered them in the streets, the road of the procession not a window was open. They were Along closed by order of the police who also forbade anybody watching the /rueesartr** from the roof. Just one building on Berlin1 s A * A show-avenue Unter den Linden was undecorated. That was the embassy of Boviet Russia, ' All sorts of rumors hatee been percolating £*** through c Europe since the Duce started on his visit to th- Fe h One mn to the effect that Hitler would decline to play ball I Pi hiRiaiiUV 1 —i^- wi th Mussolini in lingering in Spain because his generals did not liKe that situation. The word from Berlin today immediately c upon the arrival of the two leaders, the latest resort had it that Hitler was shoulder to shoulder with Mussolini on that Q Spanish question. the demand of John volunteers s from the A Both Germany and Italy would flatly refuse Bull and France that they withdraw txma. their t-ivil war in Spain CHIKA Japan got a slap on the wrist at Geneva today. The Advisory Committee of twenty three nations, which is con­ sidering the Far mastem War, adopted a strong resolution. Jt viewed witn indignation the Japanese bombing of unfortified Chinese cities. The resolution was proposed by the adroit and ■Q- eloquent Dr. Wellington Koo of China. It was seconded by Lord Cranborne, representing John Bull and approved unanimously by all the other powers. Uncle Sam stood by in the person of Mr. Leland Harrison, Minister to Switzerland, stood by as a mere observer. Soviet Russia today joined the list of foreign powers protesting to Tokyo. Moscow notified the Japanese government that Russia will hold Japan responsible if any damage is inflicted upon their embassy at Banking. We also hear from Russia that the anti-Japanese senti­ ment throughout the Soviet is increasing and apparently with offic ial sanction. The latest from the Far East is that a Japanese sub­ marine made an attack upon a fleet of Chinese fishing junics. CHINA It opened fire without warning, sank eleven out of twelve ships killed more than three hundred men, womens and children, me fishing vessels were unarmed, unprotected, unv/arned. The sur­ vivors of that attack were brought in on a German liner to Hong kong and it was they who brought the news. PALESTIME The Holy Lend tonight seeths with suppressed excitement and fear. The assassination of a British District Commissioner and his bodyguard has brought about the most intense situation since the Briti sh took over their mandate^ The authorities met it with the iron hand* of thett police**. They arrested a hundred and twenty people. Among them were several citizens quite prominent in the polities and affairs of Palestine, We may expect at any moment to hear that martial law has been proclaimed, at any rate throughout the northern district of the Holy Land, The general belief today is that the assassins were hot-heads and that their crime was a protest against the proposed partition of Palestine, The Supreme Committee of the Arabs met immediately and published a resolution expressing their horror of the murders and sympathy for the families of the slain officials. A WINDSOR In Paris, crowds blocked the streets, cafes and restaurants were emptied of their customers who streamed out to watch a slim lady doing her shopping. The shopper, buying her autumn and winter wardrobe, was the lady from Baltimore who now is the Duchessof Windsor. It needed an extra detail of agents of the Surete, the French national police, to protect her from the milling crowds of the curious. And what, we may ask, did her husband do? His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor J-did’wliirt* nrrwt man -ft* Amcrica-^ould-dT^ He spent the|day on the golf links. i ftnffVITIKS For the last ten days, the people of France have been shocked by a series of bombings. In one of them two policemen have been killed. There was also an attempt to blow up a railroad bridge. And today an infernal machine was found .m the home of the general who commands the garrison of Paris. It was found in the nick of time before it had a chance to explode. There was great excitement on a pier in Staten Island, New iork, today. The good ship SILVER ASH was docking. She had come from southeastern Asia. The volumne of noises that came from her passengers astounded all of Staten Island. The passengers were not cheering but roaring, hissing, growling and screaming1. XtaqptxKXKXsxg Among them were two black leopards on their way to the Washington Zoo. They were a gift from the Crown Prince of the Malay State of Johore. Dr. Mann, Director of the Washington Zoo, says those leopards can lick twice their weight in tigers. And staring interestedly at the New York skyscrapers were four giraffesrfl^mpng other passengers of the SILVER ASH was an immigrant from Sumatra, called a Serow. It,s a coalition between a goat and an antelope, combining the best features o^4ach. Likewise, a deer that says "woof11 like ) 1 [ a tiger but does^-t mean anything by it. The greatest ttxrttmssstx excitement on the voyage was caused by a komodo dragon lizard. seven feet long. Mr. komodo,escaped from his cage twice, but he did no damage as he is described as being harmless tho g / stubborn. . Karmles^though ^tu^born/-JhatJcom°ao_°^ht to feel