DIKS 7 ^ ' There were amusing scenes at the session of the Dies Committee on Un-American activities today. Chairman Dies, by the *2^de way, picked a good season for resuming hearings. He waited A until Congress had adjourned so he could have the Washington stage to himself. The man wjaor^^k-'^rhoioanttQP of 'thi6**3tng» today was A- A not ■hiraoelf-y-It -was-«i a witncag wham he had-caH.c4 to the wM«ourp»ioe-of every m aorreBpondant Ho waj-neno Fritz Kuhn, leader of the Deutsch America Bund. Kuhn gave a characteristic show. #■.Shouted^aa# roared and denied. He called one of the Congressmen on the committee a liar. Representative Starns of Alabama had asked whether Kuhn did not want to set up in America a government like that of je_ > . Nazi Germany. Kuhn shriked out T,that 4s ah absolute lie.” A Starns replied TrXou canft call me a liar,” and made a rush for Kuhn. But a couple of burly policemen stood in the way, and Chairman Dies said, ftSit down, Joe.” TheAmerican Fuehrer was also furious when not only Joe Starns but Republican Representative Mason of Illinois describeu til© DGUtsch Bund ns 21 rndcGt Another of Kuhn* s contributions was his confession that he had destroyed the membership list of the Dwftt-ee'h'''Bund a year ago* When they asked him why, he replied that he had read rumors in the papers that there was going to be an investigation. When he was asked about the National Budget of his orgahization Kuhn was forced to :F#pl^r that" he could n®t because the documents were all in the hands of the District Attorney of Hew York, where Kuhn is underindictment. He also admitted that he is President of a Hew York corporation to unite Christian storekeepers. & Every storekeeper who belongs kicks in with three dollars a year. tf : He said the Deutsch America Bund has twenty-thousand members, but four or five times as many fellow travelers who 3lji9-.Pay dues. Then he was asked about the American cities where his Bund has units. He namedrthe^ asked him how about Arkansas. Ai^ he replied -- Kansas City. Then there //as A PIES - 3 a question as to wether he had any units in Missippi. And he replied: — St. Louis. BETHLEHEM The Bethlehem Steel Company has started a battle with the National Labor Relations Board, The Board had ordered Bethlehem to break up their employee representation plan that had been in existence for twenty-one years. The Labor Board called!t " Employer dominated.” Also found Bethlehem guilty of violating the Wagner Act in ten of its plants in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York. But the Bethlehem Company declines to accept that order of the Labor Board without a struggle. Less than twenty-four hours after .the order was handed down, the company filed a petition to the United States Court of Appeals, I23i. Unions that belong to the American Federation of Labor have been assessed for a war chest to financ^^w^fight against John L* Lewis and the ftongyerso.ndne-tr^alMjrga-ni'yati'.“rtftgw A- (2> k assessment -Qraoiinta to bhc -paywcat of one cent a month each member. But It appears that there are A.F. of L. members who don’t care to cough up even for tha$ fight. A A The international Typeographical Union, one of the most powerful and conservative of them all, is in convention at Fort Worth, Texas. And the President of that Union says it’s going to remain entirely neutral in between William X A Green and John L. Lewis. Said he, "There appears to be little likelihood that our membership will approve payment of that assessment.^ -oftcrweygr,11 he addady Hit ig-^v«n I oob 1-Hroly-thn^A thoy wooafche*J£odapcrtt^H* MILK The strike of dairy became violent today. For two higher prices for their milk, highways near Utica. One milk picket lines. It ran into one he -died' lir us hCHypltrain*-, ^t another spot a truck was ±x placed across the highway in an attempt to prevent the passage of the farmers who had not joined in the strike. Elsewhere milk was dumped along the roadster farmers in upper Hew York State days they’ve been striking for Pickets were lined across the truck tried to break through the of the pickets and^in^aaw^him. si ^Ift'TTT.B RURV For months a istsci criminal trial has been dragging m&w the Mayor along in Waterbary Connecticut. The defendant 'A ■y* of Waterbury and eighteen other peo^ie'^-They ^wer» Charged with having defraudedr the cityof^Wa-te^bl^Py of three and a half A million dollars* The case went to the jury today, a jury of nine men and three women. After six and a quarter hours they returned their verdict. Guilty. Mayor Hays and eighteen others including attorneys, accountants, bankers, and city officials CM£M wlere 1 s A a Justice Crater ■again, the /V, 4 Supreme Court Justice v/ho disappeared nine years ago. Eou will recall that he was pronounced dead by the Courts, and his widow 1 sued for the insurance money. How we have the answer of the insurance company. The company i £ kx ± k denies that the circumstances surrounding his disappearance give rise to a presumption of his death. In short, the company believes that the Supreme Court Justice who fci vanished so spectacularly is still alive. Curing the last five years several jewel robberies in the East have beenjiiM&yin^the police. And of course they \oeopie brought no great joy to the^jaspi^who were robbed or to the insiarance companies. Detectives compared these various thefts and came to the conclusion that most of them had been done by one man, or at any rate one gang. Today the sleuths of New Xork traced a m LtlfB man to a hotel in Boston. ThoyTd boon looking- for him for quito a* white* Finglly-.^iey got on his track through a letter he wrote to a friend. They arrested him and then delcared that 2)uqc&& 1 they had the wa* who has been mixed up in more than twenty rt***iir ^ A _______ different jewel^«^SE«»^The total loot from those crimes^wart more than a million dollars. One of them alone, perpetrated on the estate of a rich man on Long Island, netted four hundred thousand dollars worth of gems. MQPNTAINiERING RECORD I don*t know whether governors have the right to strike medals offif they do here's a recommendation for the Governor of Colorado: I suggest that Governor Ralph Carr strike medal medals s^iistJilL-^-tvfo^Histxia-^-and send one to Carl Melzer of Denver, and the other to his eleven-year-old son Bobby. For these two have pulled off just about the best father ’and son stunt that I have ever heard of. Newspapers throughout America carried s feature story today stating that Carl Melzdr and his eleven-year- old sax boy have just completed the conquest of all the mountains in the United States that are over fourteen thousand feet In elevation. The news dispatch goes on to say that there are exactly sixty of these. Fifty-onevof them are in the State of Colorado, eight in California, and the remaining one^ £*-Mount Rainer^ in the State of Washington. The sixtieth peak which they have just is one ^ V <r This,fc 52 *i mountaineering exploit: ttrat has never been of the so-called Palisade Group in southern California equaled, or for that matter never approached. It is a tremendous feat for a man to have accomplished, and incredible for an eleven-year-old boy. MOUNTAINEERING RECORD -£ I happen to be especially interested in this news story that has come over the wires because Carl Melier was a classmate Q'f mine in college, before tne World War, in Colorado * He became a school teacher, and geology was his hobby. During' his summer vacations he started taking long hikes into the mountains, I think, it was four years ago that he took Bobby along, when the boy was only seven. So Bobby is now a veteran mountaineer. The feat of conquering all the fourteen-thousand-feet or over monntrrnis la A the rhffintasy has been spread over three suauners. On one trip they started in Wyoming, walked right acros's the State of Colorado, making it the most difficult way up and down, mountains, and along the Continental. Divide, ending 'iaj& New Mexico. There are two reasons why Governor Carr ought to give them each a. medal, and declare a state holiday in their honor: first, because of the feat itself which, far surpasses, at a achievement sportingsnxx: many of the long flights that have gained fame for aviators. Second, because by doing this thing Carl Melzer and his mountain goat son have called the attention of all the people who read newspapers and who hear the radio, called attention to the fact that fifty-one out of the sixty highest mountains in the United States ar® in the gl A SA.jtzia pettecfliA lualilu bi uKu ¥ TJXJ A Polish soldier wm shot on the frontier bo^weeii P o I hiw I* Dawflig by a Danzig border guard. Naturally Uni thr t n l>n>fc »gtcrtftg Mfe agalw I i The first protest came, not from the polish Government, 1 but from the Hazi Senate of Danzig. The protest referred also to an attack upon Xx Danzig newspaper mi men which was said to have been made by polish soldiers. •N S Late this afternoon a dramatic report came^from .ved just i London. It jaa drama U l bumu ju "Uf ' 1 ts IL. lm* It arrived just as the world was twwinnrstMg discussing t^se Danzig incidents. report V that a new ±z treaty has been drawn up between all ready Great Britain and Poland, a treaty that 1 or signatures of British and Polish representatives. Itstrong offensive and defensive milibai'y alliance. The publication of the news which only just came over tne caole is interpreted as proof that the Chamberlain government realizes that there*s not much chance of settling the differences between Poland Germany. WINDSOR I he feud of English high soci ty against the Duke of Windsor has been carried into the domain of art. The late Sir Phillip Sassoon, one of the famous British millionaires, in his will made a bequest to the Tate Galleries, the famous museum of modern art in London. In this bequest was a charcoal drawing by John Singer Sargent of His Royal Highness when he was Prince of Wales* The Tate Galleries refused this bequest. When the Director of the Tate was a sled about it, he replied that "the decision was purely on the merits of the drawing." However, it accepted a portrait that tiMKfcMBigiwwm-pfl.irrtrery-. . t *iim-fl 11ipm Sargentjissfcis#- made of Sir Phillip Sassoon himself. Thare-wacr• cJ2t2 , ropeyrt that 3 ob » British artists are Indignant about thig"aetiom/ at— A of GalleA'lc?.Ki rumored that the President of the A Royal Academy is gdng to take the matter up. grave insult to the climate of New York * 5 " today by a visiting potentate. His Highness the Maharajah of Tirpura came to New York some days agof expecting to remain^e«m»»tjww^ But he sailed today aboard the Normandie earlier than he intended, a«3#&s explanation was! WI am going home to Central India to cool off.n CRUSOE A warship of the Republic of Ecuador was passing the Island called Floreana In the Galapagos Archipelago. As it was steaming along the lookout on the bridge saw what seemed to be a human figure on the beach, waving frantically. A boat was lowered rowed and gHiioai ashore. There the crew found a ten-year-old boy, and from him they heard a strange story. A ten^year-old Robinson Crusoe. On that lonely volcanic isle six hundred miles from the mainland, the boy had kept himself going for forty-five days. Th@ lad, an orphan, said he had run away from the family that had brought him to the Archipelago, three years ago. Ran away, he said, because he was tired of being mistreated. But those are tough islands for any Robinson Crusoe. They!re volcanic, water is scarce and there*s precious little to eat there. However, for all those weeks the ten-year-old Ecuadorian Crusoe lived on fruits and herbs. He was completely naked, and he was sick when he was found. sjjxm near the Hyde Park home of^President, RoosHvglt> a-mothngk. The negro leader ia going* to buy the estate of the /\ A late William ^yodtyri-eli Vanderbilt. Sr wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt 7^7 and wired the President, asking te&«ti whether had any objections. A Mr. Roosevelt replied through his Secretary that he would have liked to have that estate bought by some public body for a park or arboretum. But the President added that after all, any citizen has a right to buy any property that he can, wherever he chooses. Already there's one Heaven across the Hudson ftvet* from the Hyde park Roosevelt estate. ' - I I will be BgaWMEgSt= Lodb? 'hi II GdlQ&r* I »THE YANKEE" Many of you no doubt are familiar with that lively and unusual mat magazine published up in Durham, fievr Hampshire. ?iO The name of it is rtThe Yankee.” And, its editor is a typical Yankee if there ever was one, Robb Sagendorph by name. On its front cover this aaniy month it has a sentence that is worth repeating. Here it is: ^Definition of a Yankee: a man who ain't leanin* on nothin'.” DQG $hope*»s gre«'t"‘pPbMr^n. Aja4igaati»on A» any* around t3aa » tlrBarulina«'"f t1 b riBr^v^ep the Irj 111 ng fhf The police of Raleigh^have been making a campaign against stray dogs. One of the Raleigh cops, seeing^a^o^^ om^ tho 8tyoeP7 ffhijr6yed The etog ca»»-up to the fawning u, —wxu.» ^ iu.nr, <■ lie •ghoroupuu the palieomninfa thi^uuu by the a I k I i 1 aiask of bhe wwakf dnowrM-g altitby baa%j. ib bu JuaUli unH Lluew 1L mUCT .^nf^r<r^i--|- n^- Tiimp g>waffft^.people saw him do it. A crowd formed and seemed about to do to the policeman what the policeman had done to the dog. ■•^iviaiped into his car and drove off. Immediately the switchboard at Police Headquarters was deluged with calls demanding the hbad of that dog-clubbing 'i/ copper. The news spread out of town. Women from places thirty miles away called up and said they wouldn't do their shopping in Raleigh any more unless that jtfi policeman was severely punished. To offset that, here's a dispatch from London also about dogs. This was the feast dsv of St. Roche, famous^n----- PPG - £ hagiography as the patron saint of dogs. In honor of this feast day huge crowds assembled In London outside a Church, where the Rector went through the ceremony of blessing a hundred dogs in the street. There were . ^of lofty degree, prize-winning Sealyhams, and dignified greyhounds standing side by side with pooches <=^-i >1 geneology^Is bcsl) «lu*>ciIl3iBd by tlie naim? of- a OQr^aiR"~pAc3fi3b^ mi>kui' , fehe aair’i»he make j IT7 9^^Uli ■ m a j. jut Prize-winning champ and lowly mut stood qdetly as the priest sprinkled them v/ith holy water, then gave them a benediction, first \ in Ecclesiastical Latin, then In English M /