KIDNAP 'crw. jgUs^MS From the kidnap front, nows of a varied kind. The hounds of the law have not yet caught the miscreants who snatched little George Weyerhaeuser, collected Two hundred thousand Dollars, and sent him ba -k Saturday morning. The net that^> been spread around Oregon and Washington has ceaght no fish as yet. One story has it that the cordon of troopers, sheriffs and government men is closing in. Another report is that the snatchers have sneaked through. To balance that, thereTs good news. J.Edgar Hoover*s men have got Volney Davis. Not one of the iop-notchers among che public enemies but a bad enough egg at* that. He was the machine- gunner of the sanguinary Barker-Karpis gang. Hoover's men scooped him up-from the streets of Chicago. They hustled him out to an airport, chucked him into a plane, and ita a few hours he was in St.Paul, .where about a year and a half ago he took part in the kidnapping of the young banker, Edward Bremer. The first dope was that Uncle Sam's men refused to say what kind of good*5they had on Davis. But late this afternoon the word came over rhe wire that Davis had pleaded guilty to taking part in that KIPiNAP - 2 Two liundred thoueanri Dollar Bremer Vidnapping» This wipes out t>iat whole lot of public enemies, with one exception. However, the exception is a serious one; Alvin Karpis, listed toda;y as public enemy Humber One. Uine year old George Weyerhaeuser brought back an important bi+. of information from his precocious experience, that Alvin Karpis was one of the ruffians who kidnapped him. volney Davis, the haul they made today, is a dapper little fellow about a hundred and twenty-five pounds, thirty- three years of age. Behind a machine-gun he was a paladin of bravery. When you took the machine-gun away from him, just another rat. He was doing time in the Oklahoma Penitentiary when he met the top man of the Barker-Karpis mob. The moment he got out he made for their principal hiding place and joined them. He had coal black hair when he helped kidnap Edward Bremer. When the federal men picked him up in Chicago today, that coal black hair had turned grey. His fingerprints were a mass of mutilated muscles. He had done that to disguise his fingerprints. SUPREKh COURT This afternoon a farewell was said in Washington, A curtain fell on a famous room -- a room not advertised far and wide by newspaper pictures or newsreel shots, but one that is of abiding renown in the affaire .and the history of the nation. Photographers were forbidden *here, ^'t’s no great and spacious hall full of architectural grandeur. In fact rather a simple unpretentious room, mellowed by age, the judicial chamber of the Supreme Court of the United States, The Supreme Court adjourned today, after one of the mo s'* momentous sessions of it s history -- a session that built up to exciting drama in the Gold Clause decision and came to a climax with the downfall of the ERA. It wasn1t a mere adjournment today. It was also a farewell. The nine highest justices bade farewell to their old home, the courtroom that has been the chamber of the Supreme Court for forty years. When the Court meets again it will have new quarters, that new ten millien dollar building, facing the Capitol* The old courtroom will be just a relic of the past. It may be kept as it is, a memento of Supreme Court history. Or it may be SUPREME COURT - P turned into a museum for important State documents. Either would be appropriate — for that little courtroom in the forty years of its career has witnessed the making of imposing pages of legal history, the exciting days of big business legislation back in 'r4 the ^inetiesaaalil the early Nineteen Hundreds, the solution of A /\ portentous questions during the World War and the post-war period. This year, itfe last year, was its banner-year — the decisions on Gold and the Blue Eagle. Today the nine lonely old men handed down a few minor decisions of little importance. With simple ceremonies ( adjoumed^^— to the old courtroom. / NCRliAhT Ih A new queen cf the s-eas, a new Atlantic re^jrd! The great hORMAITOIh, the pride cf France*?, mercantile marine, swept 6 majestically past Amhrcee Lightship at three minutes after eleven this morning. She had dashed across from Bishop’s Roch on the English coast in ninety-nine hours and five minutes, just a hair- mwwwuwii’OTiri n J line ever four days, j Beating the previous record hy more than two hours. And at that her Captain declared, shrugged his shoulders:- "Poof it eez. nothing! Ma cherie, she wasn't even hurrying, poof!" said he. As a matter of fact they did slow down for a few hours to repair a broken condenser tube. .Nevertheless, on the last two days of her trip, she averaged more than thirty-one and a half knots an hour, the fastest time ever made by any liner. Her average for Ahe entire crossing was just under thirty knots. In other words, she was traveling at the rate of more than a mile every tTwo minutes. And in wa+er that’s dazzling speed! N'est pas? What a superb spectacle she w^s as she steamed through the harbor and up the river, while everything afloat shrieked a deafening welcome. Little old Lev/ York jusf filled its lungs and kcrl . ai ; die - 2 let go. You'd have ■'bought *he racket could have been heerd all the way to St. Louis,-- or at least ■'o Clearfield, Penn. Squadrons of planes zoomed and swooped around. Clyde Pangborn flew one of them a hundred miles cut at sea +c greet the new monarch of the ocean. l was watching her from the top of the great R. C. A. Building. It was a curious experience to realize that +hat great mass floating up-stream was actually longer than the huge skyscraper on which. I was standing was tall. RUTL FCLLCA' ^CRIvAIsDIL T* e arrival c f the i'jOHKAKDIE pro^uce^ one quite unexpect­ ed effect. An upheaval in major league case call. 'Everybody is asking today: "Wha* will Babe Ruth do now?” Late afternoon dispatches indicate that one of + he first things he’ll do will be to attend that celebration on the KORkAKDIE tomorrow night» the celebration over which the big Earn had his xsuex now famous smash-up with Judge Emil Fuchs of the Boston Braves. Even such a whale of a party as that's going to be seems hardly a sufficient reason for throwing up a Twenty-five thousand dollar a year job. Twenty-five grand plus a share of the profits - if any. But later reports indicate that the differences between the old Sultan of Swat and his bosses were bound to come to a head before long anyway, so why not end it with a flourish and blame it on the biggest ship in the world. The good old King of Clout may still be a champion in a baseball game. But the Bambino seems to fan out when he starts fanning the air with his voice. And it's tough that it should have happened just as he seemed +o be getting back into his stride with those +hree home-runs in one game at Pittsburgh, He should have done it that day’ What a Homan finish it would have made. RUTH FOLLOW iN OHM AND IE - £ So today the first time in twenty-one &e&rs, for the first time since he left ^t,Mary's Institute in Baltimore, George Hermann Ruth |U looling for a job. But he wen*t have to sell lead pencils. He has mueji mazuma in the old sock. Quite aside from his hitting, the Bambino has long been recognized as a player whose instinct for the game amounts to genius. Whether that genius would extend to the art of handling men is still to be proved. Among the Babe's gifts is not the quality of tact. And the country is not teaming with vacancies of the sort the Babe wants to fill. Because he'll be manager of a big league ball club or nothing. There are only sixteen such berths, and all of them are filled. And Mgr. Mcliechnie blames Ruth for the dissention on the Boston team. Well, his hobby is duck hunting. And he^ got plenty of small change with which to buy shot gun shells. G AlLLAUX The wheel of destiny turned in arrazing fashion over the weeVend. Once more it fer^ght to the top a man who has had more vicissitudes in his career than any other statesman in France - in the whole world for that matter. At the topi And then Fate toppled him to the "bottom, A leading character in a sensational tragedy, his name attached to the most notorious French criminal trial sirwe the Dreyfuss case, former Prime Minister of France, and then, along, in the dark, charged with treason. liow he looms again in the front rank of statesmen. In the latest hour of France's need, Joseph. Gaillamx is called to be Minister of Finance, for the sixth time in his checkered career. Monsieur Caillaux comes to the rescue of the franc at the age of seventy-two. Just about twenty-one years ago he passed through the first big tragedy of his life. He was then serving his third term as Minister of Finance. Gaston Calmette, editor of ^he Figaro, started a virulent attack on Caillaux, Calmette was a dirty fighter. He reached the climax of his campaign when he started CAILLAUX - 2 publishing letters tha+ htt:d passed between honsieur and Madame Caillaux before their marriage. One ^ay in March, Xine*een fourteen, Paris rang with the news that Calmette had been shot, V i 11 ed , A d i s t in g u i s h ed la o k i n g wo man, perfectly dr e s s ed an d swathed in rich furs, had walked into Calmette’s office. Under these -furs she had a revolver. And she shot the editor of Figaro as he sat at his desk. That woman was Madame Caillaux. The trial that ensued was a sensation equal to that of Captain Alfred Dreyfuss. Caillaux of course resigned his job in the Cabinet. Madame Caillaux was triumphantly acquitted just as the soil of France rumbled under the tramping feet of its millien of soldiers going to the colors to repel the German. The next enemy that Caillaux had tc face was the old Tiger, Clemanceau, curing the War he threw Caillaux into prison, accused of high treason. Actually, his offense was that he had issued a plea for peace. Ke said that whoever won the war, the victors would lose as much as the vanquished. He was tried by the French Senate, convicted and sentenced to exile. In May Nineteen twen ty-f eu r +he French Par 1 iament pardoned him:. CAILLAUX - S In Nineteen twenty-five, whtn the franc was at its lowest ebb, the man whom Premier Briand summoned to the rescue v/as the man who seven years before had been convicted as a traitor. And now he’s in the same spot again, called in to save the tottering finances1 X of his country./ Even many people who don’t like him admit that Joseph Caillaux knows more about finance than anybody else in France. GBQHG jd This has been a big day in the life of John Bull, The seventieth birthday of His Britannic Majesty, King George the is Fifth, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the dominions beyond the seas, also Kaisar-l-Hind which means Emperor of India. There was a slight cold in the royal head a few days ago, but today he was well able to bear up under the weight of all the letters, telegrams, congratulations and festivities. Aside from being a royal anniversary, the King’s birthday means a great deal in England. That*s the date on which titles are handed out by the basketful, knighthoods, baronetcies, peerages. They are all granted in the King's name. The sober truth is that His Majesty has precious little to say about it. The Prime Minister hands him a list. His Majesty says O.K., and there you are. GERMANY FOLLOV/ GEORGE Meanv/hile London has had something to think about even more serious than the list of new laid hc knightst baronets, and viscounts, I mean the armament conference between John von R Itfs • a nav; Of C Ou XO <3 , bi.iO.lf ' Ck VLOOU O^OJ-iiSb bliCJ JJA iJ V X S J-UilO Ul biiO V^J.OOXXX<70 Treaty, but the Versailles treaty is now generally recognized Bull as a thoroughly moribund piece of p "KRRA President, Getuilo Vargas of” Brazil iias been making a gcc<? will tour of his neighboring republics in South America* He has collected quite a number of souvenirs on the journey. Some of them were illuminated scrolls of welcome, some were new treaties 'and t rad e agreements, Also , b 1 isters from shaking hand s And today he made an ad^i+ion to his collection -- bullet extract­ ed from, the leg of Ms host, President Gabriel terra of Uruguay. It was during the welcome to the President of Brazil that a fanatic tried to assassinate the President of Uruguay, But it was not a crile shot - the aim was bad. They rushed him straight to a hospital, and President Vargas accompanied him and watched the operation. The moment the surgeons had removed the bullet, President Terra sat up on the operating table and with a. bow and a smile, handed +he leaden pellet to President Vargas as a souvenir. A new South American way of entertaining a guest. Inc id entally, it means that +he President of Uruguay is not seriously wounded and ie recovering handsomely CTJ AKB Some forty-fiTe years ayo Hud yard Kipling wrote a po em beginning: "Jack Barrett went +c Quetta, because they told him to." Nobety will ever again tell Jack Barrett or anybody else to go to Quetta. There is no Quetta. It's a city of the dead. Yes, and it's declared dead -- officially abandoned. The British Raj has prcmilgated an order that the city is sealed -- a locked tomb. Crowded trains are carrying survivors away from, the place that the earthquake turned into xx one huge sepulchre. It has been one of ^he most complete disasters in the history ojr the world, Quetta litterally rased to the ground. Just two buildings are standing today. So the government will not even attempt to rebuilt the metropolis of the Baluchis. In the ruins of Quetta alone are twenty thousand dead bodies. The total death roll of that lates4, earthquake is now estimated to .run as high as forty thousand. Six thousand more are in. hospitals. And apparently the terror is net over yet. "’he earth continues to quiver ^'rom time to time. One of the latest shocks shook lose the side of a mountain and down it came in a d or a 3 1 a * ing 1 and si id e. ELQGSS Feorle in the mid^]ewest have eore need today to be staunch and stout of heart. Those who aren't living in fear of more floods, are a,: a in being visited by ruinous dust storms. This surely has been a weekend of terror in Kansas, Colorado, Missouri and He braska, The water has been recedin g in Nebraska. But the ink was hardly dry on that news when word came of a new peril in Kansas. The waters of the Kaw River and its tributaries are rushing down in a giant torrent. Towns and villages are threatened. Already more than a hundred and twenty people over the whole flood region have either been drowned or have disappear' ed , But in other regions it's dust. Southwestern Kansas, the Oklahoma panhandle and southeastern Colorado are again in the grip of those whirling clouds of thick black grime. Highway traffic blocked, people forced *'C remain indoors. Ceiling zero. Evil days, these in the prairie states. WEATHER. FOLLOW PlGGD -But this is not the onlj country that is having unusual weather. Unseasonable snow ant ice are reported from another place. From the planet Mars, to be exact. E. C. Slipher has his eye on Mars. Peeking through the great telescope of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, he finds Mars visited by snow and ice, unusual at this ♦ime of year. JBut that weather story is from thirty-five million, miles away. Too far to travel, if yc u w an t t o g e t aw ay f r o m t h e h eat. Anyhow, it's time for me to travel somewhere, so - - SO LGLG UKTIL TOMORROW,