anaheim-gazette 1937-04-29

The MARCH OF TIME ROPE'S END— WASHINGTON — "Increased taxes sounds easy but it isn't. The turnip is dry. The administration has only two real alternatives—to cut spending or to print money. The President is no flat money man. That leaves no reduced spending. But isn't that political ruin? Is the end of the rope?" Thus last week wrote Hugh S. Johnson in his syndicated column, ominously reflecting the worry of many a Washington politician the expectation that 1937 fiscal revenues would fall $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 below estimates. The fact that Secretary Morgenthau found it necessary to resume borrowing, beginning with the sale of $50,000,000 worth short-term bills this week. In the senate, Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson unrose to speak out almost as pessimistically as Hugh Johnson: "While many efforts have been made to close the gap between receipts and expenditures, such efforts have not been completely successful. It seems that the time has about come when we should give careful consideration to that subject." Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which congress is willing and able to resort." If Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it. But he postponed for a week his budget and relief message to congress, wrote to all department agency heads: "It is apparent at this time that the revenues of the government for the present fiscal year will be materially less than the amount estimated in my budget message of last January; and hence, the deficit will be greater than was anticipated unless there is an immediate curtailment of expenditures. You will carefully examine the status of appropriations for your activities with a view of making substantial saving." Then the President buckled down to work with pencil, paper Secretary Morgenthau, Budget Director Bell and Deputy Relie Administrator Aubrey William to carve out enough savings that his revised budget would throw his followers into further fits of despondency. AGENT BAKER'S FIRST CASE—TOPEKA, Kansas—After serving since 1933 as a law clerk in the federal bureau of investigation, 27-year-old Wayne W. Baker of Yuma, Arizona decided to become a G-man, recently took the bureau's three-month train course for investigators, was assigned to the bureau at Kansas City, Mo. At work with two other agents on his first important case last week, agent Baker waited in the Topeka post office for New York bank robber Alfred Power (alias Gerald Lewis), alias Thomas Malley), implicated in the $18,000 robbery of the Northern Westchester bank of Katonah, N.Y., last month. Power had been making calls at the post office, was expected again. On the third noon of Agent Baker's vigil, the general delivery clerk gave the pre-arraigned tip-off signal. As Agent Baker stepped up drew his gun, ordered Alfred Power to put up his hands, a bullet struck him in the back. He spun around to face the bandit unnoticed companion, R. Suhay, began to fire. Another bullet struck him in the chest two in the legs. He crumpled An innocent bystander, hit in the foot, flopped under a writing table beside a scared little Negro woman. Twenty rounds were exchanged before the two bandits fled, vanished. That evening Sheriff Homestead of Plattsmouth, Neel and his brother Cass learned that the fugitives might be heading toward Omaha. They grabbed rifles, drove a few miles south to wait. When a car wafted by at 60 m.p.h., they followed Soon the bandits slowed down drove a weaving course, pretended they were drunken drivers tempt their pursuers alongside But the Sylvesters refused to tempt, finally cornered and captured their men at the end of a Plattsmouth street. Power and Suhay surrendered without shot, were disarmed, handcuffed jailed by federal agents in Omaha a few hours later. With $12,000 in cash recovered, Agent Baker first case was successfully concluded. He died in a Topeka hospital. ROYAL FLUSH—LONDON—The Duke of Norfolk come... when we should give careful consideration to that subject... Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which congress is willing and able to resort." If Franklin Roosevelt thought the New Deal had reached its fiscal rope's end, he did not show it. 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APRIL 14— TOKYO, Japan—For nine week Japanese, harassed succession of governments and staggering under the military budget in their had looked forward to April. That day, Japan's leading sayers had declared, would luckiest in Japan's year. The bamboo-stick-shuffle ple oracles and star-gazer agreed on this point. The happy day Through the town of Ma Shimone prefecture swept fire which burnt to more than 400 houses, a school, many businesses deprived 1,500 of their Korea, Japan's mainland ency, was lashed by a which toppled 62 houses Keisonando district, lost fishing boats near Fuan, 70 fishermen. At Shingisha, 200 houses were washed by floods. At Nagano, 200 were blown to bits by a fire explosion. Many mountain lages were wiped out by W. C. Cowling (left), Ford Motor company director of sales, who arrived in Los Angeles last week for meetings attended by local Ford dealers, is pictured above as he was greeted by I. B. Groves, Ford Long Beach branch manager. When interviewed by newspaper men, Cowling voiced the opinion that people should stop talking about the return of prosperity. The Ford executive said that prosperity has been with us for at least a year. To substantiate this, he referred to the automotive industry which is often considered an index to the nation's business. "Actually," Cowling said, "1936 was one of the biggest years in automotive history. This year promises to be even greater. Already, Ford passenger car and truck sales are well ahead of the same period last year," he concluded. folk, the Archbishop of Canterbury and 350 Officers of the Gold Staff who will act as ushers at the Abbey ceremony during the Coronation, went last week to remodeled Westminster to make a tour of 100 toiletts built for the convenience of Britain's aristocratic privilege to remain in the Abbey without a chance to escape for six and one-half hours. When a workman rushed to obey the command of a jesting Gold Staff officer that all cisterns be tested together, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never do. It's just like Niagara!" ORANGE GROVE MYSTERY— TEL AVIV, Palestine—In an orange grove near Tel Aviv last week, British police who have spent the past year vainly trying to keep Palestine's Jews and Arabs from each other's throats, found mouldering in a shallow grave the body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet vice-commissar of harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gun-runner and onetime salesman for the late munitions typecoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house they found a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictophones, a 400-yard tunnel leading from the basement to the orange grove. Schenzvit was promptly charged with murder, arrested with Joseph Miller, a crony and Nazi agent employed to prevent Jews in Palestine from getting proscribed money out of Germany. missions to stock trout streams a fortnight early, anglers flocked for the season's opening last week to find hundreds of smart, gamy trout, rid of hatchery loginess, ready for sport. Day before the season's opening in Pennsylvania, Governor George Earle signed a bill to permit Sunday fishing for the first time since 1794, went to Cumberland county, fished for an hour shortly after midnight, caught 10 trout. From Newark, N. J., big radio station WOR sent equipment to the Joe Jefferson club near Ridgewood, broadcast the sound of babbling brook, whirring reels, fresh-caught trout sizzling in the frying pan. In Massachusetts, as a stunt to advertise New England sport, the New England council hired a professional deep-sea diver to pad around the bottom of Calvin Coolidge pond, telephone fish locations to anglers on the bank. When Editor Horace G Tapply of "National Sportsman" lost a nine-inch trout off his barbless hook, the diver marked the spot, came up with the play-out fish clutched in his big rubber glove. POTATO JONES— LONDON—Between the world's most potent warship "H. M. S. Hood," plowing through mountainous waves, and the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao last week stood the Righest fleet's flagship "Espana" and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100 miles away, at St. Jean-de-Luz, France, a half-dozen British freighters loaded with food for salesman for the late munitions typecoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house they found a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictophones, a 400-yard tunnel leading from the basement to the orange grove. Schenzvit was promptly charged with murder, arrested with Joseph Miller, a crony and Nazi agent employed to prevent Jews in Palestine from getting proscribed money out of Germany. Schenzvit had made a fat living during the Chaco war by selling arms to both Bolivia and Paraguay, by shipping girls to South America, which he was still doing last week. Schenzvit and Miller met in Palestine, went into the arms racket together, had a neat arrangement whereby Schenzvit sold guns to the Jews Miller to the Arabs. The murdered Zwanger, employed by Schenzvit, sealed his own doom by knowing too much. To this thick plot another ingredient wa added when the electrician who had installed Schenzvit's radio committed suicide and police found in his house charred papers showing Italian writing. For months rumors were that Italian agents subsidized riotous Arab leaders to embarrass Britain. Police next looked for a "beautiful blonde spy" said to have been in Schenzvit's confidence, declared: "We have crossed the trial of one of the most important and alarming espionage rings in the history of the Near East." Among other things, Schenzvit was "plotting to free Palestine from Britain's rule." TROUT OPENER— Because the East's mild winter yielded to spring last month, thus enabling state fish and game com- POTATO JONES— LONDON—Between the world's most potent warship "H. M. S. Hood," plowing through mountainous waves, and the Spanish Basque city of Bilbao last week stood the Righest fleet's flagship "Espana" and a half-dozen battered codfish trawlers armed with machine guns. Less than 100 miles away, at St. Jean-de-Luz, France, a half-dozen British freighters loaded with food for beleagured Leftist Bilbao were anchored, unable to pass the blockading "Espana" even under the "Hood's" protecting 15-inch guns—because London had forbidden the warship to intervene. Because the captains of three of the stymied British freeighters were named Jones, telephone calls between London and British diplomatic agents in St. Jean-de-Luz were especially agitated and confused until a consular clerk named the captains after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham and Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of these, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the "Marie Llewellyn" who attempted to run the blockade, nearly ran down the British destroyer "Brazen," was sheperded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage and spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put to sea again, officially bound for Britain; but the other Jonses wagered he would make another attempt to reach Bilbao. Back in Britain, Potato Jones became a hero of laborites and leftist sympathizers who promptly arose in parliament, viciously attacked the Baldwin government's refusal to guarantee safety to British ships attempting to run the Bilbao blockade. BOSY CHEEKS— BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—During Tucuman Province where malaria epidemics have ravaged the populace, Argentine President Agustin P. Justo was pleased to observe the rosy faces of a group of school girls, compliant with the provincial governor on their healthy appearance. "Your excellency will have noticed," discreetly observed the governor, that while nature has been kind to the little girls, it has neglected the little boys." Upon closer inspection President Justo discovered that the little girls' cheeks had been rouged by their teachings. APRIL 14— TOKYO, Japan—For many a Greek Japanese, harassed by a recession of government crises and staggering under the biggest military budget in their history, had looked forward to April 14. That day, Japan's leading soothers had declared, would be the quickest in Japan's year. The naïn's bamboo-stick-shufflers, tempe oracles and star-gazers all agreed on this point. The happy day dawned, through the town of Matsue in Kihime prefecture swept a ragging fire which burnt to ashes more than 400 houses, a hospital, school, many business offices, sprived 1,500 of their homes. Borea, Japan's mainland dependency, was lashed by a storm which toppled 62 houses in the leisonando district, lost eleven fishing boats near Fuan, bearing fishermen. At Shingishu, Koriyama, 200 houses were washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still. MARKS BY SMELL— ST. PAUL, Minnesota—Tired of marking stupid examination papers for his class in physics, Professor John Madigan of St. Thomas's college in St. Paul last week received a particularly exasperating batch that reminded him of dead fish and rotten eggs, handed them back to his students marked in a new way. Instead of the usual penil markings, flunkers found their papers in jars from which came the rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulphide; more hopeless dummies found their permeated with butyric acid, giving off a smell worse than Limburger cheese. Able students were odoriferously rewarded, found their papers fragrantly scented with attar of roses. "THANK YOU, DOCTOR"— CHICAGO — Discovering that she was going to give birth before travel from her house to Chicago's Maternity Center, Mrs. Leonard Nelson last week telephoned for advice. With the telephone receiver clutched to her ear, she then proceeded to do precisely what the alert obstetrician at the other end of the line told her to do. After eight minutes of this Mrs. Nelson cried that she had borne a son and started to hang up. A neighbor, however, Bank of America's Loan Business High The honest man with an assured income has been found to be a good credit risk. This has been Bank of America's experience in eight years of installment loans during which it has made 256,700 loans to individuals aggregating many millions of dollars. During March, 1937, the bank made 9,600 personal loans totalling $1,800,000 establishing a record month. "The public is honest," said L. M. Giannini, president, but there are a few simple rules which must be followed. The amount loaned should not be out of line with the borrower's ability to pay, and the payments should be on a monthly installment basis. The loan should be for a legitimate purpose, and the borrower should be regularly employed and of good character. Our losses over a period of eight years has been less than one-tenth of one percent. "Experience with personal loans has encouraged us to enter the amortized loan field in a large way, to make loans for the buying, building and modernization of homes to buy household equipment and for the purchase of automobiles. During the last 19 months, we have loaned more than $140,000,000 in this manner." smatched the receiver, yelled over the phone: "She's going to have a twin." The doctor: "Let me talk to Mrs. Nelson again." For five more minutes Mrs. Johnson followed telephoned directions, bore her second son, sighed: "Thank you doctor." hung up. 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