Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 17

TWO MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE MARCH 12 SKY EMPTY OF MAIL CARRIERS Army Planes Grounded and New Schedules Drafted for Flyers. WASHINGTON, March 12. The sky was empty i of planes fly- Ing 1 the mails today, Just three yveeks after the army took over the job. The order grounding the planes made no mention of the 10 deaths that have occurred since President Roosevelt cancelled the private sub- sidles and turned the alrmals over to the army, but It followed within a day of the president's statement that deaths in flying the mails "must stop." Foulols IMrfccts Order. 'Waj.

Gen. Benjamin D. Foiilols, chief of the air corps, directed the order to all airmail zones, calling upon them to: "Suspend Immediately all carrying of the airmail until your person- 'nel and equipment are in position and ready to initiate tho schedules furnished you in radiogram." The order specified that no airmail fly Ing should be undertaken authorized by headquarters ot the air-corps. effect the cancellation of all airmail service, even though temporary, would have on American business which has come to rely the swifter means of mailing, a moot, question. Postal officials, promptly notified by airmail zone commanders of the changed situation, struggled to give the fastest possible train routings'" to stacks airmail shunted back to them by Sunday's order.

May Be Resumed Wednesday. The interruption of service is not expected to last for more than two or three days. Major General Foulois to have a modified "fair-weather" schedule ready by Wednesday. The air corps chief believes a re- vJsed airmail map, with planes and men to fly it, will be in shape by midweek, with the 18 routes which were being flown until today reduced to about a dozen. The coast-to-coast "backbone" of the airmail will be preserved in the new setup.

Kebuke to Army. Grounding of the entire airmail followed President Roosevelt's statement of Saturday thai deaths among army mail couriers stop." The white house state- meat was considered by many air men today as tho sharpest rebuke given the army in years. 'These men contended that the mlll- aviators are aa good flyers as commercial pilots, but that theh 'unfamiliarity with mail routes, coupled with exceptionally bad weather during most of the period, has been a heavy disadvantage. "Although the army mall pilots were held to earth, the disasters that have marked their three weeks experience, in- flying the mail remained fuel for congressional discussion today. Debate In Prospect, An emergency airmail bill, providing funds for temporary army operation, may get a senate vote bo- fore night, although considerable debate is in prospect.

Both house and senate worked today for legislation along the lines of Roosevelt's request that the flying of, the malls be returned to private companies under a new contract system that would prevent recurrence of such conditions as led to the wholesale cancellation of contracts last month. Margaret Ullngton Dies, NEW YORK, March 12. Margaret Ullngton, one of the leading dramatic actresses of the country 25 years ago, died yesterday in Miami Beach, Fla. She was 52 years old. Blue Eagle Drive Is on Tighter Campaign; Success Pointed Out announcing tho new Blue Eagle drive for compliance with the codes, National Recovery Administrator Hugh S.

Johnson said, In part: "There was' no'th'lng false about the representations of NRA. We delivered what we promised and what we delivered was all to the good for American worlccrs of all classes. What, then, la this talk of ballyhoo? I'll tell you what it la. It is that some of these enemies of higher wages and shorter hours object because we went over their heads straight to the people with the Blue Eagle, and showed workers how they could every one co-operate to get the benefits intended for them by this act. "Ninety per cent of industry is under codes.

All of It Is under codes or agreements. Tho Blue Eagle has just begun to function. We are going on as we have begun. We are about to embark on a new Blue Engle campaign and a new and much tighter drive lor compliance." flASKEDFOR FARM PRICE PEG Midwest Appeal Transmitted in Letter by Gov. Olson of Minnesota.

DES MOINES, March 12. President Roosevelt again will be asked to peg prices at minimum levels to guarantee the farmer a profit. This appeal will be transmitted in a letter by Gov. Floyd Olson of Minnesota as the sentiment of 200 farm organization constituents from 10 states who concluded a two day parley hero last night. Governors Schmedcman oC Wisconsin and Herring of Iowa, and Lieutenant Governor Townsend of Indiana also Indorsed the price fix- Ing plea.

Will Fonn The three will form the nucleus of a mldwestern governors association, designed primarily to further the price fixing request, Governor Olson said. The association would include from 10 to 16 corn belt states. Tho three governors and Governors Berry of South Dakota and Langer of North Dakota personally conveyed their request for fixing of basic farm prices to President Roosevelt after an agricultural parley here lost October. Monetary Inflation. At that time, however, a program for monetary "Inflation, and NRA code for agriculture and ultimate control of markets by the farmer through co-operatives was coupled with the price fixing plea.

The present appeal for price fixing, Governor Olson said, is not connected with any other demand or program. Preceding the meeting called by Governor Olson, about 50 Farmers Union and Farmers' Holiday association delegates indorsed a program for an NRA code. William Hirth, a Missouri farm leader, cnScd Secretary of Agriculture Wallace "impractical but honest." Tremendous Reductions in BUS RATES MASON CITY to ONE WAY St. Pauli 2.35 Des Moines 2.20 Kansas City 5.25 2.00 Cedar Rapids 2.80 Waterloo 1.70 Los Angeles S25.20 New York $15.50 Bus Fares to Other Points Are. Proportionately as Phone 97 for information.

Jefferson Transportation Company BUS Depot at 16 First Street S. Mason City, Iowa BYRNS TALKS FOR DEFEAT OF BONUS (Continued From TAKC barring the transfer of a contrac from one company to another, well as the limitation of route ex tensions to 100 miles, as too rigid Onn't Fit One Ca.so. "We can't adopt general legisla tl.on to fit one case," he aaid. Other house committee members agreed that tho carriers should paid for tho actual mnil carriet rather than for the space available for carrying mall. Meanwhile, a mass of data, cov erlng all transactions in United Air craft stock from Dec.

1, 1933 to Feb. 9, 1934 was submitted to the senate banking committee by Rich ard Whitney, president of the New York atock exchange. Baby Goes for Ride With Auto Thieves OMAHA, March 12. I.TI—Seven months old Marlene Siford, swathed in blankets on the rear seat of her father's car, slept peacefully through a 90 minute ride with auto thieves. The police found her in the car which had been abandoned by the thievcn.

TO PUSH SUITS racks Its Income Tax Whip Over Heads of Mellon, Walker, Lament. WASHINGTON, March 12. The justice department, cracking 'he Income over the heads if Andrew W. Mellon, former Mayor fames J. Walker of New York, Thomas A.

Lament of Morgan and -ompany and Thomas Sidlo of leveland, pushed of a score more suits today. More than 40 tax experts are en- aged In the special task of prepar- ng the suits, similar to those nam- ng Mellon and the others. Among he material at hanJ for their study ire reams of testimony taken In he senate banking committee's Investigation of stock market and mancial practices. Mellon Barks Biu-k. The 78 year old Mellon, member of three republican cabinets, barked yesterday at the justice de- mrtment with a charge that the department was playing "crude" politics.

He called newspapermen to his apartment here last night during a jreak in his journey from Pittsburgh to Aikcn, Car. "Please don't add any frills," was all he said as he handed them a engthy statement. Declaring in the first sentence that he felt the effort to procure on ndlctment against him was "politics of the crudest sort," he reviewed his entire side of the case. Churls "Innuendos." Hn charged the use of 'innuendo. 1 ijy the justice department and the employment by some one, unnamed, of a character-wrecking campaign against him.

Instead of evading Income tax payments, he asserted, he had always given the government the benefit of every doubt. "I am as much in the dark as anyone," ho said, "as to the possible grounds he (Attorney General Cummings) could have for such an act- Ion, but I am glad, under any circumstances to get my tax affairs out of tho attorney general's office and into the court, where I am satisfied I shall get justice and a prompt disposition of the case which has so fur been denied me." Cummings first response when reporters told him of the statement, wns: Manifestly Unfair. "It would be manifestly unfair to differentiate between Mr. Mellon's case and others of a similar character." The attorney general loft a party at which he was host to scan Mel- Ion's statement carefully. The justice department chief also was informed of the first response of former Mayor Walker In England.

The erestwhlle New York chief executive said: "They arc doing- their duty and I welcome It as an opportunity of vindicating my character." Mellon'a charge of "unfair and arbitrary" was applied to the manner In which the justice department had handled his case. He said he felt that he, "like any other citizen, should be given proper notice In the manner provided by law." He said no charges of tax evasion had ever been made against him by the trcas- JU'-y. "Irrelevant References." Mellon also struck back at what he called "Irrevelant references" by Cummlngs to the Aluminum Company of America as a "Mellon controlled corporation" which Is a "one hundred per cent monopoly In the producing field." "What this had to do with my income tax Is Mellon, adding that he and all the members of bis family owned less than a majority of the corporation's stock. He asserted Cummings' "own law firm in Hartford, has recently been defeated In a suit" in which the verdict wan Umt the cor- portlon hnd not violated the antitrust laws. Justice department officials said Hie attorney general no longer connected with Lho firm which took part in the IN DAY'S NEWS 1'rof.

Jacob Viner, University of Chicago economist, has IHMMI named a special assistant to Secretary Morgonthau of the treasury' department. (Associated Press I'hoio). ADMINISTRATION WINS VICTORIES (Continued from 1) man's business If lie does not charge a fixed price," Patterson said. Opponents of the amendment contended that a perishable products provision is contained in NRA codes, pointing out that the codes are drafted by the representatives of the businesses involved. In connection with the trial by jury-amendment, Senator John K.

Valentine (D) of Centerville, said It was unnecessary as this right cannot be taken away from a person under the constitution. Governor Signs Bill Making Legal 4 Per Cent Beer for Iowa DES MOINES, March 12. Gov. Clyde Herring Saturday signed the bill legalizing the sale of beer of 4 per cent alcoholic content by weight in Iowa. The new law also liberalizes several provisions of the old 3.2 per cent beer law passed at the regular assembly session a year ago.

Included In the provisions is one permitting the manufacture of beer of higher alcoholic content in Iowa for sale outside the state. A smart man Is one who thinks important the same things you think Star Courier. Certificates of Deposit Value Does Not Shrink! NORTHWEST SAVINGS BANK, MASON CITY IOWA 1 WITH HORTHWCS7 BANCORPORWOfi QILLINGER'SDAY FOR TRIAL HERE Judge Takes Holiday; Grand Jury Delays Start on Escape Probe. CROWN POINT, March 12. This was the i.lay on which John Dillinger was scheduled to go on trial for murder, but nothing couUl be clone about It.

The absence of the defendant loft Judge William Murray with a free day, and he remained away from court. Authorities, meanwhile, were unable to fill a grand jury panel so the Dillinger escape Investigation was put over for another day. Inability to obtain service on two members chosen for the grand jury caused the tielay. WANTS TO GO TO SOUTH AMERICA Dillinger Expected to Make Raids on Banks to Get Needed Money. CHICAGO, March 12.

Dillinger, escaped outlaw, is believed to be determined to get to South America on other people's money, That is why police gave special protection today to many banks and other places likely to attract the desperado. They said that before Dillinger was captured last January, he and hia men were "saving up" for. the South American trip. They were intent on accumulating 5100,000 and had collected half that sum in bank robberies before Dillinger was seized. As every policeman iri the mid- west kept an eye peeled for the criminal, who made a sensational escape from the Crown Point, jail, detectives entertained another theory.

They believe he may attempt a "big Job" soon to raise funds for an appeal of the case of his pal, Harry Pierpont. Pierpont, unless his conviction is upset, must die for killing a sheriff lost October. Pierpont shot the sheriff in liberating Dillinger from the jail at Lima, Ohio. "Tips" on Dlllinger's hideaway continued to pour in. Police marksmen raided eight apartment houses here yesterday and found that the desperado was not there.

The task of fixing the blame for Dillinger's escape from the Crown Point jail March 3 was before a special grand jury at Crown Point today. Two Administration Bank Acts Approved by Senate Committee WASHINGTON, 12. Two administration measures, extending the temporary bank deposit insurance law and guaranteeing the principal of borne- loan banks, were appi-oved today by the senate banking committee. The first measure would extend Cor a year, or until July 1935, tho temporary insurance deposits plan now In effect. The second would place a government guarantee back of the issue of home loan bonds authorized by the last congress to refinance small home mortgages.

The committee also approved a bill by Chairman Fletcher to limit state taxation of national bank shares. Boy Is Accidentally Wounded With Gun FAIRFTELD, March 12. Jack Lovell, 14, member of a Boy Scout troop hiking hear Walton Lake, accidentally shot and seriously wounded himself. The group of scouts was accompanied by the youth's father, Harry Lovell, a scoutmaster. The boy's .22 caliber pistol discharged accidentally.

CALLS OUTLOOK "ENCOURAGING" Chairman of U. S. Steel in His Annual Report to Stockholders. NEW YORK, March 12. C.

Taylor, chairman of the United States steel corporation, sees an "encouraging" outlook for 1934 with present Indications pointing to increased business. In his annual report to stockholders published today he notes that operations in January and February of this year showed improvement over the corresponding months last year. "While present indications point toward a larger volume of business In 1934 than 1033," his report aays, "the problems which coitfront the industry call for careful planning and imited, co-operative effort by the entire organization." Expressing the hope that NRA would accomplish the purpose for which it was Instituted, Taylor says sufficient time haa not yet elapsed to determine definitely how successful it will prove and whether the steel code should be continued in its present form after its expiration on May 31. Alleged Burgler Is Knocked Out With His Own "Jimmy" CHICAGO, March 12. When police answered an emergency ball they found Harry Gardner lying on the floor of an apartment building, with Mrs.

Wilma San'oorn, 25, standing over him with a in her hand. She said she found him 1 trying to pry the telephone coin box off'the wall outside her'apartment a'nd that when he pointed the "jimmy" at her, pretending'it was a gun, she hit him with it. Gardner, revived by police, said he didn't know anything about a telephone coin box. All he remembered, he said, was that all the lights suddenly went out. Stay of Execution Granted in Paying of Libel Damages LONDON, March' 12.

court of appeal granted today, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company's application: for a stay of execution in the pay of 25,000 pounds (normally, a ag awarded Princess Ireria Youssoupofl In her libel suit based on the film "Rasputin and the Empress," granting the princess only 5,000 pounds at present. The entire 25,000 pounds will be paid into the court, 20,000 pounds being held in custody pending disposition of the appeal. The court refused to stay operation of' an injunction restraining the defendants from showing the film. Nose Not for Art, Says One Painter PHILADELPHIA, March 12. UP) reason the average American cannot properly appreciate a painting of still life such as a vase of flowers, says one artist, is that he tries to smell the posies.

"Don't do it," advises Earl Horter. "You really can't smell flowers in a unless it's a very bad painting." i SOLDIERS GUARD HARRY PIERPONT Hurl Open Challenge to John Dillinger to Try to Get Henchman Out. LIMA, Ohio, March 12. guardsmen trained machine guns on the county jail today 1 and hurled an open challenge to John Dillinger, the "kill-crazy" jailbreak- er. Inside the jail was Harry'Pier- pont, henchman of the killer, who is on the way to the electric chair.

He was found guilty 'in the early morning- hours yesterday of tho murder of former Sheriff Jess L. Sarber during the bandit raid last October in which Dilllnger was freed from the prison. The guardsmen were ready to answer any attempt Dillinger might make to free his former ally. Gen. Harold M.

Bush, commanding the guardsmen, said he had been warned the desperado might show up in Lima to try to snatch Pler- from the law. With Pierpont convicted, the state moved today against Charles Makley, another Dillinger henchman under Indictment for the former sheriff's death. He has been described by the'sheriff's widow, who was In the jail office at the time of the delivery, as the man who hit the sheriff over the head after he had been shot. Russell Clark and-Edward Shouse also are charged with a part in the slaying. Shouse, who acted as an outside guard during the raid, turned state's evidence and testified that Pierpont was the man who shot the sheriff.

He is expected to testify at Makley's trial. Capital of Canada Is Invaded by War Veterans of Nation OTTAWA, March 12. f.V)—Cana- da's capital city fell today before an Invasion of the country's war veterans. From every province of the dominion and from the remotest settlements the men who fought their country's battles on all fronts assembled to attend their own "soldiers' parliaments." STOP! Gets Cur of Sc(xl. SWEA CITY, March carload of sweet clover seed, weighing 79,000 pounds, property of the Metropolitan Insurance company, wag for Its farms in thin vicinity.

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