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North low a'9 DAILY PAPER Edited for the Home NEWSPAPER THAT MAKES AiL NORTH 1OVVANS NEIGHBORS" HOME EDITION VOL. XL FIVE CENTS COPY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED W1KB SERVICE MASON CITY, IOWA, FEIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 THIS PAPER CONSISTS OP TWO SECTIONS SECTION ONE NO. 226 Robinson SaVed Day Staved Off Defeat on Final Day of Congress. By HEKBERT PLUMMKR ASHINGTON, June 29. The manner in which Robinson of sen ate democratic lead er, staved off what appealed to be; either defeat or at least a telling blow to ad- i -5 a ion hopes on the last day of the seventy-third congress will be reviewed "by Washington observers many times during the coming months It cannot be denied that admm- istiabon leaders were a crestfallen bunch on the preceding Satuiday midnight when they witnessed their carefully laid plans for adjoin n- ment smashed to bits by recalcitiant senators.

For days they had schemed to bung the hectic session to a ctose Up until 6 o'clock it looked as if adjomnment was the bag Al! major bills on the president's pro gram had been passed Only the formality of approving a few routine reports remained. Then almost immediately the situation changed. Danger of Kunnlng Robinson made no attempt to disguise his anxiety in his "lecture" on the deportment of senators delivered aiound midnight. Nor did the statement of McNary, the republican leader, made after all plans had miscarried, that Monday morning would see a new session of the senate help his disposition. Everyone realized what failuie to adjourn at the appointed time could bring about.

This is a re-election year. As so often happens in such yeais members of congress find it difficult to temptation of passing all sorts of billa to satisfy clamorous minorities and escape reprisals at the polls Robinson knew there was dangei of congress running wild unless it could be headed off. Staked Leadership. So on Monday he struck quickly power. For one brief moment at the beginning of the final session of the senate he must have lived hours.

He staked his leadership on one test of strength and was sustained by three votes. then on, despite filibusters and what-not, no one doubted that he was firmly in the saddle and could ride 'for adjournment before the day was over. The democratic leader's display of daring the last day of the session was chaiacteristic of the way in which he guided the administration forces through much of the seventy-third congress. SAYS GRAIN Youths Killed in Crash at Algona OPPOSES AAA Coroner's Jury at Waterloo Declares Woman Slew Husband WATERLOO, June 29. 1 A coroner's jury today found that Ora G.

Randol, barbecue proprietor who was shot to death early yesterday, came to hia death frpm a bullet fired by his wife with felonious intent. County Attorney J. W. Gwynne filed a charge of murder degree unspecified, against Mrs. Randol Friday afternoon, in Waterloo municipal court.

Wea FORECAST IOWA: Partly cloudy with thundershoxvers Friday afternoon or night in the east and south portions, followed by generally fair Saturday; someivhnt cooler. MINNESOTA: Partly cloudy Friday night nnd Saturday; Somewhat cooler. LOCAL STATISTICS Globe-Gazette weather figures for 24 hour period ending at 8 o'clock Friday'morning: Maximum Thursday 99 in Night 70 At 8 A. M. Friday 71 .02 of an Inch The weatherman is adding insult to injury; After sending forth thunder and lightning and black clouds raising all releases only the lightest sprinkle.

It's like dangling forbidden food before a famished man. At the beet sugar factory Friday morning's shower wasn't even measurable but in other directions goodly amounts of precipitation were At 1:30 Friday afternoon the mercury in Mason City had touched the 96 mark. RICEVILLE MAN ESCAPES FROM FLAMING AUTO Bntt Woman in Local Hospital Following Car Crash. ALGONA, June youth were killed early Friday rooming when the cars which they wer tiding crashed headon at a concret bridge miles west of Algona The victims were John Batt, 19, son ot Mr. and Mrs John Batt, who live 6 miles southwest of Algona, anc Raymond Balgeman, 16, Whitte more, son Supervisor and Mts Frank Balgeman The only other person Involved Veine Batt, was injured in the acci dent.

He was thrown about 25 fee when the cars struck. After he hoc recovered from shock, he started out to find help Officers Arc Notified. At the first farm wheie ho stopped, no telephone was available and he went to the Andiew Leh man farm home. Leon Meritt, Algona undertaker, Dr A Evans coroner from Algona, and Deputy Sheriff Casey Loss were notified Deputy Loss stated the cause of the accident, which occurred be tween 12 30 and lam, had not been determined The concrete bridge, which is the first concrete bridge west of the Hobarton corner is narrow and he said the drivers might have blinded by the lights from the other's car. Batt was driving a Chevrolet He and his brother were going to their home from Algona Balgeman was driving a Model A Ford coupe His father had just returned to Algona from a state officers' meeting at Des Moines and had called home for his son to come and get him at the station.

Autos Badly Damaged. Balgeman was killed instantly Batt lived for about 20 minutes after the accident. The Batt auto was demolished and the Balgeman auto was damaged almost beyond repair The body of Batt. was taken to the Merritt funeral home and the body of Balgeman is in the L. W.

Swanson funeral home at Whittemore. Funeral services for Balgeman will be held Sunday afternoon. Balgeman leaves four brothers and four sisters. The Balgemans live six miles east of Whittemore. UGH! UGH! HEAP BIG CHIEFS 1 LAKE PAGEANT! RECOVERY EXPECTED RICEVILLE, June until the floor boards had burned sufficiently to release him was Fred Zilk, about 60, able to extricate himself from his burning auto Thursday night.

His feet and hands (Turn to Pftpc Column 3) 13 INDICTED IN BANKING CRASH Prominent Detroit Bankers Charged With Making False Reports. DETROIT, June 29. federal grand jury investigating the collapse of Detroit's two major banking institutions last year today returned 33 indictments. Those indicted were: Robert O. Lord, Detroit; John Ballantyne, Detroit; John H.

Hart, Detroit; Donald N. Sweeny, Detroit; James L. Walsh, Detroit; Alex Robertson, Ionia; Joseph n. Brewer, Grand Rapids; Charlea S. Campbell, Kalamazoo; Earl H.

Shepherd, KaJamnzoo; Herbert Chittenden, Detroit; John Bodde, Detroit; Alvin N. Crimmlns, Grand Rapids, and Stephen A. Graham, Port Huron. The indictments charge mainly the making of false reports or conspiring to make false statements of condition. Probably the most prominent of the men indicted are Ballantyne, the dean of Detroit bankers, who was president of the Detroit Bankers company and chairman of the board of the First National ban of Detroit for a time; Lord, who was president and an organizer of the Guardian Detroit Union group.

Inc. and Brewer, who was president of the Grand Rapids National bank, ft guardian group unit. Present day chiefs ol Cerro Gordo county will turn back tho 'of-history to take the roles of Tu- dlan chiefs, in tho colorful pageant at Clear Luke July 4. Shown nlme Is Mayor J. J.

Bums ot Mason City, astride horse and smoking a pipe of peace, at the right Is Sheriff J. 51 Robertson, In llio rolo of a pioneer man, and at the left, Ernest Andersen, Clear JLnke councilman, Is ahoivn nn Indian chief. (Photo and Knjrraving by Kajenay). Roosevelt Gives Pledge of Vaster New Deal Coming Material for Fall Campaign Is Seen in President's Talk to Nation. WASHINGTON, June 29.

President Roosevelt's lashing of "die-hards" and pledge of a vaster new deal piomised today to resound in the campaigns for the fall elections. Friend and foe alike studied the latest "report to the nation" in which the niesident claimed "substantial gains," laughed at "prophets of calamity" and again stiessed lis future piogram for "the secui- ty of the men, women and children ot the nation." Sitting in the oval room of the vhite house, in the steaming heat of a Washington summer, the president gave a talk to the nation last night in which he: Congress Gets Praise. 1. Praised congress as the most unpartisan since the time "of President Washington himself." 2. Cited statistics to show gains wages, employment, farm prices and consuming power.

3. Struck at "plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards" who 'tell you of loss of individual liberty." 4. Declared the "most vociferous if the doubting Thomases" are hose who seek special political or inancia! privileges. 5. Said the toes of harmful self- eekers "are being stepped on and are going to be stepped on." "Brain Trust." 6.

Reaffirmed his faith in what has come to be known as the "brain rust." 7. Promised protection against hiselers and "unfair skyrocketing" prices in NRA's "process of evolution." 8. Again emphasized his huge tliree-foid plan for "security" (Turn ta J'aje n. ASK RJRTlOPS TOQUELLBIOTS BRIDGETON, N. June 29.

(yB out today at the Seabrook Farms, scene of a strike five miles from here and resulted in a demand upon Governor Moore for state poUce or the national guard. Adamowicz Brothers on Atlantic Leg of Flight Hop Off From Grace on Journey to Poland. riOTUKB ON PAGE HARBOR GRACE, Nfld, June 29. (A 1 and Joseph Adamowicz, aviation's adventurous bioth- ers, swung Into the eastern sky shortly after dawn on their projected trans-Atlantic flight to Warsaw, Poland, their ancestral home. The wind was light and from the west, and the wcathek- clear as they hopped from Harbor Grace airport at 6 26 a (3 58 a.

Ahead, along the North Atlantic seaway, lay favorable Weather. A report from New York, which Arrived as they wanned the motor of their plane, predicted favorable conditions all the way across. Fly From Brooklyn. They set their big red, white and blue monoplane "Warsaw" down here late yesterday after completing a nine hour and 40 minute flight from Floyd Bennett field, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Holger Hoirils, their flying instructor -who hopped to Copenhagen in 1931 in the same named "Miss them as far as Harbor Grace. He superintended the loading of 610 gallons of gasoline and he made a final check of the motor while the brothers slept in nearby St. John's. Horiis was the last of the well wishers to grasp their hands as they swept down the runway, well worn by, the tires of a myriad of other trans-Atlantic planes. Pair Sleep Soundly.

The noncommital pair slept soundly and were driven here just before the sun rose. The motor of their big ship was roaring as they came on the field. They waited just long enough to scan the New York weather report, talk a moment with Hoiriis and say a brief bon voyage to attendants at the field. It was in the nature of a flight to the brothers were confident of reaching their goal. Once before, they left Lloyd Bennett field Poland bound, but their ship cracked up while landing at Harbor Grace.

They had called it a "test flight." This was last August and since then they've had almost a year's training and the experience of Hoiriis to aid them over their prospective journey via the great circle route to Dublin, Berlin and Warsaw. POLE ON POWER LINE DYNAMITED Parties Still Deadlocked as Milwaukee Strike Goes Into Fourth Day. KUIXKT1N MJrnU'AUKKB," Juno 2(1. general strike Hill Itc called the Milwaukee federated trade council If tlie electric company strike is not 'ttcttlwl 8 a m. Monday, It was announced following a conference of labor leaders this afternoon.

MILWAUKEE, June 29. A pole carrying a high tension power line today was dynamited at Vernon Center, 25 miles southwest of here. 7t wa.s the first instance, of tho uae of explosives in the Milwaukee Railway and Light company strike. Electric service In the neighborhood was affected asi the pole toppled and tore down the trolley wire of the Milwaukee-Mukwonago interurban line, delaying a train carrying maii. Lights faltered, and repair crews were dlspatche'd to set up emergency circuits for servicing the area.

Strike in 4th Day. The damage occurred as the strike went in Its fourth day with the parties still deadlocked, mediation conferences fruitless nnd only a few trolley wheels turning in the city. Only four streetcars left the barns this morning, and transportation di- dectors of the utility indicated trolley and bus systems would probably remain paralyzed throughout the day. I One death, six hospital cases and i 22 arrests comprised the toll of last' night's rioting at the giant lakeside power plant and four scattered car barns of the company. Police I estimated 30,000 persons witnessed the rioting-.

All Night Conferences. The Rev. Francis J. Haas and John D. Moore, government mediators, after all night conferences wHn officials of the utility arid the-three American Federation of Labor un- ons which ordered the walkout, said prospects of a settlement Boon were "excellent." Paralysis of trolley and bus service spread today to Racine, served, by the Milwaukee utilities.

96 HERE AS IOWA HOT WAVE LETS UP FEW DEGREES State Counts Death Toll of Eight, Three of Them Drowned. Mason City moicuiie-j had dropped to 06 Filday as Iowa expeiienced slightly cooler weather than Thursday when Iowa Falli. and Waterloo reported the state's high of 107 degrees. An early morning electucal display in the Mason City area failed to pioduce more than a trace of mols- tme, disipating itself in a short burst of lightning and tlumdei. The state's death toll In the heat wave stood at eight, with five victims of the heat and thiee of diownlng.

Doun 0 87 Deg rces- Council Bluffs, In tho southwest corner, cooled down to 87 degiecs at 1 o'clock Physicians there declared the death of Charles Miller, (57, night watchman fotmd dead In a local laundry Thuisday night was caused by the extreme heat. At Davenport Robert Hamer- Hnck and John Cartel were pios- trated as the mercury touched 101. Oltumwa was the hottest city in the state of those repotting, with temperature of 0.05 al; 1 p. m. Iowa City lowed closely with 104.

Clinton and Burlington, repotted a temperature was clouding up at CHnton. 91 at Ohnrles Oily. Waterloo and Museatine dropped to 97 degrees; Foit Dodge 98- Charles City 04 and Dubuquo 01. In Des Moines tho mercury hung the upper nineties and thunder heads held piomlwe of local showeis. A flie In the Hanawalt school in Des Moines was believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion duo to the heat.

Damage was estimated at between $400 and The only precipitation reported by the weather bureau was .03 of an Inch at Esthervlllo and traces at Foiest City and Sioux City. Dies at MuBcntlne. Miss Bessie Peck died at a Muscatlno hospital at 10-30 p. Thursday, four hours after fihe was overcome at her home here. She had been poor health for several years.

Wilfred Coates, 51, farmer, died in the fields near Dubuque of heat prostration Wednesday. Other prostration victims Thursday weie Arthur Wax, 30, at Des Moines and A Deeds, Oltumwa businessman, at OUumwa. Two occurred Thursday In the DCS Moines river near Des Moines, the victims being Clyde' Anderson, 23, Negro, and Harold Forsythe, 21. The third victim was John McMahlll, 10, of Bedford, who drowned at a bathing beach there Thursday night, Other States Suffer. Nebraska counted three dead; Illinois one; Maryland three; Michigan four; Ohio four; western Pennsylvania three and Indiana two.

An all time heat record of 132 was registered at Mattoon, while in Chicago, where one person died from the heat and scores were prostrated, the mercury hit new high for the date. In the Pittsburgh district records of 40 years' Ht.nnding went tumbling, and Franklin, saw reading of 101, the hottest in its history. lowan Seeks Debate With Rex Ttigtvell Sherlock Says "Brain Truster" Dodging Real Issues. MARSHALLTOWN, June 20 Sheilock, editor of the Mnisholltowii News, weekly newspaper, today challenged Dr. Rcxford G.

Tugwoll to meet a joint debate on the aims and policies of the now deal "I'll meet Dr Tugwell when he comes to Iowa in August to addiess the farmera at the Iowa State fair or at any other lime or place he designates in the middlewest," Sherlock said in a public statement. "I'll even meet him in Carnegie hall, New York, that hotbed of communism," ho continued. "I'm not ofiald to meet him anywhere- I'll evmi meet ln a lildlo Btation away from any audience if the doctor prefers that. Has Dodged Issues. "I merely mado that suggestion because I did not want the doctor to think that political hackling would annoy him; I arn solely interested in affording the doctor an op- poitunity in congenial suu-oundlngs to face the real issues ho has dodged these scveial weeks "Like Di Tugweli, I am uncom- foitable In a Apolitical atmosphere and would piefor to have the debate before an audience of middle western farmers or businessmen.

I want to give Dr. Tugwell tho opportunity ho has been seeking to take the 'Ameiican public into his full confidence his real benefits and purposes far away from publicity seeking Washington." i Disappointed In Talk. Sheilock said ho was disappointed in Tugwoll'B address hero Wednesday, to 3 ta to Bankers', association convention, declaring that -instead of stripping the "veil from the new deal and taking the country into his confidence, spent most of his time in an academic argument over what name should bo'applied ta the new deal program, "I believe Dr. Tugwoll haa the courage of his convictions," ho continued, "I believe he knows wheie he proposes to go and precisely what, he hopes to accomplish. I am affording him the opportunity to come clean and demonstrate conclusively that his program is 'conservative' ami that he Is a real friend and defender of the American system "Brain Trust" Critic.

Sherlock hag been a critic of tho "brain trust" since he resigned as managing editor of the Ladies' Homo Journal a little over a year ago and his paper. Hia monthly publication, "The Scratch Pad," demanded Tugwell's over- thiow lost January. Sherlock today sent the following wire Dr. Tugwell at Brook- Ings, S. Dak, where he la addressing a farmers' picnic "Hereby challenge you to meet me in joint debate real alms and purposes of new deal, Anytime, any place, next four months aatlsfac-' toryto me.

Suggest Iowa fair' In August." TUGWELL CALLS FOR SUPPORT OF ADMINISTRATION Scores Thomas Wickham and Cutten in Talk at Brookings. BROOKINGS, Dak, June 29. Rcxfoui Tugwell said today that the "gialn trade'' Is seeking Uie "repeal" of the agricultural adjustment act In this section tavaged by di ought, the undersecretary of agu- cultuie urged an audience at a farm and home picnic to stand steadfast for the act and "against the forces which desire no good for farmers." Me pleaded for the retention of processing taxes. Launching a vigorous offensive, he attacked both Thomas Wickham, chairman of the grain committee on national affairs, and Arthur Cuften, Chicago grain speculator. "Crocodile Tears." "Oceans of crocodile said, "have been shed over your 'behalf by middlemen asserted that all legislation' enacted to benefit the farmer, actually woiks to youi injuiy." He quoted Wickham as saying the at met- was shackled by the agricultural adjustment'act.

"Another middleman who has posed as a great lend of yours is Arthur Cutten," 'The gialn dealei, he declared, written that, "he and others like him out of the goodness of theln. heart were buying millions of bushels oflgrain and thus assisting the 'grain farmer and which would In any way his benevolent conduct would play havoc llofers, to The underscpretary then to trial, on icha'rgoR of violating the grain' futures act fulling to ieport deals in giain to the government. Tugwell said it -seems "significant" that "diuing the period Mr Cutten piously proclaimed his activities in supporting and pioyld- ing a market for the grain farmers, evidence developed by government would indicate that 'W was selling short i "It will 'also be interesting to note the relation between Mr. Wickham and the brokers who" so obligingly assisted Mr. Cutten," Tugwell added, "Perhaps you can suspect as I do why the grain trade is ao eager to procure the repeal of th-a agricultural adjustment act and to block (Tnm to Column 4) LANGER FACES YEAR AND HALF TERM IN PRISON IJUU.KTIN* FAKGO, N.

June 20. Iff I--in(fer, a day after winning'' the republican nomination for governor, today was 'sentenced To J8 months In prison and fined $10,000 In federal court for conspiracy to ilefrnnd the United States government. Federal Judge Andrew Miller imposed sentence. Governor Longer untl four others were convicted two weeks ago or soliciting funds from fed-, ernl relief for maintenance of "Tlift Leader," an administration newspaper. MARIE PASSES MAJOR CRISIS 62 Year Old Actress Rallies After Doctor's Give Up Hope.

SANTA BARBARA, June 29. Dressier, 62 year old actress, passed a major crisis in her illness early; today after doctors at her bedside had abandoned hope that she would live to see dawn. Five hours after Dr. F. Nimim, head of the medical staff attending her, expressed belief she would not live through the night, Miss Dressier rallied so strongly that physicians announced the threat of death had passed at least until noon today.

She was resting more comfort-i ably later today and from the bedside were that death wa.s not believed imminent. Her amazing vitality held out against a complication of heart and kidney ailments. At o'clock last night Dr. Nimim said "we don't expect her to live through the night." At 8 o'clock she sank so low that her features turned blue. Her heart stopped.

Then slowly the blu pallor drained from her face. By midnight her heart action was normal. There was no fever Respiration 80 to 100. How long she may linger on was questionable but the impression was left that death near. Prisoners Drowned When Floodwaters Fill Jail in China CANTON, (i?) submerged the jail at Tois- han, a city near Canton, today and before the panicky guards weie able to release the prisoners scores were drowned.

Floods have been genera! throughout South China. One hundred are dead, it is estimated, in the Toishcn district which is one of South China's "show places. 1 It was developed largely with money ncnt home by natives the section now in the United States. POISON IVY This Is a booklet that should be in every home, and the wise head of the household obtain additional copies so that one can be kept in the automobile, in the first aid and one In the camping outfit It is an official government booklet, prepared by experts, and is In every sense reliable. Jt tells how to rec- ogTiIze and avoid poison ivy and what to do when you get a case of ivy poisoning.

A copy will be sent to any address lor a nominal charge of four cents to cover handling and postage. Use this coupon. Mason City Information bureau, Frederic Knskin, director, Washington, I). C. enclose four cents in (carefully wrapped) for a of the booklet on poison ivy.

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