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EF3UNE
Twenty-eighth Year
J1EDF0RD, OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934.
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By PAUL MALL ON
Copyright, 1934, By Taul Mallon
Change
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. To all
outward appearances the New Deal
still looks the same, but on the In
side It la significantly different from
what It was three, six or nine months
ago.
The Inner character has changed.
The old group does not .hang
around the White House. The Inner
circle has been tightened until It
seems almost non-existent. Its Influ
ence on policies is only now begin
ning to be apparent, but it will be
more and more obvious before long.
Professors
The professorial influence la wan
ing, for one thing. The brain trust
has been virtually dissolved. It la
now a collection of one-man bands,
each playing a different tune on his
own individual piccolo.
Professor Tugwell la still In office,
but less and less In evidence around
the White House. Mr. Roosevelt's
main farm consultant appears to be
Agriculture Secretary Wallace, w.ho
works with but not for Tugwell.
Prof. Warren Is prowling around
on a stiver price policy, but his new
position seems to be that of a confi
dential friend to President Roosevelt
and Secretary Morgenthau, rather
than that of money policy director.
- Prof. Moley la busy running a mag
azine. He slips down to Washington
quietly about once a week, entering
the White House through the resi
dential door. His name does not get
into the newspapers. He is still a
leading adviser, but In an indirect
sort of way.
There arc dozens of college profes
sors still running around town, but
they are doing odd Jobs.
Wires
Treasury Secretary Morgenthau is
not only the No. 1 adviser but ap
pears to be also Nos. 2 and 3. No
one else alts on Mr. Roosevelt's knee
any more.
The right-hand man, Louis Howe,
Is taking a rest at his home. He has
done no advising recently and prob
ably will not for some time. He was
a philosopher with a sense of humor
who did much to smooth off Vie
rough edges around the White House.
The way things are working out
now backstage, Mr. Roosevelt Is ft
rather lonely Judge and Jury for his
cosmopolitan crew of workers. They
come trooping in to him every few
minutes of the day trying to get him
to do this or that about the particu
lar subject on which they are work
ing. They pull wires to get certain
other workers to pull wires for them.
The wires frequently become entan
gled. LI hern Is
The situation Is illustrated by the
condition of the liberals.
As they approach the first anni
versary of the New Deal, March 4,
they note that they have virtually
driven the conseratives off the White
House dawn. Gone ts Treasury Sec
retary Woodln. Going and nearly
gone is George Peek. The only con
servative who has been able to evade
the liberal lawnmower Is Jesse Jones.
While In possession of the field,
the liberals are unable to reap the
fruits of their victory. They have
split mildly into many factions which
are not harmonious. That is natural.
To be a liberal a man must be an
objector. When there are no con
servatives to object to, the liberals
must object to each other.
At any rate, all o them appear
to be on the outside looking into
the White House, rather than on the
Inside looking out.
Procures
Their main field of activity so far
has been the AAA. but they have
not been very active lately. Some
say It la becaxise congress li In ses
sion and the AAA boys want to avoid
any new policies until Mr. Roosevelt
can get congress off his and their
necka.
General Johnson has been In and
out of the good graces of the White
House several times. At present he
Is In very, very good. Mr. Roosevelt
trusts .him implicitly. As one of his
friends said recently: "If Johnson
is NOT sincere, he Is the best actor
who ever Inhabited the earth."
He and Mr. Roosevelt apparently
have not decided what they are go
inc to do with the NRA. That la
why the two blK meetings are to be
.held here shortly. They wisely set
the "field day for crticlsm" before
the assembly of business men, so
they will find out how far they
dare to go.
Johnson has given business men
good representation In the NRA and
keeps a halter on the few liberals
there. It la strictly a Johnson out
fit, being neither liberal nor con
servative. Apnea ninres
All these New Dealers have been
working much too hard the past year.
From the White House down they are
setting Just a little touchy, and Im
patient about small thin us.
Mr. Roowvelt looks well. At least
his smitinc. pleasant mask has not
cracked. Yet those who see him in
termittently at 60 and M-day periods
have noticed that hla tremendous
labors of the past year have aeed
him. Lock at a photograph of him
at the inauguration and compare It
with hts latest; ynu will see the dif
ference. (Continued pa Page fwo)
Hammer Murder of Williams,
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oeiieveu aoiveu dv Aumis
sion of Neighbor That
Mind Blank at Times
ROSEBURG, Ore., Feb. 23. (AP)
A weird theory of homicidal mania
which may contain the solution to
the apparently motiveless hammer
murder, February 7, of David M. Wil
liams, elderly Rice Valley farmer. Is
under investigation here today, while
Rollin Johnson, 36, neighbor and con
fidant of the slain man, is held In
custody.
Upon his own suggestion, officers
report, Johnson Is being held for
observation of his mental condition,
after questioning has developed an
apparent case of lapses of conscious
mental .control, during which, ac
cording to Johnson 'a own statements,
as reported by District Attorney Guy
Cordon, he may have committed two
homicides.
- Fat her-In -Law Slain
Similarity of the murder of John
son's father-in-law, F. J. Zimmerman,
at San Jacinto, Cal June 30, 1931,
with that of the slaying of Williams,
led the Investigators, the district at
torney reports, into a close examina
tion of Johnson's personal history
In this examination, he states, 'It
has been revealed that Johnson is
reported to have suffered at Inter
vals from periods of amnesia, during
which he is reputed to .have shown
destructive tendencies.
Johnson, according to the district
attorney, disclaims all knowledge of
the murder of Williams or Zimmer
man, yet today signed a statement
that he Is of the opinion that he
killed both of them in spells of am
nesia, as following each slaying he
.has been subjected to an unreason
able. Intense fear and a highly ner
vous condition. Because he fears an
other break In mental control, he
has requested the officers, it la stat
ed, to keep him In custody and
under observation until his mental
condition Is determined.
Tried to Assault OTflcer
Taken yesterday evening by state
police and county officers who have
been investigating the murder of
Williams to the scene of the Rice
Valley slaying, a spot regarding which
Johnson claimed he had a mortal
fear, he suddenly made a violent
assault upon A) Lumsdon, a state
police Investigator, but was quickly
subdued.
Williams waa killed February 7. hla
skull having apparently been crushed
with a hammer or other such Instru
ment In a surprise attack. Hla body
was found the following morning by
a searching party.
"Because the murder of Williams
was without apparent adequate mot
ive, officers began an investigation
on the theory that the slaying was
the work of a maniac." District At
torney Cordon said this morning in
a dictated statement. "In this con
nection residents of the community
were subjected to an Inquiry Involv
ing intimate personal history. This
inquiry revealed that Johnson has
a strain of Insanity In has family, a
grandmother having died in a Neb
rsska hospital, where a brother la
now confined, and that he had been
subject to periods of amnesia.
Cae Studied
"Information that his father-in-law
had been killed under circum
stances very similar to those of the
Wtlllams murder, caused us to se
cure a transcript of the Investigation
of that tragedy. Johnson having been
severely questioned but having been
released.
(Continued on Page Eleven)
STATE RESUMES
WYNKOOP TRIAL
CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING,
CHICAOO. Feb. 23 . The atate
today resumed the trial of Dr. Alice
Lindsay Wynekoop with an attempt
to prove a conflict in the storlea told
by the 63-year-old defendant on the
night that the body of her daughter-in-law.
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, w
discovered on an operating table in
the Wynkoop mansion.
Mrs. Wynekoop, whose illness
brouuht a mistrial Isst month, de
clared that the Washington birthday
recess had refreshed her to an ex
tent, but that she still "felt weak
as s cat.'
LOAN BILL SIGNED
WASHINGTON. Feb 23 - --Presl-
dent Rooeveit today s.zned the Ml -
000 000 crip product. ju ;o,ui bill, with
j tn declaration that it should be tnr
iasl Qt hu k.a.
Five Army Airmen Death Toll
CWA WORKERS AIR
1 u Bwwwnd l01? S till saw o
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Using banners to proclaim their views, CWA workers In New York
demonstrated at Union Square on the eve of the government's an
nouncement to curtail certain fiWA. activities. ( Anscclated Prssa Photo)
S
VAST TOTAL INTO
BOOM DAYS MART
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. fl) Sta
tistics showing that a group of large
corporations poured more than $20.-1
000.000,000 Into the speculative boom
market of 1929 were made public to
day by the senate stock market In
vestigating committee.
The committee gave out the re
sults of a survey showing that the
selected group of corporations had
almost a billion dollars In the mar
ket at one time near the peak of
the boom in the fall of that frenzied
speculative year.
The twenty billion figure was a
cumulative total of all moneys ad
vanced, with the amounts In at any
time varying greatly.
The largest total during the period
was 17,672,520.00O for the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey.
Thla apparently had a rapid turn
over of loans, however, because 1
blpgest single day's advance was 97,
824.000, less than some of the others.
On the other side of the Capitol,
the constitutionality of the Fletchcr
Rayburn bill for regulating stock ex
changes was challenged by Thomas
B. Gay, counsel for the New York
Stock Exchange.
Gay contended that however neces
sary the control of the so-called
'abuses and conduct" of stock ex
changes, congress was without con
stitutional power to do It because
transactions were of an lntra-statei
and not interstate character and
hence ahould be controlled by the
states.
8 FEET OF SNOW ON
M'KENZIE HIGHWAY
BEND. Ore . Feb. 23. WV-A mow
field 10 miles wide and eight feet
deep in places, and crusted with ice
three inches thick, still blankets the
McKenrle divide, and the opening of
the MKenMe highway to traffic
would be no easy task. K. D. Lytle.
division highway engineer, said here
today.
Hla report was made following
careful survey of anow conditions in
the pass country by George Sothman.
maintenance engineer, and Kenneth
Lathlm.
S.
QUE!
RENO. Nev., rVb. 23. API Mrs.
Thalia Portesrue Maaaie obtained a
divorce from Llut. ihos. H. Massle
at a brlf private trial before District
Judge Benjamin F. Curler here to
day. Her complaint chsrped "extreme
cruelty, enttrely mental In charac
ter." and alkcHl that "ssid crudity
destroyed the purpose of the mar
rtsce and injured and Impaired" her
gcueral health.
THEIR DEMANDS
LOSE BRAVADO AS
CHICAGO, Feb. 23 fT) Gone was
the bravado of the so-cslled "Ter
rible Touhys" as tley heard s verdict
of guilty and penalty of 99 yeara.
Roger Touhy. known as the leader
of the gang which once defied Al Ca
pone, choked and clamped his hand
kerchief to his mouth.
Albert Kator and Gtia Schaefer
paled, but accepted their fate In
calmer manner.
The curly-haired Touhy was assist
ed to hla feet, and the procession
started back to their cella.
At the county jail, reporters closed
In on the trio, but they refused to
say anything.
Touhy threw himself down on h!s
cot and groaned. Kator and Schaefer
anarled feebly at reportera.
Later, the three seemed to accept
their fate as the welcome alternative
to death.
"They might as well have made It
100 as 99 years," said Kator, in
better humor.
In less than an hour, they" were
reported sleeping soundly.
The Jury had decided on the guilt
of the trio In less than four hours,
it was reported, the remainder of the
time occupied in agreeing on a pen
alty. Six Jurors wished to send them
to the electric chair. The 99-year
sentence was a compromise.
Factor, who with his wife. Rella,
and son' Jerome, also a kidnaping
victim, was present In the courtroom,
expressed his gratification at the ver
dict. "This result la what a kidnaping
victim may expect when he cooperates
fully with the authorities," he aa:d.
"If every person kidnaped Joined fu'.ly
with the police as I have done In
bringing the criminals to Juatl-re,
there would be no kidnaping menace
today."
WASHINGTON. Feb 23 VpPreAl
cnt Roocevelta approval of legisla
tion for regulation of public grazing
land was transmitted to the house
public lands committee today by Sec
retary Ickes.
Testifyine for the bill by Repre
sentative Taylor f D . Colo.), to let
up s gracing administration under
the Interior department with fees to
be collected for grazing permits, the
interior secretary read a letter from
the President saying he favored a
"principle or this hill" and suthor'.
ing hfm for Secretary Wallace to say
so to the committee.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 23. ( AP The
Rv. Peter Alnslle. Internationally
known for hit work In the interest of
church unity and world friendship
through the churches. d;d early to
day In s tionplt r1 here following two
operation since January 7, He was
C6 years old.
GRAZING BILL HAS
ROOSEVELT'S OKEH
LEOPOLD TAKES
FATHER'S PLACE
Former Crown Prince Ac
claimed by Great Array of
Foreign Representatives
Ceremony in Chamber
By AI.HI'.HT W. WILSON
Associated Press Foreign Staff
BRUSSELS, Feb. 23. (AP) A new
king of the Belgians, Leopold III,
was enthroned today when the for
mer crown prince took the oath to
defend the constitution before both
houses of parliament.
He officially became king, succeed
ing his father, the late Albert I, at
the conclusion of the reciting of the
oath at 11 o'clock this morning.
The 32-year-old monarch spoke the
brief oath In French and repeated It
In Flemish before the legislators and
assembled dignitaries.
Acclaimed In Parade
A splendid array of foreign repre
sentatives and diplomats In the lav
ishly decorated chamber of deputies
cheered the new ruler with the same
enthusiasm as did thousands of peo
ple who watched htm on his ride to
parliament from the royal castle at
suburban Laeken. j
Thousands of Belgians enthualstl
cally shouting "Vive le Rol" and, I
waving flags and handkerchiefs, hail
ed Leopold III on his triumphant
ride.
Some sections along the brilliant
route showed less enthusiasm than
others, but there was no organized
counter manifestations.
Scattered antl - royalist elements
among the crowds which pressed In
is solid, cheering,' pushing throng
along the streets, were drowned out
in the roar of acclaim.
City Is tiny
For the most part,. Brussels was In
a merry mood.
Leopold, himself, was serious and
even grim as he saluted his subjects.
Dressed for the first time in the
full regalia of a lieutenant general,
and wearing white gloves, he rode a
brown horse, as did the entire gal
lant company.
(Continued on Page Five)
AFTER LONG TALK
WASHINGTON. Feb. 23. (UP)
Rep. Joseph L. Hooper (R., Mich.)
dropped dead of a heart attack late
yesterday in his office in the houao
office building. He had Just return
ed from the floor of the house, where
he made a long speech on the airmail
contract situation.
Hooper was S7. His home was in
Battle Creek. Mich.
Friends said he was In perfect
health when he left the floor of the
house and returned to his office. He
dismissed his clerlca' staff soon there
after. Later, house attache visited Hoop
er's office to collect mall, and found
the Mlchlgsn congressman dead on
the floor. The position of his body
Indicated that he had attempted to
reach an office couch after the heart
seizure.
WIFE OF VALLEE
LOSES SKIRMISH
NBW YORK, Feb 23-Wyp, Rudy
Vallee, orchestra leader, today was
granted a temporsry Injunction, re
straining his wife. Fay Webb Vallee,
from auing him in California or any.
where else than New York for di
vorce and maintenance.
Supreme Court Justice Barnard L.
Shlentag, who granted the injunction.
said In hts decision that Mrs. Vallee s
California action was an obvious at
tempt to harass hor husband.
In the California action filed tn
Los Angeles, "Mrs. Vallee sought 7,-
4S0 a month maintenance, as well n
sliowanoea for counsel fees and court
cost In a suit previously filed h.'
she asked that a separation agre
ment, under which Vallee paid her
100 a week, be set aside and that
the orchestra leader be reatrai ned
from attempting to dlvorre her in any
state except New York.
TULE LAKE DISTRICT
SEEKS $45,000 LOAN
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Feb. 22
( AP B. F. Hayden and Mayor F. B.
MacMurphy of Tula Lake, near Klam
atfi Falls. Ore., today appeared be
fore the regional advisory board of
the public works administration In
behalf of a M.V0OO loan to the Tule
I Lake Irrigation project.
OF
E
Stormy Petrel of Yamhill
Politics Will Seek Nomi
nation On Anti-Sales Tax
and Anti-Meier Platform
PORTLAND, Feb. 23. (P) Upon
the squared ahoulders of Senator W.
E. Burke of Yamhill county has bevn
draped the mantle of "Progressive
Republicanism" in Oregon.
Burke, stormy petrel of Yamhill
and present antagonist of Governor
Meier, whom he once supported
whole-heartedly, was last night nom
inated by the so-called "Progressive
Republican" party as its guberna
torial candidate for the May 18 pri
mary election.
Through Burke the newly-organlzed
group will make a bid for the sup
port or the now scattered forces that
four years ago rallied with whole
hearted enthusiasm to the standard
of the late Senator George W. Joseph.
Opposes Sales Tav.
On a platform of public hydro
electric power development, and op
position to the state salea tax, the
progressives will seek to put Burke
In the governor's chair.
Senator Sam Brown, Gervala farm
er and announced candidate for the
Republics nnomlnatlon, was second
choice of the Republican Progres
sives. Third place went to Rufna
Holman, state treasurer, whose ent
rance into the race ror the governor
ship remains doubtful. Both Brown
and Holman attended .last nlght'a
meeting.
aenator Burke declared after fie
meeting that he was "happy" to an
nounce hla candidacy, although, he
said, he had not harbored gubernatorial-
Intentiona until the endorse
ment was lent.
For Kconomy.
"Too much money Is being squan
dered In public places," he declared
"All this comes out of the pockets
of the people. I would stand fir
economy In all lines.
If elected I shall try to carry out
the principles for which I stood dur
ing my four sessions at the legisla
ture. I will always be opposed to a
salea tax of any kind and will do
my best to have all the people of
the state of Oregon enjoy the full
benefit or the power developed at
Bonneville."
The Burke-Progresalve Republican
campaign will be molded In a def
inite antl -ad ministration cast, should
Governor Meier seek re-election. From
last nights developments It waa as
sured the new party will not find
Itself lacking In Meier critics.
Holmsn, who had previously staled
that in urging formation of the pro
gresslve. he was "not looking in the
mirror." may decide to run for con
gress from the third district, If cur
rent reports may be given credence,
General Charles H. Martin is leaving
his waahlngton congressional post to
seek the Democratic nomination an
governor, and it la aald in some cir
cles Holman la looking fondly toward
this opening.
26 AGE PENSIONS
GET COURT'S OKEH
The county court, acting as an oil
age pension commission, has mailed
certlllcatea to 26 applicants, and filed
with the county clerk notice of ap
proval. They are the first of the old
age pensions to be awarded, and a
majority or the applicants are over 80
years of age.
Included in the first lot of pension
applications considered were a num
ber of rejections, pr'nclpally because
the applicant had not resided In the
state lfi years, or not being 70 yera
of age, and because they had Incomrs
or kin willing to provide for their
needs.
LAD SHOOTS FATHER
WENATCHEE. Wash,, Feb. 23 (UPl
Lawrence Heller, 18, who shot hla
father In the back with a .22 caliber
rifle when he feared his mother would
be harmed, will not be prosecuted,
authorities said here today.
The lad aald hts father waa drunk
when he returned home late yester
day and threatened to harm Mrs.
Heller. The lad aald he ahot his
father when he followed his mother
Into a barn, where she was busy with
I chores.
' The eider Heller was not seriously
Injured.
in Mail d
Amazon Bandits
Hold Up Autoist
And Land In Jail
RBNO, Nev., Feb. 23. (UP)
A trio of husky young girls from
Sherman, Tcx were arrested, he.e
today on a charge of holding up
Troy Bruton of San Jose, Oal., on
the highway near Altamont Pass
last night, beating him and steal
ing his automobile
The girls, dressed in men's cloth
ing, said they were waitresses on
a hltch-hlklng tour. They gave
their names as Jane Furlong. 21;
Cathellne Underwood, and Cather
ine Hudson. 20.
Bruton said the "Amazon" ban
dits halted him with a pistol,
struck him with a crank, robbed
him and drove away laughing up
roarlouily. His automobile wss
recovered here.
T
FARLEY
UP
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (API-
Walter F. Brown, former postmaster
general, Indicated to senate air mall
investigators today that Postmaster
General Farley had made a "personal
remark" about Chairman Black.
Brown refused to repeat It.
The remark. Brown snld, was made
when he visited Farley's office to re
turn two packnges or orflclal corres
pondence which he snld he had found
among his personal effects.
Brown quoted Farley as saying:
"I haven't any sympathy with
political investigations."
"Then,'' continued Brown, 'he made
a remark of a personal nature that
I don't feel at liberty to repeat."
"Repeat It," Black urged.
"He asked me not to," was the re
ply. "The committee asks that it be re
peated," Senator McCarran Insisted.
Brown still held he would not do
so without Farley's consent.
Farley was sent for but found to
be out of town.
CLANG OF SHOVEL
SAD REMINDER OF
They haven't "been working on
the railroad all the live long day,"
but 34 Medford high school girls
and boys are going to feel much as
if they had when time to "hit the
hay" arrlvea tonight. Their audden
descenslon from the white collar
class Into the pick and shovel gang
this morning has put that kind of
an ache In their bones and the holi
day they took yesterday is going to j
be needed tomorrow for recuperation
of physical resources,
For the Inspiration which led them I
to celebrate George Washington's .
birthday, In spite of the fact that j
the Oregon legislature decltled they
shouldn't, wasn't Interpreted aa "pa
triotism" today by school officials.
That Is why the shovel, once a
novel Instrument to many of the
young Intelligentzia, will be a famil
iar tool tonight and the Intricacies
of the pick unknown no more. Win
dow washing, once the fine art of
feminine hands, returned to that
standard, too, today ns the members
of the fairer sex, who Joined the
walkout yesterdny, took up the scrub
brush.
The 34 students, boys predominat
ing two to one, were sentenced to
eight hours of msnual labor within
the school building and on the
school grounds this morning.
The preparation of the grounds
for planting of lswn and installation
of sidewalks, started by CWA work-!
era, offered
pi,niid owning for
the crew. Trenches were being dug,
dirt transferred as well as removed,
and hands which failed to take up j
the shovel and the hoe, were guld-1
Ing wheelbarrows about the Job this1
afternoon.
Hands, which were eager this morn
ing, when the work bore the sppear
ances of a lark, were being taped
for blisters at noon but the work
went on, '
For, Principal C. O. Smith ex
plained, "they cut knowingly." Just
preceding their disappearance from
the school halls, he had at public
assembly explained that Washing
ton's birthday was no longer a holi
day. He had also made it plain to
students that "the legislature, not
local school officials, had brought
about the change."
Considering that there are 650 stu
dents In high school, the number
who observed "Honest George's"
birthday was small, which fact, how
ever, failed to Influence the weight
of ths penalty inflicted.
ervice
ARE CRACKED UP
IN COSTLY PLAN
'Legalized Murder' Charge
by Solon Starts House
Move to Put Pouches
Eack in Private Planes
(lly the Associated Press)
The army counted five dead, three
Injured, and nearly a dozen cracked
planes today as the toll of Its ex
cursion Into the nation's air mall
lanes.
All the dead were either flying the
mail or had been assigned to that
task when they plummeted out of
the sky.
The latest in the series of mishaps
caino In the midst of a blizzard near
Fremont, Ohio, Just before dawn to
day. Pilot Norman Burnett became
)oht and balled out, suffering a frac
tured leg.
Reluctant to speak until Investiga
tions had been completed, army men
tentatively laid some of the mishaps
to equipment failures.
l.egiillr.cri Murder
After Represent ntlve Hamilton Fish
of New York had called the govern
ment's assignment of service men to
air mall duty a form of "legalised
murder," a program brewed in Waah
lngton house circles today to put the
air mall pouches back Into private
hands.
The administration was silent, be
yond Postmaster General Farley's
statement of last night that cancel
lation of commercial air mall con
tracts was a move that would elim
inate "abuw- which grew out of un
fair and stilling competition."
Mflinps Listed
Here Is a terse summary of serious
mishaps that have occurred since the
army got Its assignment:
Weber Canyon, Utah Lleuts. Jean
D. Orcnier, Fort Crockett, Texas, and
Edwin D. White, March Field, Calif.,
crashed In a blinding snow storm
February 16. en route to air mall
duty. Both were killed.
Jerome, Idaho Lieut, James Y.
Eastman, March Field, Calif., crashed
In flames during a practice flight
February 16 preparatory to carrying
the mall. He waa killed.
Dcshlcr, Ohio Lieut. Durward O.
Lowry, Selfrldge Field. Mich., tried
to ball out whilo carrying the mall
from Chicago to Cleveland, February
22. His chute caught and he was
pulled to his death, ,
Dcnlson, Texas Lieut. Fred I. Pat
rick, assigned to air mall duty at
Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La., nos
ed Into a field when his motor cut
out, and was killed, February 22.
Criafield, Md. Lieut.. Harold Deltr,
suffered serious head Injuries aa his
plane dropped In a field February 22
near Marlon Station, Md. He was car
rying the mall from Newark, N. J
to Richmond, Va.
WILL
ROGER?
f$ays:
WASHINGTON', Feb. 22.
Flew in horc to see what the
boys who live 'by the aid of the
ballot box were (Joins. Busy
ns. usual, passing appropriation
bills liltn hot biscuits at a coun
try farm house.
Saw tbo senate voto full pay
back to (.'overnment employes,
so the oh! government is not
so touch to work for at that.
Many another fe'low would
like to be able to get what he
used to.
Went into the airmail invost-
I inHtion. Mr. Black had been
asking Mr. Drown questions
ince early Monday morning.
That's about the longest any
man has ever had to think up
answers, but t bey was both
doing it so friendly and nice
you would think they room to
qelher. Snowed here, but you can't
see the (,'iound for the lobby
ists. Nisht-timo is when you
find out the news, so 1 will
know more by tomorrow.
Vours,