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Sleet Storm Damage in Duluth,
Superior Placed at $1,000,000
Cities Devastated By Elements;
Utility Services Completely
Shut Out
St. Paul, March 14.~Duluth, Minn..
and Superior, Wisconsin. twin com-
munities of the head of the Great
Lakes, were cities of chaos last week,
sixteen hours after a devastating sleet
storm and gale swept the northwest.
Travelers trickling out of the strick-
en cries in creeping trai:~s, and the
feeble crackling of emergency radio
hookups revealed a confusion of trans-
portation and communication seldom
equaled in modern metropolitan dis-
tricts. Everything Tied Up
Sleet that snapped copper cables like
string and sheathed ~reets in inch-
thick ice paralyzed utilities serving
150,000 persons.
There were no electric lights, no
street cars. no schools. Coal compan-
lea were swamped by orders they
could not deliver. Many persons chop-
ped up telephone poles toppled across
streets by the weight of ice and used
them for fuel.
Damage at $1,Oe0~
Damage in the sister cities and the
rest of the stricken district of Minne-
sota, Wisconsin and Michigan was esti-
mated at close to $1,000,000. The storm
extended across Wisconsin into the iron
country of Michigan and south to
Rhinelander and Carlton. Conditions
to the west, in Minnesota and North
Dakota, were as bad, but absence of
large cities made them less spectac~alar.
Only one telegraph wire l~nked Fargo
and Bismarck with Minneapolis Wed-
nesday.
An amateur radio operator in Duluth
told another amateur in St. Paul that
"every tree and pole looks like it had
been dipped in molten glass.
"Scores of fires bro~e out because of
short circuiting of broken wires.
The Duluth Herald published on
schedule March 5, despite the lack of
telegraph facilities. Three times the
United Press broadcast news from sta-
tion KSTP in St. Paul and WCCO in
Minneapolis. The Herald, a United
Press client, picked up the broadcast in
stenographic notes.
"We came out with all editions,"
James Stuart, city editor, sent word to
the St. Paul Bureau of the United
Press. "We had nearly a complete tele-
graphic report."
NEW DEAL FAILURE questioned, to give any information re-
During the first few months of his garding the status or fate of his bill.
administration, Franklin Roosevelt era- It is true that the session is far from
phhasized the following objectives as adjournment day, but it is also true
e two most important in the New that unless something is done at an
Deal. early date this much.trumpeted legis-
1. A redistribution of wealth where- lation will continue to rest in peace.
bY the average citizen might have
greater buying power, thus enriching New Visitation
the entire country and breaking up the Father Coughlin is reported to be
concentration of wealth in the hands planning another barrage of telegrams
of a few. on Congress.
2. The attainment of Reconstruction This time the radio priest's influence
more than Recovery; in other words, will be exerted in behalf of two farm
rebuilding the economic structure so relief bills now gathering dust in com-
as to erase the periodic peaks and val- mRtee pigeon-holes.
leys of prosperity and depression. The measures are: the Frazier-Lemke
With Roosevelt now midway through mortgage refinancing bill; and the
his term, it is not unreasonable to make Thomas-Massingale agricultural cost
an appraisal of how far those ob- of production guarantee bill.
jectives have been attained to date. The administration is opposed to both
Almost simultaneously on reaching on the ground that they are inflation-
the midway milestone, the NRA Re- ary. If the White House has its way
search and Planning Division issued a they will never emerge from the Sen-
report which gives a general, and cer- ate and House Agricultural commit-
talnly not an anti-Administration tees to which they were referred.
answer to these questions. But it is possible that the adminls-
It published figures showing that al- tration will not have its way.
though payrolls in December 1934 The reason is the Farmers' Union,
were only about 60 per cent of the plus Father Coughiin.
total in 1926, dividends and interest The farm organization is sponsoring
were 150 per cent of their total in beth measures and has an aggressive
I926, lobby at work behind the scenes try-
the N'RA report, ing to force action. To aid it in blast-
re- ing open the legislative doors, the Un-
50 ion has sought and obtained the power-
PeSo cent higher than /n 1926, even ful support of Coughlin.
ugh the national income has de- He has agreed to campaign for the
nearly 40 percent since that bills in his Sunday afternoon radio
volume of production has de- talks. If it becomes necessary, he may
• :" one-third." call for another deluge of telegrams.
In other words, there has been "no When he asked for such a demonstra-
~: redistribution of wealth. On the con- tion against the World Court, the re-
trary---and to use blunt language---the sult~was 40,000 messages in 24 hours,
rich have been getting richer and the
poor have been getting poorer. Turning Tide
Other Government figures bear this This sentiment has now changed. It
out. has not changed beyond possible re-
The Internal Revenue figures on in- pair. But it has turned enough so that
come taxes show that during 1933, the the politicos on Capitol Hill, whose
first year of the New Deal, the"8.000 ears are constantly to the ground
people who had incomes of $50,000 or have detected the new note.
over increased their accumulation of Their policy is never to knock a win.
wealth by ten percent, while the top ning horse. But when things go wrong
2~ increased theirs by 16 percent, they get out the hammers.
Meart~hile the number of people Most unexplainable is the fact that
reporting incomes less than $5,000 things began to go wrong just after
dwindled_ In other words, the middle Roosevelt received one of the greatest
votes of confidence in the history of
class has begun to disintegrate.
During the same period the net in- the country.
come of corporations increased by 35 That vote, according to most polRi-
percent while the incon~ from wages cal observers, came from the left. But
and salaries shrank by ~ percent, since then Roosevelt's chief trend has
been to the right. Certainly the recon-
Better Basinmm structionlsts of the New Deal who so
FBuslness, unquestionably, is better, tenaciously~hung on the coat-tails of
ederal Reserve figures showing in- Big Business to prevent too great an
dustrial activity in December as 90 accumulation of profits and too fast a
percent of what it was during 1923- recovery without reform, are now out.
25, tell the story. Some were transferred, some were
These figures do not. however, tell fired; all are junked.
This, together with the increase in
the story of 20,000,000 people still on Big Business profits, is whet has played
relief-,a figure higher th~n it was dur- into the hands of Huey Long.
tng the early days of the New Deal.
Only one explanation for this pros- Huey has staged his appeal to the
fellows on relief, to the slowly disinte-
perous condition of industry alongside
widespread unemployment is possible grating middle-class. In the past they
--a greater use o~ mac~flne methods have been solid, conservative, some-
and a greater concentration of profits, times reactionary. But not now. As an
illustration here is the sentiment of a
typical, middle-class Texan as to how
the Roosevelt Program is going:
"Fine! Fine! And will continue as
One is the fading allegiance of many long as appropriations last. Then every
in the President's own party in the rat for his hole and Cod help the one
Senate. in last.
"For job.getting purposes we are still
The other is the increasing strength Democrats down here, otherwise we
of Hue=/ Long.
There was a time not long ago when are sorter 'Kingfishy.'"
That is the crossroad Roosevelt faces
Senator would have at the mid-milestone of his administra-
the President on any tion.
or issue other than veterans' corn-
which is always dynamite. SENATOR NYE
because Roosevelt was view- Oldsters on the staff of the Mllwau-
ed by millions as a Jehovah deliver- kee Journal tell a story about the Sen-
ing them from the Valley of the De- ator whose munitions investigation has
Dresslon. In him they placed implicit
faith. He could do no wrong, has been making headlines for months.
When Irwin R. Nye was on the
R. L P. Journal staff, he brought his son into
The noise and turmoil of battle hangs the office one day to see the wheels
low over Capitol Hill, but in one sector go round. Next day friends compll-
there is the quiet of the tomb. mented him on what a fine 1ookin$
Those Administration bills to take boy he had.
postmasterships out of politics and put Father Nye shook his head.
them under Civil Service--ln 19,37, a~. "I don't know what to make of
the next elections---have vanished Gerald. He shows no bent for any-
horizon, thing. Frankly, I don't know what he'll
ever do with himself."
Jimmie Walker Is
GOES A'GUNNING !
Above are shown the principals of a three-cornered fight which ~s e~pected to
develop from the radio attack made by General Hugh S. Johuson on Senator
Huey Long, and Father Charles Coughlin. General Johnson is shown above
hammering out his words while Father Coughlin and the Kingfish (right) are
shown below.
Hugh Johnson Blasts Hide
From Long and Coughlin;
Battle of Words Eminent
Radio Priest and Kingfish Called
"Pied-Pipers" By Former
NRA Chief
Washington, M a r c h 14.--Senator
HueY P. Long's scoffing challenge to
the New Deal drew threats of early
reprisals from the high administration
command today.
Gem Hugh S. Johnson speeded to-
ward a conclusion of some kind Long's
contest wRh the administration when
he attacked the anti-new deal coali-
tion in which the Kingfish and Father
Charles E. Coughlin, radio priest, are
joined,
$ohnsen as Clmm~en .
There was speculation today whe-
ther Johnson might be drafted for ac-
tive service in defense of the New
Deal. But the threat of an administra-
tion counter offensive against the sena-
tor did not suggest debate would be
the weapon. V/nether the continuing
search of Long's income tax records
has yielded damaging evidence has not
been hinted. If so, government account-
ants were a long time finding it. The
hunt began in 1932.
But whether on his own or for the
~ministration, it is probable that John-
son will stay in the fight he began last
week by ealllng the priest and the sen-
ator demigogs and pied pipers of poli-
tics who would tootle unhappy, unwary
millions to an economic precipice.
Senate Needs Proteetion
Senate democratic leaders need aid
in their contest with the Kingfish.
However he may fare in his radio ex-
change with General Johnson, Long
has demonstrated to Senate Demo-
cratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson' that
he is a ruthless debater and a danger-
Ous nlan.
Long dipped last week into the po-
litical, personal and business life of
the senate leader and left Robinson's
nerves raw and salted. He bared the
confidences of political conference. He
told of public utility clients served by
Robinson's Arkansas law firm before
the senator was persuaded--after pre-
vious publicity~to resign from b-is
legal partnership.
The Kingfish sent Senator Bennett
Champ Clark, D., Me., gulping to his
seat by the expedient of treating him
like a mischievous child.
Long sneered at President Roose-
velt and spattered the administration"
with abuse. He said the new deal was
composed of a mixture of Farleyism,
~ruchism and Johnsonlsm.
No Gentleman
The Senate is not accustomed to such
~eapons in debate. Senator Joshiah
W. Bailey, D., N. C., gave Long the
lie, although in parliamentary langu-
age, Robinson told him he was no gen-
Ueman but an ignorant, arrogant ego-
maniac--a madman.
Long did not wither. Bailey's em-
phatic remark that he would not accept
any statement of his as the truth did
fluster the Kingfish. But Capitol Hill
believes only Johnson's words raised
a blister on Long's skin. Senate demo-
crats have failed so far to persuade
Senator Theodore G. Bribe. D., Miss..
to meet Long with his own weapons in
the senate.
Has Started Something
Persons who know Johnson well
do not believe he will permit the de-
bate to end now nor that he challeng-
ed Long end Father Coughlin without
knowing he was beginning a fight
which would not be over in a day or a
week. There are rumors--no more---
that Johnson's denunciation of the
ten in the senate could handle Long in
rough and tumble debate. They are:
Senators Walter F. George, D., Ga., M.
M. Logan, D., Ky.; George W. Norris.
R., Neb.; and Hiram W. Johnson. R.,
Calif. The runners up are Bailey, Sen-
ator Pat McCarran, D., Nee., and Bilbo.
Nye is Game Also
Long is not the only senate ally of
Father Coughlin. Several have cooper-
ated with him on currency problems.
And while Long and Robinson were
shouting at each other Tuesday, Sena-
tor Gerald P. Nye, R.. N. D., placed
before the senate Father Coughlin's
bank bill to which Johnson made par-
ticular objection.
The new deal has pending a bill to
create a central bank and make the
president master of it. The priest's bill
would create a banking electoral col-
lege, one elector from each state, and
these 48 representatives would pick the
board which would guide national
credit policies.
Havana Situation
Aggravated by
Treasury Strike
Havana, March 14.~Tre asur y
department employes' strike precipitat-
ed a situation threatening to bring
Cuba's nineteen months' political tur-
moil to a bloody climax.
Acting with almost unlimited emerg-
ency power, the government decided
on stern supressmn of disorders, fear-
ing the strike might become general.
Central areas were guarded and tight
censorship was clamped on newspapers.
WRONG CONFERENCE
A subject close to the heart of con-
servation-minded Secretary Harold
Ickes is the waste of the country's nat-
ural gas and oil resources.
At his largely-attended press con-
ference the other day he spoke at
Britain Answers Nazi Threat
With Plans for Greater
M:(itarism in Germany Blamed
for England's Move; Plan 28
New Ships
London, March 14.--Naval esti
mates calling for $292,000,000 comprised
Great Britain's response last week to
German anger over charges that Ger-
many's military spirit forced Britain
to rearm.
The estimates were issued just 24
hours after Adolf Hitler, on the plea
of a cold, cancelled a visit from Sir
John Simon, foreign minister.
Diplomatic Cold
Belief here that the cold was a dip-
lomatic one was strengthened by bitter
omments in the closely controlled Ger-
man newspapers over the charges of
Nazi militaristic sentiment.
The estimates provide for a little
¢
more than a 2,000 man increase
al personnel, which this year
338.
Sir Bolton Eyers-Monsell,
of the Admiralty, in issuing
mates pointed out
new construction continues to
ed under the London Naval
until December 31, 1936.
Must Rebuild Navy
Last week's White Paper,
ed German anger, said that
must rebuild its capital
ships, which are covered
ington Treaty, also expiring at 1
of 1936.
Strong opposition to the
mates, and to the army and
estimates which preceded
expected in a House of
bate on the White Paper
next Monday.
HOUR A DAY G
• 1Nt IW l~o#&m41~4~p~ I
When Kay Rhea's father is bad-
ly injured in a mine eave-in, she
postpones her prospective mar-
riage to Jimmy Craig and goes to
the city to seek work." Jimmy fol-
lows her but they have a bitter
quarrel. A friend, Jane Blair,
gets Kay a job as model for an
artist, Anion Gourand, who is
about to start work on what he
hopes will be his masterpiece. One
day, Jimmy comes to the studio
and when he sees the picture,
showing Kay in scanty attire, he
furiously slashes it. Anton is in
despair. A few minutes later, Kay
receives a wire that her father is
dying, and Anton, without know-
ing what is in the wire, is so struck
by her look of anguish that he
forces her to pose. She faints and
he bends over her in remorse,
murmuring enSearments, while
Jane, who is in love with Anten,
looks on.
CHAPTER XVlI
So it was to be like that: Kay and
IAnton. Jane felt suddenly dizzy.
Mechanically, she found smelling salts.
I She filled a basin with cold water,
then returned to the studio.
Kay came slowly out of her faint.
She was conscious that Jane was bend-
ing over her, bathing her forehead.
"What happened?" she thought dizzily,
as she obeyed Jane's command to "take
a smell of this."
Memory surged back. The ruined
picture .... Jimmy's words, "I never
want to see her again!" . .. Anton and
Jimmy glaring at each other... Jim-
my going away. Going out of her life.
• . . The wire!
Kay struggled to unsteady feet.
"Janet" she cried, "I dreamed it,
didn't I? About the wire. Daddy
isn't--Jane, it isn't true, is it?" Jane did not reply.
Kay took a few faltering steps to-
ward Anton.
"It isn't true, is it, Anion?~
Anton put his arm about her. "Be
brave, Kay dear. You received the
wire. But it might not be as bad as it
seems. And, Kay dear, I'm so terribly
sorry I made you pose like that. I
didn't realize what I was doing."
So it was true! The wire had been
real. Kay swayed,
Anton's arm tightened about her,
"Now don't you worry.. I'll see that
you get to Pagosa as quickly as pos-
sible. I'll charter a plane. Do you
feel able to leave in an hour?"
"Oh, can I do that?" Still dizzy from
her faint, her mind was in turmoil.
Irrelevantly, she thought of Anton's
ruined picture. "Your picture," she
said in a tired voice. "We've got to
start all over."
Anton turned to regard his new
@ork. "If I send anything, it will be
this new one. I can finish that when
I get back."
Get back?" Kay queried.
"From Pagosa, Anton answered.
"I'm going with you, Kay. You need
some one to take care of you."
length on the matter, cited an instance Jane winced, but firmly suppr~ed
of how a valuable gas well in Ohio had ~,,~ ~,~;..~
been ignited through the carelessness "'~,'L~'~'~ .~ ~r,v"
of "some pseudo-geologist or engineer, go with'you-bu~'I'can't she said. "i'd
presumably because it looked pretty at ~MOX now.';' get away from
night."
except a low murmur of voices
the kitchen.
"Wait here," Kay whispered.
be right back."
She tiptoed back to the
mother, Avril, and a short
man in nurse's uniform were
talking together. Her little
Teddy was seated in a corner
in a book.
"I'm home, Mother. I~"
Kay was smothered in a
hugs as her mother and
Teddy surrounded her.
"Kay . . ." Her mother did
to be able to say anything else.
was utter weariness in her
"Daddy," entreated Kay, "is
"A little better," the
cheerily. "'I'm Miss
'~rhen he isn't..." Kay's
ed off.
"Things looked bad for a
the nurse answered, "but he
Now the doctor thinks, if we
him to the city and put
care of Dr. Sims, the spine
he will have a good chance to
after an operation.
"Kay, we must do that,"
mother. "We've got to get the
some way. Father must have
to get well."
"Certainly he must." Anton
)eared in the doorway. His
were calmly cheerful.
After introductions, Miss
turned to Anton and spoke
"I believe if we can get Mr.
Dr. Sims at once, it will mean
health to him. But time means
thing in this ease."
'~z~ay and I came by
plane," Anton responded.
Mr. Rhea be sent back in it?
accompany him. I'll bring the
end come by train."
Miss Mercer's twinkling eyes
ped. 'What would be fine!
er we can make arrangements,
ter. I'il go now and telephone
tor. He'll come right out, end
can talk it over."
After the nurse had left the
Mrs. Rhea spoke haltingly: "But
this coat--that is, I have
available cash. If we could
"Please, Mrs. Rhea," Anton
rupted gravely, "don't'
that. l'll take care of the
side."
Miss Mercer re-entered the
'q'he doctor thinks you and I
ter come to his office," she
Anton, adjusting her hat,
Mr. Gourand."
After a few moments at her
bedside, Kay went to the large
bedroom that had belonged to
Avril ever since she could
A snap-shot of Jimmy was
in one corner of the dresser
In the first drawer she opened,
was a package of valentines,
pressed flowers. Mementoes of
school days. Kay slipped
shot under the ribbon that
package and firmly clesed the
She must forget Jimmy.
mattered now but her father.
must get him to that specialist.
A sinking feeling clutched her;
could they pay for a
An hour later, Anton and Kay ices. It would cost hundreds
"Could that have been the reason mounted +s,, ~o,~* t, +h~ ~oh;n ,~ ~ lars. And they did not
why all those little pigs were slaught-,h..-~ ~ .... ~,,...- .... y-. v. -
• " - 9, ...... ~ u~u gray plane, its engine was money.
erea mat year.' interjected a repor~er.!throbbin~ Its silver win~s ~uivered No moneyl Unless--unless
" " " e on e,. --o- -~ ,
Say shot back Ickers ar y
, , as though impatient to be off. [might lend them some. What
sure you know what conference you
• ~ I Then they were soaring through the lhe had said about taking care
are attending ~
...... • ", ...... little~ sky toward Pagosa. I financial side. Yes, Anton wc
~ur~ me smugnter oz me [
: ' All the way, Anton kept up a lively lit. And she would not hesitate
pigs" -#as conducted by the AAA last stream of conversation. He was watch- him when her father's
spring as part of its corn-hog crop con-ful of Kay's comfort, anxious that she on it. Anton was so good--so
trol program.
@ @ ~be as cheerful as possible, A wave of Kay bathed, and put on fresh
gratitude swept over her. It was good She dusted powder
CHICAGO MAYOR ( to have some one to ean on. Anton face and brushed
--~ had been such a good friend, He had curls.
i given her a job when she needed it so There was a knock at the
.desperately. And now he was corn- timid, hesitant knock. Kay
ing with her to Pagosa. answer it.
"Anton," she murmured. "I don't "Why, Avril." she laughed,
know what I would do without you." when do you have to knock
His hand reached out for hers. "Kay, into your own room?"
dearest," he said huskily, "it makes Avril did not reply. She
me happy to do things for you." slowly and closed the door.
Embarrassed, Kay drew her hand "Avril," Kay began, "do you
away. if Daddy can be taken to that
"You and Jane." she contintled, "are he will get well?'°
so good to me. Anion, don't you think "I don't know," Avril
Jane is the sweetest glrl in the world?" lessly.
"Jane is sweet," Anton agreed. But Kay continued earnestly.
not the sweetest girl in the word. Kay. suppose you and Teddy,
Not the sweetest." here with some friends while
Kay locked out the small window, goes with Daddy? You don't
~Why couldn't Jimmy b~ by her side leave business school, do you?
now? But she must not think of Jim. soon be through. Then you can
i my. Anion was with her. Anton, who It's going to take lots of moneY
had proved to be far more loyal than pay Mr. Gourand. You
Jimmy. Jimmy never wanted to see to borrow the money
l her again. He had said so, Jimmy you'll help, won't you?
didn't care. Avril had thrown herself
I She placed her trembling hand back lbed and was crying wildly.
Edward J. Kelly, who won the demo- tin Anton's and left it there until the I "Oh, Kay, [ haven't any
cratic nomination for Mayor of Chi-lplana taxied down the green field on,I--"
cage to succeed himself, He set a demo- ~the outskirts of Pago~ Sprin~. ] Kay ran o Cer and knelt '
erotic record with 480,000 votes out ofI Is'rater. ~'
a party vote of 540,000. Mayor KellyI CHAPTER XVIII [ "What is it, honey?" she
There was no sound in the ltttle l"Tell si~ter."
to the slain Mayor A. Rhea home as Kay and Anto~ entm.ed,~ (To be eauttnue~D