Yale's proudest son, oldtime Pulp Hero Frank Merriwell, 60, now being revived by his creator, "Burt L. Standish" (Gilbert Patten, who last week went to Camden, Me. to finish The Return of Frank Merriwell), has become a small-town editor (Millville, U. S. A.), dauntlessly crusades against vice, still fixes all comers with "a calm and steady gaze."

Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Austrian Chancellor murdered in Vienna during the Nazi Putsch of July 1934, prepared to leave her cottage at Llandrindod Wells in Wales, seek refuge in Canada with her children, Eva, 10, and Rudi, 8.

Said Henry Ford to an interviewer: "If it became necessary, Ford Motor Co. could, with the counsel of men like Lindbergh and Rickenbacker, under our own supervision and without meddling by Government agencies, swing into production of 1,000 airplanes a day." Said William Knudsen, asked whether General Motors could do it too: "I guess we could if we laid plans for it."

Convicted of using the mails to defraud the State of $31,000 was Louisiana's ex-Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), last of the big Longsters.

Assigned to the Twentieth Century-Fox dressing room lately occupied by Cinema Veteran Shirley Temple, who retired from the screen (TIME, May 20), Actor John Barrymore cast a recognizant eye at pink elephants on the wall, beamed: "I'm delighted." Three days later, unnerved, he moved to the men's dormitory.

To stamp out "fifth-column stuff" among the nation's tramps, Jeff Davis ("King of the Hobos") announced the formation of a hobo constabulary to be known as Jungle Bulls,* under the command of famed gate-crasher "One Eye" Connolly. Said King Davis: "Hobos are the best friends this country has. They're loyal."

With shapely Drum Majorette Yvonne Stone and stately Pennsylvania R. R.

President Martin Withington Clement, 58, stout Union Pacific President William Martin Jeffers, 64, in Omaha celebrated 50 years working on the railroad (see cut).

New-Worldly-wise German officials in Argentina cabled to Berlin to suggest that troops in Nazi-occupied Boulogne lay a wreath on the house at 105 Grand Rue, where South American Liberator General Jose de San Martin (who led 4,000 men across the Andes in 1817, freed Chile, Peru and Argentina from Spanish rule) died penniless in 1850.

Out of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, after serving one year of a 15-month sentence for income-tax evasion, shuffled fleshy Tom Pendergast, fallen boss of Kansas City, Mo. Not clear of the law by a long shot, he was instantly put under five-year probation (condition: no politics), arraigned on State charges of bribing a public official, released in $3,000 bail.

The offer of $1,000,000, put up by Carnegie President Samuel Harden Church for the kidnapping of Adolf Hitler (TIME, May 13) by May 31, expired.

After a three months' investigation of his affairs, a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Cinema Tycoon Joseph M. Schenck on 24 counts, charged him with defrauding the Government of $400,000 back taxes, of conspiracy, perjury, and making false statements to a U. S. investigator. Possible fine: $160,000. Possible sentence: 167 years.

-Jungles are hobo camps (usually near railroad yards); bulls, detectives.

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