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W' THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938 m New* Review of Current Event* NAVY EXPANSION IS PUSHED Congress Gets Busy with President's Defense Program... Complaints of "Little Business" Are Heard U/* J&ickajutr SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’! • Western Newspaper Union. Rush Defense Plan Bill L EADERS in congress lost no time in carrying forward the national defense program which President Roosevelt had offered in a special message. Legislation to au thorize the expendi ture of $800,000,000 in naval construc tion was introduced immediately in both the house and sen ate, and steps were taken to provide the additional require ments of the army. It was predicted the C**! Vinson house would pass the expansion bill by the middle of February. Chairman Ca r l Vinson of Georgia called together his house naval af fairs committee and began hearings on the measure, certain that it would be reported favorably with little delay. The President in his message rec ommended: That the present naval building program be increased 20 per cent. That congress authorize two ad ditional battleships and two cruisers during 1938. That congress authorize $8,800,000 for additional anti-aircraft equip ment. That congress provide for better establishment of an eulisted reserve for the army. That congress legislate to prevent profiteering in war-time and to equalize the burdens of possible war. Among his recommendations the President also included appropria tions for experimental smaller ves sels; for army ammunition and for the manufacture of army equip ment. Opposition to the bill in the house was expected to come from certain members from the middle western states. Tinkham of Massachusetts also didn’t like the program, saying it was one of offense, not defense, and that the President was prepar ing to get the United States into the League of Nations. Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Frazier of North Dakota de manded that Mr. Roosevelt make public the foreign policy he expects to follow behind increased arma ments. —¥— New Fleet Commander A dmiral claude Charles BLOCH, new commander of the United States fleet, assumed his duties at San Pedro, Calif., replac ing Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. In the colorful ceremonies Admiral Bloch made a brief address, saying: “I wish to emphasize to the of ficers and men of the fleet that our only justification for being is to be ready to fight. “We have fine ships and, knowing you men as I do, I know that you will continue your hard work and unselfish devotion to duty so that our navy always will be ready and second to none.” —¥— U.S. Avoids Entanglement R epresentatives of Great Britain, France and Russia in the League of Nations council meet ing in Geneva were ready to adopt a resolution to aid China by send ing her war munitions, but awaited the co-operation of the United States. The scheme was proposed to Washington informally, and was as informally rejected after Presi dent Roosevelt had conferred with Secretary Hull and others. Mr. Hull indicated our policy would not be changed and that America would take no leadership in aiding China. Turn of Little Business /CALLED to Washington from all parts of the country by Secre tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, some 500 representatives of “little business’’ undertook to formulate a re covery program for submission to Pres ident Roosevelt. Mr. Roper and his as sistant, Ernest Draper, took part in the preliminary dis cussions, and since the President could not receive all of them a small com mittee was named to take their pro posals to the White House. According to reports^ from the capital, the President desires legis lation for federal financing of small industries to stimulate business. This would require the creation of a new government agency unless the power were granted to the Re construction Finance corporation. Threo chief complaints of the small business men are: The undivided profits tax has pre vented them from accumulating a “rainy day” surplus. The capital gains and losses tax has frozen capital and prevented the encouragement of new enter prises. Monopolistic practices are pre- Wm Secretary Boper S WEEK * ; Hi **>» Admiral Claude Charles Bloch, shown above, has assumed com mand of the United States fleet, succeeding Admiral Hepburn. The transfer was made at San Pedro, Calif. senting increasing hazards to their successful operations. Congress and the administration already are busy with steps to cor rect these alleged abuses. Big Business Scared Again M EANWHILE big business—and the country generally—was discussing with considerable appre hension the declaration by the Pres ident that industry must reduce prices and at the same time keep wages up. An immediate result was the crash of prices on the stock exchanges, the decline reaching as high as 7% points. Commodities declined in sympathy with stocks. “If industries reduce wages this winter and spring,” the President said at his press conference, “they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying—they will be fostering a downward spiral and they will make it necessary for their government to consider other means of creating purchasing pow er.” Many congressmen. Democrats as well as Republicans, took issue with Mr. Roosevelts logic and eco nomics, pointing out that industries lack the resources to keep wages up on a falling market because their funds have been depleted by the un» distributed profits tax. —♦— Row Over Coal Prices TV/flNIMUM prices for coal and marketing regulations fixed by the national bituminous coal com mission have aroused a storm of complaints. Resentment was espe cially strong in Illinois, which, though ranking third among soft coal producing states, is not repre sented on the commission. Six coal companies started court action in Chicago to restrain en forcement of the price schedule, and Chicago itself contemplated similar action. The cities of Rochester, N. Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; and St. Louis, Mo., complained of high and unfair coal rates and appealed to the courts to suspend the commission’s orders. Democrat in Stiewer's Seat G OV. CHARLES MARTIN of Ore gon appointed Alfred Even Reames of Salem to serve out the unexpired 11 months of the term of Sen. Frederick Stiewer, who re signed to enter private law prac tice. Mr. Reames, a lawyer sixty- seven years old, thus becomes the first Democratic senator from Ore gon since 1921. He is chairman of the executive committee of the Democratic state central commit tee. He will not seek to succeed himself in the senate. John Roosevelt Wedding Plan J OHN ROOSEVELT, youngest son of the President, and Anne Lind say Clark are to be married in Nahant, Mass., on June 18. The groom’s brother Franklin will be his best man. Rev. Endicott Pea body, headmaster of Groton school, who has officiated at the weddings of all the President’s sons as well as that of the bride’s parents, and Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Epis copal bishop of Massachusetts, will officiate. Following a six weeks’ honeymoon the couple will live in a Brookline apartment, as young Roosevelt ex pects to work in a Boston advertis ing agency. I Inion Controls Canned Music T HE American Federation of Mu sicians will control the output of canned music _(music recorded by mechanical means for broadcast) in nearly 589 radio stations in the country in a new contract between the musicians and the principal re cording companies, the chain radio broadcasting companies, and the in dependent affiliates. May Split Labor Vote W ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, threatened to split organized labor’s vote in the 1938 congression al elections by asking for the with drawal of all federation support for labor’s Non-Partisan league. Charging that the league was “a .ventriloquist’s dummy for the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization,” Green recommended that the fed eration’s executive council order all affiliates to withdraw and cease financial contributions. Such action, it was believed, may effectively split labor’s vote in the 1938 elections, when all congress men, 32 senators and many state officials face re-election campaigns. In Washington John L. Lewis de clared that thousands of workers now face desperate need, and even starvation, despite the President’s promise to let no willing worker starve. In a letter urging all affiliates of his Committee for Industrial Or ganization to notify congress that immediate action is needed to pro vide 3,000,000 work relief jobs for the unemployed, Lewis added: “The administration has taken upon it self this obligation, and the workers of America expect it to fulfill its promise.” Nazis Extol Hitler N AZI Germany celebrated the fifth anniversary of Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s rule with parades, concerts and orations. Hitler’s major accomplishments were described as: Elimination of unemployment, abolition of Ver sailles Treaty restrictions, putting Germany in a position to drive Jews out of the economic as well as so cial and political life, suppression of opposition political parties, and breaking Germany’s isolation by al liances with Italy and Japan and friendship with Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Hungary. Still facing the Nazi regime are the questions of possible colonial ex pansion, improvement of foreign re lations and reaching peaceful rela tions with the Catholic and Protes tant Confessional churches. Jackson Gets Reed's Place R OBERT H. JACKSON, assistant attorney general, was nominat ed by the President to be solicitor general of the United States. He succeeds Stanley Reed, whose ap pointment to the Supreme court was confirmed by the senate. Jackson has been much in the headlines lately because of his speeches at tacking business and his avowed in tention to seek the governorship of New York. President's Birthday PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was * fifty-six years old on Sunday, January 30. He and Mrs. Roosevelt decided to have the birthday dinner the evening before, and twenty guests were invited, among them being members of the “Cuff Link club,’’wearing gold cuff links which Mr. Roosevelt gave them to com memorate their experiences in vice presidential and presidential cam paigns, as well as in the days when he was assistant secretary of the navy. After the dinner Mr. Roosevelt made a brief radio address in con nection with the birthday balls be ing given all over the nation to raise funds to combat infantile paralysis. Niagara Bridge Falls 'T'HE Falls View bridge at Ni- -*• agara falls, from which many thousands of honeymooners have looked at the cataract, was crushed by a terrific ice jam in the river and fell into the gorge in a great mass of twisted steel. The bridge had been closed to traffic a few hours earlier, so there was no loss of life. —k— Younger Service Chiefs R ear admiral wilson BROWN, former naval aide to the President and not yet fifty-six years old, has been named head of the naval academy at Annapolis, to succeed Admiral D. F. Sellers. Mr. Roosevelt said the army and navy, at his suggestion, had adopted a policy of assigning younger of ficers as superintendents of the mil itary and naval academies. Brig. Gen. Jay L. Benedict, fifty-six, is slated to take command at West Point in place of Maj. Gen. W. D. Connor, who retires February 28. Australia Celebrates W ITH elaborate ceremonies the Commonwealth of Australia began a three-months’ celebration of its one hundred fiftieth birthday as a white settlement. The first fetes were in Sydney, where Capt. Arthur Phillip landed on January 26, 1788, with soldiers and 800 Brit ish convict settlers. Representing the United States in the water pageants were the cruisers Mem phis, Trenton and Milwaukee. —k— ' vnch Bill Doomed F iFTY-ONE senators voted against a motion to invoke the cloture rule for the purpose of choking off the filibuster against the anti-lynch ing bill, and the measure which the southerners were fighting so deter minedly was thus doomed to failure. Majority Leader Alben W. Bark ley of Kentucky, who had supported the bill and voted for cloture, im mediately served notice that the senate had made it impossible for the bill to be passed and that it must be displaced promptly by oth er legislation. (j&howL ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “Two Terrible Deaths** By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello, everybody: This is the story of two adventures rolled into one—the tale of a couple of lads who were facing not one death, but two— and right smack up against the task of making a choice between them. And it all came about over a girl who didn’t even appre ciate the trouble those two lads went to. It’s a yarn that packs a couple of surprises—so watch out for them. James F. Kilcullen of Nutley, N. J., is today’s Distinguished Ad venturer, and the bird who tells this tory. The tale takes us back to June, 1917, when Jim was working as a weaver in a cotton mill in New Orleans, La. That was in the early days of our participation in the World war, if you’ll remember, and there was a lot of excitement in the mill among the men who were waiting for their numbers to be drawn by the Draft board. Jim, himself, was getting pretty Impatient with the Draft board. Jim wanted to enlist right away, and there was only one reason he didn’t. He bad a pal—a young lad of eighteen named Davie—and the pair of them had been buddies for a long time. Jim didn’t want to enlist unless Davie went with him, and Davie had a particular reason for not wanting to enlist. They Went to See Davie’s Girl. Davie’s reason was that he wanted to see his girl before he went to war. The girl lived in a little town in Texas, more than three-hundred miles away, and neither Jim nor Davie had enough money to pay the railroad fare. But at last Jim had an idea. He told Davie he’d prob ably be drafted soon, anyway, and if he wanted to see his girl now was the time to do it. And since he didn’t have railroad fare, he’d just have to beat his way on the baggage. Davie’s answer to that was that he’d go if Jim would go with him. And that’s how those tWo lads came to start on the trip that came literally within an inch of being the death of both of them. They told their boss, Mr. Rickman, just what they intended to do. Rickman tried to make them see what a risk they were taking. “But when a chap’s in love,” says Jim, “he sees no danger. We took a ferryboat across the river to a town on the other side, got a time table at the railroad station and picked the fastest train on the Texas St r 1 % w, I The Railway Messenger Was Shooting to Kill. Pacific. It was a hot-shot to Dallas—solid Pullman except for two mail cars on the front end. It was about eight o'clock of a Saturday night when the train pulled into the station, and as it started to pull out we swung onto the bumpers, between the two mail cars.” The train started rolling, and, boy, how she rolled! Jim says she was hitting a sixty-five mile clip a good part of the time. The hours passed. The train listed and swayed. The two lads knew that to fall asleep or to lose their grip on the hand bars meant instant death, but that didn’t bother them too much. They were being plenty careful. It was a tough job, too, hanging on to that swaying train all night long. But, on the other hand, they were making time—clipping off the miles at a rapid rate and that cheered them up considerably. Messenger Began Shooting at Them. As day began to break they had crossed the state line and were well into Texas. A few more hours and their trip would be over. “We were in good spirits,” Jim said, “and we began congratulating our- selvs on our good luck in not having been caught by the train crew or the railroad police. And just then the train began going around a horseshoe turn.” A horseshoe is supposed to be good luck, but that horseshoe turn was bad luck for Jim and Davie. As the train went around the bend they saw a porter standing in the vestibule of the rear Pullman—and that porter saw them. He took one look at them and disappeared from sight. And the next thing those two lads knew, there was a railway messenger standing in the vestibule they stood on, TURNING LOOSE ON THEM WITH A .45 AUTOMATIC! That railway messenger didn’t have any heart. .Without the slightest warning he started blasting away at them through the canvas storm hood. “He was shooting to kill,” Jim says, “and four lead slugs went through the tail of my coat. Davie, on the other bumper, turned white as chalk. The messenger kept • shooting and yelling to us to get off. But the train was out of the curve now and picking up speed. We couldn’t jump off without getting killed.” Escaped With Only Scratches. Jim saw Davie look first at the storm hood through which the shots were coming, and then at the ground speeding past below. And then, all of a sudden, Davie fell at Jim’s feet in a dead faint. By that time the messenger in the vestibule had stopped firing. “Believe me or not,” says Jim, “I had one heck of a time holding Davie to keep him from falling off. I was clutching him with one hand and grasping the hand bar with the other. Either God was with us, or the railroad messenger gave a signal, but in a few minutes the train began to slow down. It slowed until it was crawling along at about ten miles an hour, and then, with all the strength I had in me I picked Davie up and heaved him off. Then I followed.” Those lads had had enough of baggage car riding. Neither of them was hurt except for a few scratches. They walked to the nearest town and wired for money to go on as passengers. When they arrived at the town where Davie’s girl lived, Davie was a happy boy. “But not for long,” says Jim. “To his surprise, and mine, this ‘best girl,’ as he called her, had been married for months. He took it pretty hard, and inside of three hours he was on a train back to New Orleans.” But Jim didn’t go back with him. And he didn’t see Davie again until December, 1931. Then Jim was in New Orleans and went to visit him. Davie had forgotten all about that “best girl.” He was married and had a bunch of kids—and he had a job as a RAILWAY MESSENGER! And I wonder if Davie ever cuts loose with his gun at the hoboes riding on the baggage cars. Copyright.—WNU Service. Suitors Must Stand Pain Suitors in the Egyptian Sudan must be able to “take it" if they would win the hand of a Sudanese maiden. The ability to stand severe pain is the first prerequisite in be coming eligible as a husband. When a girl is unable to choose be tween two men she ties a sword to each of her wrists, sits between the men and brings the sharp sword points slowly down on their thighs. The man who can endure the most pain wins the girL Wedding Ring Customs There are many customs connect ed with the wedding ring among different peoples of the world, yet it would seem that all the wedding ring ideas had a common origin, which is shrouded in mystery. Among the Zulus there is a custom, calle Khehla, of wearing a ring on the head. It is made of polished wax and worked in with the hair. As soon as a Zulu marries he wears the ring and he discards it only for a time if one of his wives dies. Historic axes By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ® Western Newspaper Union. Anti-Brassiere Campaign W HEN the late Halbert L. Hoard, editor of the Jefferson County Union, approached some of his friends in Fort Atkinson, Wis., with a request that they sign a pe tition which he had prepared, they didn’t hesitate. They knew his pa per advocated some very good things and they were willing to help “Bert” along. What they had signed was this: The undersigned note with alarm the Increase in divorces since the nineteenth amendment, the woman suffrage law. We note many more women wearing breeches than before. We can stand that, but this new fad — slab-sided dresses, flat in front—showing women in the fashion pictures as flat-chested as man, we regard with jealous eyes as an Infringement . . . We ask that the congress of the United States do its utmost to break down these brassieres as an evil that menaces the future well being of society. They very soon realized that they had been a little hasty. Their wom enfolk told them they "ought to be ashamed” and that they “should mind their own business.” But a welfare league in a city nearby took the matter seriously and passed a resolution supporting the campaign. Then an official of the state board of health issued a statement say ing that brassieres caused rickets in babies. Whereupon Mr. Hoard wrote an editorial in which he said: There are cow-milk-fed babies right in this city that are gasping for breath, the doctor at his wit’s end to nourish them properly. They could live on monkey’s milk, because monkeys are related, but there are no monkeys around except with the deadly brassieres and few of those are giving milk. Before the uproar over this mat ter died down, Halbert Hoard was known from coast to coast as the valiant crusader against the “dead ly brassiere”—all because of a hoax which some of his obliging friends helped perpetrate. • • • Lord Kitchener's Body TN AUGUST, 1926, all of England was thriUed by an announcement which indicated that one of the mys teries of the World war had at last been solved. This was the mystery surrounding the death of Lord Kitchener, first commander of the British forces in France. A signed article by “Frank Power” which appeared in the London Referee de clared that his body had been dis covered in a graveyard in Norway. Kitchener had been lost at sea in May, 1916, when the ship, taking him to Russia on a secret mission, had disappeared and there had been all sorts of rumors about the case. An especially ug'y one was that the government, which had wanted to get rid of Kitchener but didn’t dare remove him from office because of his great popularity with the masses, had been sent on what it knew would be a fatal trip. “Power” announced that he was bringing the body back to London. When he arrived there with a cof fin, it was immediately seized by the police. When it was opened in the presence of high government officials, it was discovered that the coffin was not only empty, but that it hnd never held a body. The whole affair was a publicity stunt for a new moving picture on ths life of Kitchener in which “Pow er,” whose real name was Arthur Vectis Freeman, and others were interested. Instead of profiting by it as they had hoped, a government investigation which was immediate ly launched and popular indigna tion over the hoax, did them con siderable damage and discouraged further publicity stunts of that kind. • • • “Rare Old” Newspapers I F, WHILE going through an old trunk in the attic, you find a copy of the Ulster County Gazette, published in Kingston, N. Y., in 1800 and containing an account of the death of George Washington, don’t get excited and hurry away to tell the local newspaper publish er about your “discovery.” The chances are about 999,999 out of 1,000,000 that it’s a “facsimile copy” of the Gazette of that date and thousands of them have been reprinted and distributed as souve nirs. It was first done back in 1826 in celebration of the fiftieth anniver sary of the Declaration of Independ ence but most of them were pro duced for the Philadelphia centen nial in 1876. Naturally, in the course of time the paper becomes aged and yellow and brittle. So in that respect it’s “old.” But it’s neither rare nor valuable, unless you can find some one who is buying “fake antiques. Even then he won’t give you much for it. The only known “genuine” copy of this famous paper is now in the Library of Congress. All of the thousands of others which bob up from time to time are reprints. An other “original” may be found some time. But it’s very, very doubtful! CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BABY CHICKS Tennessee Chieks—From fine blood tested flocks—all breeds. Write for catalog, and price list. Janes Hateherr, Gallatin, Tsnn. TIPS,, (jrardeners Selecting Garden Flowers A MONG the easiest flowers to grow are nasturtium, alyssum and California poppy. Try them if you have not had much flower- growing experience. If you want brilliant color in your garden with a minimum of effort, grow petunia and zinnia. They require a bit of care early in the season, but when estab lished they grow luxuriantly, and nothing provides more color. Use portulaca for colorful edging along walks or drives. Quick blooming flowers, accord ing to Gilbert Bentley, flower ex pert, are the nasturtium, Virginia stock, zinnia, sunflower, bache lor’s button and alyssum. For a window box, petunia, nas turtium, lobelia, ageratum, pansy, annual phlox and verbena are ef fective. Even though you may have ex perienced trouble with wilt and rust ruining asters and snapdrag ons, you still may grow those flowers. There' are rust-resistant strains of snapdragon and wilt- resistant strains of aster. Pass Themselves Up And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the long courses of rivers, the vast com pass of the oceans, and the cir cular motion of the stars, and yet pass themselves up.—St Augus- tine. “WARMING” ACTION EASES CHEST COLD TIGHTNESS Ease the tightness and pressure of your chest cold tonight with the thorough counter-irritant and va porizing action of Penetro, the only salve which has a base of oid- fashioned mutton suet together with 11396 to 227% more medica tion than any other nationally sold cold salve. Rub with stainless, snow-white Penetro—both children and adults. Large jar Penetro, 35c. — Solitude Essential Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is whole some for the character.—Lowell. SAY "LUDEN’S’ BECAUSE BUILDING UP YOUR ALKALINE RESERVE heipe yen to resist colds LUDEN'S Menthol Cough Drops 5^ Victors in the End The universe is so made that truth and justice alone can en dure.—James Anthony Froude. 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