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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938
New* Review of Current Event*
HITLER NOW SUPREME BOSS
Takes Control of Reich's Armed Forces, Crushing
Army Clique . . . Japan Resents Naval Plans Demand
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Brig. Gen. Jay L. Benedict, center, and his staff are shown inspecting
the cadet corps at West Point as General Benedict took over .command of
the military academy as superintendent, thirty-seventh to hold that post
since the academy was instituted.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
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Hitler Seizes Full Power
A DOLF HITLER has made him
self the absolute ruler of Ger
many and has assumed full control
of the armed forces of the reich,
proclaiming himself
“chief of national
defense.” Field
Marshal Werner von
Blomberg was re
moved from the post
of war minister;
Col. Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering,
minister of aviation,
was made general
field marshal; Gen.
Walter von Brauch-
itsch replaced Gen
eral Werner von
Fritsch as commander in chief of
the army; seven army generals
and six generals of the air force
were summarily dismissed.
According to the London Daily
Herald, between 180 and 190 senior
army officers were arrested in the
German provinces.
Reorganization of Germany’s dip
lomatic corps was announced, the
ambassadors of several European
countries being changed.
In the shakeup Joachim von Ri-
bentrop was recalled from the Lon
don embassy and made foreign min
ister.
No new minister of war was ap
pointed, but Gen. Wilhelm Keitel
was named chief of the supreiVie
command and will rank as minis
ter.
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Monarchy Plot Foiled
1> ACK of Hitler’s sudden grab of
absolute power was a move
ment among high army officers for
restoration of the monarchy. It was
revealed in Berlin that a secret
speech delivered by one general to
a group of his fellow officers in
which the return of the exiled for
mer Kaiser Wilhelm was urged was
reported to the reichsfuehrer and
aroused his anger, hastening his de
termination to assume personal
command of the armed forces*
Anyhow, the coup is a crushing
victory for the Nazi government
group over the army clique that
had been growing daily more
threatening to Hitler’s regime and
that was said to be planning to
force his gradual retirement.
The monarchists’ plot, it is said,
included the elevation to the throne
of the ex-kaiser’s second son, Prince
Eitel Friedrich. Heinrich Himm
ler, head of the Gestapo or secret
police, revealed it to Hitler.
The reichsfuehrer with several
close advisers went to his Bavarian
home and began planning for the
next move, to be announced at the
meeting of the reichstag scheduled
for February 20.
Judging from the utterances of
Nazi leaders, Hitler is likely to
demand the return of Germany’s
lost colonies, control of the free city
of Danzig, and greater influence in
Austria. London correspondents re
ported that Great Britain was ready
to sacrifice a colony to keep Euro
pean peace, hoping to bring Ger
many and Italy into a ten-year pact
with Britain and France.
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What Small Business Wants
T WELVE delegates from the “lit
tle business” conference that
held such uproarious sessions in
Washington were received by Presi
dent Roosevelt and presented to
him a list of 23 proposals for the
cure of their economic ills. These
had been consolidated and toned
down from the proposals conceived
by the conference, the condemna
tion of much New Deal legislation
being omitted.
The principal recommendations in
the report were for easier credit for
small business, repeal of the un
divided profits tax, modification of
the capital gains tax, equal respon
sibility of employer and employee
for observance of mutual labor
J. C. Grew
agreements, the return of relief to
local governments as soon as pos
sible, the abandonment of wage and
hour legislation and the immediate
investigation of the Wagner labor
relations board.
Through Secretary Early, the
President announced that a large
majority of the recommendations
seemed constructive and possible of
fulfillment. Others, however, he felt,
sounded well but were rather im
practical.
It is known that the administra
tion does not want the undivided
profits tax completely repealed.
Neither does it want relief returned
to local governments, abandonment
of wage and hour legislation, or in
terference with the Wagner labor re
lations board.
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Japan Won’t Tell Navy Plans
TF JAPAN’S naval leaders have
their way, Tokyo’s reply to the
Anglo-French-American request for
information as to Japan’s plans for
battleship building
will be a refusal to
divulge them. This
was the decision
reached at a meet
ing of the naval
ministry and trans
mitted by Admiral
Yonai, navy minis
ter, to Premier Ko-
noye and Foreign
Minister Hirota. The
foreign ministry
wished to be moder
ate, but the admirals were insis
tent.
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew pre
sented the American demand to the
foreign office in Tokyo, and similar
notes were handed in by the British
and French ambassadors. They
asked the Japanese government to
say categorically, on or before
February 20, whether or not Japan
is building or plans to build battle
ships in excess of 35,000 tons, the
limit fixed in the London naval
treaty. It has been rumored for
some time that Japan was building
or planning to build two battleships
of 46,000 tons displacement armed
with 18 inch guns. This is denied
by a foreign office spokesman.
The three western powers intimat
ed that if Japan’s reply was not
satisfactory they might be com
pelled to invoke the escalator
clause of the treaty and themselves
construct larger and more strongly
gunned battleships.
The position of Japanese naval
men is that, since Japan is not a
signatory of the treaty, her plans
are no business of others; and fur
thermore that her navy expansion
is entirely "defensive.”
Our navy has plans drafted for
bigger battleships and guns if their
construction is deemed necessary. A
vessel of 43,000 tons probably would
be the largest able to pass through
the Panama canal unless its locks
are widened and lengthened.
Hull in Peace Talk
N otwithstanding the some
what strained relations with
Japan—or because of them—Secre
tary of State Hull in a nation-wide
radio address proposed that all na
tions make a “deiermined effort” to
promote peace through limitation of
armaments and his pet reciprocal
L-ade treaties. He asserted this
country proposed to carry out this
plan, but reiterated that it would
continue to “render adequate our
military and naval establishments.”
Urging all nations to promote nor
mal healthy international commer
cial relations as the surest road to
peace, Hull said that if the world
“shuts its eyes to recent disastrous
developments” it would be an open
invitation for recurrence of the
events of 1914 and 1929.
He abhorred the recent “alarm
ing disintegration” of international
relationships, and said that the race
to rearm can only result in further
impoverishment of all nations.
Farm Bill in House
S ENATE and house conferees final
ly got together on the farm bill
and submitted to the house the
measure which sets up a system of
price pegging for wheat, corn, cot
ton, rice and tobacco. The rules
committee then approved of a rule
permitting only four hours Of da-
bate.
The bill, as revised, continues tba
soil conservation act in the present
form in normal times. But in years
of overproduction of farm products,
it was conceded, it enforces a pro
gram of restriction far more drastic
than the original agricultural adjust
ment act outlawed by the Supreme
court.
i. P. Kennedy
Want 400 Millions
\/f AYORS of eleven cities of the
Middle West, meeting in Chi
cago, drew up and sent to the Presi
dent and congress a demand that
congress make an immediate emer
gency appropriation of 44>X),000,000
to supplement WPA funds available
until July 1.
The resolution was signed by
Mayor Kelly of Chicago, and the
mayors of Detroit, Cleveland, St.
Louis, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Des
Moines, Omaha, Toledo, Minneap
olis and Indianapolis.
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Fear Borah-O’Mahoney Bill
T HE National Association of Man
ufacturers, apprehensive that
President Roosevelt might take up
the Borah-O’Mahoney bill to place
corporations under a federal licens
ing system, denounced that meas
ure as providing for an end of
“home rule over business.”
In a formal statement, the asso
ciation declared the bill would per
mit the federal government to put
any concern entirely out of business
for “the most trivial violations” of
the terms of its federal license.
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Madame Perkins on the Spot
CECRETARY OF LABOR PER-
^ KINS, who has been having a
hard time explaining why Harry
Bridges, C. L O. leader on the Pacific
coast, has not been
deported as an alien
Communist, has put
herself in a tight
place and aroused
indignant protests
from Joseph Ken
nedy, chairman of
the maritime com
mission and ambas
sador-designate to
Great Britain.
Madame Perkins
appeared before the
senate commerce committee and
took a stand beside Ralph Emerson
of the C. I. O. affiliated maritime
union in condemnation of the mar
itime commission’s proposal to
settle labor disputes in the mer
chant marine by the mediation
methods successfully employed on
the railroads.
Kennedy, who was in Palm Beach,
sent angry telegrams to the White
House and it was said he was on
his way to Washington to demand
a showdown between himself and
the labor secretary. If the Presi
dent should side with her, Kennedy
might be expected to quit the ad
ministration and give up his ap
pointment to the court of St. James.
Should Mr. Roosevelt uphold Ken
nedy, Secretary Perkins might re
sign from the cabinet.
Emerson defied congress to pass
the bill and apply the principles of
railway mediation to the merchant
marine. He said the union would
not obey the law if it was enacted,
adding that “there are not enough
Kennedys to man the ships.”
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New West Point Chief
D RIG. GEN. JAY L. BENEDICT
has assumed command as the
new superintendent of the United
States Military academy at West
Point, succeeding General Connors,
about to retire for age.
General Benedict, who is fifty-five
years old, began his military ca
reer as an enlisted man in the Na
tional Guard in 1898.
A. F. of L. Ousts Miners
W ITH tears in his eyes, Presi
dent Green of the A. F. of L.
announced to the convention in
Miami that the United Mine Work
ers of America, the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers and the Federation of Flat
Glass Workers had been expelled
from the federation. The miners’
union is headed by John L. Lewis
and is the nucleus of his C. I. O.
Firestone Dies
H arvey s. firestone, rub
ber magnate of Akron, Ohio,
died in his sleep at his winter resi
dence in Miami Beach. He had been
in ill health for some time. His
death was due to coronary throm
bosis.
Housing Bill Passed
L^NOUGH Democratic senators
switched their votes on the
Lodge prevailing wages amendment
to the housing bill, so the senate by
a vote of 42 to 40 adopted the con
ference report on the housing bill
and the measure went to the White
House for the President’s approvaL
This was the first item on the ad
ministration’s program to be enact
ed since the special session was
called November 15 last.
The measure provides for govern
ment insuring of mortgages on pri
vately constructed housing up to 90
per cent of the value of the prop
erty on homes costing not more than
$6,000; and to 80 per cent on homes
costing up to $16,000.
ADVENTURERS 1 CLUB
HEADLIKES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Death in Two Tanks”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Well, sir, we have Bill Schulz with us today—Bill Schulz
of Woodside. We’re glad to have him here—and Bill is a dog-
goned sight gladder than we are, even. Because if Bill were not
here he’d be pushing up the daisies in a nice quiet park full of
tombstones. That can be said of most any of us adventurers,
of course, but it’s particularly true of Bill.
Bill was working in a garage, and it was the fall of 1918. The garage
was in Fifty-fourth street between Sixth and Seventh avenues. It isn’t
there now—unless they rebuilt it. And Bill Schulz is lucky that they
didn’t have to do some rebuilding work on him.
It was a good-sized gaiage—that place Bill worked in. They did
a lot of major repair work, and as a consequence there was a lot of ma
chinery around the place. On the morning that this adventure hap
pened Bill was fixing up a wrecked car that had a badly bent frame.
A crew of welders had come in from outside to help him, and they had
brought their own apparatus, consisting of a hand truck on which were
mounted two tanks.
One of those tanks contained oxygen—the other acetylene gas.
The welders did some work on-the bent frame, and went off to
take care of another job, leaving their apparatus behind. And just
about the time they left Frank Lawter came into the room
where Bill was working.
Deadly Mixture of Gases.
Frank Lawter was a battery repairman at the garage. He had run
ihort of acetylene—which he used to bum out the pitch in storage bat
teries—and he came in to see if he could get a little out of the tank the
welders had left behind them. Bill was busy, so he told Frank to
help himself.
Frank went out and got an empty oxygen tank, in which he intended
to get the acetylene. At least Frank THOUGHT that oxygen tank was
empty, and if such were the case, everything would have been all right.,
There Was a Terrific Explosion.
But the fact was that the tank was a brand new one—fully charged
with oxygen. Frank had got hold of the wrong tank.
Standing about eight feet away from where Bill was working, Frank
started to couple the two tanks together with a piece of copper tubing.
He asked Bill for a wrench to fasten the couplings, and Bill, still busy, told
him where he could find one. Then, after fastening the couplings up
ight, he turned on the valves of both tanks.
Well, sir, oxygen and acetylene, alone in their respective
tanks, are a fairly respectable pair of gases. But mixed togeth
er they form one of the most inflammable and explosive com
pounds that you will find anywhere. And they were sure being
mixed up in that hookup of tanks that Frank had arranged.
The tank valves hadn’t been open more than ten seconds when Bill
Schulz smelled gas. Then he looked over and saw what Frank was
doing. Immediately he caught the situation and shouted to Frank to get
away from those tanks before they blew. At the same time he dropped
his work, sprang to his feet, and took one step forward.
There Was a Terrific Explosion.
What Bill had intended to do was to grab Frank and drag him away
bodily from the danger area. But it was too late. He took just one step
forward—and there was a terrific explosion!
All the thunder in the world seemed to come together in one
great, resounding roar. The ground shook—the building rocked
and swayed. The garage roof lifted completely off its steel gir
der beams, and the walls cracked and tumbled in.
Bill was picked up by the force of the explosion and catapulted across
the floor. For thirty-two feet he flew through the air. Then he landed-
hard—but on something that was soft—-a pile of cotton waste stacked in
one corner of the garage. He sat there in a daze for a minute, wonder
ing if he had been hurt. He didn’t feel any pain. HE DIDN’T FEEL ANY
THING!
That’s what frightened Bill. There wasn’t a bit of sensation in his
whole body—had there been he would have known that he was alive and
had a chance to recover. But this business of having no feelings at all—
it was just too much like being dead.
Bill sat like that for a minute. Then he began to lose con-
scionsness. Dying? Bill was very much afraid so. And that
was the last he knew for a while.
. Thought His Arms Were Gone.
Meanwhile the whole neighborhood had felt the force of the explosion.
Windows were shattered for a mile around. Fire apparatus—emer
gency patrol cars—ambulances, came flying to the spot from all direc
tions. They put Bill in one of the ambulances and carried him off to
the hospital. Poor Frank Lawter went off to the morgue. He had been
killed instantly.
When Bill regained consciousness he felt numb all over. “Where are
my arms?” he asked the ambulance doctor who was working over him.
For it felt to him as if his arms—both of them—were gone. It was a
long time before he would believe the doctor when he told him that
his arms were there all right—that he was only suffering from shock.
Bill is just as sound as ever now, after a month in bed—and his
only regret is that he couldn’t have saved Frank Lawter.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Claimed Exemptions From Draft
During the Civil war immigrants
who had not become naturalized
filed claims for exemptions from
the drafts. To counteract this, pa
triotic organizations made appeals
for volunteers and endeavored to
raise troops among their own peo
ple. In Cincinnati, Ohio, German
and Irish organizations held meet
ings to denounce aliens trying to es
cape the draft and to ask their lead
ers to raise troops.
The “Rich Port”
Porto Rico, one of the earliest ot
Spanish American colonies, has en
dured since its settlement by Ponce
de Leon more than four centuries
ago, as the “Rich Port,” the name
that Christopher Columbus gave it
on its. discovery. Its history in the
development of the Americas is
shared only by the Dominican Re
public, where the early Spanish set
tlers established their first govern
mental base.
Portraitist Supreme
Rembrandt, 1606-1669, was a
Dutch miller’s son who became the
greatest portraitist in history of
art. He was a huge success at
twenty-one. For years he lavished
great wealth on his family and
friends, and paid extravagant
sums for other artists’ pictures. One
by one he list love, riches, family,
prestige. He died alone and forgot
ten in Amsterdam slums. He loved
to paint himself and friends dressed
in “prop” costumes from his stu-
dio.
Perfection
The great Italian sculptor, Michel
angelo, was once visited by an ac
quaintance, who remarked, on en
tering his studio: “Why, you have
done nothing to that figure since I
was here last.” “Yes,” was the
reply; “I have softened this expres
sion, touched off that projection, and
made other improvements.” “Oh!”
said the visitor, “those are mere
trifles.” “True,” answered Michel
angelo, “but remember that trifles
make perfection; and perfection i«
no trifle.”
Historic
Hoaxes
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
• Western Newspaper Union.
The Cardiff Giant
TN THE late sixties a Chicago to-
* bacco dealer named George Hull
heard a clergyman express the be
lief that men of gigantic stature once
lived on earth. It gave him an idea.
Out of a 12-foot block of stone he
carved the figure of a man. It was
a hard job to simulate pores in the
skin but he managed to do it and
after giving the stone man a bath in
sulphuric acid and ink, he shipped it
to the farm of his relative, William
C. Newell, near Cardiff, N. Y. There
it was buried for a year to “age”
it properly.
Next Newell hired some of his
neighbors to dig a well for him
and behold! the well-diggers “dis
covered” the giant. Four doctors,
called from town, examined it and
agreed that it was the petrified re
mains of a prehistoric man. A Syr
acuse antiquarian declared it was a
statue “probably made by early
Jesuit missionaries” at least 300
years ago and offered Newell $10,-
000 for it. A professor of natural
science at Rochester university ex
amined it and wrote that “although
not dating back to the Stone age, it
is nevertheless deserving the atten
tion of archeologists.”
Within a short time the “Cardiff
Giant” was one of the wonders of
the modern world. Newell began
charging people 50 cents each to see
it, and business was so good that a
group of Syracuse business men
bought a three-quarters interest in
it for $30,000. But such good fortune
couldn’t last always. A Yale pro
fessor examined it carefully, found
tool marks on it and other evidence
that it had not been buried long.
When it seemed that the hoax was
about to be exposed, the giant was
shipped to New York. But P. T.
Barnum, who had failed in his ef
forts to buy it for his museum,
suspecting that the giant was a
hoax, had one of his own made and
began exhibiting it. This led to
public suspicion that Newell’s dis
covery was also a fake and the Yale
professor confirmed that belief. So
the “Cardiff Giant” soon became
just another “forgotten man.”
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The Drake Estate
p'OR more than half a century the
1 “Drake estate” legend has been
used to defraud Americans of mil
lions of dollars but so long as the
“get rich quick” desire persists, it
will probably continue to harvest
its crop of gold for swindlers.
The story they tell is that Sir
Francis Drake, naval hero and free
booter of Queen Elizabeth’s day,
left an estate which, held in trust
by the British government, is now
estimated at 10 billion to 25 bil
lion dollars. They claim that they
have discovered a “lost heir” to
this fortune and offer persons bear
ing the name Drake or descended
from persons of that name an op
portunity to contribute to a fund
which will be used in establishing
the “lost heir’s” title. Once that is
established, they promise that ev
eryone who has contributed to the
fund will be repaid a thousandfold.
The fact is that Drake was never
married, sp he did not leave any
heirs. Moreover, when he died
aboard his ship in 1595 his estate
was a very small one and that was
settled long, long ago. Yet despite
these well-known facts and despite
repeated warnings by both the Brit
ish and the American governments
against anyone investing in such a
scheme, thousands of gullible per
sons have been victimized in the
past and it’s only a question of time
until the hoary old legend will be
revived and other suckers will be
taken in by it.
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Flight Over the Atlantic
N EARLY three-quarters of a cen
tury before Charles A. Lind
bergh thrilled the whole world by
flying across the Atlantic, that feat
was accomplished—in the imagina
tion of an American newspaper
man. His name was Edgar Allen
Poe (later famous as a poet) and
in 1835 he had printed the first in
stallment of a fanciful tale about
a trip to the moon. However, Rich
ard Adams Locke’s “moon hoax” in
the New York Sun had monopolized
public attention, so Poe tore up the
second installment of his story.
But in 1844 when he wrote an ac
count of the crossing of the Atlantic
by a group of men in three days in
a balloon or flying machine called
the Victoria, he found that the pub
lic was just as gullible as it had
been nine years earlier. His yarn,
also published in the New York Sun,
captured the imagination of the pub
lic and there was a great demand
for copies of that paper.
Even when Poe explained that his
tale was imaginary, many people
insisted upon believing it was true.
Later Poe said, “If the Victoria
did not absolutely accomplish the
voyage recorded, it will be difficult
to assign a reason why she should
not have accomplished it.” In view
of developments in aviation which
were to come within the next 75
years, Poe was not such a bad
prophet!
Gates to White House Grounds
There are eight gateways to the
White House grounds, all opposite
to the various entrances.
Uncle JQhilQ
SdJfA:
The Liking Is Vital
A child learns good manners by
seeing good manners and liking
them when he sees them.
The panoply of modern warfare
does not include honor or human
ity.
It is in regarding a woman’s
“no” lightly that men often make
themselves ridiculous.
Want to Be Themselves
Few envy another man; they
envy his circumstances.
People who insist on “living
their own life,” are likely to im
pose on the lives of others.
Education lessens crime, be
cause it opens the eyes of the
tempted to its foolishness.
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