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X.ljgu ■ imvj.'T "-J 1 - ■*' —' (■t' • •■ • ir ■“* ^ * ■m,-- > ‘J i | |j || . ^ f ! BRISBANE i,.. < THIS WEEK i* m. i t More Years, More Cares Monkeys and Yellow Fever , The King Sees Poverty Ancient Koran Found The French have a saying, referring to a man's age, "One year more, one care more”—Un an de plus, un soin tie plus. (J European nations might take for their motto, “One treaty more, one more dan ger of war." Italy, Austria, Hungary have a three-power treaty under which Italy guarantees Aus trian Independence, against any attempt by Germany to ab sorb Austria, for Arthur Brl.b.M | nstan(<(1 There Is possible cause for war If any cause were Jacking. Sao Paulo, Brazil, worries about re ports brought by health oflicers from the forests of the upper Sorocabana area. In that region, where mosqui toes are thick, explorers frequently Saw “monkeys with high fevers” drop out of trees and die, dozens of them, victims of yellow fever. Fortunately for Brazil cities, the Jungle mosquito that bites monkeys and gives them yellow fever keeps away from cities. The fight against disease- bearing mosquitoes and rats would keep men busy, if they were not busy already killing each other In war. News Review of Current Events the World Over Half Million Farmers May Get Double Federal Benefits— New Processing Taxes Abandoned—-Clements Quits as Townsend Plan Secretary. By EDWARD W. PICKaI?D © Western Newspaper Union. R. G. Tuflwell Edward VIII, now king of England, visited the magnificently luxurious ocean steamer Queen Mary In Glasgow, then went from house to house, knock ing on doors, visiting some of the worst slum dwellings in all his kingdom. Later, talking to Lord Melchett. the king put the problem of England, this country and the whole world in these few words: "How do you reconcile a world that has produced this mighty ship with the slums we have Just visited?” A marvelously illustrated ancient manuscript of the Koran, found In a nhop of an antiquity dealer of Cairo, Kgypt, was bought for fifty pounds. Heaven knows how many thousands of pounds It Is actually worth. The Koran Is said to have been writ ten by a highly educated Jew. who suggested Ideas to Mohammed, the lat ter being unable to write. It Is possible, however, that angels, cupposed to have revealed divine truth tw Mohammed, also taught him to write. Good news for tree growers, fruit trees or others. You may get rid of Insect pests by hammering the trunks of trees with a riveting machine, such as Is used In driving rivets In city skyscrapers. A California Inventor patented the process. This writer proposeg„ to try It In a New Jersey orchard at the earliest possible moment. The iivet- Ing is said to loosen Insect pests, after which It is easy to wash them off with a strong spray of water, no chem icals needed. To save the tree from Injury, It Is probably desirable to put several thicknesses of old automobile tires or tubes between the hark and the riveting machine. There is plenty of money In this country, billions of it. Jes>»e Jones will toll you. but It is not circulating, ns anhealthy for money In a country as for blood in your wins. You know the strange, perhaps true, story of a man who unwittingly passed u counterfeit $ii> bill. It went through the hands of ten individuals, paid foi $100 worth of goods, and came buck tv» the man who originally-passed It. He Identified and destroyed it. One hundred dollars’ worth of debts R EXFORD O. TUGWELL, head of the rural resettlement administra tion, announced that a special commit tee Is considering a plan unde* which more than half a mil lion growers of farm products would receive double benefits from the federal govern ment. It provides that the rural families now getting loans from Tugwefl'S' administra tion to put them on their feet and keep them off the relief rolls may also receive full subsidy payments In connection with the soil conserva tion program now being put Into op eration. There are now 450,000 recip ients of the Tugwell- loans and the number Is expected to increase to 525,- 000 by July 1. The soil conservation subsidies are to he paid to farmers who transfer land from commercial crop production to soil conserving growths, or who re sort to other “economic” farm prac tices. Officials said that the rehabilita tion clients already are under obliga tion to treat their soil wisely. Before a family can obtain a rehabilitation loan It must agree to fol^nv a farm management plan drafted by the gov ernment. This plan stipulates that the borrow er must conserve his land’s fertility and grow food and feed crops for home consumption. It also Includes a finan cial liiidget. O NE of the major features of the new tax program suggested by President Roosevelt Is omitted from the measure prepared by a house sub committee and on which open hearings were begun by the ways and means committee. For political reasons If was decided that the plan for new processing taxes on farm and compet ing products should be abandoned. Mr. Roosevelt’s suggestion for a ‘‘windfall” tax to recapture part of the refunded or unpaid AAA processing levies was accepted by the subcommittee. A third suggestion of the President, for graduated taxes on the portions of Incomes which corporations do not dis tribute In dividends to stockholders, was changed to provide levies on total Income of corporations varied accord ing to percentages of profit^ put Into reserves. The subcommittee agreed that the corporation tax rates s'/uild be so drafted as to permit corporations, par ticularly small ones, to build up re serves for lean years without being compelled to pay comparatively high tuxes for the privilege of doing so. The subcommittee figured on col lecting some $25,000,000 from taxes on dividends going to foreigners who own stock in Anurican corporations and $82,000,000 from temporary continua tion of the capital stock and excess profits taxes. IUST ns Chairman C. Jasper Bell and his house committee were about to open their inquiry into the finances of the Townsend old age pension plan organization, Robert E. Clements, co-founder, secretary and director of the movement, re signed. He was sum moned to be the first witness before the committee but said his resignation was not i motivated by this, hut was solely due to his opposition to political fees, etc. The Borah-Nuys bill ; would prohibit such allowances only when they were refused to purchasers of goods of "like grade, quality, and quantity." O NE of the big fights within the American Federation of Labor has been settled peacefully. It was for control of the building trades de partment. In the past, building proj ects have been held up by strikes growing out of arguments over which of two unions should do a certain piece of work. The peace pact pro vides for appointment of an impartial referee to settle such arguments. The pact also called for J. W. Wil liams of the carpenters to head the reorganization department, with M. J. McDonough of the plasterers as sec retary-treasurer. Each has bqen the leader of one of the warring factions and each has styled himself as the lawful department president. DENITO MUSSOLINI evidently ex- pects another European war, and In preparation for it he announced several drastic measures on the seven teenth anniversary of the founding of the Fascist party. He abolished the, chamber of deputies, substitut ing for it a council of guilds;, and be also eliminated the coun try’s large industries, leaving the medium and small private In dustries in existence. This latter move, he told the council of the 22 guilds of the cor porative state, was to Increase the na tion’s economic self-sufficiency. "When and how war will come, one does not know,” he said, "but the wheel of fate turns fast." Mussolini asserted the large Indus tries, particularly those working for the defense of the nation, would be formed into organizations called “key industries." These, be said, "will be run directly or Indirectly by the gov ernment Some will have mixed or ganization.” Benito Mussolini K OKI HIROTA, the new liberal premier of Japan, declared in an Interview: "While i am premier there will be,00 war"; anckcontlnued: "We Intend - to cultivate our traditional friendship with Great Britain, the United States, Russia, and other pow ers, thus fulfilling our great mission of stabilizing east Asia.” On the same day that Hlrota made this pronouncement the soviet Russian government ordered its ambassador to Japan to lodge a strong protest fol lowing a new border engagement which Soviet advices said resulted from a Japanese attack on a Red frontier post. Fighting lasted for hours, en tailing loss of life on both sides, said the reports. C'EDERAL reserve board has pre- " scribed a 55 per cent minimum mar gin for purchases of stocks, the ruling becoming effective April 1 for stocks bought through brokers and -May I for those bought through banks. The margin regulations were made to^apply only to listed securities on registered stock exchanges, thus hav ing no effect upon the large over-the- counter market The maximum loan value applying to registered stocks has been fixed at 45 per cent of current market value. W ITH only one change, the house passed the senate bill to continue the Electric Home and Farm authority as a federal agency until February 1, 1937, or any earlier date decreed by the President. The authority was cre ated to help finance sales of electrical appliances. FT ENRY BOYLE SOMERVILLE. 1 aged and retired vice admiral of the British navy, was murdered by gunmen at his residence at Castle- townsend, County Cork, Irish Free State. Thrown through the door of the house was a card bearing these words; “This British agent sent 52 Irish boys Into the British army In the last few months. He will send no more." The admiral had received previous threats because of his recruiting activ ities. ! STAR i ★ if if ★ * jMovfe • Radio * ★ it ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ DUST jMovfe • Radio Mae Weal had boon paid. noli >dv v ;is any the ao ivitios of othor ]< •ad WoIS \ Monoy is a | lM‘t'1 thu tM> of tbo organ iza- R E . Clements — lion. I»r. I- ’. E. T. >\\ nsend i n 1 .os An Do not glvo "li\ ing tO\ s' til \ our (till- g*‘ os oxpto *sed hi- > "hearty uppn »val" dren fur Eastor pro sonts. M m\ par of Ulomonts action . and it \v as pro diet- e n t s and frionil s t Iiiinul I ll“S sly give od othor i dlioials* of the movement IJAVING sent Joachim von Ribben- *■ trop back to London with a modi fied rejection of the four power plans for peace in western Europe, Hitler was preparing his counter proposals which British Foreign Minister Eden bad requested. Meanwhile the relchs- fuehrer continued his campaign tour, delivering rousing speeches In defense of his policies. Speaking In Ludwig- shafen, in the heart of the remili tarized Rhineland, he said: “Those who want us to grovel On our knees before agreeing to talk with us forget we are not a tribe of savages, but a European nation looking back on thou sands of years of culture. "1 stretch out my hand to France. We want peace for common sense rea sons. Germany needs no more fame on the battlefield, but is now getting ready to seek laurels In the Olympic peace competition of nations. Men who relish the indecent thought of victor and vanquished are not statesmen. They must be silent when peace talks start." Most of the continental statesmen who gathered in London to consider the Rhineland affair went home, some of them In very bad humor over the Indecisive proceedings. The French, disinclined to consider any further pro posals from Hitler, were urging that the French. British and Belgian general staffs cet U aether on plans in accord ance with the Locarno treaty. INTREPID citizens of scores of cities * and towns in the eastern and New England states which were devastated by the unprecedented floods were dig ging out their homes and places of business from the mud and debris as the turbulent waters of many rivers subsided. Reconstruction and refitting btgnu everywhere immediately, and this, as well as the relief of the suffer ing thousands, was aided by funds to taling more than $43,000,000 allocated by President Roosevelt before bereft Washington for Florida. Rough estimates were that the total dead In 13 states were 169; the home less were 221,500, and the total prop erty damage, $271,500,000. The last figure probably would be tripled if one took Into account the losses from In terruption to industry and trade and the stoppage of the wages of labor. Cities along the lower Ohio were threatened as the flood waters raced down to the Mississippi and tbj Gulf of Mexico, but they had had plenty of warning and were in a measure pre pared. I SABELLA GREENWAY, the capable lady who has represented Arizona In congne.s s!ace October, 1933, has announced In Tucson that she will re tire from public life at the conclusion of her present term. She was first elected for the remainder of the term of Lewis Doug las. who resigned to - become director of the budget, and was re elected in 1934. Mrs. Greenway owns and operates several ranches in Arizona Mrs. Greenway and New MexIco and ■ hotel In Tucson, and is also Inter ested In some mining companies. Un doubtedly she could go back to con gress without opposition, but she says she wants fl* devote more time to her private activities. children helpless living creatures, eas IIv hurt—live ehii Ls. er newly hatched 1 ducklings The helpless creatures are roughly treated, mutilated, fortunate if they happen to be promptly killed, by chil dren that know no better. Doctor Townsend promises Ml « month to everybody past sixty. That would cost twenty four thousand mil lion dollars a year. Congressmen know it can't he done, tint do not dare say so individually. Townsend clubs have organized mil lions of votes. The a month promise made that easy. Congress men do not want those votes cast against them as individuals. , V'Oiild follow the secretary's example. Clements appeared before tin* com- i mittee with a great mass of records.' ready to ‘’account for every penny ' collected." Before testifying he said: ! ‘ I have nothing to hide. I’m anxious | to appear. 1 have been responsible [ for financing the Townsend plan. 1 ; have collected around SSotl.tHNi and the ; organY/aton has spent about $750.lHKt. | There is still $100,000 on liand.’’ The hard working. Intelligent Swigs nation is said to he disturbed by the prospect of another war as by none other. Every Swiss under fifty Is armed, trained and ready. Even in the big war nobody tried to Invade Switzer land—too much hard climbing, and the conqueror would not know how to run the hotels, even if he acquired (hem. ■ ■ k.— The Immediate business of (Ids coun try Is to find some way of controlling flood wafers—probably not impossible. , © King Feature* Synrtlcjta. Inc. VVNU Serelo*. O EVERAL witnesses who appeared ^ before a senate subcommittee de dared that the Robinson Patman anti chain store bill, which has administra tion hacking, would promote rather than curb monopolies, increase the c<*t and lower the standard of living, and decrease employment in whole in dustries. The hearing was on the Borah-Van Nuys bill, a modification of the Robin Bon-I’atmao measure, hut the witnesses particularly attacked the latter, which already has been repiJMed favorably. The house Judiciary committee report ed the L’tterback MU, still another mollification of the Koliinson-Patman tpeasiire, and a bitter fight over the proposed legislation is expected. The Kolunsoii I'atinan bill would pro hibit manufacturers from making price discriminations in favor of large quan tity purchasers, through advertising al- .owances service charges, brokerage I N CONNECTION with the signing of the new naval treaty by the United States. Great Britain and France, it was disclosed in London that the two tirst named powers have reattirmed the 50-50 ratio for their fleets and again promised not to compete against each other in naval building. The new three power pact limits the size of battleships to 35,000 tons, retains 10.- (MMi tons as the maximum for cruisers and provides no cruisers of that size shall lie built for six years. in the expiring Washington treaty there was an article regarding forti fication of naval bases. ,, This is not renewed in the new pact, and Japan requested information as to the future intentions of the powers. Conse quently the United States, Great Britain and Japan were carrying on diplomatic conversations <>n that topic*. The new treaty gives the signatories certMn liberty of action In the event of unforeseen naval activity by powers not signatory to the treaty. So far as Anierica is concerned, this “escape clause" is taken to apply mainly fo Japan. 1 ' F OURTEEN persons perished In Mexico's worst aviation disaster. A big tnmolored plane carrying ten Eunqiean tourists and four company employees crashed on the ridge be tween the volcanoes I'oiMicatapeti and Ixtaccihuatl and there were no sur vivors to explain why It fell. Among the tourists were 1‘rince Adolf of Schaumburg Llppe and bis wife, Prin cess Kllsbeth. S TILL refusing to appropriate $12, UtKi.tRK) for the Florida ship canal, the senate passed the army bill carry ing approximately $611,000,000. More than half the sum goes for the military activities of the War department. There will he no reduction in the number of UCC camps during most of the coming fiscal year, and the en- rollees will be kept up to about the 350,000 mark. This was the decision of President Roosevelt after a threat ened revolt of Democratic represents lives induced him to change bis mind in the matter.’ * . Senator Black, chairman of the sen ate lobbying committee, has added the Wichita Beacon to the papers whose telegrams he has seized or attempted to seize. S ENATOR.. YYJLLIASr E. BORAH Is campaigning earnestly for the Re publican Presidential nomination, and has Just received-a big boost for bis pause in the announcement that Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the Md age i>eusion plan that bears bis name, will give the Idahoan all his support. Repudiating President Roose velt and changing hip registration at Long Beach. Calif., from Democratic to Republican, Townsend said Borah was the only Republican candidate who “even approached” the standard of the Townsendites, although the sen ator lias refused to indorae the Town send (tension plan as it stands. Hitherto (tie Townsend organization had favored circulation of third party lietltions Id every state to enlist mil lions of people as a demonstration of str^gth. So the doctor’s announce meet la a reversal of polty. W HEN Mae West’s effects were moved off the Para mount lot, a fashionable gallery of Hollywood celebrities watched the strong men carry her furniture out to a red moving van. The list of onlookers included Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, VV. CX Fields, Jack Oakie and Herbert Marshall. Mae. who voluntarily relin quished her contract, was not there. She will begin a new picture for Columbia which is headed by Emanuel Cohen, who was her boss at Paramount when she made her first film hit. She Is to receive $300,000 for tills picture. Mae was represented at the* moving party by Jim Timony, her manager, who checked over the list of furnish ings from her dressing room which were moved to the new studio. These included a piano, a desk, a divan, a chair and an oil painting of Mae. —*k— A special automobile that will speed more than three miles a minute is being built for M-G-M for use in its new pic ture "Speed.” it is expected that it will be sent out on the road for pub licity purposes when the picture is fin ished. The producers promise that it will hot be driven at anywhere near its maximum speed. r* t Grace Moore has never sung the aria “Woman Is Fickle" in Rigoletto, fot that Is the tenor's job. but it might be a theme song for her off-again, on again act with the movies. After an nbuncing that she was through, she says she has changed her mind and if going to make some more pictures at Columtiia. She has made one important reservation, though. J8o' more scenes -where site is singing while milking a cow. , Richard Arlen is on ids way to Eng land where he will make a picture for Gaumont-British. Accompanying Dick are Joby and little Rickey. When hlf English hitch is over. Dick will rettirr to Hollywood to go to work for Twen entieth Century-Fox. with whom he re cently signed a contract to make threv pictures. Anita Louise, whose blond beauty hai captured many hearts, will be cast foi the feminine lead in Warner Brothers new picture, “The Charge of the LigM Brigade." This, it is said, is the biggesi film opportdnity Anita has yet beer given. Errol Flynn, who swept to star dom in “Captain Blood," will play oppo site her. —*— Hurd luck has dogged the footsteps of many a movie star of yesteryear but it has nipped rather constantly at the heels of Alice Lake. She is now the ward of the Film Welfare leagus in St. Vincent's hospital. Fifteen years ago she was in the big money and had an Immense following. Recently w her brought into court and lief plight re vealed, she said she could not even get work as op extra. She still gets fan letters, however. The success which lias followed David O. Selznick's ventures in revlv ing classics of litera ture lias won him a well deserved acclaim. “Little Lord Fauntle- roy.” in which young Freddie Bartholomew, the English star, is featured, lias attracted about as much atten tion as "David Copper field.” which endeared Selzniek to the Dick ens fans of America and abroad. Faithful adherence to the story itself in the talkie ver sion was* responsible for much of its effectiveness. Lucien Littlefield, co-author of the screen version of "Early to Bed," has joined the cast which already includes Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland. The picture, originally called: “Where. Am I?” is a farce detailing the life and love of a clerk in a glass-eye factory. Rugflles plays the role of the clerk who Is engaged to Mary Boland. The picture develops a kick when the down trodden Ruggles goes berserk, quits his job and successfully establishes a rival glass eye company. ODDS AMD E\DS . . . Katherine Hep burn has so many pets her home resem bles a menagerie, uhat with cocker span iels. canaries, a monkey, a Siamese cat and a poodle . . . Robert Montgomery's face is adorned with a mustache for the first time in a new picture . . . Doug Fuirkanks, Jr., has sailed for Europe . . . Carole Lom bard was ill recently with a throat ailment that affected her voice . . . Al Jolson, Jr., recently celebrated*’ his first birthday; &ere was a party, a cuke, one candle and all the other trimmings . . . It is reported that Gary Cooper and wife will return from Bermuda a week earlier than they expected . . . They are still looking for i successor In the beloved Marie Dressier . . . "Captain Blood" recently had its opening in Belfast, Ireland, with Errol Flynn's father and mother in the audience © We*t«rq Newspaper Union Phy Just ai Important to Well-Balanced Life as Work A vacation helps to balance our powers, to give us41 more symmetri cal development. 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