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% • V 1 . v jjfcja BRISBANE THIS WEEK Six Babies in Three Days World’s Greatest Terror Another Mild Bad Man How to Avoid Thought President Sacasa of Nicaragua con firms officially the statement that a very poor woman on the “distant shore of Lake Nlca- r a g u a h a a given birth to seven ba bies.' 1 The mother, Mrs. Slnforosa Martinez, had a difficult time. The births stretched over three days— May .'t, 4 and 5. The babies’ names are, or were, Jose Jesus, Ha mon del Carmen, Marla del C a r rn e n, Socorro del Carmen, Marls de Jesus and Juana Itainona. Arthur Brlabane The seventh name was not tele- graphed, for there was no seventh, ns* It was expected there would be. Five of the sextuplets are already dead. Only one, a girl, lives. What would population of the earth be if such births were the rule and all lived? At the opening of the Catholic press exhibition In Vatican City, Pope Plus, for the second time within two days, cautioned the world against commu nism, which he called '-‘the great terror which threatens all the world.” News Review of Current Events the World Over Borah Loses Ohio Primary—House Defeats Frazier-Lemke Inflation Bill—Tugwell’s Report on His Resettlement Administration. By EDWARD W. PICKARD $ Western Newspaper Union. For the comfort of those that live in dread of final Communist world conquest, It may* be said that thus far nothing opposed to human nature has ever succeeded. P.v the arrest In California of Thom as H. Itoblnson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll, Mr. Hoover and his G-men brought Into the shadow of the electric chair the last of the group of danger ous criminals that have recently been wandering about the country. This "bad man,” like others recently gathered In, shook with fright when he found the gun pointed at him, made no effort to fight. When the guns are pointed the wrong way, “bod men” oft en change to good, meek and scared men. Stamp collectors have held a celebra tion, grateful to Doctor Kckener for a now kind of stamp. How many ways man finds to keep busy and at the same time avoid thinking! Collecting queer things, stamps or tear Jugs; playing bridge, working cross-word puzzles, playing solitaire, rushing to the far corners of the world to spend money—usually not earned; going to Africa to kill big game ani mals. Those are some substitutes for thinking and working constructively, the only occupation worthy of a hu man being. C ENATOR WILLIAM RQRAH banked ^ heavily on success in the Ohio Presidential preference primary, but the Republicans of that state turned him down decisively In favor of their "fa vorite son,” Robert A. Taft, son of the late President Taft. Of the 51* delegates to the Cleveland convention, Borah captured only five, the others, In cluding the delegates at large, being Taft men. The winning del egation will he virtu ally unpledged, be- Senator Borah cause It will vote for Taft only on the first ballot. Mr. Borah did not take this defeat calmly. He gave out a state ment In Washington accusing the Re publican organization leaders of ma nipulating the votes of colored citizens against him by promising the passage of federal anti-lynching legislation which he has opposed as unconstitu tional. The Idaho senator added: “The Republican party will go Into the campaign laying great stress upon Constitutional Integrity and the pres ervation of state rights. “The men who are In control of the party, and who will likely be In con trol of the convention, will write Its platform and name Its candidate, have already demonstrated that they care nothing nl>o||t Constitutional Integrity or the preservation of state rights, that their talk on this subject Is hypocritical and Intellectually dishonest. Ohio Democrats polled about fiOO.OOO votes In the primary, nearly lOO.tKK) more than the Republicans, and they expressed their preference for Mr. Roosevelt over Col. Henry Brecken- rldge to the tune of 1G to 1. They also renominated Gov. Martin L. Davey, who will he opposed by John W. Brick- er. Itepuhlican. In November. West Virginia also held primaries and there Borah and Roosevelt won easily over nominal opposition. The states Republican delegation, however, will go to the convention uninstructed. It Is Interesting to note that one of Ohio’s delegates at Cleveland will be Alice Roosevelt l.ongwnrth daughter of “T. R.” and a spectator at many previous conventions. the senate at the Instance of Renatoi Lewis of Illinois. Two years ago, whei Mr. Ickes was at the height of hit power, he wanted the title altered tc "secretary of conservation and works’ and.hoped that many of the agencies of the Department of Agriculture would he transferred to his department. But Secretary Wallace objected strenuous ly. and lately so much has been taken out of Mr. Ickes’ hands that Senator Lewis cut Ms bill to the one paragraph, making the change of title and leaving off “and works.” W ORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS TRATOR HARRY HOPKINS Is sued an order to state WPA director* instructing 'them not to employ armed guards, not^to spy on workers and not to blacklist workers who organize. The order was Issued following a conference with Victor F. Rldder, New York city WPA administrator, who em ployed a detachment of guards to pro tect his office against antl-WPA dem onstrations which Mr. Rldder asserts were stirred up by Communists, C hancellor kurt schusch- NIGG'of Austria has long been at outs with the vice chancellor, Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, and now he has got rid of that active young man and is practically the eole. dictator of the country. This was accomplished by the resignation of the cabinet and Its reconstruction Immediately with Von Starhemberg left ont Schusch- nigg is not only chancellor but also minister of defense and foreign mlnla* ter. Von Starhemberg had antagonized Schuschnlgg by insisting on keeping up his own private army, the Heimwehr, and also by his friendliness toward Mussolini and his general Fascist sym- patbiea , , Manual Azana /''hPPOSITION In tlje senate finance committee to the corporate profits' tax In the administration’s $803,000,000 revenue bill was so strong that both Democrats and Republicans sought for some compromise. Treasury officials were heard In favor of the measure as passed by the house, but former treas ury officials and various business and Industrial leaders speaking in opposi tion, were seeming!^ more persuasive. Senator Tom Connally of Texas put forward a plan he thought all might agree upon. It would retain the 15 per cent corporation Income tax and re peal only the capital stock and excess profits taxes. Instead of repealing all corporation taxes as proposed In the house bill. In addition It would super impose a graduated tax on undistrib uted earnings, exempting the first per cent on the amount retained. The house bill reaches a maximum of 4L’V4 per cent of the total income If none is distributed. Senator Byrd of Virginia, another of the Democrats opposed to the house hill, showed. In a letter to Secretary Morgenthau. that 11 of the largest Corporations In the country would pay no taxes under the Roosevelt bill W K ’ V (Ml Mrs. James C. Cniii[>« of Clovis, New Mexico, as a girl was not able to finish high school, hut that did not discour age her. She waited some years. Then she Joined the senior high school class with her son and daughter In-law, and will graduate with them this month, among the most brilliant scholars. Chancellor Hitler, w ho was never mar ried, nevertheless thinks marriage a good Idea. Young Nazis, Ir the public employ, have been told that unless they marry by the time they are twen ty-six years old there Is something the matter with their “courage and will power.” A syndicate is formed to seek the “buried gold bugs of Alexander the Great” containing at least $300,000,000 In yellow wealth. Alexander the Great’s ghost might he surprised to hear about that. Alex ander was too busy to collect gold, and not the kind of man to bury It in a hole. Encouraged by her father, a sixteen- year-old high school girl walked onto the wing of a small plane, prepared for a first parachute Jump, at l,f*0U feet. The pilot Npercelved that the parachute cord had been pulled prema turely; pulled her hack Into the cock pit In time to save her from death. Without requiring encouragement, Mrs. Harriet O. Hague, eighty-six years (dd, flew the ocean on the lllndenburg return trip. Tell that to your friend who used to oppose female suffrage “because women are not brave like men.’’ ARE not going to have any urreney inflation, at least be fore next session of congress. The Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinanc ing bill, dragged out of committee by a petition signed by 218 house mem bers, and then hotly debated for a day, was defeated by the decisive vote 2!h r ) to 142. The bill called for the print ing of three billion dollars for its financing. The petition signers Included 159 Democrats, and before the vote every one of them was told by I’at Boland of Pennsylvania, the party whip, that the President didn't want the measure passed at this time and that If the member voted for the hill it would he Just too had for him. Besides this |»o tent argument the Democratic leaders Induced President William Green of the American ’ederaflon of Labor to Intervene and he called together the federation's executive council and had It wrife a letter saying it was opposed to the bill because of the Inflation fea Hire. This was read to the house by Speaker Byrns and undoubtedly af fected the vote, though some members reseuied being told what to do by Mr. Green. There was relief in the White House when It was announced the President would not have to veto such a measure in an election year. R' R. G. r>K ESI DENT ROOSEVELT w as sup * posed to have abandoned for the present the Florida ship canal and Passamaquoddy tidal power projects for which the house refused to appro \ priate further funds. But Senator Robinson of Arkansas was called to the White House for a conferen* e and ' returned to ttra house to' introduce a resolution authorizing the President to ! appoint engineering hoards of review j for the two schemes. The hoards would present (heir HTuI ings by June 29. and. If favorable the President would have authoriza tion to s'M aside $l().UOO.iKHi fnr the canal and S'.MMMUMH) for Passaiuaqiiod dy out of available relief nn ney. Germany Is building many fleets of small aircraft, and some day this coun try’s automobile men will turn to air plane building; then, those already past sixty may live to see in the air 25,000,000 flying machines one for every automobile on the ground. The Italian flag files over Halle Selassie’s palace, lie will never see that palace again, hut he has boxes of gold bars with him and has moved to a safer, better climate. The civilized world, whatever Its at titude toward the slave dealing alleged descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, must rejoice In Mus aolini's proclamation abolishing slavery throughout Ethiopia, where slaves have been the chief cash-producing product £ King Feature* Syndicate, lue. WFU Service, N t EW’I’ON D. BAKER and Dean 1 Acheson, counsel, for live power companies that are trying.to block the government s nutulcJpaL power pro gram. inet with defeni in the District of Columbia Supreme court w’hen they sought lo subpoena correspondence be tween President Roosevelt and Sctjre tary Ickes Jerome Frank a New Deal attorney, stated that the President lint 1 directed that his “privilege” of tes I- -morfiaI immunity he as^Mted in me case a ml thief Justice Wheat refused to issue the subpoena I F Till, house comurs In senate ac tion. ihe title of Harold L. Ick *« w.ll i*e changed trmu secretary of the in terior to secretary of conservation. A hill making the change wan passed by tion. Rexford Tugwell made a re port on the activities of the resettle ment administration of which he Is the head. He showed that It has 15.804 em ployees on the admin istration pay roll and has been allotted $275,549,544 to spend. Of this amount, the report stated. $98.- 347,005 has been spent and a total of $173,- 09L$23 obligated, leav ing $102,458,112 unln cunihered.x Tugwell Up t0 Appl) 15 ac cording to the report, the resettlement administration had taken options on 9.670,000 acres of land, of which op- Tloris on 8,409.000 acres, costing $30.- ■ ’44.000. ha 1 become legal commitments As of May 1, the report said, 59.521 persons, including 3.581 nr^ the CCC pay roll, were employed Ir. connection with the land acquisition program. The report stated that a recent sur voy indicated that “the purchase of approximately 24.noo.otlO acres of land would he needed to block in and round out” the existing projects and to es tablish a minimum number of new projects. Of 33 subsistence homestead pro.l ects. construction has been completed on 18, is In progress on 11 and final plans have been drafted for 4. The re- IMtrt lists (our suburban housing proj ects. financed from a $31,000,000 allo cation for this purpose. They are In Berwyn. Md.. Bound Brook, N. J.. Mil waukee. and t’lnclnnatl. On rural rehabilitation, the report says the KA has cared for more than S00.000 families. For its rehabilitation advances to Individual "clients.” the administration will expend $100,000,000 through June 30. There jyere more than 71,000 work ers eutploxed on projects financed by the organization during April, the re port states, adding that the peak is ex pected to be reached during the sum mer with 100,000 workers. M ANUEL azana was advanced from the premiership to tbe presi dency of Spain by almost unanimous vote of tbe 874 electors gathered In the Crystal palace at Madrid. He succeeds Nlceto Alcala Zamora wbo was removed from office on a charge of malfeasance after the Leftist victory In tbe recent elections. Azana, fifty-six years old, Is a lawyer, ora tor and playwright and is regarded as the most astute politician In Spain. To tbe noti fication committee he said: “Spain may rest assured that I will be loyal to tbe principles of democracy and that the welfare of the nation will be my constant concern.’* TT INDENBURG, the Immense dlrlgl- A* ble, carrying 107 persons, paall and freight, made the flight from Frled- richshafen to Lakehurst, N. J., In 61 hours and 57 minutes and was wel comed by thousands of Americans, In cluding R. Walton Moore of the State department who brought the greetings and congratulations of President Roose velt Three days later the airship started back to her new base at Frank- furt-on-Maln. The dirigible was In the command of Capt. Ernst Lehmann, but he received far less attention here than did Dr. Hugo Eckener, the veteran skip per of Zeppelins, Eckener, In bad with the Nazis at home, was permitted to be aboard the ship as an “adviser.” He and Captain Lehmann went to Wash ington together, while the ship was b$-< Ing groomed for the return flight, to call on President Roosevelt and other officials and return their greetings. On the return flight the Hindenburg traveled swiftly, reaching Frankfurt-on- Maln 48 hours and 18 minutes after the departure from Lakehurst. The Hindenburg is to make ten com mercial trans-Atlantic trips this sum mer. DARK TRAMMELL, veteran United ' States senator from Florida and a staunch supporter of all New Deal measures, died In Washington of a cerebral hemorrhage which followed an attack of Influenza. Though III, he tried to remain on the senate floor long enough to vote for a proposal to Include $12,000,900 In the War depart ment appropriation bill for continua tion of the Florida ship canal This effort probably cost him bis life. S OME two thousaud delegates were present when the annual conven tion of the American Red Cross was opened In Chicago by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the national chairman. Speak ers at early sessions Included Mayor Ed Kelly, and Ralph Christian, school boy of Birmingham. Ala., representing the Junior Red Cross. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Vaughan, a nurse of St. Louis, was awarded the Florence Nightingale med al for her long record of nursing serv ice. Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr., the new sur geon general of the United States pub lic health service, was present and made a speech, and talks were deliv ered by Robert E. Bondy, director of national disaster relief, and others wbo directed activities In tbe flood and storm areas. Nttioaal Topic* Interpreted by William Bruckart National Press Building Washington, D. C. CECI ^ wt B; EGA USE the League of Nations •otincil would not immediately rec ognize Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia and the creation of the new Roman em pire, Premier Mussolini recalled his rep resentatives from Geneva, and before long Italy may quit the league entirely. At present it is merely “not partici pating” in its activities. The council had adopted a new resolution virtually condemning again Italy’s aggression In East Africa and then adjourned until June 15. Previously Baron potnpel Alois!, chief of the Italian delegation, had walked out of a session of the council because Wolde Mariam. Ethiopian representa tive. was |>ermltled to take a seat and present a plea from Emperor Haile Se lassie. ECRETARY ICKES’ supporters ere eusiiy defeated by tbe Harry Hopkins fyrees lo tbe bouse fight as to whether/Hie Public Works administra tion shauld share In the handling of next year's relief funds. But It was understood the feud would be revived in the senate under the leadership of Senator Hayden of Arizona, Demo- i rat and a member of the appropria tions committee. The house majority voted according to the wishes of the administration on the relief bill, which Is a $2,364,229,712 ueasure carrvlng $1,425,000,000 to finance the Works Progress adminis tration after July 1. In addition to the relief ‘appropria tion, the bill carries $458,631,860 for the social security program. $39,900,000 for the Tennessee Valley Authority, *400.000 for continuing the communi cations commission’s telephone Inquiry,' and various new and deficiency amounts ror other agencies. The must Important amendment per mitted to be added to tbe bill by i he house leaders was one submitted by Representative William P. Connery providing that the prevailing wage in communities be paid to WPA workers. Ickes signified his acceptance of de feat in the battle for funds by order-, Ing an immediate cut of 25 per cent in PWA personnel In Washington and throughout the country. This affects 2,000 persons. M USTAPHA NAHAS PASHA, lead er of the Wafd or Nationalist party in Egypt, haa become premier and formed a new government In which he holds also tbe post of min ister of the Interior. Wasyf Glial! Pasha Is his foreign minister and Gen. All FaTAny Pasha la minister of war and marine. Washington.—With tbe national con vention of the Republicans only a week away, New Deal Seek to strategists are Disrupt C. O. P. bending every ef fort toward a pro gram designed to make a knock-down and drag-out fight of that session. It Is not disclosing any secret to say that the New Dealers are using this weapon up to the hilt because disruption of the Republican party would make victory easy for Candidate Roosevelt. Predictions In politics always are perilous. Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas seems to be In the lead at this time for the Republican nomination, but there are many observers through out the country who contend that the "Kansas Coolidge” cannot win, and that various other aspirants for the nomination, men whose hats are In the ring, likewise must be counted out. This is to say that a feeling is growing that a dark horse will be nominated. From the strictly Washington view point, which may be different than else where In the country, astute political observers are convinced that there must be a swift change In sentiment to keep the nomination away from Gover nor Landon. Yet, -It must be said that politics Is fraught with Just such things and so It is entirely possible that the Republican nominee may be someone other than the present appar ent leader in the race. Those who feel that Governor Lan don will he the nominee claim he has played his cards well. But others in sist that the Kansas governor made a had mistake In allowing his name to be linked with the Ilearst faction In California. Indeed, I have heard com ment that this fact alone will defeat Governor Landon. • • • It has been Interesting to observe the maneuvers of the New Deal strategists , • with reference to the ■ ”***> Deal London boom. Some Strategy observers contend that the efforts be ing put forth from New Deal quarters In an attempt to discredit Governor Landon were being engineered because the New Deal fears Governor Landon as a Roosevelt opponent more than It fears some of the other candidates for the nomination. Frank R. Kent, the Washington commentator for the Dem ocratic Baltimore Sun, asserted that the New Deal activity against Lantloi/s nomination constituted “the best evi dence of the increasing protutbilify” of the Kansas governor’s nomination. Mr. Kent did not say that whifN some other Informed writers feel, namely, that the Landon candidacy would mean a hitter campaign on the ixirt of the Roosevelt forces to re-elect the Presi dent. Nevertheless. It has been inter estlng to note the various ways In which Roosevelt spokesmen and Demo cratic publicity men have been trying to show the country that Governor Landon Is not the man who should he nominated. I have no quarrel with these efforts. It is the game of politics. Virtually anything goes. It is to he assumed that present Republican maneuvers will he concentrated In a few weeks on Mr. Roosevelt personally as the Democratic candidate. In fact, one hears expres sions around Washington flint for tHe first time in Mr. Roosevelt's political career, he Is going to he directly under fire. Just In this eon sect ion. one can re- >n1l that through most of the New Deal administration, criticism of New Deni policies and plans, almost without ex ception. was directed at Roosevelt np polntees. The President himself has been exceptionally free from the type of personal attack that frequently char acterizes political opposition. He has ^tnd absolutely none of the kind of criticism that occurred in the Hoover administration and was directed at Herbert Hoover, personally. So, as we look at the campaign pic Hire just aheat. of the Republican con vention and only a month In advance of the meeting of the Democrats at Philadelphia where President Roose velt will he renominated, without op position in his own 4»arty. I think It ran be said without fear of contradic tion that both candidates this year are going to be smeared personally Just as fast and as long as the ammunition holds out. • • • While we are talking about the forth coming quadrennial conventions, the two keynote S|>euk- The ers naturally enter Keynoters * n, ° an J' discussion. Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky will do the key noting for the Democrats at Philadel phia and Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon will deliver the main address to the Cleveland convention of the Re publicans. Senator Barkley was the keynoter at the Chicago convention when Mr. Roosevelt was nominated by the Democrats four years ago and, al though it is a subject not freely tils cussed, it Is said in high places that Mr. Roosevelt wanted the same man ,to do the job again, believing the Ken tuckian to be an omen of good luck. The selection of Senator Steiwer was one of those things that can be said to be a surprise and yet not a surprise. He is, without doubt, a good man for the Job. Yet In some quarters there is g conviction that Senator Steiwer was picked by the so-called “Old Guard” of eastern Republicans. Some observers still hold the belief that the selection of Senator Steiwer was not wholly pleasing to the Landon forces but be that as It may;’ ‘there has been no par ticular ill feeling created by It If It represents a piece of strategy by the eastern Republicans w’ho were dealing- with their problem by remote control they apparently have played inla_the- hnnds of the more liberal wing of Re publicans. It is being predicted rather freely that thfe Oregon senator’s key note speech' will lean strongly to the liberal side but that it will stress sound economics. The best advance Information obtain able on Senator Barkley’s plans Is *hnt he will devote the hulk of his time os the convention platform to a review of Roosevelt accomplishments In the be lief that such a review will take his presentation out of the class of a “de fense" speech. Those with whom l have talked concerning the Barkley speech believe he has adopted a smart political course; that he feels there is no need to defend anything that has been done and that the record Itself Is the thing upon which the Democratic party can make a plea for re-election of Sir. Roosevelt. Having observed Senator Barkley In action In the senate for a number of years, I believe lam Justified in saying that he is a square shooter and a fighter. In thTs respect, he and Senator Steiwer, the Republican keynoter, are much the same type of man and. there fore. If either convention gets off on a wrong foot, the fault will He with the convention managers rather than with the proposals offered by the men who are supposed to lay before the dele gates a rough outline of their respec tive party’s campaign policies. Concerning the record of the key noters In the senate, each stands four square. Senator Barkley has consis tently battled In behalf of the Presi dent and New Deni policies throughout Mr. Roosevelt’s administration. Senator Steiwer has been Just as consistent in his opposition. Certainly, Senator Steiwer has been much more outspoken against New Deal policies than most of his Republican colleagues, and much more so than Senator McNary. • • • For many months Washington has heard the plaint of business leaders who wanted to fight rear socialistic schemes *Crack Down' an<1 nnsoumi eco nomic policies given birth hy New Deal brain trusters but were afraid to do so because of “re taliation.” Almost constantly, informa tion has filtered Into Washington to the effect that if a corporation undertook to oppose Nety Deal plans vigorously, there was danger that some agency of the government would “crack down" on them. Much of this Information has been taken bj? Washington observers with a grain of salt hut a different ns- l>ect has been placed on the situation lately. it was In the senate that a New Deal Democrat. Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington, broke loose with state ments that seemed to substantiate tbe fear voiced so frequently by business. Senator Bone charged that there was a veritable and “budding OGPU” organ ized within the government. The OGPU, as most persons realize. Is 4he secret spy system of the Russian Sovi et and 1 think no one In this country has a complete knowledge of its vi cious character. So. when Senator Bone likened the espionage system In our government to the OGPU, be was making, to my mind, one of "the most serious charges yet leveled at the Roosevelt administration. Of course. Senntor Rone was attack Ing this espionage svstem because of a feeling that If might be used to co erce members of congress and ezen executive or administrative officers of the government who were opposed to plans propa-nted hv Presidential ad visers His thought obviously concerned the political phases of such a system, hut the fact that he brought the mat ter to public attention serves. In a measure, certainly, to substantiate some of tlie claims that business inter ests have made. I am unable, however to reconcile Senator Bone’s position.respecting the OGPU which he charged \^Jts In opera tion within the government and his ut ter silence when the obnoxious senate lobby committee, headed hy Senator Black. Democrat, of Alabama, engaged In the wholesale seizure of private tel egrams It will he recalled that I re ported In these columns how Senator Black and agents of the Federal Com munications commission went Into the files of the Western Union Telegraph company and carried off literally thou sands of private telegrams. I was con vlnoetl then and I repeat It now that the Black Seizure was nothing mon than an attempt to dig up dirt o D „ny body against whom they could find dis crediting Information. Yet. Senator Bone, by his silence, condoned that course only to denounce later the s\s teuis of so-called “Inspectors’’ used bv Secretary Ickes of tbe Department of the Interior and reputedly by several other agencies of the government I can only hope that if Senntor Bone’s charges are true that the usual comb tion will result, namely, that there will be other sides to spy on lhe»e>me«. C v\ *ti<nn I •'-(