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I McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936 BRISBANE THIS WEEK One King Dead. Next? One Lynched; One Jumped Hitler Picks Successor Three Kinds of Gold King Food. King of Egypt, dead means nothing to 130,000,000 Americans or to 15,000,000,000 other human beings iv?..',on earth. It means v"~ much to England, real ruler of Egypt, now obliged to find another king to “be have himself, do as England says,” and hold down Egypt’s anti-British hatred. i A mob seized Lint Shaw, fifty- year-old negro, and lynched him on “the usual charge,” not Arthur Brisbane wa Jting for a trial. Joe Bowers, sentenced to 25 years for mail robbery, locked in the island fortress of Alcatraz, tried to escape by climbing ten feet ef plain’ wire, two feet of barbed wire, and jumping down a 60-foot cliff into the water. He climbed while sharpshooter guards pumped bullets into him, and jumped' down the cliff. Asked when “booked” at Alcatraz, “Who is to be notified if you die?” Bowers replied: “Nobody; nobody cares whether I die or not”. JBltler apparently has chosen his successor “in case,” In the person of Air Minister Goerlng, now made “as sistant dictator,” with control of two great German problems of raw mate rials and foreign exchange. ' In New York, 175 naval cadets from the German cruiser Emden, name well remembered from the war, explore tTl* city, guarded by detectives in case of hostile demonstrations. Commercial boycotts of Germany, organised in New York, have done more harm to the Nazi government than could be done by any mob'attack on German cadets. • ' California possesses “three kinds of gold”: yellow gold, of which there Is plenty left in the ground; “black gold,” which is the oil in lakes thousands of feet down, and the “white gold.” water from the mountains, first used to. develop power, thea to .irrigate crops.- Another gold, more important than, those three, combined, is the gold of education. Driving through this country; If you see a particularly fine building, tall columns, wide grounds, fields for healthy play, that is a public school. Once it would have beep the prison or feudal castle. * : 1 You see another building, almost as Impressive as the high school, that Is a public library. The accumulated knowledge of the world Is free. Mrs. Grace Warren Dubois, sixty-two years old, was allowed to keep her seat While the* judge 'sentenced her to life imprisonment for killing her son.’-Or dinarily convicts must stand-for sen tence. .,*< It is said she thought her family “too aristocratic” to live In such times ■s these.-and wished to kill them all. Another son testified against 11 her. Newsboys cry “What :d«r:you read ?” The Niagara of books ppuring from the presses, a vast majpri^y forgotten as they are born, make many ask “What shall read?” Of th^ books that every one must v know, many are unn'eceS- ‘»rlly long, will not be read, and ’need condensation, in this Hay of newspa pers, moving pictures, and radio. If some publisher would . issue a “bookshelf” squeezed down from 12 feet lo 2 feet, that would be useful. Paris perceives that following recent elections extreme radicals will be pow erful to the new chamber, and those that have money left begin panicky selling. Bank of France shares drop violently, meaning lack of confidence in government stability, witli feat of war fin all minds. The last war knocked the franc from 10 cents to 4 cents. What would another war do? » When stock gambling starts, it moves rapidly. Since March fast year, stock prices have gone up 60 p^r cent, busi ness has increased 18 pgr cent, employ ment only 5 per cent. Not much cheer fulness in that. Bince last March the New York Stock exchange “values” have increased by twenty thousand million dollars. Excellent “bait” for the ignorant. 'mmur By Edward W. Pickard © Western ’Newspaper Union Italy Takes Addis Ababa; the Emperor Flees E mperor haile selassie of Ethiopia gaverup the hopeless fight against the Italian Invaders and fled from Addis Ababa with his family. Mussolini’s victorious troops soon after marched into the cap ital, the first to enter being a picked regi ment representing all units of the Italian army, the Askari, in fantry, artillery, air force, engineers, .gren adiers, bersaglieri, Al- pini, cavalry, marines and Fascist milltia- Halle Selassie men , Their coming was welcomed by the foreigners who remained in the city, for as soon as the negus left, the na tives bfgan to pillage, plunder and barn. The business center of the town was speedily wrecked and the government b Udings were stormed and ravaged, these Including the treas ury from which ’ the state’s store of gold was stolen, and the armory. The streets were strewn with corpses and the Ethiopians, crazed by liquor, rushed about shooting at random and gathering up their loot to carry it to the hills. Only one foreigner was reported killed. That was Mrs. N. A. Stadin, American wife of an Adventist mis sionary, who was struck by a stray bullet. Nearly all other foreigners were gathered in the well fortified British legation, but American Minis ter Cornelius Van H.. Eggert with his wife and the male members of the staff remained in the American com pound. They were armed- only with rifles and pistols and were under or ders from Secretary of State Hull not to risk their lives uselessly; but they were determined to hold the legation and radio station as long as possible. This plucky little group was attacked repeatedly by marauders but repulsed all onslaughts. Mr. Engert was in wire less commnnication with Washington.^ The British legation offered to send a detachment of Sikhs to escort the Americans to .the British compound, but Mr. Engert declined to leave his legation at that time. Next day he and his staff evacuated the compound. Haile Selassie went by train to Djibouti. French Somaliland, and was received with all honors at the gov ernor’s palace. He and his family boarded the British cruiser Enterprise and sailed for Palestine. At first it was rumored the French would hold him for 8; time, but later advices said the French and British governments had decided that he re mained a sovereign and must have full liberty of movement • So ends the military part of Mus solini's African adventure,* a success despite the opposition of the. League of Nations and the imposition of eco nomic and financial penalties. The duce announced the victory to his country from the chamber of 'deputies and there was wild rejoicing through out Italy. It is taken for granted Mus solini will set up an Amharic state in part of Ethiopia under a puppet em peror; and presumably Italy, France and Great Britain will get together and determine their respective zones of in fluence In the ancient empire. The hu miliated league can do nothing except lift the existing sanctions, which proved futile in halting the war. Brit ish Foreign Minister Eden and his fel lows in the government must admit as gracefully as possible their failure to check Mussolini and get what they can for Britain out of the African trag edy. France probably is not sorry over the outcome, for her opposition to the duce’s ambitious scheme always was half-hearted. Col. Henry Breckenridge, who offered himself to the Democrats as a Presi dential nominee aspirant merely so that disaffected members of the party might have some place to go, received about one-seventh of the votes In the Maryland preference primary. The rest, of course, went to Mr. Roosevelt. Colonel Breckenridge had made no campaign. Jew Jersey citizens dropped from ief Invade legislative halls, camp , "sleep on the floor, promise to re in until New Jersey supidles mosey I food. 'wing township. New Jersey, with X) population, taking 450 families the dole, told them officially to go and beg. Begging being illegal, h family was provided with a beg g license. That may be called otiomic relief.” . *♦ i okyo worries aboyt Russia "plot- ; a war against Japan.” but no plot- ; is necessary. Russia knows the lo on of everyMaimnese city, town and :©ry. It would be necessary only to tore war and start dropping bombs, ticularly bombs that spread tire, tartlng a war for foreign countries easy as “shooting up a gainblina * among our racketeers; no se plotting necessary. In* Ksatures Syndicate. Inc, WNU Service. m Vandenberg’s Name Is to Be Presented S ENATOR ARTHUR H. VANDEN- BERG of Michigan has asked Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald of that state to present his name to the Republican convention in Cleve land for the Presiden tial nomination, but the senator insists this does not make him an active candi date. “The Michigan state convention generously instructed the Michi gan delegation in Cleveland to present my name,” the senator said. “But the delega tion is unpledged—at my request. It is free to vote as it pleases. 1 have not sought a delegation here or elsewhere and I shall not do so. I have not sought the nomination and shall not do so. My situation is not changed in the slightest.” Friends of Senator Borah in L’tali tried unsuccessfully for a Borah pledged delegation from that state. The Republican state convention In Ogden voted to send an uninstructed group to Cleveland, following the recommenda tion of the resolutions committee. The Arkansas delegation also will be nninstructed, though the state con vention approved an “expression of gopd will” toward Gov. Alf I.andon. Senator Vandenberg Radicals Control French Chamber ol Deputies F INAL elections in France put com plete control of the chamber of dep uties in the hands of the revolutionary “Popular Front,” a coalition of Com munists, Socialists, Radical Socialists and minor left wing groups. The new chamber does not meet until June, and the oonfusion is so great that there are fears of chaos and financial panic in the Interim. Many believe the Popular Front will be unable to form a stable government to succeed that of Premier Sarraut-, The lead must be taken by the Socialists, for they now form the largest group in the chamber with 146 seats. The Radical Socialists have 115, the Communists 72 and minor left parties 44. The National bloc. Includ ing center and right parties opposed to the leftists, have 236 seats. Senator Hastings Will Not Seek Re-election D ANIEL O. HASTINGS, senator from Delaware, chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign com mittee and ontspoken opponent of the New Deal, will not seek re-election when his present term ex pires. He so an nounced in a letter to the party leaders of his state, giving ns his reason the neces sity to devote himself to his law practice. This may have Influ enced his decision, but it is more than sus- Sen. Hastings p €cte( j t jj at t jj e rea j reason was the fact that the du Pont family, all-powerful in Delaware Re publican politics, had decided that the senatorial seat should go to Gov. C. Douglas Buck, who is related to the du Fonts by marriage. Senator Hast ings has always been ready and elo quent in defense .of the du Fonts against attacks by the New Dealers. Navy Expansion Measure Passed by the House S INCE international naval disarma ment efforts have failed, those who advocate adequate national defense re joice in the passage by the house of the bill .appropriating approximately $531,000,000 to build our navy up to treaty strength. Representative Marc- antonio of New York and a few others put up loud opposition, but a record vote was not necessary. The objectors dwelt especially on a clause authoriz ing the laying of keels for two 35,000 top battleships after January 1, 1937, should any foreign signatory to the London naval treaty start a battleship replacement program. Two days later they might have read dispatches from London saying rumors had reached there that Japan was considering lay ing down a 55,000 ton battleship armed with 21-inch guns. Appropriations in the bill, along with other available funds, will give the navy a total of $592^237,807 for the next fiscal year, starting July 1. :w mmi if ¥i Business Men Differ With Mr. Roper D ANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of commerce, appeared before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Its annua] meeting In Wash ington and warned ™ Its members, most of p whom are persistsent * critics, of New Deal policies, that unless private enterprise' takes up the slack in employment, business must pay the relief bill out of earnings. “It is the responsi bility of all business and Industrial enter prises, said Roper, “and not of one particular segment of the governmpnt to Increase its efforts for greater employment. If a substan tial measure of increased re-employ ment does not take place the taxation for relief purposes will come largely from business earnings. There must be re-employment or a longer period of increased taxation.” Roper admitted that the adminls t-ration had fostered bureaucracy, but insisted that it was occasioned by an emergency, and responsibility for its increase again lay at the door of pri vate business. Various members of the chamber re plied spiritedly, Roy C.''Osgood, vice president of the First"Nfltional hank of Chicago, predicted that if the ad ministration embarked on a'soiind tis cal program that would inspire confi dence, business would make rapid strides toward recovery. He criticized the pending tax on corporate earnings as Impracticable and a brake on busi ness expansion and stability. Sen. Harrison Huge New Tax Measure Rushed Through House W ITH extraordinary speed which the opposition considered inde cent, the administration’s new $803,- 000,000, revenue bill was pushed through the house. The vote, 2G7 to 93, was almost strictly along party lines. The roll call showed 82 Republicans and only 11 Democrats voted against the measure, while four Republicans deserted the minority to cast their lot with the administration. The bill was handed to the senate whose finance committee, headed by Pat Har rison, had been studying it in secret cessions in order to be prepared for the public hearings that opened two days after the house had acted. There had been predictions that this Commit tee would modify the measure radical ly, but the opposition to it in Demo cratic ranks seemed to have faded away and Its passage by the senate without material change was deemed probable. ^ As passed by the house the bill pro vides : 1. A graduated tax on corporation Income which. It is estimated, will force distribution of $3,360,000,000 more In dividends and yield the gov ernment an additional $620,000,000 an nually. 2. A “windfall” tax on unpaid or re funded processing taxes Imposed under the invalidated AAA, which is expect ed to yield $100,000,000. 3. Continuation of the capital stocks and excess profits taxes for six months to yield $35,000,000. 4. A refund of $35,000,000 to proces sors who suffered financial losses un der the old AAA. Hagood Holds New Command One Day, Then Retires M AJ. GEN. JOHNSON HAGOOD, assigned to the command of the Sixth corps area with headquarters at Chicago, held the command only one day, as a matter of form, and then at his own request was relieved of the assignment and retired from active service. He .said he would remain in Chicago several months to do some special work for a mail order house and then would select a permanent res idence and write a book telling “how the United States can get a very much better national defense at very much less cost to the taxpayer.” Young Farouk Succeeds to Egyptian Throne C* UAD I, king of Egypt, died of a ^ gangrenous throat Infection at his country place near Cairo at the age of sixty-eight. The crown prince, Fa rouk, a sixteeniyear- old pupil in th£ royal military academy at Woolwich, England, was immediately pro claimed king and Start ed for Egypt, sailing from Marseilles on a British liner escorted by * British warship ggP§§J^PlH| 40 order to avoid* go- Hr & ing by way of Italy. Before his death King Farouk. Fuad named a regency council of three to govern the country until Farouk comes of age. The young king, who is six feet tall and well edu cated, hopes to return to England to complete his studies at Woolwich, Egypt elected a new parliament, and though returns are not in at this writing it is believed the Wafd or Nationalist party won a clear major ity of the seats. The Wafdists demand a free Egypt, completely rid of British influence and control. The negotiations for the new Anglo-Egyptian treaty were deferred until after the election. Bringing Back CCC to Its Authorized Strength D irector Robert fechner of the Civilian Conservation corps moved to bring the corps up to its au thorized strength of 350,000 by order ing state enrollment officers to disre gard previous quotas and accept any qualified boy from a relief family. At the same time, Fechner author ized enrollments in eight southern states omitted from the original sched ule. while the War department ordered corps area commandants to report on the number of recruits needed in each state. Estimating that between 30,000 and 35,(HK) new members would be required, Fechner attributed slowness of enroll ments to improving business conditions. Vacancies also exist for 4,000 war veterans. Urges New Compact on Neutrality and Rights T HROUGH Secretary of State Hull the United States has suggested the conclusion of a general convention to supplement and clarify existing rnles governing the rights and duties of neutrals in wartime. The proposal is made to the nations that will take part in the American peace conference In Buenos Aires this year, but is in tended to be open to all other nations «n the world. Pioneer Champion of Inland Waterways Is Dead J ames ell wood smith of st. Louis, who died the other day at the awe of eighty-five, had devoted much of his life and fortune to the jhuse of inland waterways transporta tion. He was one of the founders and the president emeritus of the Missis- uppi Valley association. Adventurers’ Club « 99 April Fool 9 s Tragedy By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. Y OU’VE all heard about the girl who plays a man like a fish on a line. Well, here’s a case where that situation was reversed. Distinguished Adventurer Patricia Root, of New York city, has come here to tell the story of how a man once played her like a fish on a line. What’s more, Pat Root isn’t a bit sore about it. As a matter of fact, she’s darned grateful to the guy. She would have died if he hadn’t—well—sort of made a sucker out of her. Fish lines can be pretty tough on fish, but this one meant life to Patricia. It happened on April Fool’s day in 1933—and you can forget about the date, because there’s no fooling about this adventure. Pat was visiting in the Virgin islands, way down in the West Indies, and as our story opens, she and five other people were starting out to go tarpon fishing. “But not tarpon fishing as most people picture it,” says Pat “We set out In a boat from the island of St. Thomas to Thatch Cay, a small key about a mile off shore. But there we left the boat, for we were going to do our fishing from the shore.” Pat Began Tarpon Fishing From a Rocky Ledge. Pat was just fifteen at the time. The others were older. There was John and his wife, Maria, Carl, and two-native Virgin Islanders, Wilmot and Paul. They crossed the key to a spot where a high Cliff ran right down Into the sea. There was a little ledge at the base?of the cliff Just big enough for one person to fish from. And there they fished for the big, hundred-pound fighting tarpon taking turns with the line down there on that narrow ledge. It was late afternoon before it came Pat’s turn to fish. She clam- . A bered down to the ledge and was a bit frightened at the way the waves boiled up, almost to the spot where she was standing. Says she: “We should never have gone tishing that day. There was a ground sea running and a ground sea has a peculiar motion. None of ns had noticed that the ocean was getting rougher. At least; I didn’t, until I-turned to look up at the others sitting on the top of the cliff and suddenly found myself engulfed hi water.” • ^ v She Was Washed Into the Shark • Infested Sea. .• A huge wave had leapt up and flooded the ledge Pat was standing on. Be fore she could catch herself she was washed off into the deep water. “For the moment,” she says, “I didn’t realize the terrible hopelessness of my position. I heard a splash beside me and saw Wilmot coine to the surface. He had Jumped from the top of the cliff.’. , , “Wilmot put an arm around* me and swam with me toward'the ledge. We reached it—clutched to it desperately—but neither of us could climb the sheer, precipitous.; side of the rock wall that led to it. tt was only then that r realized that we couldn’t get back on shore again.” Again and again, Wilmot carried Pat to the cliffslde, hut each time the dashing waves washed them back. Wflmot's strength was beginning to fail him. Carl Tossed the Strong Tarpon Line Into the Sea. but he still labored! frantically.,* He knew what Pat didn’t—that there were sharks in those waters and there wasn’t a moment to lose. Fishing for Human Lives in Storm Swept Waters. • At length, as he reached the ledge for the last time, a wave gashed him upon it, but by that time he was too weak to pull Pat after him. She was washed back out to sea while Wilmot, totally exhausted, lay on the ledge until Carl came down and carried him to the top of the cliff. While Carl was carrying Wilmot back to the clifftop, John, down on the ledge, was trying to reach Pat’s outstretched hands. A moment later another wave carried him off into the water, too. The waves were now rising so high that it waa dangerous ta.stand on the ledge. But Carl tried it. No sooner had he carried VVilmot ’to the top of the cliff than he started down again, this time with a strong tarpon line in hie hand. He tossed that into the water. John caught it and looped it around Pat “It got twisted around my neck,” Pat aays, “and for a moment I just hung there. A wave covered me and the line fell off. When I came up, I caught it again and twisted it around my finger.” And then began the queerest bit of life-saving you ever saw. Up on the ledge stood Carl, fishing rod in his hand, slowly bringing Pat in toward shore as if she were a fish. That line wasn’t strong enough to sustain her weight, so Carl “played” her—reeling in as she rose on the crest of a wave, and letting the line out as she fell again. The Waves Finally Tossed Her Up to Safety. Minutes passed while this strange game went on. Pat began to wonder if Carl would ever get her ashore. She was sore and bruised where the waves had dashed her body against the rocks. The thin line wrapited around her ham* was all but cutting her fingers in two. “I was beginning to bleed from my arms,” she says, “when I heard John shout for help three times. Then there came a long silence. I didn't know it then, but John was done for. A shark had gotten him.” . , . More minutes passed. Pat was gasping for breath—ready to faint from the torture of that cutting line. Then Carl took.a desperate chance. Shouting to her to keep up her courage he began to reel in the line. Inch by Inch she neared the ledge. It was almost within her reach—she had her hand on it. Then, at the crucial moment, a wave came to her rescue and washed her bodily up on the ledge. Carl carried her back to the top of the cliff, bruised. Exhausted and covered with blood. “Since that day,” says Pat, “1 have forgotten the real meaning of April Fool’s day. To me it has become the anniversary of an awful tragedy.” ©—WNU Service. February Called Cabbage Month; Later Sun Month The ancient Saxons called February Sproutkale, or the Sprouting of the Cabbage. Later, this was changed to Sunmonath, or sunmontb. because it was at this period that daylight in creased and the pruning of trees began. The word February comes from the Latin, “februare,” meaning “to expi ate,’’ because, during this month the Roman ceremony of purification took place. Originally, it was the last month of the year,.and not until 452 B. C. did February assume its present place. When Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, he gave 31 to each al ternate month from January, and 30 to the others, with the exception of February, which got 30 in leap year and 29 every other year. But when Augustus took power, he was unwilling that the month named after him should be shorter than those on either side, so he took a day from February and added it to August. So that three months of 31 days should not run con secutively. he reversed the other two. •A Must Think First “Mr. Goiidy. the great typographer, when he was asked how he designed a new font of type, brooded a while and then lie said, ’Why. you think of a letter and draw around It.’ But whatever method the writer adopts, or finds forced upon him. his first proh lem is to teach himself to think; ami to find audience which Is hospitable t« tbought.“j—Christopher Morley.