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Belief for Aliens.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—If
an American were depend
ent on public charity in any
continental country, he’d be out
of luck and out of that country,
too, as quickly as they could
him out.
If, in addition, he openly attacked
the government of that country, he’d
still be out of luck
because he’d be in
jail.
Hundreds of thou- mmm
sands of aliens are
on relief here. Many
of them slipped
across ttye borders
through leaks in our
immigration laws—
and brought their
folks with them, al
so to be cared for
at the taxpayers’ jrvin S. Cobb
expense. Some are
avowed enemies of our form of
government.
Steps to oust such parasites are
balked on the ground that to do so
would work hardships on their fam
ilies. You could say the same thing
for bedbugs.
We’re starting to register these
non-residents. But it’s to be a “vol
untary” registration, not compul
sory. Any person in the audience,
besides Madame Perkins, who be
lieves the undesirables will come
a-running to list themselves, and
risk deportation thereby, kindly
raise the right hand.
• • •
Champion Crooks.
T RUST California to turn up with
a world’s champion of some
thing. They arrested a man on sus
picion of burglary and forgery and
organizing a training school for ju
venile criminals and first one little
thing and then another.
Surely that would seem to be ca
reer enough, but this party had ad
ditional claims to recognition. He
admitted he had been sentenced
to forty-nine terms ill various jails
and penitentiaries, which in itself
would seem to constitute an inter
national record, and said that in
forty-three of these cases he had
been paroled. He didn’t explain
how the big hearted parole boards
failed to turn him loose before he
finished those remaining six sen
tences.
It must be profound regret to the
boys in Alcatraz and other bide-a-
wee homes conducted by the feder
al government that, owing to the
cruel refusal of Uncle Sam to go
into the paroling business on a
wholesale basis, none of them, how
ever ambitious, has a chance to
equal this splendid showing.
The honor remains where prop
erly it belongs, constituting a mag
nificent tribute to the beautiful
mush-headed theory that a state’s
prison should be a clearing house
and not a strong-box with a time-
lock on it.
• • •
Nasi Influence.
I ’VE been talking with a friend just
back from Germany. In old days,
I liked Germany as a land flowing
with gemuetlich and good beer and
a superior line of liverwurst. I won
der whether I’d like it so well now.
Because this fellow says every
minute everybody must give the
Nazi salute and say, “Heil, Hitler!”
If a citizen wants his eggs fried,
he says first to the wuiter, “Heil,
Hitler!” If he wants ’em turned
over, he says it twice—once for
each egg.
There’s a swastika flag flying over
practically every house. Absence
of a swastika flag signifies that the
folks who used to live there are now
in the hoosegow for failing to fly
same.
My friend may have exaggerated
somewhat, but, I think, not much,
because while talking we came
abreast of a Leiderkranz cheese in
a delicatessen store window and
involuntarily he said, “Heil, Hit
ler!”
• * •
Nominating Barkley.
/CANVASSES show Senate Leader
^ Alben Barkley gaining as a pos
sible Democratic nominee in 1940.
It’s high time we had somebody
from Paducah for President. For
a hundred and fifty-odd years this
republic has fooled along without
one of our local boys sitting up
there in the White House, writing
messages to congress condemning
the use of sugar in cornbread and
proclaiming that, if any traitor
dares to pull down fried catfish,
shoot him on the spot.
With Alben on the job, we’ll not
only have homegrown statesmanship
in job lots, but silver-throated ora-
tory, which, by comparison, would
make Patrick Henry seem like a
tongue-tied man suffering from
chapped lips. For A1 can talk an
hour and never use the same word
twice or the letter “r” once.
Nominate Barkley and that night
there won’t be a dry throat in Mc
Cracken county. Elect Barkley
and—well, I always did think I’d
make a middling fair Secretary of
the Interior; certainly nobody could
botch up the Indian bureau worse
than it is.
IRVIN S. COBB.
e—WNU Service.
Xew* Review of Current Events
FAR EAST CONFERENCE
Davis Heads American Delegation to Brussels • • •
Trying for Labor Peace a a s • Special Session
iio
Secretary of the Navy Swanson pinning a special congressional medal
on Admiral Richard E. Byrd for the contribution he, with other members
of the second Byrd antarctic expedition, which ended in 1935, made to sci
ence. The other members of the expedition received similar awards.
Looking on are Admiral William Leahy, center, and William C. Haines,
meteorologist. *
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
G Western Newspaper Union.
Norman H.
Davis
ambassador.
Davis Sent to Brussels
XT ORMAN H. DAVIS is on his way
to Brussels, Belgium, as head
of the American delegation to a con
ference of the signatories of the
nine - power treaty
Which, the optimists
iiope, will put an end
to the warfare be
tween Japan and
China. More realis
tic observers of the
course of events
have no such expec
tation, for the pact
has no “teeth” and j
the conferees can do
little except talk.
Associated with
Mr. Davis, the ad
ministration’s roving
are Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck and
Pierrepont Moffat as advisers. Rob
ert T. Pell is the press officer and
C. E. Bohlen is secretary of the
delegation.
Before sailing for Europe the dele
gates received instructions from
President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Hull, but these were not
revealed to the public.
The invitation to the conference
was issued by the Belgian govern
ment “at the request of the British
government and with the approval
of the government of the United
States.” China and Japan are both
signatories to the treaty. The for
mer accepted the invitation to the
Brussels meeting, but it was be
lieved Japan would not be repre
sented there. Tokyo has maintained
the policy that the Sino-Japanese
troubles must be settled without the
intervention of other nations.
Labor Peace Parley •
T EADERS in the American Fed-
L-* eration of Labor and the C. I. O.
gathered in Washington for a con
ference designed to end the warfare
between those divi
sions of organized
labor in America.
Some of them
thought the negotia
tions might result in
an early settlement
of their disputes or
at least a truce.
Neither President
Green nor John L.
Lewis ventured any
„ « . - prediction as to the
Secy.Perkins outcome of the de .
liberations. Some students of labor
politics were inclined to think peace
was not yet in sight and could not
be brought about without the remov
al of Green from the A. F. of L.
presidency and the elimination of
Lewis from consideration for th%t
post. Their suggestion was that
peace might be negotiated eventual
ly by replacing Green with some
such labor figure as Charles P. How
ard, president of the International
Typographical union, or Edward F.
McGrady, former assistant secre
tary of labor and now Radio Cor
poration labor relations chief, and
by giving industrial union groups
stronger representation in shaping
the federation’s .policies.
President Roosevelt displayed ac
tive interest in the labor controversy
and received Secretary of Labor
Perkins at his Hyde Park home,
where for three hours they dis
cussed the subject. The restoration
of harmony in labor’s ranks is con
sidered of great importance to the
administration for both economic
and political reasons.
* Secretary Perkins announced in
Washington that she had named a
federal committee on apprentice
training to become a permanent
agency in the Labor department. Its
purpose, she said, is “to provide a
sufficient number of highly skilled
!$i
in ex
workers to supply the country’s
growing needs and to guarantee a
thorough trade preparation for ap
prentices.”
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Straus Heads Housing
XJATHAN STRAUS of New York
city was named administrator
of the $526,000,000 federal housing
program by President Roosevelt.
He is the son of the late Nathan
Straus, philanthropist, and has been
connected with the housing work in
New York. His appointment was
considered a victory for Senator
Wagner over Secretary Ickes who
wanted Howard Gray of the PWA
named.
Arkansas Picks Miller
J OE ROBINSON’S successor as
senator from Arkansas will be
Congressman John E. Miller, Demo
crat, for he defeated Gov. Carl G.
Bailey in the special election by an
impressive majority. The Republi
cans had no candidate. Miller has
been a rather lukewarm supporter
of the New Deal in congress.
Airliner Wrecked; 19 Dead
S MASHING against Hayden peak,
in the Uinta mountains of Utah,
a big transcontinental airliner of
the United Air Lines was totally
wrecked and its passengers and
crew, numbering 19 persons, were
killed. The debris was sighted by
scout planes some 10,000 feet up the
mountainside, but efforts of rescue
parties to reach the scene were
hampered by heavy snow.
Special Session Called
pONGRESS was called
1 traordinary session to start No
vember 15, and immediately after
ward President Roosevelt explained
in a “fireside chat”
over the radio the
necessity for this as
he sees it. Report
ing cheerfully on his
western trip, he out
lined the legislative
program which he
declared the Amer
ican people need to
promote prosperity.
These are the five
measures he said
should be passed
without delay:
Crop production control to “build
an all-weather farm program so
that in the long run prices will be
more stable.”
Wage and hour standards to
“make millions of our lowest paid
workers actual buyers of billions of
dollars of industrial and farm prod
ucts.”
Regional planning to conserve nat
ural resources, prevent floods and
produce electric power for general
use.
Government reorganization to pro
vide “Twentieth century machin
ery” to make the “democratic proc
ess work more efficiently.”
Stronger antitrust laws in further
ance of “p low price policy which
encourages the widest possible con
sumption.”
Chairman O’Connor of the house
rules committee predicted the house
would pass a farm bill in the first
week of the session and then take
up the wage and hour measure.
Some Democratic leaders said the
labor bill, which was passed by the
senate in the last session but held
up in the house rules committee,
would probably be the only one of
the five measures to get through
congress in the special session.
Even that is strongly opposed by
southern Democrats and has been
condemned by the American Fed
eration of Labor.
President
Roosevelt
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
S OMETIMES a bad break in
Hollywood leads to a good
one, which is just another way
of saying that motion-picture
producers are slow to make up
their minds. Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer is going to star Willie
Howard, the veteran comic of
the stage, in a big musical ex
travaganza, because he was so
funny in a skit in “Broadway
Melody of 1938.”
You never saw the skit, no mat
ter how carefully you watched the
picture, because it was cut out.
When they first saw it, the officials
of the studio didn’t think it was so
funny, and having to take some
thing out to shorten the picture,
they sacrificed what Howard was
sure was the most hilarious skit of
his career. Taking another look at
the discarded film, officials have
decided that it was very funny—
so funny that they won’t waste How
ard’s talents in the future.
With the season of big motion pic
tures only a few weeks old, four of
the thirty or so pic
tures released have
made outstanding
hits. These are
“Prisoner of Zenda”
with Ronald Colman
and Madeline Car-
roll, “100 Men and a
Girl” with Deanna
Durbin, “Thin Ice”
with Sonja Henie,
and Grand Nation
al’s “Something to
Sing About” with
James Cagney. This
last is a grand bit of
nonsense in which the pugnacious
Jimmy sings, dances, and fights his
way through a delightful story, aid
ed and abetted by Mona Barrie.
Deanna
Durbin
Victor McLaglen roared into New
York recently on his way to London
to make a picture, and when Victor
roars anyone would think the whole,
boisterous good-humored American
Legion was back in town. His high
spirits are infectious and his mag
netism so overpowering that when
he introduced his friend Brian Don-
levy as the greatest actor in the
world, everyone agreed—for the mo
ment.
Paramount goes right on apnounc-
Ing one picture after another for
Frances Farmer, but Miss Farmer
says that she is coming to New
York to do a stage play called “The
Manly Art” written by Luise Rain
er’s husband.
Out at the Universal studios where
Henry McRae turns out thrilling se
rials faster than you can say “To be
continued next week,” they don’t
have much time to humor tempera
mental actors, but recently they had
to give in and waste an hour or so
while an actor had a tantrum. The
actor was a lion. McRae thought he
would save the lion from the ex
hausting period of posing while hot
lights were adjusted, and brought in
a stuffed lion as double. Jealous
of this interloper, the lion broke
loose from his cage, rushed on the
set and tore the stuffed animal to
bits.
Theater owners all over the coun
try are begging Republic and Grand
National officials to speed up pro
duction on Westerns starring Gene
Autry and Tex Ritter, so that the
warbling cowboys will have time to
make personal appearance tours.
The ever-growing popularity of
these two lads is the sensation of
the bookkeeping departments.
Ever since Claudette Colbert
broke out in “She Met Him in Par
is,” as an accom
plished figure - skat
er, all the other
girls have wanted to
shoyr off their profi
ciency at winter
sports. Ruby Keeler,
recuperating from
her recent illness, is
planning for her first
starring picture at
R. K. O. The story
is called “LoveBe-
low Freezing” and Claudette
the big surprise is Colbert
that skiing is the
main feature of the picture.
—*—
ODDS AND ENDS—Marlene Deitrich's
eyebrows that used to extend way out
like streamers return to normal in her
new picture “Angel” and will probably
start a new fashion ... Jean Parker’
made herself a hat, copied from ones
Gary Cooper wore in “The Plainsman
and now she is very busy helping friends
mates copies of it •• • Ronald Sinclair
has proven entirely satisfactory in roles
intended for Freddie Bartholomew, so it
is doubtful that Freddie will get any*
where with his strike for more money
. . . Simone Simon is going to sing a
difficult coloratura aria in her next pic
ture. The studio just found out that »he
used to make records in France ...
Bing Crosby wants his friend. Babe
Hardy, to play a dramatic role in his new
picture, now that the team of Laurel and
Hardy have split.
C Western Newspaper Union.
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Historic
Hoaxes
By ELMO SCOTT WATSOf
© Western Newspaper Union.
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“Flying Dutchman”
. AMAZING have been the de
velopments in aviation in r^c®*”
years that it is a brave man indeed
who will venture to say “Why, they
can’t do that!” when told of |ome
new feat in the air by man. There
fore, it is not especially remark
able, perhaps, that the whole world
accepted as authentic a photograph
which came out of Germany a year
or so ago.
It showed a man flying thfougn
the air just above and a little ahead
of four others who were running after
him. It might have been mistaken
for a skier in action except for the
fact that he was holding two bell
like objects and apparently blowing
into them through a tube. The de
scription on this photograph read:
“For the first time in history a
man has succeeded in flying under
his own power. This picture shows
Erich Kocher of Berlin performing
that feat, followed by his excited
friends. He blew into the bell-like
arrangement, causing to revolve two
rotors which also served as wings.
On his feet was a ski landing gear*
and attached to his hips was a ‘tail
skid.’ ”
So cleverly had the photograph
been “doctored” that it passed for
an authentic representation of an
epoch-marking incident in aviation
and was accepted as such—yes,
even by American newspapers
which printed the picture with the
headline, “Man’s First Flight Under
His Own Power.” It was not until
some time later that the hoax was
revealed. Considering the ne^s that
has been coming out of Germany
about Hitler’s treatment of some of
its citizens, one wonders if the “fly
ing Dutchman’s” name has some
significance. “Kocher” could easily
be mistaken for “kosher,” you
know!
• • •
Washing the White Lions
IT’S only once or twice in a cen-
■ tury that Easter Sunday falls on
April 1 but on one of those occasions
the coincidence made it easy for
some April Fool prankster to per
petrate a classic hoax. In March,
1860, several thousand citizens of
London were greatly flattered when
they received a neatly-printed and
official-looking card which bore the
following inscription:
“TOWER OF LONDON! Admit
the bearer and friend to view the
annual ceremony of washing the
white lions on Sunday, April 1, 1860.
Admitted at the White Gate. It is
particularly requested that no gratu
ities be given to the wardens and
their assistants.”
No one had ever before heard of
either the White Gate or the white
lions so everyone who received one
of these invitations was curious to
know whether the latter were real
or just statues. Children especially
were thrilled at the prospect of see
ing them—it was just like going to
the zoo.
A few staid citizens were dubious
about the propriety of attending
such a function on Easter Sunday
but that didn’t bother several thou
sand others who entirely overlooked
the fact that it was also April 1. So
they swarmed to Tower hill in han
som cabs and on foot and began
inquiring eagerly of the gatekeepers
where the White Gate was.
As soon as the gatekeepers saw
the invitations they immediately
recognized the hoax and they
greatly enjoyed the opportunity of
answering “April Fool!’’ to the ea
ger inquirers. In fact, it has been
suspected, although never proved,
that some of these gatekeepers were
the perpetrators of the hoax which
has become historic in England.
• • •
Long Distance Taxi Ride
CEVERAL years ago newspapers
^ all over the country printed an
amusing story, furnished to them
by one of the press associations,
which told how a bibulous visitor
to New York hailed a taxicab and,
in response to the driver’s ouerv'
“Where to?”, replied, “Losh Ang-
lesh—and pleash don’ drive too
fas’.” Whereupon the taxi driver
took him to Los Angeles and, ar
riving there, looked at his meter
and announced that the fare was
$900, which the bibulous one cheer
fully paid. Then, so the story ran
the driver sold his taxi and re^
turned to New York by bus
It was a good story uMil—the
cab driver mentioned was located
in New York and denied the whole
yarn. He did adrnit that, during the
depression, he had loaded his moth
erless children in his taxi and head
ed west, hoping to find work some
where en route. But he found that
jobs were just as scarce in other
parts of the country as they were in
New York, so. when he reached
California he sold his taxicab and
returned home with his children by
bus. So that much of the varn ot
least, was true. * yarn ’ at
As for the tipsy passenger and the
$900 taxi fare which he% a id-that
part of the story was invented by
the press agent for the junk vard
to which the taxi man had sold his
car. That, m itself, is^ such a
bad story. For who ever before
heard of a junk yard hiring a press
agent!
a^lsk Me Jlnother
• & Gnerai Quiz
1. How much thread is woven
^ f of silk stockings?
2. Why were the Pillars of Her
cules so called?
3. What percentage of the mem- (
bers of congress attended college?
■ 4 :v. H< ! W many C0| nets are there
in the known solar system’
5* Where did the school origi
nate? b
6 Why do we have summer and
winter seasons?
, 7* j s t* 16 largest office
building in the world?
8. Are any of the old Roman
aqueducts still in use?
9. How great a sway can the
Empire State building in New
York safely stand?
10. Does the United States have
more strikes and lockouts than
other countries?
Answers
1. In 4-thread women’s hose, 19,-
700 feet; 8-thread women’s hose,
9,900 feet; 10-thread women’s
hose, 6,500 feet.
2. From the myth that they had
been torn asunder by Hercules to
admit the flow of the ocean into
the Mediterranean.
3. Eighty-one per cent of the 441
members of congress whose edu
cation is recorded in the current
Congressional Directory attended
college.
4. Approximately 120,000.
5. In ancient Greece. Plato was
first to give regular educational
courses extending over three or
four years and in a fixed place,
the Academy.
6. Because the axis of the earth
in its revolution around the sun is
not perpendicular to the sun’s
rays, thus the different parts of
the earth’s surface receive the di
rect rays of the sun at different
periods.
7. The R. C. A. building in
New York city is the largest office
structure in the world, with a
gross area of 2,924,036 square feet.
It has a ground area of 99,770
square feet.
8. Of the nine aqueducts which
brought water to ancient Rome,
three are still in use. One ot
them, constructed in 149 B. C. f
is 56 miles long.
9. Engineers have stated that
the Empire State building was
built to stand a sway of 24 inches.
10. The number’ of persons in
volved in proportion to the popu
lation is less here than elsewhere,
with the exception of Canada 1-md
the Irish Free State. In the IL30-
1936 period 61 persons in 10,000
were involved in the United
States; 63 in Great Britain, 114
in France (strikes Only), andflTO '
in Belgium. The Irish Free State
had 24 in 10,000 involved, and Can
ada, 25.
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