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- • f McCormick messenger. McCormick, s. c.. Thursday, February 17,1938 •-> New* Review of Current Event* HITLER NOW SUPREME BOSS Takes Control of Reich's Armed Forces, Crushing Army Clique • • • Japan Resents Naval Plans Demand WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Perton Now’s the Time for a New Silk Print By CHERIE NICHOLAS 9m mm Spi m 1 ‘XvC-X-: : ? Mm ■ ?*>??: IM. J^LcJcaJul SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. mi Von Brauchitsch Hitler Seizes Full Power A DOLF HITLER has made him self the absolute ruler of Ger many and has assumed full control of the armed forces of the reich, proclaiming himself “chief of national defense.” Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg was re moved from the post of war minister; Col. Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, minister of aviation, was made general field marshal; Gen. Walter von Brauch- itsch replaced Gen eral Werner von Fritsch as commander in chief of the army; seven army generals and six generals of the air force were summarily dismissed. According to the London Daily Herald, between 180 and 190 senior army officers were arrested in the German provinces. Reorganization of Germany’s dip lomatic corps was announced, the ambassadors of several European countries being changed. In the shakeup Joachim von Ri- bentrop was recalled from the Lon don embassy and made foreign min ister. No new minister of war was ap pointed, but Gen. Wilhelm Keitel was named chief of the supreme command and will rank as minis ter. Monarchy Plot Foiled O ACK of Hitler’s sudden grab of ■L* absolute power was a move ment among high army officers for restoration of the monarchy. It was revealed in Berlin that a secret speech delivered by one general to a group of his fellow officers in which the return of the exiled for mer Kaiser Wilhelm was urged was reported to the reichsfuehrer and aroused his anger, hastening his de termination to assume personal command of the armed forces. Anyhow, the coup is a crushing victory for the Nazi government group over the army clique that had been growing daily more threatening to Hitler’s regime and that was said to be planning to force his gradual retirement. The monarchists’ plot, it is said, included the elevation to the throne of the ex-kaiser’s second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich. Heinrich Himm ler, head of the Gestapo or secret police, revealed it to Hitler. The reichsfuehrer with several close advisers went to his Bavarian home and began planning for the next move', to be announced at the meeting of the reichstag scheduled for February 20. Judging from the utterances of Nazi leaders. Hitler is likely to demand the return of Germany’s lost colonies, control of the free city of Danzig, and greater influence in Austria. London correspondents re ported that Great Britain was ready to sacrifice a colony to keep Euro pean peace, hoping to bring Ger many and Italy into a ten-year pact with Britain and France. —*— What Small Business Wants T WELVE delegates from the “lit tle business” conference that held such uproarious sessions in Washington were received by Presi dent Roosevelt and presented to him a list of 23 proposals for the cure of their economic ills. These had been consolidated and toned down from the proposals conceived by the conference, the condemna tion of much New Deal legislation being omitted. The principal recommendations in the report were for easier credit for small business, repeal of the un divided profits tax, modification of the capital gains tax, equal respon sibility of employer and employee for observance of mutual labor r J. C. Grew ate, but the agreements, the return of relief to local governments as soon as pos sible, the abandonment of wage and hour legislation and the immediate investigation of the Wagner labor relations board. Through Secretary Early, the President announced that a large majority of the recommendations seemed constructive and possible of fulfillment. Others, however, he felt, sounded well but were rather im practical. It is known that the administra tion does not want the undivided profits tax completely repealed. Neither does it want relief returned to local governments, abandonment of wage and hour legislation, or in terference with the Wagner labor re lations board. —+— Japan Won't Tell Navy Plans TF JAPAN’S naval leaders have A their way, Tokyo’s reply to the Anglo-French-American request for information as to Japan’s plans for battleship building will be a refusal to divulge them. This was the decision reached at a meet ing of the naval ministry and trans mitted by Admiral Yonai, navy minis ter, to Premier Ko- noye and Foreign Minister Hirota. The foreign ministry wished to be moder- admirals were insis tent. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew pre sented the American demand to the foreign office in Tokyo, and similar notes were handed in by the British and French ambassadors. They asked the Japanese government to say categorically, on or before February 20, whether or not Japan is building or plans to build battle ships in excess of 35,000 tons, the limit fixed in the London naval treaty. It has been rumored for some time that Japan was building or planning to build two battleships of 46,000 tons displacement armed with 18 inch guns. This is denied by a foreign office spokesman. The three western powers intimat ed that if Japan’s reply was not satisfactory they might be com pelled to invoke the escalator clause of the treaty and themselves construct larger and more strongly gunned battleships. The position of Japanese naval men is that, since Japan is not a signatory of the treaty, her plans are no business of others; and fur thermore that her navy expansion is entirely “defensive.” Our navy has plans drafted for bigger battleships and guns if their construction is deemed necessary. A vessel of 43,000 tons probably would be the largest able to pass through the Panama canal unless its locks are widened and lengthened. Hull in Peace Talk ]SJ-OTWITHSTANDING the some- what strained relations with Japan—or because of them—Secre tary of State Hull in a nation-wide radio address proposed that all na tions make a “determined effort” to promote peace through limitation of armaments and his pet reciprocal trade treaties. He asserted this country proposed to carry out this plan, but reiterated that it would continue to “render adequate our military and naval establishments.” Urging all nations to promote nor mal healthy international commer cial relations as the surest road to peace, Hull said that if the world “shuts its eyes to recent disastrous developments” it would be an open invitation for recurrence of the events of 1914 and 1929. He abhorred the recent “alarm ing disintegration” of international relationships, and said that the race to rearm can only result in further impoverishment of all nations. vXyv.v.; Story That Has Kick at the End . • -.y ■ • • - V- : :l ?l?p iH mm v yyyy.-y.-:- Brig. Gem. Jay L. Benedict, center, and his staff are shown inspecting the cadet corps at West Point as General Benedict took over command of the mUitary academy as superintendent, thirty-seventh to hold that post since the academy was instituted. ■^EW YORK.—Many a good news yarn has been spoiled by the necessity of “getting the story in the lead,” as they say in the news paper shops. This reporter asks in dulgence for sav ing the kick in this one for the end, noting merely that it is a happy ending. In recent years, there have been so many unhappy fade-outs, from Sam Langford to the League of Nations, that any thing in the line of an unexpect ed Garrison finish rates a bit of suspense before the news pay-off. In Maxwell street, Chicago, long before the fragrance of Bubbly creek ebbed and sank and saddened, there was a book-stall which was the Jewish Algonquin of those parts. The place was overrun with phil osophers, some white-bearded and highly venerated, some young and contentious, all stirred by a fever ish intellectual zeal. They wolfed new books and started clamorous arguments about them, the way the crowds at the big pool hall down he street grabbed the box scores in me late sporting extras. Sweatshop workers used to throng in after a hard day’s work and get in on the I r j p to the present you may have seminar. held to the “nothing-new-under- Wrinkled, merry, mischievous lit- the-sun” theory, but have you seen tie Abraham Bisno from Russia was | the advance collections of 1938 silk pi* mm m mm Si m Erasmus of Sweatshops Makes Peace The Bisnos Pass Beyond Our Ken the Erasmus of the sweatshop phil osophers. He used to circulate a lot around this and other Maxwell street book shops, and many times the state of Illinois was saved the expense of calling out the militia because Bisno happened along to referee an argument. He was a sweatshop worker, a man of amazing erudition, but of salty, colloquial speech, never en meshed in the tangle of print lan guage around him. He used to tease his friend, Jane Addams, of nearby Hull house, by calling her settle ment workers “the paid neighbors of the poor.” He liked to deflate the Utopians, boiling things down to Gresham’s law of money, the law of diminishing returns, weighted averages or something like that. He was the first of a multitude of sweatshop economists who spread light and learning through Chicago’s Ghetto. Bisno had a bright-eyed, clever little daughter named Beatrice, one of several chil dren. Old sages, up and down Max well street, used to say the world would hear from Beatrice some day. But the world went to war, regardless of Sir Norman Angell and all the other philosophers, and the Bisnos passed beyond the ken of this writer. About twelve years ago, I had a visit from Francis Oppenheimer, a New York journalist. Beatrice Bis no was his wife. She was going to write a book, and did I know of a quiet hide-out where she could write it? I sent them to the old Hotel Hel vetia, No. 23 Rue de Tournon, in Paris. She sat in the nearby Lux- embourgh garden and wrote her book. They came home and the book made endless round trips to pub lishers’ offices. The smash of 1929 took the last of their savings. Today I had a letter from Francis Oppen heimer. “We finally threw the book in an old clothes basket,” he said. “Then, acting on impulse, we used our din ner money to give it one more ride. Weeks passed. Beatrice fell ill. There came a letter from Live- right, the publisher. I knew it was another rejection and didn’t want to show it to Beatrice. But I tore open the envelope and hand ed it to her. Her eyes were glazed. SHfe could not read the letter. It slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor.” And in the same mail today, there came to this desk a copy of the new book, “To morrow’s Bread,” by Beatrice Bisno, winning the $2,500 prize award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Fannie Hurst. That was the news that Mr. Oppenheimer picked up from the floor when his wife was too ill to read it. Dorothy Canfield Fisher says of the book: “A searchingly realistic portrait of an idealist. What an idealist does to the world and what the world does to an idealist is here set down with power and sincer ity.” Winsome little Bisno is gone. One wishes he could be carrying the news down to the old Maxwell street book stall, if it’s still there. © Consolidnted News Features. WNU Service. prints? New! They all but shatter into atoms the “nothing new” idea. So “different” are this season’s prints from those that have gone before, one marvels at the magic art of designers who can achieve such refreshing newness in both pat- ternings and color effects. Speaking of the new-this-season prints, picture to yourself a silk with graceful wavy stripes with a wide floral bordering of gorgeous red roses and violets and daisies and green foliage. Imagine the pos sibilities a silk of this type offers. We saw just such a print made up simply in a frock, the gay floral bordering used for short puff sleeves and for a wide corselet girdle, contrasting smartly the neutral colored stripes—charming to wear under your fur coat instant- er! Stripes, by the way, are playing a tremendously important role in current prints. For that matter they are running rampant through out the entire program of fashion. There’s a newness in the way stripes are made to go round and round this season although any which-away is all right for stripes nowadays—up, down, around, diag onal seamed together at right ang- gles, play with stripes at your own sweet will and you will be “in style.” See the smart daytime dress to the right in the picture. It is typical of the new stripe trends. The silk print used is patterned with baya dere stripes alternating a chain-de sign stripe in cathedral colors on a black background. Note the hat. It is modeled after the much-talked- about “M” hat Agnes created for Marlene Dietrich. The distinctively new half-in-half treatment given to the print plus black cyepe dress to the left is in teresting. Here you see a beige and YOUR HOUSE COAT By CHERIE NICHOLAS a**:? ¥ mi mi** Girl Win9 Big Prize With Novel judges being Where Yale Is Buried All round the Welsh village of Bryn-Eglwys, writes H. V. Morton in “In Search of Wales,” lies prop erty which once belonged to the Yale family, one of whom, Elihu, did so much toward, founding Yale university. Elihu lies buried, how ever, not in the Yale chapel at tached to the church of Bryn- Eglwys, but at Wrexham, 10 miles away. What about your housecoat? Does it give you glamor and allure? Does it add to the picture of your home environs? Merely a few of the ques tions you should ask yourself when selecting the garment that should make you appear at your most at tractive during the hours spent at home. The new models in house coats have completely won over the American woman to this charming fashion. The Fashioncraft commit tee, a group of style experts, have given their approval to the attrac tive model created by Henry Hadad as here illustrated. Floral cotton tapestry twill is fitted through the bodice and waist, flaring widely at the skirt. The shoulders are pleat ed, the collar notched and a zipper closes the front LATEST HATS GO TO EXTREMES IN TYPES By CHERIE NICHOLAS You may wear a very small hat or one big of brim and $e in fash ion. Many of the new chapeaux tip coquettishly over one eye, es pecially those of Watteau inspira tion and the Gibson Girl sailors. Then there are roll-high brims which are designed to wear far back on the head. Bonnets, so fashion able just now, also set back so that the brim reveals the hairline across the forehead. Pill-box types are al so good style. There is also a tendency for brims with high side flare. Milliners are using more flowers and ribbons than usual. Bandeau effects are sponsored because of high pose on high-brushed hair- dress. The smartest hat to start the new season is the sports felt in pastel color. Veils in pastel color is also big news. Suspenders Are Adopted by Women for Slacks, Shorts Suspenders are the latest item of men’s attire to be confiscated by the women. Half of the slacks and many of the shorts being worn at the winter resorts are equipped with suspenders. Some of these braces are exactly like the ones that men prefer, others match the fabric of the costume. White faille silk braces are among the swankiest to be offered for beach wear and invariably accom- pany slacks of white sharkskin. Evening Gowns Are Shown in Two Silhouette Modes Evening gowns are shown in both romantic and tubular silhouettes. A romantic gown of tulle combines green and purple effectively, while another of black mousseline de soie is cut full over a tubular foundation skirt. It is of redingote design, the opening edged with black sequins. Afghan That's Smart and Easy to Crochet You will love to have this choice Afghan, made of just a simple square. Joined, it forms an ef fective design. There are a va riety of other ways of joining it, all given in the pattern. Use three Pattern 5941. colors of Germantown or make half the squares in one set of col ors, the other in another with background always the same. In pattern 5941 you will find direc tions for making the afghan and a pillow; an illustration of it and of the stitches used; material re quirements, and color suggestions. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. white lacy print on black ground meandering down into the hemline where it is gracefully appliqued in long slender points on to a black silk canton crepe hem. The wat- teau neckline is set off with rhine stone and amber clips. The hat worn is a modish black straw Irish stovepipe type, trimmed with beige grosgrain bow. The mention of beige reminds us to tell you that fashion is making a big splurge over the new cereal shades stressing particularly wheat colors and cornflake tones, all of which relate to the beige family. Another color innovation in prints is the black and white combination that is enlivened with a single color accent. A silk print of this descrip tion fashions the dress centered in the group. It is a black and white floral with a one-color lattice design traced throughout. The silk crepe belt picks up the tomato red color in the lattice print. The black high- side-roll brim hat is a stunning af fair, that gives you an inkling of that which is to be during the com ing months. Here’s a style message to write down in your notebook and under score. It’s in regard to the effec tive teamwork prints and pleats are carrying on in the spring style pa rade. You can’t turn around in fashiondom this season without hearing the call for pleats, pleats, pleats and “then some” in the way of added pleatings. If you are making your own print frock you might get the skirt pleated or if it is a ready-made dress you are buy ing ask to see pleated models. They are being shown in infinite variety and they carry an air of newness about them that bespeaks this sea son’s vintage. © Western Newspaper Union. Muscular Rheumatic Pains It takes more than “just a salve” to draw them out. It takes a “ counter• irritant** like good old Musterole —soothing, warming, penetrating and helpful in drawing out the local congestion and pain when rubbed on the aching spots. Muscular lumbago, soreness and stiffness generally yield promptly. Better than the old-fashioned mus tard plaster, Musterole has been used by millions for 30 years. Recom mended by many doctors and nurses. All druggists’. In three strengths: Regular Strength, Children’s (mild), and Extra Strong. 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