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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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and helpful in drawing out the local
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Muscular lumbago, soreness and
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Better than the old-fashioned mus
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Regular Strength, Children’s (mild),
and Extra Strong.
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Work is the grand cure of all the
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Be not exacting in your justice,
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To keep food wastes soft
and moving, many
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Sentinels
of Health
Don’t Neglect Them !
Nature designed the kidneys to do &
marvelous job. Their task is to keep the
flowing blood stream free of an excess of
toxic impurities. The act of living—Ii/e
itself-—is constantly producing waste
matter the kidneys must remove from
the blood if good health is to endure.
When the kidneys fail to function as
Nature intended, there is retention of
waste that may cause body-wide dis
tress. One may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, pufliness
under the eyes—feel tired, nervous, ail
worn out.
Frequent, scanty or burning passages
may be further evidence of kidney or
bladder disturbance.
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