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WHO'S
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THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW YORK.—Mrs. Joseph P.
Kennedy has been an effective
social and political ally of both her
father, former mayor of Boston, and
__ her husband, am-
mrt. Kennedy bassador to the
Aids Father Court of St.
and Husband James. But the
news that, in ac
cordance with her husband’s deci
sion, she presented only seven
American women at court is one of
her rare appearances in the head
lines.
The 11 engaging Kennedys have
been viewed more or less en bloc in
the news and Mrs. Kennedy has
never been in a very sharp lens
focus.
She was one of the prettiest
of Boston debutantes, 30 years
ago, a rollicking girl with black
hair and eyes of Irish bine.
Back home from her convent
training, she taught her father
“Sweet Adeline.’*
He was John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitz
gerald, and in his campaigns he
sang his way to memorable political
fame—riding like a surfboard the
long, lingering “swipes” of the song
taught him by his daughter—“the
flower of his heart.”
Joseph P. Kennedy, her childhood
playmate, was twenty-five years old
_ when they were
Fortune and married in 1914.
Family Grew He borrowed $2,-
Vp Together 000 for A « do ™
payment on a $o,-
500 house. Their fortunes grew as
their family, with Mr. Kennedy
president of a bank, in a year or two
after their marriage.
Mrs. Kennedy once told a Boston
drygoods clerk that she bought 200
suits and dresses ^a year. It takes
a heap*of shopping to make a home,
like the Kennedys’, and she became
known among her friends as a para
gon of household efficiency com
parable to the one in Solomon’s off
hand apostrophe to such skills and
virtues.
Now she is mistress of the
“castle” which was once J.
Pierpont Morgan’s home; also
of a beautiful mansion in Bronx-
ville, N. Y., a huge summer es
tate at Hyannisport, Cape Cod,
and a villa at Palm Beach, built
by one of the Wanamakers.
She is slender and girlish, comely
and vivacious, weighs 115 pounds
and takes size 14
Has Diamond j n dresses. Vion-
a Potentate net makes her
Might Envy 8 0wn * a " d sh ® is
* envied by other
women for her magnificent jewels—
notable among them being a ruby
and diamond bracelet which, it is
said, is matched only by the one
the Aga Khan gave his princess.
But she never lets the children
run to unseemly display, hold
ing them to restraint in regime
and dress. Even without all
these adventitious fixings, say
her friends, she would be an ad
mirable ambassador’s wife, with
her own quite adequate equip
ment of tact, charm and intelli
gence.
• • •
M AN and boy, this journeyman
has helped process a lot of
explorers’ and adventurers’ copy
through the news mill. If it was
ghost-written, it had only slick and
synthetic excitement, like Ersatz
pastry, and if it wasn’t it was usu
ally dull. Happily in contrast are
the doubtlessly authentic and per
sonally written yarns of W. H. Til-
man, leader of the British Mount
Everest expedition, now getting un
der way.
These stories from the Tibetan
base camp have a professional ease
and fluency, along
Yarns From with a ring of in-
Mt. Everest tegrity which
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Ring True that Mr. Tilman is
really writing them. There is no
ghost on the job here.
Mr. Tilman is thirty-nine years
old, a keen-faced, hard-muscled
Britisher of medium stature, who
has been exploring ever since he
left college.
He has climbed mountains in the
Alps and in Africa, including Mounts
Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruvenzori.
This is his fifth expedition to the
Himalayas. The entrants in this
high hurdle event are not young
sters. N. E. Odell is forty-seven,
F. S. Smythre is thirty-seven and
the others are all over thirty.
£) Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Bull Terrier, White Dog
When bull baiting was abolished
y law in England, sporting men
eveloped the bull terrier for dog
ghting and badger baiting. About
875, dalmatian and pointer blood
rere introduced in the strain, mak-
ig them look less like bulldogs,
he bull terrier is always white, has
long tapering head, wide, deep
best, stiff, glossy hair and taper-
ig tail. He is gentle and good na-
jred, but fears nothing and is s
ood watch dog.
News Review of Current Events
EUROPEAN WAR AVERTED
Britain, France and Russia Would Not Stand for
German Aggression Against the Czechs
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Here is an armored car detachment of Czechoslovakia’s up-to-date
army which was sent to the frontier to meet the threats of aggression by
Fuehrer Hitler’s troops that were massed on their side of the border.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
C Weitem Newspaper Union.
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On tho Verge of Hostilities
ERMAN and Czech troops by
the thousands were massed on
the frontier between the two coun
tries. President Benes of Czechoslo
vakia and his cabi
net decided to call
70,000 reserves to
the colors. Poland
assembled armed
forces close to the
Slovakia border.
Hungary was re
ported to be taking
“certain military
measures.” France
was ready to defend
_ A her ally, Czechoslo-
President vakia, against Nazi
Benes aggression, and
there was assurance that Great
Britain and Russia would come to
the aid of France if she were at
tacked without provocation.
No wonder the governments of
Europe were desperately worried
by such a critical condition.
Hitler must have realized that the
time was not ripe for aggressive ac
tion against the Czechs, for German
authorities in Berlin solemnly as
sured Dr. Vojtech Mastny, Czech
minister to Berlin, and the Czech
military attache that Germany
planned no military expedition
against Czechoslovakia. This eased
the situation somewhat, but the
British cabinet continued to urge
Benes and his government to make
all possible concessions to Hitler
concerning the demands of the Su
deten German minority. It was be
lieved the Fuehrer would ultimate
ly get about everything he wants
from the Czechs without a fight.
Both France and Britain were
bringing strong pressure to bear on
Berlin, and the British especially
were determined to avert general
war if it could be done.
Prime Minister Chamberlain, it
was said, was working out a plan
under which his government would
play the part of mediator. The
scheme was based on autonomy for
the 3,250,000 Germans in Czecho
slovakia with freedom in municipal
and educational affairs.
Henlein’s German party in the
Sudeten districts of Czechoslovakia
was winning victories in municipal
elections, and this made the Nazis
quite cocky in their attitude. They
refused to negotiate with the gov
ernment until their safety had been
guaranteed.
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Southerners Are Sore
XT NOWING they were fighting a
AV losing battle. Southern repre
sentatives bitterly contested the
progress of the wage-hour bill
through the house. The test vote on
discharge of the rules committee
was 322 to 73.
In the debate that followed North
ern Democrats and most of the Re
publicans indicated their approval
of the measure. The South opposed
it mainly because it contains no dif
ferentials in favor of that section.
*
Martin Loses in Oregon
("JOV. CHARLES H. MARTIN of
Oregon, the veteran soldier
who has been fighting against the
C. I. O. and other radicals, was
beaten for renomination in the Dem
ocratic primary by Henry Hess who
had the backing of labor unions and
of Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
Charles A. Sprague was nominated
for governor by the Republicans and
they believe they have a good
chance to win in the fall elections,
for the Democrats, there as in Penn
sylvania, were badly split.
• *
Two Taxation Decisions
IN TWO far-reaching decisions the
A United States Supreme court fur
ther narrowed the field of recipro
cal intergovernmental tax immuni
ty. The rulings continued the trend
in the direction of President Roose
velt’s theory that the federal and
state governments can tax the sala-
ji.es of each other’s employees and
the income of each other’s securi
ties without a constitutional amend
ment.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Stone, the court upheld levying of
federal income taxes on employees
of the Port of New York authority.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Roberts, the court upheld federal
admission taxes on tickets to foot
ball games conducted by the uni
versity system of Georgia.
*
Italy Warns France
ITALY intimated it would keep out
A of the Nazi-Czech quarrel, but
Mussolini broke off the friendship
talks with France and warned that
continued French acquiescence in
the shipment of arms to govern
ment Spain would not be tolerated.
He said the past conversations could
not be resumed until Franco and
his rebels had won a clear-cut vic
tory.
The Duce declared that unless
France ceases aiding transmission
of Soviet and Czech arms to Barce
lona, Italy and Germany may be
forced to increase their assistance
to the insurgents. This naturally
would endanger the new Anglo-Ital-
ian agreement.
*
Must Re-Hire Sit Strikers
/ T'HE National Labor Relations
A board ordered the Kuehne Manu
facturing company, Flora, 111., to re
instate with back pay 164 American
Federation of Labor sit-down strik
ers.
It was the NLRB’s third major
sit-down decision, but the first in
volving an A. F. of L. union.
The labor board refused to an
swer 74 questions put to it by the
Ford Motor company in United
States circuit court at Covington,
Ky. The board particularly resented
being asked whether Thomas Cor
coran, Benjamin V. Cohen, John L.
Lewis or Homer Martin were con
sulted in arriving at an order charg
ing the Ford company with violat
ing the Wagner labor act.
*
"Doom-Sealers," Says Farley
DOSTMASTER GENERAL FAR-
A LEY attacked the critics of the
administration’s spending - lending
program in an address to the Com
monwealth club of
Chicago.
“The doom-seal
ers,” he said, “are
again sending forth
their mournful
prophesies of evil
because of govern
ment acts per
formed or suggest
ed.
“Stocks are down
a bit. There is a re
currence of vast un
employment. Cer
tain taxes bear heavily on people
or corporations with plethoric
purses. So the same element that
has held every national emergency
as a precursor of doom is out again
in full cry.”
Asserting that he would not under
estimate “either the value of criti
cism of government acts or the
service of those who think they are
warning us of impending dangers,”
he told his audience “there should
be some intelligence, some reason
ableness and some moderation in
these controversies.”
“The republic,” he said, “is in no
danger. It never has been in dan
ger since the present administration
checked the downward spiral of the
big depression and started us again
on the upward path.”
*
Too Late for Wheat Quotas
S ECRETARY WALLACE said that
under the new crop control law
it is too late to invoke marketing
quotas on this year’s indicated
bumper wheat crop. He explained
that the law authorized quotas this
year only in the event congress ap
propriated funds by May 15 for
“parity payments” provided in the
new legislation.
James A.
Farley
Star Dust
★ Andrea Steps Along
★ Lone Ranger Craze
★ AIL Age Shaggers
By Virginia Valr
ANDREA LEEDS has been
-aA stepping right along since
she did so well in a minor role
in “Stage Door.” She went on
to do well in “Goldwyn Follies,”
is working now in “Letter of In
troduction,” and will play oppo
site Joel McCrea in a picture
called, so far, “Youth Takes a
Fling.”
Which all goes to show that she
was right when she refused to go
on as just one more contract player.
She felt that she wasn’t getting
Andrea Leeds
anywhere, you’ll remember, and got
out of her contract, and all Holly
wood said she was crazy, as she
had just one performance to her
credit at that time.
And then—“Stage Door” and all
the opportunity in the world!
*
The “Lone Ranger” craze is
growing every day. The actor who
plays the “Ranger” in the screen
serial may go on a personal appear
ance tour. National Broadcasting
company has arranged for tran
scription rights of the radio pro
gram for the South, Canada and
Australia—at present it’s heard on
a 42-station tie-up three times a
week. There’s talk of a circus stunt
and of a cartoon strip for the news
papers. And the country will be
flooded with books, cowboy suits,
chewing gum, sweaters, and all the
other merchandise that can be used
in profitable tie-ups.
*
Charlie Chaplin’s latest discovery,
Dorothy Cummingore, has been giv
en a contract by Warner Brothers,
and you’ll see her first in “Three
Girls on Broadway.”
*
The picture business being a bit
slow at the moment, picture stars
are doing quite a lot of vacationing.
Miriam Hopkins and her husband,
Anatole Litvak, the director, are at
her charming little house in New
York. Fredric March expected to
have to cut his New York vacation
short, and then got word that he
might stay on indefinitely. Made
leine Carroll and Wendy Barrie are
among the toasts of New York.
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Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby can continue with his
present radio sponsors for ten years
if he wants to. It’s
said the advertising
agency connected
would like him to
sign an agreement
for that length of
time, with the usual
year to year op
tions. His present
contract still has
eight months to run.
Of all the Hollywood
folks who have gone
on the air, Bing has
been the most suc
cessful and shows no sign of dimin
ishing popularity.
*
Benny Goodman recently gave his
second concert in Boston, before a
packed house; as in Carnegie Hall,
in New York, the first thing any
body knew the younger set in
the crowd was out in the aisles be
ginning to “shag.” An usher hur
ried forward to stop them, where
upon a conservative looking, middle-
aged gentleman stopped the usher.
Seems he’d decided to learn the
“shag” and thought that was as
good a place as any to begin.
*
ODDS AND ENDS ... Paul Muni seems
to be all set to do "The Life of William
Tell” . . . When Frank Lloyd directs "If I
Were King,” with Ronald Colman, Frank's
daughter, Alma, will play "Colette” ... Joe
Tenner's new picture, "Go Chase Your
self,” is his best one yet ... Walt Disney
divided $50,000 among the people who
helped him to make "Snow White” . . .
Max Baer is coaching Robert Taylor for
"Knock Out” ... The objection to Shirley
Temple's making personal appearances
has been that she was too young to ap
pear behind the footlights . . . But Mary
Pickford began when she was five, and it
didn't seem to hurt her any . . . In "Four
Men and a Prayer” you'll see Richard
Greene, recently arrived from England,
who, it is said, will be groomed for star
dom . . . Now it’s announced that Maude
Adams’ movie tests were so successful that
she will not appear in "The Young in
Heart,” but in a production giving more
trope to her talents.
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Looking Up at the Old Man of the Mountain.
Second Greatest Show on Earth"
Barnum Called New England Range
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
S INCE 1866 visitors to the
White mountains have as
cended Mount Washing
ton, New England’s highest
eminence, to scan the sea of
northern New Hampshire
peaks. Soon another grand
stand will be available when
the new tramway to the top
of Cannon mountain which will
whisk passengers 2,025 feet
above Franconia Notch begins
operation.
“This is the second greatest show
on earth,” P. T. Barnum said when
he stood on the summit of Mount
Washington and scanned the jumble
of peaks and ridges of the White
mountains, spreading from the
waistline of New Hampshire to Can
ada and from its Maine border to
the Connecticut valley, which sep
arates this Granite state from Ver
mont.
Many New Englanders, dyed-in-
the-wool White mountain fans who
insist that nowhere has nature en
dowed a region with such fascinat
ing heights, on first thought ques
tioned Barnum’s judgment. To
them, the White mountains’ show is
second to none.
However, when they recalled the
showman’s love for his trained ani
mals, gaudy trappings, and strange
creations of nature that drew mil
lions into his acres of canvas, they
felt that his exclamation was the
highest praise.
Origin of the Name a Mystery.
How and when the White moun
tains got their name is as mysteri
ous as many of their often-told leg
ends. “White mountains” appeared
in a manuscript as early as 1672;
and even before that time they
were called the “White hills” by
mariners on the Atlantic, 60 miles
away, for whom they formed an
important landmark.
To modern eyes, too, the name
seems apt, whether it be derived
from the white mist that often hangs
over the higher peaks, from the
whitish-gray effect of the sun upon
rocks of the mountain tops above
the timberline, or from the snow
that normally covers the peaks of
the Presidential range for eight or
nine months of the year.
The White mountains are divided
into two distinct areas.
Between Plymouth on the south
and the vicinity of Gorham on the
north is the high mountain region
where every year more than two
million men and women enjoy test
ing their leg muscles among New
England’s highest peaks, motoring
on excellent highways, and utilizing
the scores of recreational facilities,
or just looking up from spacious
hotel verandas toward the lofty em
inences sweeping from quiet val
leys.
Beyond Gorham is a challenging
wilderness with Dixville notch its
crowning glory and Berlin its only
large population center. Here is the
paradise of the sportsman searching
streams and lakes for trout, salmon,
pickerel, horned pout, perch, and
small-mouthed bass. The forests
shelter bears, deer, and ruffed
grouse.
It is the high mountain area that
has been the White mountains’ chief
lure to vacationists for more than a
century.
Praised by the Great.
“We know our mountains are not
the highest in the East,” a resident
recently remarked to a visitor.
“Mount Mitchell in North Carolina
and several peaks in the Great
Smoky Mountains National park
slightly top Mount Washington. But
the impressions of Hawthorne, Whit
tier, General Grant, Webster, Marie
Twain, Winston Churchill, and
scores of other men outstanding in
politics, literature, and the arte el
their day certainly warrant the en
thusiasm of those of us trim see
the White mountains in every
mood.”
“But Grant came to the moun
tains for relief from hay fever,**
said the visitor.
“That is true, but he, like many
others, then and now, came here
without knowing the mountains, and
left with an indelible impression of
their lofty summits, their tree-clad
slopes, their cascades, lakes, and
scenic curiosities, and their legends
that have inspired multitudes ol
artists, writers, and just plain peo
ple.”
Darby Field, a son of Erin, was
the first man to conquer the heights
of Mount Washington, highest peak
in the White mountains. It thrusts
its summit 6,288 feet above the sea
and a mile above the valleys at its
base.
It was just 22 years after the May
flower had deposited its human
cargo on the shores of Massachu
setts when Field struck out from the
coast on one of his many trips into
the unknown wilderness that lay
immediately behind colonial vil
lages.
Some settlers feared to wander
far from their settlements, but Dar
by Field was one of those bold ad
venturers for whom even the hard
life of the colonist was too tame.
He was accompanied by two In
dian guides. On a June day in 1642,
Field stood on the summit of Mount
Washington.
As the Colonies grew and demand«
ed wood for building, for paper, and
for other manufactures, lumbermen
carelessly swung their axes over
the White mountain slopes and
stripped them of their trees. All but
a few thousand acres of primeval
forest were cut over.
The forests one sees today are
largely second growth, but no long
er are they in jeopardy.
“Great Stone Face.**
Mount Washington is admittedly
the dominating feature of the White
mountains and nearly every visitor
to northern New Hampshire hopes
to stand on its summit. But if your
time is short and storm clouds
thwart that hope, there are scores
of other features that are well worth
a ramble among the heights.
Chief among these is the Profile,
popularly known as the “Old Man
of the Mountain,” or as Hawthorne’s
“Great Stone Face,” peering from
the rugged granite ledges of Profile
mountain above the highway
through Franconia notch.
It was a man’s appetite for par
tridge for breakfast that led to the
discovery of the Profile in 1805. Na
thaniel Hall was a member of a
road-building crew. Early in the
morning he shouldered his gun and
left camp.
With only a well-browned par
tridge on his mind, he silently crept
along the shore of a small lake, his
eyes penetrating the undergrowth.
For some reason unknown to Hall he
looked up—and for a moment was
stunned by “the most wonderful
face” he had ever seen.
News of the discovery spread
rapidly over New England. The
road Hall was working on was
pushed through the notch. Men and
women came on horseback, by
stage, carriage and cart. The
popularity of the Profile was one of
the factors that influenced the build
ing of a railroad into the Franconia
region and the erection of the fa
mous Profile house, since destroyed
by fire.
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