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r' THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938 News Review of (torrent Events "NO RECRIMINATION" President Accepts Defeat on His Reorganization Bill . . . Germans Approve Hitler's Austria Coup .<1. Because a federal statute prohibits taking of a foreign vote in the United States or its territorial waters, the crew of the German liner Hansa voted on the question of Austrian “anschluss” with Germany while the ship was In mid-ocean en route to New York. Here is the scene in the public room of the liner during the balloting. Seated is Purser Karl Zepleln, who reg istered the voters. Of the crew, 330 voted “jab”; six voted “nein,” and .one vote was voided. U/. J^LcJcaJuC * M .QTTMMART7TC3 'PWT' WftUT.n SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK • Wuura Newspaper Union. ! F. D. R. Accepts Defeat P RESIDENT ROOSEVELT 1 will not seek for revenge on the 108 Democratic representatives who, obeying the apparent wish of the people of the United States, defeated his pet reorganization bill in the house. Writing to Majority Leader Sam Ray burn to express his thanks for the “fine fight,” Mr. Roose velt said the ques tion presented was solely one of policy and that the defeat of the measure of fered “no occasion recrimination and President I Roosevelt for personal there should be none.” I Shelving of the measure by send ing it back to the committee, ac complished by a vote of 204 to 196, was generally regarded as a severe blew to the prestige of the Presi dent, for the administration leaders had declared in the debate that the issue was solely one of confidence in Mr. Roosevelt. His letter to Ray- bum was taken to mean that a President-versus-congress fight in November should be avoided and that he would not inject himself into the congressional elections. Sena tor Byrnes, after calling at the White House, admitted there would be no effort to revive the reorgani zation bill in the senate. It was said in Washington that Speaker Bankhead, Sam Rayburn and other prominent Democrats, construing the defeat of the reor ganization bill as a vote of “no con fidence” in the administration, were ready to abandon for the present much of the New Deal program for social and economic legislation, in cluding the revised bill for regula tion of wages and hours of labor. They decided, it was reported, to concentrate on passage of the tax revision and appropriation bills and the voting of funds for unemploy ment relief and revival of business activity. It is their hope that con gress can adjourn by May IS. —*— Curb Spending Program pONGRESSIONAI, and fiscal lead- ers were called to the White House by the President to consider his plan for a billion and a half dollar public works program and a like amount for unemployment relief through the WPA. These funds together with the 1% billion dollars congress recently authorized the Reconstruction Finance corporation to loan to business, would give the administration 414 billion dollars to fight the depression in the coming fiscal year. Mr. Roosevelt first talked with Vice President Garner, Senator Barkley, Speaker Bankhead and Representative Rayburn, and it was reported that they stood out against the contemplated spending pro gram, Gamer being especially vig orous in his language. The President, it was said, seemed willing to compromise and the four leaders went away hopeful they would not be called upon to at tempt to push through at this ses sion any of the radical schemes sug gested by some of the more ex treme administration advisers. A second conference was then held with other congressional lead ers and with Harry L. Hopkins, Act ing Budget Director Daniel Bell, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, and Chairman Marri- ner S. Eccles of the federal reserva board. Senator Glass and Representative Woodrum were present and pre pared to argue against the $4,000,- 000,000 plan. To their surprise the discussion was confined almost wholly to the subject of work relief. Mr. Roosevelt said 1 billion 250 millions should be enough to carry the Works Progress administration during the first seven months of the Adolf Hitler next fiscal year, from July 1, 1938, to Feb. 1, 1939. A billion and a half had been talked about as necessary. In addition the President suggest ed about 150 millions should be ap propriated for the Department of Agriculture’s farm security pro gram and 50 millions for the Na tional Youth administration. Not a word was said about the proposed expenditure of a billion and a half for noninterest bearing loans to states and cities for con struction programs. Nor was there any discussion of the proposal to issue more than a billion dollars in gold certificates against the steri lized gold fund. While this conference was going on, there were developments indi cating that the Democratic-Republi can coalition that defeated the re organization and other administra tion bills might get into action against the new spending program. In this Senator Byrd of Virginia, Democrat, and Representative Snell of New York, minority leader iq the house, took the lead. Hitler's Big Victory ^EWER than 465,000 Germans and 1 Austrians had the courage to vote “no” in the plebiscite on Germany’s annexation of Austria. Nearly 49,- 000,000 qualified vot ers went to the polls and gave their ap proval of the “an schluss,” and thus Adolf Hitler scored a tremendous vic tory, greater than even his lieutenants had expected. “This is the proud est hour of my life,” said the Fuehrer when told of the vote, and the Nazi leaders all were jubilant, and with reason. They said the demonstration of German unity showed it was time to liberate “our Sudeten German friends in Czechoslovakia” and that they were ready to obey Hitler’s orders blind ly- It was forecast in Berlin that Hit ler would proceed at once to expand and modernize the Austrian army and strengthen Austria’s frontier de fenses. And Vienna believed the anti-Jewish program would be in tensified. There was a rumor that Austria would soon cease to be an entity and would be re-christened Osmark, or eastern march or boundary of the new Germany. Besides voting on the Austro-Ger- man union, the electorate chose a new reichstag, which was hand picked by Hitler. German and Aus trian citizens throughout the world voted on the annexation, some cast ing their ballots on German steam ers outside of the three-mile limits of foreign- lands. Jews were not allowed to go to the polls. * Railway "Court" Proposal LJ OW to save the important rau- -*• ways from bankruptcy was the subject of conferences at the White House and of deep study by the President. He rejected the sugges tion of an outright government sub sidy, and then adopted and offered for legislative action the plan of cre ating a special unit with judicial or quasi-judicial powers to speed up voluntary reorganization of the car riers and solve other of their prob lems. The unit may take the form of a special court or board within the interstate commerce commis sion. This plan was part of a report from a committee of three mem bers of the interstate commerce commission, which report Mr. Roosevelt laid before congress. He did not make specific recommenda tions but asked for “some immedi ate legislation,” and intimated he thought any long term program should provide for incorporation of all executive agencies dealing with transportation in one department. Gecrges Bonnet Girdler vs. Labor Board T OM GIRDLER, head of Republic Steel, said in Cleveland that the national labor relations board was "wrong” when it accused Republic of violating the Wagner act before and during last summer’s “little steel” strike, and indicated the com pany would fight parts of the board’s’ decisions through the courts. The board decided that Republic had violated the Wagner act on eight counts and, among other things, ordered the corporation to re instate 5,000 strikers with back pay from April 8; to break up employee representative plans at five Ohio plants, and to stop practices which would lead employees to think they were not free to join the C, I. O. or other unions. The board also placed on Republic the responsibility for the death of three strikers in a riot last July near the corporation’s Massillon plant. Jail for Townsend r\R. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND, seventy-one-year-old advocate of old-age pensions, must serve 30 days in a District of Columbia jail unless President Roosevelt inter venes in his behalf. The Supreme court declined to interfere with his conviction, of con tempt of the house of representa tives, thus removing his last hope of reprieve by the courts. New French Government E'RANCE has a new government * headed by Edouard Daladier who succeeded Leon Blum as premier after the fall of Blum’s Popular Front. Daladier’s cabinet is the first wholly nonrevolu tionist one since the leftist landslide of 1936. Not one of his rriinisters is even pink, and there are several outright con servatives. Most sig nificant of his se lections is Georges Bonnet, former am bassador to the United States, as foreign minister. His choice for this key post means synchronization of French foreign policy with that of Great Britain, the opening of nego tiations with Mussolini and complete abandonment of the Spanish repub lic in its war with Franco's insur gents. The political fate of Daladier’s government depends on his success or failure in breaking up the pre vailing strikes in France. It ap peared probable he would not ask parliament just yet for dictatorial financial powers, the demand that caused the downfall of Blum, but will be satisfied with holding on quietly until after the Easter vaca tion, waiting for the return of so cial peace. -#■— Fords' Golden Wedding H ENRY FORD and Clara Bryant Ford celebrated their golden wedding in Detroit. The festivities lasted two days, starting with a re ception on Mrs. Ford’s seventy-first birthday at the home of Edsel Ford. The golden wedding fete was under the auspices of the Service clubs of Dearborn and was held in Ford’s reproduction of Independence Hall not far from where the wedding took place in 1888. -* Nice Job for Tugwell D EXFORD G. TUGWELL, who ^ was one of the original Brain Trust members, later under-secre tary of agriculture and head of the resettlement administration, has a fine new job. Mayor LaGuardia has appointed him chairman of the New York city planning commis sion at a salary of $15,000 a year, succeeding Adolph A. Berle, Jr., now an assistant secretary of state. Tugwell will take the position as soon as he has severed his relations with the American Molasses com pany, of which he became vice pres ident in January, 1937. -* Woe for American Debs J OSEPH P. KENNEDY, American ambassador to London, has abandoned the practice of arrang ing for the annual presentation of 20 or 30 American debutantes to the British king and queen. Hereafter he will present only wives and rela tives of American officials or Amer ican women in permanent resi dence in London. He says he con siders the practice undemocratic and that making a choice from among the numerous applicants is unfair to those omitted. -* Transatlantic Air Service S' EDERAL officials announced 1 that regular transatlantic pas senger and mail air service would start late in July or early in August, on a 24-hour schedule be tween New York and Foynes, Ire land. The flights will be operated by the Pan-American and Imperial Airways. Edward L. Yuravich of the feder al bureau of air commerce said the trips would start with two airliners —an Imperial Airways “pick-a- pack” plane and a Pan-American Airways Boeing seaplane, with cruising speeds of 150 to 200 miles per hour. The planes will take off simultaneously from opposite sides of the Atlantic. The western terminal will be at Manhasset bay, Port Washington, Long Island, with the eastern end at Foynes, recently rechristened Shannon, at the mouth of the Shan non river, in Ireland. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—This summer’s ses sion of the Institute of Pacific Relations will have many new ffc- tors and policies to consider, as _ new power formu- World a Eym las and equations 'Now Turned are being drawn, on Pacific The Philippines have changed their mind about cutting their Unit ed States towline. Japan and Ger many make a joint survey of a 50- mile, low-lying canal route across the upper neck of Siam, which will bring Japan four days nearer Aus tralia and perhaps five days nearer India. England’s Singapore naval base isn’t what it used to be. Aus tralia announces a big new rearma ment program. Ian Mackenzie, Canada’s handsome and versatile defense minister, breaks the news that Canada will rely on the United States fleet, voicing “reasonable assumption,” rather than defi nite “commitments.” And Paul V. McNutt, commission er of the - Philippines, says we should carry “liberty and peace” to the Far East. Mr. Mackenzie, a Vancouver law- yer, is one of Canada’s most famous scholars who Gaelic Ace writes fluently and la Canada’a publishes articles Top Scholar ui Gaelic. In his native Scotland, he was the most illustrious prize scholar of his generation, virtually monopolizing all the medals and garlands of the University of Edin burgh, for attainment in the cla»- sics. rag He later won a Carnegie research fellowship, gathering more honors in his work on old Irish manu scripts. He later attended the Roy al academy at Dublin, wrote songs and stories in the ancient Celtic language and picked up a law de gree as a sort of afterthought. He went to Vancouver In 1914, returned for the war, and romped through grades to the rank iff captain, fighting in all the major engagements. He kept his stride in his later success in law and politics in Van couver, becoming national defense minister in 1935. He is regarded as Canada’s most eligible bachelor. He says his favorite recreation is study. JOSEPH A. LYONS, Australian prime minister who announces a rearmament program of approxi mately $215,000,000, has no such gift of tongues and Reannament reached eminence Fever Hita by a longer and Auatralia harder road. He rose to pow er in the labor movement and, in 1931, like the late Ramsay Mac Donald, broke with his party and entered a coalition government. His shift to the right brought him under vigorous assault, but he was re elected by a large majority last Oc- '■ober. He Is sixty years old, gray and tousle-haired, the father of 11 children, and walks with a limp as the result of a railroad accident 13 years ago. He began his working career as a country school teacher in Tas mania. Insularity and “home rule” marked his attitude a few years ago. Now he recommends as a commonwealth slogan, “Keep in tune with England.” Everywhere, the little nations are calling, “Wait for baby.” • • • npAKING arms against this sea of -*■ troubles is the Countess Alain Dedons de Pierrefeu, formerly Elsa Tudor of the Boston social register. _ Under impressive world Tour patronage, which of Youth la includes faculty Peace Move members of lead ing universities, scholars, diplomats and sociologists, she organizes a “world youth tour,” with a fervor comparable to that of Peter the Hermit leading the children’s crusade. She is recruiting young persons from all nations, including Ger many, Italy and Russia, on a world tour to flux animosities and foster good will and understanding. “World peace through world trade” is their slogan. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd is among those who give warm indorsement to the plan. Headquarters for the tour are In New York. The French husband of the count ess was killed in the World war. Since then she has been vigorously active in social movements in Eu rope, Chicago, Boston and New York. For nearly foi* years she has been traveling around the world, recruiting support for her youth organization among diplo mats, economists and business men C Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Keeping Up c Science Service.—WNU Service. Vitamin D Material Removed From Skin by Shower and Rub By DR. FRANK THONE Washington.—You play a few sets of tennis, or toss a medicine ball, or take some other kind of vigorous exercise in the sun shine. You come in to the show er feeling full of pep and vita mins. You rub yourself down briskly with a rough towel, and feel even better. But you’ve lost a good part of the vitamins you have just been acquiring! For now it appears that the show er and rubdown that are orthodox parts of the American exercise and health ritual actually remove from the skin some of the stuff that vitamin D is made of. This is the conclusion of experiments at the In- stitutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, performed by Agnes C. Helmer and Rev. Cornelius H. Jansen. In the experiments, groups of stu dents, after exercising, had their bodies above the waist washed with clear water, which was all care fully saved and evaporated down. The terry cloths with which the students dried themselves were also saved. The residue from the wash ing and terry cloths was extracted with ether, and the material thus obtained subjected to ultraviolet ir radiation and fed to rats afflicted with rickets. What the Athletes Lose. The defective bones of the rats healed up, showing that the athletes’ "washings” had contained the pre cursor or raw material for vitamin D, which was then converted into the vitamin by the ultraviolet treat ment. *In a second experiment the stu dents were first irradiated with ul traviolet and the extracts then made in a similar manner. The results with rats proved that the washing had removed vitamin D itself from the boys’ skins. In their conclusions the experi menters state: "There is a definite evidence that the secretions from the skin contain precursors of vi tamin D, which after irradiation are due to be reabsorbed by the body, and the removal of which tends to produce a dearth of the vitamin unless it be supplied in some other form.” Poker Excels Art Works for Rousing Emotions New York.—Art does not contain emotion, nor is it very powerful in rousing emotion. Dr. Carroll C. Pratt, psychologist of Rutgers uni versity told the New York Aca demy of Sciences here. “The emotional effects of a game of poker, the news of the death of a friend, or reports of fluctuations in the stock market are frequently far more powerful than any of those which come from the contemplation of work of art,” he said. “Certain patterns of tone may sound agitated, but the person lis tening to them need not necessarily feel agitated. The resemblance of the two has led most aestheticians to assume that there is a real emo tion somewhere, when actually there may be no emotion, in any strict sense, anywhere.” Red Pine Has Disease That Causes Forking Philadelphia.—Red pine, recom mended as a hardy and disease- resistant replacement for the fun gus-threatened white pines of the northeastern United States, is not without its own disease troubles. A newly detected one is described in Science by Dr. John Austin Jump, botanist at the University of Penn sylvania. The disturbance consists in ab normally accelerated growth of one or more of the side buds at the tip, causing a forked growth of the tree. The angle between the forks is not always properly healed up, which permits fungi and other decay or ganisms to enter. The cause of the disorder is not yet known, but a fungus origin is suspected. Chemical War on Ants Is Found to Be Very Effective New Haven, Conn.—Chemical warfare methods have been proved effective against carpenter ants, which have been ruining large num bers of telephone poles in Connec ticut and other states. The ants do not eat wood, as termites do, but only dig out nests in it. The ef fect, however, is just as ruinous. Scientists at the state experiment station here have found that poles not too much hollowed out can be saved by sounding for the top of the cavity, boring a hole, and inject ing a mixture of coal tar and creo sote and gasoline or refined creo sote. A pressure gun is used for forcing in the liquid. Love of Cattle as “Money' Ruins the Land in Africa Drift From Alaska Toward North Pole Is Bartlett’* Plan New York.—Captain Robert A. (Bob) Bartlett, North Amer ica’s foremost veteran of the Arctic, has called for “three or four young fellows” or an ice breaker and crew to carry out a drift expedition from the Alaska coast toward the North Pole similar to the feat just com pleted by four Soviet Russian scientists. Warmly praising the achievement of the Russians in making detailed scientific observations through a nine-month vigil on an ice floe that drifted from the North pole toward the Greenland coast, Captain Bart lett said such an expedition would serve to complete knowledge of the other half of the Arctic basin. The Arctic veteran, who accom panied the late Admiral Robert E. Peary as far north as 87 degrees 48 minutes north latitude on Peary’s historic dash on foot to the North pole in 1909, called such an expedition as he proposes the nat ural complement to the work of the Russians. Either a small group of then could drift on an ice floe or the proper type of wooden ship, im prisoned in the ice and clear the Si berian coast where ice pressure might destroy it, could carry out the work. Most Start in Fall. “It would be necessary to start from the Alaskan coast in the fall of the year,” he explained. Ice conditions for the type of boat nec essary are best at that time of the year, while starting from Alaska is necessitated by the need for avoid ing the Siberian coast. Such a party would drift north eastward in the direction of the pole, as the Russians drifted south- westward from the pole—both drifts being across the icy “roof of the world.” Fridtjof Nansen, famous Norwe gian explorer, made a roughly sim ilar trip in the Fram from 1893 to 1896, drifting from the Bering sea to a point near Spitsbergen while caught fast in the ice. But, Captain Bartlett believes, such a journey today would produce valuable re sults because of the many major scientific advances since that time and the improved instruments men on such an expedition would have at their command. Interested particularly in the shape of the ocean floor. Captain Bartlett pointed out that such a group would have as an aid the sonic depth finder with which it might investigate the contour of the ocean bottom and the depth of the Polar seas. 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It all goes back to the completely senseless regard the pastoral tribes have for cattle, Sir Daniel Hall, di rector of the John Innes Horticul tural institution, pointed out in a Royal institution lecture here. Cattle are money to the tribes men, Sir Daniel explained. They do not eat them. They do not even milk them. They just keep them, increase their herds as much as possible, and use them only in swapping for wives and as means of prestige-gaining ostentation They literally hoard herds. These hoards of living money ex act hungry usury off the land. They strip the grasslands bare. Their owners destroy the forests, to make new pastures. The cattle strip these also. Erosion sets in, gnawing the land into deep gullies. The people, threatened with starvation by the greedy feeding of their own luxury- • cattle, have to look to the govern ment for bread. . Sr.merians Went to Battle in Ass-Drawn Chariots emmmmammmmmmarauaamaauammmmmmaaamm Chicago.—In the ass-and-buggy age, 2800 B. 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