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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938 New* Review of Current Events ANGLO- ITALIAN PACT Treaty for Friendship in Which France May Join . . Roosevelt's Spending Plan Starts Big Battle Emergency rationing of troops by airplane and parachute was suc cessfully accomplished in Texas by the army air corps during maneuvers. This picture shows metal food container for personnel rations, bale of hay and a 130-pound sack of oats, with parachutes attached, ready to be loaded on the bomb racks of the Martin bomber seen in background. ~^4$&turtuzxi W. JPudomiA * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Move Toward Peace N eville chamberlain’s dream of security for peace in Europe through amicable arrange ments of the democratic govern ments with the dictators may yet be realized. Anyhow, consumma tion of the ideal was brought nearer when Lord Perth, British ambassa dor to Rome, and Italian Foreign Minister Ciano signed the treaty of friendship which had been under negotiation for weeks. The pact is designed to end the long feud be tween the two nations, and it is probable France will join in after negotiations with Mussolini already suggested by Foreign Minister Bon net. The British prime minister, of course, hopes that later Hitler can be brought into the group and that there will be formed a London- Paris-Rome-Berlin quadrangle in place of the Berlin-Rome axis. Temporarily, the treaty provides for friendly relations between Britain and Italy in the Mediter- _ .and the Near East, but it does not go into full effect until “such date as the two governments together shall determine.” In other words, Italy must first have with drawn its troops from Spain and Britain must have recognized Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia. The fornier may be delayed until France hss won final victory. The latter de pends upon permission from the League of Nations council, which has been asked by Chamberlain. In essence, the treaty is a prom ise by each side not to attempt to change the status quo in the Medi terranean or Red sea areas nor to injure each other’s interests there in any way. Italy -is to reduce her forces in Libya to peace time strength, and will adhere to the London naval treaty limiting the size of warships. The Suez canal is to be open to all nations equally in war or peace. Italy will abide by the international nonintervention committee’s ruling on volunteers in the Spanish war and in case to withdraw from Spain entirely when the war is ended. Italy declares it has no territorial or political aims and seeks no privileged economic position in Spain, the Balearic islands, Spanish Morocco or Spanish possessions overseas. Political leaders in Berlin did not minimize the importance of the Anglo-Italian pact, but insisted that the Berlin-Rome axis was not weak ened. They were awaiting some what anxiously the visit of Premier Daladier and-Foreign Minister Bon net to London, scheduled for late in April. There were no indications in London or Paris that Britain and France were ready yet to deal with Hitler. But it was rumored thi/it Poland might join them and Italy in a four-power pact. * Ready for Baffle DIG spenders and little spenders ■*-* lined up rapidly for the congres sional fight over President Roose velt’s program for pump-priming and relief, for which he asked congress to provide nearly seven billion dol lars. Of the total sum, 4% billions would be used for spending and lend ing to speed recov ery from the pres ent business depres sion. The house ap propriations com mittee began hear ings on the Presi dent's proposals, and administra tion leaders in both branches of congress laid plans to expedite the passage of the necessary legisla tion, still hoping for adjournment by May 14. Sam Rayburn said all were agreed on handling the legis lation as an omnibus bill. He was confident it would go through the house quickly, and also confident of the defeat of attempts to earmark Senator Vandenberg the recovery funds to assure con gressional control over them. Opponents of the pump-priming led off with vigorous radio ad dresses by Chairman John Hamilton of the Republican national commit tee and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. Hamilton came to the conclusion that “the President and the New Deal are far more interest ed in priming the polls than in prim ing the pumps of industry.” Vanden berg said the plan, whatever its temporary benefit, would work a “long run disaster.” The priming plan, Vandenberg said, means trying to spend the country into better times on bor rowed money, trying to buy pros perity. In his message to congress and in a radio talk to the nation, the Presi dent proposed three groups of meas ures. The first involves mainly ad ditional appropriations for the com ing fiscal year, as follows: One billion two hundred and fifty million dollars for the Works Prog ress administration; $175,000,000 for the Farm Security administration; $75,000,000 for the National Youth administration; $50,000,000 for the Civilian Conservation corps, and the $1,500,000,000 already made avail able to the Reconstruction Corpora tion for lending to business enter prises. In a second group of measures Mr. Roosevelt asked: Three hundred million dollars for immediate expansion of the housing and slum-clearance work of the United States Housing authority; $1,450,000,000 for public works loans and grants; an additional $100,000- 000 for public roads; an additional $37,000,000 for flood control and re clamation projects already autho rized and an additional $25,000,000 for federal buildings. A third group listed by the Chief Executive referred to private cred it. It involved desterilization of $1,400,000,000 of gold and a reduc tion by the Federal Reserve board of member bank reserve require ments which would add another $750,000,000 to the credit resources of the nation’s banks. With these actions Mr. Roosevelt coupled a simplification of Security commis sion regulations. * Barcelona in Peril CPANISH insurgents, having ^ reached the Mediterranean at the port of Vinaroz, spread north and south along the coast and ef fectively cut off Cat alonia from the rest of loyalist Spain. Veteran Spanish and Italian troops, led by Gen. Garcia Va- lino and Gen. Migu el Aranda, blasted their way into Vina roz in a single day of severe combat, and Valino then started a northward drive on Tortosa, where important coastal highways converge. Franco’s next great objective was Barcelona. His forces were begin ning a new movement against that city from the west, and his naval and air fleets left their bases to co operate. After Barcelona falls, as it seems likely to do, Valencia will be attacked; and then Franco plans a final effort to take Madrid. * Won't Accept Pay Cut 'TXT’HILE congress and various ▼ » government agencies were try ing to find a way to save hard- pressed railways from bankruptcy, the Association of American Rail roads, represented by President John J. Pelley, and railway labor, represented by George M. Harrison, president of the Railway Labor Ex ecutives’ association, conferred in vain over the desire of the manag ers to reduce the pay of the workers. The latter rejected the idea with scorn, and defied a threat by man agement representatives that rail roads will invoke the railroad medi ation act to enforce consideration of pay cuts. ‘Wage cuts are out of the ques tion,” Harrison said. “I never heard of such a silly thing in my life. Man agement is trying to reduce buying power at the same time President Roosevelt is pouring out 4% billion dollars in an attempt to increase buying power. They aren’t going to get one cent from us. That’s all there is to that.” -* Benes Grants Amnesty PRESIDENT BENES of Czecho- 1 Slovakia contributed toward his country’s inner tranquility and the peace of central Europe by pro claiming an Easter amnesty for about 4,000 political offenders, most of them agitators for German and other minorities. Excluded were Sudeten Germans who have fled abroad. Benes also made a radio address in which he said his gov ernment was ready to meet any sit uation arising from the troubled state of Europe, but was ready also to go as far as any of its neighbors in establishing good relations. He denied German charges that Czech oslovakia is going communist. -* Congressmen Vexed XXT'HILE committees of the sen- ate and house were still try ing to reconcile the widely differing versions of the tax bill passed by the two houses. President Roosevelt sent to the chair men a long letter urging retention of the tax on undis- t r i b u t e d profits, which had been eliminated by the senate. Many mem bers of congress thought the Chief Executive was inti mating that he would veto the bill if thia feature were omitted. That would leave in effect the present law carrying a severe tax which has been widely attacked as one of the causes of the prevailing business depression. The intervention by Mr. Roosevelt at this time and in this manner was considered unprecedented and aroused many expressions of amazement and indignation, espe cially among the senate conferees. Senator Pat Harrison, their leader and the chairman of the senate finance committee, obviously dis pleased, said: “The senate conferees will insist in conference on the amendments adopted in the senate. “I believe that the repealing of the undistributed profits tax and the modifications of the capital gains tax, as adopted by the senate, will help business.” * Sen. Harrison Gen. Valino Dr. Townsend Pardoned r)R. FRANCES E. TOWNSEND, carrying a pair of socks and a typewriter, arrived at the jail in Washington, ready to serve his thir ty day term for contempt of con gress and become a martyr. But the old age pension planner was in formed that President Roosevelt had pardoned him. The pardon was issued upon the urgent request of Representative C. Jasper Bell, chairman of the investigating com mittee before which Dr. Townsend refused to testify. Three New Saints DOPE PIUS took part in elaborate 1 Easter ceremonies in St. Peter’s church, Rome, and bestowed his blessing on an immense throng gathered before the basilica. He also formally canonized three new saints, these being Andrea Bobola of Poland, Salvador de Horta of Spain and Giovanni Leonard! of It aly. In Jerusalem British troops and police kept order among Christians, Jews and Moslems, for all of whom Easter was a holy day. * Orville Wright Honored A/fORE than 200 of America’s leading figures in aeronautics gathered in Detroit on the invita tion of Henry and Edsel Ford to pay tribute to Orville Wright, first man ever to fly an airplane. The celebration, dedicating the newly restored group of Wright buildings at Ford’s Greenwich Vil lage, was in honor of Orville Wright and in memory of his brother Wil bur, who died in 1912. * Mayor Dore Is Dead S EATTLE’S spectacular mayor, John F. Dore, died after a long illness. He had failed of re-nomina- tion in the recent primaries. Dore was a brilliant lawyer and a fight ing executive. He was allied politi cally with Dave Beck, labor leader. * Will Defend Peace DAN-AMERICAN day was marked 1 by an address by President Roosevelt, broadcast throughout the world, in which he warned all na tions that the peoples of the Amer ican republics will not permit ag gressor nations to threaten the peace of this hemisphere. All of them, he asserted, are firmly re solved to maintain peace, though this might entail sacrifices—even the sacrifice of life. He reiterated this country’s “good neighbor” policy in its relations with Central and South American countries and cited this hemi sphere’s successful “demonstration that the rule of justice and law can be substituted for the rule of force.” WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON XJEW YORK.—The Nazis haven’t ~ bothered Frau Katherine Schratt. - Unlike the Pompadours and Montespans, usually among the . first victims of po- rrau Katie litical upheavals. Immune to Austria’s “Gnae- Nazi’s Ban di S e Frau,” as Emperor Francis Joseph called her, has ridden the surf-board of dynastic and political change for nearly 60 years. She is now eighty-two, doing crossword puzzles, disclaiming knowledge of the current cataclysm, but longing for the “good old days.” In those days, she was pretty Katie Schratt, a dancer in the Burg theater, which was under the pat ronage of the emperor. After a hit performance, with the emperor at tending, she obtained an audience. “Sire,” she said, with a low curtsey, “we cannot maintain ourselves on the salaries you pay. I owe $50,000 for my cos tumes.” The emperor promised a new ben efice for the theater and said he would help her take care of her debts. She was backing gracefully to the door when the emperor said: “Gnaedige Frau, why do you leave us?” > She stayed 40 years, in a snug little villa by the palace gates. The emperor, after a hard day swinging the scepter, used to drop in at Frau Katie’s, split a bottle of Pilsener and sing a few songs. She knew all the mellow old tunes which he par ticularly liked. She used to dam his socks and tell him when he needed a hair cut. She refused to accept gowns or jewels, always remaining the “Gnaedige Frau,” but the emperor, by an amusing artifice, induced her to accept a fortune in gems. He was a famous huntsman. He told her he was sending her a wild boar he had killed. She saw no harm in that. When it arrived, it had diamond earrings, a diamond neck- Slam Boar .. lace and bracelets /« Studded and a diamond With Jewel* breast pin, and its back was studded with precious Hapsburg jewels. The money lenders got them, after the emperor’s death. She was supposed to know more of the secrets of the realm than any other person. She guarded them carefully, but did reluctantly reveal a few details of the Mayerling trag. edy of 1889. She said Archduke Rudolf shot himself, after killing Bar oness Vetsera. That’s the ver sion of the film now running. It would make a good story if somebody could take Frau Schratt to see “Mayerling” and have her write a critical revftw. * * * 1V/I ARK ETHRIDGE becomes "czar” of the radio industry. It is hard to think of Mr. Ethridge as a czar, or even a third assistant Simon Legree, but he clicks neatly as an able, deft, diligent and re sourceful executive. While Mr. Ethridge is only forty- four years old, he is of th* type of D , old-line, legman Kaaio Czar newspaper man, Began Career with an insatiable as a Leg Man appetite for news. A native of Meri dian, Miss., with soft southern speech and instinctive courtesy, he ought to be an. excellent trouble shooter for the radio, rather than a czar. wa$ a reporter on the Meridian Dispatch, studied at the University of Mississippi and romped on up through grades to the managing editorship of the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. He was with the New York Sun in 1926 and his old friends there have been nominating him today for a loud cheer in this corner. He was lured back to Macon, went thence to the Richmond (Va.) Times, of which he was publisher, and later became gen eral manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Times. He spent the year 1933 in central Europe, on an Ober- lander Trust fellowship, study ing politics and economics and —the only touch of anti-climax in his career—the Versailles treaty. The radio has picked a man who knows the social and educational box-score as well as good enter tainment. He is still general man ager of the Courier-Journal, up and coming in the new enlightened lead ership of the South. His “czar” job is unsalaried. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Talks Too Fast A certain doctor had the habit of interjecting the phrase “of course” every little while as he spoke, just as others say “D’you see” or “don’t you know.” But he said “of course” once too often. For, once, when a patient was very ill, “I hurried to him, and, of course, he died.” Tloyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU3SELF! “A Ride With Death” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Mary Billard of La Salle, 111., is today’s Distinguished Adventurer, and she wins that distinction with one of the most terrifying yarns I’ve seen in a long time. It happened in 1913, when Mrs. Billard was Miss Mary Blanch, a girl of twelve, and Mary says, “The La Salle papers called me a heroine at the time, and it was all quite exciting for a girl of my age, but it lost its thrill when I thought of my mother lying in a hospital in a critical condi tion, fighting the dangers of gangrene and lockjaw.” You can see from that statement of Mary’s that there was tragedy in that episode as well as adventure. And it started with nothing but a common, ordinary buggy ride. There weren’t many automobiles in those days, and most of the streets were mere unpaved dirt roads. Her Dad Bought a Race Horse. Mary’s dad had bought a horse that had spent all its life on race tracks and was hard to handle when hitched to a buggy. It had run away twice, and Mary’s mother didn’t drive it any oftener than she had to. But there came a day when she felt she HAD to drive that horse. They had just moved into town, and Mary was finishing a term at a little country schoolhouse three miles out of La Salle. Mary’s teacher was coming back with her that evening, so mother hitched up the horse and started out to get them. Mother hadn’t been feeling well all that day, but she made the trip to the schoolhouse without any trouble. They were all on their way to town, with Mary in the middle between her mother and the teacher, when, without warning, Mary felt her mother fall away from her. She looked around just in time to see mother topple from the seat and pitch headlong into the road. She had fainted. Off on a Terrifying Run. But that was only the beginning of a disastrous train of events. Mother had fallen out with the lines still clutched in her hands. The sudden jerk on those reins, caused by her falling, frightened the horse. It gave a leap forward. “And with that leap,” says Mary, “there started the fastest ride 1 had ever remembered in all my twelve years. “We were horrified at the situation. The horse was plunging along at a full gallop, and my mother was being dragged face downward over /] G./fu*tAr#£# How Term Golden Gate Originated The entrance to the harbor of San Francisco between two headlands was given the name Golden Gate by the explorer Drake in 1578. As the sun sinks into the Pacific there is a peculiarly brilliant golden effect cast upon this strait, which doubt less suggested the name. Products From Pine Trees Pine trees 50 years old produce pulp wood, cabin logs, railway ties and mine timbers. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PHOTOGRAPHY r PHOTO TUin CBPP E<* ht genuine R»- I wwU rift EL dex Hi-Glosa prints 1 and two beautiful ENLARGEMENTS 5*7 enlargement* • ■ — with each roll for 25| coin. 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Mary Climbed Onto the Horse’s Back. stones and gravel, in a way that struck terror into my heart. The teach er and I were helpless. “We called and screamed to mother, pleading with her to let go of the lines, but all our screaming was useless, for mother was in an un conscious condition, clinging to those reins with a death grip while the horse dragged her along.” And, for half a mile, mother dragged along beside the reeling wagon, in imminent danger of rolling under the wheels, while up in the seat Mary and the teacher sat paralyzed with fear, trying to hang on to the swaying, reeling buggy. Mary says that buggy was running on two wheels a good part of the time. And at other times it seemed to be flying through the air, with nothing under the wheels at all. Several men along the road had tried to stop the horse, hot couldn’t do anything with the crazed animal. At last, at the end of a half mile, mother’s hands loosened on the reins and the lines were free. They got between the horse’s front legs, and that only served to frighten the poor animal more. Still the reeling, careening carriage flew on. They had covered more than a mile, and now they were within a short distance of a narrow culvert, just outside of the business section of La Salle. Thera were pillars on either side of it, and it would be a miracle if the crazed horse got through that cramped space without wrecking the buggy. The teacher was the first one to think of that culvert. She screamed to Mary that if the horse couldn’t be stopped before they reached it they would both be killed. “And with her voice still ringing in my ears,” says Mary, “she rose to her feet, stood on them for a moment on the swaying floor of the buggy— and jumped! I shut my eyes as I heard her body hit the road, and thought that surely she must have been killed.” Desperate Climb to the Horse’s Baek. And now, Mary was left alone in that speeding buggy. She knew that, somehow, she had to get hold of those reins that were dragging down there beneath the horse’s feet. Just a little way ahead, now, was the culvert. And even if the buggy did get through the culvert, it was cer tain to crash into something in the business district two blocks beyond. So, while the buggy reeled and swayed, Mary began climbing over the dashboard, onto the horse’s back. It was a desperate chance. Time and again Mary almost lost her hold in that precarious trip. The horse was sUppery with foam and perspiration, and only by bracing her feet against the shaft did she manage to keep from being thrown into the road. “I reached the horse’s head,” she says, “and the feel of my body on her seemed to frighten her all the more, and make her go faster than ever. But I got the lines from between her legs and started inching my way back to the buggy. “1 pulled and jerked at the reins until I brought the horse to a halt,” she says, “and it stopped just a few feet in front of the dreaded culvert. A boy ran up to hold the animal, and I left the buggy and ran into town to get a doctor for mother. She was still unconscious when they brought her in, and to this day she carries, on the right side of her face, the terrible marks of that horrifying experience.” Mary says she’s glad the horse and buggy days are over because— well—she wouldn’t want any of her children to have such an experience. Copyright.—WNU Service. Recovery In Prospect, But Not Immediate Nearly all his life, when he was ill, Mark Twain was inundated with letters from well-wishers, one offering this, and another of fering that marvelous remedy for his malady, whatever it might be, says iJs daughter, Clara Clemens (in “My Father: Mark Twain”). 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