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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.
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* ^ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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cast upon this strait, which doubt
less suggested the name.
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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”).
He tried to acknowledge all such
messages and sometimes did so in .
a whimsical way. Here is one of
his replies:
“Dear Sir (or Madam): I try
every remedy that is sent to me.
I am now on No. 67. Yours is No.
2,653. I am looking forward to its
beneficial results.”
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Failure to Understand
“Not to understand something,’
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown,
“is no fault of your own, but an
attempt to explain it to confiding
people may render you guilty of a
dangerous form of false pretense.'
Love of a Child
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The walled city of Carcassonne
in southern France, built over 2,000
years ago, has a so-called magic
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tom is the gate to Fairyland.”
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