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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938 News Review of Current Event* YARNELL DEFIES JAPS American Admiral Refuses to Remove His Warships From the Yangtse River . . . Congress and Politics Here Japanese soldiers with fixed bayonets are seen rushin; a Chinese position in a part of Suchow which the Japanese artillery had reduced to Baming ruins. There, as elsewhere, the defenders practically destroyed the city before retreating. U/. fticJoa/ul * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK Q Western Newspaper Union. Japan's Demands Rejected A MERICAN warships will remain' In the Yangtze river and will go to any place where Americans are in danger. This despite the de mands of Japan. Nava', officials of Japan asked that all foreign warships leave the Yangtze rive." area between Wuhu and Xiukiang because the invad ers were about to start an offensive toward Hankow, provisional Chinese capital. But Admi- Admiral ral Harry E.Yamell, ® 4rry Yarnell CO mmander of the United States Asiatic fleet, rejected the demand sharply. Further more, he at once planned an in spection trip up the Yangtze and through the war zone, and he did not ask Japan’s permission. These three “principles” of Amer ican naval operations in Asiatic wa ters were set forth by Admiral Yar nell in his note to the Japanese: The United States navy will re tain complete freedom of movement on the Yangtze, and will proceed to ■any place where Americans are in danger. The American command will not change the color of its warships, which are painted white, to conform to any color scheme suggested by the Japanese. The United States does not regard the warning of Japanese naval of ficials relative to the Yangtze as re lieving the Japanese “in the slight est degree” of responsibility for damage or injury to United States warships. Chinese claimed the drive of the Japanese on the central front was held up by Yellow river floods. Chenf.’.chow, once a prosperous rail way center, was still held by the Chinese, but had been reduced to ruins by Japanese shells and bombs and by the Chinese themselves in pursuing their “scorched earth” policy. Japanese air raids on Canton con tinued by day and night. Perhaps 10,000 persons had been killed there, many thousands were injured and the metropolis was shattered. A great portion of the population fled from the city. * Kennedy to Resign? A MBASSADOR J. P. KENNEDY left London for the United States arid, according to the London Daily Express, he intends to report to the President as soon as he arrives in Washington on his plan to settle the British war debt, and then will resign his post. He has held the position only three months. * Healing Party Rifts npHOUGH it was believed Tommy Corcoran and his "eliminating committee” would continue the ef forts to “purge” the Democratic party of opponents of administration policies, the Presi dent himself under took to repair some of the breaks in the party ranks. For in stance, he invited Senator Gillette, vic tor in the Iowa pri mary, to the White House where they took off their coats, ate luncheon togeth er and, according planned common action against the Republican enemy in November. Also, it was disclosed, Mr. Roose velt had sent word to the New York Democrats that the renomina tion of Governor Lehman would be acceptable to him. He has not liked Lehman since the governor came A. P. Sloan Jr. Gov. Lehman to reports. out against the court packing bill. There had been a plan to run Leh man for senator and Wagner for governor, but this switch presum ably is now out. * Railway Aid Postponed ■yyHEN the leaders of the sen- v y ate and house made up their minds to adjourn congress not lat er than June 15, they went to the White House and told the Presi dent the proposed legislation to ex pedite the reorganization of rail roads would have to be postponed to the next session. They agreed, however, to put through two other railway measures. One permits RFC loans to railroads without in terstate commerce commission cer tification. The other establishes a special unemployment insurance system for rail workers. * Sloan on Wage Law ALFRED P. SLOAN Jr., chair- mar of General Motors, told the stockholders of the corporation that federal legislation for mini mum wages and maximum hours will increase unem ployment, penalize small business and further unbalance the entire national economy. He criti cized the spending lending program as recovery medicine and said “There certainly is nothing in the picture to warrant optimism so far as the immediate future is concerned, or to establish my confidence as to any intelligent solution of our dif ficulties.” Sloan said that one of the two major contributing causes of the present depression has been the un stabilizing of the national economy by too rapid an increase in wages and too rapid a shortening of hours in many key industries—thus un balancing purchasing power in rela tion to prices. The second cause, superimposed on the first, Sloan continued, “is the fact that there has been developing a growing lack of confidence and a fear as to the attitude of government toward business, as well as to eco nomic policies that have been enact ed as affecting the national economy and penalizing the operating effect iveness of industry.” * Martin Suspends Five PRESIDENT HOMER MARTIN of the United Autpmobile Workers suspended five members of the un ion’s international board on the ground that they were disturbing un ion harmony. The five were Vice Presidents Richard T. Franken- steen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, and Walter N. Wells, and Secretary- Treasurer George Addess. * Lindberghs on Island pOL. AND MRS. CHARLES A. ^ LINDBERGH and their two sons are now established in their new home on little Illiec island just off the Brittany coast of France. Illiec island is large enough only for its castle, formerly the home of the opera singer, Mme. Adelina Patti. It is near St. Gildas island, home of Dr. Alexis Carrel], Amer ican scientist with whom Lindbergh developed the mechanical heart. * Son James Won’t Run TAMES ROOSEVELT, son and ^ secretary of the President, re jected a citizens committee’s re quest that he run for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, declar ing “I feel that I have an obliga tion above all else to remain at my duties in Washington.” Senator Ty dings Nazis Win in Elections I-IENLEIN’S Nazi Sudeten party -*■ won an overwhelming endorse ment from voters in Czechoslo vakia’s German districts in a land slide decision which featured the country's final municipal elections. In the Czech districts President Benes’ party gained substantially, while the Socialists and Agrarians held their own. Communists also showed a gain in the Czech areas. Few incidents of violence marked the day and no Czech troops were in evidence. Great Britain, acting to avert a fresh war crisis, received permission from the Czech govern ment to station observers through out the larger election districts. * Our Slump Worst A CCORDING to the monthly bul- letin of the federal reserve board, the present business depres sion is more severe in the United States than in any other industrial country in the world. The manufacture of war materi als in other countries was pointed out, however, as one of the prin cipal supports to business activity, many other industries showing al most as poor results as in the Unit ed States. The social security board report ed that during March two out of every thirteen persons in the United States received some form of pub lic aid, federal, state or local. The total number was estimated at 19,- 700,000. The statistics did not em brace farm subsidy payments, the federal housing program and other planned economy measures. * Plan Relief Politics Quiz 1-JARRY HOPKINS, head of the - 1 WPA, asserted that the renom ination of Senator Gillette by Iowa Democrats showed that bis vast or ganization was not playing politics. But prominent Demo cratic senators are not so sure this is true, or will be true during the remain der of the year. Ten of them signed a resolution, intro duced by Millard E. Tydings of Mary land, calling for the appointment of a senatorial commit tee of three to investigate any charges of politics in relief that may arise during the 1938 election campaign. The resolution made no reference to the Iowa primary in which Hopkins backed Otha Wearin, the loser. The ten signers of the resolution, including both supporters and crit ics of the Roosevelt administration, were, besides Tydings: Adams of Colorado, Bulkley of Ohio, Burke of Nebraska, George of Georgia, Ger ry of Rhode Island, Hatch of New Mexico, King of Utah, McAdoo of California and Wagner of New York. Senator Hatch said he would try again at the next session to impose restrictions on participation by re lief workers in party conventions or other political activities. * House Unseats Jenks A RTHUR B. JENKS, Republican, who had served 18 months of his term as representative from New Hampshire, was unseated by the house and replaced by Alphonse Roy, Democrat, who was declared defeated in the 1936 election. The vote to oust Jenks was 214 to 122. When it was announced, all the Re publicans, Progressives and Farm- er-Laborites and some Democrats marched out in a body as a gesture of protest. The action by the house was ap parently taken to aid the campaign of Senator Fred Brown of New Hampshire for renomination. Roy has a large following among the French population of Manchester, N. H. * Eight Army Flyers Die U'lGHT army airmen from Cha- nute field in Illinois were caught in a storm, lost one wing of their big bomber and crashed in a farm field near Delavan, 111. All of them were killed and the tanks burst into flame. Three of the victims were commissioned officers. * Kidnaped Boy Dead T TITLE James Bailey Cash, five years old, who was kidnaped from his home in Princeton, Fla., was found dead by federal agents, his body lying in a clump of palmet to. The $10,000 which his father had paid for the lad’s ransom was recovered. Franklin Pierce McCall, twenty- one years old, a truck driver, was arrested by J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men and confessed the crime. He said the boy was accidentally killed by suffocation before the first ransom note was delivered to his parents. * Huge Navy Plane Planned TPHE house appropriations com- mittee included in the second de ficiency bill an additional million dollars for construction of the world’s largest military plane, and the navy department is now ready to go ahead with the construction of the monster, which may weigh 50 tons. The original model will cost upward of $3,000,000. Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, said the new plane would exceed considerably the 5,000-mile range needed for a nonstop round trip from San Francisco to Honolulu. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON ■^EW YORK.—France is begin- ' ning to think she has another Clemenceau in Premier Daladier, and she still has Marshal Philippe „ . Petain, one of the How retain few survivors of Keep* Fit the great generals at g2 of the World war. Two or three years ago, General Petain was counseling peace and conciliation with Germany. Now he warns the French people of their “serious sit uation in Europe,” and urges them to consider realities. It is quite possible that rope-skip- ping is mainly accountable for Gen era] Petain being alive, trim, fit and active at eighty-two. He is an inveterate rope-skipper, ejected from his apartment in 1914, be cause he jarred the plaster from the walls. This writer’s record as to that goes only to 1934, but, in that year, he was still skipping diligent ly. Joffre, Foch and Maginot, among the French, Von Mackensen, Ludendorff and Hindenburg among the Germans — non-skippers all- have passed, but Marshal Petain lives on, venerated by his country men. It was he who said, “They shall not pass”—on February 5, 1916, to be exact. He was the savior of Verdun, and, in this connection, a deft historian might discover that rope-skip ping saved France. The gen eral spent a solid week in an Automitralleuse without sleep, and the London Daily News commented at the time that no man who was not in perfect physical condition could have survived such ordeals. It was suggested that his energy and endurance had turned the tide of war. He was bom Henri Philippe Be- noni Omer Joseph Petain, the son of a baker in Couchy a la Tour. • • • Man Mountain Dean, the wrestler, running for the legislature in Geor- n gia, is after only u * an one seat, but he Girds for will need three or Ballot Bout four if he is elect ed. In retirement on his farm, near Norcross, he still weighs 317 pounds. It is a unique contest for him, with no chance for his running ■ broad-jump attack, in which he hurtles his body igairist his opponent. His career seems to have been mostly his wife’s idea. Born Frank Leavitt, in New York, known as the “Hell’s Kitcben Hillbilly,” he did a hitch in the army and thereafter engaged in some desultory wrestling and mauling as a Soldier Leavitt. Nothing much came of it, and he began placidly taking on weight as traffic cop in Miami, Fla. Doris Dean married him and began prodding his lagging ambition. He started grappling again, in Boston in 1933, with fame still elud- n .,,1 ing his half-nelson, Doubled for when a Germ an Film Star promoter took him as Henry VIII on a tour of the Rhineland. This was more successful, and brought him to the attention of Alexandre Korda, who needed a double for Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in the wrestling scene. Thus came the famous whiskers, an important de tail of his wife’s clever showman ship in the build-up of the Man Mountain. It was she who persuad ed him to take the name Dean and who managed the histrionics which made him a fabulous creature. He was born in West Forty-third street in 1891, weighing 16i6 pounds. • • • r^EORGE E. Q. JOHNSON, the slight, self-effacing, bespec tacled man who sent A1 Capone to Alcatraz, is devoting his life to so- „ _ cial betterment. He oent jj e wan t s to make Capone to cities less fertile Alcatraz S01 ] *°r crim e, and to that end, would flush city and country chil dren back and forth, interchange ably, to the benefit of each, he be lieves, and the nurture eft good be havior. It was as United States at torney that he deftly enmeshed Capone in a silken spider-web of evidence, laboriously gathered and spun. The next year, Her bert Hoover made him a federal judge, but he stayed on the bench only a year and then went back to his law practice. He broke the gangs in Chicago. His story of how he snared Capone, told before the senate judiciary committee, with its tales of trap doors and secret panels, was Grade A melodrama, but he didn’t make it sound that way. He is a modest man, with no instincts of showmen- ship. Cl Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. © Science Service.—WNU Service. Cosmic Rays Created by Annihilation of Elements in Space Washington. — New evidence for the creation of powerful cos mic rays through the annihila tion of the universe’s common est chemical elements, sparsely scattered in the far reaches of space, was presented here be fore the meeting of the Nation al Academy of Science by Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize man, of the California Institute of Technology. The first evidence obtained by sci ence that the sun’s magnetic field extends out into space, enveloping the earth and the whole solar sys tem, has also resulted from Dr. Millikan’s latest cosmic ray re searches. Millikan, with his colleagues, Drs. I. S. Bowen and H. Victor Neher, probed the earth’s atmosphere with balloons practically to its top. They found that the way in which the energy in incoming, highly pene trating cosmic rays is distributed gives evidence for the annihilation theory of cosmic ray production. Elements That Are Destroyed. The most abundant elements that are destroyed in creating cosmic rays are carbon, nitrogen, and oxy gen, together with relatively high percentages of sodium, silicon, and aluminum. These are among the commonest elements in the uni verse. The elements that give rise to cosmic rays range in atomic weight between 6 and 28. Hydrogen, and perhaps helium, are also known to be extremely plentiful throughout the universe, and the fact that no cosmic rays corresponding to their energy of annihilation have been found gave Dr. Millikan his lead to the newly recognized extent of the sun’s mag netic field. The earth’s magnetic field has been known to change the direction of cosmic rays. Similarly, the sun keeps the less powerful rays of hydrogen and helium origin from getting to earth. Seedless Tomatoes Grown by the Use of Chemicals Columbia, Mo.—Tomatoes without seeds are being grown in the de partment of horticulture at the Uni versity of Missouri here by use of chemicals. Normally tomatoes require polli- nization and fertilization to set fruit, but that also means that seeds will be formed. So the Missouri work ers pinch out the parts of the flower that produce the pollen, thus stop ping fertilization, and then seek an other stimulus in the form of a growth-promoting substance, or hor mone, to cause the fruit to set. The result is that tomatoes devel op normally, but instead of contain ing seeds and pulp, the tomatoes are solid meat. The fruit is of normal size, but weighs more be cause it is solid. The hormone used is indoleacetic acid dissolved in lanum paste at the rate of one part acid to 500 parts paste. About three applica tions, put on a week or ten days apart, are required. Crusher Destroys Water Hyacinth in the South New Orleans.—Water hyacinth, one of the worst obstacles to navi gation in waters of the South, can be successfully kept in control by a new type of crusher tested out by the United States army engineer corps, with headquarters here. The new boat, called the Kenny, mounts a wide chain conveyor belt forward. This scoops up the floating plants and carries them up and back to a hopper. From there they fall between heavy corrugated roll ers which crush them flat. The pulped remains, washed overboard through a pipe, sink to the bottom and decay. Longest Single Span Girder Is in New York New York.—New York city’s West Side express highway, pride of «a traffic-ridden city, boasts the long est single-span plate girder in the United States. Bridging the New York Central railroad tracks at West One Hun dred and Sixtieth street, a girder 190 feet 2 inches long overall and 188 feet 1A inches between supports carries the massive streamlined highway. It was fabricated in two approximately equal lengths to meet railroad loading requirements and shipping clearances and to fa cilitate handling. Wide Uses Predicted for “Windmill” Plane That Has No Wings ByTEONABDMH. ENGEL. Washington.—Write this in your book: A place in the air for the “windmill” aircraft within five years. Aviation men and others here are freely predicting widespread adop tion of the new autogiro that is emerging today from years of quiet experimental work without benefit of publicity. A rapidly-growing list of uses is being compiled for new varieties of the “windmill” plane that can do things no ordinary air plane can duplicate. I went up in one of the new auto- giros demonstrated here by W. Wal lace Kellett of Philadelphia. We took off in 25 feet. We landed almost literally on a dime—the wheels struck the earth and stopped, hardly moving a millimeter. Up in the air we stood stock still, we moved sideways, we turned as though an axle pierced the fuselage. And the pilot did all that simply by maneuvering the three whirling blades above the fuselage of the newest type of rotatable wing air craft. Abilities such as these have the army interested. Navy men are curious, too, and so are foresters, coast guardsmen, persons con cerned with air mail, and others. Antogiro Has No Wings. The autogiro has come a long way during the decade since the late Senor Juan de la Cierva, its inventor who was killed in the crash of a transport plane in 1936 in just the kind of accident he sought to prevent with his odd-looking craft, brought it to the United States. Today, the trim machine demon strated by Kellett has no wings, de pending for its lift entirely on the whirling blades. With a 225 horsepower motor powering a pro peller to give it forward speed and turning the overhead blades for the take off, the autogiro can make 125 miles an hour; it can lift more, rise more sharply and quickly than the predecessors which attracted so much attention hardly more than half a dozen years ago. And technical men in various fields and government services are seeing quickly that its uncanny maneuverability will find ready ap plication. The ajpny wants it for “spotting” artillery fire and for observation and reconnoitering. You could have drawn a detailed picture of Wash ington while we were above it, so nearly motionless did we hover. The autogiro would also be useful for liaison operations. The navy may find it useful for "spotting” naval gunfire for it has the advantage of being able to hover, yet being so maneuverable that it can follow the course of an enemy fleet. • Airplanes are already in wide use for dusting fields with insect poisons, but it is a risky business, moving along at nearly 100 miles an hour only a few feet above the ground. Hence, another use is seen for the autogiro: hovering a few feet above the ground spreading a chemical cloud is not a risky business for the rotatable wing aircraft. Spotting diseased trees has also been suc cessfully accomplished Lindbergh’s “Glass Heart” Keeps Man^ Organs Alive Philadelphia.—Col. Charles Lind bergh’s invention, the “glass heart,” has been used in over 900 experi ments, totalling about 100,000 hours, to keep alive a large variety of or gans from human beings and lower animals, Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller institute announced here before the meeting of the American Philosophical society. He added: “The method has reached the stage where it can be profitably ap plied to many problems in the fields of anatomy, physiology, biological chemistry, and pathology.” Among organs kept alive and working, for periods varying from two to thirty days, were hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys, spleens and other glands; arteries, veins, nerves, muscles, joints, and repro ductive organs. The hearts kept on beating, the glands continued to se crete, and other organs continued their functions in the circulating me dium. “Vegetable Sheep” Brought From Colombian Mountains Washington. — "Vegetable sheep” —plants covered so thickly with long, white-woolly leaves that from a distance they look like grazing sheep on the hillside—are the new est additions to botanical knowledge at the United States national herb arium here. They are described through the agency of the Smithso nian institution by Dr. S. F. Blake of the bureau of plant industry. De partment of Agriculture. The plants belong to the aster family, and come from the Santa Marta mountains in Colombia, South America. The only “vegeta ble sheep” hitherto known were from New Zealand. Another strangely shaped plant from the Santa Marta mountains is known as the “monk plant”; at a little dis tance, especially through a light fog, a group of them looks like as assembly of robed priests. By ELIZABETH C. JAMES A DRY leaf fluttered into Soapy’s lap. That would be the calling card of Jack Frost. In fact just last night Soapy had noticed that winter was approaching because three newspapers adroitly disposed did not keep out the chill as he lay on his favorite park bench. Soapy disliked the cold months, but with a little luck, he would manage. Being an observant man. Soapy had learned long ago that there were two alternatives for him dur ing the winter: Philanthropy or the Law. The former carried with it cer tain circumstances that interfered with gentleman’s pri vacy, as baths and such. So, Soapy had long favored the Law which did not meddle with his tastes as an individ ual. Since he must do something at once about the cold weather, and since there was nothing to deter him now, he might as well begin at once. There were certain activities that Soapy knew carried ninety days on the Island, where there was heat and food, and clothing enough. Soapy went into a not too respect able looking restaurant and ordered a pleasing dinner. When he had dined slowly and with precision, he announced that he had no money and suggested that the waiter call a cop. The next instant Soapy was gathering himself together off the sidewalk. O. Henry Tells Tale of ‘Cop And Anthem 9 Elizabeth James Soapy Is Luckless. The second method would likely work. Picking up a brick he slammed it into a plate glass win dow. When the cop came, Soapy said "Here I am, I did it.” The cop answered, “Who are you trying to' kid, wisa guy?” And was off to catch a man who was running after a street car. Those were two of Soapy’s best cards, but he still had a few up his sleeve. Across the street stood a modest looking girl, gazing at the winter styles. He sidled up to her, cleared his throat, and carried on the usual antics of a masher. She walked slowly along, Soapy after ONCE IN PRISON William Sidney Porter was born in 1862 in Greensboro, N. C. O. Henry, his pen name, came later. As a young man be went to Austin, Texas, where he worked in a bank. It was there that the embezzlement of $1,150 occurred, a crime that has never been really cleared up. Howev er, Porter was sentenced to serve five years in an Ohio peniten tiary for the crime. In prison he settled down to a concentrated program of writing. In 1903 he contracted with the New York World to do a story a week at $100 each. When he died in 1910, his body was interred in Asheville, N. C. Of him the Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica states, “The tragedy of his own life taught him a chival rous tenderness for the unlucky.” her. There was a cop nearby that Soapy was counting on. Finally the girl turned, caught Soapy’s arm and whispered, “I would have come over sooner, but the cop was watch ing us and I had to figure it out.” She hung onto him as to an old friend, but at the next corner Soapy bolted. He didn’t want anything to do with wonrun. ■ Disturbing the peace is a sure one, thought Soapy, tugging at his coat to hold it closer, drunks and crazy people are always locked up. Ac cordingly he began his act, yelling and dancing around wildly. The cop watched a minute, and turning to the bystanders, he explained, “ ’Tis one of them Yale lads celebratin’ the game. We’ve instructions to lave them be.” Fatalistie End. Soapy was disheartened. What did it take to rate the three months on the Island? He mused over his pos sibilities, and like a homing pigeon, he rambled along the avenues toward Madison Square Garden. Presently he passed a cathedral, dark except for one window that was rimmed with light. Soapy looked, and then his ear caught the pulsing tones of a pipe organ. What in the world? An anthem, one that did things inside of Soapy. He thought of all the forbidden thoughts, of his mother, of when he was a little boy and had a respect able way of living. These thoughts upset him until the result was that Soapy gave up his idea of spending the winter on the Island. He would get a job, he would be somebody and show the worldl A familiar touch sent a shiver down his arm. Looking up he saw the broad face of a cop. “What you doin’?” Soapy answered, “Nothin’.” “Then come along.” The Magistrate gave him three months on the Island on a charge of vagrancy. • Ban Syndlcat*.—WNU Service.