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German ‘Encirclement 9 Rushed
But Poland Fears Firm Stand
-By Joseph W. La Bine
EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions sro
expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst, and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
Europe
“The regime of pre-war days had but
one fault—it knew the devilish plan of
encircling and attacking us, yet it locked
the power or will to ward it off . . . No
power in the world can ever again force
us to our knees."
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler at Wil-
helmshaven, one day after Britain’s
Prime Minister Chamberlain had
shocked the world by promising to
defend Poland against Nazi aggres
sion. Though Der Fuehrer barked
boldly, it appeared the heretofore
ineffectual Stop Hitler drive had at
POLAND’S JOSEF BECK
He will continue fence-straddling.
last taken small roots, and that Ger
many was indeed being encircled.
Outside of Russia, which still
scoffs at French-British solidarity
efforts, Rumania and Poland are
eastern Europe’s principal anti-Nazi
frontiers. Even as Mr. Chamberlain
announced the new Polish guaran
tee, France was busying herself with
Rumania. In Paris the French
agreed to double their purchase of
Rumanian oil and slash 60 per cent
off import duties on Rumanian farm
products. Thus will King Carol’s
Bucharest government be protected
from complete economic overlord
ship under the new trade treaty
forced by Germany.
Within a few more days other re
sults appeared. Rumania and Po
land, with French-British blessing,
reportedly renovated their two-
power military alliance to make it
operative against Germany as well
as Soviet Russia. At the same time
Britain apparently extended border
guarantees to Rumania.
There was good likelihood, how
ever, that scoffing Russia might be
right. En route to London for a
three-day conference, Poland’s For
eign Minister Josef Beck found a
chilly reception in Berlin, which
probably made him acutely aware
that he must make no rash commit
ments to the British. After strad
dling the political fence for years,
Poland had its choice between mer
cy at the hands of' Germany or a
“security” with France and Britain,
the latter meaning little in the light
of Czecho-Slovakia’s experience.
A good sign of Polish thought was
the comment in Kurjer Poranny,
semi-official newspaper: “There is
no alliance or bloc . . . the British
commitments are not in contradic
tion to nonaggression treaties signed
by Poland with Germany and Rus
sia . . . Poland always tries to con
form not only to the formal side of
these treaties but also to their spirit.
Asia
For almost a year Japanese ag
gression against French-British co
lonial interests has followed on the
heels of European dictator coups.
With London and Paris jittery after
Munich, Tokyo walked into Canton.
On February 10, just after Italian
troops helped General Franco cap
ture Barcelona and put democracies
on the run again, Japan occupied
strategic Hainan island which was
smack in the middle of the French-
British sphere of interest. More
over, the seizure defied an earlier
agreement with France.
With France and Britain again jit
tery in the wake of Hitler’s Czech
PROGRESS
CHEMURGT—Under a new
process, inedible starch can be
converted into a transparent
wrapping substance at a cost of
less than three cents a pound.
AVIATION—Capt. Hans Dieter-
le, German army pilot, has flown
an airplane (with 1,175-horsepow
er engine) at 463.9 miles-per-hour
to set a new record.
GLASS — At Philadelphia’s
Franklin institute, scientists were
recently shown a new automobile
safety glass which bends but will
not break, thanks to a plastic
“sandwich” filler between the
two glass layers.
ELECTRICITY —■ Ninety-seven
per cent of the 21,000,000 wired
homes in the U. S. have electric
irons, 40 per cent have washing
machines and vacuum cleaners,
and more than a third have re
frigeration.
and Memel conquests, Japan has
struck again. The victim: France,
who in 1933 laid formal claim to the
seven Spratly islands lying 350 miles
southwest of the American Philip
pines, 350 miles west of British Bor-
Cklavt 350 miles east of French
lr,do-China.
Though discovered in 1867, the is
lands went unclaimed until France’s
declaration of sovereignty. Useful
economically only for phosphate, the
Spratly group offers Japan a snug
haven for seaplanes and submarines
which might disrupt French-British-
U. S. trade. At Tokyo the foreign
office pointed out that Japs have
worked Spratly phosphates since
1917, investing capital and establish
ing small settlements. But since
France neglected to establish ad
ministrative jurisdiction (a grave
oversight) Japan decided to claim
the reefs “to eliminate disadvan
tages and inconveniences.”
The expected result of France’s
protest: Nothing.
Spain
Though recognition by the Unitea
States again placed Gen. Francisco
Franco’s Spain in the good graces
of international society (all other ma
jor powers had previously recog
nized the Nationalist government)
the war-torn Iberian peninsula still
faces a tremendous task. Franco’s
sole ineffectual international gesture
as a European power has been to
join Germany, Italy and Japan in
the anti-Communist pact. Having
thus shown European democracies
his heels, the tired generalissimo
could turn to more pressing internal
problems. Among them:
Order. Though Spain needs man
power to rebuild, many moons will
pass before unemployment will be
solved. Still breathing in their sec
ond wind after 32 months of war,
discharged Spanish soldiers will not
readily bow to anything less than
military law. Franco’s answer is
expected to be a 1,000,000-man army
until early 1940.
Health. Substantiated reports
from Madrid tell of a scurvy-like
disease sweeping former Loyalist
territory, caused by lack of fresh
fruits, vegetables and milk. Its med
icine chest emptied, short of band
ages, iodine, salves and medicines,
Spain has sent hurry-up orders to
cope with the sorriest physical plight
ra enlightened nation has suffered
in modem times.
Housing. Though intent on restor
ing shell-pocked Catholic churches
JULIAN BESTEIRO
A humanitarian was courUmurtialed.
in Madrid and other former frontier
points, Franco faces a far greater
carpentry job in placing roofs over
several hundred thousand ex-Madri-
lenos who fled the capitol in war,
returning in peace to find their me
tropolis a shambles.
Revenge. Most Loyalist leaders
like Gen. Jose Miaja fled Spain after
hoisting the white flag of surrender.
Two notable exceptions were Gen.
Segismundo Casado, war minister
of the defense council, and Julian
Besteiro, a moderate Republican
who took no active part in the war
except to supervise feeding women
and children during Madrid’s two-
year siege. Humanitarian or not,
Senor Besteiro was arrested and
court martialed along with General
Casado.
Finance. Before the war Spain’s
gold reserve of $740,000,000 was ex
ceeded only by the U. S., Britain
and France. Also on hand were vast
hoards of silver. By April, 1938, the
U. S. federal reserve bulletin re
ported Spanish gold had dropped to
$525,000,000, and by this month as
General Franco entered Madrid, no
body apparently knew where any
Spanish gold might be. One vague
hint was that Marino Gamboa, a rich
Loyalist-sympathizing Filipino, had
moved most of it to Mexico and
thereby insured the solvency of Loy
alist refugees. Meanwhile National
ist Spain held an empty bag.
People
Bom, President Roosevelt’s ninth
grandchild, a boy, to Mr. and Mrs.
John Boettiger (Anna Roosevelt
Dali), at Seattle.
• Appointed, New Hampshire’s lib
eral former Sen. Fred H, Brown,
to the U. S. comptroller generalship.
• Douglas Fairbanks, ex-movie star,
has been ordered to return $72,186
refunded by the U. S. on income tax
payments in 1927-28-29.
Argentina
In southern Argentina lies little-
known Patagonia, (black section on
map) on whose 267,000 square miles
live only 77,750 souls. Though neg
lected, it consti
tutes a good third
of the nation’s
territory, a fer
tile land for ex
pansion in days
to come. But Ger
many also seeks
to expand, and
surprised Argen
tinians recently
read in their
newspaper Noti-
cias Graficas the
unsubstantiated
report of an outrageous plan:
Germany’s Argentine embassy is
said to have advised the Berlin co
lonial office that “Patagonia is no
body’s land and we can annex it
. . . Argentina considers it hers on
the basis of outdated political
ideas.” Another passage allegedly
said the report was submitted with
“the theoretical supposition that the
whole territory should be annexed
as a field for settlement and eco
nomic activity by Germans.”
While the German embassy fumed
and denied, all departments of the
Argentine government were ordered
to start investigations. What might
otherwise be an unimportant issue
may have great effect, for Argentina
alone among South American na
tions has been loathe to break away
from German trade alliances. If
Patagonia is indeed threatened, Bue
nos Aires will be quick to seek shel
ter in Pan-American solidarity.
Labor
The unhappy plight of U. S.
employer-employee relations may be
due either to (1) the Wagner labor
relations act, or (2) American Fed
eration of Labor’s battle with Con
gress of Industrial organizations.
Like an impatient school teacher,
both congress and the White House
have resolved to end this squabble,
the White House by sponsoring A. F
of L.-C. I. O. peace talks, congress
by amending the Wagner act.
When April 11 was chosen start
ing date for senate committee hear
ings on Wagner amendments, labor
peace talks were in full bloom. But
so strong are the workingman’s feel
ings about the proposed changes that
many a peace advocate thought
hearings might have been delayed
until labor’s warring factions either
make up or draw swords.
To amend the Wagner act, con
gress can pick from four sets of pro
posals, all opposed by C. I. O., three
of them submitted by coherent fac
tions with special interests:
(1) By Massachusetts’ Sen. David
I. Walsh, obviously favored by A. F.
of L., which opposes all other pro
posals: Curtail the national labor
relations board’s power to invalidate
union contracts; require NLRB elec
tions by craft rather than by in
dustrial units; permit employer pe
titions for elections; permit appeals
in representation cases.
(2) By Nebraska’s Sen. Edward
R. Burke, and supported by the po
tent, strike-weary National Associa
tion of Manufacturers: Require that
NLRB have representative from la
bor, management and the public;
outlaw deduction of union dues from
pay envelopes; outlaw “coercion”
by either employers or unions; es
tablish code of “unfair labor prac
tices” for unions as well as em
ployers; forbid strikes unless a ma
jority of employees approve; require
all union officials to be U. S. citi
zens; permit transfer of “unfair la
bor practice” charges from NLRB to
federal district court.
(3) By Oregon’s Sen. Rufus Hol
man: To split NLRB’s duties. Ad
ministrative and investigatory pow
er would l>e vested in a labor rela
tions commissioner. Final decisions
would be made by a nine-member
labor appeals board.
(4) By Kentucky’s Sen. M. M. Lo
gan, supported by the National
Grange and other farm groups: To
extend exemption of agricultural
workers under the Wagner act to
processors and packers of farm
produce.
Miscellany
Figured, by New York’s Rep.
Bruce Barton, that the stock market
usuaBy gains when President Roose
velt goes fishing or vacationing, usu
ally falls when he goes on a speak
ing tour.
• Struck, 338,000 Appalachian coal
miners after eastern soft coal op
erators and United Mine Workers
representatives failed to agree in
wage-hour negotiations.
• Signed, by Russia and Japan, a
one-year pact permitting Tokyo fish
ing fleets to operate off Soviet Asiat
ic waters, thereby avoiding an al
most certain clash this month.
Q
UIZ o • •
If you read News Analysis, you
should be able to answer these ques
tions:
• What Argentine territory is al
legedly coveted by Germany?
• Identify: Gen. Segismundo
Casado; Spratly islands; Fred H.
Brown; Col. Josef Beck.
• Of what substance is a new
transparent wrapping material
made?
• Where might Spain’s huge gold
reserve have been taken by flee
ing Loyalists?
• How is the Polish-Rumanian
military alliance being expanded?
• What nation has just signed a
trade treaty with France?
Household Hints
By BETTY WELLS
C'OLDING beds are literally as old
r as Egypt . they’re mentioned
in most all early stories of furni
ture. So we needn’t think we’re be
ing so modern when we get some
trick number that vanishes when
you say “abracadabra.” And we’ve
called attention before to that early
chair-bed of England—from aU I
can gather it was a cross Ijgtween
the wing chair and the Morris chair.
Just the same we were impressed
to death with a new bed-in-a-chest
that turned up at the recent furni
ture market in Chicago. It is as
trim as-you please by day, hidden
•way in a small dignified chest.
Bed-inlo-chest.
but at night, out comes a full length
comfortable bed. Fine for unex
pected guests in the small menage,
or in a push a member of the fam
ily could use it all the time.
And Egypt never had the likes of
the sofa-beds that are available to
day. Well tailored, with smart slen
der lines of period design, they open
out easily into full sized comfortable
beds. There are now love seats that
open into beds, as weU as chairs
that stretch out to make amazing
ly comfortable beds. The in-a-door
beds are holding their own, and of
course the studio couch that turns
into a double bed or two single beds
is a hardy perennial.
What a far cry are these from the
old folding bed of our childhood.
Remember those imposing ward
robe-beds, the kind that would start
closing up if you got too far down
at the foot of the bed?
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A White Garden.
Helen always looks so pretty at
her gardening that it’s hard to be
lieve she’s so good at the job. But
in her flowered housecoat she has
the magic touch and could make
things grow on a sidewalk I do be
lieve if she really put her hand to it.
But hers is no hit or miss effect—
it’s an all white garden which is
charming with her red brick house.
Helen looks so pretty at her
gardening.
She’s gotten to be quite an authority
on white flowers for all the seasons.
There’s method in her madness.
Not only do white flowers look dra
matic outside the house but they’re
just right for cutting and arranging
inside. The living room has pale
green waUs and light green carpet,
furniture covering in the peach-cop-
per-gold-brown family of colors and
curtains in gold-colored taffeta that
lights up dramatically when the sun
streaks through them. So you can
see how lovely accents of white
would be here.
The dining room has darker green
waBs, peach carpet and white ninon
curtains made to hang in wide
sweeping Bnes. The waff opposite
the windows has a pair of gold
brackets that need Helen’s white
flowers to complete the design of
the room.
Helen’s own bedroom is in yellow
with aqua carpet, honey maple fur
niture, white swiss curtains and
spread of white chenille. White flow
ers seem to pull this room together
and give it just the right style and
finish.
e By Betty Wella.—WNU Service.
Grouped Furniture Makes
An Effective Arrangement
Furniture in the living room
should be arranged in groups and
not just strewn around the walls. In
even a small living room a better
arrangement may be worked out if
the furniture is placed in related
groups. In a family where there
are children of varying ages and
consequently different interests,
there can be an arrangement of the
living room furniture which will ac
commodate the needs of all if it is
properly grouped. Remember that
many a living room is spoiled by
having the furniture lined up all
around the walls, with too much
space in the '"inter.
Furnish Living Room to
Meet Needs of the Family
} The living room is primarily a
^ room for the entire family and
should be furnished as such. Every
member of the family is entitled to
his or her own chair. If there are
six members in your household your
living room is incomplete without
six comfortable chairs, with six
small tables beside them and enough
lamps to give adequate reading
light. Living room furniture should
be the sort that is easily moved.
Chairs should have coasters on them
to nermit of easy sliding around.
Tloyd,
ADVENTURERS* CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
QF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“Terror in a Tent”
H ello, everybody:
You know, there’s always a lot of hard luck on camping
trips. Somebody is sure to get sunburned, and somebody else
always steps on a rusty nail or clips himself with the hatchet
while chopping wood for the fire. The bird who is doing the
cooking burns half the food, and just when you’re comfortably
settled and getting along fine, Farmer Jones comes along and
orders you to move on.
Camping trips just breed hard luck, but the one Syd Rapoport
went on was the champion hoodoo camping trip of them all. It
started dealing out tough breaks before Syd and his pals even
got started.
Syd lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. It was in the summer of 1935
that he and half a dozen other lads began planning that camping
trip. They had picked a spot upstate, in the neighborhood of
Poughkeepsie, and were all ready to go. Then, two days before
they were due to leave, there was a terrific rainstorm in New
York, and, after inquiring about the weather, they learned that
it was the same upstate.
The gang decided to go anyway—at least, some of them
did. When the day of the big trip rolled around one fellow
hfed the mumps. Another was laid up with an infected foot, and two
other fellows had mothers who said they couldn’t go campin'; in such
weather because they’d catch their death of pneumonia sleeping on damp
ground. The trouble had started early, but it was nothing to what
6yd was to get into before that trip was many days older.
The Hikers Find a Camping Site.
“There were only two brothers and myself left,” says Syd,
but we went anyway.” The brothers were Harold and Jerry Leff.
The three of them took a boat to Bear Mountain and then started
*to hike, with two tents and blankets and equipment on their
backs. After a day on the road—and Syd doesn’t say whether
they walked or ‘humbed rides—they reached the spot they had
chosen and picked a camping site.
The ground was wet, and the earth was loose. They had a little
trouble putting up their two small tents. But finally everything was
Safety Talks
At the CroMsroade
'T'HE “dirty work at the cross-
roads” of fable and story has
a counterpart in the pattern of
modern automobile accidents. '
The National Safety council re
ports that in 1937 about 58 per
cent of all injury accidents in cit
ies occurred at intersections.
In rural areas, however, only
about 24 per cent of the injury
accidents occur at intersections.
The council said 52 per cent of
the intersection accidents that in
volved two motor vehicles were
right-angle collisions.
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Finally he had a horrible dream.
shipshape. They got a fire going, cooked a meal, and when they had
eaten it they were ready to turn in. Jerry and Harold occupied one
tent, and Syd slept alone in the other.
Syd dropped off to sleep, but he didn’t sleep very well. Finally, he
had a horrible dream—a dream that something cold and slimy was
crawling over his arm. The dream woke him up, and as he came
slowly to his senses he realized that that dream was a cold, hard reality.
Something cold and slimy was resting against his arm.
In an instant Syd was wide awake. A full moon was shining
and its bright light streamed in through t|ie open flap of the pup
tent. In that light Syd saw something that made his blood run
cold. His arm was lying outside the banket and a snake had
cnwled up and nestled against it. And Syd recognised that
snake for a poisonous copperhead!
Frozen With Fear, He Cannot Move.
Says he: “My first impulse was to jump and scream. But I
couldn’t have moved to save my life. I was frozen stiff with
fear. The moon bathed the head of the snake with light, and
as I lay there stiff and trembling it crawled up to my shoulder.
A cold sweat broke out on my forehead. Now I began to realize
that I didn’t dare move, even if I could. One move would cause
the reptile to strike.”
But it seemed to Syd that he could hardly keep himself from mov
ing. Somehow he managed to lie there stiff and stiff. The hours rolled
on. Syd doesn't know how many of them went by. Each minute seemed
like a year and each second was like a week of torture. “I wanted to
scream,” he says. “I felt as if I could control myself no longer. At
last the sky began getting gray, and off in the distance I could hear
some farmer’s rooster crowing. Then, again, the snake shifted its
position. This time it came to rest with its head across my gullet.”
Now Syd was afraid to swallow for fear of disturbing the snake. He
felt his spine begin to creep and his hair felt as if it were standing up
on his head. It was getting lighter now, and Syd was able to distin
guish objects around him that he had lost sight of when the moon
went down. Still it was a long time before dawn, and his only hope
was to lie still until his pals awoke.
The Snakes Smelled of Rotten Cucumbers.
He could see the snake clearly now. And then, ou t of the cor
ner of his eye, he saw another—and another. There were a bunch
of them in the tent. And two of them were over four feet long.
“I couldn’t see the others very clearly,” he says, “for I didn’t
dare turn my head and it strained my eyes to look at them from
my position. I was beginning to shiver. My muscles were
cramped and saliva dripped from my mouth. The snakes smelled
of rotten cucumbers and the odor sickened me. But the sun was
coming up, and I could hear movements in the other tent. That
renewed my courage.”
Harold and Jerry were up. A couple of times they walked past Syd*s
tent, but they didn’t look in. Then Jerry glanced through the open flap
aad his eyes froze on the terrifying sight. Syd says he owes his life to
those two brothers. He thought Jerry was going to scream, but he
didn’t. He remained cool and so did Harold. The pair of them stole
up behind Syd’s tent, gathered some damp hay from a field and set it
afire. Huge billows of smoke poured through the tent.
“I began choking,” says Syd, “but so did the snakes. They moved,
and I lay back and breathed a sigh of relief. After a few minutes I
went outside, picked a spot in the sun and dozed off. It was seven hours
before I woke up again. And if you want to know what a nightmare is
like, just ask me. I’ve had dozens of them since that night.”
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Ukulele Is of European Origin; Known for Ages
of Hawaii, became an instrument of
jazz in the United States.
Uquaker
STATE
The ukulele is essentially a small
guitar with four strings and was in
troduced to the Hawaiians in the
latter part of the Eighteenth cen
tury by Portuguese sailors. So far
as known, the guitar itself is of
European origin, observes a writer
in the Indianapolis News.
In the Royal library at Stuttgart,
Germany, is a manuscript dated
1180 A. D. which contains a repre
sentation of the instrument. The
Hawaiians imitated and modified
the smaller guitar of the Portuguese
and popularized it under the name
“ukulele.” The same instrument,
particularly adapted to the wistful
minors peculiar to the native music
“Ukulele” is a native word, being
derived from “uku” (flea or insect)
and “lele,” (to jump). Thus “uku
lele’’ literally means “jumping
flea,” a name no doubt suggested by
the motions of the fingers of the
players over the instrument. The
most common English pronuncia
tion of the name is “yoo-koo-lay-le,” SHOPPING
although “oo-koo-lay-lay” more
nearly approaches the Hawaiian
pronunciation.
Hawaiian ukuleles are generally
made of koa, a fine-grained wood
obtained from the native tree called
"acacia koa.”
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to (tart your (hop
ping tour is in
your favorite easy-
chair, with an open
newipaper.
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