By EDWARD W. PICKARD SENATOR GERALD P. NYE'S muni- tions committee, which has spent seven months investigating the doings of the manufacturers of arms and armament, reported to the senate Its meas- ure designed to take the profits out of war and provide for the conscription of In- dustry in the event of ancther armed con- flict involving the United States, The bill is decidedly dras- tic, giving to the President in war time | Senator Nye ors that are prac- tically dictatorial, permitting him not only to fix prices but also to license all industry and control raw mate. rials, It also has taxation features that’ will arouse considerable opposi- tion. It would raise individual Income taxes to 6 per cent In wartime, levy surtaxes up to 94 per cent on incomes fn excess of $10,000, and seize profits of corporations In excess of § per cent return on invested capital, The Nye bill gives the President very broad powers to fix prices of commodities, to license Industry, to en- join profiteering and to prevent the hoarding of goods. It provides for the drafting of industrial leaders, who would be permitted to remain with their companies, subject to military law and given rank and compensation not exceeding that of a brigadier gen- eral Meanwhile the house military affairs committee reported the McSwain bill, similar to the senate but without the tax features lack measure This but when they tried to amend the bill “© they were routed, 2358 to TL porting its bill, continued It heard a rather sensational evidence to the that McGrath, an Insurance company agent who was described as a friend of the President's cessfully to obtain two naval building effect in Maine, OLLOWING the example set Hitler, Austria has decided to dis strength set by the treaty of St. Ger- immediately, The official communique did not say how big the army would restored. the army at the was revived, and the troops appeared in fine new uniforms. soon will ask permission to Increase their armies and reintroduce scription, OVIET Russia with Great Britain, Italy In promoting the general Euro- pean security pact which Is the basis peace, This brought out by the visit to Moscow of Capt. Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal, and his confer- ences with Dictator Josef Stalin and Max. im Litvinov, Soviet foreign commissar. Ac cording to the Joint . communique given the M. Litvinov ces, these states- men “were of the opinion that in the present International situation it is more than ever necessary to pursue the endeavor to promote the building up of a system of collective security in Eu- rope as contemplated in the Anglo- French communique of the third of February, and in conformity with the principles of the League of Nations.” It was made clear that Germany and Poland would be welcome to enter the arrangement, but that it would go ahead even without them, Captain Eden then went on to War. saw to talk things over with the Poles; and even as he was departing from Moscow the Soviet press launched an- other flerce attack on Germany. Michael Tukhachevsky, vice commissar for defense, in an article in the news- paper Pravda, declared Germany would have an army of 840000 by the sum- mer, exceeding the French army by 40 per cent and almost equaling the Soviet army in size, He charged Hitler with “lulling France to sleep” with anti-Soviet war talk In the hope France would not realize her own peril, Tukhachevsky's view that Germany eontemplates attacking France was supported by an authorized article in the weekly Journal de Moscou which asserted the leaders of the reich real ized “the exceptional risk to which Ger. many would subject herself by invasion of the tremendous territories of the U, 8, 8. Ra country possessing powerful armaments and unlimited opportunities for Improving and Increasing these armaments.” “It is almost probable,” the Journal sald, “that under certaln circumstances Hitler will prefer other fleldg or ag gression, and an Intensified revision of the map of Europe will be started not in the east but In the west,” REMIER MUSSOLINI 1s highly skeptical of the success of efforts to persuade Germany to enter into gen- eral peace plans for Europe. In his newspaper, Popolo d'Italia, appeared an editorial, probably written by {I duce himself, warning his fellow countrymen that no miraculous results may be expected from the conference of foreign ministers In Stresa. It as- serted that the western European pow- ers “must stabilize thelr line of com- mon action against several eventuall- ties which can be foreseen, and they must take definite responsibility.” It then charged that the French and British are Impeding Mussolini's wish to take action against Hitler because of thelr preoccupation about thelr own internal policy. Premier Flandin and Foreign Min- ister Laval of France were reported to have devised a vast, new, flexible plan to organize the peace of the continent within the framework of the League of Nations, OLAND appears to have decided to play a lone hand In the European embroglio, though she remains friend- ly to Germany. It Is reported that Captain Eden's visit ro Warsaw was as disappointing as was that of Sir John Simon to Berlin. The Polish government is determined to sign no pact that would commit the nation to fight for Russia against Germany or for Germany against Russia and France, nor will it permit either Ger- or Russian troops to be trans. ported across Poland. The Polish of bilateral pacts, and will go as far as any other nation in parallel disar They assert that they have no alliance with Germany, though thelr mutual troubles have been settled for the next ten years, and that the alll ance with France still holds good. ROM Tokyo there came a state ment Indicating that Japan would least moral support to the European powers that are seeking agreements to coun teract Hitler's move for the rearmament Germany. It was out by Zi Aman, the frequently quoted spokesman for the foreign office. He sald Japan will hold aloof from the Euro pean crisis and that A 3 eastern Locarno : Eiji Amau but pact, that “we cannot is ready to (ls degree of de militarization of the eastern frontiers. Ji CREIGN nations that discriminate gainst Americah have been warned by President Roosevelt that they must discontinue that prac tice under penalty of economic re prisals by the United States. In a let ter to Secretary of the Treasury Mor. genthan the President outlined his for eign trade policy and disclosed the fact that the administration Is considering denouncing existing trade pacts with Germany, Italy, Portugal and Denmark becanse of discrimination. He pro claimed the new lelgian-American reciprocal trade agreement, and also decreed that, pending the conclusion of negotiations for new pacts row In progress, the reduced daties ana other concessions granted Belgium will be extended to Canada, Spain, The Neth. eriands, Switzerland and Lichtenstein for six months, 2 Fey imports EBATE on the Copeland Tugwell food, drug, cosmetic and adver tising bill was lively In the senate, and the opposition was led by a Democrat, Josiah W. Balley of North Carolina, who urged the retention of the present food and drug law with such amend ments as changed conditions require, “I understand the Department of Ag. riculture was created to foster agri culture and not to govern advertising,” Senator Balley sald. “It Is inconeely- able to me that it should take charge of medicine, cosmetics, and advertls ing. There might be an argument that the department has made such great triumphs In agriculture that it 1g seek. ing new worlds to conquer. But I be. lieve that If some one should make that boast, 1 should agree that it had ex. ceafled Samson In the slaughter of pigs, but had fallen far short of doing as good work In the matter of cotton as has the boll weevil” SG TANLEY REED, the new solleitor general, obtained from the Supreme court permission to dismiss the govern. ment's appeal In the Belcher lumber code case. Therefore there probably will be no decision as to the constitu: tionality of the national industrial re covery act by the chief tribunal before congress takes action on the bill to ex: tend the recovery law, HEN the Illinols legislature, at the behest of Governor Horner and the federal administration, passed halled thls as an example that all States should follow. Now County Judge Homer W. Hall at Bloomington has held that the act is unconstitution- Illinois, act can be prosecuted by the authority of the codes, federal director of HROUGH the Richberg, chairman of the NIRB, an agreement was reached by the bituminous coal operators and the United Mine Workers, prevailing coal code is extended to June 16 and a threatened strike about half a million President Lewis of the the union had not are continued. miners insisted to the agreement Mr. Richberg could and would have extended the code by executive order, of Justice's division of investigation were carrying on a concentrated search for three men now listed as the worst “public enemies™ at large, to Chief J. Edgar Hoover. The three are: Alvin Karpls, twenty-five, a lead- er in the notorious Barker-Karpls kid- nap and bank robbery gang; Raymond Hamilton, twenty-two, killer who broke jail while awaiting execution, and Thomas H. tobinson, Jr, twenty- kidnaper of Mrs, Alice Speed Stoll, wealthy young society matron of Louisville, Ky. eight, NE of America’s leading sculptors, Augustus Lukeman, died in York at the of sixty-four years After Borglum was ousted by the Cone committee in 1925, the work of carv- fige federate memorial Lukeman took over ing the huge memorial on the face of Stone mountain In Georgia, completing 1928. He was cf at the Worlds fair in Chicago. it in lef of sculptors BEYING alleged directions from yacht which President toosevelt was fishing in Florida wa. ters, the majority in the house refused to accept the restrictions injected in the work relief blll and sent It back to conference to have these removed. The restrictions objectionable to the administration were those requiring senate coufirmation of administrative officers of the program and that In loans and grants to states at least one third of the money should be expended for direct labor. The latter require ment, according to Secretary Ickes and others, would result in the exclusion of rural electrification, slum clearance and similar projects. Defending the move to send the bill back to conference, Buchanan of Geor- gia sald: "The President is assuming responsibility. All we ask is to give him a bill that he can work on in shift. ing from dole to employment.” In replying to Buchanan, Represents ative Robert Bacon (Rep, N. Y.) con tended that the labor provision was needed In order to “kick out pet local projects” and afford as much direct relief of unemployment as possible, “Congress has reached a pretty low ebb,” declared Minority Leader Ber. trand Snell (Rep, N. Y.), “when it can't even pass on a conference report without receiving orders from the Chief Executive.” on the OR the second time the United States Supreme court reversed the convictions and death sentences of two of the Scottsboro negroes who were ac- cused of assaunit on two white girls. The court held that since negroes in Alabama are not permitted to serve on juries, they are denied “equal pro- tection of the laws” in violation of the Fourteenth amendment. It declared the state court erred in not quashing the Indictments This was a big victory for the ecol- ored race, but In another decision by the Supreme court the negroes were the Democratic party In Texas Is a such may exclude colored persons from voting In its primaries, RECT negotiations with Italy leg And what All have these 1935 cars: and save RAND UP, 2468. Wirh DEALER A VERTISEMENT CENTRE HALL, PA. Abyssinians Inhabited anians, the Ethiop have Ane oO headwaters of the before the dawn of times, mars a cor York Herald Were more or ess oon th the Egyptians of the up assimilated in the per Nile and afterward cursions of the Hebrews at time of the Egyptian captivity; the Pheni- cians, from whom have derived their alphabet, Greeks who had planted colonies along their seacoat. Christianity was intro- toms of Judaism, is the principal re ligion there today. In the Seventh century the Mahom- medans conquered all the Abyssinian coastal possessions. interior mountain fastnesses, there to remain nearly a thousand years until their very existence was almost for gotten, pedition seeking a mythical eastern Christian ingdom penetrated the country and entered into a relation ship sufficiently friendly to permit the establishment of missions. To these Portuguese belong the credit for many churches, bridges and other public works constructed at the time and also to the fanatical zeal of their priests must be afirituied the de Abyssinians are said to have had broken off by the Ethioplan government, which sent a new note to the League of Nations, taken to protect foreigners In Addis Ababa. hoping a peaceful arrangement might of the league, — INETEEN eardinals lasted nearly a century and a half, when religious disputes arose and the Portuguese were driven out, the Abyss seclusion until about the middle of the last century. Denominations in the Colonies The principal denominations In the tory, and to them he delivered an em- belleve It absolutely impossible™ however, there is someone who wishes to commit “this nefarious crime,” then, the holy father sald, he could do noth. ing else than pray to God to “destroy those people who desire war.” The consistory approved the canon. ization of Blessed Thomas More, King Henry VIII's chancellor, and Bishop John Fisher of England, who lost thelr heads for opposing Henry marriage to Anne Boleyn. : { conformist, and later the Baptist, and Methodist, as well as the Roman Cath. olic. The Bibles principally In use were the King James version of the English Bible, the Lutheran translation of the German Bible, and the Doual transla. tion of the Catholic or French Bible, Denmark Has Many Islands Surrounded ns it 1s by the sea on nearly all sides, Denmark possesses a wealth of islands and peninsulas, vere dure-clad Islets and wood-clad points and promontories. It Is a falr and fer. tile land composed of the islands, Zea. Jung and Funen, and the peninsula of utland “ A few milion years before the North ern hemisphere came f grip of the Himalayan mountains from a low mountainous land, notes a writer In the New York Times. At that Jungles cov its southern slope, was merous rivers that wound into the began to rise time dense which drained by nt their way to the ancient Ganges plain. These primeval streams washed down ” floodwaters carried with them remaling of forest animals which event This process continued for a time and the load. These the foot. sank under formations nowadays form It is here that, among numerous oth These are represented by jaw developed in several like Annie Laurie The falr-halred maiden Annie Laurie, who has been immortalized in the ro- mantic song bearing her name, was not a creature of Imagination, but one of whose ancestry honorable men. tion Is made In Scottish history. Her father was Sir Robert Laurie, a baro- net of Dumfriesshire. Annie, who was born in 1682, grew to be the most bean tiful Dumfriessian lady of her time and attracted the attention of the lyr- feal poet, William Douglas. She re. jected him as a suitor, however, result- ing In his writing the song that has made her charms immortal, Famous Pets’ Graveyard The most famous pets’ graveyard In the world is the dogs’ cemetery In Paris, one of the tombstones In which bears the famous cynicism: “The more f see of men, the more I Jove my dog.” There Is also a dogs’ ceme- tery In Kensington gardens, Lon- don. It was started when a dog be jonging to the duchess of Cambridge was killed in a road accident, and is now full—Answers Magazine, Effecte of Moonlight Scientists long have scoffed at the ancient bellef that moonlight can cause lunacy and render food unfit for use. However, persistent claims that certain fish caught In the River Nile would spoil overnight If left In the light of the moon have been found to be true~Colller's Weekly, Once Capital of Entire Civilized World of the ized world. Back of it is the most of all hills iin-strewn observes a Tribune, was grew more before Christ, Athens was once the capital » civ famous which Athens, It was fortified than a thousand years Part of the or ¢ Here the semi sat into walls still stand. kings ruled Here under the hill united had sprung up Here was laid the the democracy that is still making its way westward around the world. In 480 B. C. the Acropolis fell be. fore the armies of Xerxes, who was battle of Balamis and he went back to Persia, In the same century the hill saw Sophocles, Euripides, Socrates, Aris. tophanes, and Pericles rise to fmmonr ves gory # ment. mythical ik in Jud the city on on the blight of Philip of Macedon fter be had paved the way for his son, Alexander the Great. As the town of the greatest sculp- tors, poets, and dramatists of antiquity and the seat of the schools of philos- ophy founded by Plato and Aristotle, Athens subsisted for centuries on the intellectual capital it had stored up during the golden age. For 2000 years Athens has owed its prosperity to the fame achieved in its early days. It is still reaping the harvest of the intangible factors on which the empire of the mind fs bulit: learning and literature, art and eloquence, philosophy and democracy. Students go there from all over the world, and the visitor stands In awe before the might and majesty of Muscle Bound Several conditions are described by the term muscle bound, but perhaps the commonest is that by which mus cles, through constant practice, are trained to oppose one another rather than to act together in efficient work Thus, when a muscle Is called inte play involuntarily its opponent alse contracts and the result is less efficient action. The condition can obviously be altered firet by rest and then mops eflicient training of the muscles Carved Altar Found A carved altar of late Gothic design and genuine Swiss workmanship of 1525, was discovered in a church on the Burgenstock, Lake of Lucerne, Switzerland, This place of was built In the 'S0s of the last cen. tury by a French countess and acquired in 1633 by the hotel chain operating this mountain resort.
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