CLUB
“How Wars Are Born”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter,
ERE'S a lad who says he saw me in Shanghai—and boy, would
I have a tough time trying to prove an alibi on that statement.
As a matter of fact, any alibi I might try to dig up would be shot to
pieces before I started, because this lad sends in a picture he took of
Colone] Freddie Barker and me, standing at one of the rifle emplace-
ments in the International Settlement, during the late Sino-Japanese
argument at Shanghai.
The man who took that picture Is Frank B. Eckhardt. And along with
the picture he sends the story of an incident that happened over there, In
which he participated—an incident that might easily have started another war
—a war between Japan and the good old U. 8. A.
This incident happened to Frank and a bunch of his buddies while
he was doing duty with the First Battalion, United States Marines, sta-
tioned on Sinza road, Shanghai. It was in January, 1932, just about a
week after the trouble had broken out between the Japs and the Chi.
nese, and the whole place was in a turmoil.
The officers of the battalion had a Chinese tailor by the name of Fong Kee,
and one day Kee came to battalion headquarters and asked for a guard to take
him to his shop on Boone road, Hong Kew district, to get the officers’ uniforms.
He couldn't go and get them alone, because the shop was inside the Japanese
lines, and an unprotected Chinese in that territory woulda't stand « chance of
getting out with any merchandise,
Guard Is Armed for Any Emergency.
A guard was made up which consisted of a battalion major and headquar-
ters company commander, two other privates and Frank. They rode io u truck
and were armed with pistols and Thompson sub-machine guns
They got to the tailor shop all right, and the officers and Fong Kee
went inside while Frank and one other private stood guard at the cn-
trance. And no sooner had the officers gone in than a Japanese patrol,
consisting of 20 men and an officer, came marching down the street.
They stopped at the sight of two American marines in the tailor shop
doorway, turned and leveled their rifles in a menacing manner.
They stood that way, poised on their toes, for a moment, then suddenly
one of the Japanese soldiers lowered his bayonet and sprang toward them.
The Jap pointed the bayonet at Frank's buddy-—the other marine private
on guard with him at the doorway. He ralsed his machine gun, knocked the
He Raised His Machine Gun, Knocked the Bayonet Aside.
bayonet aside, pulled back the extractor of his gun and yelled at him to stop—
that he meant business.
Even a Jap Was Afraid of a Tommy Gun.
The Jap took a step backward at the sight of that deadly machine.gun
pointed at him. The marine officers came running out of the tailor shop and
the officer of the Japanese patrol stepped forward to see what the trouble was.
During the heated conversation that ensued, the Jap officer de.
manded Fong Kee as his prisoner and expressed his intention of seizing
the uniforms that had been placed in the truck. The marine officers
finally convinced him, however, that the goods were American property
and that they were not aiding the Chinese in any way, and the truck
was then allowed to proceed,
When the truck was loaded it started back toward battalion headquarters
They were approaching the Woochang road crossing when another Japanese
patrol halted them. They surrounded the truck, ordered the marines to get
out, and again came the demand for the truck's contents and for Foug Kee,
the tailor,
Major Lets Japs Know He'll Fight.
The second patrol was even more threatening In its attitude than the first.
The American major ordered his men to cock their pieces—told the Japanese
that If they approached the truck, or even touched it, he would give the word
to fire.
The Jap officer's face turned black with anger. There followed a
few moments of tense silence while he stood deliberating. Then he said
that the marines could proceed with the truck if they left the goods be.
hind and turned Fong Kee over to them.
Again the major had to go through that long-winded explanation that the
goods were the property of American officers and that he was not seeking to
ald the Chinese in any way. After considerable argument, then, the Jap officer
accepted the explanation. The truck started for headquarters once more and
this time it managed to get back to Sinza road without meeting any more Jap-
anese patrols out looking for an argument.
Frank says you can’t get any idea of how scared he was. Those Japs, he
says, looked as though they were spoiling for trouble. And although they got
out of it each time with nothing more dangerous than a little heated discus.
sion, he never knew when those Japs were going to take it into their heads to
open fire,
“If you ask me,” he goes on, “I'd say | was looking into the eyes
of death twice inside of half an hour. And that's plenty for one day.”
©~WNU Service,
bread. He was neither, for whole.
wheat bread was the first wheat bread
made. Graham's name became asso-
elated with its because he Included the
article in his dietary regimen, which
at one time had many thousands of
adherents throughout the
States,
ham and its adherents Grahamites, —
Indianapolis News,
Graham Bread Named for
Lecturer on Temperance
Graham bread received Its name
from Sylvester Graham (1794-1851),
an American lecturer on temperance
and food reform. He was born sat
Suffield, Conn. After studying at
Amherst for a time he entered the
Presbyterian ministry in 1828 He
maintained that a vegetable diet was
Incompatible with a desire for stimo-
lants, and as part of his temperance
and food reform campaign he not only
advocated total abstinence from meat
but aise recommended the eating of
bread made of unsifted or unbolted
wheat flour; that is, flour in which all
the wheat kernel except the husk is
used. In “A Defense of the Graham
System of Living” published In 1835,
Graham wrote:
“Of wheat bread, there are three va.
rieties; in the first, all the bran is
separated; In the second, only the
coarse, and, in the third, none at all
The bread made of flour from which
all the bran has been separated ia
that most commonly used, bot bread
made of flour from which none of the
bran has heen separated Is the most
wholesome.”
Graham Is often referred to as the
“Inventor” or “Introducer” of Graham
iu
Denominations in the Colonies
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 transia.
tion of the Catholic or French Bible.
Two Kinds of Fox Terriers
There are two kinds of fox terriers,
namely, the smooth-haired and the
wire-haired. The smooth-haired ter
rler has the same courageous and lov.
able qualities as bis brother and up
to recent years has been the most pop
ular. The two types weigh somewhere
between 12 and 20 pounds and are con-
sidered one of the most popular breeds
in the dog kingdom.
By EDWARD
long awaited decision ruled that the
Valley Authority act is
« valld, on all points at
in the suit
brought by the stock-
holders of the Ala-
bama Power company.
Under the ruling the
Tennessee
issue
to go ahead with
Tennessee valley act-
ually under way.
decision was read
Chief
Chief Justice
Hughes
Justice
by all the
Justices except Justice
He read a dissenting opinion.
Because of circumscribed limits the
decision was much narrower
Supreme court
ly to the terms of the
which the suit was brought,
acquisition by TVA of a transmission
It
contract
dam.
Certain
possible
still
in the
phases are
legal contest
or any other dam constructed or pro-
volved In the court's finding.
The legal right of the federal
efnment
ROY-
before
United
ergy -—never
upon by
directly
the States Supreme
tive. Unanswered is the question of
what constitutes surplus power.
Among
jority opinion were these:
The government had full
te bulld Wilson dam—keystone
TVA. ’
Congress has undisputed power to
order disposal of electricity developed
at the dam.
The legally In
government acted
mission lines to transport power fo a
wider market, ’
The government has the same right
to dispose of surplus power as it would
have to dispose of copper, gold, and
minerals on public ands,
Justice McReynolds in answer
this said:
ing of property the United States can
enter the business of generating, trans
mitting and selling power, as, when
and wherever; some board may spe-
cify, with the definite design to ac.
complish ends wholly beyond
sphere marked out for them by the
Constitution, an easy way has been
found for breaking down the limita-
tions heretofore supposed to guaran.
tee protection against aggression.”
———
the existing embargo on arms, ammu-
nition, and Implements of war,
erents,
Senator Nye was out of
when the senate assembled, an
earlier than usual, to act on the meas.
ure,
and arrived
final vote but too late to put through
any of his proposed amendments.
NLESS Governor Hoffman of New
Jersey grants him another re.
prieve, Bruno Richard Hauptmann
will be executed during the week of
March 30 for the kidnaping and kill
ing of the Lindbergh baby. Sentence
on the German carpenter has been
again pronounced. For several daye
Samuel Liebowitz, noted New York
criminal lawyer, tried to get Haupt-
mann to tell another story and reveal
his accomplices In the crime, but the
condemned man Altly refused and
Liebowitz withdrew from the case,
saying he believed Bruno to be guilty.
S RLECTIONS of delegates to the na.
tional conventions, already being
made in some states, are interesting,
especially in the case of New York.
Representative Hamiiton Fish, sup-
porting Borah for the Republican Pres-
identlal nomination, led a hot fight to
displace some of the “old guard” and
lost, the state committee naming these
delegates at large:
Charles D. Hilles and Mrs. Ruth
Pratt, members of the national com
mittee; Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, vice
chairman of the state committee; Rep-
resentative Dertrand H. Snell, minority
leader of the house; Representative
AB J 5
Calliope Is Built From
Waste by Scenic Artist
Boston~George McFadden. Boston
and New York artist and scenic de
signer, has satisfied his boyhood pen
chant for circus music by bullding his
own portable calliope,
As he explains it:
“1 took the inside out of an auto
mntie grand plano. 1 didn't use the
player attuchment, anyway, and |
needed the bellows for my calliope.
Jen | had to reverse the bellows so
HALL, PA.
W. PICKARD
James W. Wadsworth, former United
States senator; Edward H. Butler, pub.
lisher of the Buffalo Evening News:
John R. Crews, Brooklyn leader;
Charles H. Griffiths, Westchester coun-
ty chairman,
Tammany made public the list of its
delegates to the Democratic conven-
tion, and It Is headed by Alfred E.
Smith who will represent the tip of
Manhattan and Staten island.
President Roosevelt was called on to
choose the California Democratic dele.
gation from three sets selected by the
conservative Democrats, the Upton Sin-
clair EPIC followers and the support
ers of the Townsend old age pension
plan, It was belleved he would give
the balance of power to the conserv-
atives led by Senator William G. Me
two groups,
EN days of hot debate In the sen- |
ate culminated In the passage of |
the administration's farm
substitute
bill by a vote of 50 to 20, and It was
to with
quick approval by
over
of
the house the
}
prospect that |
body, i
Attacked by Republicans as a sub
terfuge around the Supreme
court AAA decision, and frankly con-
ceded by Democrats to be a measure |
indirectly continuing control of farm i
to get
accomplish its objective as follows: !
The secretary of agriculture would |
to make benefit pay-
ments to farmers who voluntarily co-
operate with the government's sugges. |
tions on retiring certain land from pro.
duction to conserve its fertility. Pay- |
be determined on four |
be empowered
would
factors:
1. Acreage of crop land,
2. Acreage of soll improving crops.
38 Changes In farming practices,
4. Percentage of normal farm pro- |
sumption, i
This arrangement would be limited !
to two years, It would be replaced |
to
federal
regulate production, with |
government apportioning |
funds to the states,
ELAYED dispatches from the Ital. |
lan fieldquarters in northern Ethi. |
tell of a six-day battle the
fiercest and most important the
war so far, in which
the forces of General
adogiio, about 750.
000 In number, de.
feated and routed 80.
000 Ethiopians, in
cluding 10.000 of the |
emperor's guard under |
Ras Mulugheta, war
minister, and 750,000
warriors under Ras
Kassa and Ras Se
youm., The Italians
were left in full pos.
session of the fertile and strategic En-
derto region and in control of the
passes in the Temblen region,
After six days of encircling opera-
tions. during which torrential rains
bogged the field of battle and heavy
of
Gen. Badoglio
invisible movements, the March 28
division of blackshirts planted the
Italian flag on the mist-velled high
particular operation, They then had a
clear path to Amba Alagia, 18 miles
further south, and it was presumed
that the taking of that mountain would
mark the cessation of activities be
cause of the coming March rains.
It was estimated that in this battle
more than 6,000 Ethiopians had been
killed and many times that number
wounded. The Italian casualties were
not announced but they undoubtedly
were not light. Only white Italians
participated in the fighting.
NE of the most spectacular and
dynamic figures in American life
of today passed with the death of Brig.
Gen. Willlam Mitchell in a New York
hospital. He succumbed to a heart at-
tack and influenza at the age of fifty.
seven years. “Billy,” as he was known
to airmen, was commander in chief of
the American air forces In France dur
ing the World war and was decorated
by six governments. Afierward, while
yet in the regular service, he severely
criticized the government's air pre.
paredness policy and was courtmar.
tialed and suspended. Immediately
resigning, he devoted himself to lec
turing and writing to further his de.
mands for a separate department of
aviation In the cabinet, combining both
army and navy alr defense.
“F was stumped by the pipes for a
while, but 1 finally figured a way to
get them pitched properly, [1 just took
lengths of brass tubing, made the |
slots in them and then kept shov. |
ing a cork down In them until |
got the right pitch. Then | ent them
and closed the end with a brass plug
“The alr supply was a problem. |
had to figure out a way to drive
the bellows automatically, 1 finally
hooked up an electric motor In the cel
lar, and that drove it nicely.”
HE War department bill, appropri-
ating approximately 545 million dol-
lars for “national! defense,” wns pussed
by the house. For purely military pur-
poses the sum of $376,800.343 is alot.
ted. The remainder, $168.800.085, goes
for rivers and harbors projects, gen-
erally classed as “pork.”
An attempt to put back into the bill
a $20,000,000 appropriation for carry-
Ing on such projects gs the Passama-
quoddy tidal power experiment in
Maine and the Florida ship canal was
suppressed firmly, Not until congress
has authorized these projects will more
funds be provided them, the leaders
ruled,
The military budget provided by the
bill will sufficient to maintain an
average army of 147,000 men during
the coming year. By 1039, according
to the War department, the maximom
of 165,000 permitted by congress should
be reached,
The most Important amendment add.
ed to the bill was one providing for
the employment each year of 1,000 re-
duty for a 12.
of whom 50 will be an-
in the regular
be
serve officers on active
month period,
nually
nrmy,
commissioned
JENATOR HUGO 1.
\ hama and his
BLACK of Ala-
investization
flood of re.
American
that is likely to
more harm
good to the
lobby
committee are creating a
gentment among citizens
do
vastly
New
without
Black 1s
than
Deal
concealment
using the committee
in a way that thou-
sands of people do not
ke He
questionnaire
Quite
sent out a
to indi.
and organiza.
tions known to be op-
nosed fo the New
Deal, demanding in-
formation on thelr re.
organizations and thelr
and investments,
Many refused to answer the questions,
viduals
Senator
Black
lations with all
other
corporation
:
American Liberty league, which
Henged right of Black's
ee to compel answer under oath
In
ite for contempt of the
to
by the
the
to the queries. effect, the league
senate those who refuse to reply
the questionnaire,
Senator Black
‘s only 0 date
to be.
reply
Or coerce
its own members
to keep their mouths shot until the da
Ponts say they can talk”
behalf of the senate
mittee, Senator Byrnes
the
and then Introduced
consulted executive department
an amendment to
offices appropriation
£1.740.000.000 to cash
the veterans’ bonus. He predicted that
require new taxes, The
mentioned will sufficient,
iyroes sald, together with the 254 mil.
lion dollars now in the adjusted service
certificate to pay In full every
ficate,
In addition to appropriating the cash,
the Brrnes amendment would transfer
507 million dollars in bonds to the
United States government life insur.
ance fund to repay loans on bonus
certificates,
the
bil
independent
to pros ide
no
be
fund,
AY, ITH four members voting in the
negative, the house ordered an
investigation of the money-raising
methods of the Townsend old age pen-
sion plan advocates. During the de-
bate Dr. Francis E. Townsend was de-
scribed variously as a “quack,” “char
latan” “knave,” and “fool.” He and his
program were defended by the small
Townsend bloc.
Attempts by several congressmen to
broaden the scope of the Inquiry to
include such organizations as the Lib
erty league and the Crusaders were
futile.
EFTISTS won the general election
in Spain, and thelr leader, Man-
nel Azana, was made premier and
formed a new cabinet to supplant that
of Valldares. Azana is a veteran
statesman, having been the first pre-
mier of the present Spanish republic.
One of his first acts was the granting
of amnesty te thousands of political
prisoners who had been In jall since
the revolt of October, 1834.
EVOLUTIONARIES, mostly mill
tary and led by Colonels Smith
and Recalde, veterans of the Chaco
war, took possession of the government
of Paraguay after some fighting in the
streets of Asuncion, the capital. The
government forces surrendered to the
on a gunboat. It was announced » new
government had been formed with Col.
Rafael Franco as its head. He was an
exile In Buenos Alres,
pleted for there were delays caused
September,
Ancient Fruit Prised
Alblon, Wash.—Mrs. Mollie Clause
Short has an apple studded with
cloves, which is fifty-seven years old
Mrs. Short prepared the apple, a
Northern Spy variety, when she was a
bride In 1878 and has kept it since for
sentimental reasons,
Mountain Lion Tell
Sacramento, Calif.~California moun.
tain lions had a tough year, 227 being
killed during the first ten months by
state and outside hunters,
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been cut
a pretty
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and old
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