BRISBANE] THIS WEEK He Used His Other Chance Two Big Birthdays , England, Rich, Worries The Elephant’s Pulse New York's Titterton murder mys- tery turns out not to be “the perfect crime.” The murderer, an upholsterer, care fully took away the cord used in his trade, with which he had bound the unfortunate woman, but forgot that he had left some strands of twine un- der the body, and those pieces of cord, thanks to excellent police work, trapped him, The sentl- mental who say, “Give the poor eriminal arother chance,” will note that the murderer was a convict on parole when he killed the woman. He had “another chance” and made use of it, Arthur Brisbane Berlin reports a great Hitler forty. seventh birthday celebration including a fine display of military power—air- planes, war tanks, fighting men, ap- parently eager for a fight, They were young and could not remember the last war, Particularly Interesting were two lines In the song sung by storm troop- ers: “Today we own Germany, And tomorrow the whole world” ——— . The day after Hitler celebrated his forty-seventh birthday old Rome cele- brated her two thousand six hundred and elghty-ninth anniversary, Mus- solinl celebrates by launching two new Italian ecguisers and speeding up alr- plane production. He tells Italian fa- thers and mothers he must have 60. 000,000 population for Italy not later than 1950. In 19021, when Mussolin} took charge, Italy's population was 88,000,000, There will soon be room and food to raise more Itallans in Ethiopia. Easy for all but the mother. England, doing well in a business way, with more than $2.000,000.000 worth of Bank of England notes eir- culating among tradesmen, Is collecting gold and depleting the French reserves. While England tries to keep down the price of her “no-gold” pound, France is afraid she will not be able to keep up the value of her gold frame, al ready devalued by SO per cent of its 1014 walue. What becomes of the “magic in gold? Our dear old dollar is worth only 50 cents, and only deal- ers in exchange know it. Doctor Benedict, of Carnegie labora- tories, finds that the adult elephant’ heart beats from 22 to 30 times a minute, less than halr human heartbeat, and the elephant heartbeat is nine strokes faster when the ani mal Is lying down. Man's heart beats more rapidly while he stands—be- cause then it must raise blood the full height of the body. Old poets, with tired hearts, should do their writ- ing lying down-—the bloods flows hori zontally with little heart-effort, the England is pleased: Sir Robert Had- fleld, who makes tough steel, an- nounces a shell for British naval guns that can pass unhurt through armor plate twelve inches thick and explode on the other side, “One shell of this kind fired in the region of the maga- zine would probably cause destruction of a modern battleship.” England is manufacturing the shells rapidly; others are manufacturing airplane bombs that might make old-fashioned naval guns and shells useless, In Miami a lady, first name Lois, and married, has husky triplet babies, Two gentlemen, the official husband and one other, demand custody of the triplets, each calling himself the real father. The alleged “father” who is not the husband would submit to any biood test, his lawyer says. How would King Solomon decide that? Clarence Darrow, one of the coun. | try's most convincing lawyers, says | on his seventy-ninth birthday: “1 say that religion is the belief In future life and In God. 1 don’t belleve in either” The hoptoad beside the track, watch ing the express train go by, might | say, reasonably enough: “I do not belleve in such a thing as | a locomotive engineer.” { Moscow has returned to the Jap- anese government in Manchukuo, with | full military honors, the bodies of three Japanese killed in a fight with Soviet guards. TNe military honors will not console the widows, and, re peated often enough, such Incldents lead to war, Europe envies our fortunate country, which gives only paper dollars and in flation paper bonds to its citizens but has, buried In the ground, the biggest lump of gold on earth. A wonderful thing is micro-chemis- try. It tells scientists that off the coast of Greenland sea water containg more gold than in New York harbor; that one village In Switzerland has less goitre than another because In the first the dewdrops contain more iodine, i © King Features Syn! te, Ine, ! | By EDWARD W. PICKARD HEN the Republicans gather in national convention at Cleveland by Frederick Stiewer, the eloquent and hand- some United States Oregon, theconventionby unan- of the national com- mittee after due con- sideration had been given the names of sev- eral other prominent Republicans, Stiewer Observers held .that the motive In picking Stiewer was a desire of the party leaders to give the convention a western atmosphere at the start, with an especial eye to agriculture. The sen- ator has been actively identified with wheat growing and his home town, Port- land, Is a center of the northwestern battleground of the November elections, His colleague Is Senator Charles L. Me- Nary, one of the authors of the old McNary-Haugen agriculture bill and by many regarded as a possible dark horse In the Presidential nomination race. Governor Landon sald he was glad to hear Stiewer had been chosen, and It was believed Senator Borah also ap- proved, for in many ways Stiewer has proved himself liberal, and at the same time has upheld the Constitution and the American form of government, He has opposed most of the New Deal measures, but has not been un- compromising, as he voted for such acts as the TVA extension, the labor disputes act, and the AAA amendments, He has been attive In soldier legisia- tion, Including the bonus. He opposed the work relief bill, the utilities bill, the tax bill and the Guffey coal bill Congressman Bertrand Snell of New York, minority leader In the house, was selected to be permanent chair man of the convention, a position he held in the convention of 1032 Senator ISREGARDING warnings by Sen- ator Vandenberg of Michigan against too hasty action, the senate passed a bill Introduced by Senator Overton of Louisiana anthorizing the expenditure of $£272,000,000 for flood control work on the lower Mlssissippl river and its tributaries. There was no record vote. The bill has no rela- tion to the omnibus flood control meas- ure now pending, which may reach a billion. The sum named in the senate bill is authorized merely to be appro- priated and will have to be put in a deficiency appropriation bill, Senator Overton declared it was justified by emergency conditions. In addition to the 272 million dollars there is suthorized an appropriation of 15 millions to be allocated by the sec- retary of war and used in rescue work or repair and maintenance of flood control works. Jr EDERAL JUDGE HALSTED L. RIT- TER of Florida was found guilty on Impeachment charges by the senate and removed from office, being the fourth federal jurist to be ousted in this manner, On each of the first six articles of Im peachment a majority of senators voted for his acquittal; but on the seventh article, which was a general ized summary of the charges against him, : he was convicted by a EE vote of 06 to 28 H. L. Ritter op order declaring Ritter should be “forever disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States” was defeated, 76 to 0. The senate’'s verdict in the twelfth impeachment case brought before It as a high court of Impeachment since foundation of the American republic 2% Fo quirements of good behavior in office, automatic removal from the bench. HE administration's bill to levy about 800 million dollars in new tee, and a flerce battle started imme diately. The Republican minority of the committee issued a report which stated that the proposed tax law was “unsound In principle, will undermine business stability, is another step to- ward regimentation of all business, and is not designed to ralse revenue but admittedly is another New Deal experi. ment. Conservative Democrats joined with the Republicans in this attack against the bill, but the administration leaders were confident the measure would pass before May 1. : Complete revision of the corporation tax system 8 the main objective of the blll. It levies a graduated tax on corporation income, based on percents age of earnings withheld from distri. bution to stockholders In the form of dividends. The majority report asserted the measure would raise about $803,000, 000 the first year, but admitted that over a three-year period revenue would fall $384,000,000 short of the Presi- dent's budget-balancing program. It was added that the deficit could be acted on “more intelligently” next ses- sion, SENATOR KENNETH Mc¢KELLAR of Tennessee made an attempt to reduce by $225,000 the appropriation for the federal bureau of investigation, otherwise J. Edgar Hoover's G-men, and falled Ignominously. Only McKel- lar and one other senator were in the affirmative on a viva voce vote, and In the brief but lively debate several Democrats, including Majority Leader Joe Robinson, joined Senator Vanden- berg In denouncing the proposed re- duction. The Michigan man's remarks were caustic. Sald he: “l will go as far as the senator from Tennessee in all matters of econ- omy, but It seems to me that this is a peculiar place to start economiz- ing. The bureau says it needs 175 more men. If the senator wants to save 175 men, I will join him In tak- ing that number from the 18,235 em- ployed by Doctor Tugwell's resettle. ment administration. 1 will join him in abolishing 175 of the 43,641 jobs un- der Mr, Hopkins. I will Join him In removing that number from the 10.548 Jobs under the HOLC, or the 2,422 jobs under the long interred NRA." EVEN persons were Indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Paul, Minn, for the kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr, brewer, in June, 1083, Some of the accused are already in prison. Only one, Alvin Karpls, public enemy No. 1, is still at large, and the Depart- ment of Justice In Washington has of- fered a reward of $5,000 for informa- tion leading to his apprehension, {) SSUPATION of Addis Ababa and all of Ethiopia was the price de- manded by Italy for an armistice In East Africa when ths council of the league of Nations met again In Geneva. Jaron Pompeo Alois] presented the uitima- tum on behalf of Die tator Mussolinl, Wolde Mariam, representing Ethiopia, countered with a request that the league invoke all penalties against Italy piven a Baron Aloisi as well as the economic penalties which the league has been trying to enforce. The British and French dele- gates explained the stand of thelr re spective governments in the embrogiio. The league was helpless, and having received the discouraging report of the conclliation committee, was com- pelled to confess It could not find means of attaining peace. France will not consent to the imposition of mill tary sanctions, and Great Britain natar. ally will not undertake to enforce them by herself. It appeared the poor Ethlo- pians were to be abandoned to thelr fate, meaning the extinction of their empire and their exploitation by Italy. Anthony Eden In his address to the council warned France that she might expect from Great Britain no further support against aggression by Germany than France had given against Italy. From the north, south and west the Italian armies were advancing on Ad- dis Ababa, and the panic stricken &v. {lian Inhabitants of the capital were fleeing from the city. Foreigners sought shelter in the bomb-proofed British legation. The mayor Issued all the arms avallable and the government called on all able men to make a last stand for liberty, saying “it 1s better tv die than to be enslaved” Latest dispatches sald the Ethloplans were blasting the road between Dessye and Addis Ababa, and that the advance of some of the Italian columns had been halted by strong attacks. The emperor was afield with his troops and turned the government at the capital over to Crown Prince Asfa Wosan, HAT old gold mine at Moose River, Nova Scotia, provided an eple tale of unselfish and herole human endeavor that will be told for many a year, For ten days more than a §zs 211 ECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS reported that employment in manu- facturing and nonmanufacturing indus- tries during March showed a gain of 250,000. One division of the steel in- dustry, she reported, had Increased its employment above the 1920 level. Pay rolls in the industries surveyed by the Labor department were $10,000, over a year ago. making division of the steel industry, she sald, now stands at 148, compared with 124.2 in 1020, At the same time she pointed out that four and a half million young people have come on the labor market since 1920 and that employment would have to rise to 125 per cent of the “normal” level to ab- sorb these newcomers. Sixty-six of the manufacturing in- dustries reported gains, she said, and 11 of the 16 nonmanufacturing indus- tries showed improvement in employ- ment, OV. ED, C. JOHNSON of Colorado is determined to keep “cheap la- bor” ‘out of his state and has taken steps to stop the Invaders at the boun- dary lines by means of a military patrol of the National Guard. Col, Nell W. Kimball, adjutant gen- eral, flew over western Oklahoma on a scouting expedition following re. ports workers were gathering for a con- centrated “border run” Guard officers sald workers camped across the state line In homa. Reports that indigents were evading the patrol along the New Mexico line by turning eastward sent patrol units hurrying to the Kansas boundary, were Okla- NOTHER post-war treaty has gone flooey., President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey and his cabinet decided that the = . wee Dardanelles must be remilitarized, despite the Lusanne pact, and Turkish troops were promptly moved into the zone along the 75- mile long strait that connects the Sea of Marmora and the Aegean sea. It is be- Heved Kemal will soon rebulld the fortl- fications in the zope which the allies falled to capture during the * President Kemal World war. The Turkish dictator didn't surprise anyone by his action, for he asked per. mission of the League of Nations some time ago to rearm the Dardanelles. No formal reply had been made, but the British government rather favored giv ing consent, and the Soviet union openly approves Turkey's move, Italy was displeased, and there was consid. erable excitement In the Balkan states, especially Bulgaria which bor- ders on European Turkey. The Bul- garians renewed their demand for a corridor giving them a direct route to the Aegean sea, Probably Kemal's action will not be severely condemned by atyone, for most of the European nations are pre- paring for war with feverish haste, Austria's army, small but well equipped, held a spring parade In Vienna, and immediately the nations of the little entente displayed their anger at this show of military force and their mii tary attaches In the Austrian capital were ordered pot to occupy the places reserved for them among the review. ing officisls. Rumania has Increased its military budget to $£38.000,000 and created a special fond of £20,000.000 for the development of aviation. Hun. gary is clamoring for revision of the Trianon treaty and recovery of the ter ritory it lost to the little entente, OUIS McHENRY HOWE, secretary to President Roosevelt and for many years his close friend and ad- viser, dled In the Naval hospital at Washington after an iliness of more than a year. Mr. Howe was known In the capital as “the President maker,” for It was largely due to his efforts that Mr. Roosevelt reached the White House. For twenty-five years, from the day when Mr, Roosévelt and he first met in Albany, he had devoted himself to forwarding his friend's political for. tenes. During the Chicago convention and the ensuing campaign his plan- ning and his advice were credited largely with the results attained. m— PD SIaTCHES from Chengtu, China, and drouth In Szechuen province, once one of the most fertile regions in the country, It is sald to be the are everyday Incidents Officials sald the situation primarily was a result of Communist incursions reds overran and pillaged the land. lishers think of the pressed forcibly and unequivocally in resolutions adopted by thelr national association at its annual meeting in New York. The committee was ac cused of having violated the frst, fourth and fifth amendments to the Constitution by its seizures of private communications, and the publishers Pensions for Veterans. ANTA MONICA, CALIF — Merely another little proph- the said a sooth he's surer of than this one: Agitation for a blanket pension to cover all World war veterans, re- gardless of ratings or physical condi. tion, will start as soon as those lately- won billions are distributed. At first some veterans’ organ- ization will oppose fit ~-not for long, though, At first congress will be lukewarm. Then it'll see a great light, and this new pension act—one that will be to all previous pen- gion acts what a whale is to tadpoles—will be passed, At least the veter- ans have the argument of patriotic service on their side. And isn't it true that to nearly all of us has come a new con- ception of the national figurehead? No longer is it square-jawed, self-dependent Yankee Doodle, It's a generous, smiling Santa Claps bringing checks for everybody: that is, until the taxpayers start bill Irvin 8. Cobb Jolly free free paying the Defying the Almighty, jroLLOWING example get some years ago by a certain famous per. sonage, a cock-sure infidel made a speech lately, God to smite him dead on the spot t seemed, first off, a very idea, but nothing happened, so the gentleman took this for proof there was God went his way rejoicing. Some look on this as blasphemy, but, granted that every man is entitled to speak his opinion on religion, I'd call it pure gall. Think of Inviting the Al mighty to suspend the entire cosmic scheme while forging a thunderbolt to abolish one solitary copycat of an amateur Ajax. Would you call out the standing army of the United States to kill a cockroach? Lady Killers, T HAS been in the defying no and print so often you must know it by heart yourself: At sight of recreant gentleman friend, the poor bruised butterfly felt & great sense her wretch wanted to go back to his wife or something ly dastardiy—and the next thing she knew ghe was hold. ing a smoking accel dentally happened to be in her hand. bag along with some lipstick and = recipe for fudge: and he was deader then the prosecutor's cha victing her for the kill prior to that “everyth before her eyes” which before-the-eyes It was in the case cently In New York, It's In this latest case at Chicago. "Tis a sore affliction. always marked by total lapse of mem- ory and frequently coupled with tem. porary insanity, but it's certainly fine for marksmanship. The lady scores a perfect bull's-eye, Invariably. I wish I could go blind to order thata- way. I'd be the best quallshot that ever came out of Kentucky, instead of the worst, Brawls in Hollywood. TATURALLY, 1 bave hot southern i blood, which seems to be the hot- test there is, although down home I never noticed It. But up north, If trouble impended, people would speak of my hot southern blood when all the time I thought I was having a nervous chill, Being thus all hot-blooded up, 1 adore fighting, If somebody else does it, Since our movie heroes always stage their combats in some utterly secluded spot, night club, I hurry hither and her of wrongs--the equal automatic that bh of eon. £2. Bat just g went black There's one detail never varies—that going -black. nee business they tried re yon tered star satisfies his honor by boune. der glass with mushrooms—twenty But it's hard enough for me to get Today the battles on the Hollywood front, and I'm absent, as usual, were script writers, proverbially a kin, the presumption being that one English Reds Again, lish gentleman to write giving further detalls. "Twould seem that over there all public servants, Including, notably, state-paid school teachers, must swear to uphold the crown, which means they eannot preach communism to thelr pupiie without violating a solemn oath and, If caught so doing, they lose their Moreover, no IRVIN 8. COBB “vice, DOF INTEREST 10 Wood ashes make an excellent fer- tilizer for shrubbery and rose bushes, also for dahlias, peonies and del. poinjum, Beatter ashes over soll. 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