BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
One King Dead. Next?
One Lynched; One Jumped
Hitler Picks Successor
Three Kinds of Gold
King Fuad, King of Egypt,
or to 15,000,000.000
on earth. It means
much to England,
real ruler of Egypt,
now obliged to find
another king to “be-
have himself, do as
England says,” and
hold down Egypt's
antl-British hatred,
A mob _ seized
Lint Shaw, fifty.
year-old negro, and
lynched him on “the
usual charge” not
waiting for a trial.
Joe Bowers, sentenced to 25 years
for mall robbery, locked in the island
fortress of Alcatraz, tried to escape by
climbing ten feet of plain wire, two
feet of barbed wire, and jumping down
a 60-foot cliff into the water. He
climbed while sharpshooter guards
pumped bullets into him, and jumped
down the cliff. Asked when “booked”
at Alcatraz, “Who is to he notified If
you die?" Bowers replied: “Nobody;
nobody cares whether I die or not.”
Arthur Brisbane
Hitler apparently has chosen his
successor “in case” in the person of
Alr Minister Goering, now made *“as-
sistant dictator,” with control of two
great German problems of raw mate
rials and foreign exchange.
In New York, 175 naval cadets from
the German cruiser Emden, name well
remembered from the war, explore
the city, guarded by detectives in case
of hostile demonstrations,
Commercial boycotts of Germany,
organized In New York, have done
more harm to the Nazl government
than could be done by any mob attack
on German «cadets,
California possesses “three kinds of
gold”: yellow gold, of which there Is
plenty left in the ground: “black gold,”
which I= the oil In lakes thousands of
feet down, and the “white gold.” water
from the mountains, first used to
develop power, then to irrigate crops.
Another gold, more important than
those three, combined, Is the gold of
education,
Driving through this country, If yon
see a particularly fine bullding, tall
columns, wide grounds, fields for
healthy play, that 1s a public school.
Once it would have been the prison
or feudal eastle,
You see snother building, almost as
impressive as the high school. That is
& public library. The accumulated
knowledge of the world is free.
Mrs. Grace Warren Dubols, sixty-two
Years old, was allowed to keep her seat
while the judge sentenced her to life
imprisonment for killing her son. Or
dinarily convicts must stand for sen-
tence,
It Is sald she thought her family
“too aristocratic” to live In such times
@s these, and wished to kill them all
Another son testified against her.
Newsboys ery “What do you read?™
The Niagara of books pouring from the
presses, a vast majority forgotten as
they are born, make many ask “What
shall ” read?" Of the books that every
one must know, many are unneces
sarily long, will not be read. and need
condensation, in this day of newspa-
pers, moving pictures, and radio,
If some publisher would Issue a
“bookshelf™ squeezed down from 12
feet to 2 feet, that would be useful
Paris perceives that following recent
elections extreme radicals will be pow-
erful In the new chamber, snd those
fhat have money left begin panicky
selling. Bank of France shares drop
in government stability, with fear of
war in all minds.
The last war knocked
from 10 cents to 4 cents. What would
another war do?
rapidly.
prices have gone up 60 per cent, busi
fulness In that.
Since last
by twenty thousand milllon dollars.
Excellent “bait” for the Ignorant,
New Jersey citizens dropped from
relief invade legislative halls, camp
out, sleep on the floor, promise to re
and food.
out and beg. Begging being illegal,
each family was provided with a beg.
ging license. That may be called
“economic relief.”
Toky» worries about Russia “plot
ting a war against Japan,” but no plot.
ting is necessary. Russia knows the lo-
cation of every Japanese city, town and
factory. It would be necessary only to
declare war and start dropping bombs,
particularly bombs that spread fire,
Starting a war for foreign countries
is as eary as “shobting up s gambling
game” among our racketeers; no se
crecy or plotting necessary.
ITH extraordinary speed which
the opposition considered inde-
cent, the administration's new $803.
000,000 revenue bill was pushed
through the house,
The vote, 207 to 93,
was almost strictly
along party lines, The
roll call showed B82
Repmwhlicans and only
11 Democrats voted
against the measure,
while four Republicans
deserted the minority
to cast thelr lot with
the administration.
The bill was handed
to the senate whose
finance committee, headed by Pat Har-
rison, had been studying it In secret
sessions in order to be prepared for
the public hearings that opened two
days after the house had acted. There
had been predictions that this commit-
tee would modify the measure radical
ly, but the opposition to it in Demo-
cratic ranks seemed to have faded
away and its passage by the senate
without material change was deemed
probable.
As passed by the house the bill pro-
vides:
1. A graduated tax on corporation
income which, it is estimated, will
force distribution of §3.3060.000.000
more in dividends and yleld the gov-
ernment an additional $620,000,000 an-
nually.
2. A “windfall” tax on unpald or re-
funded processing taxes imposed under
the invalidated AAA, which Is expect
ed to yield $100,000,000,
3. Continuation of the capital stocks
and excess profits taxes for six months
to yleld $35,000,000,
4. A refund of £35,000,000 to proces
sors hi suffered financial losses under
the old AAA.
Sen. Harrison
HE $3.000000000 Frazier-Lemke
farm mortgage bill, with Its threat
of currency Inflation, was blasted out
of its pigeonhole Friday and assured
of a vole In the house during the
present session,
Five representatives signed the peti-
tion to remove the bill from the house
rules committee, completing the 218
signstures necessary to bring up the
bill
Speaker Byrns, Chairman O'Connor
of the rules committee, and the other
Democratic chieftains, by sheer po-
litical power, are sald to have held
the farm mortgage, currency-expansion
measure in the committee for more
than a year under express orders of
President Roosevelt,
The Frazier-Lemke bill proposes to
amortize farm mortgages by the issu-
ance of £3.000.000.000 in new currency.
It provides for a sharp downward re.
vision of interest rates on wortgages
ANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of
commerce, appeared before the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States at its annual meeting in Wash:
ington and warned Its
members, most of
whom are persistent
critics of New Deal
policies, that unless
private enterprise
takes up the slack In
employment, business
must pay the relief
bill out of earnings.
“It is the responsi
bility of all business
and Industrial enter.
prises,” sald Roper,
“and not of one particular segment of
the government to Increase its efforts
for greater employment. If a substan.
tial measure of Increased re-employ-
for relief purposes will come largely
from business earnings, There must
of Increased taxation”
Roper admitted that the adminis.
tration bad fostered bureaucracy, but
Increase again lay at the door of pri-
Various members of the chamber re.
plied spiritedly, Roy C, Osgood, vice
eal program that would Inspire confi
dence, business would make rapid
strides toward recovery. He criticized
ness expansion and stability,
Fred H. Clausen, president of the
Van Brunt Manufacturing company of
the rising tide of public spending had
been “rolling onto our people for five
years,” and there was no end In sight,
He declared that the re-employment
mandates lald down by President
Roosevelt, Secretary Roper and others
were practically impossible In the
light’ of the increased burdens heaped
on Industry,
The American Federation of Labor
reported that “little or no progress”
had been made In re-employment dur
ing the first quarter of this year,
The federation estimated 12,184,000
persons were unemployed in Maren,
Seasonal gains In business and agri
culture, returning 550,000 persons to
work, were “about normal,” the report
sald,
ONTINUING the policy of central
izing control over the activities of
American citizens, the senate passed a
new vocational education bill intro-
duced by Senator Walter F. George of
Georgla and supported by Majority
Leader Robinson of Arkansas. It was
strongly opposed by Senator King of
Utah, Democrat, who insisted education
was ¢ responsibllity of the states, not
of the federal government,
The measure authorizes an annual
appropriation of $12,000,000 to be dis-
tributed among the states on & match
Ing bass, In proportion to population,
In addition it authorizes $1,200,000 a
year to be allotted for the payment of
salaries and travel expenses of voeca-
tional teachers, and $1,000,000 a year
to be allotted for the preparation of
teachers and supervisors,
UAD I, king of Egypt, dled of a
gangrenous throat Infection at his
country place near Calro at the age of
sixty-eight. The crown prince, Fa-
—— rouk, a sixteen-year-
old pupil in the royal
military academy at
Woolwich, England,
was Immediately pro.
claimed king ar¥ start.
ed for Egypt, sailing
from Marseilles on a
iritish liner escorted
. by a British warship
in order to avoid go-
Hh ing by way of Italy.
Jefore his death
King Farouk. pyuaq pamed a regency
council of three to govern the country
until Farouk comes of age, The young
king, who Is six feet tall and well edu-
cated, hopes to return to England to
complete his studies at Woolwich, It
was feared in Cairo that Fuad's death
would have an adverse effect on the
negotiations for a new Anglo-Egyptian
treaty which will give Egypt a greater
measure of freedom from British con-
trol,
Fuad, a descendant of Mohammed
All, founder of the Egyptian roysl
house, was the youngest son of Khe
dive Ismail Pasha “the maguificent™
Egyptian sovereign from 1863 to 1879
N° OTHER member of congress
has been having so lively a time
as has Marion A. Zloncheck of Wash-
i. ton state, the Playboy of the West-
ern World, He has been arrested,
Jalled and fined, and has fought with
the police; and the other day he sud.
denly decided to marry Miss Rubye
Louise Nix, a stenographer in the ac-
counting division of the PWA at An-
nanolis. With a Washington license
he dashed around looking for a minis.
ter who had left the city several years
ago, hen he rushed to Maryland, ob-
tained another license, woke up a dom-
ine and be and Rubye were made
man and wife. Next day Marion led
irs. Zioncheck Into the gallery of the
house, and the members all arose and
cheered them. Perhaps his actions
will be a trifle more conventional here
after,
EICHSFUEHRER HITLER has
made Hermann Wilhelm Goering
controller of national economics, and he
has decreed an era of Spartan sim.
plicity for the German people, Goering
summoned the commissars for raw ma-
terials to a conference and warned
them they must further restrict im.
ports and help draft measures to In-
crease exports. Only goods vitally
necessary to the army and materials
needed to produce goods for foreign
export must be allowed to enter Ger.
many, Goering decreed.
Officials of the propaganda ministry
further darkened the picture of the
near future by telling the press It must
prepare the public for a “stiffening of
relations between France and Ger
many as soon as the French elections
are finished.” They also deplored the
fact that relations with Eogland have
suffered,
TALY'S victorfous troops In north.
ern Ethiopia continued their ad.
vance on Addis Ababa, though it was
somewhat retarded by the efforts of
the natives to biow up the roadways
and otherwise harass the Invaders
The Italian motorized column in this
movement Is the most formideble yet
formed in this war and is notable for
the large number of white troops In.
cluded,
General Graziana's southern army,
meanwhile, was driving toward Harar,
second city of the empire, in three col.
umns, Toe Ethiopians were putting
up stiff resistance at various points
but everywhere were driven back, ae
cording to italian dispatches,
When the Italian forces reached
Debra Birhan, only 756 miles from AdZis
Ababa, Emperor Halle Selassie or
dered the capital city left undefended,
hoping the invaders would occupy It
without bloodshed. The government
prepared to move out, and the native
inhabitants all scuttled for the hills
Foreigners took refuge In the legations,
the Americans going to the Britian
compound where there was a bomb
proof shelter,
El NATOR AL BEN Ww. BARKL EY of
Kentucky, who was temporary chalr-
man of the Democratic national con. |
vention In 1932 and as such delivered
the keynote speech,
will serve in the same
capacity at the Phil.
adelphla convention in
June, outlining the Is
pues of this year's
campalgn as his party
views them. Senator
Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas will be the
permanent chalrman
agaln, Yet another re-
peater will be Former
Judge John EB. Mack
of New York. Four years ago he
placed Franklin D. Roosevelt In nomi:
nation, and he will do it again in
June,
These selections were made by the |
committee on arrangements, Other of-
ficers of the convention chosen, are:
Lee Barnes of Alabama, chief door.
keeper; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, na-
tional committeewoman of the District
of Columbia, hostess of the convention,
with Mrs. Agnes Collins Dunn of New
Hampshire as assistant; Col. Edward
C. Halsey, secretary of the senate,
sergeant at arms; Representative Clar-
ence Cannon of Missourl, parliamen-
tarian, assisted by Representative John
J. O'Connor of New York; W. Forbes
Morgan, secretary of the convention,
Natiopal Chairman Farley sald that
the two-thirds rule, which has pre
valled In Democratic conventions for
a century, will not be abolished. The
rules committee will be headed by
Senat r Bennett Clark of Missouri and
it will report for abrogation of the
two-thirds rule as well as elimination
of the unit rule. The latter binds the
state delegations to ablde by the de.
cision of a majority of the delegation.
According to Mr. Farley, these changes
will not prevent the practically unan-
imous nomination of President Hoose-
velt,
Sen. Ba rkley
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT made
what might be considered the first
of his campaign speeches before the
National Democratic club In New York
city. Tammany was there in full force,
but such disgruntled Democrats as Al
Smith and John J. Raskob were con-
spicuous by their absence. Mr. Roose
1elt declared his purpose to bring more
food, higher prices and better homes
for the people.
“It you Increase buying prwer.” he
sald, “prices will go up; more goods
will be sold. Wages ought to and must
go up with prices. This does rot mean
unsound Inflation or skyrocketing
prices; this should be avolded just as
we seek to avold bankrupicy sale
values"
Turning to his critics with sarcasm,
the President sald “some individuals
are pever satisfied” Referring to
charges of extravagance and mounting
deficits, he sald people complain to
him about “the current coms of re
bullding America, about the burden of
future America.” He insisted that the
messure should not be the three-billlon.
dollar deficit of this year but the ssser.
tion that the national Income bas risen
thirty-five billions in 1002 to sixty-five
billions in 1908,
IVIL war In Austria became 8 pos
sibility as the quarrel! between the
Fascists led hy Prince Ernst von Star
hemberg and the clerical and mon
. soon Brchist elements © be
came acute. Govern
ment officials, how.
ever, were trying des
perately to patch up
the trouble,
Prince Yon Star
bemberg, who is vice
chancellor, In a de
filant speech st Horn
warned bis political
opponents that bis
bheimwehr, or home
guard, would be dis
solved “only over my
Prince Von
Starhemberg
dead body.”
Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, speak.
ing at Baden, retorted that “Austria
is not Italy and Austrians are not
Fascists.”
Von Starbemberg asserted that If in.
ternal foes press too hard there will be
a “repetition of 1934" when the heim-
wehr triumphed in a short but bloody
civil war against Boclalista False
friends surround Schoschnigg, von
Starhemberg sald, and the heimwehr
plans to protect him from them,
For Austria, sald Starhemberg, there
are three possibilities—a continuation
of the authority of the state, Nazilsm,
or communism. He asserted the heim. |
wehr is determined to preserve the
Fascist system and would continue as
a separate organization, i
IONTESTS alded by Mrs, Oliver Har. |
riman, New York soclety leader, |
and Alfred E. Smith, Jr, were barred
from the mails as “lotteries” in orders
signed by Postmaster General Farley. |
The orders were directed against the
National Conference for Legalizing Lot.
teries, Inc, of which Mrs, Harriman is
president, and the Golden Stakes Ad- |
vertising company, of which young
Smith Is vice president and counsel. |
In the latter case a temporary in- |
junction restraining the New York post- |
master from enforcing the order was |
obtained from Federal Judge Knox in
New York,
RMY and navy officials were re
ported to be concerned over a new
treaty with t anama which isbeing secret-
ly considerad by the government, It was
sald an uncorrected text of the pact
showed it provides for “joint conver:
sations” eather than for defense of
the Canal Zone In event of aggression,
The grant by Panama for the “use,
cupation, and control of lands and
ters outside the jurisdiction of
United States,” If necessary, Is re
nounced by this country In the treaty.
about:
Styles In Hair Tints.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF —
There's more news concern-
ing the mummified remains of
that lovely Egyptian princess
they found the other
daughter of some early Pharaoh,
ago and yet was still so beautifully
preserved, Too bad that old recipe of
the Pharaoh family was lost. They
did make such good preserves,
The latest word is that the little
Indy's hair was dyed a henna color,
Either that's news or ,
something has st'mu-
lated a sudden change
in Hollywood fashions.
Just a little while ago,
about every other po-
tential movie queen
You saw was going In
for the platinum ef.
fect; and only too fre-
quently, alas, the ef-
fect was that of a
new t'a “oof on a va-
cant attie,
Now, by the great
gross, the stylish ones are going red
reddish or redder, Today, within half
a mile, I counted ten redheads. and
not a white horse In sight, to prove
the ancient saying.
* » .
Waning Presidential Booms.
\W/ Har with ¢ and floods
down south, the dally press some-
how falled to record among our spring
casualties the untimely end of
Governor Talmadge boom. Poor little
thing, it passed away at {ts home in
Atlanta, Ga., just as It was learning,
in prattling accents, to lisp “pa-pa.”
Still the shock did not eateh
of us unawares, We had a feeling It
wasn't going to live. The second sum.
mer is so frequently fatal to those
Incubator bables
For instance,
ish boom. Or of yon didn't
somebody certainly
hasn't been seen,
months and
Irvin 8. Cobb
yelones
the
some
yon take the Ham
take it,
did, because It
or even heard of for
months,
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Gridiron Club Dinners,
FX EPT the obituary column, noth.
4 Ing could be sadder than the news
paper account of a
ner,
be
gre,
Turning them out
mendously hard job,
with the national political scene, and
any producer of farces will tell you
you can’t burlesque a burlesque. In
other words, you ean't be very funny
on a subject which already Is 50 much
funnier than anything you can think
of—and that's what the
Washington are up against
This business of trying to be comie
Is a serious business anyway, especial.
ly since all comedy is predicated on
distress, A fat man falling down
makes us laugh because he suffers both
in spirit and flesh, But if is a
palibearer, say, at a funeral and falls
down on his owg high hat and maybe
breaks up the services—well, now then,
you've got something that's really
funny.
A definition of be:
Tragedy standing on its head with its
pants torn,
gridiron club din-
ub dinners sim to
sing and frequently
Yet gridion el
gatirically amu
must be a tre
because they deal
fellows at
he
comedy could
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Self.Chosen Landon Aids,
OVERNOR LANDON must feel
awfully fractional, not to say
badly scattered, what with being levied
on by so many comparative strangers
all at once. Every day or two, with an
altruiso rare In this selfish age, some
gallant volunteer elects himself by ac.
clamation as the governor's eastern
manager or his western manager. or
his northwestern-by-southwestern man.
ager or something. It makes no dif-
ference that he may never have heard
of these parties before: up to six
either,
He's like a previously neglected or
phan child who suddenly comes Into
prospects and finds everybody in town
trying to adopt him, Maybe a better
giving turkey at a tableful of hungry
drumstick and that one grabbing the
second Joint—and Mr. W, R. Hearst
clinging, with a grip of iron,
wishbone.
. - .
Folly of Parole System.
case of a few months ugo up io the
offenders who,
had been paroled,
the most hideous child murder that
convict out on parvie. The degenerate
New York the other
you've guessed it—he was a convict on
parole, \
turning loose criminals who have not
completed thelr terms of punishment,
indeed, In some cases hardly have be
gun them, goes merrily on,
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Englishmen say that Shakespeare's
romantic forest In “As You Like It” ia
the Forest of Arden in Warwickshire,
which fits his description. Belgian
claim it Is the Forest of the Ardennes,
are romantic and lovely,
“Peg Leg” Convict Robs Blind
Woman ; Asks for Cell Again
Alex (Old Peg) Rhoda, fifty nine,
wooden legged ex-convict, has spent
29 of the last 40 years In penitent.
| aries, Recently in Chicago he robbed
ia blind woman, Witnesses chased
| him. One of them cried out that he
Old Peg
Shamefacedly he surren-
He gave police a revolver he
then
leg, asked to be
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