BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Six Babies in Three Days
World's Greatest Terror
,, Another Mild Bad Man
How to Avoid Thought
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very
on the
shore of Lake Nleca-
poor woman
By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
birth to seven ba-
bles.”
The mother, Mrs.
The births stretched
May 3, 4 and 6&5.
The bables’ names
are, or were,
Jesus, Ramon del
Carmen, Maria del
Arthur Brisbane 4.) Carmen, Maria
de Jesus and Juana Ramona.
The seventh name was not tele-
graphed, for there was no seventh, as
it was expected there would be. Five
of the sextuplets are already dead.
Only one, a girl, lives,
What would population of the earth
be If such births were the rule and
all lived?
At the opening of the Catholle press
exhibition in Vatican City, Pope Plus,
for the second time within two days,
cautioned the world against commu.
nism, which he called “the great terror
which threatens all the world.”
For the comfort of those that live
in dread of final Communist world
conquest, it may be sald that thus far
nothing opposed to human nature has
ever succeeded.
By the arrest in California of Thom-
as H. Robinson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs.
Stoll, Mr. Hoover and his G-men
brought Into the shadow of the electric
chair the last of the group of danger-
ous criminals that have recently been
wandering about the country.
This “bad man,” like others recently
gathered in, shook with fright when
he found the gun pointed at him, made
no effort to fight. When the guns are
pointed the wrong way, “bad men” oft-
en change to good, meek and scared
men,
Stamp collectors have held a celebra-
tion, grateful to Doctor Eckener for
a new kind of stamp. How many ways
man finds to keep busy and at the
same time avold thinking!
Collecting queer things stamps or
tear jugs; playing bridge, working
cross-word puzzles, playing solitaire,
rushing to the far corners of the world
to spend money-—usually not earned;
going to Africa to kill big game ani-
mals. Those are some substitutes for
thinking and working constructively,
the only occupation worthy of a hu.
wan being.
airs. James C. Canipe of Clovis, New
Mexico, as a girl was not able to finish
high school, but that did not discour-
age her. She waited some years, Then
ehe joined the senior high school class
with her son and daughter-in-law, and
will graduate with them this month,
among the most brilliant scholars,
Chancellor Hitler, who was never mar
ried, nevertheless thinks marriage a
good idea. Young Nazis, in the public
employ, have been told that unless
they marry by the time they are twen-
ty-six years old there Is something the
matter with their “courage and will
power.”
A syndicate Is formed to seek the
“buried gold bags of ‘Alexander the
Great,” containing at least $300,000,000
in yellow wealth,
Alexander the Great's ghost might
be surprised to hear about that. Alex.
S ENATOR WILLIAM BORAH banked
heavily on success in the Ohlo
Presidential preference primary, but
the Republicans of that state turned
him down decisively
in favor of thelr “fa-
vorite son,” Robert A.
Taft, son of the late
President Taft. Of the
52 delegates to the
Cleveland convention,
Borah captured only
five, the others, In-
cluding the delegates
at large, being Taft
men. The winning del-
egation will be. virtu-
ally unpledged, be. Senator Borah
| cause it will vote for Taft only on the
first ballot. Mr. Borah did not take
this defeat calmly. He gave out a state-
| ment In Washington accusing the Re-
publican organization leaders of ma-
nipulating the votes of colored citizens
| against him by promising the passage
of federal anti-lynching legislation
which he has opposed as unconstitu.
tional. The Idaho senator added:
“The Republican party will go Into
the campaign laying great stress upon
Constitutional Integrity and the pres-
ervation of state rights.
“The men who are in control of the
party, and who will likely be in con-
trol of the convention, will write its
platform and name its candidate, have
already demonstrated that they care
nothing about Constitutional Integrity
or the preservation of state rights, that
their talk on this subject ia hypocritical
and intellectually dishonest.”
Ohlo Democrats polled about 500.000
votes In the primary, nearly 100,000
more than the Republicans, and they
expressed thelr preference for Mr,
Roosevelt over Col. Henry BErecken-
ridge to the tune of 16 to 1. They also
renominated Gov. Martin L. Davey,
who will be opposed by John W, Brick-
er, Republican, in November,
West Virginia also held primaries
and there Borah and Roosevelt won
easily over nominal opposition. The
state's Republican delegation, however,
will go to the convention uninstructed.
It is Interesting to note that one of
Ohlo's delegates at Cleveland will be
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter
of “T. R” and a spectator at many
previous conventions,
E ARE not going to have any
currency Inflation, at least be.
fore next session of congress. The
Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage refinanc-
ing bill, dragged out of committee by
a petition signed by 218 house mem-
bers, and then hotly debated for a day,
was defeated by the decisive vote of
235 to 142. The bill called for the print.
ing of three billion dollars for its
financing.
The petition signers included 150
Democrats, and before the vote every
one of them was told by Pat Boland
of Pennsylvania, the party whip, that
the President didn't want the measure
passed at this time and that If the
member voted for the bill it would be
| Just too bad for him. Besides this po-
tent argument the Democratic leaders
induced President Willlam Green of
the American “ederation of Labor to
intervene and he called together the
federation’s executive council and had
it write a letter saying It was opposed
to the bill because of the Inflation fea.
ture, This was read to the house by
Speaker Byrns and undoubtedly af.
fected the vote, though some members
resented being told what to do by Mr,
Green,
There was relief In the White House
when It was announced the President
would not have to veto such a measure
in an election year.
not the kind of man to bury it in a
hole.
Encouraged by her father, a sixteen
year-old high school girl walked onto
the wing of a small plane, prepared
for a first parachute jump, at 1,500
feet. The pilot perceived that the
parachute cord had been pulled prema.
turely; pulled her back into the cock-
pit in time to save her from death,
Without requiring encouragement,
Mrs, Harriet O, Hague, eighty-six years
old, flew the ocean on the Hindenburg
return trip. Tell that to your friend
who used to oppose female suffrage
“because women are not brave lke
men.”
small gircraft, and some day this coun
try’s automobile men will turn to alr
plane bullding; then, those already
past sixty may live to see in the alr
25000000 flying machines, one for
every automobile on the ground,
The Italian flag files over Halle
Selassie’s palace. He will never see
that palace again, but he has boxes of
gold bars with him and has moved to
a safer, better climate,
The civilized world, whatever its at.
titude toward the slave-dealing alleged
descendants of King Solomon and the
Queen of Sheba, must rejoice In Mus.
solini’s proclamation abolishing slavery
throughout Ethiopia, where slaves have
been the chief cash-producing product.
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RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was sup-
i posed to have abandoned for the
| present the Florida ship canal and
| Passamaquoddy tidal power projects
| for which the house refused to appro-
| priate further funds. But Senator
| Robinson of Arkansas was called to
| the White House for a conference and
| returned to the house to introduce a
| resolution authorizing the President to
| appoint engineering boards of review
for the two schemes,
The boards would present their find.
ings by June 20, and, if favorable,
the President would have authoriza.
{tion to set aside $10,000,000 for the
| canal and $0,000,000 for Passamaquod-
| 97 out of available relief money,
EWTON D. BAKER and Dean
Acheson, counsel, for five power
companies that are trying to block the
government's municipal power pro-
gram, met with defeat In the District
of Columbia Supreme court when thay
sought to subpoena correspondence be
tween President Roosevelt and Secree
tary Ickes. Jerome Frank, a New Deal
attorney, stated that the President had
directed that his “privilege” of testi.
monial Immunity be asserted In the
case, and Chief Justice Wheat refused
to issue the subpoena,
JF, THE house concurs in senate ne
tion, the title of Harold L. Ickes will
be changed from secretary of the in-
terior to secretary of conservation. A
bill making the change was passed by
the senate at the Instance of Senator
Lewis of 1llinols. Two years ago, when
Mr. Ickes was at the height of his
power, he wanted the title altered to
“secretary of conservation and works”
and hoped that many of the agencies
of the Department of Agriculture would
be transferred to his department. But
Secretary Wallace objected strenuous-
ly, and lately so much has been taken
out of Mr, Ickes’ hands that Senator
Lewis cut his bill to the one paragraph,
making the change of title and leaving
off “and works.”
V}/ ORES PROGRESS ADMINIS.
TRATOR HARRY HOPKINS is-
sued an order to state WPA directors
instructing them pot to employ armed
guards, not to spy on workers and not
to blacklist workers who organize,
The order was issued following a
conference with Victor F. Ridder, New
York city WPA administrator, who em-
ployed a detachment of guards to pro
tect his office agalost antl WPA dem.
onstrations which Mr, Ridder asserts
were stirred up by Communists,
{rrosrioN in the senate finance
committee to the corporate profits
tax In the administration's $808.000,000
revenue bill was so strong that both
Democrats and Republicans sought for
some compromise. Treasury officials
were heard In favor of the measure as
passed by the house, but former treas
ury officials and various business and
Industrial leaders speaking in opposi-
tion were seemingly more persuasive.
Senator Tom Connally of Texas put
forward a plan be thought all might
agree upon. It would retain the 15 per
cént corporation Income tax and re
peal only the capital stock and excess
profits taxes, Instead of repealing all
corporation taxes as proposed in the
house bill. In addition It would super
impose a graduated tax on undistrib
vied earnings, exempting the first 2
per cent on the amount retained. The
house blll reaches a maximum of 42%
per cent of the total income If none
is distributed,
Senator Byrd of Virginia, another of
the Democrats opposed to the house
bill, showed, In a letter to Secretary
Morgenthau, that 11 of the largest
corporations In the country would pay
no taxes under the Roosevelt bIIL
ESPONDING to a senate resolo-
tion, Rexford Tugwell made a re
port on the activities of the resettle
ment administration of which he is the
head, He shoyed that
it has 15804 em
ployees on the admin-
istration pay roll and
has been allotted
2T0.540.044 to spend
Of this amount, the
report stated, 808.
347005 has been spent
and a total of $173.
: 001.823 obligated, leav.
b a ing $102458,112 unin-
A — cumbered,
R. G.. Tugwell Up to April 15, ae
cording to the report, the resettlement
administration had taken options on
9.070,000 acres of land, of which op
tions on 8.460000 acres, costing $36.
344,000, had become legal commitments.
As of May 1, the report sald, 50.521
persons, Including 3581 on the COCO
pay roll, were employed In connection
with the land acquisition program,
The report stated that a recent sur
vey Indicated that “the purchase of
approximately 24,000,000 acres of land
would be needed to block in and round
out” the existing projects and to es
tablish a minimum number of pew
projects,
Of 33 subsistence homestead pro).
ects, construction has been completed
on 18, Is In progress on 11 and final
plans have been drafted for 4. The re
port lists four suburban housing pro}
ects, financed from a $31,000,000 allo
cation for this purpose. They are In
Berwyn, Md., Bound Brook, N. J, Mi}
waukee, and Cincinnati,
On rural rehabllitation, the report
says the RA has cared for more than
800,000 families, For its rehabilitation
advances to Individual “clients.” the
administration will expend $106,000,000
through June 30,
There were more than 71,000 work.
ers employed on projects financed by
the organization during April, the re
port states, adding that the peak Is ex.
pected to be reached during the sum.
mer with 100,000 workers,
BECAUSE the League of Nations
council would not immediately rec
ognize Italy's aonexation of Ethiopia
and the creation of the new Roman em-
pire, Premier Mussolini recalled his rep-
resentatives from Geneva, and before
long Italy may quit the league entirely,
At present it Is merely “not partic)
pating” in its activities. The council
had adopted a new resolution virtually
condemning again Italy's aggression in
East Africa and then adjourned until
June 15.
Previously Baron Pompe! Alois! chief
of the Italian delegation, had walked
out of a session of the council because
Wolde Mariam, Ethiopian representa.
tive, was permitted to take a seat and
present a plea from Emperor Halle Se-
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(CHANCELLOR KURT SCHUSCH-
its reconstruction
ter.
Von Starhemberg had antagonized
pathles,
ANUEL AZANA was advanced
from the premiership to the presi.
dency of Spain by almost unanimous
vote of the 874 electors gathered in the
Crystal palace at
Madrid. He succeeds
Niceto Alcala Zamora
who was removed
from office ona charge
of malfeasance after
the Leftist victory in
the recent elections.
Azana, fifty-six years
old, is a lawyer, ora
tor and playwright
and is regarded as the
most astute politician
in Spain. To the noti-
fication committee he
sald: “Spain may rest assured that I
will be loyal to the principles of
democracy and that the welfare of the
nation will be my constant concern.”
Azana
INDENBURG, the immense dirigl-
bie, carrying 107 persons, mail and
freight, made the flight from Fried.
richshafen to Lakehurst, N. J. in 61
hours and minutes and was wel
comed by thousands of Americans, in-
cluding R. Walton Moore of the State
department who brought the greetings
and congratulations of President Roose
velt. Three days later the airship
started back to her new base at Frank-
furt-on-Main. The dirigible was In the
command of Capt. Ernst Lehmann, but
he received far less attention here than
did Dr. Hugo Eckener, the veteran skip-
per of Zeppelins. Eckener, in bad with
the Nazis at home, was permitted to be
aboard the ship as an “adviser,” He
and Captain Lehmann went to Wash.
ington together, while the ship was be-
ing groomed for the return flight, to
call on President Roosevelt and other
officials and return their greetings.
On the return flight the Hindenburg
traveled swiftly, reaching Frankfurt-on-
Main 48 hours and 18 minutes after
the departure from Lakehurst
The Hindenburg Is to make ten com-
mercial trans-Atlantic trips this sum-
mer.
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ARK TRAMMELL, veteran United
States senator from Florida and a
staunch supporter of sll New Deal
measures, died In Washington of a
cerebral hemorrhage which followed
an attack of Influenza, Though (Il, he
tried to remain on the senate floor
long enough to vote for a proposal to
Include $12,000,000 in the War depart.
ment appropriation bill for continua
tion of the Florida ship canal This
effort probably cost him his life.
OME two thousand delegates were
present when the annual conven
tion of the American Red Cross was
opened in Chicago by Admiral Cary T.
Grayson, the national chairman. Speak-
ers at early sessions Included Mayor
Ed Kelly, and Raiph Christian, school
boy of Birmingham, Ala, representing
the Junior ReC Cross. Mrs. Elizabeth
H. Vaughan, a purse of St. Louls, was
awarded the Florence Nightingale med-
al for her long record of nursing sery-
ice,
Dr. Thomas Parran, Jr, the new sur.
geon general of the United States pub
lic health service, was present and
made a speech, and talks were delly.
ered by Robert E. Bondy, director of
national disaster relief, and others who
directed activities in the flood and
storm areas,
ECRETARY ICKES supporters
were easily defeated by the Harry
whether the Public Works administra.
tion should share In the handling of
next year's relief funda. But it was
understood the feud would be revived
in the senate under the leadership
of Senator Hayden of Arizona, Demo
tions committee,
to the wishes of the administration on
the relief bill, which is a $2.304,220.712
measure carrying $1.425000000 to
finance the Works Progress adminis
tration after July 1,
the social security program, $39,900,000
and various new and deficiency amounts
mitted to be added to the bill
in PWA personnel in Washington
throughout the country, This alfects
2,000 persons,
USTAPHA NAHAS PASHA,
er of the Wald
SONG AND DANCE
The weary theatrical agent sat back
at least twenty young women who
was tired,
Then came a timid knock on the
door, and a rather faded young woman
entered.
“Excuse me, sir,” she sald, “but—"
“All right,” he sald, resigned. “Sing
something.”
“But—"
“No volce? Can you dance?”
“No, 1 blooming well can't” she
snapped. “But if you'll stop being fun-
ny I'll start scrubbing the floor. That's
what I came in for.”
DISAPPOINTED
S8he—You sald if 1 married you, |
should want for nothing.
He—With your dad's wealth I pever
dreamed either of us would,
Going Jimmy One Better
Brown was taking his boy through
the zoo,
When they came to the gorilla, the
youngster asked, “What is that, dad-
dy ™
“That's one of
boy."
“Gee! I wish I could show that to
Jimmy Peabody who's always blowin’
about his that came over in the May-
flower,"—Boston Transcript.
our ancestors, my
Quite a Jump
A sailor dropped out of the rigging
of a ship of war some fifteen or twenty
feet and fell plump on the head of the
first lieutenant,
“Stupid I” sald the officer, after he
bad gathered himself up: “where did
you come from?"
“Sure, I came from Ireland, sir.”
No Pleasant Dream
“Is a retirement that will permit you
to read and rest one of the pleasant
dreams of your life?
“It's no pleasant dream.” answered
Senator Sorghum. “It's a nightmare”
Paying Guest
He—May I have some stationery?
Clerk—(baughtily)—Are you a guest
of the house?
He-—Heck, no. I'm paying $20 a day.
-Royal Arcanum Bulletin,
Unhindered Imagination
“1 suppose you are well acquainted
with the star of your company 7”
“Never met him" replied the press
agent. “A successful press agent must
be an idealist, not a realist”
BEFORE AND AFTER
“That woman has driven her hus
agance.”
he married her.”
Natural Mistake
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ects."Cinsinnati Enquirer,
Difficult Advice
“Can you laugh at misfortune, as
“Perhaps 1 might learn” answered
Senator Sorghum, “But why delibera-
wtely cultivate a bad sense of humor?”
Reversing a Rule
*A woman always has the last word,”
remarked the eynleal citizen,
“Not In our house,” replied Mr. Meek-
ton. “I make It a point to see that
Henrietta has the first word so that
I can agree as intelligently as possible.”
impractical
“In my opinion,” sald Farmer Corn
tossel, “that hired man o' mine is a
very remarkable invention.”
“Why do you call him that?
“Because s0 many Inventions are
things that ought to work and don't”
Habits Live
MIEL, the philosopher, was
never wiser than when he
sald: “Habits count for more
than maxims, because habit is a
living maxim, become flesh and
instinct, To reform one's maxims
Is nothing; it is but to change
the title of the book. To learn
new habits is everything for it
Is to reach the substance of iife,
Life 1s but a tissue of habits”
Each good habit we weave in our
teens means a better and hap
pler life to its very end.
Mercy is that disposition of the
mind which prompts us to pity
those In trouble.~Ann Flaxman.
Chairman Jones Quite Likely
Pushed Hard on the Reins
Ground for a monument at the
San Jacinto battlefield in Houston,
Texas, i8 broken and so is the plow
that broke it.
They turned the handles o° an
ancient wooden plow over to Jesse
H. Jones, 225-pound chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance corporation,
He shouted “let's go” to the oxen
and the plow point went far into the
ground, shattering the relic. Jones
had falled to use his weight on the
handles,
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