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By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
RR EXUBLICANS were highly grat-
ified by the results of the Michi-
gan primary election for two rea-
sons: First, because three out of
five person who
went to the polls
asked for Republi-
can ballots; second,
bec a us e Senator
James Couzens, a
Republican who has
openly declared that
he is supporting
President Roosevelt
for re-election, lost
his fight for re- .
nomination. C o u z-
ens, one of the Sen. Couzens
wealthiest members of the senate,
was badly defeated by former Gov.
Wilbur M. Brucker, and there is
more than a suspicion that he knew
kis fate beforehand. Brucker, who
is only forty-two years old, has
been in public life for almost twen-
ty years. The Republicans re-nom-
governorship.
On the Democratic side Repre-
sentative Prentiss M.
the senatorial
by Father Coughlin.
they chose Frank Murphy,
For governor
phy and his defeated opponent,
George Welsh, campaigned
Roosevelt supporters.
Gov. H. Styles Bridges won the Re-
ing the effort of former Senator
resentative William N.
Nominees for governor are
Amos N. Blandin, Democra:.
Republican, or James M. Curley,
now governor, Democrat.
for the governorship
The gubernatorial
Wisconsin are: Gav. Philip La Fol-
lette, Progressive; Alexander Wi-
ley, Republican, and Arthur W.
Lueck, Democrat.
MN AINE, the “barometer” state,
is back in the Republican
column at least so far as its state
ticket is concerned. The G. O. P.
captured the United States senator-
ship, the governorship and three
lace H. White, Republican, defeated
Gov. Louis J. Brann, who sought
Republican, won the governorship
Harold Dubord, Democrat.
for size and interest in the election
was intense, The state had been
visited by both President Roosevelt,
cruise, and Gov. Alf M. Landon,
the Republican Presidential nomi-
nee, who made speeches there only
a few days ago. Colonel Knox, vice
presidential candidate on the Re-
publican ticket, also had canvassed
the state. Brann, who was elected
governor in 1932 and re-elected two
years later, was the first Democrat
to hold that office in Maine and
was personally popular. White was
elected senator in 1930 after ten
years in the house.
ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
‘J WALLACE has approved the
new $10,000,000 seed corn loan pro-
sram of the AAA. The government
will advance farmers two types of
loans on seed corn stored on the
farm. Advances of $1.75 a bushel
ili be made to farmers on 1,000,-
(00 bushels of selected corn. The
government will have the option of
buying this corn at $3.50 a bushel
up to April 1, 1937.
The second type of loan permits
advances of 55 cents a bushel on
‘‘good quality and properly stored
cribbed corn which can be sorted
for seed at a later date.” On the
latter type of loan the government
retains the right to purchase the
collateral at $1.50 a bushel until
April 1 next.
It is understood the Reconstruc-
tion Finance corporation has agreed
to advance up to $10,000,000 under
the loan program. The loans will
be made to farmers through the
Commodity Credit corporation.
The interest rate on the new loans
will be 4 per cent, the same as
was in effect under the old corn loan
program.
EDERAL government help in
controlling their business has
been asked by two large sections
of the tobacco industry.
The Retail Tobacco Dealers of
America, Inc., representing about
300,000 retailers of tobacco prod-
ucts, requested the federal trade
commission to authorize a trade
practice conference with a view
for formulating rules for the elim-
ination of unfair methods of compe-
tition and trade abuses.
Representatives from nine tobac-
¢: producing states wound up a two-
day conference in Washington with
a request addressed to the agricul-
tural adjustment administration to
draft a model production control
bill.
TO THE sixty-sixth annual con-
gress of the American Prison
association, held in Chicago, was
presented a report from the com-
mittee on crime prevention in which
it was stated that the tactics of a
certain class of lawyers in defend-
ing persons charged with crime
have the effect of encouraging crim-
inals to repeat their offenses. The
committee declared that 75 per cent
of the prisoners now in penal insti-
tutions in this country had been
“literally faced about into a ca-
reer of crime’ by their experiences
with defense attorneys.
The coaching of the attorney
tended to help the defendant find an
alibi for his misdeeds and a sed-
ative for his conscience, accord-
ing to the report, when public wel-
fare should have guided the lawyer
to conduct “which would quicken
the sensibilities of the prisoner and
awaken him to his owi. misdeeds.”
The committee recommended
more scientific methods in prevent-
ing and combating crime and it esti-
mated that the country's annual
crime cost is $15,000,000,000—""one-
fourth of the national income; half
of the war debt.”
F OR the first time in seven years
the United States is to have a
squadron in European Atlantic wa-
ters. It is known as ‘Squadron 40-
temporary’ and Rear Admiral Ar-
thur P. Fairfield was named as its
commander. Admiral Fairfield
hoisted his flag aboard the light
cruiser Raleigh at the Norfolk navy
vard and sailed for Gibraltar. At
first the squadron will consist of the
flagship Raleigh, the destroyers
Kane and Hatfield and the coast
guard cutter Cayuea, but navy of-
ficials expected its strength would
be increased soon.
The Hatfield, Kane and Cayuga
had been on emergency duty in
of the Spanish revolt until they were
withdrawn to nearby neutr:l ports
following the attempted bombing of
the Kane by an unknown plane off
Cadiz last August 30.
IT IS pleasant to turn from war
and politics and read o. the do-
ings at Cambridge, Mass., where
Harvard university is celebrating
the tercentenary of
its founding. In
Sanders theater was
held the academic
reception for 554
scholars represent
ing 502 universities,
colleges and learned
societies in every
state of the Union
and in forty foreign
countries, and all of
them wearing the
caps, gowns and
hoods signifying
degrees of scholar-
Wd
Dr. James B,
Conant
their various
ship.
President James B. Conant greet-
ed the guests, accepted their cre-
dentials and delivered a simple
address of welcome. He noted that
the assembly was an impressive
demonstration of the solidarity of
the academic world, and saw in the
greetings of the delegates ‘‘the con-
tinued aspiration of mankind toward
a universal fellowship based on hu-
man reason."’
Responding on behalf of the dele-
gates, Prof. Elie Cartan of the Uni-
versity of Paris paid tribute to Har-
vard's contributions to education
and declared that ‘‘no barrier, po-
litical, religious or social, should be
erected to stop the search for
truth.”
When the delegates were called
up in the order of the age of the
institutions they represented, first
to respond was Prof. Saleh Hashem
Attia of Al-Azhar university of Cai-
ro, founded in 970. Then came the
next oldest, the Regia university,
Neglie Stuni Bologna, founded in
the Tenth century, and represented
by Prof. Carrado Gini. Third was
the University of Paris, founded in
the Eleventh century, whose repre-
sentative was Dr. Cartan. Oxford,
Cambridge and all the others fol-
lowed, down to the youngest repre-
sented, the Academia Sinica of Nan-
king, China.
World famous educators, scien-
tists and men of letters including ten
Nobel prize winners, were among
those who attended the reception.
J RANCE'S famous polar explor-
, Dr. Jean Charcot, and 59 of
the crew of 60 aboard the explora-
tion ship Pourquoi Pas were
drowned when the vessel foundered
in a gale off the Iceland coast. One
petty officer swam ashore and told
of the tragedy. Charco. led two ex-
peditions to the Antarctic and a re-
gion there is named for him, Char-
cotiand. In 1925, when one of Roald
east coast of Greenland in the Pour-
quoi Pas.
the vigor of lis opinions and bis
way of expressing
them. In greeting
and blessing some
five hundred Span-
ish refugees who
were received at
Castel Gandolfo, the
holy father took oc-
casion to denounce
strongly the “mad”
forces of Commu-
nism which, he de-
clared, menaced, in
Spain and else-
where, ‘‘the very foundations of all
tion." He urged the constituted
authorities of all nations to oppose
“these great evils with every reme-
prophesied that there will be utter
chaos if “those who have a duty in
the matter do not hasten to repair
the breach—if, indeed, it is not al-
ready too late.”
The pope spoke especially of the
situation in Spain, but said the crisis
there is “a school in which the
most serious lesson is being taught
to Europe and to the whole world—
to a world now at last wholly
steeped, ensnared and threatened
Ly subversive propaganda, and
more especially to a Europe bat
tered and shaken to its very founda-
tion.”
For forty minutes the pontiff
spoke passionately, his voice at
times broken with emotion, and his
address was iransmitted by radio
to all the civilized world.
Reichsfuehrer Hitler, too, took
another hard whack at the Com-
munists at a ceremonial tribute to
the World war dead in Nuremberg.
Before 120,000 uniformed Nazis and
50,000 others he boasted of Ger-
many's armed strength and
shouted:
“Our old enemy, bolshevism, is
vanquished within Germany, but
still active around her borders. But
let no one be deceived. We are
ready at any hour. We all have
one wish—to maintain peace — but
with it goes one firm decision:
Never to surrender Germany to that
enemy we have come to know so
well.”
If Hitler, as some think, tries to
lead the coming five-power Locarno
conference into forming an anti-
Soviet alliance, he will be firmly
opposed by France. Foreign Min-
ister Yvon Delbos says so, and de-
clares France will under no circum-
stances abandon her military pact
with Soviet Russia.
According to Pravda, authorita-
tive newspaper of Moscow, Hitler
plans to attack and partition Czecho-
slovakia before he embarks on a
war against the Soviet union.
Benito Mussolini and hjs cabinet
appropriated large sums to build up
Italy's army, navy and air forces
to greater strength and planned to
carry on vigorously the campaign
for self-sufficiency in raw materials.
It looked as if the dove of peace
was preparing to leave Europe, and
as relations between Japan and
China grew more strained every
day, she probably will have to take
refuge on the western continent,
HE Spanish rebels scored their
greatest victory to date when
they captured San Sebastian, cap-
ital of Guipuzcoa province and fa-
mous Bay of Biscay resort. Santa
Barabara fort, dominating the city,
was first taken and the city's war
council then decided to abandon the
place, despite the opposition of the
anarchists. The more conservative
Basque nationals prevented the reds
from burning the city, only a paper
factory and two residences being
destroyed, and the defending forces
retreated toward Bilbao, accompa-
nied by thousands of civilians and
foreigners. Insurgent troops, com-
manded by Col. Jose Beorlegui,
marched in and were ceremonious-
ly reviewed, and the bishop of Pam-
plona officiated at a thanksgiving
service.
The municipal governor, Antonio
Ortega, and his staff boarded a
yacht to go to new headquarters at
Zumaya, about 15 miles west of
San Sebastian. The new line of
defense was established at Orio.
Government spokesmen claimed
considerable victories in the Tala-
vera sector southwest of Madrid
and not far from the Portuguese
border.
ment has discovered that a
recent small fire on the cruiser
Indianapolis while she was being
overhauled in the New York navy
yard was caused by the driving
of phonograph needles and nails in-
pected sabotage on war vessels is
cruiser was being done by civilian
industrial manager of the
of the
Dunn,
yard, said the placing
the cruiser.
ECRETARY OF AGRICUL.
farmers for the purpose of laying
out the “agricultural conservation
Adventurers’
“No Dice”
By FLOYD GIBBONS,
Famous Headline Hunter
IN ow the moral of this story, boys and girls, is that gambling
“+ doesn’t pay. Not that I need any story to convince me of it.
I once bet two bucks on a horse I thought would come in first at
Saratoga, and the next time I saw him was two years later, pulling
the steam calliope in a circus parade in Denver,
Yep, it's risky business letting a horse invest your money for you,
but not half as risky as the chances Lieutenant Tommy Griffin, of the
Eighteenth infantry, Fort Wadsworth, N. Y., took when he started woo-
ing Lady Luck that fateful July night back in 1922.
Lieutenant Tommy has gone a long way in the army since
1922. Then he was just plain Private Tommy, of the One-Hun-
dred and Seventeenth field artillery, a national guard outfit of
Goldsboro, N. C. The One-Hundred and Seventeenth was doing
its regular two weeks’ field work at Fort Bragg.
It was a hot night, and some of the boys were holding cavalry
maneuvers on a blanket in one of the tents. For horses they were using
little white, spotted cubes, and those ‘horses’ were galloping back and
forth across the blanket in a way that would have scared an enemy army
out of at least six weeks’ pay.
Tommy and Pal Are Attracted by Galloping Ivories.
Of course, an unsympathetic officer of the day might have suspected
that those fellows were shooting craps, but I'm going to take Tommy's
word for it that those shouts of “Come on, seven!’ that came from the
tent, were just the cries of excited rooters who wanted to see the Seventh
regiment win
Tommy and a friend were coming back from an evening
in a nearby town whe they heard the boys cheering the Seventh
regiment on. There was also a lot of encouragement being given
to Big Dick, who, I presume, was the captain eof the Seventh
regiment, and Little Joe, who must have been the first lieutenant,
The rooting attracted Tommy and his pal, and they dropped into
the tent to see what was going on.
There were three men in the tent—a sergeant named Joe and two
privates, Bili and John. The sergeant had been drinking, and he rolled
The Argument Got Pretty Hot for a Minute.
out the ivories with a sort of grim determination. He had lost several
dollars, and Tommy could see that he wasn't taking it any too well.
Losing Sergeant Returns to Make Trouble.
The other two lads were in a jovial mood, though neither one of
them had imbibed any alcohol. John had the dice and Tommy watched
him while he set a point, made it, and picked up his winnings. And it
was right there that the friendly game began to take on a serious aspect
Joe, the sergeant, claimed that John hadn't won the money
and told him to put it down. There was an argument that got
pretty hot for a minute, but in the end John put the dough back
just to humor him, and the play was resumed. A couple more
throws and Joe left, weaving his way unsteadily out of the door.
But a few minutes later he was back again, a .45 revolver in
his hand and an ugly scowl! on his face.
Joe was looking for trouble. That much was plain to everybody. He
began to accuse John of talking about him behind his back. His finger
was tight against the trigger, and looking over, Tommy could see the
yellow of cartridge rims in the chamber of the gun. There was no
joke about it. That get was loaded.
Drunken Maniac’'s Bullet Wakes John Up.
Tommy didn't wait for any more. He made a leap for Joe and
grabbed the gun. But Joe kept his grip on the revolver, too, and the
pair of them rolled over on the tent floor, fighting desperately for pos-
session of the weapon.
Says Tommy: “I wasn't sure I could hold him long, and I
yelled to John to go away. He just sat there looking at me.
Then suddenly Joe pulled the trigger. There was a sharp crack
that deafened me for a minute, and a bullet whizzed by my
head and ripped on out through the top of the tent. I should
have been scared then, but I wasn't. At that moment I was too
excited to feel the effects of fear.”
And still John sat calmly on his cot, watching Tommy wrestle with
the drunken maniac. Whether he was dazed or scared stiff or just
thought it was all a joke, Tommy never learned. But he sat there until
another shot rang out, and this time the Bullet hit John in the hip. That
broke the spell. John leaped to his feet and streaked out of the tent.
Tommy says he's never seep & man run so fast in his life.
Tommy Stares Into the Muzzle of a .45.
Tommy was tired by that time-—dead tired. Joe was strong as a
bull, and he knew he'd never be able to get that gun away from him.
“John was gone,” he says, “and I didn’t think Joe would shoot me. 1
took a chance and let him go. He got up, drunk and furious, and for a
full minute I lay on the ground staring into the muzzle of the 45. That's
when 1 did get scared. 1 have never seen a gun muzzle grow to look
so large. I expected every second to be my last, and I began wishing he
would shoot and get it over with. But no! He just stood there, fingers con-
vulsing on the trigger, face purple with rage.
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molds, jellies may be molded in
muffin tins. Turn the pan upside-
down, place hot, wet towel over
pan and jellies will slip out easily.
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over. Apply two coats of thin
shellac, rewax whole surface
and polish. Floors should be
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furniture before storing away.
Nests built by insects in crevices
in furniture are often overlooked,
It is in this way insects often get
into the house.
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pudding, sprinkle each slice of
bread and butter with desiccated
coconut instead of currants, and
strew some on the top. This will
make a change from the ordinary
pudding and will be found very
tasty.
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stalks and plants, save
lay over leaves used to
flower beds. They prevent leaves
blowing away. Burn these stalks
and plants in the spring
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be washed in hot water, as the
Japan is likely to wash off. Use
lukewarm water and soap.
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That was the beginning of the end. In another ten seconds
the whole camp was in an uproar. They caught Joe and took
him to the guardhouse, and later they found Johnny and sent
him to a hospital, where he spent several weeks getting over
that wound in the hip.
hospital was when his nerves quieted down and his hair stopped stand-
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