NE of the major tragedies of
aeronautical history occurred
when the big German dirigible
Hindenburg exploded and fell in a
blazing mass at the landing field
in Lakehurst, N. J. At this writing
the exact number of dead is un-
known, but it probably is more than
forty.
American passengers who in the
early reports were unaccounted for
and presumably killed were: Burtis
Dolan, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. John
Pannes, New York City; Moritz
Feibusch, Lincoln, Neb.: Edward
Douglas, New York; James Young
and Birger Brinck, addresses not
given,
The airship, just arrived from Eu-
rope on its first transatlantic trip
of the year, was about to land when
there was an explosion toward the
stern. Instantly flames broke out
and ran the length of the ship. The
tail sagged first, then the nose
crashed down and the split sections
telescoped as they fell. A few of
the 44 passengers and some mem-
bers of the crew were able to jump
to safety, but many of the others
aboard hadn't a chance for their
lives. The navy men of the ground
crew heroically plunged into the
flaming wreckage and dragged out
those victims who could be reached.
The screams and cries of injured
in agony were “terrible,” the hard-
ened sailors and marines who did
the rescue work reported. The cloth-
ing was completely burned off one
man. Another, blown through the
envelope, was found moaning near
the smashed airship.
The survivors and
of fire
An explosion of the No. 2 gas
cell toward the stern of the ship
was named as the cause of the dis-
aster by State Aviation Commis-
sioner Gill Robb Wilson, who called
the blast ‘‘strange.”
Some authorities scouted the the-
ory that the explosion could have
been caused by the ignition of hy-
drogen inside the gas cells. They
said a mixture of 20 per cent free
air with hydrogen would be neces-
sary to cause an explosion, indicat-
ing the first blast must have oc-
curred outside one of the gas cells.
Aeronautical experts said the only
way they could explain an explo-
sion inside the ship would be that
free hydrogen had in some way es-
caped and was lying in the stern of
the ship where it was accidentally
ignited.
Capt. Ernest Lehmann, who pilot-
ed the Hindenburg last year, was
aboard it on this fatal trip, but its
commander was Capt. William
Pruss, just promoted to the post.
He is a veteran in working dirigi-
bles.
H OW to economize by cutting
down government expendi-
tures, as the President has demand-
ed, and at the same time to continue
g ; with such huge ex-
penditures as the
billion and a half
dollars Mr. Roose-
velt asked for relief
is a puzzle that con-
gress doesn't know
how to solve. Harry
Hopkins, Works
Progress adminis-
trator and most ac-
complished spender
of the administra-
tion, took a hand in
the discussion, telling a house appro-
priation subcommittee that unem-
ployment is a permanent problem,
that the government should be pre-
pared to support seven million job-
less persons at all times, and con-
sequently that congress must ap-
propriate the billion and a half for
relief instead of cutting the sum
down to a billion.
Both Democrats and Republicans
on the committee protested, and
Chairman Woodrum of Virginia told
Hopkins he would use every endeav-
or to have the appropriation re-
duced by at least a third. He chal-
ienged the figures and arguments
submitted by Hopkins, contending
that if the extravagance of the work
relief principle and the padding of
relief rolls with undeserving cases
were eliminated and the states re-
quired to assume a greater share of
the burden the cost to the federal
government would not exceed one
billion.
Senator William H. King of Utah,
Democrat, not only disagrees with
Hopkins as to the amount needed
for relief, but isn’t satisfied with the
way the administrator has been
conducting the work. He introduced
resolutions in the senate calling for
an investigation of the works prog-
ress administration and taking the
future spending of relief money out
of Hopkins’ hands. King said his
purpose was to abolish the WPA,
In the house economy received a
wallop on the head when the re-
forestation bill was passed, 171 to
153. This measure would appropriate
$2,500,000 annually for government
aid to farmers who wish to turn
part of their farms into woodlands.
It was fought by a bloc led by
H. L. Hopki
Representative J. J. Cochran of Mis-
souri, Democrat. “It has a worth
while objective, but it is one of
those expensive measures which we
can defer passing for a while until
the budget is in balance,” declared
Cochran.
EWILDERED members of con-
gress were still further dazed
when they learned that the admin-
istration was moving to obtain ap-
proval of the Florida ship canal
project which will call for $197.
000,000, This was revealed when
Secretary of the Navy Swanson sent
to the house rivers and harbors
committee a letter urging that the
canal scheme be approved. It was
assumed he would not have done
this without the approval of the
President. Mr. Swanson argued that
the canal would be of value during
war for the shipment of materials.
Testimony labeled ‘‘confidential”’
was also heard by the committee
from Gen. Charles. P. Summerall,
retired chief of staff of the army,
and Rear Admiral Frederic B. Bas-
sett, retired. Both declared that the
canal would serve as “a most im-
portant element of the national de-
fense in time of war.”
Representative Beiter of New
York, Democrat, called upon the
budget bureau to make known its
stand on the Florida canal question.
REQUENT reports have been
heard in Washington that gov-
ernment employees, including some
high officials, took advantage of
their “inside’’ knowl-
edge that the attor-
ney general was go-
ing to file suit to dis-
solve the Aluminum
Company of Ameri-
ca by selling the
common stock short,
thereby making im-
mense profits. Just
the day before the
suit was filed Pres-
ident Roosevelt is-
sued his order
against stock speculation by em-
ployees of the government, but it
came too late.
Attention of congress was called
to the matter when Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu-
setts, Republican, demanded an in-
vestigation.
“I hold no brief for the Aluminum
Company of America,” Mrs. Rogers
told the house. ‘I know nothing
about the institution, but I am very
anxious to know why the common
stock of this huge enterprising cor-
poration should decline over 300 per
cent more than similar industrial
stocks in the period just prior to an-
nouncement of the government's
suit,
“To the 825,000 employees of the
government the President's an-
nouncement was a most czaristic
order,” Mrs. Rogers declared. “1
believe the money paid to federal
employees is just as much their
money to do with as they please as
is the money paid to any employee
working at any job in any place in
the United States.”
But government employees, she
added, certainly ought not to have
the advantage of knowledge with-
held from the public.
$
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—did
Rep. Rogers
WELVE American women
reached what some people con-
sider a social climax when they
were received by King George and
Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain
at the first court of the new reign.
These favored matrons and
debutantes had been carefully
coached at the American embassy
and were presented by Mrs. Robert
W. Bingham, wife of the American
ambassador. They were:
Eleanora Bowdoin of Aiken, S.
C.; Mrs. George Temple Bowdoin of
New York City; Catherine M. Ma-
her of Lincoln, Neb.; Mrs. George
W. Norton Jr., of Louisville: Mrs.
John Perrin of Boston; Anne
Schenck of New York City; Vesta
Putnam Culberson of Chicago;
Mrs. F. Vernon Foster of West
Orange, N. J.; Lydia Fuller of Bos-
ton; Mrs. Dozier IL. Gardner of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Byron Hilliard
of Louisville, and Mrs, Julia Henry
of Philadelphia.
P RIME MINISTER STANLEY
BALDWIN, soon to retire, made
an eloquent plea to the people of
Great Britain not to mar the corona-
OR three days Premier Mussolini
of Italy conferred in Rome with
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, for-
eign minister of Germany. Then an
official communique was issued in-
dicating that the two countries were
determined to prevent the creation
of a communist state in western
Europe, holding “a complete paral-
lelism of views’ on this and other
subjects. It was added that the Ital-
ian and German governments will
‘““continue to follow a concordat pol-
icy on all major questions.”
It was understood in Rome that,
though Mussolini and Hitler were
eager to work for peace with Britain
and France, they were prepared to
take open part in the Spanish war
if other means fail to prevent the
establishment of a regime sympa-
thetic to soviet Russia,
The Italian parliament passed
Mussolini's national defense budget
the navy, told the deputies the Italian
navy
ment,
chances concerning protection of her
intended to build up in the Italian
“
vances and
shortest possible time.”
] RS. WALLIS SIMPSON was
i granted an absolute decree
of divorce in London, and within
a few hours Edward, duke of Wind-
; + Sor, was on his way
from St. Wolfgang,
Austria, to visit his
flancee at the Cha-
teau de Cande near
Tours, France. The
former king of Great
Britain had been
waiting impatiently,
baggage packed, for
word that Wallis
was entirely free,
and he lost no time
when his colicitors
telephoned him from London.
It took only 25 seconds to make
absolute the decree nisi which Mrs.
Simpson obtained last October 27.
The king's proctor had been satis-
fied with the lady's behavior in the
interval, and Sir Boyd Merriman,
president of the divorce court, per-
sonally granted the decree along
with a lot of others.
The date for the wedding of the
duke of Windsor and Mrs. Simpson
has not yet been announced, but it
probably will be in the week begin-
ning May 24. Edward was willing
to wait until all the coronation hul-
labaloo was over for he did not
wish to annoy his royal brother in
any way.
Mrs. Simpson
EICHSFUEHRER ADOLF HIT.
LER was informed by Pope Pius
XI that the Roman Catholic church
must be free to fulfill its mission in
Germany. This reply to the German
church note, which itself was a re-
ply to the pope's pre-Easter ency-
clical accusing the German govern-
state concordat, was delivered by
Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli to the Ger-
man ambassador to the holy see,
Diego von Bergen.
The note was rather moderate in
tone, but insisted that
Motion Picture Crafts,
difficulties.
Actors’ guild, but that body, which
ducers. The guild already had pre-
and overtime pay.
strikers were given the active sup-
port of 13 unions. They insisted that
hotel owners had refused to agree
to preferential hiring and a five day
week for clerks,
groups of hotel employees had been
awarded such conditions,
SOME of the most desperate fight-
taking place in the struggle for Bil-
bao between the sturdy Basques and
Gen. Emilio Mola's veterans, reput-
edly mostly Italians and Germans.
The insurgents had promised not
to bomb the center of the city but
bombarded its environs heavily
from the land and the air, By fierce
attacks they broke through
Basque lines on the Bay of Biscay
coast, reaching Bilbao’s seaports at
the mouth of the Nervion river.
Disregarding the protests of Gen-
eral Franco, Fascist chieftain, the
British and French governments
undertook to remove from Bilbao
a large number of women and chil
dren.
R ESISTING all efforts of the
wouid-be economists, the major-
HY in the hous pasied He waz 4s.
partment appropr carrying
$416,400,000 for the fiscal year 1938.
This is the largest army bill ever
passed in times of peace,
As passed the measure
d
by William
National Preas Bullding
Se ——
Washington.—Congress lately has
passed and President Roosevelt has
. just signed the
Coal Will Guffey-Vinson coal
Be Higher
bill. It is, there-
fore, a law. And
presently, as a result of the pas-
sage of this legislation, you and 1
and every other person who uses
soft coal will be paying higher
The increase in price that will re-
to be open to criticism. There are
many who believe that in passing
the Guffey-Vinson bill (and it was
done under the lash of administra-
taken a step which is very close to,
It is an action
80 near to the policies of fascism in
Italy that close students of the Mus-
cern any distinction.
Let us see what the Guffey-Vinson
law does. It permits all soft coal
producers in the United States to
organize as in a monopoly under
government control. True, the gov-
ernment is supposed under the law
to fix the price of soft coal but actu-
ally the law is going to work out so
that the producers and the mine un-
ions will establish the prices, sub-
ject to the approval of a govern-
ment commission. It will work
out this way because the law has
actually legalized the right of the
producers to agree on the
fact that those prices are based on
the production costs in regional
areas.
United States shall be divided into
23 regions or sections
States coal commission is empow-
ered to prescribe the prices, both
gions may be sold. In
ner, the law guarantees that the soft
labor costs enter directly into pro-
duction costs—indeed, they consti
tute a8 major factor—it becomes
plain that whatever wages labor de-
mands obtains the
level of the production costs and the
result is a change in the selling
price to the consuming public
Thus, when John L Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America and head of the C. 1. O
determines
are not being paid su
wages, he an increase
from the mine owners. The mine
owners or producers, now that the
has
the new costs
and influences
that the m workers
ficiently high
ine
demands
3
law
passed, simply submit
alternative but to approve an in-
crease in the selling price. In conse-
every bucketful
going into your stove and
every shovelful that goes into the
tax that has been legalized by law.
So, we see the bulk of the coal in-
competition into the form of a mo-
nopoly under government control.
If that can be described otherwise
than as fascism, I am ignorant of
what constitutes fascism.
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There remains the question
the law promoted by
- Senator Guffey of
Question Pennsylvania and
Validity R e p r e sentative
Vinson of Ken-
It will be remembered that the
Supreme court once threw out the
original Guffey-Vinson law. It threw
mous decision of the court when it
The labor pro-
visions alone were discussed in the
litigation at that time. But in the
current Guffey-Vinson law, those ob-
ted. There is no way to discover
whether the Supreme court will find
the monopolistic practice authorized
in the current legisiation to be im-
proper except the hunch that such a
declaration of policy by the con-
gress is not in conflict with the con-
stitution directly.
Some members of the congress
opposed the Guffey-Vinson bill be-
cause they believed it to be uncon-
stitutional. There were so few of
those, however, that the house of
representatives debated the bill
only a day and a half and the sen-
ate debated it only a few hours.
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Some sections of the soft coal in-
dustry objected to the bill but they
were quickly re-
Backed gigned to the in.
tangible fact that
the division of sentiment among
coal producers was that there is
wide range of costs the
among
Bruckart
Washington, D. C.
able under open competition, to sell
at lower prices than many of their
competitors. There is another sec-
tion of the mining industry where
out a living return.
will gain exorbitant profit.
be all for this law because of the
heavy returns they can make. Such,
however, is not the case. Thus mine
owners pretty generally, would pre-
fer taking their chances in open
competition because they can make
a larger profit through a heavy vol-
ume of sales at lower prices than
under the new scheme whereby the
high cost mines are bound to get
a share of the business,
Proponents of the law contend that
there is an obligation to the owners
of the high cost mine or to the
workers they employ. But what, 1
ask, is the user of coal going to do
about it? What has he to say and
how can he say it?
explain that interests of the con-
suming public are to be protected
through the office of a consumers’
council. That is, there is a govern-
ment official who is supposed to look
after and protect your rights and
mine against excessive prices. It
may work out satisfactorily. 1 be-
lieve, however, that the odds are
{ heavy against any of us rec eiving
| any benefits in this direction.
* . *
A few days after President Roose-
velit signed the Guffey-Vinson law,
: Attorney General
Strike Cummings came
at Trusts farth with a letter
urging congress to
revise and tighten the anti-trust law.
He said that monopoly was grow-
| ing in the United States and that
small businesses were being driven
to the wall by the inroads of great
masses of capital
There is evidence that capital is
| massing. We need not look any fur-
ther for proof of this than the Guf-
fey-Vinson law itself which permits
capital to work together—the only
hindrance being that which is sub-
| jected somewhat to the influence of
organized labor under the Gufifey-
Vinson law. The result is exactly
| capital takes place under private
arrangement or under government
supervision such as is legalized in
the Guffey Vinson law.
This situation impresses
being a bit incongruous
to be a circumstance where the
administration is trying to run in
two directions at one and the same
time. It is further exaggerated by
the fact that the President lately
has spoken with emphasis about the
rapid increase in retail prices. Yet,
besides raising wages for labor, the
only tangible result that I can see
me as
er prices for all of us to pay.
always to increase prices.
against monopoly and the Attorney
vent monopoly.
force higher prices and good for
to force higher prices?
»
No Stock
Gambling worker
engage in
ernment
may
ployee’s qualifications for retention
or advancement, the commission
in securities or commodities.
1 have heard
be a sound order.
ever, that gives rise to other
thoughts about it,
use the confidential information
which he obtains officially as the
basis for stock speculation. On the
other hand, is it not questionable
whether a government should try
to tell any of its employees that
they cannot invest their surplus
earnings in securities as a means
of increasing their income? The
President said that “bona fide in-
vestments” are all right but the
question for which I have not been
able to find an answer is “how can
it be determined whether the pur
chase of a few shares of stock is
speculation or bona fide invest
ment?"
That brings up of necessity the
difficulties of enforcement. It also
brings to the forefront a real dan-
ger. That danger is not as remote
as it seems. [I refer to the use of
in the hands of the Chief Ex.
to take away individual lib
ve
of action.
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@ Questions
Boaking Salt Fish-—When seak-
ing salt fish add a small glass of
vinegar to the soaking water and
it will draw out more of the salt.
» . *
Tomato and Lima Bean C
role—Drain the liquid from a Not
2 can of green baby lima beans
and combine the beans with a can
of tomatoes. Add a little butter
and seasoning, then mix. Place
in buttered casserole, Cover.
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Outer Leaves of Lettuce—The
outer leaves of lettuce, often
trimmed off and thrown away, are
| more than 30 times as rich in
vitamin A as the inside leaves.
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Boiled Whitefish—Clean a white-
fish. To sufficient water to cover
add salt and vinegar and a bunch
of parsley and a quartered onien.
Cook until the flesh separates eas-
ily from the bones. Drain and
place on a hot platter, garnished
with parsley and serve with a
sauce.
* - .
Removing Mustard Stains
Mustard stains can be removed
from table linen by washing in hot
water an dsoap and rinsing in
warm walter.
* * *
Beef Juice—To make beef juice
add 1 pound of fresh, raw, finely
chopped round steak without fat
to 6 ounces of cold water. Add a
pinch of salt, put the beef and wa-
ter in a glass jar and stand it on
ice, over night. Shake and strain
it through coarse lin, squeez-
ing hard to obtain all the juice.
* » .
Washing Windows—Add a little
starch to the water used for wash-
ing windows. It not only helps re-
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