WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
TEW YORK.—A bequest of
$1,000,000, left to Harvard uni-
versity by Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman,
will make it possible for newspaper
2 men to go to
Scribes Get school at Harvard.
Free Course
It might be better
at Harvard if they would go to
school to John
Stewart Bryan, handsome, fluent,
and erudite head of the committee
which will pick the candidates for
the Harvard sabbatical years.
Mr. Bryan is publisher
Richmond News-Leader and presi-
Mary.
ties.
vard, the light shed
caverns of journalistic minds surely
Harvard effulgence. And,
and talk.
The glow in Mr. Bryan's
mind was imparted partly by Har-
vard and partly by the University
of Virginia. Of the southern aristoi,
he practiced law in Richmond and
then engaged with his father, the
late Joseph Bryan, in energetic co-
management of the family newspa-
per, then the Richmond Times. The
elder Mr. Bryan had established a
tradition of independence which his
son has maintained.
swinging journalists as Halstead,
Greeley, Watter-
son, and, more re-
cently, Fremont
Older, Mr. Bryan
remains one of the
few distinguished exemplars of that
kind of spark-plug newspapering.
He was president of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ association
from 1926 to 1928.
Sixty-six years old, he still keeps
up with his horsemanship, taking
all the jumps until a few years ago.
Example of
Spark Plug
Journalist
whirl of directorates, public and civ-
ic posts, clubs, philanthropies and
social and political activities—al-
ways with time to talk. And now
he’ll have to measure copy-readers
and reporters for a college workout.
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N ME. PAUL DUPUY, whose
French chateau is now occu-
pied by the duke and duchess of
Windsor, was the first publisher to
introduce Amer-
ican comic strips
in France. The
French liked the
comics, but they
wouldn't take the columnists. Mme.
Dupuy found they liked to do their
own interpreting and shied away
from omniscience in all forms.
She is the American-born widow
of Paul Dupuy. When M. Dupuy
died in 1927, he left in her hands
the biggest string of newspapers and
magazines in France.
In the French tradition, in which
the widow quietly assumes com-
mand of the cafe or shop, she picked
up the vast publishing business,
managing it at first from a sick-
r
Mme. Dupuy
Gave French
the Funnies
a long illness.
The publications included the
Daily Petit Parisien, with a circula-
tion of 1,800,000; Dimanche Illustre,
a Sunday newspaper in which Mme.
Dupuy introduced the first Sunday
supplement in France; La Science
et la Vie, comparable to the Scien-
bile journal; Le Republicain des
Hautes - Pyrenees, a provincial
azine; Agriculture Nouvelle, a
weekly, and several others.
blonde and beautiful daughter of
: William H.
Met Editor
as Student
in Paris
Browne school for
young ladies at 715 Fifth avenue,
New York. Studying in Paris, she
of the Petit Parisien.
They were married in 1907 and
years, their marriage has been cited
as one ideal international romance
—a bit of background which is, no
duchess as they move into her
charming old Chateau de la Maye,
near Versailles.
© Consolidated News Features.
U Service.
Invented Knitting Machine
Watching his wife slowly knitting
woolen stockings, Rev. William
Lee, a Nottingham clergyman, hit
upon the idea of making a mechine
do this work. In time he suc-
ceeded, and knitted upon his crude
machine the first silk stockings. A
victim of prejudice, Lee died a poor
man. That was more than 300 years
ago. In 1864, William Cotton, of
Loughborough, brought out a ma-
chine on Lee's principle, and soon
it was adopted all over the world.
Chairman of TVA Brings
er
to the Surface the Feud
Corn Acreage Allotments
‘United States military secrets to a
foreign government,
for the ring.
5 ,
ickard
Berry Claim Cause of Row
f
Dr. A. E. Morgan, chairman oil
his fellow directors, David Lilien-
ro =n thal and Harcourt
8 Morgan, has
to a climax, due to
the claims
George L.
cause his alleged
marble
were flooded
Norris dam
Doctor Morgan
demanded a show-
down in the form of
a congressional in-
in the
area.
A. E. Morgan
vestigation of
up and its activities
eral court in Tennessee reported the
claims of Berry and his associates
ed commercially.
long statement revealing that the
to differences between himself and
his colleagues over policy, but to his
decency and fairness
ment.” He said:
in govern-
ficulty with which as chairman of
the TVA board, I have been faced
ards of public service. To a steadi-
ly increasing
tended with an attitude of conspira-
cy, secretiveness, and bureaucratic
manipulation, which has made the
ficult.”
a sacred, binding agreement,”
when the TVA chairman halted the
frigndly agreement reached
Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan.
“In my opinion, a ‘friendly’ agree-
ment, in the face of what seemed to
ploit was not a good public policy,
‘sacred,’ ’ said the chairman.
Berry deal was only a part of the
he had to face and that there was a
gressional committee,
&
—
ECRETARY OF COMMERCE
“YJ ROPER told President Roose-
velt that the “‘little’’ business man
appears to be forsaking the policy of
Mr. Roper based his conclusion on
an analysis of 1,900 letters from
The secretary said he was im-
mendations in the letters showed
little understanding of the broad as-
business men were largely self-seek-
ers.
Nothing was said of the 100 reso-
which demanded
tion and interference with business,
give tax relief to business, and halt
experimentation where it affected
business.
sit
Corn Acreage Cut
ARMERS of 12 commercial corn
producing states were told by the
Agricultural Adjustment adminis-
tration that they might plant this
year in corn 40,491,279 acres in 588
counties. This compares with 58,-
616,000 acres in 1,123 counties har-
vested last year. The complete
national goal for 1938, including the
commercial corn acreage allot
ments, is 94,000,000 to 97,000,000
| bushels.
total acres harvested
number of counties in
| follow:
in the
each state
acres in 102 counties against 9,451. -
000 acres harvested in 102
in 1937.
Indiana—3,456,212
counties against
counties,
Iowa—9,249,259 acres in 99 coun-
| ties againt 11,180,000 in 99 counties
Kansas-—2,108,602 acres for 27
| counties against 2.456000 in 105
counties
for
in 92
acres
4.708.000
ro
if
counties
counties
Michigan—223,791 acres {
counties against 1,580,000 in 83
ties
Minnesota—3.,319.803 acres in 45
counties against 4,788,000 in 87 coun-
ties.
Missouri—3,267,088 acres
counties against 4,260,000
{| counties.
Nebraska—8,757.345 acres in 64
counties against 7,904,000 in 83 coun-
ties.
South Dakota
| counties
counties,
Wisconsin—452,810 acres
counties against 2.424.000
counties.
Ohio—2,521,779 acres in 57
ties against 3,796,000 in 88 counties,
Under the new farm
acreage allotments will
county committees for
farms.
against 2.906.000 in
r five
coun-
in 6
in 114
against 3,156 acres in 69
in
8
n AN
be set by
individual
Tax Bill Battle Starts
and means committee, submitted to
the committee,
the struggle over
this measure began
at once. The admin-
istration leaders
claim the act will
stimulate trade and
remove hardships
on both big and lit-
tle business without
J lowering the aggre-
gate federal income.
BR. L. Poughton Mr. Doughton knew
he had a fight on his hands, but pre-
dicted the speedy passage of the
measure substantially as reported.
The most vulnerable provision ad-
mittedly was a proposed penalty
tax on closely held corporations.
McCormack of Massachusetts and
Lamneck of Ohio filed a separate
report attacking this feature.
Republican members of the com-
mittee united in a report which
blamed New Deal taxes for the
“Franklin D. Roosevelt depression”
and which charged that the tax on
closely held corporations is a polit-
ical weapon to be used to purge the
nation’s business structure of cor-
porations controlled by New Deal
foes.
Chairman Pat Harrison, Demo-
crat, Mississippi, of the senate fi-
nance committee, said his group
would begin hearings soon on the
measure. A majority of his com-
mittee is reported to be opposed to
several provisions of the house bill,
including the retention of the prin-
ciples of the undistributed profits
tax.
amends
Disaster in California
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, espe-
cially the region about Los An-
geles, was swept by a destructive
flood following extraordinary rains.
Nearly 50 persons were drowned
or killed in landslides and thousands
fled from their homes. It was
thought the property damage might
reach $30,000,000. For a time Los
Angeles was cut off from all com-
munications except by short wave
radio.
—_—
relies msn sn
Death ot D'Annunzio
ABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO, poet,
playwright, soldier and Italian
patriot, died at his villa in Gardone
Riviera of a cerebral hemorrhage.
He would have been seventy-five
years old in a few days. The demise
of this really great man saddened
the whole Italian nation for he had
made himself the idol of the people
especially by his bold seizure of
Fiume after the World war and his
aerial exploits in that conflict, The
world of letters also mourned him
deeply.
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WPA Rolls Increased
(CONGRESS having sent the quar-
ter billion dollar emergency re-
lief appropriation to the White
House, the WPA officials immedi-
ately authorized the state adminis-
trations to hire 500,000 more relief
workers this month,
Aubrey Williams, acting WPA ad-
ministrator during the convales-
cence of Harry Hopkins, estimated
that the March increases would pull
up local enrollments from 15 to 25
per cent, depending on state needs.
Williams said he expected large
industrial centers to furnish heavi-
est demands for a slice of the new
relief money, but added: ‘There is
no part of the country that is not
affected in some real degree.”
British Air Program
THE British government an-
nounced the greatest air force
estimates in the nation’s history and
disclosed that a corps of scientists
had been mobilized to aid in secret
air defense plans. For the fiscal
year beginning April 1 the air force
estimates total $367.500,000. Next
was announced a 23 per cent in-
crease in army appropriations for
Gets Out of China
THE i United States in-
fantry left Tientsin after a quar-
/ in North
its officers
centu ser
vice
China, during which,
boast, it has not fired a shot In an-
ger. The stationed there
under the Boxer protocol, is being
permanently, to be re-
regiment,
a short time we may
read of the execu-
tion of 21 prominent citizens of So-
a, latest victims of Dicta-
Stalin's blood ?
purge They were i
yt on trial before a
'
to
1 dries
viet Russ
and there was little
to their
Among the ac-
against
them were conspir-
ing with foreign
powers to dismem-
as
ueat )
cusatlions
ylotting to assassi- 4
Po DE is and Stal. Alexis Rykov
in. inspiring the assassination of
Sergei Kiroff, and putting to death
the writer Maxim Gorky and two
natural causes
Most prominent of the men put
on trial were Former Premier Alex-
is 1. Rykov, who succeeded Lenin
and held office for nearly two years;
and Nikolai Bukharin, chronicler of
the red revolution and editor of the
government newspaper Izvestia be-
fore March, 1937.
All of the accused men admitted
their guilt, but Krestinsky, former
ambassador to Berlin, tried to re-
pudiate his confession. The others
one after another told in court of
their alleged conspiracies and trea-
sons.
ail
Three Taken as Spies
OVERNMENT agents and New
York police broke up a ring of
spies engaged in selling secrets of
the American army and navy to a
European nation described as a
world power but otherwise not
named. Three alleged members of
the ring were under arrest and held
in heavy bail. Two of them, a for-
mer sergeant in the United States
army and a private in the army,
were said to have confessed. The
third was a German girl, hairdresser
on the German liner Europa. The
other members of the band.
Guenther Gustav Rumrich,
ex-sergeant, who is a deserter, said
and information concerning military
operations of the United States
army and was forwarding it
rious addresses in Europe.
Erich Glaser, the private, had
New York, the largest army air
itan area.
corps codes to Rumrich.
Johanna Hofman, the woman ar-
rested, admitted she was the “liason
officer and paymaster’ between the
ring and its employers. Secret code
keys and considerable quantities of
money were found on her person.
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Senate to Probe Reds
ENATOR COPELAND of New
York successfully put through
his resolution for a special investi-
gation of subversive activities of
Communists in the merchant ma-
rine. It will be conducted by a
committee named by Garner. About
the same time Harry Bridges, C. I.
0. leader on the west coast, arrived
in Washington to resist being de-
as an wundesirable alien.
also demanded a hearing
before the senate committees on
commerce and labor,
By
RUTH WYETH
SPEARS
F SPRING is
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i
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with this in mind that Mrs. Spears
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Famous Food Expert
To Conduct Feature
I EGINNING with this issue
this paper is pleased to an-
nounce a New series of articles
which we believe to be the
most original and up to date
food department in the country
We wanted to offer a food
department that was live—in-
teresting different, We wanted
to get away from the usual
“recipe column.” We believe
the women of this community
are primarily interested in food
in its relation to health, in its
effect on growing children. In
formation of this sort has usu
ally been too scientific to be
understood by the average per
son, but in this series it is pre
sented in clear, understandable
language and applied so that it
will fit the average household.
C. Houston Goudiss, famous
author, lecturer, and radio per
sondlity, will conduct this de-
partment each week. Many
housewives will want to make
scrapbooks of these articles.
Don’t miss a single issue.
Modern Methuselahs
Next time you read a news
story about someone dying at the
age of one hundred twenty-five
put your tongue in your
cheek, says the Commentator.
The best records we have of hu-
man age limits are those kept by
the life insurance companies.
persons out of every 1,000,000
reach the age of one hundred. Of
the millions who have held poli
cies in the United States for 150
years there is not a single in-
stance of anyone living beyond the
age of one hundred six. It's in-
complete and verbal records
which set most old age records.
Dr. Plerce’s Favorite Prescription ls a
tonic which has been helping women
of all ages for nearly 70 years. Adv.
Yourself First
others. —Amiel
i
|
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SORE THROAT
ws OOLDS
Given Fast Relief
Toke 2 Bayer
Tablets with a
full glass of
water.
Crush 3 Bayer
Tablets in 14 gloss
of water—gargle
twice every few
hours.
The speed with which Bayer
tablets act in relieving the dis-
tressing symptoms of colds and
accompanying sore throat is utter-
ly amazing . . . and the treatment
is simple and pleasant. This is all
you do. Crush and dissolve three
genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets in
one-third glass of water. Then
argle with this mixture twice,
olding your head well back.
This medicinal gargle will act
almost like a local anesthetic on
the sore, irritated membrane of
your throat. Pain eases promptly;
rawness is relieved.
You will say it is remarkable.
And the few cents it costs effects
a big saving over expensive “throat
ga and strong medicines.
And when you buy, see that you
get genuine BAYER ASPIRIN.
Virtually 1 cent a tablet
Secret With One
Three may keep a secret if two
LUDEN'S
Menthol Cough Drops 5¢
“...soothe a
raw throat instantly.”
Pride Offends
The proud are always most pro
voked by pride.—Cowper.
FEEL NERVOUS, WEAK?
Mill Hall, Pa. — Mrs.
Howard Va
servous
couldn't eat or
The baby's