WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
TEW YORK.—Among his com-
L. Martin was known as ‘‘The
Dude,” although his carefully tai-
Martin Had
Get-Up of
Mortician
were always
black, including
their elaborate
braid trimmings.
His somewhat mortuary get-up and
behavior gave an impression
great conservatism, and it is not
failed.
A few months ago, he said his
Glenn L. Martin company, of Balti
more, making planes, had a back
log of $15,500,000.
He told the house naval af-
fairs committee there should be
a 100 per cent increase in air
armaments, that foreign nations
are spending ten times as much
as the United States. He would
build a 250,000-pound bomber,
carrying 30 men and a 4,000-
pound bomb load 11,000 miles.
an inflated inner tube around his
Los Angeles, in a flying laundry
wagon on which he had rigged a
single wooden pontoon. He was
away. It looked like suicide.
He not only made it, but picked
up again at Catalina and finished
. the round trip,
Round Trip
blanking Bleriot,
Sea Flight whose flight over
Is Success the British
nel was a one-way
excursion.
in an abandoned church.
tion. Then he staged a plane coyote
hunt, dropped a ball into a catcher’s
of a beauty contest queen.
This air extravaganza did not
last long. In 1913, he built and
sold two model TT war planes
to the army, and has been build-
ing fighting craft ever since,
with the exception of trans-Pa-
cific Clippers.
He grew up in Mackburg, Iowa,
yard and flew it in 1908.
fifty-two.
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ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
in his seersucker suit and his
rumpled hat, frequently looked as
if he had been sleeping under a
bridge, especially
in the midst of a
Fastidious hard campaign.
His son, William
About Dress
Jennings Bryan,
Jr., is fussy about his dress, severe-
ly and fastidiously groomed, with
a jaunty little moustache and a nice
collection of malacca sticks, sports
clothes, and varied haberdashery.
He is in the news now as he be-
comes collector of customs at the
port of Los Angeles, his first recog-
nition by the California Democracy,
in whose vineyard he has labored
for years.
When his father laid down his
staff and scrip at Dayton, Tenn.,
he picked from the legacy only
two things—free silver and anti-
evolution. He is quite unmoved
by oratory, speaking with calm,
legalistic precision, with no gift
for the resounding or oracular.
He has made spirited
against this or that, notably Upton
will Speak Sinclair's “Epic”
Good Word
for Silver
spired his father.
Bryan, Jr.,
passioned fervor
silver, or against evolution.
After the Dayton trial and his fa-
ther’s death, he made a knightly
vow that his lance always should
be leveled against this ignoble the-
ory of man's origin. But nobody
seems to be bringing that up now.
The argument is shifting to where
man is going.
He attended the University of Ne-
braska three years, studied law at
Georgetown university, went to Ari-
zona on account of his wife's health,
and practiced law, first in Arizona
and then in Los Angeles. He is
fifty years old.
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Origin of Word Assassin
The word assassin originated in
Persia in the Eleventh century. It
derives from hashish, the intoxicat-
ing Indian drug which at that time
was used by notorious murderers
under one Hasan-i-Sabbah to work
themselves into the high state of
ruthlessness required for their
crimes. As a tactic in attacking
vested: authority assassination is as
old as man. It is notably the most
ubiquitous and immediate of dan-
gers to autocratic government, as
has been proved by the violent
deaths of a high percentage of dic-
tators from Julius Caesar to those
of modern times.
Will Fight for Her
Says Chamberlain
demand its abolition.
ickard
Morgan "Removed"
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ‘“re-
moved” Dr. Arthur E. Morgan
as member and chairman of the
Tennessee Valley authority, report-
e= ed this action to con-
gress special
message,
Washington
visit to
Springs, Ga. Thus
the entire TVA row
was thrown into the
lap of congress, and
senators and repre-
sentatives continued
to scrap over wheth-
er an investigation
of the huge project
senatorial
committee or by a joint committee
of both houses.
Mr. Roosevelt ousted Morgan after
receiving from Acting Attorney Gen-
in a
and
for a
sessed the required authority. This
is questioned by Senator Borah and
other authorities, and it is presumed
the matter will be taken up to the
Supreme court. Morgan, who was
in Chicago, consulted legal friends
but would not announce his plans.
Senator Bridges and some others
hotly denounced the President's ac-
tion as dictatorial and unjustified.
The President told congress he had
named Harcourt Morgan to suc-
ceed A. E. Morgan as chairman of
TVA, but he did not appoint his
successor as a member of the
board.
Reasons for the removal of Mor-
gan as given by the President were
charges against his colleagues and
White House hearings, and that he
had obstructed the work of the au-
thority.
Efforts of administration
ers in congress were exerted to see
committee, Majority Leader
Barkley declaring this a prime con-
sideration. He favored inquiry by a
joint committee of five members
from each house. Senator Norris
wanted it done only by senators, and
.
v
VIDENTLY the house of repre-
sentatives doesn't want any
more TVA projects started while
the affairs of the authority are in
such a muddle. By a vote of 186
to 157 it refused to concur with the
senate in appropriating funds to
start construction of the $112,000,000
dam at Gilbertsville, Ky. In oppo-
sition were 111 Democrats and 75
Republicans. The vote sent the
matter back to conference.
Months ago the house appropria-
tions committee rejected the propo-
sition to appropriate $2,613,000 to
begin the Gilbertsville dam, and the
house left the item out of the bill.
The senate was induced by Norris
and others to put it back, but
still the house refused.
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Profits Tax Out
PAT HARRISON meant what he
said about altering the revenue
bill that was passed by the house.
His senate finance committee is
making the changes. By a vote of
17 to 4 it eliminated from the meas-
ure the undistributed profits tax
principle, substituting therefor a flat
corporation income tax of 18 per
cent.
As a further means of stimulating
business and investment the com-
mittee adopted a provision dras-
tically modifying the capital gains
and losses tax. The committee re-
moved capital gains on assets held
instead a flat rate of 15 per cent,
which was what business and indus-
try wanted.
In an effort to clear the way for
legislation, the committee rejected
system of processing taxes on
wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, and
rice, which the administration de-
sires to finance proposed additional
amounting to
House Passes Navy Bill
\ JITH only 100 votes in oppo-
sition, the house passed the ad-
billion dollar navy
The measure authorizes con-
American history by adding 46 com-
bat ships, 22 auxiliaries and 950 air-
planes.
The War department announced
within four months of a declaration
For this the army would
navy 500,000.
The first 300,000, under existing
in the first month, before selective
was put into operation.
to
is a draft of a selective
service law.
wns
pledge itself to fight to save
ag-
But she will use her arm-
aments to fulfill her
treaty obligations to
France and Bel
gium, and is ready
to go to war in their
defense if they are
unjustly attacked.
That was the
warning to Hitler ut-
tered by Prime Min-
ister Chamberlain in
the house of com-
Bg mons, in the most
cae important statement
A of British foreign
policy since the World war.
Declaring his belief that peace
will be maintained, Chamberlain
sald: “I cannot imagine any events
in Europe which would change the
fundamental basis of British for-
eign policy, which is the mainte-
nance and preservation of peace.
However, that does not mean that
nothing would make us fight.”
Cheers greeted this declaration.
Though he said central Europe was
not an area where vital British in-
terests: are at stake, he gave plain
warning that if German aggression
should result in war there, Britain
might be forced into it.
He urged peaceful settlement of
Czechoslovakia’s German minority
problem and offered Britain's help
in this.
He flatly turned down Soviet Rus-
sia’s call for consultation against
aggressor nations.
The prime minister said that in
the case of Italy's conquest of Ethio-
pia a task beyond its powers was
imposed on the League of Nations,
and he admitted that his original
belief in the league as an effective
instrument for preserving peace
was profoundly shaken. But he
still believed the league might be
strengthened
Eression.
revivified and A
Members cheered this declara-
tion, interpreting it as an invitation
to the great powers outside the
league—the United States, Ger-
many, Japan, Brazil and Italy—
to associate themselves with it,
To Save CCC Camps
EPRESENTATIVE WOODRUM
of Virginia, a member of the
appropriations committee, told the
house congress soon will be called
tinuation of the work relief pro-
gram, and that, in anticipation of
this, his committee has taken steps
to keep open 300 Civilian Conserva-
tion corps camps scheduled for clos-
“I have discussed this matter with
the President,” said Woodrum. “I
learned that there is impounded in
the Treasury the sum of $28,000,000
which congress appropriated for the
CCC for the current year program
and which will not be used. An ap-
propriation of 50 millions will ena-
ble the corps to carry on its present
program through the next fiscal
year.”
Roosevelt Warns South
N HIS way ta Warm Springs
President Roosevelt paused in
Gainesville, Ga., long enough to de-
erners who are keeping the wage-
hours legislation deadlocked in the
house of representatives and who
have opposed other of his New
Deal measures. He asserted that
southern workers are underpaid and
under-employed and warned that un-
less this condition is changed the
establishing successful new in-
dustries,
He attacked ‘'selfishness on the
part of a few’ for holding back
“national progress and prosperity,”
and added: ‘This nation will never
permanently get on the road to
recovery if we leave the meth-
ods and the processes of recovery
to those who owned
ment of the United States from 1921
to 1933."
He referred sarcastically to those
who insist on a balanced budget,
but offer no suggestions on how
this can be achieved without put-
ting ‘‘dollars ahead of human
lives."
“They have the same type of
said he, "as those represen-
the people who vote
against legislation to help social and
nomic conditions, proclaiming
are for the objec-
do not like the methods
and then fail utterly to offer a better
method of their own."
Wheat Crop Estimate
JREDICTION by the bureau of
agricultural economics of the De-
partment of Agriculture is that this
year's wheat crop will be 830,000,000
bushels, or 160,000,000 bushels in ex-
cess of the 1832.36 average. The
survey estimates that the wheat car-
000,000 bushels.
The record wheat crop is based on
the following factors: If farmers
seed the acreage indicated in the
prospective-planting report, and if
average yields are obtained, this
durum,
bushels.
winter
will total about 200,000,000
This, together with the
crop of about 630,000,000
put of 830,000,000 bushels.
Mexican Oil Seizures
PE ESIDENT CARDENAS of Mexi-
co announced the expropria-
tion of oil properties belonging to
American and British companies
and valued at some $400,000,000.
Wells, refineries and tankers were
seized and workers took control of
all company offices in the repub-
lic. The American and British
employees and their families fled.
For the present the oil industry in
Mexico was paralyzed.
Cardenas made a public promise
that the government would pay in-
demnity for the seized oil proper-
ties. Vicente Herrera was appoint-
ed general manager of the new na-
tional petroleum council.
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Tetlow Heads Coal Board
ERCY TETLOW, a lieutenant of
John L. Lewis, has been elected
chairman of the national bituminous
coal commission to succeed C. F.
Hosford, resigned. This apparently
puts the C. I. O. chieftain in full
miner in Ohio and was an official
of the United Mine Workers when
appointed to the board.
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Victory for Poland
NE immediate threat of Euro-
pean war seemed to be dis-
solved when Lithuania yielded to
the demands of Poland for resump-
; | tion of normal dip-
lomatic and trade
relations and virtu-
ally gave up its
claim to Vilna, for-
mer capital of the
country, which the
Poles seized 18 years
ago. General Smig-
ly-Rydz, chief of the
Polish army and
“strong man" of Po-
land, had mobilized
his troops on the
Lithuanian border,
«and Polish warships were cruising
off Memel. So there was nothing for
the Liths to do except give in. Pol-
ish troops that had been concentrat-
ed in Vilna paraded in celebration
of the bloodless victory, but in
Warsaw the celebration was dis-
torted into a ‘pogrom’ in which
riotous throngs attacked all the Jews
HOUSE dress with long slen-
der lines, a-dress and apron
for little girls, and a popular bo-
You will certainly want one of
these, and more likely will want
all three. With each pattern, you
receive a complete and detailed
sew planned to
help beginners, so that the mak-
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money besides
Popular Bolero Frock.
Make it up of silk crepe or a
pretty print, and see how expen-
sive, how flattering, it The
short bolero and wide shoulders
make the slim lines of the frock
even more graceful. Notice how
cleverly the dress is shirred into
the front panel at the waistline,
This is one of the prettiest after-
noon dresses you could choose for
this spring.
Dress and Apron for Tots,
chart specially
gave
looks!
of having this heart-shaped apron
to put on over her best dress when
she plays house! And the puff-
sleeved, square-necked dress is
adorable. You can make the two
of them no time. For the
dress, choose dimity or organdy
for dress-up; gingham or percale
for every day. Dimity or lawn
for the apron.
House Dress for Large Figures.
This is such a becoming, com-
fortable, good-looking dress to
work in, round the house. The
in
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of 35-inch material for the apron
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38 requires 5 yards of 35-inch m
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pering, and pleats in
sleeves give plenty of room for
g and reaching. It takes
inches off the figure, Make
it up in seersucker, gingham,
linen or percale printed in small
designs.
stretchir
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The Patterns.
1478 is designed for sizes 14, 186,
18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires
6% vards of 39-inch material.
8 years. Size 4 requires 1% yards
of 35-inch material for the dress,
with 6 yards of narrow ribbon to
trim and 1 yard wider ribbon for
Faithfulness Is Great
Little things are little things,
but faithfulness in little things is
sometimes great.—St. Augustine.
Stick to the vegetable method
of overcoming constipation.
Natural bowel regularity is es-
tablished by Wright's Indian
Vegetable Pills. Reliable rem-
edy for a century. 25¢ a box
at druggists or Wright's Pill
Co., 100 Gold St., N. Y. City.
AROUND
THE HOUSE
Tasty Baked Potatoes. — After
baked potatoes are “done,” gently
crush the potato open and then
return it to the oven to dry out for
a few minutes.
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Towels for Children. —
Small
are easier for children to handle
and are easier to launder.
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Fresh Orange Juice.—It is best
to squeeze the orange juice just
before breakfast rather than the
night before so that the air won't
have a chance to attack the vita-
min in the juice and also change
the flavor.
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Add Acid to Milk.—To help pre-
vent curdling when acid and milk
are combined, add the acid to the
milk rather than the milk to the
acid.
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Sauce for Cold Meats.—An in-
teresting sauce with cold meat,
ham or pork calls for adding
whipped cream and horseradish to
tart, unsweetened apple sauce.
Delicious Meat Loaf.—Try plac-
ing a two-inch layer of meat loaf
mixture in a shallow pan.
thin layer of sliced, hard-cooked
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