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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
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bothered Katherina
Schratt,
Frau
Frau Katie
Immune to
Nazi’s Ban
litical
Austria's
dige Frau,"
Emperor Francis
Joseph called her, has ridden the
surf-board of dynastic and political
change for nearly 60 years.
now eighty-two, doing crossword
puzzles, disclaiming knowledge of
the current cataclysm, but longing
for the “good old days.”
In those days, she
“Gnae-
was pretty
theater, which was under the pat-
ronage of the emperor. After a hit
performance, with the emperor at-
tending, she obtained an audience.
“Sire,” she said, with a low
curtsey, “we cannot maintain
ourselves on the salaries you
pay. I owe $50,000 for my cos-
tumes.”’
The emperor promised a new ben-
efice for the theater and said he
would help her take care of her
debts.
to the door when the emperor said:
““Gnaedige Frau, why do you
leave us?”
She stayed 40 years, in a snug little
villa by the palace gates. The
emperor, after a hard day swinging
the scepter, used to drop in at Frau
Katie's, split a bottle of Pilsener
and sing a few songs. She knew all
the mellow old tunes which he par-
ticularly liked. She used to darn his
socks and tell him when he needed
a hair cut.
She refused to accept gowns or
jewels, always remaining the
‘““‘Gnaedige Frau,” but the emperor,
by an amusing artifice, induced her
to accept a fortune in gems. He
was a famous huntsman. He told
her he was sending her a wild boar
he had killed.
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She saw no harm in that. When
it arrived, it had diamond earrings,
a diamond neck-
Slain Boar
Is Studded and a diamond
breast pin, and its
With Jewels
back was studded
with precious Hapsburg jewels. The
emperor's death.
of the secrets of the realm than any
other person. She guarded them
carefully, but did reluctantly reveal
a few details of the Mayerling trag-
edy of 1889.
She said Archduke Rudolf
shot himself, after killing Bar-
oness Vetsera. That's the ver-
sion of the film now running. It
would make a good story if
somebody could take Frau
Schratt to see ‘“Mayerling” and
have her write a critical review.
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M ARK ETHRIDGE becomes
It is hard to think of Mr. Ethridge
Simon Legree, but he clicks neatly
as an able, deft, diligent and re-
sourceful executive.
While Mr. Ethridge is only forty-
old-line,
newspaper
Radio ‘Czar’
Began Career
as a Leg Man
dian, Miss., with soft southern
czar.
University of Mississippi and
managin
(Ga.) Telegraph. He was with the
New Yerk Sun in 1926 and his old
friends there have been nominating
him %wwday for a loud cheer in this
corner,
He was lured back to Macon,
went thence to the Richmond
(Va.) Times, of which he was
publisher, and later became gen-
eral manager of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times. He spent the year 1933
in central Europe, on an Ober-
lander Trust fellowship, study-
ing politics and economics and
~the only touch of anti-climax
in his career—the Versailles
treaty.
The radio has picked a man who
knows the social and educational
box-score as well as good enter-
tainment. He is still general man-
ager’ of the Courier-Journal, up and
coming in the new enlightened lead-
ership of the South. His “czar” job
is unsalaried.
Consolidated N Fi
© Rh ys eatures.
Talks Too Fast
A certain doctor had the habit of
interjecting the phrase “of course’
every little while as he spoke, just
as others say “"D’you see” or “don’t
you know."”’ But he said ‘‘of course”
once too often. For, once, when a
patient was very ill, “I hurried to
bim, and, of course, he died.”
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One in Seven on Relief
T WELVE million American work-
ers are totally unemployed.
More than 18,000,000 persons, or one-
seventh of the population of the
Si country, are receiv-
; ing public
ance from the fed-
eral, state or local
governments, From
1933 to 1937 inclusive
the federal and state
governments have
spent $19,400,000,000
for work relief and
other forms of pub-
lic assistance,
These far from
cheerful figures
were in a preliminary report of the
senate committee on relief and un-
employment submitted by Chairman
Byrnes.
Harry Hopkins
Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator,
was telling the house appropriations
committee, holding hearings on the
administration's recovery-relief pro-
gram, that the proposed $1,250,000,-
000 relief appropriation would en-
able 200,000 to be added to federal
aid rolls, bringing the total number
to 2,800,000 persons.
This money, he said, would last
only for the first seven months of
the coming fiscal year. He refused
to estimate how much would be
needed thereafter.
The senate committee report
general absolved
but in some respects it
sharply criticized the administra-
tion's relief policies.
tion leaders, the committee recom-
those taxes is in the
backed by President Roosevelt,
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wesc.
ITHOUT a record vote the
house passed the first of the
spending bills, appropriating
V
new
this being one of the President's
pump-priming suggestions.
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Help for Utilities
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT now is
planning to extend government
which
have suffered severely from govern-
ment competition. This was learned
after he had conferred with RFC
Chairman Jones, and Douglas and
Hanes of the SEC. The purpose is
to aid the utilities in financing new
construction, through the RFC lend-
ing program. Employment of now
idle workers is the aim.
amen
AF. of L: Follows CLO. Losd
MERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR, following the example
of the rival C. 1. O., entered politics
on a national scale by forming an
organization to back selected can-
didates for public office.
The action, emphasizing anew the
split between the two labor associa-
tions, indicated that the labor vote
will be divided in many state pri-
maries and November congression-
al elections.
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Fight in Pennsylvania
[D EMOCRATS of Pennsylvania
are split wide open over the
campaign for the May primaries,
and Gov, George Earle is in the
middle of the hot fight. He is seek-
ing the nomination for senator. May-
or Wilson of Philadelphia, support-
ed by Senator Guffey and John L.
Lewis, is opposing him. Wilson
charged that Earle had borrowed
large sums from M. H. McClos-
key, contractor and co-leader of the
Philadelphia Democratic organiza-
demanded that Earle resign or face
impeachment. The governor. admit- |
ted financial dealings with McClos- |
key but said his debt had been re-
duced to $6,000.
Earle declared Guffey was trying |
to wreck the state party organiza-
tion “so he can control the Pennsyl-
vania delegation to the Democratic
national convention in 1940 and team
the nomination for vice president.”
Hitler Reviews Army
EICHSFUEHRER HITLER cel-
by reviewing his new Pan-German
army, and it developed that he and |
his military leaders are expecting |
that open warfare will be the form
that marched along Unter den Lin- |
den,
that had not yet learned the goose- |
led by an Austrian battalion |
step, were equipped for mobile fight. |
ing and armed with a new machine
gun. In the parade were 500 tanks |
of medium size and armored cars |
with radio,
It was announced in Vienna that |
arrest of Archduke Otto, pretender |
A Berlin |
newspaper said the Austrian proper- |
ties of the Hapsburgs had been con- |
Members of the German Amer- |
ican bund held a meeting in New
York on Hitler's birthday which de- |
veloped into a riot. Seven men wear- |
ing American Legion caps were se- |
in uniform. J. W. Hill,
secretary of the bund, asked a con- |
gressional investigation of the activ- |
ities of Representative Dickstein of
New York, who, he said, predicted |
there would be bloodshed if the
meeting were held.
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TVA Investigators
J HEN Sen. James J. Davis
of Pennsylvania, Republican,
consented to serve on the joint con-
gressional committee to investigate
the Tennessee Val- |
ley authority, that
group was complete.
Senator Bridges of
New Hampshire, au-
thor of the resolu-
tion calling for the
inquiry, was left off
the committee, con-
trary to precedent.
The other senators
#8 named by Vice Pres-
ident Garner are:
Sen. Donahey vi. Donahey of
Ohio, Fred H. Brown of New Hamp-
shire, H, H. Schwartz of Wyoming,
Democrats; and Lynn Frazier of
North Dakota, radical Republican.
House members are J. M. Mead
of New York, W. J. Driver of Ar-
kansas, R. Ewing Thomason of Tex-
as, Democrats; C. A. Wolverton of
New Jersey and T. A. Jenkins of
Ohio, Republicans.
It was presumed that Senator
Donahey would be chairman of the
committee. He is not marked as
prejudiced either way in the mat-
ter. In the senate he is almost
never heard.
Investigators were to be put in the
field as soon as possible, and after
congress adjourns the joint commit
tee will hold public hearings, prob-
ably in Knoxville, Tenn., and in
Washington.
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Turkey Quake Kills 800
Jf ROM Ankara, Turkey, comes
news that an earthquake in Ana-
tolia killed at least 800 persons and
destroyed many villages. Whole
families were buried under moun-
tainous debris, and some 50,000 per-
sons were rendered homeless.
Terrific underground rumblings
were accompanied by intermittent
Anglo-Italian Treaty
TEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S
dream of security for peace in
Europe through amicable arrange-
ments of the democratic govern-
ments with the dictators may yet
be realized. Anyhow, consumma-
tion of the deal was brought nearer
when Lord Perth, British ambassa-
dor to Rome, and Italian Foreign
Minister Ciano signed the treaty of
friendship which had been under
negotiation for weeks. The pact is
designed to end the long feud be-
tween the two nations, and it is
probable France will join in after
negotiations with Mussolini already
suggested by Foreign Minister Bbn.
net. The British prime minister,
of course, hopes that later Hitler
can be brought into the group and
that there will be formed a London-
Paris-Rome-Berlin quadrangle in
place of the Berlin-Rome axis.
Temporarily, the treaty provides
for friendly relations between
Britain and Italy in the Mediter-
ranean and the Near East, but it
does not go into full effect unti
“such date as the two governments
together shall determine.” In othe:
words, Italy must first have with
drawn its troops from Spain anc
Britain must have recognized Italy’:
conquest of Ethiopia. The forme:
may be delayed until France ha
won final victory, The latter de
pends upon permission from the
League of Nations council, whicl
has been asked by Chamberlain.
In essence, the treaty is a prom
ise by each side not to attempt to
change the status quo in the Medi-
terranean or Red sea areas nor to
injure each other's interests there
in any way.
Italy is to reduce her forces in
Libya to peace time strength, and
adhere to the London naval
treaty limiting the size of warships.
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nations equally
Italy will ab
in war or peace.
ie by the international
committee's ruling
nteers in the Spanish war
case to withdraw from Spain
when the war is ended
declares it has no territorial
political aims and seeks no
onomic position in
lands, Spanis}
possessions
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Morocco or Spanish
Politic leaders in Berlin did not
importance of the
act, but insisted that
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They were awaiting some-
what anxiously the visit of Premier
Daladier and Foreign Minister Bon-
were no indications
Paris that Britain
There
London or
But it
might join
Hitler,
that Poland
was rumored
them and
omens
N EMBERS of the Iron Guard of
4 Rumania formed a big con-
Fascist state. But the
authorities got wind
of it and Corneliu
Codreanu, leader of
the Iron Guard, and
1,500 of his followers
were thrown into
jail.
A black list was
found in Iron Guard
headquarters, po-
lice said, containing
the names of 2,000
Rumanian leaders
King Carol 1 were to be ar-
rested once Codreanu was in power,
Huge quantities of arms and mu-
nitions also were seized. In Paris
it was believed the plot was a de-
velopment of the efforts of Nazi
Germany to win a hold in Rumania.
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Dr. Townsend Pardoned
R. FRANCES E. TOWNSEND,
typewriter, arrived at the jail in
Washington, ready to serve his thir.
ty day term for contempt of con-
gress and become a martyr. But
the old age pension planner was in-
formed that President Rooseveit
had pardoned him. The pardon
of Representative C. Jasper Bell,
refused to testify.
Barcelona in Peril
PANISH insurgents, having
reached the Mediterranean at
the port of Vinaroz, spread north
and south along the coast and ef-
fectively cut off Cat. po
alonia from the rest
of loyalist Spain.
Veteran Spanish and
Italian troops, led
by Gen. Garcia Va-
lino and Gen. Migu-
el Aranda, blasted
their way into Vina-
roz in a single day
of severe combat,
and Valino then § ?
started a northward “7.
drive on Tortosa, en. Valine
where important coastal highways
converge.
Franco's next great objective was
Barcelona. His forces were begin-
ning a new movement against that
city from the west, and his naval
and air fleets left their bases to co-
operate.
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Mayor Dore Is Dead
EATTLE’'S spectacular
John F. Dore, died after a
illness. He had failed of
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The Questions
the date of Easter
1. How is
determined?
philosopher K'ung Fu Tze usual
ly known to the Western world?
3. What
tates’
olution?
4. Who makes the
District of Columbia?
were the
in the United States congress?
6. How much raw silk does the
United States import?
7. What is the greatest depth
to which a diver has descended?
8. How can Anna May Wong be
a citizen of the United States when
she is a Chinese?
8. How much steel was used in
the United States during 1037?
10. What is the cleanest animal?
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the full moon
March 21.
2. Confucius.
on
people.
4. Congress,
resentatives are lawyers.
6. During the calendar year
1937, 57,815,573 pounds of raw silk
was imported, with an import val
ue of $106,594,358.
7. The greatest depth reached
by any diver was attained by Dr.
William Beebe in his bathysphere,
3,028 feet
below the surface, August 15, 1934.
8. Anna May Wong was born
Calif., and is
The only Chinese who can
be citizens of this country are
those who are born here.
9. One billion tons of steel in all
forms was in use in the United
States during the past year, ac-
cording to the Scientific Ameri-
can. This total represents an av-
erage of 17,800 pounds in use for
every man, woman and child.
10. The raccoon is considered
the cleanest of all animals.
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Thomas Jefferson and John
Quincy Adams were elected by
the house of representatives.
Grover Cleveland, son of a
Presbyterian minister, sue
ceeded Chester A. Arthur, son
of an Episcopalian minister.
Zachary Taylor did not hear
of his nomination until one
month after the convention ad-
journed.
Thirty-one men have served
as Presidents of the United
States.
Herbert Hoover was the first
President born west of the Mis-
sissippi river. He was born in
West Branch, Iowa.
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