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Hitler and Il Duce Meet
TALY will not interfere with Nazi
Germany's plans to help the Sude-
ten Germans in Czechoslovakia and
perhaps to annex the territory they
) inhabit. In return,
Germany will do
nothing to check It-
aly’'s plans in the
Mediterranean, es-
pecially in northern
Africa.
But Italy is averse
to forming a mili-
tary alliance with
Germany and will
i not permit itself to
. become involved in
Adolf Hitler , 4. ision of war or
peace over the Czechoslovakian
question, and is rather in favor of
the British plan for a four-power
agreement among Britain, Italy,
Germany and France for European
peace.
That is briefly what is believed at
this writing to have developed in
the first momentous conference be-
tween Hitler and Mussolini in Rome.
No official statement was given out
immediately.
Hitler, according
opened up with a long statement
concerning BFitish rearmament,
seeking to wean Mussolini away
from his tie-up with England. And
to reports,
colonies.
I1 Duce, it
Fuehrer that
the
de-
was said, told
German help in
Hitler
point.
was noncommittal on this
ception in Rome. He was
in the Quirinal palace, being offi-
cially the guest of King Victor Em-
manuel. The city was lavishly dec-
orated and elaborate demonstrations
and reviews were staged to impress
of Fascist Italy.
After several preliminary confer-
ences in which Foreign Ministers
Von Ribbentrop and Ciano partici-
pated, Hitler went to Naples and
power.
One Italian who didn’t cheer the
Nazi chieftain was Pope Pius. In
an address at his summer. home,
Castel Gandolfo, to which he had
conveniently retired, he deplored as
a “sad thing’' the raising of the Nazi
day, the day of Hitler's arrival.
Labor Act Denounced
V ILLIAM S. KNUDSEN, presi-
dent of General Motors, speak-
ing before the United States Cham-
ber of Commerce, declared the Wag-
ner labor relations
act is the “largest
drawback to good in-
dustrial relations.”
Discussing the
strikes that have
tied up his compa-
ny's plants at vari-
ous times in recent
months, Knudsen
said in a prepared
address: 1
“The national la- 3
bor relations board W-S.Knudsen
set up to administer the act makes
no pretense even of paying any at-
tention to the employer's side of
the case.
‘He can only be heard when he is
summoned, and he knows before
he goes that there is no record of a
single decision where he has had a
ghost of a show. So what!”
The Chamber of Commerce adopt-
ed a resolution strongly urging the
repeal of the labor relations act, and
asked that “management and labor
work together without recourse to
the federal government.”
Other resolutions were substan-
tially as follows:
Demand for relief from present
tax burdens, the fight transferring
itself from the undistributed cor-
porate profits tax and the capital
gains tax to the broader field of an
annual tax bill which has jumped 30
per cent in the last two years to a
total federal-state-local levy of $13,-
500,000,000 a year.
Urgent request for drastic revi-
sion or repeal of the national la-
bor relations act.
Caution and warning on the re-
newed government spending pro-
gram, apart from relief expendi-
tures.
Insistence that White House senti-
ments favoring private enterprise be
put into practice through peace with
the utilities, abstention from further
innovations in government control,
and encouragement of private indus-
trial expansion
George H. Davis of Kansas City
was re-elected president of the or-
ganization, and John W, O'Leary of
Chicago, chairman of the executive
committee.
President Roosevelt, who was on
a fishing trip on a cruiser in South
Atlantic waters, was heard from
only indirectly in addresses by Jesse
Jones of RFC, Secretary of War
Woodring and Chester C. Davis of
the federal reserve board.
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Ireland Elects Dr. Hyde
R. DOUGLAS HYDE has been
made the first president of Ire-
land—the former Irish Free State
the two largest par-
ties and, being un-
was de-
elected by
and at
inaugurated
seven year
term beginning June
1. Though chosen to
be head of a pre-
dominantly Roman
Catholic state, Hyde
is a Protestant. He
is seventy - eight
once
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Douglas Hyde
champions of the use of Gaelic, the
old Irish language. He is a retired
ten a number of books.
The inauguration of the president
was marked by the release of six
prominent political prisoners, the
only Republicans still held in jail.
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Crop Control Revolt Grows
HROUGHOUT the Middle West
the revolt against compulsory
crop control was spreading rapidly
under the leadership of the Corn
Belt Liberty league. Plans for in-
states were being perfected and
many branches were organized. Un-
fortunately for the corn growers,
their representatives in congress
seemed to be inactive.
In the South the cotton and to-
bacco growers were equally resent-
ful of the control features of the
farm act, and southern senators told
the senate of the revolt among their
constituents so forcibly that the sen-
ate adopted a series of amendments
to the law designed to appease
them. One provides that any cot-
ton acreage allotment within a state
not desired by the farmers receiv-
ing it may be apportioned among
other farmers within that state. An-
other amendment would placate the
growers of certain types of tobacco.
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Big Navy Bill Passed
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S $1.-
157,000,000 naval expansion bill
was passed by the senate by a vote
of 56 to 28
The measure empowers this gov-
ernment to surpass the rearmament
programs of other nations with con-
struction of the most powerful war-
ships ever floated. However, it pre-
cludes the possibility of the United
States precipitating a race of super-
warships by limiting the size of
future battleships to treaty specifi-
cations of 35,000 tons unless it is de-
termined foreign powers are build-
ing in excess of treaty restrictions.
In the latter event, the United
States will be authorized to con-
struct super-dreadnaughts of 45,000
tons, armed with deadly 18-inch
guns.
Primary Results
ETURNS from four statewide
primaries were hailed by Dem-
ocratic leaders as national party in-
dorsement of President Roosevelt's
program; but Republicans rejoiced
over an apparent 30,000 G. O. P.
plurality in South Dakota.
The Florida victory of Senator
Claude Pepper, New Dealer, in a
three-cornered race, on top of New
Deal victories in Alabama and In-
diana, drew this statement from
Democratic National Chairman
James A. Farley:
“These primary elections show
definitely that, in spite of the
screaming propoganda by the suc-
cessors to the Liberty League and
the spokesmen of the Liberty league
policies, there exists no falling off
in President Roosevelt's prestige
and that the nation approves the
legislation the President has advo-
cated.”
In Alabama the only significant
occurrence was defeat of former
Sen. Tom Heflin for the house in
his old home district.
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Senate Mileage Grab
\ 7 ITH a mighty chorus of “ayes”
'V but no tell-tale record vote,
the United States senate put over a
$222,000 congressional mileage grab.
By another voice vote, the senate
refused to restrict the payment of
the mileage (20 cents a mile) to
members who actually went to and
from their homes between the spe-
cial session ending December 21
and the regular session beginning
January 3. Senator Borah tried in
vain to prevent the grab, which he
denounced as a disgrace.
Franco Restores Jesuits
ENERALISSIMO FRANCO'S
Spanish rebel cabinet ordered
re-establishment of the Society of
Jesus in the territory controlled by
the insurgents. This act set aside a
government edict which more than
six years ago dissolved the Spanish
Jesuits and confiscated their proper-
ty, estimated at more than
Franc Is Devalued
HE French government an-
nounced that the franc was de-
valued and stabilized at 38.80 francs
to the dollar and 179 to the pound
Officially the act was called *‘de
facto stabilization.” This was be-
lieved to mean the franc would be
allowed to fluctuate above this level
but would be held by the equaliza-
tion fund from falling below it in
conformity with Premier Edouard
Daladier’'s pledge to the nation.
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Railroads Vote Pay Cut
IFTEEN per cent reduction in
wages of 925,000 union workers,
effective July 1, was voted by the
Association of American Railroads
at a session attended by the execu-
tives of more than a hundred rail-
They declared the
two most important reasons for this
George Harrison, chairman of the
The ac-
tion of the roads is ill-advised and
cy to obstruct the President's re-
covery program.”
D. B. Robertson, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, declared: ‘There
will be no wage reduction agreed to
by railroad employees.”
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Manufacturers’ Program
HE National Association of Man-
ufacturers, meeting in New
York, declared that federal pump
priming to stimulate business would
be futile “unless it is accompanied
by governmental policies that will
permit business to accept the prim-
ing and go forward.”
The association's board proposed
a seven point program for revival
of business activity. It included:
“Declaration by the federal gov- |
ernment that it will not proceed in |
competition with private utilities.
“Revision of the Wagner act so
as to make it a workable instru-
ment for curtailing labor disputes.
“Prompt solution of the underly-
ing railroad problem,
“Avoidance of new federal reform
legislation that will result in a fresh |
period of uncertainty at a time when
the nation should be concentrating |
upon making jobs.”
Timber Company in Court
(CIRCUIT JUDGE FEINBERG of |
Chicago issued an injunction ty- |
ing up five bank accounts said to |
contain more than half a million
dollars in funds of the Resources
Corporation International, which is
under investigation by the federal
securities and exchange commis-
sion.
The injunction was issued on the
petition of Magnus C. Brinkman and
his wife, Anna, of Sheboygan, Wis.,
stockholders in the corporation. At
the same time Judge Feinberg or-
dered a hearing on appointment of
a receiver for the company, which
was organized in 1931 to sell timber
cutting contracts on 2,000,000 acres
of Mexican lands. The suit, filed
by Attorneys William A. Rogan and
William C. Burns, names 21 individ-
uals and five subsidiary corpora-
tions.
The Brinkmans, who own $2,000
in stock of the corporation, charge
that its chairman, Harper 8. Hoo-
ver, through fraud, has got more
than $2,000,000 belonging to the com-
pany and has converted it to his own
purposes.
My Friend
Joseph
PPP
I HOUGH a strong wind was
blowing, driving sheets of rain
across my front yard, 1 wasn't sur-
prised to see Joseph, my little
seven-year-old neighbor, making
Yes
here when the postman
me a five-pound box of
and Joseph has a weak:
He comes puffing in and while he
sheds his waterproof coat he looks
But all the
My bon-
bon resistance is below normal on
bad days and | have put all the
sweets away and resolved not to
bring them out for a week. But
now from past experience | know
that without once asking me for
any candy Joseph will soon have
me bringing out my five-pound
box and urging him to take all
he wants. He has an indirect
flicts with any of the rules of et}
quette and always gets him what
he wants.
He pulls a low stool in front of
mine, looks up at me and says,
“Guess who I'd be if | could be
anybody | wanted to be?”
This is easy for he always
wants to be Tarzan or Dizzy Dean.
But I'm all wrong.
“Not today.”
His Lamp
“And guess what's the first
thing I'd tell that old genie to do
after | rubbed my lamp?”
This isn’t really
look interested
“I'd tell him to build my moth.
er the finest house in town an’ fur
Once Upon a Time
There Was a—
Baseball announcer who an-
nounced an entire game without
utilizing the adjective "‘beautiful”
in describing the weather, the
crowd, or the plays.
Book reviewer who never wrote
that it was “a book you simply
can’t put down.”
Neighbor, who, when scooping
snow or mowing the yard, went
several feet past his boundary line
into his neighbors’ territory
Group of
heckle the young male member
of the household by inquiring as to
his status with girls, and add,
whether it was true or not, “Look
"Kansas City Star.
llr lr lr rrr,
By
Lillian Oakley
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate,
WNU Service
PO
nish it full of the finest furniture
in town an’ have a hot supper on
the table ready for her when she
got home from work. And I'd
make him give me some money
an’ I'd go down town an’ pay
all of her bills an’ put 'em on the
table by her plate.” He finishes |
i exultantly |
| Joseph has no father and the |
{ bills that have to be paid at the |
end of every month hang heavy |
over his head. |
He clasps both little hands
j around one knee and rocks him-
| self backwards and forwards on |
| the stool and smiles over this |
| happy surprise for his mother
| Then he looks around at me as if |
| afraid | am feeling neglected. |
| “Then,” he says with enthusi- |
| “I'd rub my lamp an’ when |
YR Y
asm,
{ that old genie came ['d tell him
{to bring me a motorcycle just |
| like the road cops ride only littler,
jan’ a police uniform an’ a ma
chiné gun that could shoot for-
ever an’ a five-pound box of candy
| just like the one you got for your
| birthday yesterday. And,” he
| adds with a smile that shows all
'of his dimples, ‘I'd bring you
down about half of the candy.”
| The object of his visit has been
| attained. And he leaves with his
| pockets full of my birthday choco
lates, the rain having let up some-
what.
Wise and Otherwise
NR
Some people look on the
bright side of things so per-
gistently that they wind gs the
proud possessors of a gold
brick.
Big men get the best jobs,
I'm told. Because the small
men are so often overlooked?
Then there was the man who
was so lazy he bought a Great
Dane so he wouldn't have
stoop over to pet it,
Money doesn’t grow on trees.
Just the same, it's the smart
birds that get it,
to
Name Is Poetry
It seemed curious that any place
should be named “'Llanfairpwll-
gwyngrsligogerychwyrndrobw 1 11}
Yet a little
village bears this 58-let.
name. It 15 a locality of
charm and beauty Lian is
“church,” Fair is “ot Mary,”
Gwyngyll 18 “the pool ot
White hazels.,” Goger is “rather
near,” while Chwyrn Drobwll is
the swift whirlpool,” and Tysilio
gogo guch is "of Tysilio of the
red cave.” Is it not therefore
suggestive of romance and beau-
ty enough to visit the villa of
tte Church of St. Mary the
Pool of White hazelr near the
swift whirlpool of St. Tysilio's
Church of the Red Cave? Detroit
| News.
Welsh
ge
by
“Even after mc
my wife sometimes had to call
upon the housemaid to translate
| some item in the laundry list, or to
| interpret between and the
grocery boy,” declares Mr. Harry
| A Franck, the irrepressible
globe-trotter, in “Footloose in the
British Isles.” “In England a
vest’ is an undershirt, not a
waistcoat. ‘Suspenders’ are gar
ters, and ‘braces’ are suspenders
| A child's underwaist is a ‘bod.
| ice,’ while rubber boots are ‘Well
ingtons." The word ‘sweater’ still
strikes many of the English as a
trifle low-class and odoriferous;
they call it a ‘jersey,’ ‘jumper,’
pullover,” or ‘cardigan.’
“In the draper’'s shop (which
means drygoods store) un-
{ bleached muslin is ‘calico’ and
calico is ‘cottonprint.” Cheese
i cloth is ‘butter muslin,” and in
| stead of using cutting flannel for a
her
A
IN
At Such a LOW
PRICE
prices.
standards and
specifications.
rigid
blowouts.
summer driving.
Listen to...
and
direction
| child's pajamas one buys ‘wince-
yette’ and asks for a ‘sleeping
suit.” A spool of thread
of cotton.” An American
for crackers will
or a package of those Christmas
paper bonbons that explode when
pulled. In England a cracker is
a ‘biscuit,’ and biscuit is a I
A muffin 1
and cookies are as unknown
the word were Persian
| “Our kind of bacon is ‘streaky
| rashers’; a slice of ham is a
gammon rasher,” and the best cut
of beef is a ‘piece of topside.’
Gasoline is ‘petrol,’ kerosene is
‘paraffin,’ and paraffin is ‘paraf-
fin wax." An English cook does not
rinse the dishes, she ‘swills’
them. When my wife told the
nursemaid to bathe the ch
or to give them a bath,
| proceeded to ‘bath’ them o
| them a ‘bathe.’ *
a ‘reel
asks
get firecrackers
is
who
again
apaill,
as i
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