WHO'S
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
EDITOR'S NOTE—When opinions are
expressed in these columns, they are those
of the news analyst, and not necessarily
of the newspaper.
Religion
IEW YORK.—Is the “czar” on
i his way out? Before and since
the elevation of Judge Landis and
Will Hays we have hired benevolent
autocrats, in
times of stress
and confusion,
but now the New
Impartial Ump
Pushing ‘Czar’
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Into Discard: York city hotel
industry hires, instead, an “impar-
tial chairman,” with labor concur-
ring, as he will represent both em-
ployers and labor. Is this a prece-
dent, or is the title just a euphe-
mism for ‘‘czar’'?
Granite-faced, tight-lipped Ed-
ward P. Mulrooney gets the umpir-
ing job, at $25,000 a year. He also
is now entitled to his $6,000 yearly
pension, as a former police commis-
sioner, withheld while he held pub-
lic office. In 1933, he became chair-
man of the state alcoholic beverage
control board, and later state com-
missioner of correction, from which
office he will resign to accept the
hotel post.
He started pounding a beat
in West street forty-eight years
ago, when Theodore Roosevelt
was police commissioner. He
first hit the headlines by rescu-
ing women and children in a
small boat when the Slocum
burned. As a “waterfront flat-
foot,” he was known as a ““cop’s
cop,” always having his mind
on his work.
He became
in 1930. He
police commissioner
gave his men orders
to shoot to kill, and set shotgun
squads patrollin the city, He
roughed up the racketeers a lot.
and, when he was switched to the
Albany liquor control job in 1933,
the word was out that certain anti-
social, anti-cop elements had desired
the transfer and helped bring it
about.
At 68, his reddish hair is turn-
ing brindle. His ferrety eyes
reveal a penetrating alertness
of mind. He looks a great deal
like General Pershing. It would
seem unlikely that anybody in
the hotel business here will be
giving the umpire any back-
talk,
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NEWS reports from Havana are
i that, when Colonel Fulgencio
Batista, Cuba's strong man, visited
Mexico, he was regarded by some
of his conserva-
tive supporters
as having gone
over to the
Cuban Business
Frowns on Left
Turn of Batista |
‘wrong side of
the tracks.” There was particular
displeasure over his fraternizing
with President Cardenas of Mexico, |
and business representation at his
welcome-home ceremonies was con-
spicuously lacking. He told the
crowd of cheering workers that
“if capital does not wish to respect
the desires and rights of the people,
the resulting confusion will work
against its own aspirations.”
This is one of several recent
signs that the one-time cane-
rustler, barber, buck private
and stenographer who now runs
Cuba is veering left, after a
wide swing to the right, Soon
after his seizure of power, with
the downfall of Machado in
August, 1933, he reassured the
“law and order” elements, and
left-wingers have been pasting
him as the “Hitler of Cuba.”
He made peace with foreign and
native industrialists, and, from
all accounts, they are jolted con.
siderably by his getting clubby
with Cardenas, the ‘Expropria-
tor.”” He is circulating much
more than he used to, and there
is talk that he aspires to be the
“Napoleon of the Caribbean.”
His hole-card is the army, which |
he commands efficiently as chief |
os
man, 37 years old, he says little
and keeps a sharp,
soldiers.
A.
W Ite a bullet in his shoulder
and one heel shot away, Dr.
Oswaldo Aranha, foreign minister
of Brazil, is an effective emissary
Aranha Thinks
It Time to Stow 4 h
. white ope of
Shooting Irons. our State de-
partment, as he visits this country.
He was the leader of five reveolu-
tions in eight years, including the
one which established Dr. Getulio
Vargas, the present president of
Brazil.
His present mission is mainly
financial. It is possible that a
central bank of Brazil will grow
out of it, with the United States
supplying $50,000,000 capital. He
is 43 years old, the son of a
wealthy hidalgo in Rio Grande
do Sul. His life activities have
been the army, law and poli-
tics. When President Vargas
set up his one-man state last
year, Doctor Aranha’s co-oper-
ation was taken in this country
as reassurance against Euro-
western hemi-
sphere, and the
an fascism in that country,
re @ Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service, '
European
notable
many a squabble,
two most
were (1)
war settlement attempt
Benedict XV and (2) consummation
POPE PIUS XII
Despite Count Ciano and Germany.
most difficult job was negotiating a
treaty with Protestant Russia
1029, a feat that won him the red
cap of cardinal when Pietro
yarri retired in 1929
When Pope Pius XI died last Feb-
ruary 9, Secretary of State Pacelli
ediately became camerle
m chief of the Roman Cs:
h until the college of cardinals
1 name a successor. Interna-
tionally better known than any other
potential candidate, Cardinal Pacel-
li's name was immed
about as the most li
This, despite his c¢ ¢
to lead the contemplative life of
monk, despite rumors that his se-
lection would be none too welcome
by totalitarian Germany and Italy.
in
Gas-
go,
lic
If Cardinal Pacelli had never ad-
ritted anti-dictator sentiments,
Italian Foreign Minister Count Ci-
no time pointing out that a Pacelli
appointment would be unwelcome
in Rome, In Germany another
newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps,
chimed in. At the Vatican, German
Ambassador Carl-Ludwig Diego von
Bergen told the college that his
tion was
tion of a new world,” and that “‘the
papacy without doubt has an essen-
role.”
na-
1
in
dedi
these events, Cardinal Pacelli's ele.
vation to the papacy might be in
direct retaliation against two gov-
ernments which saw fit to interfere
with church affairs. A further pos-
sibility is that the Rome-Berlin axis
erred diplomatically to such an ex-
enced statesman who could deal
with Herr Hitler and Signor Musso-
lini,
Europe
Britain's chief reason for backing
down at Munich was unprepared-
ness, Subsequent appeasements
have grown noticeably smaller as
rearmament was sped.
Prime Minister Chamberiain gave
nary an inch at Rome. In Febru-
ary he openly announced plans to
aid France in war and to win the
new Spain away from Fascist domi-
nation. Shortly after General Fran
co's government was recognized the
army, navy and air ministers
than $5,000,000,000) will be spent.
How army, navy and air expenses
FORECAST
BY THE U. S. TREASURY —
March income tax collections of
$425,000,000, considerably less
than the $723,000,000 collected
during the same period of 1938.
BY VIENNA AUTHORITIES
Release of former Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg, held in cus-
tody by Nazis since March 11,
1938.
BY ROME SOURCES—A meet-
ing between Reichsfuehrer Adolf
Hitler and Premier Mussolini.
BY NO. 2 NAZI HERMANN
GOERING-An increase in Ger-
man population from 80,000,000 to
100,000,000.
BY MANHATTAN POLITI-
CIANS—Continued leadership in
Tammany by James J. Hines,
even though sent to prison for
conviction in rackets conspiracy
case,
budgets, compared
1939-40
805,665,000
768,333,405
1,103,133,500
1938-39
$ 532,500,000
618,535,000
671,015,000
$2.677,131,905 $1,822.950,000
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than $2,900,000,000, or more than the
government will spend for all other
purposes combined. Specifically:
Army. Standing at 563,700 (a new
peace-time high), various army
units will be boosted by about 185.-
700 during the coming fiscal year.
Increases are planned both at home
Navy. Fearing German U-boats,
and Hong Kong ports will be se-
Canada may purchase a
naval flotilla leader to head its fleet
of six destroyers. Six new motor
torpedo boats are being shipped to
Hong Kong. Planned construction:
20 fast escort vessels, two battle-
ships, one aircraft carrier, four
Aviation. Personnel will rise from
to 118,000, four times the
3y March 31,
a total of 1,750 first-line planes will
be ready, with production paced at
500 a month against an estimated
y. Within a year the
air ministry expects 2,840 first-line
Civilian. Fifty million civilian gas
masks, 1,400,000 *‘toy"” gas helmets
for babies and 1,300,000 masks for
children are on the list. Some
27,000,000 sandbags are on hand,
with 200,000,000 ordered.
electrical equipment is planned and
“‘erisis’’ organization is being com-
pleted.
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Der Tag, whose fear is responsi-
ble for this preparation, meanwhile
remains at flirting d nce. Points
of potential trouble between France
and Italy over Mediterranean
mands have gre
Italy has repatriated her natior
in France, ousted French
per men, Polish
away from France
One ne
established at
from Nice. Mean-
in clear focus
131%
won
reportedly
150 miles
in 1928. Everyone
that
of
knows,
velt's
too,
dream an $80,000.000.000
income may mean
even if it does come true,
since increased governmental costs
up the profits, How
much relief costs have gained. how
in reports of
security board. (See graphs).
But far more
DIVIDENDS,
INTEREST
14.4%
weit N\| 65.5%
20% COMPENSATION
TO EMPLOYEES
1929 INCOME: $78,574,000,000
DIVIDENDS,
INTEREST
62.1%
COMPENSATION
TO EMPLOYEES
1938 INCOME: $64,184,000,000
Relief cost 58 per cent, or $3,724,
000,000, not incl administrative
costs, Since
than 1929's,
tually larger
faconie seas {aller
percentage for relief is ac
than shown in “pie.”
national income came not from pri-
vate initiative but from government
aid. For example, even the $3,724.-
000,000 total relief expense was in.
cluded, as was $57,000,000 spent for
war veteran payments, Emergency
subsistence payments to farmers
are also counted in.
Darkening the picture still more
are estimates that total relief costs
would have mounted to $4,468.800,000
instead of only $3,724,000,000 had
federal, state and local administra.
tive costs been included. Moreover,
since 1038's national © was
more than $14,000,000,000 under
1920's, the growth of relief cost over
this period was bigger than shown,
WOMEN
In the News . . .
RUSSIA'S NADEJDA KON-
STANTINOVA KRUPSKAYA,
widow of Nikolai Lenin, , early
revolutionist leader and educa-
tional leader, died on her seven-
tieth birthday at Moscow,
JAPAN'S EMPRESS NAGAKO
gave birth to her seventh child,
a girl, five days before her thirty-
sixth birthday.
AMERICA’S MRS, FRANKLIN
D. ROOSEVELT resigned from
the Daughters of the American
Revolution, reportedly because
that organization refused Wash-
ington’s Constitution hall as a
site for recital by Marian
Anderson, Negro contralto. 7
ENGLAND'S DUCHESS OF
WINDSOR, AMERICA'S MRS.
CHARLES A. LINDBERGH, dis-
covered to be neighbors in an
exclusive Parisian section just
off the Bois de Boulogne.
the
Labor
For two years labor's ill-starred
dove of peace has sought a resting
place, hovering over the battle-
ground of John Lewis’ Congress for
Industrial Organization and William
Green's American Federation of La-
bor. This month, for three reasons,
the dove hovers nearer earth. But
there is still no indication that peace
will come via mutual consent: a
more likely solution is victory for
the A. F. of L., thanks to growing
anti-C. 1. O. sentiment welling up
since Homer Martin split the United
Automobile Workers during Janu-
ary. The three indications of a
showdown:
Supreme Court. The much cussed
national labor relations board, al-
legedly pro-C. 1. O., was rebuffed
in three Supreme court decisions
which effectively banned the
down strike. Specifically, the
it.
ih
major dec ns ruled (1) that
| cago’'s Fansteel Metallurgical
| poration could not be compelled to
DANIEL TOBIN
The peacemaker eschewed peace.
rehire participants in the notorious
1937 sitdown, and (2) that NLRB has
misruled in charging a Cleveland
firm with unfair labor practices for
| dealing with one set organized
| workers after failing to reach an
agreement with another set.
Since C. I. O.'s most successful
weapon has been discredited, C. 1.
O. itself is thereby discredited. But
John Lewis’ organization has al-
ready attained a big measure of
success, so this effect is unimpor-
tant. Greater by far is the blow to
NLRB's prestige, to be reflected in
congress during the next few weeks.
Wagner Act. C. I. O. has stood
pat against amending the labor act,
and well it might, since most NLRB
decisions have been favorable.
Chief sentiment for change has
come from A. F. of L., which lost
prestige by NLRB decisions, and
employers, who claim the act dis-
criminates against them. Adding
its voice is the public, which appar-
ently dislikes the idea of giving
NLRB jurisdiction which tradition-
ally has belonged to the courts. Re-
vision of the Wagner act is the No.
1 certainty of this year's congress,
probably stripping NLRB of its
power and establishing another
tribunal more to the liking of con-
servative elements. How C. 1. O.
would suffer, how A. F. of L. would
gain by this move, is strikingly ob-
vious,
Peace Talks. Encouraged by court
rulings and public sentiment, A. F.
of L. could afford to accept Presi-
dent Roosevelt's current labor
peace bid, with reservations. Hope
of the administration is that labor's
two factions will settle their dis-
pute in conference, precluding a
fiery congressional debate over
Wagner act changes. But Mr.
Roosevelt had not counted on such
independence as that of William
Green and Daniel Tobin, A. F, of L.
stalwarts. Appointed a delegate to
the peace talks, Mr. Tobin refused
to attend on the excuse that he had
too much work. A more logical
reason is that Mr. Tobin, famed as
a peacemaker, failed to see a
chance for harmony. It was re-
called that at last autumn’'s Hous-
of
gued for arbitration “provided the
points do not involve fundamental
laws of the organizations.” The
same feeling of futility probably led
Mr. Green to demand that senate
labor committee hearings on the
Wagner act be continued, not post-
poned until after the conference.
Recognizing a good chance for -
ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
By
Elmo Scott Watson
The Redoubtable
Mme. La Compt
THE year 1734 a daughter was
born to the La Flammes, a
French family living at St. Joseph
While she was
still a little girl, her parents moved
to Mackinac and there she grew up
and married her first husband,
Pilette de Sainte Ange.
In 1765 Sainte Ange took his wife
to the site of the future city of Chi-
cago where they lived several
years. After a time she became fa-
muilar with the language of the
Pottawatomies and tribes,
studying their character and acquir-
ing a great hem.
When Sainte Ange died. his widow
moved to the French vill » of Ca-
hokia on the Mississippi. She soon
married again, this a Ca-
nadian named La C it ring
the the Cahol
ers, whom George Roger
to the American cause, were
in constant danger of attack by the
Indian allies of the British, as we
the American settlers in the
days of the Territory of Ill
for
other
influence over
ievolution,
won
won
Many times Mme. La Compt
was awakened in the dead of night
by Indian friends who urged her to
seek safety in St. Louis. But, in-
stead of fleeing, Mme. La Com
variably
hostiles
their
staye rith them for days
More than
fearful villagers of Ca
and ready for an
strange procession
the wo
their
before
she succeeded. once the
ds—a band «
war-paint
away and humbly
ders given th
woman marching ah
Ads 19%
After rearing
chi o
owed
ried,
named Brady. She Ver
him for years died in Ca-
hokia in 1843 at the age of 109 years.
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A Monument to Failure
| ONG'S PEAK, the highest in Col-
orado, is not only a memorial
to its first American discoverer,
Maj. Stephen H. Long, of the En-
gineers Corps of the United States
7, but it is also a monument to
a great failure.
n 1819 the United States govern-
ment was preparing to send a great
army into the Upper Missouri coun-
try to establish a military to
protect and extend the fur trade.
The expedition was also expected to
add to knowledge of
the West and Major Long was di-
rected to take with him a group of
scientists for this purpose.
With a small and inadequately
supplied force, he crossed the plains
to the base of the Rockies and spent
some time exploring that region.
When he returned he made a re-
port that was destined to become
famous for its inaccuracies. “In re-
gard to this extensive section of
he country,” he wrote, “we do not
hesitate in giving our opinion that
it is almost wholly unfit for cultiva-
tion, and of course uninhabitable by
a people depending upon agriculture
for their subsistence.”
More than any other man, per-
haps, he was responsible ‘or fixing
upon the maps of the United States
Again
time
8gain
this
Tom
to an
ug ami
si anc
arm;
post
retarded development of that coun-
try for nearly half a century.
* . *
Sharpshooter and Spy
J IRGINIA MOON of Memphis,
Tenn., was 18 years old and go-
ing to school in Ohio when the Civil
war broke out. She immediately
lines to Tennessee and was refused.
raised on the school grounds, she
The results were immediate and
most favorable—she was expelled
from school and sent home to Mem-
phis, which was just exactly what
she wanted.
She was not only a good marks-
woman--she was pretty and self-
confident. Her beauty and other
charms enabled her to become en-
gaged to 16 young Confederate army
recruits, all at the same time. This
wasn't very honest, she admitted
years later, but it made the young
soldiers feel good and didn't make
her feel bad.
As the war went on, Gen. Sterling
Price appointed her special agent
and she carried dispatches and
other information back and forth
from Union to Confederate territory.
Several times she was arrested by
Northern soldiers, being acquitted
on one occasion but found guilty and
served short sentences on others.
She was the only Confederate
woman spy whose unusual career
did not end with the war or with
spying. At the age of 75 she be-
came a movie actress in H :
She appeared with Pola Negri and
Mary Miles Minter and other prom-
inent stars before her death in
Greenwich Village at the age of 81.
© Western Newspaper Union.
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soaked
Juicy Lemons.—Lemons
1 will
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yield more juice than
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lemons
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SWeeper must be empties d
empty 1t
paper to pre
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White Linens.—Linen:
become yellow w
ugly tin
which a
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2. ¥ Owost is raw
from cold, crush and
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1. To ease pain and
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drink s glass of water,
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The simple way pictured above
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Men are apt to play with thei
healths and their lives i
with their clothes.—Temple.
UESTION
Do Luden’'s do more
than relieve?
RISWER
Yes, their added alka-
line factor helps build
up your alkaline reserve.
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