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BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
If Russia Joined Japan
Not Heroic Action
Lloyd George Hopeful
England Still Safe
Editors talk about Asia, led by Ja
pan, conquering the world. They might
speculate on a un
ion between Japan
and Russia.
Improbable, you
will sa.v, truly, but
if Russian-Jupanese
hostility could be
changed into Rus-
slan-J a p a n e s e
agreement a new
world chapter might
open.
You hear of Rus
sia's “red army,”
1,300,000 men, thor
oughly armed, and
7,000,000 reserves.
Arthur II rf* limit* .. , ,
ten see photo
graphs of Russia's amphibian tanks,
mounted with machine guns, rolling
over the land and swimming rivers;
you read about intensive training of
tens of thousands of Russian air pilots,
parachute jumpers, etc., and see even
the broad-shouldered young Russian
women drilling with rilles. Western
Europe may have a problem t
hand than Japan.
Eastern States Devastated by Great Floods—Germany Con
demned by League Council—President Asks
Pillion and Half for Relief.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
® Wemem Newspaper Union.
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Our British cousins in the Revolu
tion cheerfully lei loose howling, scalp
ing Indians on their cousins in flu*
American colonies, and bolshevism
might cheerfully turn Aslatic.killlng ef
ficiency against western “capitalism.”
You remember how cheerfully the
great historian Ribbon predicted that.
In the American war, “with firmness
all may go well," because “Scotch High
landers, Irish, Hanoverians. Canadians,
Indians, etc., will all In various shapes
ho employed.”
There Is no reason why Russia of
10.3(1 should he more squeamish now
than England at the end of the Eight
eenth century.
Uoyd Reorge, who ought to know
about Europe and war since he and
old Clenienceau won the big war, tells
Universal Service this present war Is
‘’off," France having learned that “even
her most ardent friends In Europe
shrink from war."
Uoyd Reorge declares that peace
“without derogating from the dignity
of any of the powers” will he pre
serves!, If France does not make It
Impossible.
Uoyd Reorge says not 1 per cent
of Englishmen would vote for war, and
not 10 per cent for employing sanctions
against Germany.
If enough rich Americans go to Eng
land to "escape kidnapers” the kid
napers may move over after them, as
professional gamblers follow on big
ships. London police arrested Alfred
Molyneux, thirty-one, trying to extort
$1,000 from the Countess Barbara
Mutton I Imigwitz Revcntlow, offering
to reveal a plot to kidnap her baby.
Police knew by the moderate price it
could not be an American “snatcher”
or confederate. Easily caught, the
young man confessed he had Invented
the plot.
With ‘‘visibility cut to zero,” street
lights burning by day, not visible
across the street, Must storms are blow
ing over parts of Oklahoma, Kansas,
Colorado and New Mexico.
By such displays of nature's power,
for which man's foolishness is respon
sible, fertile areas of the world have
been changed to deserts.
A 1)111 that would have limited work
to five working days of six hours each,
or thirty hours a week, Is dead In con
gress for the time being, it would have
given workers twenty-four hours <>IT on
Saturday and Sunday, eighteen hours
off on every other day—eight hours for
sleep, “ten hours for what we will."
All that will come some day. hut not
by discouraging Improved machinery.
An intelligent young man who fought
well In the big war speaks of "the
2-to-l" advantage which modern meth
ods give the defense over the attack.
To let the other man or nation come
at you. If you are prepared, has been
wise In the past.
It might he different In future wars.
If the attacker, with a couple of thou
sand airplanes, dropping explosive
bombs and poison gas. should surprise
the enemy. “Defense" would have no
2-to-l advantage over that sort of at
tack.
Lloyds, the great English insurance
concern, at first refused to insure
against war at any price. Now Lloyds
will insure, otherwise "bet,” nine and
a half to one against war within six
months. Wall Street wanted that news
and of course cheered up.
A mother of Fort Worth, Texas, of
fered her body to Chicago's Cook Coun
ty hospital for dissection after natural
death, if the hospital would provide a
free operation for her son. The hos
pital declined the body, performed the
free operation. Now twenty, all women
hut one, otter to sell their bodies, "de
livered after death.”
The governor of Campeche in Mex
ico, after keeping all churches in his
state closed for more than it year and
a half, now permits all ro reopen.
A fight against religion often starts
violently, to wind up feebly.
<£ Kin* Features Syndicate, Inc.
WXU Service.
OTATES of the Central East and New
1 ^ England suffered severely from the
almost unprecedented floods. Scores
| of lives were lost and the vast prop
erty damage cannot yet he estimated
At least 150,000 persons were made
homeless. Conditions were worst in
western Pennsylvania. The Mononga-
hela and Allegheny rivers, uniting at
Pittsburgh to form the Ohio, poured
raging torrents down over the great
industrial city, driving the people from
their homes and places of business.
The famous “Golden Triangle" between
the rivers was completely Inundated;
transportation and communication sys
tems were suspended and power plants
were put out of commission so the
city was plunged In darkness. The
plight of the suburbs was equally had.
Farther east, Johnstown was en
tirely flooded and the terror-stricken
inhabitants tied from their homes, but
the great Quemahoning dam was hold
ing and the danger of a repetition of
the disaster of 18,SO seemed to be pass
ing. Dozens of cities and towns along
the Susquehanna and its tributaries
were under water, and In New York
the Mohawk, Hudson, Schuylkill and
Delaware rivers were out of their
hanks and rapidly rising. The Potomac,
too, became a raging flood and in
Washington an army of men was work
ing feverishly to save the buildings and
monuments In the tlatlunds.
Ten thousand persons were rendered
homeless In the New England states
and about a score lost their lives. The
emergency there was greatest In the
valley of the Connecticut river. Many
cities were cut off from rail transpor
tation and also were without light and
power.
American Red Cross rose to the
emergency, as always, mobilizing Its
forces to relieve the suffering. Admiral
Cary T. Grayson, its national head, is
sued an appeal for a fund of $3,000,000.
President Roosevelt also called for
tills amount In a proclamation. Sec
retary of War Deni was appointed
emergency flood relief head by the
President and Immediately ordered
the generals commanding six corps
areas of the army to extend full aid
for prevention of loss of life and de
struction of property.
Work Relief Administrator Harry
Hopkins gave blanket authority to all
WPA officials to employ (heir workers
In any way necessary In rescue work
and In strengthening levees.
The United States Const Guard sent
many power launches, provisioned and
manned, from the Chicago area to help
in the relief work at various points. To
prevent robbery and vandalism Na
tional Guardsmen were on the job at
Pittsburgh and other places.
R USH D. HOLT, the young Demo
cratic senator from West Virginia,
gave notice that he would continue to
hammer at the Works Progress admin
istration until a senate Investigation
was ordered. He demanded an inquiry
into all relief activities under charge
of Administrator Harry L. Hopkins,
and other agencies affecting relief, the
RFC, CWA, and FERA.
In reply to some of the charges made,
Mr. Hopkins issued this bulletin:
“No employee of WPA is required to
make any eontribtuion to any. political
party. No WPA employee’s job will be
In Jeopardy because of failure to make
such contribution.
“No employee of the OTA shall at
any time solicit contributions for any
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France’s proposal to submit the
France-Russian treaty to The Hague ! political party, and evidence of such
court was .‘aid by a spokesman for the | solicitation will be cause for immediate
German delegation to be futile and j discharge. The question whether or not
useless. He also said the plan sug I to contribute to any political party is
gested by the English, to police the a matter entirely for the voluntary de-
Rhineland zone with an international ' cision of employees,
force, was “absolutely unacceptable.’ I ‘‘No person will be employed or dls-
A third provision, for drawing up a ! charged on the ground of his support
system of mutual guaranties among ! or nonsupport of any candidate.’’
the Locarno powers, to operate in caso I
of an attack, the spokesman said, was I CINCE the recent elections in Spain
“unnecessary because Germany has n<> ^ the riots sta £ ed by the leftists
intention of crossing her frontiers.' 1 have been growing more vicious daily,
None of the Germans, however, even j and after disorders at Logrono in which
Intimated that Hitler would withdraw
any of his troops from the Rhineland
Hitler was continuing his speech
making tour in Germany. At Koenigs-
berg he said:
I 1 or once a single man comes forth
in Europe behind whom stands a whole
nation. He extends his hand to otliei
nations. Whoever dares reject this
my hand, behind which 60,000,000 peo
pie are united, must bear responsibility
in the eyes of history. I have beer
the herald of the German people for
more than three years. I am now the
herald for peace in Europe.”
OECRETARY OF AGI
^ W ALLACE announcer
tratlon of the
Joachim von
Ribbentrop
C GERMANY was forced to denounce
^ the Locarno pact because the
Frnnco-Russian mutual assistance treaty
was directed only against the reich
and ranged 275,000,*
000 people against It.
That Is what Joachim
von Ribbentrop, Hit
ler’s adviser on for
eign affairs, told the
jjj council of the League
of Nations when It
met in London to pass
on the complaint of
France and Belgium
that Germany had vio
lated both the Locarno
pact and the Versailles
treaty by remilitariz
ing the Ilhineland.
Nevertheless, the council by unani
mous vote condemned Germany as a
violator of both treaties. How she
shall he punished, if at all, remained
to be determined. France and all her
allies wanted the imposition of sanc
tions; Italy could not he brought to
favor that, being herself subjected to
such penalties; Great Britain, striving
to preserve the peace, sought some
middle way out of the dilemma.
Representatives of Britain, France,
Belgium and Italy devised a plan which
provides for a conference of world na
tions to draft economic, disarmament,
and security plans. Tills plan slso pro
vides that Germany, In the meantime,
would agree not to fortify the Rhine
land and, pending a new agreement
with Germany, Britain would guar
antee France's security.
The French especially liked this be
cause it amounted to a military de
fensive alliance with Britain, hut they
did not believe It would be accepted
by Germany.
Yon Ribbentrop, accompanied by an
Imposing lot of experts and secretaries,
was sent by Hitler at the request of
the council. The reichsfuehrer had
consented to be represented after
British Foreign Secretary Eden as
sured him he would do his best to per
suade France and Belgium to consider
Hitler’s new security plans after Ger
many had been formally condemned
for its action in ttie Rhineland.
in tiis address before the council
Von Ribbentrop emphatically asserted
that France by approaching soviet Rus
sia in concluding “what really was a
military alliance.' did not respect tlie
Locarno maty. And the Soviet-
I'zecboslovakian agreement also, ne
declared, constituted a further danger
to the reich.
RICULTURE
d the estab
lishment of live regions for adminis-
soil conservation ami
domestic allotment act,
substitute for the in
valid AAA. H. It. Tol
ley, administrator ol
th# new plan, said the
department already
has begun a field serv
ice to administer the
program in various
states. As under the
AAA, the lending part
within the states is to
he played by the farm
ets’ county and coni
inanity committees.
Mr. Wallace also directed discontin
uance of the four commodity division*
whose work of liquidating AAA pro
duction control programs will be taken
over by tlie regional directors. Tho
order leaves intact other administra
tive units of the AAA, such as the
division of marketing and marketing
agreements, division of program plan
ning, and tiie division of tlte const!in
ers’ counsel.
H. R. Tolley
p RESIDENT ROOSEVELT packed
I up his fishing tackle and started
Sottlli for his annual angling cruise,
this time on the new Presidential boat,
the Potomac. He made a brief stop
at Winter Park, Fla., where lie
received an honorary degree from Rol
lins college. His plan was then tc
board the Potomac and spend aboul
two weeks on his old fishing grounds
off the Florida coast.
Mr. Roosevelt had invited as his
fishing companions his eldest son,
James; an uncle, Frederick A. Delano,
and three mates of his fishing cruise
of last fall, Capt. Wilson Brown, Unit
ed States navy, and Col. Edwin M.
Watson, United States army, his mil
itary aides, and Capt. Ross T. Mclntire,
United States navy, White House phy
sician.
S EIZURE of private telegrams by the
Black committee has resulted In a
fierce warfare of words between John
J. McSwain of South Carolina, chairman
of tiie house committee on military af
fairs, and William Randolph Hearst,
newspaper publisher. Senator Black
withdrew tlte subpoena on the Western
Union company in the Hearst case but
first made public what purported to
he a copy of a telegram from the pub
lisher to one of his editorial writers
in which McSwain was called “a Com
munist in spirit and a traitor in ef
fect.” McSwain promptly read this in
the house and.then vigorously and elo
quently defended himself and de
nounced Hearst.
The publisher retorted with an open
letter to his editorial writer in which
he said:
“McSwain is a politician of tlte low
er order, and his extreme radical pac
ificism Is a danger to the peace and
protection of the nation, and to the
safety of the men, women and chil
dren who constitute t he American
people."
Manuel Azana
a number of persons
were killed the Span
ish army was aroused
to vigorous protest.
Premier Manuel Azana
was told by the offi
cers that unless his
new left government
adopted measures to
stop the widespread
violence the army
would take the main
tenance of order into
Its own hands. Gen.
Carlos Masquelet, minister of war, was
said to be in sympathy with the army’s
demand.
Azana held a heated conference with
Francisco Largo Caballero, president
of the Socialist party and is said to
have told him that he believed revolu
tionary Socialists were responsible for
most of the disorders, demanding that
tiie violence cease immediately. Largo
insisted that the Socialists be permit
ted to demonstrate, but finally gave in
to the premier and issued orders to all
Socialists to behave themselves.
Despite strict censorship imposed
by the governor of Logrono it was
learned that Incendiaries there set fire
to six convents and churches, four
Tightest centers and a Tightest news
paper, and then attacked the army
barracks, attempting to seize artillery.
T HE Treasury reported that income
tax collections for the first 16 days
March amounted to $281,758,032, or a
gain of 46.4 per cent over the $192,-
429,413 in the corresponding period of
last year. Practically all collection
districts registered an increase.
Since the first of the year, the Treas
ury stiid, $361,428,090 lias been col
lected on the income tax, an Increase of
45.6 per cent over the $248,060,132
gathered in for the same period of
1935.
LEUTHERIOS VENIZELOS, prob-
E LEUn
ably
Greek statesmen, died in Paris, where
lie was in self-imposed exile, following
an attack of grippe. He was seventy-
two years old.
Venizelos, former premier of Greece,
tied from the island of Crete last March
after a revolt he headed collapsed. He
was tried and sentenced to death, hut
King George after his recall offered
him amnesty. Venizelos, however, re
fused to return, declaring “Greece will
never see me again.” He was an ardent
republican and denounced the restora
tion of the monarchy.
O NE and one half billion dollars will
be needed to carry the Works
Progress administration through the
coming fiscal year, according to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s figuring. Therefore
lie asked congress to appropriate that
sum. He thought it would he sufficient
to care'for tiie destitute unemployed,
together with $1,900,000,000 in unex
pended previous appropriations and
tlte $600,000,000 carried in tiie budget
for tlte civilian conservation corps and
various public works.
Limitation ot federal relief expendi
tures to ibis figure, however, is de
pendent upon re-employment of sub
stantial numbers of the idle by private
industry, tlte President said.
As tiie President’s message was pre
sented, Speaker Joseph W. Byrns re
vealed that Mr. Roosevelt had advised
his leaders that any increase in the
appropriation over his estimates must
he accompanied by new taxes to pro
vide revenues to cover the added cost.
S ECRETARY OF LABOR PERKINS
was accused of harboring hundreds
of deportable criminal and radical
aliens in the United States by Senator
Robert It. Reynolds of North Carolina
when lie introduced a resolution calling
upon the Labor department to furnish
Information allegedly withheld from
congress.
Senator Reynolds’ resolution said
that request had been made of Labor
department otticials for information
concerning "in excess of 2,600 aliens
in the United States known to and
allowed by the Department of Labor
to remain in the United States, al
though subject to deportation.” The
•equest, tiie resolution stated, was re
fused.
PROCEEDING with its great re-
* armament program, the British
,'overnment has named Sir Thomas
Inskip, attorney general since 1932, to
•je the coordinator
3f the entire scheme,
living him a newly
'rented cabinet post.
Uhis selection by Prime
Minister Baldwin was
r surprise. It had
been thought the place
uiight go to Wins
ton Churchill, Neville
Chamberlain. Alfred
Duff Cooper or Sir
Samuel Hoare.
Sir Thomas is known
as an “anti-jingoist,”
is sixty years old and always is calm
ind unruffled in the house of commons
»r at the bar. It will be his duty as
intense co-ordinating minister to syn-
hioniz.e activities of the army, navy,
uni air services.
Sir Thomas
Inskip
COMPROMISE brought to an end
the two weeks’ strike of building
«ei vice workers iu New York and thou-
.ands of elevator operators and other
•uipluyees returned to their jobs in
mine 2,400 apartment houses and
msiiiess structures. The settlement
novided for immediate re-employment
• f aP strikers and arbitration of wage*
>nd hours.
STAR
DUST
Alovie • Radio
By VIRGINIA VALE
By VIRGINIA VALE
O NE of the best pictures made
in this or any other year is
R K O’s “Follow the Fleet,” the
new Rogers-Astaire effort. It’s
delightful from start to finish.
Fred Astaire has developed re
markably as a comedian. And the
Irving Berlin songs are all hits, espe
cially “We Joined the Navy,” which
has been played and
sung so often on the
radio. Randolph Scott
makes a good foil for
Astaire, and Harriet
Hilliard, a recent re-
| . cruit from the radio,
does very well indeed.
Ginger Rogers’ very
pretty young mother
feels—and says, with
out hesitation — that
Ginger isn’t getting
Ginger Rogers enough credit for her
work as a member of
the Rogers-Astaire team. She points
out the fact that Ginger was an accom
plished dancer when Fred was still
taking lessons. Whereupon tiie lively
Fred’s friends and admirers rise up to
declare that he is a natural dancer,
that Ginger was never so good before
she began dancing with him.
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The arrival of Laura LaPlante’s in
fant daughter has sent many a cable
buzzing over the sea, for Laura has
always been popular in movie circles,
and so has her husband, Irving Asher.
He is now European representative of
one of the big motion picture firms.
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Remember Helen Holmes, of that
hair-raising serial of the old days, “The
Hazards of Helen”? She is working in
W. C. Fields’ new picture, "Poppy,” on
the Paramount lot. She has only a
small part, but hopes to get bigger
ones, though she lias no illusions of
becoming a star again. She lias never
worked in talking pictures; she retired
from tiie screen before they came in.
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It doesn't seem possible that the
talkies are ten years old; surely it
isn’t ten years since we saw the first
one, and thought them terrible. But
the tenth anniversary has come round,
and will be celebrated by the re-mak
ing of “The Jazz Singer,” the picture
that made Al Jolson a screen star.
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Ethel Sliutta, widely known in the
world of night clubs, is now a regular
radio visitor each Sat
urday night nt 10:30
p. in., EST, over a
coast to coast NBC
red network. Best
known for a rather
torrid type of vocaliz
ing, she privately pre
fers lullaby tunes.
Maybe that’s because
in private life she is
Mrs. George Olsen
(wife of the band
leader on this same
program) and the
mother of two youngsters, Charles,
aged eight, and George, Jr., aged six.
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Sometimes being an actress is a
drawback. Irene Dunn has found this
to be the ease. Her jewels, insured
for $7,000, were stolen, and the insur
ance company doesn’t want to pay her,
claiming that actresses wear their
jewels too ostentatiously,
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Paramount likes Carole Lombard and
Gary Cooper as a team; they’re sched
uled to make three pictures together.
Meanwhile Gary is having a grand va
cation and doesn’t even want to re
member the movies.
—k—
Charlie Farrell must have been
happy when he landed in Australia and
the film fans mobbed him; it's been a
long time since the public showed any
particular interest in him as an actor.
He’ll make a picture there, and may
like it well enough to stay and do
several.
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The tremendous success of “Rose
Marie,” with Jeanette MacDonald and
Nelson Eddy, has boosted his concert
fees. Three years ago tie got $300 a
performance; now lie receives $2,500,
and 60 per cent of the receipts over
$3,500. Not bad!
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“Little Lord Fauntleroy” was given
its first public showing at Warm
Springs, Ga., and a copy of the book,
autographed by Freddie Bartholomew,
the pictures star, was given to each
of the children at tiie Warm Springs
foundation.
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ODDS A.\D ENDS ... Ed Wynn
bought time on the air so that liis
mother, uho lives in Atlantic City, could
hear his weekly programs . . . Cluru Bow
visited Hollywood recently with her hus
band, and declared that the noise oj the
city drove her crazy ... It’s reported that
Joan Blondell didn't get her bonus from
the studio becuuse she left al five each
day to hurry home to sec her baby
”W ife vs. Secretary,” with Jean Harlow,
Hymn Eoy and Clark Cable, is one of
the pictures that all women will want to
see . . . Bing Crosby puls in „ lot of work
on those radio programs of his; takes
them very seriously . . . If you like thrill
ers be sure to see Boris Karloff in “iht
Walking Dead.”
t& Western Newspaper t.aiun.
Ethel Shutta
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and stockings. When an old cottaae
there decays, H. V. Mortnu writes m
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five hundred years old. This restora
tion is carried out by the owner of
tiie town, whose one desire In life
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