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Newspaper Page TextRSnifffiwlwßlMßfflimES Published by PUBLIC opinion, inc. REgj Ir£ PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY 'T ■ r * "r : " at '!’~ ;: . j*"' 'lO2 EAST BRYAN STREET v' IS w ’ G° r ’ *-’ nco,n ' „ SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear 7cr Six Months ”2 L•’? ~ Three Mon the- ii......... —— —— «... 3.7a • One Month c one week ------2222222222222222222222222222222 .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION •J. J, ' / ’ PROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives W Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta j, Subscribers to: PrT.T cL In . ternat ’° T nal Illustrated News - Central Press Ass’n. h RUn?An S 4 r T Co M\ Ne «" paper Feature ’ Inc- - King Features btanton Advertising Service ■ World Wide Pictures 4 DEATH HOLDS BRUNO’S SECRET • ' Richard Bruno Hauptmann lies today, his lips sealed, his chin Jugh, m a convicted murderer’s grave. No case in the history of America has been so replete with mystery, drama, pathos-—and native humor. To apply the term humor to a tragedy which gripped the heart of every American seems incongruous. But what term could be applied to enter- P r^j? g <r a - W^ . er3 ma<^e capital of so stirring a crime as to peddle Lindbergh stepladders’ about the court house where a man was on trial for his life! What could be more ridiculous than some of the antics of Dr. Condon 1 While Bruno Hauptmann waited the final legal and political maneuvers that, for weeks and months had virtually regenerated into a ‘cat and the mouse’ be he guilty or innocent, the Lind bergh family remained cloistered with their grief in their Eng lish retreat. Betty Gow, the nursemaid of the Lindbergh baby, who played the major role in sending Hauptmann to his doom, remained on hir knees, days.and night, praying for the wretched man. -.-<2 .. , Mrs. Hauptmann, who, ever since the conviction of her hus band, has been the object of sympathy, stood by ‘her map’ to the bitter end, then collapsed. Truly, it was a sequel that befits the pen of any playwright’s imagination. It was interesting to follow the precautions taken by those officials who were in command at the death house in Trenton .where Bruno sat down with death. Once—-twice—thrice, even to the fourth time, all spectators were searched.. As they entered the prison, properly armed with ‘official invitations’ to the execution, their persons were gone over. Every few steps, until they entered the death chamber, the operation was repeated. These officials were mindful of what happened in the cele brated Ruth Snyder case. Here, as a woman was about to meet her God, the enterprise of two newspapermen, even though their cunning satisfied the morbid readers of the world, earned the condemnation of the ethical craft. A certain managing editor of a newspaper in New York decided to attempt the impossible—secure an actual photograph of a woman burning in the electric chair. Every law of the land and decency forbade the venture, but, as stated, he was enterprising. He sent to Chicago for a newspaperman of know and proven ability. He unfolded his plan and for months they practiced the camera stunt. It was quite simple, but required accuracy. A small German camera was strapped to the ankle of the newspaperman as he entered the death cham ber. It was hidden by the cuff of his trousers . A cord, con trolling the shutter ran up his trousers, into his pocket. As he sat on the front row, watching the woman die, he clicked his camera. A few moments later, a full size photo of the horrible acene appeared on the front page of the paper. Some will say that the last chapter of the Lindbergh-Haupt mann case is written. But they will find that untrue. Finis will ©ever be written so long as there remains the aura of doubt as to the man’s full guilt—and the disclosure of the identity of persons yho, the world believes, were accomplices in the crime. ' LIKE BARNUM SAID—* Imposing and trading on the credulity of old and infirm per sons is the charge placed at the door of the Townsend National Weekly, o cial organ of the Townsend Old Age pension fund by prosecutors before a Congressional investigating committee. The ‘official organ* underwent rigid inspection by the ingesti gators and it was found that the advertisements were, in the vast majority, those making impossible and lawless promises of 4 surt cures’, restoration of youth’s vigor and other magic curealls. One of the advertisements was headed: “Married Again at 120!” The patent medicine vendors went on to disclose how a man had, after taking this medicine over a brief period of time, ■■ regained the ardor and vitality of youth, won a fair and young maiden and enjoyed the paradise of marriage bliss—all for a dollar. Rejuvenation and. glandular remedy advertisements predom i inated the pages of the periodical. The merits of the Townsend plan, so far as the economical theory is concern, is not at issue in the discussion of such bus iness enterprise. The question of business ethics, and the right of those who are in charge of the pension movement to foster upon aged men and women who long to believe the words of promise, are distinctly at issue. It is said that the various and sundry methods of securing revenue for the movement have netted untold wealth for those who have made the question of caring for America’s aged and inform the political football of Congress. Os course, the entire scheme is Utopian. Everyone would - favor caring for those who have reached the age that they can not earn their daily bread, but few will approve tactics employed by those who would drain what few pennies these helpless people have under the guise of ‘dues’ to various movments and organi zations and subscriptions to a magazine that build up fond hopes ■of the laws of science and ordinary ■intelligences wjsr*** t j ” Three months of the good year 1936 have passed into his tory and still Georgians, those not pestered with political bees in their bonnets, find their state still doing business at the same old stand. The State Capitol is still in Atlanta and the governor seems to be functioning fairly well in the interest of the people. JVhile the state may have been free from dust-storms during th e past season, the people have had much dust thrown in their eyes to blind them to the many political intrigues being engin eered to embrrass the orderly carrying on of ordinary govern mental activities. Regardless of the tactics being used to force upon the tax payers the burden of an extra session of the state legislature apparently for no other purpose than to pass an appropriation bill. THE STATE IS BEING RUN AT AN EXPENSE TWEN TY PER GENT LESS, A SAVINGS WHICH THE LAST LEG ISLATURE SEEMINGLY DID NOT CARE TO MAKE. CAN ANY TAXPAYER OBJECT TO THAT? Can any citizen of the state offer any reason, moral or legal, why the many wards of the state should not be fed and clohted j GERMANY AND FRANCE AS VIEWED FROM U. S. WASHIINGTON, April 2 Not i few commentators upon European affairs take the view that Germany '• has no particular designs against France: that the Nazis think rather of aggression to the eastward. Most of the diplomatic folk I have talked with agree that the Germans probably are willing to let the French alone for the present if the French will let them alone. They express doubts, however, that the French will do this once Hitler begins to 0 be conspicuously ambitious in the 5 eastwardly direction. 5 The theory is: 5 If Germany rebuilds its eastern - strength, it again will be a menace to the westward, and France believes it once more will be a dangerous neighbor as soon as It is able to be. Therefore, French policy is to pre sent the relch from regaining any of its old potency whatever. What it desires is a weak Germany, easterly as well as westerly. Thus, if the Germans cannot re- 3 cover their former prestige without ©astern expansion, and if their east . ern expansion is vetoed by France, they have not much choice but to override the French veto—by force of arms, of course, and if possible. , WAR EIITHER WAY .„ It does not greatly matter: The Germans may attack France, fn order to squelch the Itater, to guarantee themseles a free hand in Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and possibly part of the Bal kans. Or they may take the initiative to the eastward and be attacked by the Frnch, In an effort to stop them. It would mean war on the Rhine, among many other places, either way. , FRANCE AND U. S. S. R. France has the advantage of Rus sia, which is afraid of Germany, as an assured ally to fight the Teutons on their eastern front, giving the 'latter two frontiers to attend to. That is all right from France’s standpoint. But Russia has Japan to consider. If engaged with Germany, the gov ernment is sure to have the Mikado, pounding on its back door in Siberia, to reckon with. Two fronts for Germany! Two for Russia! | But Germany's two trots will be only 300 or 400 miles anart. Bus-i sia's will be 3,000 or 4,000. A major war in Pacific territory would considerably handicap the Russians' military activities to tha westward: the Soviets may not be asi helpful to the French as the latter hope for. BRITAIN WITH WEAKER Heaven alone knows how Great' Britain will be aligned in the event’ of another world conflict. ’ The British historically are on the side of the country or alliance op posed to the globe’s strongest power or group of powers. They were aainst Spain when Spain seemed predlm inant; against France when France seemed predominant; against Russia when Russia seemed predominant; against Germany when the Kaiser seemed to threaten. ' This policy is not from any sym pathy with the “under dog’’; what the British want Is to prevent any country or set-up from becoming periously powerful in comparison with Britain. If, in the coming clash, France and Russia promise to lick Germany, Britain can be gambled on to be pro- German. If the decision appears l likely to be pro-German, the odds.’ are that Britain will be pro-Franco- Russian. Britain’s aim, In short. Is to' help the weaker powers against the* stronger powers: then, having trans formed the weaker Into the stronger* powers, to flop over, aiding the new-i ly-wea.ker aianst the newly-stronger;i and so on Indefinitely— always re maining the king-pin In every com-j bination. IN THE PUZZLE .. Italy enters into the puzzle, too.) So does the United States. So, also, do numerous smaller) countries—too small and numerous, as high school essayists express It, to mention. BANDITS STAB VICTIM * ' CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 4 (TP) 1 —Edward Zipp was set upon by brutal bandits today who stabbed him 30 times and robbed him of i S7B. The bandits got away. | SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT 1 a . T JT* x. ■ Papua stamp-' Pictures native. / w V vgA \ WAR-DANCE SHIELD IM <■ , Boomed whale Sk x;Yj/ & |y \ MAKES A MOISE i/ 1 /4t JFA which observers F f/ t 1 jGB AK? )) ) SAY sounds P Aaw ■F 1 LIKE CANHOH Cx\ / gZz * by strikim q <he flippers K' I Wy /Aq ai n ST TH e side oF the. Bod/ a l/J gfift ' jJr ) S a lamb | \\f// MM* / -Thief im " if JUp • ; gjft \ African fa ■■ i pumished by J7/ /Ug ! having t 3 t»| A i / stamo osk g/| / f . w y /a barrel fl# >■ 'I VRsL-* w Z|® j kours |>2nil f WI<H V AM IM AL- ' \f V. w *7 \ oh His n m nu | sr r . < 7} /} I 1 M t <?apTaim Ki do CT~I —I —i — A. i) r AMD xl * t£ mamacleS worm £>Y HIM AND MANY 1 ‘ 1 ’ L 1 M/ hte’ » li By JAMES ASWELL NEW YORK, April 4—Para, graps in Asphalt: Young Milton Berle is to me the swiftest and fun niest of the comedians now practis ing in the night places. He is a bi zarre illustration of the Manhattan success story. City born and bred, Berle is the eternal village cutup smarbaleck, shovr-off, “card” of the high school picnic. He never hestitated to ap propriate any material in the acts of other comics which pleased his fancy. As master of ceremonies he hugged the spotlight and monop olized attention so that none of the other entertainers was allowed a chance to score. Probably no professional funny man of recent years has evoked such violent detraction, yet he is master of the rapid fire, insane badinage of the Informal soiree. He induces first, distaste, then nervous giggles, finally explosive and almost hysterical laughter. He is undoubtedly the comer a. mong the new crop of Pagliaccis. At the Paradise, where he romps currently, I have seen Eddie Cantor, Ben Bernie, Lou Holtz and Bert Lahr at a single performance, howl ing at the Berle patter—even though it bristled with the gags of all those comedians, which he has impudently pilfered and even made sound funnier. « * « This reporter always gets a wry wallop out of those contest ads of fering large prizes for short essays about some product. I mean the ones which advise: “Absolutely no literary ability re quired. Simplicity, sincerity and tenseness will win you this prize.” As if those qualities weren’t the warp and woof of all literary abil ity! • ♦ • Time was when performers shied away from violently unsympathet ic stage and screen roles. They be lieved that for long term success, audiences must not despise the characters they portrayed too bit terly. The adage would seem to be no longer sound. I am thinking of Florence McGee, the little Pretoria. South Africa, girl who wowed Broadway in “The Children’s Hour.” as probably the most revoltingly vengeful and unpleasant brat ever conceived by a playwright. During the run of the play, which is in its second year, she has solidly en trenched heself professionally. The fans, despite the repellent charac. ter which she depicts consummately appear to react toward her person ally with affection. Her fan mail is enormous, the stage door auto graph seekers a nightly problem. Then, there is the case of Bette ( (pronounced Betty) Davis, newest big name in filmdom. She won her great acting plaudits with several roles which most cinema darlings would have cracked contracts to escape. In one she went crazy real istically in the middle of the pic ture; in the other she was a world ing of the most distressing and n'eurotic weakness. Indeed, although Miss Davis is most expert at miming the hysterias and emotional upsets which can be set her sex, she is most popular among women. Actually, she is an extremely self-possessed and inci sive young woman. She told me she had never had hysterics in her life 1 and could not understand the ease < with which she was able to simulate 1 them before the cameras. < The readers of this newspaper 1 are Its greatest asset. They can t make It an even greater success < by patronizing Its advertisers. t New Sleep - Problems Now Arise Youngsters Wake Up Earlier As Days Grow Longer By GARRY C. MYERS. PH. D. Head Department Parent Education Cleveland College, Western Reserve University Many a child from three to ten wakens with the morning light, adually earlier, therefore, as thq grow longer. And these same children, even on the longest day ■ f the year, may not go to sleep , uitil after it is dark. Not only is rneir sleep unduly shortened, but I the mother’s is also. | Mothers who accept the usual ad . vice of child experts on this prob . lem, are, on that account, less like. >ly to solve it. since they advise' '■>et the child get up immediately on waking.'* As you have observed, I am out t step with other writers every now and then. Certainly I would strongly disagree with this advice On the contrary. I would urge par ents to train their children to sleep regularly to a definite, reasonable hour each morning—but not expect the child to sleep later on Sunday or a holiday than any other day Often too early waking in the • morning in the young child grows out of too early feeding time. This period easily can be shifted. Some times the child of two or three awakens very early because he wets or is disturbed by bladder pressure. To take this child up late at night, calling yourself with a clock, might solve the problem— hardly advisable if you cannot eas ily go back to sleep. ' At an ? rate, let the child learn that no amount of crying will cause you to take him up in the morning before a regular time or ringing of the clock. As soon as this child can climb, train him not to stand up before you come for him He will soon learn to remain down If every time :. e gets up before the permitted time, he receives several lusty slaps with your bare flat hand on his bare fat thighs. This training, if well done, will take only a few days, certainly not over a week. X : Go Back to Sleep - j 1 he learns that there Is no possibility of getting up except to imeet with instant pain, he will, with the world so dull, go back to 'sleep. j Os course, If there are excep tions, doubts, arguments, It won’t 1 .work. And many parents will not fbe able to make it work, lacking, ithe stuff of character to devise a program and follow it to the let .ter. For them it will be wiser to Igo on expecting the child to get iup when he feels like it, and them selves to have their own sleep greatly shortened. We easily ma ’e it work with our children, and almost wtihout any 'punishment. Scores of other par ents who have followed my advice on this technique report to me it i works. And see the difference it i makes to them and their children. For your many encouraging let iters to me and the editor of this paper about my column, I am grate ful. And I like to get your prob, lems and try to Leip you solve them. Just write me when you feel . like it, in care of this paper, en closing a self-addressed, stamped ' envelope, and I will answer you personally as soon u.s I am able. ■ pOLiTfcS'GAGGED ~ LAUREL, Miss., April 4 (TP Folks in Laurel got tired of having their mail boxes filled wit b . cam paign literature. They also got tir ed of sweeping electioneering fold ers off their front porch. They sent up loud complaints. Now the can didates in the next election have promised to issue no printed adver tisements. The radio, and street corner addresses, they say, will be their electioneering mediums. Jr / IStfT CjOIHG ] I VtLLERJ )'/ # . IO HURT I ✓ v , - \ AS MUCH AS, / < XjF I 1 \n DOES Why / '\ U.C vw/Kj .1 XV GAS t —' I )I■ I ■ | Contract Bridge I J A PBYCHIE THAT FAILED Sometimesa psychie call produces 1 surprisingly effective results. At other times it makes its bidder ap 1 pear foolish. Such a bld with the deal shown did neither of those things. On the whole the bid was well concevied, as will be seen. ♦ J 10 9 e 4 8 t K a ♦A 7 2 ♦ A8« ; * A <7 5 VQOB6 M 94 3 i $ 4J1075 . 10 3 -j. 4 ♦kq ♦ KQB2 VAJIO 7 2 48 4882 Bidding went: South, 1-Heart; West. l.Spade (in case partner sup ported spades West proposed shift ing to no trumps, with possible game prospects, if East had any thing capable of winning a trick or two. If opponents held divided spade strength West’s call of the suit might stave off game, I doub led, West had a diamond call (in reserve); North, 1-No Trump; South, 2-Hearts; North, 2-No Trumps; South, 3- Spades; North, 6-Spades. finally detecting the psy-j chic; West, doubled. The poneing lead was the K of diamonds. Dummy’s Ace won. De clarer started establishment of hearts, by leading, dummy’s K. The J of spades followed, and West was in with his lone Ace. West return ed the 10 of diamonds, as the bot tom of his original sequence in that suit. Declarer’s 8 of spades ruffled. South’s K of spades picked up the last opposing trump, still leaving declarer with the Q of trumps. Dummy discarded Its lowest club on South’s Ace of hearts. The J of hearts was covered with West’s Q. Dummy ruffled. At the eighth trick dummy’s last diamond was led, and ruffled with declarer’s last trump. The 10 of hearts was led. On it dummy’s last low club was discarded. The four remaining trickJ belonged to the declaring side, as dummy had three long trumps and the olen Ace of clubs, just giving South his small slam contract. The opening lead of the K of clubs would have defeated the contract. 4 A 10 4 97 65 47 5 4 2 48 7 5 4J95 4 7 6 2 9A98 4482 ♦ QJ9 £ 4K1086 4 A Q 10 S. 8 8 4J3 4KQ 8 8 t 9 K Q J 10 fIK- 4A 4K 6 4 2 South is declarer. Hearts are trumps. Deolarere has 30 points to ward game. The opening lead is the Q of diamonds. South wins. He leads the X of hearts and West is in. The return lead is the J of diamonds. Before tomorrow see whether South can go game. The famous Chicago player, Mr. Nils M. Waster, was declarer. jOSENSE ■ t 1144' e i ’• * ’ e ’• • fc’ • ' - (FTklt/S W I < • ViAitATfeP ?Chp otHC. <M And So He Dropped Two Scots were mountaineering in Switzerland when one of them slipped and fell i .to a crevasse. The other, peering over the edge, saw his companion holding on almost by his fingernails. “Are ye a’richt, Macpherson?** . shouted the man in safety. “Not exactly that,” said the other, “but if ye run down to the village an’ get a rope. I’ll try to hang on here till ye come back. Hurry, for heaven’s sake.” His companion disappeared, and was gone nearly an hour. Suddenly his face appeared again over the edge of the cliff. “Are ye still there Macpherson?” he called down. “Aye,” in a low, weary tone. | “Have ye got the rope?” “No, indeed. The dirty dogs in the village wanted 2 pounds for it.” All Os Us ' ; By MARSHALL MASLIN YOU’VE GOT AN EQUITY—Hand Once upon a time, perhaps, you bought a house . . . Paid a little down every month, a tiny bit on the principal, quite a chunk for in terest on the loan . . . Sometimes it seemed you’d NEVER get that house paid for. What with taxes and repairs and insurance and oth er expenses, you didn’t seem to own very much of it But it WAS your house. You could speak of it as My House. You had an equity in it You were not renting, you were owning . . . Smart fellows could sit down with a pencil and a piece of paper and prove that it would have been "cheaper to pay rent” ... But what if they could? A man has a feeling about his own house that he can’t get from a stack of rent receipts. Perhaps it IS depereciating in mar ket value, perhaps he’ll never get out of it what he’s paid into it, but it HAS gained in value with the years . . . Your equity has grown and eventually you’ll own all that home of yours. Houses aren’t the only things you can build up an equity in. Lives are like houses. When you’re young, you haven’t much of an equity in your life. You have been clever and ambitious, .but your character hasn’t been ful ly tried. You have friends, but you have tested neither their friend ship for you nor yours for them. You haven’t lived with yourself long enough to know lust what you really are. Your equity is very small. You may not even know you have one. But your equity grows. You suf fer and you bear your grief. You meet as many of those claims upon you as you can. You find yourself able to bear the more important of Factographs The ancient custom of wassailing or toasting orchards by sprinkling cider upon the largest trey is still observed in some parts of England and Germany. The ceremony wats believed to cause the trees to ftoufr ish and beax fruit. ? , • • • A safe door just completed for a European bank is believed to be the i most impregnable yet produced. Itj has 100,000,000 possible combina tions, the locks being operated by 20 steel bolts, each five inches thick —. • • • While no record is kept of the number of colds occurring in the United States, it is accepted that they are more prevalent than any other of the common disease. • ♦ • The i lunar rainbow, or moon rainbow, is well known, though not Very frequently seen, owing to the relatively feeble.light of the moon. • • * A Texas oil well, readied after | drilling to depth of 12,78(5 feet, is I said to represent the deepest boring j for oil in the world. « * • It Is essential that white wine vinegar be used to keep horseradish white. Cider vinegar always dark, ens it. HOT TDDDY!" EVANSVUJUEJ, Ind., April 4 (Tp)-U —A democratic aspirant to -the sher iffs office, Fred Clark, is opening a “hot toddy” camoalgn. ' i Clark say- he will serve steamin z. hot toddies to voters between no\f and the primaries. May 5. “Hot toddies,” he said, “beat sane, wiches an coffee when it comes tl getting votes. I believe in giving th peeople what they want.”- your responsibilities. You test a fev 1 of your Opinions and prove tha? i some of them are Truths . . . Ana*- 5 whenever you do that, or examine a i Talent and prove it as a Power yoi ■ add to your equity. 1 That grows and you become a t Man or a Woman. The bigger your i Equity the stronger you grow, un til at least even Death cannot take ' away what you have won from Life. 1 HAROLD LLOYD TO VISIT * ; HOME TOWN IN NEBRASKA i BURCHARD, Neb., April 4 (TP) [ —The 300 residents of Burchard i are dressing up the village for the . return of its most famous citizen — i Harold Lloyd. • • ■ The film star sent word he In tends to visit his birthplace next' summer. So Burchard menfolks promptly turned out and built a golf course and tennis courts Then they paved the main street.' Said one today: “Bet a nickel Harold won’t recognize the old town.” -< PLAY PRODUCER FAILS NEW YORK, April 4 (TP—Th* play producer, Gilbert MiUer, sails today for London to produce the smash hit that’s runping qn Broad way—“ Boy Meets Girl.” Miller, who also has the courtroom drama, “Libel,” running in New York, may produce "Personal Appearance and Petrified Forest,” two hits of the past season. u SAIILORS ICEBOUNDS i CONNEAUT, Ohio, April 4 (TP* —One hundred sailors on three lako steamers are still icebound today ’, three miles off Conneaut Some of the great floes tower 20 feet high. There is no hope that the ice will break up within the next 14 hour*. ,

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Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-????, April 05, 1936, Page 4, Image 4