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ft MEDITATIONS OF MUSSOLINI
LDouMms Mimlim meditated many months on conditions in
the dissatisfaction and increasing restlessness of his peo-
• '.Je, the growing discontent and how to change the psychology
thc People less his own reign of power be threatened, if not
destroyed. Momentous decisions must be made and made
"njickly. War was the answer. War to avenge the stain of
Attuwa. A war of conquest that would arrest the attention of
hM people and arouse to a frenzy of patriotic nationalism. On
toi Ethiopia became the battle cry, and so the war was conceived
and, as such has been waged.
Within his own country there were powerful interests not
altogether in sympathy with Signor Mussolini. Men of power,
men who had made their mark in the service of the Italian
people. Men whom the nation trusted, all perhaps but Musso
lini himself. He recognized their ability and their popularity
a/nd was doubtless fearful less they seized power and changed
the entire structure which he had built. He knew they were
not Fascicts at heart and yet, in this war of extermination
which he has undertaken, it has been upon these men whom he
has to lean heaviest.
First, Field Marshall Pietro Badoglia. He is a World War
hero, and for more than a generation the military idol of the
Italian nation. He was appointed Commander-in Chief of the
expeditionary forcees. It is currently spoken of in the army
that his mission was not altogether because of military necessity
but that the Duce desired to have him out of Italy should the
forces of discontent RISE and required strong leadership. If
so, Badoglio was the man of action. Get him out of Italy.
Then, there is Balbo. The Balbo that led the flight to the
Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. He is consistent
and honest and holds in intaense hatred personally against
Mussolini. He has smarted under a sense of persecution and
apparent banishment. He is in Lybia.
These two men, World War heroes, each in his own way
possess the confidence of the people, Badoglio being the more
popular with the Reigning House and the upper classes. Each
is credited with a desire to bring about a change in the form
of government, and to these veterans of many battles must the
Duce entrust the success or failure of his campaign in Ethiopia.
tThey know that the same situation is charged with dynamite.
hey know too that is requires but some untoword incident to
re the fuse of revolution, that Italy will require strong leader
dp, they are prepared to fly to the homeland, to assume such
adership. And thus we have the amazing spectacle of a
ation’s leader being compelled to entrust his success to those
lio bitterly oppose his policies and who would welcome an
opportunity to challenge his leadership. We shall sec what we
shall see.
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Mellon. Hugh Howell has finally issued his call for a meeting
■C the State Democratic Executive Committee to be held at the
Hrnsley Hotel, in Atlanta on April 15th. The purpose of the
■Keting is to transact all business that may properly and
BHrally come before it. To especially decide, whether or not
Hnere should be held a presidential preferential primary in Geor
■b this year, and, if so, fix rules, entrance fees and all matters
Mlrtaining thereto.
y And now, good folks of Georgia, be prepared, for this is hut
BPlte announcement of the opening of what will be the greatest,
the hardest fought, and the bitterest olitical campaign ever held
in the state. The show will be one long to be remembered. The
grounds will be the all the square miles of land composing the
metes and bounds of what we are pleased to call the greatest
MCite in the nation. No telling where the patriotic sons who
to serve may meet to match their strategy.
Hl'he canvass, well the sky is the limit and the blue dome of
Haven will cover the sinned against and sinner alike. There
mH? going to be no seats, reserved or plain, for idlers to sit and
Match the performance. Remember the old slogan, “this is the
®Plie for every man (and woman) to come to the aid of his
Mrty. ’’ Its going to be you are either “for me or agin me.”
Hll hands must help to elect the deefender of the liberties of the
Sear people whoever he may be. So, pay your poll tax, register,
be prepared to join the show.
SHERMAN WAS RIGHT
Brwc are indebted to The Georgia Legionnaire for The following j
My Harvey Kennedy, Editor Barnesville News-Gazette:
K VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS
I A group of Princeton University students endowed with a
Mieer sense of humor recently organized themselves into an
Mjganization called “Veterans of Future Wars” and demanded
payment of a bonus to be earned by them in future
Jafars. They also sponsored an organization of Vassar College
Students, to be known as “Gold Star Mothers of Veterans of
Future Wars,” the purpose of which is to secure trips overseas
bo that they might select graves for their sons, yet unborn.
At first glance, this movement appealed to the funny side of
all os us. However, there is a lot of pathos in their thrusts,
directed at World War veterans and there may be a good deal
of irony to the movement after all.
The sorrowing mothers, who are the real gold star mothers,
already hurt to the quick over the loss of their own sons for
wham they ment into the vale of almost death in order to give
life, doubtless will be able to forgive the insult intended tor
them. When one has suffered much, one ceases to mind insults
and worldly scars. Doubtless these real mothers, after read
ing of the movement, offered a prayer for these young maidens
What they might be saved the dspair and grief of ever having to
K-ive a beloved son in the defense of their country. These young
Indies may experience a worse fate than that. If this should oc-
Kir, these mothers-to-be, mother-like, will expect a wealthy na
t>on to do the honorable thing by their loved ones.
(Mn order to give these jesting young people a true insight
the cost of war from humanity’s standpoint and how little
Mhnney can compensate or alleviate war-wreckage, in all kind
ffless let us suggest that they have their first convntion in a
Movernment hospital. There they will see men with faces hor-
Kibly disfigured, men without eyes, men whose limbs have been
SBhot away, whose nerves have been wrecked and whose minds
‘t4ave been’totally destroyed. Thea let those in authority tell
I —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
NEW DEAL INVESTIGATES
ITSELF WITH THREE HANDPICKED COMMITTEES
AND OUTCOME FORECAST
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 9 —President
Roosevelt and his lieutenants appear
to have diluted investigation of the
New Deal’s emergency set-ups to such
an extent that it is hard to see how
it can be much of a real “probe.”
1 . The prospective inquiry was sena
■ torially launched in a fashion to
promise that it would be the genuine
article. Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
the administration’s leader in the up
per house of congress, succeeded,
however, by parliamentary sleight-of
hand, in getting a sufficient major
ity into the membership of the in
quisitorial committee to insure that
it will be strongly pro New Deal.
Then the president appointed his
own committee, consisting of Louis
Brownlow, Professor Charles E. Mer
riam of the University of Chicago
and Professor Luther Gulick of Col
umbia university, to investigate, too.
He also asked for the creation of
a similar committee of representa
tives.
Finally he urged that the three
committees co-operate.
INVESTIGATING SELVES
All this may sound like a great
plenty of investigating, but it is note
worthy that the investigators are
t mostly New Dealers investigating the
New Deal.
Perhaps, indeed, it isn’t quite ac
curate to describe Senator Harry F.
Byrd, head of the initial investiga
torial body, as a New Dealer. He has
been legislatively hostile to many
New Deal policies but he is a regu
lar administration Democrat— finds
lots of fault with his leadership but
supports it in time of need, for all
a me °f need, de
cidedly.
A representatives’ committee must
be named, of course, by Speaker
Joseph W. Byrns. Byrns i« not an .
enthusiastic New Dealer, either, but
he is as regular and dependable as
Senator Byrd not even an open
fault-finder, like the senator.
That any New Deal investigating ;
All Os Us
B y marshal maslin
taking a walk
IULIAM HAZL'TT, dead a long
time ago, used to write of the pleas
ures of taking a walk ... He meant
taking a walk in tha country, go
ing somewhere with a stick in your
hand, seeing the pretty flowers,
hearing the careless birds, breath
ing God's clean air . . . Another
fellow, a Frenchman, wrote an en
tire book about taking a trip a
round your bedroom. Very inter
esting. but not exciting . . . Much
more fun, if you feel in the mood,
to walk around the streets of a
city, seeing all the people, wonder,
ing what they do, how they are,
how they got that way, what they’re
going tc be . . . Try it some time.
See that pretty girl Nice eyes
Sweet smile. Hat’s just right.
Obeying the old law that pretty
girls should have pretty clothes
. . . see that other girl not a bit
pretty, but she’s got style, and an
air! Guess she knows it, too . . .
Pass by a restaurant, look in. Right
by the window is an enormously
fat old man, eating a big meal, en
joying every morsel . . . Another
man coming out the door, toothpick
in mouth. Stout lad . . . Heard some
where that smart beggars never
them that the peak of insanity caused by the war has not vet
been reached They should also have on their program eminent
phys.e.ans who wdl tell them that the affects of the gasThaled
by me„ who served in France, in a majority of eases "a just
S?arMothT , " !f £ V ‘ ”i , Thcn ,! < ‘ t ,heir cripples and Gold
I f -Ju e - S whose only hope lies m life eternal when thev will
be with their dead once more, be paraded before them. After
this is done if these young people can find it in their hearts to
ridicule and hold up to public scorn this unfortunate part of
humanity, surely we have reached a heartless age j LOL
As a rule Princeton and Vassar students come’from wealthy
families ealth and wealth alone profited from the WoHd
War and since then wealth has waged a studied campaign
against veterans’ rights in order to avoid payment of taxes
Keared in this atmosphere these students have unconsciously
adopted the attitude of their fathers.
Editor Harvey may have mentioned the thousands of sturdy 1
lellows who, having come through the inferno of fire, and of
mud and slime, without impairment of mind or body ’ only to
find, as they vainly tried to catch step with the newer ‘and
changed world, they had been passed by, their dav was gone
j forever and, for many of them, pounding the pavements of city
streets, ekeing out a bare existence where they could, pleading
for the charity of a meat, a bed, or perhaps entirely discouraged,
the price of a drink that sorrows may be momentarily forgottem
There is not a city in the Union where such examples may not
be seen. General Sherman was right, “war is hell.’’
BASEBALL IN SAVANNAH
Now that Savannah is in a baseball league, may we express
the wish that success will crown the efforts of the gentlemen
who so public spiritedly sponsored the organizatino that makes
it possible for Savannahians to enjoy this great American "’me?
With our sister cities of Macon, Augusta. Columbus, .lacks ille
i and Columbia, we musa contend for supremacy. The enthusias
tic fan desires good baseball, and then, may the best team win.
We believe that there arc a sufficient number of baseball fans
in Savannah to make the venture succeed. ’They anxiously await
the hour when the umpire calls, play ball! The Savannah base
ball team is in experienced hands. They know that the game
must be played clean to make patronage possible. They are
giving their best efforts to have a team, that, while it may not
be first, it must not be last.
Nothing would give us greater pleasure than to know that
the game has been permanently established in our city. That
many long summer after-noons may be spent pleasantly and
menial relaxation be obtained in the frenzy of enthusiastic shout
inging that the home team may win. We arc for baseball be
cause it calls into activity the mental as well as the physical
being. We are for baseball because, like the circus, the boys and
girls like to go and we like to be with the boys and girls.
Give the people a good team, not necessarily the best in the
league, but, see to it we do not have the worst team in tli? league.
A. bad team has done more to kill baseball in Savannah in the
past than any other factor. If the first-baseman is not good,
turn him off and get another. The same with every other mem
i ber of the team. Give Savannah a good team and Savannahians
will give you hearty support.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936
committee he chooses will be pro-
New Deal is a safe bet.
* * *
CAPABLE MEMBERSHIP
The Brownlow committee is pro-
New Deal 100 per cent.
Its membership is very capable.
Louis Brownlow, its chairman, has
been, since long before the World
war, what now would be termed a
New Dealer. Once he was a Wash
ington newspaperman. He was a com
missioner of the District of Columbia
under President Wilson. More recent
ly he has been a professional city
manager, and a good one.
But he has been a New Dealer (if
there had been any such thing then)
back into this century’s ’eens. I’ve
known him that many years.
Similarly Professor Merriam was a
brain truster three or four decades
before anyone was so described. Pro
fessor Gulick is in the same class but
not entitled to such seniority as Pro
fessor Merriam’s.
« * *
WHO WILL WIN OUT?
The purpose of Chairman Byrd’s
committee is different from Chairman
Brownlow’s.
The Byrd outfit's ostensible mission
is to find evidence of waste, politics
and even graft in emergency expend
itures. Considering what enormous
sums have been spent so fast, it is
difficult to imagine that cases can
not be found where money has been
spent recklessly, not to say question
ably.
The Brownlow committee’s avowed
job is to determine how effectively
the New Deal’s emergency set-ups can
be made permanent.
It assumes that they are merito
«Thf..Byrd f ? lk fwith the qualifica
tion that Chairman Byrd is not much
in sympathy with them) seek to as
sume the contrary.
If a balance of power is required—
t Brownlow committee’s?
Just what the house of represen
tatives committee will be is proble
matic.
strike’ people on their way into a
’ S U M nt S , trike them com i«S
°L T ' More chance of success.
t That big solid fellow on the cor-
- ner, with the steady eyes, scanning
the crowd. Bet you a penny he's a 1
, detective. You can tell ’em
2 S" e ;y r H ed raan r °ning a cigaret’
r That s funny. Wonder how he lost
- it . . . Nice old lady waiting to
p ros .® the st reet all by herself. Her
- family worries about coming down
-1 tow n all alone ShQ doesQ , t
. She sneaks out . . . See that tali'
i rangy fellow in loose clothes. In
' fr ? m \ he count ry, you say No, he’s
. a hotel clerk. I know him . . . Gosh!
B That fellow who just passed has
an angry face. Doesn’t he ever have
any fun?
: S , e ®, th6 cute baby. Her father’s
s «n’J i y i Pr °- Ud °J- he? '• ’ st °P
■ and look in this hardware store
t window . . . Aren't those grand
i tools? All right, you look at the
. dresses in the window next door,
t I 11 look at these tools . . . What’s
i that dog doing down here, barking
-|at all the automobiles. Awful
r grouch ... So many people and we 1
c I don’t know any of them, hardly. |
-1 They don’t know us, either, blit!
what of that? . . . Keep on walking.
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My Nfw York
James Aswell
NEW YORK, April 10—On .the
Dot; Now that the circus has come
to town, “Jumbo’ is feeling the
competition . . . Incidentally, Jim
my Durante is a firm believer in the
adage, which Frank Buck says is
purely lengendary, that an elephant
never forgets ... He has been con
sistently polite to the huge beast
starring in “Jumbo - ’ —which is a
bout to take to the road . . . Taere
is no purely social case in New
York, to compare with the Dome
or the Select or the Rontonde oi
Faris’ Montparnasse . . . People go
to restaurants here either to eat
or to be seen—never to converse
sociably . . . The art of conversa.
lion has indeed almost retreated
to limbo here in Babylon . . . The
dime stores, to further the trend,
have taken to selling all sorts of
’ “big money” games, in which play-
I ers buy and sell with huge wads I
of stage money—you know, Gen- 1
eral Hagood s kind.
The beauteous Marcelle Edwards,
Mrs. Tommy Manville, grew senti
mental the other night at the
French Casino, remembering her
j appearance, when the house was
the Earl Carroll Theater, in one of
the “Vanities” . . . She told me Car
roll has not only never visited the
Casino since it became the town’s
most lush and eye-filling cabaret,
but he crosses the street in order
to avoid passing it while qut for a
stroll . . . “St. Joan’”, the Shaw opus
in which Katherine Cornell is shin
ing at the moment, must run until ■
June to clear expenses, so costly
was the staging . . . Cliff Odets,
the soapbox.dramatist, is piling up
a neat capitalistic fortune in the
Hollywood he’d never succumb to
—until he got an offer . . . All his
1 tribe react precisely in that man
ner.
• • •
That Monkey Agani
The monkey problem, printed
here years ago, continues to evoke
letters. I herewith print it again,
in response to requests. There’s
still a pile of answers (second edi
tion) ready to go out to all who
a stamped, self-addressed en
velope.
A piece of rope weighs four
ounces per foot. It is passed over
a pulley and one one end is sus
pended a weight and on the othe:’
end a monkey. The whole system
is in equilibrium.
The weight of the monkey in
nounds is equal to his mother’s age
n years. age of the monkey’s
mother added to the age of the
monkey is four years. (1) The mon
key’s mother is twice as old as the
monkey was when (2) the monkev’s
mother was half as old as the
monkey will be when (3) the mon.
key is three time.', as old as the
monkey's mother was when (4) the
monkey’s mother was three times
as old as the monkey.
Th? weight of the rope or the
' weight at the end is helf as imi°h
n gnln as the difference between the
weight and the weight plus the
weight of the monkey. How long is
the rope?
STREAM RETARDS MAIL
WASHINGTON, Anril 10 (TP)
Rural mail carrier C. N. Combs is
looking for a sounding stick to be
used on his free delivery route.
Yesterday Combs approached a
small stream which he had been
fording in his car for years. When
he reached the middle of the
stream he was forced to climb on
top of the car to save himself and
the mails. Today Combs has de- i
oided that the recent floods make
■t necessary for a rural mil carrier
tn use a sounding stick for protec.
tion. ]
■ ■ ' ■ '
| NOT--In the News
MEMBERS OF THE INITIAL CLAN
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
BY WORTH CHENEY
Central Press Association
We suppose it is a pity that the more
noteworthy achievements ’cf colleges
3nd universities are seld:m broadcast
‘x> the outside world. All one hears
from colleges, or nearly all, is football
prospects, stories of carousing students
and the newest fad.
When it comes to a new fad, there
is no more fertile field for production
on a quick and large scale than a
college campuo. A new fad spreads
faster than gossip about the new wid-
—WORLD AT A GLANCE
LANDON SEEN VICTOR
By Wiseacres Viewing Republican Situation
ON SECOND BALLOT
, . By LESLIE EICHEL
Centr.l Frees Staff Writer
WL-eacres viewing the Republican
nomination situation from a mid-con
cinent print of view are saying. “Lan
don will win on the sec:nd ballot at
-he Cleveland convention.’’
Certain it is he will come to the
convention with close to the neces
sary 501 votes
Former President Hoover’c erst
w’r ile lieutenants are reputed to have
decided to support Landon. That
means the southern bloc will be for
him.
But Mr. Hoover, himself remains
cpposed to Governor Landon . Secret
ly he undoubtedly favrrs himself, with
I 0:1. Frank Knox second.
SHAKEUP
Energetica’ly-minded Republicans are
are worried over the lackadaisical
administration of the national Re
publican committee under Chairman
Henry P. Fletcher and the Old
Guerd. The c mmittee as now ar
ar.ged is a good one for obtaining
“war funds”—but its administrative
ability is under atteck.
It is presumed, if Landon wins the
G. O. P. nomination, that energetic
John D M. Hamilton, his campaign
chairman, super ted by his assistant,
~scar Stauffer.
WELL-KNIT
On the Democratic side, as there
s no que tion over the renomination
of President Roosevelt, the national
r nmmitUe is functioning exceedingly
well.
James A. Farley may be attacked
as a prlitician first and last, but in
between one must concede bis be
hind-the-scenes organizing ability.
Indeed, there are wager.: that when
will not be a single dissenting vote
campaign time oils around there will
not be a. single dissenting voice with- ’
in the Democratic party— that every
one either will go down the line for
a New Deal victory, or remain quiet.
The shouting dissenters of the pact
months probably will not even “take
a •walk.” There is no place to go.
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
The Republicans (the Democrats
ft”) will have all the money they de
sire
The Democrats will have s'ene
difficulty. Their chief source will be
office holders.
Democrats further charge that Re
publicans will seek “invisible” means
as well as “visible” methods of con
veying money. A congresional in
vestigating committee, dominated by
Democr'ts and progressive Republi
cans will be on their trail.
Republicans ”’ill denounce this as
unwarranted .aooping and charge
the Democrats with utilizing relief
funds to gain votes.
Democrats will shout that Big
Business Is trying to buy the e’ection
through the Republicans. And—~s
for the relief fund;—if the Republi
cans believe that meso- is of any value
to the Democrats just let them come
close and see the worried Democratic
: brows.
MOVEMENTS
Once upon a time it was believed
thet some “mass” m'vcments would
ol?y a leading part in the electirn.
But unless movements take hold
owin your heme town. And it seems
that the crazier the fad ; the more
popular it is.
We mention all this so that you
can aquire the proper mood to hear
about the latest fad that has struck
our American colleges. As far as we
are concerned, it wins the diploma
in idi-ctic foolishness.
It is a form of charade, a panto
mime representation of something tha:
crmprises an enigma requiring an an
swer so ridiculous that we doubt if
one out of a million can gues it.
while they are “hot,” they cool off,
and like exploding meteors scatter
away into infinity.
Who will have faith in the Town
send plan folw:ing the present con
gre siinrl investigatlo? That is what
political leaders are sayig. They add,
now(but did not a year or so ago)
that a broad federal social security
program is needed, and must come,
but the fantastic Townsend plan mere
ly would have postponed meeting re
alities, with grae consequences to
everyone.
trhe Rev. Charles S. Coughlin, still
speaking to immense radio audiences,
enters new fields of attack, which
alienate people. Those people believe
that many of his ideas, instead of
freeing them economically, might bind
them into the slavery of a fascism.
The organized worker is becoming
definitely afraid that Father Coughlin
might lead him to such a plight as
befell the workers who followed the
siren calls of Mussolini and Hitler.
Yet, Father Coughlin still has a
large following, and with this back of
him, he is catechizing congresmen
and threatening them with defeat,
where he is strongest.
Then, there is the movement that
promised to be the most powerful of
all—the “share <the-weaith” move
ment of the late Senator Huey P.
Long. It was waven around his per
sonality—and it collapsed with his
death. Not that “share-the-w’ealth”
ideas ever will fade. In the natural
■ tate of evolution, a larger and
larger share of what a man produces
will become his— and the state (th:
people as a whole) will play a greater
and greater part in the life cf a man.
But that is a movement far broader,
far more significant that a Huey
Long could conceive. He was his
own little Hitler. And the Hitlers
merely are a passing phare in, this
tremendous world development.
VITAMIN D FOUND
AID TO DIGESTION
AS WELL AS BONES
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. April 10
(TP)—Vitamin D is an aid to di
gestion—in case y r ou are interested.
Professors Robert Harris and
John Bunker of Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology have been
making a biological survey with
rats. They say the test proves that
Vitamin D stops sluggishness in
the digestive operations.
Previous to this study, Vitamin
D was considered useful only as a
bone-maker.
letters cause trouble
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 10
(TP) —Athletic “letter-men” of
John Carroll University are more
(han mildly irritated because their
1935 letter sweaters haven’t arriv
ed. One or two of the more impor
tant athletes talked it over among
themselves. Today they have threat
ened to boycott all spring football
practice until the 1935 letters are
forthcoming.
Contract
Bridge
A TOUGH CONTRACT ,
AS A CHOICE between evils, I
prefer a partner who overbids rath
ir than one who underbids. It is
less expensive to occasionally go
Icwn a trick than it is to miss
imes and rubbers because partner
iderbids. There is, however -.such
thing as supporting too freely, and
>rth was one of those players who
listed upon almost nothing. For
nately South played exceptionally
,ell. A trait of which North took
till advantage, as shown by his
aiding on the following hand.
♦ J 9 73,
f QB6
♦ 10 6 5 3
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♦ 6 4 5 2) M |
fAjn As. > K I
♦ K 9 8 6/‘
♦XK'QTO.'S-
V 10 4 3
' >AQJB
*J ’■ ’ j
Both sides were vulnerable. Bid
ding went: South, 1-Spade; West,
2_Hearts; North, 2-Spades, w’hen he
should have passed, to note what
happened; East, 3-Clubs. South,
3-Diamonds; West. 4-Clubs; North,
i-Spades, which East doubled.
The opening lead was the K of
clubs. East signaled to come-on, by
playing his 7. Had East overtaken
the K with his Ace, and led back
the K and another heart, he would
have been able to ruff a third round
of that suit, defeating the contract
then and there. West came on with
another club as ordered, and South
ruffed with the Q, to render access
easier to trumps in dummy.
The K of spades was led, follow
ed by the 10 of spades, which dum
my's J took. The 10 of diamonds
was led through and held. The 6 of
diamonds was won with the J. West
showed out. The 8 of spades was
led and overtaken with dummy’s 9.
The 5 of diamonds was lead, taken
with the Q, then the play of the
Ace picked up the K from East’s
hand. At the end of the ninth
round of play the four cards held
by each player were as shown.
South was in the lead and had to
win two added tricks to fulfill his
game contract.
♦ f.
If Q 8 6
VA J 7 K S'! !
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JioXO
West had bid hearts, but when
Le made the opening lead he led off
the K of partners suit, instead of
leading the K of hearts, which he
naturally would do in case he held
both Ace and K. It was almost cer
tain that the two highest honors
in hearts were divided between
East and West. As West had not
hesitated to bid 2-Hearts it was
almost certain that he originally
held at least five hearts, so that
East at most held only two hearts.
South lead a low heart. When West
played low, so did dummy. East’s
9 won th etrick. Then East led the
K of hearts, just as declarer had
foreseen, but the next lead had to
be a club, so that declarer discard
( ed his last heart and dummy ruffed.
Then dummy lead a heart and de
. clarer ruffed, just fulfilling his con
. tract. It was fine card reading.
YOU’RE TELLING ME!
By William Ritt *
; Italian Troops find Haile Selassie’s
i abandoned auto on an Ethiopian road.
The dispatch didn’t say whether the
Lion of Judah ran out of gas or cou
rage.
* * *
Judging by what war correspond
ents say of Ethiopian reads it’s ,
possible that the King of Kings
decided he coud get more—quick
er—mileage out cf his feet.
Ethiopian roads are so full of ruts
that aii airplane photo on any one of
them looks like a full-face portrait
■ of a slice of swiss cheese.
*
After banging over one of
Haile’s choice highways for a
dozen miles any motorcar is ready
for retirement—in more ways than
one.
* * *
Haile Selassie cant be so smart or
Jong bes re this he would have traded
his car in for a kanagroo.
* * *
A kangaroo would be perfect
as an Ethiopian vehicle, even to
the rumble seat, which is up
front where a king should always
be, even when he is back seat
driving.
AFRAID REPORT TO
POLICE, GIRL GOES
HUNGRY FOR 2 DAYS
MlAMl—April 10—Hungry from a
two-day enforced fast because she had
been afraid to report to police that
her money had been stoen, Marguelrite
De Simone, pretty 17 year-od runaway
fr'm Washington, D. C. was fed by
Miami Beach police who started ar
rangements to send her home to her
parents.
“I just wanted to take a trip to
Miami.” was the reason given by
Marguerite to police for running away
i from home.
1 She said part of her luggage, a
bag containing $52 which she had
. saved up for the trip, was stolen on
her arrival here Wednesday night.
. Afraid that police would question her
t:o closely and learn she was a run
away, she did not report the loss to
’ police until yesterday when she was
1 forced to do so because cf hunger.
» Police last night were awaiting ad
vice from her parents.
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