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PAGE FOUR x-w t _ WnniWffiOflitiiCfniirs '■w ✓ 4 Pubitahed by y P<F»Lie OPINION. ING. PWWtHW) DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 30E EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered m Beoood Ofaos Matter Joly >B, 1935 at the Foot Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATHS -50 Ose Mmji j 5 One week .... r . ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION rtIOST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Cbioago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Trwredto Pnm - International Illustrated News * Central Prow Ate’n. G Wreath. P/ces Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service . World Wide Pictures LET CLANCY ALONI! Potrfxota at the Savannah Police Department during the past few months have made it apparent that Mayor Gamble, trem bling m hrs boots over his chances of re-election, has applied “the heat’’ cf pernicious politics on Capitain John Clancy, who, by popular demand, he made executive head of the department a year or so ago. In attempting to put this officer under the wing of machine control, the maneuvering Mayor has collided with what the vernacular of the day terms as the “well known headache.” In other words, Captain Clancy cannot—and will not —b® con trolled at the expense of his department. Mayor Gamble, learning this, has transferred his pressure and forced the protege of City Attorney (Keynoter) Shelby My rick, namely Lieutenant James Rogers to fill the rote of the thoughtless cat who supplied his customers with chestnuts at the expense of burned fingers. John Clancy is a policeman, nothing more NOTHING LESS! By reason of his long and proven untarnished record in the Savannah Police Department, he enjoys the confidence and the popularity of the city. The shrewdness of Savannah’s May or, in his pre-campaign to commercialise on this popularity, has focused the attention of Savannah’s citizenry on this officer and occasioned speculation as to what will happen to him next. First there was a general order which went out from his ex sellency’s office. It applied to the Savannah Police and Fire Departments. Briefly, it called for every man employed in these departments to file with their superior officer, a written list of the persons in their immediate family who are qualified to vote —and, of more importance, whether or not they are registered. Like a good soldier, Captain Clancy accepted the order—al though it was not in the “Manuel of Arms” jf any Police De partment. Certainly it constituted no part of good police duty. It did, however, come under the head of “Discipline”—and John Clancy can “take it.” He relayed the orders to his lieutenant, Jim Rogers. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Jim had apparently re ceived his “orders” from the “keynoter”—Shelby Myrick. Otherwise he would have never dared to have so embarrassed Captain Clancy as to reduce Mayor Gamble’s orders to writing— and applied Captain Clancy’s name as the authority for the unconstitutional, illegal and distasteful order. Os course, when Captain Clancy learned he had been maneuvered into such an embarrassing position, he had the written order destroyed. Following on the heels of this, there arose another embar rassing situation—all patterned to annoy and reduce the poten tial authority of the man who is supposed to be the head of the police department. The city had purchased two new automobiles. Captain Clancy, unmindful of political fear or favor, had as signed the new equipment to his lieutenants. In doing so, he had given thought to securing the most efficiency possible for the money expended by Savannah taxpayers. In other words, he had ordered that the car be kept in twenty-four hour service, subject to the call of the lieutenant on duty. The sage of the present administration, Shelby Myrick, saw another opportunity to further embarrass the executive head of the department. He caused his marionette, Jim Rogers, to demand that the automobile in question be assigned to him-w* for his personal use. After a multiplicity of orders, all of which were confusing and conflicting, the police mechanic in charge of the cars, re ferred the matter back to the executive head of the department where the issue obviously became stymied. As planned by Mayor Gamble and his keynoter, Shelby Myrick, the difficulty re verted to the City Hall where a “round table conference” was called. Ridiculous as it appears, these serious-minded gentlemen— namely Mayor Gamble, Captain Clancy, Lieutenant Rogers and Aiderman Furman King spent hours over the all-important question: “Who shall drive the new police car?” When the smoke of battle had cleared, Lieut. Rogers, of course, had won. Captain Clancy left the City Hall a disillusioned public servant. No doubt he was thinking of the thirty-seven years he had served as a good police officer— only to wind up by learn ing that he had not yet acquired the authority to assign a police car to his subordinate officers! Thirty-seven years of faultless and unblemished service—service which required him, at times to risk h’s life. There was the time that h« broke up a race riot, single-handed, when he rode his horse into the old Savannah Press building to stop a frenzied mob of negroes who were de termined to demonstrate their delight over the victory of Jack Johnson, who had applied the narcotic drops to Jim Jeffries. On another occasion, single-handed, he steered his trusting ani mal into the very mouth of danger to break up a mob demon stration at Whitaker and Broughton streets. His fearlessness was the turning point of the street car strike during the unruly days of the World War. He put down the riotry and simul taneously gained the admiration of this city’s citizenry. It does not require much thinking nor application of busi ness economies to realize that an official, no matter how effi cent, cannot function if he is to be handicapped and continu ously embarrassed by his “higher ups.’’ Captain Clancy, no mat ter what his ideals may be, cannot properly function if he is to be continuously handicapped, embarrassed before his subor dinate officers and forced into political by-play by Mayor Gambit. Savannah has, for years, pleaded for a police department unhampered by petty politics. John Clancy is the first man in ‘‘Vany generations capable of placing this department on this the sake of safety, good citizenship and efficiency, he ■ Aermitted to discharge his duties without interference, ’ • ;*br conspiracy emanating from th<City Hall ’. .. Ancy discharge his duties. business, . :* h« the ' ■ iry. —WORLD AT A GLANCE- WILL BRITAIN’S TORIES If They Take Firmer Hold Under Chamberlain RELISH LEFTIST FRANCE? Central Press Staff Writer. BY LESLIE EICHEL WHEN NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN suceeds Stanley Baldwin as British prime minister (if that does occur) Europe will interpret that as a setback to Germany and as an aid to France. For Chamberlain’s rise would be due to British dissatisfaction with Bald win's “soft” policy. But it may be a different France to which aid may be given. For France goes to the palls the first week in May—and the electorate is expected to swing sharp ly to the left. Will an arch Tory like Chamberlain be eager to walk and in hand with a Leftist government? But win not England itself begin to turn left—believing its election of the Tories last year an abortion? The Conservatives may change lead ers in midstream because the elector ate, in les than a year .has become demonstratively dissatisfied. The three chief European democ i racles now seem certain to remain de mocracy and not swing to dictator ship. England, France and Czecho slovakia are counted upon as the bul warks of democracy. And rumor has it that the Soviet. Union soon may democratise communism. (Will the democracies, in turn, communiae de mocracy?) Os course, there has been no such thing yet as a pure democ racy. Even the farthest left na tions have no such thing. • • • NOT CHEERING ' Nor is this headline over an article by a special correspondent in the St. Louis Poet-Dispatch concerning the monarchist democracy of Britain very cheering “Undernourishment In Great Brit ain: Diet of half of population inad equate for health; only per cent of people can afford proper food.” BORAH’S SAYINGS In “Borah of Idaho,” a biography of Senator William E. Borah by Clau dius Johnson, we read that the sena tor said in 1920: My Network Jamesy/fowetii NEW YORK, April 21—An old warehourse on the corner of Christ opher and Washington Streets hums with a strange atcivlty from down to duak. Swarthy and apple cheeked men and women mob the place in continual streams; they have one thing in common and one only—their English is broken with a hundred Old World accents. For this is the Naturalization Bureau and in recent months, des pite quota laws which restrict the ingress of aliens, business has boomed there. For a while, with America in depression's grip, there wasn't such a rush for citizenship. But now the prospecting is good again—at least better than across the water —and the applicants for citizenship swarm in. Many of them can get more from the relief agencies than they could earn by hard work at home. And also word has trickled across the pond that tomorrow, or the day after, this munificent government is going to give everybody over a certain age a princely income for doing noth ing at all. I am told that only one question has never been answered in the affirmative by applicants tor final papers. The question: “Are you a believer in the practice of polyg amy?” Fashion nifties come and go, and fost of the wild predictions for colored suits and feathered som beros for men turn out to be the idle dreams of newspaper prophets. But only one innovalton for gentle men currently on view in the town captures this reporter’s imagina tion. Those bright red shoes af fected by Ray Bolger in ths finale of “On Your Toes” are already on my Santa list for next Yule. Manhattan newsreel snap: Prince Louis Ferdinand, of Germany, grandson of the former Kaiser, chatting hilariously with Eddie Rickenbacker, at a meeting of the Banshees, the artists-and-writer luncheon coterie. Incidentally, of all world war vet erans, aviators maintained the most Chesterfieldian tradition of courtesy and gallantry to foes aft er the war and during it, between dogfights. Case in point: Dr. Herman Goetz, who has been in hot water for alleged military peking recent ly, was well-known during the war as an inquisitor. When Allied aviat ors fell behind ths German Hues it was Herr Goetz’ duty to question them closely, if they remained a live, in the hope of extracting mil itary secrets. Yet when hostilities ceased and Goats visited America he was feted and extended lavish hospitality by the very men, many of them re nowned aces, whom he had once pumped for information they’d have opened a than give. The Broadway boys tel! me that insurance men are leary of policies protecting actors against a mis hap I had always thought was rath er rare: falling off the stage! And yet, if you examine the rec ords closely, you will find a sur prising number of these missteps, even by the soberest performers, every month. Joe Dorris, in Gus Ed wards’ vaudeville revival, “Sho. Windows", sprawled last week over the footlights into a startled lady’s lap in the midst of his routine. And also last week, Mary Jane Cooper, taking a bow during her first per ■onal appearance at a movie palace after her hit in ‘.Scandals”, fell off the stage and got such a bruising she had to cut out part of her dance routine for the rest of the day. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936 My radicalism consists in the at tack, principally, upon those who use the constitution of the United States . when it protects them and. trample upon it when it comes their way.” Speaking for an income tax, he > said, in 1909: “It is all unjust and unfair, tyran nical and to my mind, bfUtal, to hold r on to a system of taxation whica • continues to put all the burden, th: 5 ever increasing burden of govern- - ment . . . upon what we must eat s and upon what we must wear and I nothing upon the , great incomes ? which fools so often’ flaunt in the i face of the poor and which lead to t all kinds of extravagance and public ' demoralization.” The U. S. Supreme court had de- • dared an income tax unconstitution ; ala generation previously. An Income tax finally was adopted again and - this time the Supreme court (differ - - ent justices now) held it constitu- - tk>nal. THEIR TROUBLE 5 Speaking of tax, the worst trouble the Republicans have in New Jersey - Is said to be not over Governor Har old G. Hoffman's stand on Haupt 1 mann, but over his ill-fated and now ’ repealed sales tax. And in Ohio, the Democrats are having rough sledding because they imposed and have retained a sales tax, which bears heavily on the wage ’ earner. It is devastating to the ■ weekly budget because it applies to ’ food and clothing and medicines as 1 well a* everything else. Governor Martin L. Davey, whose administra- ■ tion has been under constant attack • for extravagance and political kilo ‘ cyncracies, may not be able to make the grade for re-election because of is insistence on keeping the sales tax if re-elected. e e < DAVEY’S OPPONENT Indeed, Governor Davey may not even win renomination. He is being , opposed by Stephen M. Young, con gressman-at-large, from Cleveland. Young, a New Deal Democrat, is making speeches such as this: “In Ohio the governor, his cabinet officers and other high-salaried state officias are exempt from the federal income tax. There is no state in come tax on such salaries. I favor such a tax properly graduated instead of taxes on necessities which soak the poor and retard recovery. “In Ohio a poor woman who pur chases a 10-cent soup bone must pay 1 cent as a tax. This is a 10 per cent tax. Yet there are $47,000,000,- 000 in bonds held by wealthy people of the country that are absolutely tax-exempt.” Young said also: "The day I take office as governor I’ll clcee that great big executive mansion. And there is something more important than hold ing an elaborate inaugural ball when little children are going to bed hun gry.” The primary on May 14 will tell the tale. * • • LAUDATORY Virtually all the possibilities for the Republican presidential nomina tion now are being “honored” with books on their lives. The books are highly laudatory. Perhaps the delegates to the Cleve land convention will vote for the can didate wose boohk tey liked best. • • • LETTER Readers still are discussing the Hauptmann execution. Clarence McConnell of New Wil mington, Pa., writes: < “I agree with you in your article about Governor Hoffman, and it gives me much pleasure to know that there are a few sane people like you. When I hear people talking about getting even and getting revenge my mind takes me to the jungle among wild beasts. “Some people boast about our won derful civilisation, yet we have a long way to go , . ." Well, Mr. McConnell, some people may believe the writer is not so sane as you think. Let’s hear from those who believe otherwise. Not too fast, not too fast. . . . All Os Us By MARSHAL MABLIN I don’t mean, Are you lost on the mountain side wandering around in circles, desperately shouting for help, thirsting and starving and giving up hope? I mean, Are you lost in the midst of human beings, as helplessly lost as you could tto anywhere on ths earth? Can one be lost when people are all around? Os course. You can be lost beyond hope in the heart of a crowd, if you believe you are lost! You oa nbe lonely, you ca npity your self, you oa nbe most miserably un happy—if you want to be. And if you have that kind of disposition you can be lost forever! Once in the heart of the woods the penniless philosopher Thoreau be came separated from is party and was not seen for many hours. When he serenely rejoined his friends and was asked if he had bene lost, he re plied “No, I was net lost! I was on this earth and could not be lost.” Thoreau was not lost, because ha was at horn eamong trees, lying on mosses, watching wild animals. He might have felt lost in a city, but never in the woods. I was lost once and was quite dis tressed about it. But I saw a slice of golden moon caught in the limbs of a bare, crooked tree ,and I found an old man in a shanty who gave me all the brea dan dmilk I could eat and drink, and said I might use his bed. I came away with more than had been mine before. So i suppose that if you look around you, wenever you feel lost, you wil find that you are not lost at all or that it makes no difference if you are. You are still on this earth an dean not be lost, or there are many things right at hand worth while and precious, for you to use and enjoy. Others may be lost, but you can never be! i WHY HE WAS FOOLED! “I turned the way I signaled,” said the lady .indignantly, after the crash. “I know it,” retorted the man. "That's what fooled . j “Darkhorse” Senator Vandenberg Characterized as Hometown Man But His Progress and Undertakings, From Early Days of Newspaper Reporting, Have Been Marked by Dramatic Finesse d • , , " ~~~ Persistent--- w : I i Trenacious— WKSBSOi I- c r ' t boon became " WfeMf ? Manager ' OR lw ',7„.i,.7Tiiiiiiii I vWr e T fflnjMjljiyjl Z z ’4r /B rank T**re « \ 1 JmMwL-L w >wl y. u* • flEgff|R| ;3® ! z 'j> HfurM v rSrr T" \ jl ■ \i jKw e i r lift a I ■ ’ When young Reporter Vanden- Il 1 | r 1 A berg learned that a new owner ■ V «iv\ fa' had bought the newspaper, he hur- Wfer-' jttSf ried to his office, cleaned out a LjJ •?!;>:<hVTh 11 tKKSBi »:< • e y v x *t«» borrowed a chair and ad* e vised the new owner where he Bfilfe could find the editor, meaning . Hmr himself. The next day Vanden* \ '' herg was made general manager, MBHBMMMMk JIL am Z? \ ; ? ■ ’ /? ■■■* F■ ' ■■■■—■—mb Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg bmmbmmbmmbmbmmm By A. P. JOHNSON • Central Press Correspondent. I GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 21— United States Senator Arthur H. Van denberg, although considered the lead ing “dark horse” for the Republican presidential nomination, is very much a home-town man in this, his native sawdust community of Grand Rapids. He bloomed early and suddenly, ac cording to tradition. And with a dramatic finesse which has character ized all his progress and undertakings. The blooming took place while he was city hall reporter on the Grand Rapids Herald, along in 1907. The senator then was about 23 years of age. A year at the University of Michigan, where his studies were in terrupted by his own and his fam ily’s needs, had intensified and partly polished a strong, underlying urge to write. Except tor his tireless energy, he as typical of the mill run species of young reporters. His first break for upward was that out of his earn ings as a reporter—and they were small. He managed to buy one or two shares of stock in the paper on which he was employed. “Bought” With Papa- One day, the late United States Senator William Alden Smith bought the Herald. With it, he got Van denberg, who remained until his death, one of Smith's most helpful assets. When Vandenberg learned that a new owner had taken over the paper, he hurried back to the office, cleaned out a small back room used for storage, borrowed a chair from somewhere, ahd advised Smith where he always could find the editor of the paper. Smith gasped for a moment, looked over Van’s six feet one (Smith was about half his size) and decided against an argument. But that as only the editorial half of the blooming. The next day, Van denberg was made general manager. He then was getting $35 per week. Arthur had heard it rumored that the “editor-manager” business usually traveled in the big money. He spent an eternal three weeks speculating on what the next monthly pay enve lope might contain, anchoring his estimate somewhere around $125 per week. The day came. In happy an ticipation Vandenberg reached for the blessed manila, sauntered nervously to his back room, locked the door and tore the thing open. It contained $37.50. This experience, plus his in herited Dutch thrift, made him an efficient and successful newspaper manager and may explain his aver sion to waste, profligacy and spend ing. A Duality. Vandenberg is a duality. When in Grand Rapids, he walks down the street to his office—an walking to work, if it isn’t too far, is his only exercise—he appears to be lord of all he surveys. Inwardly, he is timid, thoughtful and frightfully self-con scious. He reaches all his conclu sion* through a profound system of analysis, which may account for his billiard playing—if one has time to play with him and wait for his shots. It is his only recreation. Although he is the most-sought banquet speaker in Michigan, Van denberg’s idea of a banquet is a large bowl of succotash overlaid by an equally respectable portion of mashed potatoes. He eats most of what he should not eat and little if anything, of what is necessary to a balanced diet; and always has enjoyed good health. It is proverbial here that Vandenberg actually can forget to eat. His disregard for this little de tail of existence is a source of end less concern to his family. Thorough—Beginning to End. In all our knowledge of him in Grand Rapids, Senator Vandenberg is at his best under pressure. On big news he almays followed copy from the wire into the hands of the news boy. In the days before amplifiers, he religiously left his editor-manager desk to personally megaphone the post-series baseball games to the crowds outside of his newspaper office. Whey he ued the megaphone always has been a mystery. He had in his younger days a full, round, fascinating voice, now quite worn by incessant strain. | Listening to one as sumes he speaks cxtempo. A natural flow of words set up in their right order, gives the impression that he can turn a switch, start his tongue . going, and with no further impetus I keep it going indefinitely. In reality it is probable few labor more on a speech than does Senator Vandenberg. He must have all his facts, all his . colors, pigments and shades before . him. A marvelous memory does the t rest. L Still Viewed As Young Man. , Vandenberg’s particular nemesis ’ is his youth, although he now is 52. ; He still is Michigan's brightest boy. He is “Van” to many—“ Arthur” to a few. Biologically seeped through race and tradition in the domestic , order, he is essentially a family unit. He gratefully accepted an honorary A. M. degree from the University of Michigan and an LL. D. from Hope College, Holland, Mich., but keeps the evidence in his hat band. He is a Mason, an Elk and a Woodman, —WASHINGTONN AT A GLANCE— JUSTICE STONE SURPRISES By Becoming Known As Consistent Dissenter WITH HIS LIBERALISM By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 21—There is nothing surprising in the fact that Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis and Benjamin N. Cardozo are on the liberal sid? of every split deci sion which the United States supreme <ourt renders. They are liberals of long standing. But one scarcely would have thought that Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone would be so consistently of their faction. His law firm of Satterlee, Canfield and Stone had a highly conservative practice. Among its clients, for ex ample, was the house of J. P. Morgan —first the elder “J, P.”, then his estate, in the hands of the present magnate. This was not what one would be likely to call a liberalizing professional connection. ♦ * » COOLIDGE APPOINTED Stonejras appointed, too, to the general’s office and later to the SSJrcme bench by President Coolidge, who was not noted for pick ing very liberal folk to fill import ant positions within his gift. What is more, his confirmation as a supreme court justice was fought in the United States senate on the ground that he was a reactionary. Liberal solons quite generally ob jected to him. An old mining engineer, now dead, of the name of James B. Ownbey, once a small partner of the elder J. P. Morgan, came all the way from Colorado and waged a formidable campaign to try to show that Stone was unsuitable. He charged that Stone had furnished the legal acu men to slim-slam him, according to his own account, out of approximate ly $1,000,000, in the Morgan estate’s interest. Colonel Ownbey was armed, besides, with a resolution of the Colorado legislature, expressing sym pathy with him. He also had the support of the now defunct People’s Legislative Service, a creation, prin cipally, of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, and therefore, nat urally, a mightily liberal outfit. ♦ * ♦ LIBERALS IN SORROW The extreme liberals believed that they had suffered a severe jolt when the senate confirmed Stone's supreme court appointment. Some of them voted for him, to be sure. \ The late Senator Thomas J. Walsh was one of them, I recall. I asked him how he reconciled his ballot with Colonel Ownbey’s complaints, and the senator said, “Even If the colohel was slim-slammed, it was done strict ly according to legal Hoyle.” Senator Walsh was a fanatical leg alist; If what was done, was done staturatorially it was right, as per his reckoning. • • • THE CASE Parenthetically: What Stone did, according to Own bey, as a Morgan lawyer, was to dig up a long-forgotten, obsolete law, and suddenly apply it to the colonel’s dis advantage. # ’ It was a Delaware law and the f, Delaware legislature, its attention - though by nature inactive in all | things except what is before him to i do. He goes to church (Congregation • al) to commune with himself rather than for edification. Withal, he is deeply and sensitively spiritual, with a steady leaning toward orthodox truths. The character of the man may best be judged by his most outstanding bit of personal behavior to those of us who know him as a townsman. Though not a teetotaler, he declined to take a single drink of intoxicants on American soil during all of the prohibition period. As an editor, he preached loyalty to the Constitution and to American laws. He could not, he maintained, preach one thing and live another. called to the matter, hastily repe"!ed it. But that was too late to help Col onel Ownbey. • • * BELIEVED CONSERVATIVE All this was of a nature to give Justice Stone an extremely conserva tive send-off. As a supreme court justice he is as inaccessible as any hermit, but I interviewed him as attorney general I thought he was a moderate conser vative. Yet here he is lined up, reg ularly, with radical Justice Cardozo and still more radical Justice Bran dels! Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes has some liberal tradition. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts is a little bit liberal. Heaven forbid any liberality in Associate Justice Willis Van De vanter, James C. Mcßeynolds, George Sutherland or Pierce Butler. But one would not have expected to ori?y JUSt Ce St ° ne 111 the llberal min ‘ Contract Bridge WHAT THE law DIDN’T Dear Mr. Shepard: One of the four players who participated in what I am about to relate, refers to It as ‘what the law did.’ I consider it should be termed, what the law did not. What do you think?” The PT'iter goes on to recite a portion of the latest Laws of Contract Bridge pages 29 and 30. In substance the rule is as follows bslow. ♦ 10 2 * 6 I ♦96 5 4 2 ♦AK 7 6 4 ♦ 5 3 A 7 ft * KJ9B K • a « l ’ 4 I* * ’32 ♦Q 8 3 L <B. ♦lO 7 * J 8 2 AQIO 1 ♦ AKQJ 98 4 V 5 ♦A K J ♦ 9 3 It is improper to use a convention :f which the meaning is not plain, to opponents. It is necessary that a ccnvention so vsed should be fully understood by the other side. Play ers should be ready to explain in de tail the meaning of any such conven tion when requested to do so, and the partner of the one using the con vention may be called upon to ex plain, with the user of the convention requested to leave the table during the explanation. Os course the player using the un familiar convention is not allowed to add any explanations to those given by the partner. The latter must re spond to the conventional call as he 1 has explained ha should. Such a convention was employed by one of four members of the Cres- iTodayistheDciy Jy CLARK KINNAIRD • Copyright, 1836, for thio Newspaper by Ceatrol Press Association By CLARK KINNAIRD Tuesday, April 21: Sau Jacinto Day in Texas. State Election Day in Louisiana. Anniversay of the founding of Rome, a holiday in Italy. New Moon SCANNING THE SKIES: There i* no time to think what to do when an earthquake is upon you. The maximum violence : usually comes within five to 10 seconds af ter the first tremor, and the worst is ordinarily over in a minute. In a small town, the safest place to be is in the middle of a street; in a large one, in a steel building. • • » „ NOTABLE NATIVITIES Elizabeth of York, b. 1926, heir presumptive to Britain’s throne . . . Sir Basil Thomson, b. 1861, war time chief of British secret service, present day novelist . . . Percy W. Bridgman, b. 1882, Harvard physi cist . . . Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, b. 1867, and Dr. Francis P. Gaines, b. 1892, university presidents. Gil bert Frankau, b. 1884, novelist. • • * - TODAY’S YESTERDAYS APRIL 21, 323 B. C.—A date you can figure out by contemporary re cords and references to eclipses: Alexander of Macedon, called the Great, master of the known world, died of fever in Babylon, aged 32. A few days before, in Ecbatana, the Magi had warned him not to go to Babylon because death waited him there! The body was carried 1,000 miles for burial in a coffin of glass at Alexandria. He was ever the in spiration of emperors, even Aug ustus Caesar, who had Alexander crowned King of Kings 293 years aftei’ the Macedonian youth’s death, when the coffin was cpened and the body found perfectly preserved. * • * APRIL 21, 1142—Peter Abelard died, aged 63, the most celebrated theologian and philosopher of his century in Europe. He is remem bered today only because of his classic affair with Heloise, a pupil 21 years younger than himself. Love letters that passed between them are more enduring than all his masterly philosophical and theolog ical writings. Torn apart in life, their greatest wish was to lay side by side in death. But Heloise survived him by 20 years and it was 700 years more before their ashes were interred in one sepulchre, in Paris. • • • APRIL 21, 1783—Reginald Heber was born in Malpas, Cheshire, Eng land, destined to become a bishop and the author of the most popular hymns of te Church of England. He made “From Greenland’s Icy Moun tains” famous with his hymn, but he never saw Zem! ♦ * • 100 YEARS AGO TODAY—Sam Houston led an army of frontiers man with the skill of a Napoleon and defeated a large Mexican force in the battle of San Jacinto, to win the independence of Texas. For weeks, in order to scatter Mexican forces, Houston had fallen back. Then, when he had achieved his purpose and reached a favorable po sition ,he gave battle with his 800 men, killing 630 Mexicans, wound ing 208 and taking 750 prisoners. Among the prisoners was Mexico’s president, Santa Ana. 1 • • * APRIL 21, 1908 —The date upon which Dr.Frcderick A. COok says he discovered the North Pole. Whe ther he did is STILL an unsettled question. • • • - n FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Russians stormed the heights of Ashkala, 30 miles west of Erzerum, and drove back the Turks. It was truly said that the Turks were fighting for the Russians, for Enver Pasha, leader of the young Turks who had risen from the humblest of origins to be master of Turkeyss internal affairs, was a megalomaniac tp whom no one dared offer a word of advice and he fancied himself a great military strategist. He had no share in the Dardanelles defense but he took all credit for it. Now he was conducting the campaign on the Russo-Turkish frontier in viol ation of all the canons of good gen eralship, though he had qne of the ablest of German genarsl, Limon von Sanders, at his side. His rela tions with Sanders, chief of the Ger man military mission to Turkey, were strained, and the situation was not helped by Germans who were flattering Pasha in order to undermine Sanders. Same day, Italians captured 001. di Lani, a point of great importance and gave new impetus to their . drive against the Austrian!. I (To be continued cent Athletic club. Opponent* asked the maker of an opening bld of 3 Spades to leave the room while his partner explained what the call meant. South intended the bid M a call for partner to show Aces. If partner held no Ace he hed to bid 3-No Trumps. North explained that the call asked him to bid 3-No Trumps in case he had stops to the three unbid suits .otherwise to pass or show his own big suit. South was called back. North re sponded with 4-Clubs, which South thought showed partner’s lowest Ace. South showed his Ace of diamonds, by bidding 4-Dlamonds, then North ran teh bid up in diamonds every time partner bid spades, ending with a cal of 7-Spades, doubled by Wset. The opening lead was the 5 of spades, which declarer won in his own hand. There was only one thing to try, and dummy’s Ace and K of clv.bs were taken. A low club was led and ruffed by declarer, establishing two good cards of that suit in dum my. The North hand was put in with its 10 of spades. Fortunately, all ad versely held trumps fell. On dum my’s two established clubs declarer discarded his lone heart and the J of diamonds. The remainder of hi* cards were good, giving him a grand slam doubled.