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FITCHBURG SENTINEL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1937 JJIMimmillllllmhillllllini ulllUlllllimillllUlillUI lUiiiliiliimiiiHiiifiiiliittiiimi iiiifiiuiiittitiiiniiniii i i 5 3 a 3 Prices Up; Taxes, Too? this week heard the one subject it would like to taxes." Sighting dangers to recovery in soaring prices unless the budget is brought closer to balance, Chairman Eccles of the federal reserve board advocated "increasing taxes on incomes and profits." "Only by this process can monetary inflation be prevented," the former Utsh banker warned. His statement touched'-off public discussion of a problem, which had been getting much undercover attention in the government for weeks. President Roosevelt broached it in a. "fireside chat" supreme court reorganization bill. Holding up the spectre of 1929, he said the collapse of that dark November was again becoming this week or month, perhaps, within a year or two." The rrian in the street wondered he meant.

Eccles provided' k. a partial answer. The situation: Depression has added to the public debt year by year until today it stands at a record peak--almost $35,000,000,000. The billions spent to. increase employment have paid dividends in recovery.

But the spending of borrowed funds cannot go on indefi- nitsly. Seeking to spur private industry to reduce the government's relief burden, the-reserve board has pursued an "easy money" policy. But prices risen'faster than etnp'syinent, arousing fears that money might be- to maintain the free' flow of credit. He considers 1 balanced budget at Washington imp.or- tant to that end. prices rise and the budget stands of balance, demands for inflation increase.

And inflation carried too far brings a crash, Prices: Going Up in both parties at the capitol found Eccles' words not to their liking. "Let's go slow about hiking summed up their reaction-. For the average person, who has seen jobs increasing and wages 'going up, the discussion centered around one problem--living costs. While still some distance from the 1929 point, they were.on the way. up, clinging to the coat tails of basic commodity prices and wages.

In. Wall street, depression prices were back on the quotation boards for copper and some other basic commodities of trade. The rise was world-wide. Feeding the ascending's i i a broadest world advance of the recovery period, economists saw various forces, among them: increased expenditures for arms, a sharp gain in new gold production, dwindling supplies of raw materials, and large- scale industrial production. Labor The WORLD This WEEK By The Auociafed Preu Administration A Conservative Tradition Ever since President Roosevelt proposed to change the Supreme Court, people wondered what the justices of the idea.

But tradition says court members shall not discuss their work. a i i McReynolds a a i i i week. At his fraternity banquet the 75- year-old who a has voted against a hinted he McReynoids Discuss public affairs instead of the usual fraternity, questions. Cheers and applause led him on. Said he: "The evidence of good sportsmanship is that a man who has had a chance to present a fair case to a fair must be a good sport and accept the-outcome." While he did not mention specifically, the President's plan, he told the small group he was unable to say "the situation is rosy.

"But I like to believe," he added, "in the courage of the American people, and I hope they make a solution of which they may be proud." Administration supporters argued before the'senate judiciary committee that the President's plan was essential, to bring a modern point of view to the court. Spokesmen for organized "labor, professors of law and others disputed over the broad committee table with Senator Burke and his fellow Democratic opponents of measure over whether expediency was being substituted for Sometimes voices rose-in protest and committeemen differed among themselves over procedure. But in general the questions raised and the points presented were already so familiar that calm prevailed. Several senators so attentive at the start a week ago absent-mindedly scratched weird designs on- tiny note pads. The opposition's chance was scheduled to come Monday, when Senator Wheeler will lead off in presenting the case of those who prefer constitutional amendment.

How Cartoonists Viewed Significant Developments In The Week's News Hay in the City Star The Cross Winds Of Washington Orr in the Chicago Tribune Tough Game For Those Who Can't Keep lip Eldermon in the Washington PUst Tanglefoot Quotes Dr. E. Townsend, sentenced to 30 days and SI00 for contempt of the house of representatives: "No man with a grain of iron would lie down to a lot of public servants, and that's all congress is." Dr. Lauren.ce B. Chenoweth, University of Cincinnati: "The' present generation just coming into manhood is physically superior to any other generation concerning which definite scientific knowledge exists." Adolph Zukor.

fiJm producer: "Give me a film that is.generally clean, that is romantic enough to. transport its observers out of themselves and their everyday troubles, that is logical, and with some shade of humor, and I'll give you a film that will make money." People Roosevelt Relaxation Umpire Dykstra Gets A Call Friends call Baseball Fan Clarc-nce A. Dykstra a "better than average" umpire. As the i i of Wisconsin's new president the six- foot-four ex-professor will need to Around The World American railroads restricted scrap iron shipments to eastern and southern ports to relieve a traffic jam caused by Europe's rearmament needs. Pope Pius issued an encyclical denouncing Died: Dr.

Elihu.Thomson, of electric arc holder of 700 patents, at Swampscott, "Happy Jack" Eckert, "fatest man in the world" (739 Fldmaton, of auto accident injuries; Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson, 66, Spanish-American war hero, at New of heart disease; Sir Austen Chamberlain, 73, former British foreign secretary, of heart disease, at London. Married: Allan Hoover, son of and Miss Margaret Coberly, at Los Angeles. District of Columbia police held 35 men after on "a widespread capital gambling syndicate." The California senate rejected a proposal, passed by the assembly, to pardon Thomas J. Mooney.

The Albanian parliament decreed women may not wear veils. For $11,000 a junk dealer bought "the world's shortest 5.7-mile line between Middleburg and Schoharie, William Lowe Bryan, 76, Indiana.university president 35 years, resigned and was named president emeritus. Count Charles de Chambrun, French diplomat, was shot by an ex-newspaper woman. Engaged: Melvin Purvis, former G-Man, and Janice Jarrett, "most photographed girl in the world." Amelia Earhart began her scheduled 33-stop flight around the world. Abroad 'Puizi, 1 Plot, Poison -LL by calling a meeting for Clichy, Paris industrial suburb.

Protesting, communists massed behind street barricades and flung bricks and bottles when mobile guards tried' to escort the rightists to safety. Three times the guards charged. Numbers of benefit payments since AAA was created in 1933. of workers who received wage increases (totaling $168,118,000 annually): on Monday. During last year, said Assistant Labor Secretary McGrady, industry's payrolls have increased of which represented pay hikes.

832--The a a death toll, as reported by the Red Cross for 10 states, excluding Ohio. by in Szechuen province, China, since January 1. by the senate commerce committee for "promotion of air safety." At Home Insults: No Boycott When Hitler came into power and began systematic i of Jews, American Jews retaliated with a systematic boycott of nazi goods. Always sensitive to anti-nazi criticism, "man newspapers became To Allan: A Nod APOLEON, prototype of the modern dictator, otice? invaded Egypt and dreamed of extending the influence of Francs over part of the Moslem world. A century later, it was the German Kaiser, intent on the Berlin to Baghdad route that might, split the British Empire, who proclaimed at Damascus: "Say to the 300,000,000 Moslems of the world that I am their friend!" "Now if Mussolini.

Dictator of Rome, the seat of the Catholic church that crusaded against Mohammedans for centuries, Mussolini this week paraded through 'north antfan-' nounced to Moslem subjects: "Your sacrifices towards winning the new empire are solemn proof of your faithfulness toward fascist Italy. Italy is powerful and certainly wul not forget this." Did he fancy himself another Lawrence of Arabia, influencing Islam to back plans for an even greater Roman empire--one that might rule many of the lands that once paid tribute to ancient Rome? It was Lawrence who broke. the hold of Germany and Turkey in Arabia and gave Britain new power, over the Moslem world. Anti-British sentiment among Mo-" hammedans anywhere would menace her empire. For in the Moslem world near the Mediterranean, ties of ligion and race often are than political boundaries, and a ferment that was stirred Libya might easily spread to Egypt jmd (See map.) Note: or Moslem world, numbers 209,000,000 followers of Mohammed, of whom 160,000,000 live in Asia, 44,000,000 in Africa.

Most of Libya's are Moslems; most of Egypt's most of Palestine's 1,260,000, Moslems do net use the term Mohammedan. Secret Of Success How does a nation keep friendly with Moslems? Correspondents traveling with II Duce fpund one answer: Italy had repaired old mosques, built new ones and set aside schools especially for followers. Black-bearded Governor a 1 proclaiming. Italy a Moslem power, another: ho attempt convert Mohammedans would be per- "The only authentic oasis of peace and tranquility among Islamic populations in the whole Mediterranean," boasted "is Libya." (Notable trouble spot: where British troops are hard put to keep order between Arabs and Jews.) As II Duce received Moslem homage in Libya, 8,000 British troops joined with Egyptians in Egypt's greatest military maneuvers. Ostensibly they were to test recently-mechanized army units: did they also point a warning to Mussolini? 8 New Trouble; Old Style Labor developments in Detroit, center of the mania, have followed a pattern cut six weeks ago.

went to'the courts last month for aid in ousting sit-downers from its Flint plants, it won an injunction. Said Circuit Judge Gadola: strikers held GM' property they get out or be fined $15,000,000. But they stayed in until Governor Murphy a week later maneuvered a (Compromise on the union's demands. This week it was Chrysler that had ah injunction. Said Circuit Campbell: "This court is bound to in the lawful use.

of its property. There can be no compromise between the rule of law and the violent self-help." The 5,000 sit-downers in Chrysler's Detroit plants' were ordered to -get out by Wednesday morning or be 'fined $10.600,000. the deadline passed with the strikers still.in. Again the chief trouble was the union's demand, not granted in the GM strike, that it be the only agency bargain with employers about wages and Elevators Run Again Murphy entered the auto strike scene, fresh from a major victory-settlement of a one-day strike that tied up four of the city's largest hotels forced such celebrities as Lily Pens. Sbnja Henie, Tyrone Power ar.ri 2.500 other, guests to trudge up and down long nights of stairs and carry their own The solution: submission of differences to a three-man nrbitration 'commission.

a conference of representatives of i labor and the public. Murphy proposed final some such commission go to work before strikes evor were called. Would it really settle disputes? Auto union thought not. President Martin, argued: "Collective bargaining is the only satisfactorv method (for employers to deal with employes), and when through resistance by the employers this has not been established, labor must adopt the most effective means of inducing management to'bargain. Workers have discovered through years and many defeats that special boards and com? mittees, however well intentioned, have never proved satisfactory." Warm Springs: Drove around the grounds of the foundation he established for out his income tax.

report at the last minute: swam; issued an executive order limiting the importation of Canadian red cedar shin- "gle's; -visited his'farm' and he said, were "fine'-'); nursed a sty on his left eye; discussed with Ambassador Bullitt the possible creation of a government school to train foreign service officers: 32nd wedding anniversary, S't. Patrick's day. telephoned a message'tp; the Charitable Irish Society, of Boston. Defense In The Air Because of the comparatively short water hop from the.Aleutian islands to northern Asia, U. S.

military strategists long have regarded Alaska-: and the Pacific northwest as the America most vulnerable to- air attack. back up naval defenses of that area, the army this week pushed its program of building strong-second- line defense of sky fighters. General Malin Craig, chief of staff, announced selection of Tacoma, as the site for the first of a series of army air bases in strategic section's. Toward Fewer Sighs If 3 good many income tax re- turners made the same mistakes, next year's blanks may be a little simpler. Returns filed thus week are being studied by treasury experts i to eliminate "unnecessary complexities." In particular, they suspect something ought to be done about the regulations concerning deductions: expects collections will totalabout highest in March since World war days.

Tight. The. huge administrative burden not worry a man who has been Cincinnati's city" a a since 1930, but he will face also a troubled situation climaxed by Dr. Frank's of re-" gents charged the 'iiberal Frank with. inefficiency: Frank charged the board and Gov.

Phil La Follctte with playing politics. Dykstra is F4, a former teacher of political science at the i i of 'State, and the i versity of Kansas. For seven years he helped direct the. Los Angeles water a power department. During the January flood.

1 when he was virtual dictator nf i i a i he.worked. 36 hours at a stretch, refresh ing himself naps in an office chair. He--erijoyS playing' the 'organ and' the piano- and he bests most of friends at Sleeping Widow Convicted last week of Helen Wills Love of Los a plump, 31-year-old brunette, commented: "I can will myself to die. I can lie right down there and die if I will it." The next day it looked as if. she were right.

She would not--apparently could not--get up when the-jail matron called This week medical experts gathered around trancelike Mrs. Love. Her pulse was weak and her bodily functions paralyzed. She did not react to pin pricks or ammonia fumes. In six days she.

lost. 10 pounds. Said a psychiatrist: "An individual trying to'get away from reality-from an intolerable situation." Puzzled, the judge postponed sentence, which can be from seven years todife. German No. i--Disappearance of 'big, jolly Ernst Franz 'Sedgwick "Putzi" iianfstaengl, nazi foreign press chief and Hitler's For five weeks no one had heard from him.

His job was abolished. Chief.clue: his mother that Hitler was sending him on a secret, mission, (to Spain, 'guessed Chief motive: his sarcastic tongue had put him in Dutch with nazi even per Fuehrer, for whom "Putzi," a Harvard graduate, used to play the piano, was displeased. Just as friends speculated he might not return, "Putzi" was spotted in Switzerland. What was he doing? Had he been to Spain? He wouldn't clear'up the rriysfery. German No; 2--General Goering's sudden warning -against those who.

might seek to "overpower Germany' by murder and cowardly assassinations." Had someone tried to kill Hitler? Officials said no--the phrase was just an "emotional outburst" Rumanian Illness of handsome, scheming Queen Mother Marie. For four days no news of her condition leaked out from Bucharest. When, it did. and newspapermen asked what was wrong; they met a strict censorship. Some foreign observers tried to put two two together.

Recalling that King Carol recently had shown displeasure with: the fascistic Iron Guard, end that the Guard had been charged with political murders in the past, they hinted that Marie had been poisoned. Then Rumanian officials, giving such arithmetic a zero mark, ssia Marie was suffering from gastric hemorrhage i influenza. Blood Test Not yet safely through one-crisis, Premier Bluni of France into another. Blood' was the cause this-week--not gold. French rightists started the trouble TtrecT Where Italy Makes A Bid To The Moslems Corning Up Monday a committee hears opponents of Supreme Court plan.

Thursday American Bankers Association, regional Atlanta, Sunday Easter. I PALESTINE A A Page CopvHoftferf. tiit. Thf Astvriitcd Press) Does Mussolini want Moslem backing for an even greater (See "To someone into the communists, who another shower, of bricks. More shots rang out.

The guards smashed the barrier's and the communists retreated to the town hall. Toll of the night-long rioting: 5 dead, 300 "The massaire of Clichy," communists called of their strength in the coalition cabinet, they were in a position to unseat the premier. First, result of the riot was'a Paris strike by a million workers protesting "fascism." New Nation Chinese, Mongols and Japanese' long have contended for supremacy in snowy northern Chahar province. This week China heard that Japanese and a group of Mongols had won out. With Japanese aid, the reports said, Prince Teh Wang independence from China and set up a new state, Mongokuo, the size of Ohio.

Its boundaries: north, sovietized 'Outer Mongolia; east, Japanese Man- choukuo; south, the Great Wall; west, strongly fortified Suiyuan province, which 'last fall defeated Mongbl- Manchoukuan troops. The new nation would realize an old Japanese ambition, to set up a buffer between Manchoukuo and Outer Mongolia, where Russian influence is strong. How far it would advance the ambitions of Prince Teh to restore lost Mongolian glories was problematical. Enlist And Get Fed Most European countries leave off the "please" when they say "join the army." Democratic Britain stiD believes in coaxing. Newest inducements for recruits: an extra nieal each day, real butter, employment of civilians for duty.

If all this fails to bring the army up to quota, will Britain try the draft? Oddly Enough Hollywood Wallflowers Would you like to dance with twinkle-toed Eleanpr Powell? Eleanor thinks not At a party, she said this week, she's just a wallflower. Same thing goes for Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers and others -of the screen's dancing beauties. Eleanor's-uxplanation: men are afraid they'll look foolish with experts. Dawn-Tooter At six o'clock every- morning, Farmer Charlie Hughes tiptoes across a footlog bridge to a 20-foot pole, climb to the top, sits, down on a board and blows reveille. The idea is to do a good deed for his Baxter, neighbors and to develop his chest He celebrated the thirteenth anniversary of the custom this week.

American leaders of the movement were prepared for more attacks after'John L. Lewis, Hugh Johnson, New York's Mayor LaGuardia and others urrfed a New York mass meeting this week to intensify the boycott. They. Jo day Der. Angriff, newspaper of the German propaganda minister, blared: "American Jew Leaders Insult German People" and called on President Roosevelt to "intervene energetically." Although the st.ory was yanked from the next edition, the German government formally protested American "insults," and for the second time in two weeks, Secretary Hull apologized and explained that' the U.

S. enjoyed free The protest this time- centered on Mayor LaGuardia's reference to Hitler as "without honor." L'aGuardia's suggesr tion that a statue of Hitler would be a good subject for a chamber of horrors, the newspapers retorted so strongly that the U. after apologizing for did some protesting- itself. German newspaper readers learned nothing of that nor of Berlin's reply, that no offense was meant. Secretary Hull advised bofh sides to find subjects they could discuss more temperately.

Taming The Trailer The trailer, which stole the 1937 auto shows, has. given state governments new problems in taxation, and safety. Tp find a iini- form answer, an eastern states' highway safety" conference agreed this week to write a model law. Meanwhile, it asked all states to hold up trailer legislation. A report that skyscraper trailers were on the way--with coaches two and three stories high--had the conferees worried.

Twelve and a half feet they decided, was high Trailer notes: In Florida, a coach being built for European travel has an extra door on the left side (England says "keep to the running water; a shower, and a separate room for the chauffeur. In New York, police investigated vainly a new-kind of theft of a trailer from a Manhattan lot. Rails Up For a hundred years almost everyone has believed that railroad rails must be short (usual length, 39 feet) to allow for expansion in summer and 'Contraction fri winter." But they don't, really, said the American Society of Civil Engineers this week. As proof it pointed to rails laid more than a year ago in Pennsylvania and New York, all of them more than a mile long, some a mite and a half'. Their purpose: smoother riding, longer life, Jower maintenance costs.

Made by welding ordinary raili together, they were droppea from flat cars, much as a transoceanic cable is dropped from a ship. "An alarmist campaign has been evident in the more or less great democratic.countries over my trip to. Libya. It. does not enhance'the 'cause of rearm on -sea, in-the sky and on land," he shouted to a crowd, of 100,000 in Tripoli, "because it is pur imperious duty.in the face of the.

armaments of others!" For Ammunition: Notes Spain's loyalist government trained diplomatic guns this week to offset insurgent -attacks, by land and air on Madrid. To the League of Nations it protested that Italy were waging'undeclared war in Spain. Insurgent strategy, said the government, was for two Italian divisions to take Madrid while Gennan, and Italian Warships attacked Barcelona and Valencia. (Under the quarantine plan, which finally became effective this week, German and Italian vessels patrol the government-held coast line.) A similar protest was sent to the U. which Spain thought should be interested because of the Kellogg peace pact.

For British and French help, said London, the loyalists had offered in insurgent held Spanish Morocco. Mysteries Marie's Ulnew and "Pntzl's" plans weio secrets. (Sec lUitHmiinnimuiHHiwiMn.