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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH I Weekly News Heview " Gigantic Military Bluff Game Focuses Attention on Europe I fly Joseph W. La Iline- - 1 Labor Since coming to the U S. from Australia. Alien Harry Bridges has become John Lewis' chief C. I. u. aide among Pacific coast mar.time workers. Last month the canism committee of Rep. Martin Dies (Dem.. Texas) produced inter-esting charges about Harry Bridges. The charges: (1) That he is a member of the Communist party, having been seen paying a $2 assessment and mem- - bership dues; (2) that he Is more interested in advancing Communism than the interests of his maritime Foreign Seldom had the world seen such furious shadow boxing. In France, 100 motor busses burned up the roads, carrying troops to the frontier in a maneuver that made Frenchmen recall Gen. Joseph Simon Gallleni's taxicab roundup of 1914. Premier Edouard Daladier's' cabinet, which a fortnight ago had shuddered at the idea of a longer work week, now condescended meekly. And Paris looked to Eng-land as a frightened child looks to its mother. Back to London rushed German Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson. Back, too, rushed vacationing cabi-net members. In the morning, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain walked his wife around St James park as if nothing had happened. But by afternoon his cabinet was immersed in gloom. Echoing puz-zled Britain's thoughts, the isola-tionist Daily Mail cried: "The Brit-ish public are disquieted ... ru-mors of all sorts go 'round, but from official sources people hear nothing. It Is time that the British public were frankly told what is happening." Much would Mr. Chamberlain have paid to know what was happen-ing. Cause of this international fuss-ln- c was Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler. luke warm New Dealism, "Cotton Ed" Smith's defeat was asked last month by Franklin Roosevelt. Gov. Olin D. Johnson, strapping. World war veteran, who had Franklin Roosevelt's blessing. His chief campaign argument was that "Cotton Ed" once remarked a man could live in South Carolina on 50 cents a day. Actually. Governor Johnson misconstrued his oppo-nent's speech In the senate opposing the wage-hou- r bill. He really meant that South Carolinians could live cheaper than New Englanders. Slate Senator Editor Broun, once Governor Johnson's colleague in the state Democratic organization con-trolled by Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer. Two days before the election, he withdrew and threw his support to Senator Smith. "After weathering this stormy bat-tle as best they could, South Caro-linians marched dutifully to the polls and sent "Cotton Ed" Smith back to the senate. That night, standing under a statue of Wade Hampton, the South Carolina governor who ended carpetbagging and Negro domination. Senator Smith donned his Red Shirts uniform (equivalent to the old Ku-Klu- Klan) and in-toned: "No man dares to come into South Carolina and try to dictate to the sons of those men who held high (Vv. liBn). Clan T? , ,Kn r t IT T and "I r ilill )i'l1ITv-- " 111"1 MADAME SECRETARY PERKINS Shirley Temple vs. Harry Bridges. who even then was doing some fuss-ing of his own. Two days before, England's Sir John Simon had warned Germany to keep its hands oft little Czechoslovakia, on pain of war with Great Britain. But Adolf Hitler answered this bluff with a new bluff, preparing to keep his 1,000,000 reserves under arms until r. Flying from one fron-tier to the next, Dictator Hitler proudly surveyed the war machine that all Europe fears he will soon point at Czechoslovakia. For more than a month, Britain's Viscount Runciman has struggled to arbitrate differences between Czech-oslovakia and her 3,500.000 rebel-lious subjects, pro-Na- ' Germans living in the Sudeten region which fronts Greater Germany. While Adolf Hitler's official newspapers whip up Nazi resentment against Czechoslovakia, Sudetens them-selves have been doing their best to stir up trouble Their leader, Konrad Henlein, has obeyed Herr Hitler by refusing all mediation ef-forts by Viscount Runciman or Czechoslovakia's government. Since Germany would quite likely gobble up the Sudetens if given an opportunity, Great Britain has strongly protested Konrad Henlein's demand for autonomy. Last week, after sitting calmly through these protests, Sudetens pointed an admir-ing finger at England's autonomy arrangement with Ireland (Eire). While Viscount Runciman blushed, they asked why a similar arrange-ment could not be made between Czechoslovakia and themselves. After a week's bluffing, the end was not yet in sight. For his part. Fuehrer Hitler blufled that he want-ed (1) complete autonomy for Sude-tens: (2) repudiation of Czech al- - Wade Hampton!" A haven for old folks, California periodically gives birth to pension ideas. Townsendism arose there, so did Upton Sinclair's E. P. I. C. (End Poverty in California). This year's pension plan came from Sheridan Downey, a San Francisco lawyer who would pay $30 each Thursday to every Californian who is jobless or over 50. Downey pension would be paid in script, legal for taxes or goods. Pen-sioners would stamp their warrants every week with 2 per cent of their face value, purchasing stamps with real money. At each year's end, every $1 warrant would bear $1.04 in stamps. The state would redeem it for $1 from the stamp fund and re- - r : i c j5 '.:': workers; (3) that he once said "To hell with the President of the United States"; (4) that he claims more power behind him than the U. S. government; (5) that Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins had more than enough evidence to deport him. Harry Bridges' deportation was blocked last April pending a court ruling which does not forbid aliens to belong to "the Communist party or any other party except one which teaches overthrow ... of the gov-ernment of the United States." But, armed with his evidence, Chairman Dies demanded that Sec-retary Perkins resume deportation action against Harry Bridges. Next day came the answer: "It is not usual for the legislative branch ... to attempt to usurp the functions and duties of the ad-ministrative branch. I cannot ac-cept your analysis and evaluation of the evidence ... as it appears to have been made without sufficient knowledge of the law . . ." "Perhaps it is fortunate that Shir-ley Temple was born an American citizen and that we will not have to debate the issue raised by the pre-posterous revelations of your com-mittee in regard to this innocent and likeable child." Plainly, Madame Secretary Per-kins did not intend to deport Harry Bridges, and Representative Dies could do nothing about it. Crime At Philadelphia's county prison, 600 convicts went on a hunger strike. Three mornings later, 25 ringlead-ers were led to the one-stor- y "Klon-dike" building with its row of tiny cells, each 3 feet long by 4 feet wide. liances with France, Russia, Po-land; (3) Czech pact with Germany; (4) Czech customs union with Germany. Though Eu-rope was jittering badly, the dis-interested observer could count noses and find Adolf Hitler forlornly friendless. Lined against him were France, Britain, Russia, Czechoslo-vakia. Silent, but presumably fa-voring the Czechs, were Rumania, Jugo-Slavi- Even his best friend, Benito Mussolini, warned he would not intervene in the Sudeten squab-ble. Politics Last month, South Carolinians were treated to the unique political show that no other state can boast. Since law demands it, three Demo-crats running for U. S. senatorial nomination traveled together, stayed at the same hotels, de-nounced each other daily from the same platforms. These men were: Ellison I). ("Cotton Ed") Smith, who has stayed a South Carolina senator 30 years by championing CALIFORNIA'S McADOO He'll get $30 every Thursday. tire it. On this platform, heridan Downey ran for Democratic sena-torial nomination against William Gibbs McAdoo, incumbent. Last July, Franklin Roosevelt spent three days with Senator Mc- Adoo, asked Californians to him and censured Candidate Down-ey's campaign as "utopian." Same day as South Carolina de-feated Franklin Roosevelt's candi-date (see above), Californians also exercised their franchise. All day they voted, and at Los Angeles the excitement rose to fever pitch. A short, sharp earthquake was felt. By midnight, the President heard about his second defeat of the day. Candidate Downey was nominated. Next day, California's Supreme court met to decide the legality of "$30 every Thursday." A viation Once a captain in the Russian czar's guards, Alexander P. de Sev-ersk- y came to the U. S. when he found himself an exile, established a name for himself designing speed planes. His latest ship: a low-win-single- motore- d military pursuit plane which Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran hoped to fly in this year's Bendix races. To test his new ship, Seversky flew from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours, 3 minutes, 7 seconds, bet-tering by almost lVt hours the mark set in 1933 by Roscoe Turner. Carrying a remarkable load of fuel in its wing-to-win- g tanks, the ship can cruise 3,000 miles, would be a logical convoy for new U. S. "fly-ing fortresses" that cruise 5,000 miles. Miscellany Fifteen years ago, in 1923, an earthquake killed 150,000 Japanese in Yokahama. Night before this year's anniversary, sentimental retired, planned to spend the next day in mourning. At mid-night there was a high wind. At 2:45 a typhoon struck, collapsing houses, grounding steamers, flood-ing streets. Pushing on to Tokyo, the typhoon killed hundreds. Thus was an earthquake's anniversary observed. Into each cell, whose doors are sol-id except for a slot, whose walls are lined with disproportionately large radiators, guards tossed four or five prisoners. Then they turned on the heat. By noon the convicts were suffer-ing. By nightfall they fought for the privilege of sucking air through the door slot. By midnight they prayed on their knees for guards to turn off the steam or shoot them. By next morning they cried Insane-ly and clawed at their own par-boiled flesh. By evening most of them lay senseless, but the heat was not turned off until next morning, when guards inspected their vic-tims, four were dead. Into this modern black hole of Calcutta walked Coroner Charles M. Hersch to arrest four guards, charg-ing them with homicide. Prison Su-perintendent William B. Mills said the men had died from injuries re-ceived fighting among themselves, but Coroner Hersch thought other-wise. As his investigation began in-volving not only prison authorities, but all Philadelphia officialdom as well, he threatened: "Before I am finished, everyone responsible for this revolting situation will be pun- - ished." Pet ambition of every navy is a fleet second to none. Never in U S naval history has a chief of opera- - tions voiced absolute contentment with his equipment. Last year as 1938's war scare was just to beginning sprout rM FOREIGS), congress approved a huge naval building pro- - gram to squelch its navy's growing inferiority complex. Last week, in the seventy-fift- h an-niversary issue of the Army and Navy Journal, Admiral William D Leahy made a remarkable state- - ment: "The new will give the United Stafes f0f first time U e a homogeneous fleet, well-- balanced and equipped with modern weapons and machinery " But naval satisfaction proved1 short-live- Though the U. S now has 18 capital ships, 8 aircraft ners, 18 heavy cruisers, 23 lieht cruisers, 144 destroyers and 58 plans were rushed to ask congress for 18 more ships in a 1939 40 construction program. ESSaW'.I'm" ..' MiWUMmMP qHMWESJJ ,mmaw W' " SOUTH CAROLINA'S SMITH Southern womanhood was vindicated. three stock issues white suprema-cy, the price of cotton. Southern womanhood. Under Franklin. Roose-velt's party leadership he has been an "80 per cent New Dealer," op-posing wage-hou- r and government reorganization measures. For his a btitched Samp In Floss That Oztt in th eun Zfi" in the morn ,Qjfn when e loo Want some color ime your room? Then embro cheery sampler. It jj cross stitch with the flc other simple stitches. pat contains a transfer patu Pune! "j4. by 15 inhe chart and key; materials' illustrations of stitches. To obtain this pattern cents in stamps or coin preferred) to The Sewir.i Household Arts Dept 25a St., New York City."' 1 7avotite tltl ofi tli2 Uwb COCONUT CAKe 1 cup of butter 12 teasponj Hi cups sugar 2 teaspoon! 3 egg yolks powder 1 cup coconut 14 teaspooi 3 cups cake flour 1 cup oranj 'a teaspoon vanilla 3 egg whitl 1 teaspoon orange 1 extract I Cream shortening thj Add sugar gradually. t beaten egg yolks, then Sift flour; measure, add so ing powder, and salt, three times. Add to first alternately with orange ju extracts. Fold in stiffly egg whites last. Bake in t inch layer cake pans 30 at 375 degrees. Frost w: frosting. AYE LASSIE IT 1 A COSTS LESS BEj A CAUSE IT BURNSH iff BETTER AND HXtf lasts longer: J .j One Tear j It will afford sweeter hf in the hour of death to haft away one tear from the sorrow than to have rulcl. pire, to have conquered r or enslaved the world. 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Policemen seem to NEW more social security than almost anybody else, if they behave themselves', and yet about 70 of them have com-See- k Cause mitted suicide in For Cops' New York in the Depone X liceman's life is not a happy one" was not made clear by Gilbert and Sullivan, but members of the New York force are out to find out and do something about it. Their new and unique "trouble clinic" has been investigating and prescribing. It lists eight reasons why policemen get in distress, and the list Includes Just eight brands of money trouble. The news today is that the department clinic has official sanction and Is opening headquarters in the old World build- - j ing. Patrolman Joseph J. Burkard of the traffic squad, an energet-ic, resourceful self-starte- r, In the department 20 years, pio-neers the new clinic, with the aid of a young patrolman who is a student of psychology at Co-lumbia university. They brought in Dr. Menas S. Gregory, famous psychiatrist, and Dr. Carmyn J. Lombardo, also widely known as a specialist in men-tal disturbance. The clinic already has handled 150 cases, some of them of extremely serious nature, The clinic was established under the Patrolmen's Benevolent associa-tion, of which Mr. Idea First Burkard was Tried Out elected president last yar- - 11 is By Legion said to have been his original idea, suggested by sim-ilar work by the American Legion, of which Mr. Burkard is a former New York county commander. He has been a genial mixer in the department for many years, vice president of the glee club and long active in the affairs of the P. B. A. A friend of this writer, gathering' ' material for a book on New York, quoted to a young police lieutenant Inspector Williams' remark that "There is more law on the end of a policeman's night-stic- k than there is in a decision of the Supreme court." "That's bunk, and it always was," said the lieutenant. "Col-lege men are joining both the police and Ore departments. J. Edgar Hoover, and others, are helping to bring about a new conception of a policeman. The 'flat-foo- t' era Is ending." . And then, said my friend, the lieutenant disclosed that he was a college graduate and engaged in an informal discussion of psychiatric training and methods in connection with police work. Would the cops have made their own psychological clinic in Inspec.to.r .Williams' day? "pHE late Texas Guinan gave George Raft a pair of gold-plate- d garters. They brought him luck and he still wears them. The sleek, . slow-eye- d young 1 ex "tnan Italianf alumnus Gave George of New York's Gold Garters Hel1'8 Kitchen, has taken success in his easy dancing stride he's an but, like other moving picture stars, he's beginning to look a gift-hors- e in the mouth. He doesn't like his role in Para-- ! mount's "St. Louis Blues," and the company suspends him. It is one more instance of increasing es-thetic sensitivity in movieland. In and around Hell's Kitchen, he was a professional light-weight boxer, winning 25 fights, kayoed seven times. He was an outfielder for the Springfield (Mass.) minor league team for two seasons. He did well enough, but it was a sideline of impromptu hoofing and spoofing which paced him Into the night clubs and the . big Broadway shows. He achieved a sinister, reptilian suggestion in his dancing which made him known fraternally up and down Broadway as "The Old Black-snake.- " He was just looking on at the Brown Derby in Hollywood when a prowling director seized him as a "type" and ruthlessly sloughed him into fame and fortune. His 1937 earnings report was $202,666, topped only by Cooper arid Baxter, among the male stars. He owns 45 suits of clothes and a piece of Henry Armstrong. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES V gtY OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI VjH i , i ri 'The Nurse and the Thug By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter HELLO EVERYBODY: a holdup story with a different twist almost a traffic one, for, we learn from Augusta C. Gores of Glen-dal- e, L. I., "The gunman confessed to Judge Savarese that he was about to assault me." Had it not been for the curi-ous coincidence related below, Augusta's adventure might have had a different ending. Augusta, who Is a nurse, was attending an invalid patient In Glcndale, and on the night of April 4, 1938, at 11:20 p. m., she alighted from the Metropolitan avenue trolley a block and a half from the house at which she was employed. The road at that point happens to be very lonely, inasmuch as Saint John's cemetery is but a block away. Augusta felt rather creepy for that reason as she was walking that distance from the trolley. Suddenly, ahead of her, she saw a lengthened shadow, travel-ing In the same direction. SOMEONE WAS COMING ALONG BEHIND HER. She looked back to moke certain, and, sure enough, a man was hurry-ing along toward her. Augusta felt the man might be following her, so she figured she would cross to the opposite side of the road in order to see whether the man would actually follow her. He did. Augusta looked back once more as she was crossing, and as she did, the man crossed also. He, too, was looking back to see whether the road behind him was clear. "I was not mistaken," Augusta says. No Chance to Escape by Running. Fear came over her. Fighting for control, she realized in mounting panic, that she must suppress her blind desire to outrun the man. No hope lay in that course, she must use her wits instead. Behind her the footsteps grew louder. At last, unable any longer to restrain herself, Augusta turned. Not a foot away from her was the man. She attempted to turn back to the avenue, as there were several cars going through, but the fellow prevented her from doing so by telling The drunken thug was getting rough, and Augusta began to tremble. her to go on ahead of him and obey his orders as he had her covered with a gun and would use it on her if she screamed or made any attempt - to call for help. At the same time, Augusta says, the man pressed his body up against hers so that she might feel that he had a gun. The man wore a leather Jacket, and had his hand in the breast pocket, concealing the weapon. This was enough for Augusta. All thoughts of flight vanished. She knew she must somehow talk her way out of this situation. But she knew in the next instant that she didn't have a choice. The man was under the influence of liquor, and he was past the reasoning stage. Augusta Invented a Husband. As the man began getting rough, Augusta told him desperately that she expected her husband along any minute, and that her husband was a police-- officer. "You'll be In for an awful lot of trouble!" she warned the persistent annoyer, hopefully. Augusta adds in parentheses: "I happen to be a widow." She thought by manufacturing this story the man might go away and let her alone, but, on the contrary, he seemed inflamed by this threat He became rougher, boasting that he could handle the situation, and Augusta, seeing now how drunk the fellow was, began to tre"mble inwardly. And despite her rising panic, she knew that her one hope lay In just one thing SUE MUST NOT LET THIS FELLOW KNOW HOW FRIGHTENED SHE WAS OF HIM. To scream was useless; there was no one who would have heard her cries. Augusta's one hope lay in holding off her annoyer until some-one should happen along. , The man was powerful, and Augusta was powerless against his drunken strength. In vain she wrestled to free herself from his grip. He was just about to overpower her when, turning down the road, Augusta saw the headlights of a car. Her Savior Was a Policeman. The thug had his back turned. Augusta, recalling her feeble threat of a few moments back, cried out: "Here he comes now!" The Instant's attraction was enough. While the thug wheeled to face, as he thought, the approaching police officer (Augusta's fictitious hus-band) she pulled away from him and threw herself Into the range of the headlights! The car was traveling at a pretty good clip, and the driver told Augusta afterward that he did not see her until he was al-most on top of her, and actually came very close to running her down. Augusta leaped on the car's running board, begged the driver, a man. to help her, explaining that she was the victim of a holdup. By this time the thug was making his getaway. He was making good headway, WHEN SUDDENLY AUGUSTA HEARD A SHOTl And here's the strange coincidence. The very man Augusta had stopped in the car proved to be a police officer in plain clothes, who was coming home from a prize fight. He was a total stranger to Augusta, but he must have been just as effective as If he had been the Imaginary husband she had tried to scare the thug with. Because the next scene in this drama shows the thug up before the judge. Augusta was commended by the court upon being able to hold the man oil long enough for help to come. Copyright. WNU Servlc. Park's Fame Due to Voice South Dakota is unique in its pos-session of the only national park whose fame is due to its voice. Wind cave was first found because of the strange whistling noise that is caused by the passage of air in and out of its original entrance. The phenomenon is believed to be due to changing temperatures outside the cave, as the direction in which the wind blows through the entrance depends upon atmospheric condi-tions. Apes Test Coins As protection against the wave of counterfeit coins in Siam, mer-chants of Bangkok and other cities have installed large apes as coin-tester- s. Every coin received is giv-en to the ape, which puts it in its mouth. If it is good, the animal drops it into a receptacle behind him. If it is bad he throws it on the floor, chaptering loudly. How they know the difference is a mys-tery, but they are said always to be right. Mount Rainier Third in Height Washington's Mount Rainier, 14,-40- 8 feet high, is the third mountain in height in continental United States, being topped only by Mount Whitney in California and Mount Elbert in Colorado. Rainier is the loftiest of the huge extinct vol-canoes which dominate the Cascade range of mountains. Its nearest ri-val. Mount Shasta in northern Cali-fornia, is 250 feet lower. Honored With "Great Graves" Among certain tribes of Indians in Colombia and Ecuador not long ago, the depth of a person's grave was gauged by his former standing and influence, says Collier's Week-ly. While ordinary individuals only rated an eight-foo- t burial, important men such as chiefs, witch doctors and rainmakers were honored with "great graves," often sixty feet deec Rabbits Very Small at Birtn Eyes of young rabbits open on about the eleventh day. On thi seventeenth day they are usually away from the nest Little rab-bits weigh about an ounce and half at birth. By the time they are 56 days old, they weigh a pound each. |