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Show THE BULLETIN. BINfiHAM. UTAH i j Weekly News Itevien New Dealers Win and Lose; Girdlcr Storms Strike Quiz 'whe'n Sweden's eligible P inc. Bertil visited New York las month, he wined one night at a fashionable Manhattan night club with friends. One friend was blonde and Lesley Hyde Ripley; lauded in next morning's papers for drinking milk instead of champagne. If Lesley Ripley drank milk to save money, her father spent much more than his daughter s debut her savings on last week. A seldom-fallibl- e sign of U. a. business trend is the amount In-vested by socialite fathers on their daughters' "coming out" parties. When Franklyn Hutton staged Bar-bara's debut, money ran free throughout the U. S. Depression wwVW1 Politics In Idaho, Republicans were Jubi-lant. In Ohio, they were hopefuL In Arkansas, where they never had a chance, Republicans went about their workaday tasks and forgot pol-itics. But as homeward-boun- d Frank-lin Roosevelt looked at rapidly mounting primary returns from his 48 states last week he must have wondered whether his next congress would be any more coherent than the last. His "purge" had partially failed because Iowa's Gillette, Missouri's Clark and Nevada's McCarran were sure of But with a few exceptions his wheelhorses were sure to be back in Washington next winter. To most observers it looked like congress would again be a hodge-podg- e of multi-colore- d politi-cal thought without party lines. Judiciously timed, the national emergency council's report on con-ditions in the South was released .v. w r Sjyi4t9S9f ttov W B Apr lJJ rmm t itiis-- x , s jt- -i pm.il. mtifw wwiw,mmw9WkWF&wvwvwmtyXpxi ' .... v f . A ..'.L-'.Lk- . La. to $49,167. The five-ye- total: $172, 978.03. Said Son James in comment: 1 got into places I never would have if I wasn't the son of the President But son or no son, I got tossed out a lot, too." Countered Alva Johnson: "His figures show that his net lncm would have been more than $60,000 last year except that he split it . . . to avoid higher tax brackets." Aviation Last week at Floyd Bennett field ended the first non-sto- p Berlin to New York flight. Down from rain drenched skies dropped Germany's monoplane, Branden-burg, carrying a crew of four In rec-ord time of 24 hours, 57 minutes. Because tiny Canton and Ender-bur- y islands are perfect c stopplng-of- f places for transoceanic planes, the U. S. asserted its claim last march by planting colonists on each. Great Britain protested, anx-ious to guard her thus-fa- r undevel-oped Pacific air rights. Last week came as novel a settlement as dip-lomats have ever seen. Canton and Enderbury will be owned and devel-oped Jointly as U. avia-tion bases. Crime In the early 1930s, Chicago's gang warfare was so bad that many an visitor wired ahead for police protection. But Scarface Al Capone finally went to Alcatraz and A Century of Progress exposition helped make the town decent. Last week peaceful Chicago wondered if it would again have gun trouble. Checking their records, police found six underworld murders since Bookie Harry Minor was shot down June 29. Four others had been re-ported the previous 12 months. But while Al Capone and "Bugs" Moran fought a bootlegging war, Chicago's current massacre apparently has roots in labor warfare. Five vic-tims have been union workers, two were aides of an alderman. Foreign "The Japanese sav Changkufeng hill has fallen into thvir hands. They lie. I, Peter Mikiloviuh Klejm, lieutenant of infantry in the Soviet army, am now uilh my division in the trenches on the hill uhirh is safe in our hands. I can see the Japanese trenches only 200 yards away. The yellow bandits are plastering our positions with machine gun fire." Seated at their radios one night last week, the whole of Russia's Soviet Union heard machine gun and rifle fire along the distant Changkufeng front where Siberia, Manchukuo and Korea converge. Next day heavy Soviet artillery pounded the whole four-mil- e front. SENATOR POrE Idaho had its own "purge." Just as the President marched through Georgia to c.ack down on Sen. Walter F. George, the bitter-tongue- d New Deal foe whom he hopes will be defeated by Lawrence Camp. But Franklin Roosevelt had to march around South Carolina on his way back to Washington, be-cause Sen. "Cotton Ed" Smith was almost certain to be renominated regardless of Presidential wishes. Severest blow to New Dealism last week came when Sen. James Pope, administration supporter, was defeated for renomination by Rep. D. Worth Clark, conservative Democrat. But Idaho's Republican primary vote was small, indicating that many a G. O. P. had voted the Democratic ticket to oust Pope. In Arkansas, New Dealer Hattie W. Caraway was renominated to the senate and will be elected next No-vember. In Ohio, Franklin Roose-velt's classmate at Harvard Sen. Robert J. Bulkley was given the Democratic nomination over Gov. Martin L. Davey, arch foe of the C. I. O. Ohio's senatorial race will be Interesting because Bulkley will face Robert A. Taft, a former Presi-dent's son, in the final election. Labor Republic Steel corporation's Tom W. Girdler has never been Last week he stormed Washington and in one fell swoop denounced (1) John L. Lewis' C. I. O. for "violence and intimidation"; (2) the National Labor Relations board for "abridging freedom of speech," and (3) Sen. Robert M. civil liberties committee for keeping its work "one-sided.- " Behind these blasts was last year's Little Steel strike. Ready for release was an N. L. R. B. de- - LESLEY HIDE RIPLEY She was launched for $50,000. debutantes fared not so well. But when Henry B. H. Ripley spent at least $50,000 to launch Lesley in the social swim, it appeared that Re-cession must surely be over. One thousand guests besported themselves in a $25,000 ballroom added to the Ripley mansion. They washed down supper and breakfast with champagne for a total outlay of $10,000. They danced, and the pipers earned $7,500. Decorations nicked the family purse for $5,000. But unlike many such parties, the Ripley Roman Holiday was bought and paid for within 24 hours. Samuel Insull, once monarch of a $4,000,000,000 utilities empire, died in a Paris subway station July 17, clutching a five-cen- t commutation ticket. Last week his will was filed in Chicago's probate court. Sam-uel Insull's estate: "Not in excess of $1,000." liusiness In 1934, NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson organized a consumer goods industries committee to make periodic forecasts on U. S. trade winds. Last week came its most recent report. Trade winds are blowing well, said 20 major execu-tives, will blow even better in the autumn. Excerpts from typical re-plies: From Lammont duPont: "Since July 1 we have operated 5 per cent above standard. Business has im- - proved about 15 per cent." From General Foods' Clarence Francis: "We believe the last half of the year particularly the last quarter will give a fairly good ac-count of itself." Miscellany A fortnight had passed since How-lan- Spencer sold to Father Divine his 500-acr- e estate across the Hud-son from Neighbor Franklin Roose-velt. But not until last week did Fa-ther Divine's personal army of cher-ubim- s and seraphims make a tour of inspection. Led by the man they call "God," 2,500 black and white cultists plied up the river from Har- - lem in a sidewheel excursion boat, stopping first at a newly acquired "Heaven" near Milton, N. Y. Over a table piled high with cold chicken and steaming corn, Har- - lem's messiah told his rapt audience: ; "As his close neighbors we are not going to disgrace the President. We aim to grace him by our pres-enc- Peace, everybody." "Peacel" answered a thousand throats. Next day, as Father Divine made his personal inspection at Crum El- - bow. Eleanor Roosevelt hopped in her car across the river, headed for nearby Poughkeepsie. If inquiring reporters thought she would talk about her new neighbors, the First Lady outfoxed them. "Father Divine?" she What estate? parried. Oh, you mean that place across the river that's been sold? June 30 found the average U S citizen with $49.67 in his pocket. 'Bv July 31, said the U. S. treasury de-partment last week, the figure had dropped to $49.57. Throughout' America John Public checked hi bank account tr,A t . vnm&&:J i cision finding Republic guilty of "unfair labor practices" in the Lit-tle Steel fiasco. Ready, too, were orders for Republic to reinstate 5,000 C. I. O. strikers, and to dis-establish alleged company-dominate- d unions. That Republic objected, is to state the case mildly. In its 136-pag- e brief were 616 exceptions. What Little Steel most wanted was a chance to state its opinion of C. I. O., a chance the labor board seemed unwilling to oiler, Thun-dered the report: "We contend the National Labor Relations act, as construed ... in this connection, is unconstitutional as abridging free-dom of speech." Next day Tom Girdler carried his fight to the civil liberties commit-tee, climaxing a three-wee- k probe of last summer's bitter labor strife. Flaring up before Senator LaFol-lette'- s quiet, relentless he proved no humble wit-ness. Denied was the right to read a statement criticizing the commit-tee's work as "one-sided- ," and de-claring it would be only fair to probe C. I. O.'s records to show what was being done with a $1,500,000 steel workers' fund. MAXIM LITVINOFF He crossed swords and won. Japan and Russia were continuing their five-yea- r "secret war" which broke into international headlines July 11. Throughout the day cannons boomed fiercely. All doubt about Soviet artillery accuracy was dissi-pated. Only one or two sighting shots preceded each direct hit. If they had held Changkufeng hill the night before, Japan's soldiers now retreated under the heaviest bom-bardment since the World war. Still more disturbing were reports that Russia was building new defenses on nearby Possiet bay where hostili-ties were sure to break out. Next night the fight continued, but at 11 o'clock in the morning bugles sounded from either trench and om-inous silence filled the shell-tor- n air. Then it was apparent the war was over. Thus, temporarily at least, ended a skirmish of diplomatic wits in far away Moscow. Foreign ter Maxim Litvinoff had crossed verbal swords with Ambassador Mamora Shigamitsu for two solid weeks, finally besting him. Term: he had lost 10 cent n 31 days One night last week handle wealthy Mr. a,)d vt ,, ' Townsend Arilee reUr'ed Monroe, N. V., cs(atc. SuLn kjior a handy.an sn ei'e l'r Down from a seconds, rV Jumped NurSe Lillian Henv,,'"; the Adlces- -- Vn. firemen ' nS house coi,apSedrand': became an cr- - aly Domestic Last month a Saturday Evening Post article by Alva Johnson esti-mated Son James Roosevelt's an-nual insurance business at $250,000 to $2,000,000 a year, in itself not a very definite guess. Last week to rival Collier's magazine went Jimmy Roosevelt's income tax returns for the past five years, showing the an-nual income ranging from $21,714 of truce: (1) Firing would stop and troops would remain at their pres-ent fronts; (2) All other points at issue would be negotiated between the two nations. Japan had sued first for peace, had surrendered to Maxim 's insistence that the redemar-catio- n commission carry two Japa-nese and two Russians, rather than three men each from Japan, Russia and Japan-dominate- d Manchukuo. j U ADVENTURERS' CLUB - - HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES 0FfEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! v J "Playing With Dynamite"-- By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter HELLO EVERYBODY: old phrase, "Playing with dynamite" has came to mean about the same thing as doing something fool-hardy. That's the figurative meaning of the expression. But literally speaking, the man who monkeys around with high explosives is usually one of the unsung heroes of our age. Over in France, twenty years ago, millions of men were playing with dyna:nite, and T. N. T. and Just about every other explosive known. We didn't call those fellows foolhardy. In those days, it was generally considered that they were doing a brave and noble thing. This Is a story of another such lad who toyed with danger in a good cause. Herman Beaver of Chicago wasn't Juggling explosive In and out of aome sort of firearms over In France. lie was taking an even longer chance with the dangerous stuff. On a hot day In July, 1917, he was working in a munitions plant on the northern outskirts of Milwaukee, Wis., on the banks of the upper Mil-waukee river. Grinding Salvaged Powder. Over in France, millions of men were crouching in trenches, avoiding the explosives that the enemy was hurling at them, but Herman Beaver had no way to avoid the explosive that he was dealing with. His Job was to handle the stuff and to handle it roughly, too. He was grinding salvaged powder that came in to him in chunks and long tubes that looked like spaghetti grinding it In a machine that looked a lot like an hand-operate- d coffee grinder. That powder, when it had been reduced to bits, would be used to load riile grenades. In only one way did that machine differ from a coffee grinder. Between the handle that he turned continuously and the hopper into which he fed the unground powder, was a steel plate fixed so as to shield his body in case anything happened while he was grinding. On this day, while Herman ground away, his eyes wandered out the jvindow and down the row of a dozen or more wooden buildings where the work of loading the grenades was going on. They were little better than shacks, about twenty-fiv- e by fifty feet, built about fifty feet apart, in among trees, so as to obscure the plant's A terrible concussion threw him backward. position from the air. Even in those days they were concerned about airplanes. Those shacks were filled with men and women, and even boys and girls all taking long chances, to supply our soldiers with ammunition. Blast and Deadly Flames. But Herman wasn't thinking about the chances. The view from the window was pleasant. The trees outside swayed In a gentle breeze. "I was at peace with the world," says Herman. And then Without warning, there was a deafening blast Acrid choking smoke filled the air and fire bit into Herman's flesh. He felt the earth rock beneath his feet felt a terrible concussion that threw him backward. It happened so fast that only when he was on the floor did he realize what had happened. The powder that he was grinding had exploded. Behind him were benches covered with pans of powder. In rapid succession they were catching fire. Then Herman saw that his own clothing, heavily saturated with powder dust, was afire too. If they had been soaked with gasoline they couldn't have burned any more furi-ously. "The flames shot many feet above my head," he says. "I was a living torch." He was stunned for a moment, but he managed to stagger to his feet. His whole body one mass of flame, he ran to the door and out of It. By that time people were pouring out of all the buildings in the group. Herman dashed out of the door and kept right on running. He had lost all power of reasoning. All that moved him now was a blind, gripping panic. He wanted to run, and keep right on running until he dropped. And in his terror he was headed for another building a build-ing that was filled with powder. "Lie Down and Roll." If he had run into that building, this story might never have been written. But suddenly, through his panic, he heard a voice. Out of all the shouts and yells of that mob of screaming humanity that was watching his plight, that one voice, and that alone, penetrated his consciousness. "Roll," it was shrieking. "Lie down and roll!" Suddenly, Herman remembered. That was what he should be doing. That was the only way to save himself. He dropped to the ground and began rolling. The pain was unbearable, as burned, smarting flesh came In contact with the hard earth. He rolled over once twice and then he stopped. It was all he could stand. A workman ran over and tried to beat out the flames. His apron caught fire and he stopped to tear it off. Then the superin-tendent ran up. He ordered the crowd back, and he himself began roll-ing Herman over and over. He burned his hands severely, but he stuck at the job until the fire stopped blazing. When the flames were out, Herman's clothing what was left of owed and smouldered like one large, live coaL They rushed him into one of the shacks, sat him down on a box, and began tearing the charred cloth off his body. "That shack was filled with powder," Herman says, "but in their excitement they never thought of that. "There was powder in the very box I was sitting on. The Lord only knows why the whole place didn't blow up. I know I don't And I have two large scars, one on my right hip and one on the front of my left leg, that remind me every once in a while of what a close call I had." Nobody will ever know how that explosion started, but Herman thinks a percussion cap might have found its way into the powder he was grind-ing. "I was working with the lid of the grinder open," he says. "If it had been fastened down when the explosion occurred, the whole machine vould have shattered to bits and I don't believe I'd be here to tell the xtory." Copyright. WNU Servic. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. The playing fields NEW Eton have been given due credit for Britain's power and dura-bility. We seem to have overlooked the playing fields Army to Ape 0f West Point. A Strategy sweeping techn-ics Football cal reorganization of the army is news this week. It might not have come off had it not been for a cer-tain incident on the West Point foot-ball field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, is the reorganizer. He is preparing the army for the open game swiftness, mobility, adaptive-nes- s, as in modern football. It was an instant of inspired open football, back in the Juggernaut days of the guards back and the side-lin- e buck, that saved young Malin Craig for the army and the current reordering of tactics and equipment. Just before the game with Trinity college in 1897, the West Point scholastic command had decided to retire Cadet Craig. Of an ancient army line, with many relatives in the service, he had been visiting around army posts. His marks had suf-fered. The ax was to fall Just after the game. Craig was a brilliant backfield player, but somewhat given to un-planned maneuvers. Carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game, he lost his interference in a broken field. He shook off several tacklers, but, somewhere around the d line, a stone wall of Trinity play-ers loomed head. Ducking a hurtling body, scarcely checking his stride, he booted a per-fect field goal-yo- ung Craig winning the game, Boots Coal with appropriate On the Run Frank Merriwell trim m i n g s. Of course, the faculty couldn't fire a hero. The ax was put away, a tutor was found, and Cadet Craig finished creditably to establish the open game in the American army. He was a baseball star, also, and old Pop Anson tried to sign him for the Chicago National team. Born in St. Joseph, Mo., he was the grandson of a Civil war general. His father was a major and he has a son recently out of West Point. In the Spanish-America- n war, the Philippines, France and in minor mixups, he was a quick thinker and a self-starte- heavily garlanded from the first and known as a "pro-gressive" tactician. A FEW years ago, Richard Strauss was in trouble with the Nazis. The libretto of his opera, "The Silent Woman," had been writ-ten by Stefan Strauss Is Zweig, a "non-Restor-to Aryan." The op-Na- zi Favor era was a floP and Herr Strauss was ousted as president of the Reich Culture chamber and chairman of the Federation of German Compos-ers. He is now restored to official favor. His librettist for his new op-era, "Der Fridenstag," is a cer-tified Aryan, Joseph Gregor, a Viennese poet, and its world pre-mier at Munich Is a brilliant success, with new garlands for the seventy-five-year-o- com-poser. So apparently all is forgiven, and the traditional rebel of the musical world is rebelling no longer. He had decided to save the world at any cost, but turning sixty, he con-cluded he was doing well enough by merely keeping out of Jail. When "Salome" was presented in 190.1, puritanical New York was Salome Was shocked, and the mere idea of its Cause of being given here Famous Row caused a row. Its presentation in New York in 1921 was taken calmly. Strauss' "Murky Psychographies," as the critics called them, didn't bri!!S any riot calls. These muddy phantasmagorias of his earlier years got him into many battles, but he settled down to writing and -- being a good business man to money making. Once, when he was quarreling with Berlin, he was asked if he would play there. "I would play on a manure pile if they pay me for it," he said. "e is no kin of the famous waltz family of Vienna. In mel-low and beery old Bavaria, his father was a horn-blow- er and his mother a brewer's daughter. He has prospered through his later years, the owner of a cas-- ' tie in Vienna and an estate in Bavaria. In 1930, German cities were flght-fo- r lnrr as their leading citizen, w t'i chambers of commerce com-P- ' ':ng and making offers. Then ca-n- the brief eclipse over the "non-Aryan- " associations, and now the full effulgence of his restored career. Consolidated News Features WNU Service. H00LS ANNAPOLIS-Tv- uc COAST 7 ROLLS DEVI Two Pretty Fr Both Easy to P YOU'RE"onToTthi who so often say I wish 1 could sewl" ti means try your hand smart designs, and li many others, jUst as" enced as you are, you'll you can sew, and enj patterns include dea charts that show you to do step by step, and a real thrill out of seeins it is. The Woman's Dri Here we have a da sign, which means you it successfully in a few h you'll find it one of the coming and comfortable 1559 1 wore round the house, on easy, unhampering 1 darts that make it slirr tight, at the waistline, sleeves are slashed, whi them easier to work prettier to look at. Slee line and pointed clo trimmed with ricrac. dress of gingham, seersu cale or calico. The Little Girl's D This dress will make y daughter look even ms able, with its high, sr.i square neck, puff sleeve: skirt. You'll probably make her half a doze: just like this! And she'll beg for at least one liti heart apron, to wear wh helping you-- or thinkfcf For the dress, choose d;t ted Swiss, gingham or For the apron, organdy, lawn. The Patterns. No. 1559 is designed fci 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 anc 36 requires 4 yards ' material; 214 yards of trim as pictured. No. 1468 is designed to 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 1 yards of h mal the dress; yard for Six yards of ribbon orJ trim dress; 1 yard lor and one-ha- ll yards of rt trim apron. I Send your order to H Circle Pattern Dept., t Montgomery Ave., San 'l Calif. Patterns 15 cents I C Bell Syndleate.-Wy- pJ SALT LAKE'SSt Oar lobby I fdjjS cooled during the Radio tor Crery I 200Room-200Bt- lJI HOTEL J Temple Squj Rates $1J2J: Th. not.i remfl, ho' "Tr HIGHLY 2r Yoa can ,WZLtj0' ERNEST CROg Fumage or Chimney Tax The fumage or chimney tax is mentioned in Domesday as paid to the king for every chimney in the house. Edward, the Black Prince, is said to have imposed a tax of a fiorin for every hearth in his French dominions. The first statutory en-actment in England required a tax of two shillings on every hearth in certain houses to De paid to the king. The tax was abolished in 1689 Nature Builds a Bridge Nature is making a bridge in the Kleinwals valley in the province oi Vorarlberg, Austria. The "struc-ture," which spans the Schwarzwas ser river, consists of chalkstone fur rowed by the rushing water. Re-- , ports received in Vienna say it has a span of 30 feet and this is grow-ing. The arch of the bridge is car ried by three pine trees which have grown into it from underneath. |
