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Show THE BULLETIN NEWS QUI z WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaUlNE WHO'S Netherlands Invasion Foolish, Say Critics of Nazi Strategy; Churchill Blasts Peace Hopes NEWS THIS Rcteatad by Waslera Nawipapar Union. EUROPE: By LEMUEL F. PARTON Dutch Episode heben." ICluedk auias der Mens "A fellow has to have hick," commented Adolf Hitler when he escaped the Munich beer hall explosion by 20 minutes. But the allies wondered if It was luck. So hysterical were the Nazi cries of British conspiracy that many an observer on the opposite side of the fence called it a cunning plan like the 1933 Reichstag fire to weld German opinion. In Britain, where Nazis were blamed for the incident. Hitler's yells served only to unite the empire in its vow, to "free YORK. Rudolf Frlml. mak er of melodies for 25 yean, final ly gives credit to his collaborators. With the ouiji board, he's always N' Sgreat Noted Composer Creditt Ethereal composers. "J"? while they help him round out a score. He never knew why the "Song of the Vagabonds" Juit sang Itself through in five minutes, faster than he could score it, until he learned that he had an ethereal spokesman, or spooksman. Ilii career, from the start on down to hie present year, is a testimonial to eocnlt guidance. In planting him al-- j ways in the highway of Lady Lock. In Pragne, his birthplace, his father worked In bakery. One day, his mother gave his father money to bay wood, Fates or phantoms guided him Instead to a pawn shop, where he made a down payment on a tiny piano. Rudolf "s mother was so angry she wanted to chop It to pieces, bat the boy persuaded her to let him keep it One day the owner of the bakery passed by, heard the lad playing beautifully and helped groove him Into his musical career. At the age of 10, he had pub-fished a barcarolle. In the musical conservatory of Prague, where he studied under Anton in Dvorak, he teamed up with Jan Kubelik. They were playing at a concert which Daniel Frohman happened opportunely to attend. He took them to the United States for a tour of 80 cities. Whether or not Mr. Frlml was Just an amanuensis for spirits, his compositions streamed along rapidly "Glorlanna," "The Firefly," "High Jinks," "Music Hath Charms," "The Vagabond King," and a whole album of others, none of them seeming to be of ghostly Inspiration. Hollywood still keeps him busy and successful. ; i i ' ; j "Ka-tinka- FRONTIER DUTCH-BELGIA- N treat of the Nelherlondi Black-i- n could bo flooded; arrows show prao-abl- e ronton of invmsion. NetherUndt mould bo used for aerial operation! bates against Britain: Belgium would furnish new path to Franca. ," and Belgium, like that of Poland, and Austria, will be decided by a victory of the British . . . and the French . . ." Only an hour earlier all hopes for mediation offer the Dutch-Belgia- n (made a week before) went glimmering when Britain's King George sent a long and polite message acknowledging the peace move but pointing out that any further proposals must come from Germany. Czecho-Slovaki- a Queried about commun,1,m Success Idyll overrunning The Reich, Europe after the war, he asks, "What of it? What Is the difference between communism and a society where a tax takes half of the income and a surtax the other half?" Be says the day of Initiative and enterprise Is past. He Is an authority en that subject Sixty-twyears ago, he swept out a store In Klpon, Wis. Two years later, he was an errand boy for Marshall Field A Co. In Chicago, and a partner when he quit. In 1904. Punch ribbed him mercilessly when he opened bis store In London, and the smart salons were full of clever mots about the American Invader. He made them like him. He hired as head of his dress de partment Lady Afllick, who had thought p the cleverest Jokes about him. Here in 1937, he was optimistic about Europe and the world in gen eral. Now he says, "The opportu nity to achieve and to show results has been eliminated all over the world." for her part, was attacks charging the Netherlands and Belgium e were their neutrality by to the British blockade. border Despite a German-Dutcincident and Nazi flights over Belgium which were repulsed by antiaircraft guns, the little nations remained cooL After agreeing that an attack on one would be an attack on the ether, they took pains to point out that "our mobilization stands as a guarantee to all beUigerents that our neutrality will be maintained." Military experts meanwhile pointed out that a Nazi invasion of the Dutch lowlands would be foolish. Only possible advantage, and that a minor one, would be to bring German air bases 50 miles nearer Britain. But by the same token Britain could also violate defunct Dutch neutrality, flying straight over the lowlands to German industrial strongholds instead of taking a round-aboroute to avoid Dutch h links them with the Germans and promises to "vO- - what were the preparations? Hint: They took place In Chicago. 2. True or False: Treasury Secretary Morgenthaa win ask congress to raise the statutory debt limit above the $45,NO,000,000 mark, which it win reach next year. ChurchllL War at Sea conferees meeting in Moscow were having trouble revising the southern border between the two countries on the Karelian isthmus. After several days of this, during which the Soviet press warned that Russia would "find ways and means of obtaining whatever we need," Foreign Minister Errko suddenly announced the negotiations had definitely ended. Europe wondered what would come next for the Russian bear was obviously out of sorts. n DEFENSE: Army & Navy I. Official U. 8. corn production estimate for 1939 is bushels. If domestic and export requirements will take 2,575,000,000 of these bushels, why must 1940 corn acreage allotments be reduced about 10 per cent next year? In other words, why Is there a corn problem? 4. Choice: Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera made news because: (A) he refused to let Irish soldiers fight with Britain in the war; (B) he refused to release hunger-strikinmembers of the outlawed Irish Republican 2,591.-063,0- of the National Economy league, the U. S. got as good a reason as any why it should stay out of war. Whereas our participation in the World war cost 24 billion dollars at the time, Gebhart figured the cost to date was 57 billions. Moreover, any future war would cost at least 30 billions a year and would probably bring "inflation and ruinous taxation (which would) probably mean a lower standard of living for Twenty-on- e years to the day after Armistice was signed in the last war, German planes swarmed over northern French territory from the Indo-Chin- hard-fiste- d SB AMES mo t . ni ine nyws la New York, German-America- n Leader Frits Kuha trial charged with steal- Bund went on ing $5,641 in Bund funds. C In St. Louis. Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Ecclea plumped for more taxes sgainst large corporations and high salaries to defray cost of armament and balance the budget. Washington Steelmen Ernest T. Weir and Charles R. nook insisted before the monopoly in- (la vestigating committee that their e wmu service.) I industry is highly competitive. CAIso in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickcs askrd passage of the Cole bill to con trol oil production. DOMESTIC: Neutrality IT. S. Disappointing to would-b- e profiteers was the reaction to removal of embargo restrictions against belligerents. As expected, orders for motors and aircraft increased, but purchase of war supplies was not large in terms of aggregate export volume. Some quarters expected orders to pick up later, but any hopes for a boom were nipped in the bud. Spectacular trade gains of September and October were no longer apparent At New York, Federal Works Administrator John Carmody warned that only 500,000 of the 9,000,000 u- Jobs from the wartime business pickup. A mere serious problem was the depression facing at IV" k011! CURRAN In Madrid H, was hinted that Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco insists on removing Catholic Cardinal Vical y Barraquer and several bishops because he believes them hostile to his regime. anti-aircra- ft army under a lieutenant general; expansion of air force, coast artillery, civilian personnel, GHQ and post properties. Navy. Before asking any appropriation for sea forces, Illinois Rep. Ralph E. Church suggested that the navy department should be reorganized: "Our committee (house naval affairs) has been unable to find out. at times, who's responsible for what. We had a secretary of the navy (Swanson) who was unable to be at his office . . . and then we had an acting but not duly confirmed secretary (Edison)." "Be grabbed me with his right hand and kept choking and choking." surly fellow was wearing a pair of brand new khaki pants and in order to get his mind on something beside threats and violence she said, "You've got on a fine new pair of pants. That material would make a lovely skirt" The fellow turned suddenly to Elizabeth. "Would you like a skirt made out of this stuff?" he demanded. And without thinking, Elizabeth said, "No, I wouldn't care for it" And the next minute she knew she had said the wrong thing! "At the time I said It," she says, "I had no Idea of casting aay aspersion ea the king'a khaki, but this bravo bucko flew into a rage. 8o von don't like the color, eh?' he shouted. 'Wen, I'll make yon like K!' " And the next thing Elisabeth knew, he bad her by the throat! Crazed Soldier Terrorizes Daughter of Inn Keeper. MISCELLANY: Spanish Ouster Rep. Joe S tames returned to Washington and reported an acute need for coast and defenses "all along the Atlantic and gulf seaboards." Meanwhile it was announced the war department would ask $1,300,000,000 next congress, the first "overall" appropriation request in departmental history. Planned reorganization: Creation of four armies made up of nine corps, each "Tans" Start Drinking in Murphy Barroom. "We lived in the rooms upstairs ever the bar," says Elisabeth, "and each member of the family, from mother and father on down, did his or her bit behind the bar. On this particular . day mother and I were on duty, mother behind the bar and 1 on the outside handing trays of drinks around. The Tans' sat down and drank steadily, and after several 'small paddies' one of them began to get obstreperous and nasty, and poor mother tried to quiet him down by being extra nice to him.". But mother didn't have much success with the fellow. She had barely started talking to him when he began to get abusive, and then threat enlng. And mother thought it would be best to change the subject The (Answers at bottom of columnj old-ag- ALABAMA'S STARXES A ioftOOtile expert. p, in the little town of Dingle, County Kerry, and on that fateful July day two "Tans," as the British troopers were called, walked in and called for drinks. army; (C) he started a campaign to discredit the Blarney stone. 5. True or False: In his encyclical to the U. 8., Pope Pins XII praised American education. - ' to Elizabeth. There's a doggone good reason behind Elizabeth's way of thinking, and that reason goes back to the days when she was a girl in Ireland, living with her mother and dad. Back to July 6, 1921, when, if you'll remember, the Black and Tan revolution was going on in the Emerald Isle! Maybe you'll remember, too, that that was a pretty tough revolution. The Irish fought a guerrilla warfare, and the English sent some pretty tough customers over to keep order. All through that mix-uElizabeth's family ran a pub, or bar, g Jobl mmnm. commerce generations to come." the merchant marine. Since U. S. One good way to avoid war is to boats cannot sail in combat areas. arm against it, which will be No. 1 New York ports soon became Jammed on the congressional agenda Janu- with Jobless sailors and idle boats. ary 3. Defense is making news Among the first to cry out was C. L these days' on both army and navy O.'s Joseph Curran, president of the fronts: national maritime union. Army. Having become an expert Within a few days the President by traveling 28,000 miles visiting began ironing out this mess. Followarmy establishments, Alabama's ing conferences wifii Joe Curran, Maritime Commission's Emory Land, and A. F. of L.'s Joseph Ryan and Matthew Dushane, the White House outlined three tentative remedies: (1) Extension of social security e to provide seamen with pensions and unemployment insurance; (2) absorption of beached seamen in a maritime training program; (3) absorption of others in vessels convoying strategic materials from nonbelligerent ports, under the government's $10,000,000 program. Western Front al 00 From Director John C Gebhart nemployed could expect ut soO. and towns." And he means to do Just that. of M. Sarraut, as governor-generwas regarded as French and implacable colonial a administrator. Returning to his country villa In France, he read Tolstoy, and renounced all belief in force. When he became minister of Interior, his enemies, catching him thus off guard, swarmed all over him. He resigned from the ministry and said: "I find now that I have no desire to smile hip and thigh those who do not think as I do. Ton gentlemen take over the Job and see what yon can do with It." He again became minister of the interior, but offered his resignation when King Alexander was assassinated in Marseilles. But, taking the premiership, he sgain swung his war club, hotly denouncing obstructionists snd meddlers. Alternately tough and conciliatory, he is a vetof eran of the French politics. A vacation, in hit garden, where he is given to reading, and meditating, is spt to bring on the Tolstoyan mood. (CoMJltdnted Features submitting CHURCHILL - rough-and-tumbl- for newspaper French SARRAUT, ALBERT interior, swings on the French Reds with a spiked club. He all silent except o BWeep this famous criminal was to be released from prison, his cohorts ea the entside made bloody preparations. Whs Is the criminal and Said Finland's Foreign Minister tBJt.tlon. Tough One Day, from Pacific the Next L Less than two weeks before Eljai Errko to a U. S. newspaper man: "I believe there is a place GORDON SELFRIDGE, the Anglo American merchant prince, visiting this country, makes It a tossup between communism and ruinous Albert Sarraut ft Finnish-Russia- EVERYBODY: know, if Death can be said to have a color, most people would say that color was black. Maybe a few of us reconnaissance planes had reached within 23 miles of the city before guns sent them scurrying for home out of formation. Though still spasmodic and unorthodox, western front warfare showed precipitous gains which observers attributed to two blasts, one at Munich and the other from Winston called Sandy Hook outside New York harbor. How would you like to hand that over to some foreign country?" This, he indicated, was the reason Finland refused Russia's demand for a naval base on Finnish territory at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland. There were also reports that Raw would pick red as the most appropriate hue for some of the more violent forms of the thing. But to Elizabeth Murphy of Queens, N. Y., the color associated with death and danger, and adventure, is khaki. And khaki it will always remain RUSSIA: Finnish Sandy Hook H H. G. Self ridge Sect Patting of HELLO Most noteworthy maritime news Any hope for peace went dwin- was the reappearance of German dling when Winston Churchill, first merchant vessels in the North sea, lord of the admiralty, made the defying Britain's blockade. Two most vitriolic attack on record: '1 such boats were sunk and their will not attempt to prophesy wheth- crews rescued by a British warer the frenzy of a cornered maniac ship. Off Singapore, in the Far win drive Herr Hitler into the worst East, 20 were killed when a merof all his crimes but I will say with- chant ship struck a mine, sinking out doubt that the fate of Holland in 15 minutes. Nazidom's only contribution to the warfare was a pointless 1,200-mil- e bombing flight to the tiny Shetland isles off Scotland, where a few bombs did no damage. Reason: There was nothing to damage. : & "The Color of Death" Europe." fifty-nint-h wn ADVENTURERS' CLUB ' channel to Switzerland. That night they made raids along the frontier. A week-en- d of intensified activity was climaxed when air raid signals began screaming in Paris. When it was over, the French admitted Nazi anti-aircra- fei HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In tbeae columns, they are those of the news analyst and not Becessarlly of this newspaper.) WEEK Collaborator, Know your newt? One hundred is perfect score, and deduct 20 for each question you mist. Any score above 60 it food. Phantom Radio 4, In Mexico City the government with a mysteplayed rious' German radio station which reportedly sent information on ship movements from a mountain stronghold, probably located in Chiapas state. hide-and-se- "He grabbed me with his right hand." she says, "and he kept choking and choking, and at the ssme time shouting over and over again. Do you like it? Do you like it?' without even giving me a chance to answer. It would have done him no good if he had, for by that time my Irish temper was up and I'd prefer to choke rather than make a sign that I had given in to him." But all of a suddea Elisabeth heard something that eooled off that temper of hers. A revolver shot! At the same moment, the second "Tan" leaped ap from the table where he had beea sitting quietly all the time, caught hold of his partner and made him let go of Elisabeth's threat. And then Elisabeth saw the revolver. It waa la the band of her attacker. While he had choked her with his right hand he bad fired that shot with his left. He bad missed. The bullet had flattened against the hinge of the door. Bat bow Elisabeth knew she was dealing with a maa la a mood to commit actual murder and she waa scared to death. The second "Tan" was remonstrating with the first "Would you shoot the girl?" he was saying. The first "Tan" roared, "Yes. Ill shoot her. I don't care who she Is!" Another argument waa starting, and Elizabeth, thoroughly frightened by this time, tried to smooth it over. "It's all right," she said. "He wasn't aiming at me." And again the wrong thing had beea said. For the surly "Tan" whirled ea her suddenly, whipped ap his revolver again and cried, "You mink so? Well, this time I won't miss!" Then the battle started in earnest The second "Tan" grabbed his arm and tried to wrest the gun from him, and at the same time be shouted to Elisabeth to run. "And boy," says Elisabeth, "I did run." Elizabeth Escapes Clutches of Tormentor. She dashed out of the bar and Into the house next door. The neighbors there had heard the shot and wanted to know what was the matter. Elizabeth didn't even stop to explain. She dashed through that house to the back door and out Into the yard. And the neighbors, knowing what sort of thing can happen In a country that is fighting a revolution, ran along behind her. There were three of them in that neighbor family. Elizabeth climbed the fence into the next yard, and they followed. That next yard led to a carpenter's workshop, and the carpenter, and his workmen, when they saw four people dash through his place without even a word of explanation, decided they'd better run. too. Out in the street more people joined in the panic. 0 "There was quite a little bunch of as, all ea the ran together," says Elisabeth, "by the time things quieted down and somebody shouted to as that the Tans' bad left the locality and we weald have no more to fear from them." Elizabeth says that now she looks bsck on it she can see a certain amount of humor in the situation of half a town running because one drunken 'Tan" had fired a revolver, but doggone if she could see it then. "I have always believed," she says, "that I owe my life to that Tan' who interfered with the other one. And wouldn't it have been awful to have died all because of a pair of khaki pants?" (Released by Waste ra Newspaper Unloa.) News Quiz Answet Shortly before Al Capone's release, henchmen in his old Chicago assassinated E. J. organization O'Hare, who had been entrusted with the gambling syndicate managing while Capons wa in jail, and who to let refused go of It 2. False. Murgcnthau laid neither he nor the President, but congress, must take the initiative. Present debt: Over Ml.UOO.OOU.OOO. 3. Because of the huge carryover from last year, much of it now under seal on farms under government loans, and soon to be dumped In the government's lap. 4. (Fit Is rmrect. As a result of his refusal, de Valera was threatened. Me deplored the lack ol 5. false. religious teaching In U. S, schools, the spread of divorce and birth con trol. 1. Tom Thumb Presented to Royal Family in 1854 Tom Thumb Charles Sherwood to the queen and royal family. In Stratton) was born at Bridgeport 1863 Tom Thumb married Lavinia Warren, a dwarf, and together they Conn., on January 4. 1838. His parents were of normal size end he traveled widely and gave exhibishowed no peculiarfty until he tions. He died at Middleborough, reached the age of seven months, Mass.. on July 15. 1881 when he ceased to grow. In 1842 his mother took him to P T 'Keep Fit' Program At thst time he was 28 inches The federal government has lent in height and weighed a little more support to Austrslia's "Keep Fit" than IS pounds, though he later in- campaign by establishing $5,000 ancreased in size. He was perfectly nual subsidies for lectureships in physical education at the six Aus proportioned, sctive. snd Intelligent His exhibitions proved s great suctrslian universities. The universicess and in 1854 he was taken to ties will be required to grant diEngland by Barnum and presented plomas in physical education. Bar-nu- |