Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 9

Mayors Lobby Against Cuts in W.P. A, Pressure to Be Applied to Roosevelt, Who Faces Decision. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HE most important piece of news in the United States today— important from the stand- point of what is coming—is revolt against retrenchment in Federal expenditures. ‘The message of the committee of Mayors sent by radio to President Roosevelt asks him to overrule § ‘W. P. A. adminis- trators in their § decision to cut} W, B A : from $£165,000.000 £ a month to $150.- 000,000 a month. which means cut ting down about 154.000 employes. § This may be taken as a start nf a general movement to hold (he W. P. A. to an appropriation of | £150.000.000 for the next fiscal year instead of cutting it down to help | balance the budget. The money at present appropriated will run out January 20, even after the cuts have | been made. Sn Mr. Roosevelt's first task when he gets back is to decide what he is going to do about the W. P. A. ex- penses. The gencral impression has been that he would ask for $500.000.- 000 from Congress to carry the W. P. A. on to June 30, but even this means considerable retrenchment. The problem ean be reduced to! this proposition: With employment on the increase, and prosperity supposed | to be here or just around the corner, | why shouldn't the Federal Govern- ment be reducing the number of persons on its emergency pay rolls? Burden Would Face Cities. The real answer is that there has been scientific placement of the per- | aons now on W. P. A, and hence merely to cut them off without find- | ing jobs they are qualified to do is simply to throw them onto the city Telief rolls. Likewise, the municipali- ties have been getting certain of their improvements done through Pederal W. P. A. expenditures instead | of through local taxation and now | the Mavors see that any additional | improvements will have to be carried | on through money raised by local tax- | ation if they are to be carried on at all. { There is. of course, the collateral | problem of the persons on W. P. A. | who are accused of not wanting to ! look very energetically for other jobe | because they think that they have a comfortable berth on the Federal Government's rolls and they naturally | prefer what they think is a sure form ©f relief to 1aking a risk on temporary | employment in private industry and | then a lot of red tape in getting back} on the rolls, “Rain Check” Devised. Some of the State administraiors | have arranged in the past to give men cards =0 that they can get back on the relief rolls whenever temporary em- plovment comes to an end. But the | situation now is that when once the ‘W. P. A. rolls are diminished. the indi- viduals cut off will have to depend on city governments and an entirely dif- ferent set of standards in the event that they cannot get jobs or that their temporary jobs are terminated. The New Dealers are beginning to €00l in their enthusiasm for the W. P. A. anyway. because it has to be sup- | ported by borrowing of public funds, @nd now that efforts are being made to #top borrowing and to encourage pri- | vate spending. the emphasis is just the reverse of what it used to be. With the piling up of bank reserves due to the spread of money borrowed by the Federal Government, the New Deal is trying to prevent these reserves | from becoming a stimulus to & run- away bdom or further irflation. Fitness Unknown. Direct Government spending is ree- ognized as one of the major causes of the piling up of bank reserves, but this would not be injurious 1f the spending were covered by tax receipts instead of by Government loans to meet deficits. David Lawrence. But the plight of the W. P. A. worker | ix far removed from theories of finance and economics as practiced in the well- warmed and comfortably appointed offices of Government officials. The W. P. A. worker might well ask where is the plarned economy that keeps on epending for three vears and then sud- denly subtracts the W. P. A. worker from his job without Anding another for him in private industry. Nobody really knows how mainy unemployed there are or what they are fitted to do. Denunciation of business for not hir~ ing more men has been heard for many months, but now business is spending and taking in more employes wherever it is economical to do so. The Federal Government, .on the other hand, has been urged to transfer the responsi- | bility to local communities. It is try- ing to do so0, but without a plan on | the part of many of the mayors appar- | ently to take over the job. (Copyright. 1936,) Air High Lights Today m.—WJISV—Secretary of State Hull. 3:00 p.m.—WMAL—Lohengrin. 4:45 pm:~WOL—U. 8. C.-Notre Dame foot ball game. 6:00 p.m.—WRC—Dinner dance. TONIGHT. P.m.~—WRE€—Dinner Dance. 0:30 p.m.~WMAL—Home Syme phony Orchestra. 7:00 p.m.—WRC — Inter-Ameri- can Peace Confer- ence. 8:00 pm.—WRC — Saturday Night Party. WMAL—Ed Wynn. 8:30 p.m~—~WJISV—Foot Ball Re- view. 9:00 pm.—WRC—Snow Village Sketches. WMAL — National Barn Dance. WJISV—Speed - Show. 130 p.m.—~WRC—The: Chateau. . WISV —The Satur- day Serenaders. 100 p.m.~~WMAL — Dinner of the D. C. Bar Asso- * ciation. < WISV—The Hit Pa-- B rade. 12:30 p.m.—~WMAL—Calling’ All Dolls. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1936. News Behind ihg_ News Washington Friends of Edward Astounded by Issue Chosen for Asserting Independence. BY PAUL MALLON. ING EDWARD'S friends here never contended he was a wizard at statesmanship. They knew also he soonor or later would attempt to assert his independence of the British politicians in his private life. That seems to have been his one ambition for years. But no one suspected he would be foolish enough to fight an issue he had no chance of winning. They expected him at least to choose a question in which he had the right and popular side. Behind the turn of events during the last few ddys is, of course, the same old inside struggle between King and prime min- ister, going back to Victoria’s day and beyond. Their relationship in the British Government often makes for a matural conflict of Ppersonalities, which Edward’s predecessors have solved by invari- able subsevience. Those who know about such things are wondering what would have happened this time if the spunky but unwise King had chosen an issue in which the church was not involved. He might have had a chance if he had a marriage choice, or selected a line of private conduct, displeasing only to Premier Baldwin, whom: he never liked anyway. As it was, Baldwin wisely remained in the background and let the church take the leader- ship in presenting the problem to the British nation. The impression is general in offi- cial quarters here, therefore, that the King really lost his fight when he first chose the issue. To abide by the wishes of church and cabi- net meant permanent recognition of his limited sphere. To abdicate meant surrender. * x x X Published dispatches relate ‘that Baldwin told the King the American Government had informally advised him it was opposed to the marriage. Mr. Baldwin must have misunderstood what he heard from Washe ington. or else he was using an imaginative argument to influence the King. The American Government has told him nothing. informally or otherwise. It will not even whisper internationally about the matter, because it has no interest in it. The ex-Mrs. Simpson is a British subject. But if it makes any diflerence to Mr. Baldwin or the King, most American officials personally agree with the stand taken by the cabinet and the church. They timed their announcement of the State Department ban on alien marriages of American diplomats to indicate what they thought about international marriages of American diplomats. It was a wholly indirect step and had long ago been decided upon in connection with another matter, but it was nevertheless a hint, Three or four government officials here know Mrs. Simpson, and they are for her. The others, who Jook at the matter more abstractly, &s a problem of government, decidedlv are not. What interests the American Government more than the Simpson affair is the British employment figure indicating a new high record at 11,103,000, an increase of 787.000 above the boom peak of 1929. The booming building industry there accounts for much of the djsparity between their unemployment and ours. Production in the British building materials and building groups constituted a record for the third quarter of 1936. Ours was about 50 per cent of normal. Readers out through the country have detected one factor holding back building which was omitted from a recent analysis published in this spot. That is taxes. The Iowa Association for Tax Justice says the tax load on invested real estate makes it cheaper to get a trailer and live in it. rather than rent or build. The Citizens' Voiunteer Committee of Minnesota sasserts tenant-occupied property is almost unsalable at any price in some sec- tions because of local and state taxes, and large residences are worth a small fraction of their cost or assessed value. Among the many talked-of legis- lative suggestions which will never be passed is the one of the Senate Campaign Investigating Commit- tee proposing to limit presidential campaign expenditures to $1,000,000 for each party. Practical politicians know it would only cause campaign or- ganizations to break up into a variety of subsidiaries, and not decrease the total amount spent by all. While the mational com- mittees would undoubtedly limit themselves to a million apicce, their countless subsidiaries could each raise and spend a million. Other obvious subterfuges are limitless. It would require a constitutional amendment to prevent any citizen from spending what he chooses in a political campaign. The State Department has several Wallie Simpson cases of its own making on its hands as a result of jts alien marriage ban. Officials do not want to talk about it, but the kick-backs from the foreign service workers have been strong and hard. It seems that three or four American diplomats were engaged to foreign women at the time of the announce- ment. The United States Government may have several breach of promise suits in store. (Copsrisht, 1936.) GROSS AND WIFE KILLED ’ SERVICE ORDERS Former D. C. Man Dies in Ohio | ARMY ORDERS, Car Accident. Charles E. Gross, & native of Wash- | Ellis, Capt. Wilbur R. Quartermaster ington, who has been engaged in the practice of patent lJaw in Toledo, Ohio, | in recent years, and his wife, Mari- | catherine were killed in an automo- | bile accident Thursday night. accord- ing to information received by friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Gross were driving | between Toledo and Detroit when the accident occurred. it January 1. Sauer. First Lieut. Jacob 8. In- fantry, Hawaiian Department, to Fort Howard, Md, on completion of tour of foreign service. Mitchell, Second Lieut. Clair B., In- fantry, Fort Howard, Md, to the was reported. Panama Canal Department. April 8. Corpe, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Baltimore, | They are survived by two young sons, | Borden, Second Lieut. Mitchell P. | and Mr. Gross also is survived by & | Air Corps Reserve, Charlotte, N. brother, William Harry Gross of De- | troit. WRITER TO SPEAK Address Order of Patriots. Constantine Brown, writer for The | Star, will address the District Society of the Order of Patriots and Founders of America at the society's first meet- | ing of the Winter season in the Cos- | mos Club Thursday night. A dinner will be held prior to & business meeting. and the latter ses- sion will be followed by Brown's talk on political conditions in Europe. Constantine Brown of The Star to | to Langley Field, Va., December 15. MARINE CORPS ORDERS. Porter, Brig. Gen. David D., de- tached headquarters, January 1, to re- | tire March 1. Bales, Capt. William L., San Pran- | cisco, to headquarters, here, December 15. | NAVY ARDERS, Medical Corps. | Yohannan, Lieut. Comdr. Joashi, de- | folk, to Receiving Station, Norfolk. Chaplain Corps. McManus, Lieut. (J. G.) Prancis J, | detached Bureau Navy, December 1; to U. 8. 8. Salt Lake City. Young Washington Every boy likes foot ball and these get as much kick out of the game as any. They are Albert P ta, 12 (holding ball), son of Nicholas Pagnotta, 518 Tenth street, and Thomas Jones, 11, son of Charles Jones, 1311 Eleventh street. Albert iy a stu- dent at Jeflerson Junior High and Thomas attends Thomson School. Monday: James Stricklin, son of Mr. and Mrs. F, N, Stricklin, 1011 Varnum mu‘ northeast, at the Taft Sci 5 —Star StafS@hoto. tached Naval Training Station, Nor- | HE optnions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s eflort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Edward VIII—Dictator? Keeping Throne and His Love, Too, Might Topple Popular Rule BY MARK SULLIVAN. O IGNORE the one major topic I of consegvation would be to| ignore the news. Not in a long memory, not even during the great war, nor in other periods that we thought portentous, can I reeall a time when one subject so exclusively sbsorbed public attention, so univer- | aally provided o the materials of private conser- vation, so fev- erishly occupied the public and aemi public functionaires concerned. For the last half hour I have been trying to get the ‘Washington cor- respondent. of the London Times, Sir Will- mott Lewis. on the telephone. The line is busy. Not. that there is anything new to say about it. But I reeall a phrase I once read in an essay that seems pertinent—I think it was coined | by Lord Chief Justice Hewart — “obedience to the unenforceable.” | It has application to King Edward and his problem. I say “his” prob- lem. But that is one of the difficul- ties. If he had managed to keep it his own problem. he might have had | less trouble—and the world less to talk about. The time for him to| face it and settle it was in the be- ginning. Had he done so he would be happier—“in the inn of decision man sleeps well” But in every de- cision there are two requirements: To do the right thing—and to do it at the right time. At the right time, | which was long ago, the problem, | while difficult, was still simple. There were two things: There was love, and there was the crown. The King could take the lady and let the sceptre go, counting the crown well lost. Or he could do the opposite. Trying to keep | both, he is in the dilemma that mortal | man has butted his head against | since he first invented adages. He is trying to have his cake and eat it too. | He cannot very well do both. More Than a Man. i American novelist Sinclair Lewis. | among some hundred million other | volunteer advisers, writes the King an open letter, inviting him: “David, come over here”; and assuring him that in America “we have a feeling that a man has a right to his own private life.” Sure! But a king is something more than a man. Being a king is a special job—commonly con- sidered, even in these days, a good Mark Sullivan, CUMMINGS TALK. T0 BE BROADCAST 'Attorney General's Address to D. C. Bar on WMAL Tonight. TTORNEY GENERAL " CUM- MINGS will be the principal speaker at tonight's meeting of the District of Columbia Bar Association. The program will | be carried in part by WMAL, which will broadcast from 10 to 10:30 o'clock, | | carrying the talk by the Attorney | General. | Earlier in the evening a talk will be carried by WRC from the Inter- American Peace Conference at Buenos | That program is scheduled Aires, for 7 p.m. ‘Now that the foot ball season is | drawing to a close, Ed Thorgersen | becomes one of the best-informed com- | mentators on the air to review the | high spots and discuss the important games still to come, such as the Rose | Bowl and Sugar Bowl contests. Thorgersen, familiar with grid teams the Nation over, through thousands of | feet of film has seen in his job as | newsreel commentator, continues his | foot ball talks in the Foot Ball Revue | over WJSV at 8:30 p.m. IRHNE BORDONTI, glamorous actress and chanteuse of international musical comedy fame, will sing sev- eral of her original numbers to Ed ‘Wynn's accompaniment as guest artist of the fluttery-voiced comedian over WMAL at 8 pm. Miss Bordoni en- joys a reputation as one of the most colorful figures in the theater on the | American and European continents. She is one of the few “first ladies of the stage” who has won fame both as an accomplished actress and as s popular vocalist. Among her greatest successes have been such outstanding hits “Hitchy-Koo,” “Broadway to Paris, You Were,” “Naughty Cinderells” and “Little Miss Blue- beard.” Ed Wynn will accompany Miss Bor- doni in several famous songs identi- fied with her. The jester and his lead- ing lady of the evening have also prepared a short comedy sketch in which the French chanteuse will as- sume the role of a young singer look- ing for work. 'AMOUS singers appearing in three well-known operas will be heard in a continuation of the -series of broadcasts direct from the stage of the Chicago Civic Opera House over WMAL today, Wednesday and next Saturday. Elisabeth Rethberg, Lauritz Mei- chior and Emanuel List will sing the principal roles in “Lohengrin,” which will be heard in its entirety this after- noon, beginning at 3 o'clock. Henry ‘Weber will conduct. - The third act of “Othello” will be broadcast from 10:30 to 11:15 p.m. ‘Wednesday, December 9, with Giovan- ni Martinelli, Marjorie Lawrence and Richard Bonelli as the principals, and Moranzoni conducting. “Samson and Deliah” will be heard in its entirety Saturday, December 13, beginning at 3 pm. Gertrude Wet- tergren, Martinelli, Chase Baromeo and Carlo Morelli will sing the leads with Weber conducting. @Gold Mining at Peak. Southern Rhodesia 1s employing more men in gold mining than at any mmmmuu:fgam. | breach of which there is no prison | from stealing because of fear of jail, | the lady too. in England. job, Taking it involves certain ob- ligations. A British King must live up to certain duties, affirmative and nega- tive, certain performances and ab- stinences. Some of these obligations are in the area of the unenforceable— and are therefore the more obliga- tory, upon every person and much more upon & king. It is obedience to the unenforceable that makes the world go ‘round, keeps society a going concern. All of us practice it, as a rule unconsciously and instinctively. Men “do the decent thing.” They practice courtesy, consideration, self- restraint. respect for the feelings of others regard for the standards of others, charity for the needs of others, and many additional virtues for the term on any statute book. Even in the area of the so-called enforceable, of formal law, most of us submit not because of the threat- ened force, but because of sense of right. For one man who refrains 10,000 refrain because of inner stand- ards of decency. I think the essay, which I cannot now fully remember, made the point that that civilization is the highest in which the largest area of rule is unenforceable, the smallest area is written into statute. One of the considerable number of things that are amiss in the world is the increasing disposition to rely upon force, to try to enforce the unen- forceable, to “pass & law.” True, David Edward can retort that he didn't “take” the job—it was wished on him by inheritance. But he did take it. in the sense that if he didn't | want it he could have declined it, let | it pass to his younger brother. In| fact, he did “take” the job, and is about to make his taking formal, | through the ceremony of coronation. Conspicuously, rather flagrantly. he is | trving to take the crown and have Consider the Alternative. However, perhaps we can bring this excursion into royal romance back into the more austere field of government which is the usual provinces of this column. Consider the effect of the | alternative outcomes. | Suppose the King abdicates. That would be a triumph for tradition, a vielding to convention. As such, it would be a step in the direction oppo- | site to that in which the world is mov- | ing. It might make for stability, tnr; conservatism. | Suppose the King follows the other course, takes the crown and the lady both. That would involve, apparently, resignation of the cabinet and a gen- eral election in England. Suppose he “gets away with it.” suppose the peo- ple support him. That would mean & | very bizarre thing. It would mean increase in the prestige of the crown, decrease in the authority of cabinet and parliament. It would be a step | toward that personal government | which is now spreading everywhere. | Measurably, the King would make an | advance toward the absolutist con- | ception of government. Well, if the world is determined to have dictators, maybe the hereditary ones are as sa isfactory as the opportunist ones. Kaiser Wilhelm could have been no worse than Hitler—and some of Wil- helm's predecessors were infinitely better than Hitler. Dictatorship mod- ified by the amenities of royaity, modified by popular regard for hered- itary monarchy, might be better than | the raw crudities of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Dictatorship achieved by birth may be better than dictatorship achieved by demagogy and main-| tained by force. However, all this is pretty specula- tive. I warn the reader to regard it A% no more weighty than an attempt to write something on the only topic that, apparently, people want to read about. (Copyright, 1936, Dead Woman Still Unidentified. | LOS ANGELES, December 5 (#). Sheriff’s Deputies Rau Rowe and Warren Hunter said last night after| an investigation that the bodv of & to remain silent through no will of | Fireman John Glynn, 55, at Kansas Responding to the alarm | woman found near Temple City No-| vember 17 was not that of Mrs.| Prances Chandler, missing mother | | of Helen Chandler, film actress. ! eago in 1868, came to the Capital at Wg, tl}e Beople Roosevelt in Danger of Not Keeping Feet on Ground in Buenos Aires Policy. BY JAY FRANKLIN. UR foreign policy is weak indeed when, at any moment, the simple act of another government—an act over which we have no con- trol and to which we can raise no legal objection—could smash our entire Pan-American L President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull are aiming high at the Buenos Aires peace conference. They want to set up a Pan-American neutrality policy which will keep the Western Hemisphere out of the “next” war. ‘They want to buttress this continental neutrality with more profitable inter-American trade relations. Yet at any moment—perhaps even before the eonference has passed from the bows and compliments to the growls and grumbles—one or more of our “sister republics” may recognize the rebel Spanish regime of Gen. Franco and thus junk the whole Pan-American neutrality program. Strong social and political forces are working day and night to bring this very thing to pass, espe- cially in“the case of Brazil. Italian and German diplomacy reinforces the sentiments of Brazil's mother- country — Portugal —in favor of Pranco. The Catholic Church or- ganization is naturally favorabie to the insurgent cause and the action would not fall under the ban of Mr. Hull's present propnsals. For he is talking about the “next” international war—not about the sort of unof- ficial war in the wife's name which Germans, Italians and Japaneze have invented since 1930, not about the sort of joint-stock civil war which is now raging in Spain. Yet Spain is the condition which confronts Pan-American neutrality and to recognize General Franco, under the present cir- cumstances, would be to take sides in the great duel which is shak- ing all of Europe. Since any one of half a dozen of the Americon Republics could take this step withowt violating diplomatic propriety or offending national sentiment, it would seem that the American peace delegation is doing some very fancy skating on some very thin tee, vm f * ¥ ¥ The trade situation is equally fragile. Since 1214, billions have been lost in South American trade by optimistic Yankees. The hotcha bond- issues of the ’twenties—sired bv Prof. Edwin Kemmerer of Princeton— are mainly in default. Since we have not yet lowered our tariffs on com- petitive raw materials from South America, it generally boils down to a proposal that we shall lend the South Americans the money with which to buy our goods. Already there is strong pressure to ignore the defaulted loans so that we may jissue further one-way commercial credits. Onur diplomats may be distressed by the intimate relations between Chile and Germany. Yet we cannot invoke a Pan-American Mann act 2o long as we refuse to repeal our excise tar om cop- per. Unless we import Chilean produce, why should Chile dizen- tangle herself from her own customers? Again, why should we assume that the South Americanz will fling themselves on the broad bpsom of our big business with loud cries of delight? To them our propnsals for Pan-American trade looks very much like an invitation to make themseives entirelv dependent upon our indus- tries and to refuse, for vague dip- lomatic reasons—to buy what they need in the cheapest market or from their best customers. S The great danger at Buenos Aires is that Mr. Roosevelt will not be sufficiently realistic and will follow the shallow, old tradition of American diplomacy which has led us into infantile entanglements as the open door in China, the Kel- logg-Briand peace treaty (remember?) and the “Stimson doctrine” for non-recognition of political conquests achieved by force. We are apt to forget that the world is always changing and that the moods and interests of nations, as of individuals, change with the world. To seek by a single magic formula to bind an entire hemisphere to follow our lead in Europe and Asia is highly unrealistic. unless we are prepared to shoulder far greater burdens of defense and to make far greater trade concessions than our sovereign voters have ever tolerated in the past. And if this is 50 the American Navy and the tariff schedules—rather than Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull—are our true spokesmen at the Buenos Aires peace conference. Are we prepared to back them up with action? tCoprright, 19368 ) PLACE RITES HELD |RISH ARE NEUTRAL C. Resident More Than wi IN BRITISH CRISIS Years Is Buried in Arlington. Funeral services for Mrs. Ada W.' Place, 68, District resident for more than half a century, who died md-i De Valera Government Preserves Attitude of Detachment. Populace Excited. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Decem- ber 5.—An attitude of complete de- tachment over the constitutional crisis 'in London was maintained vesterda by President Eamon De Valera's Free State government. Regardless of what replies Premier denly Thursday, were held this morn- ing at her late residence, 3542 Eleventh street, followed by burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Mrs, Place, who was born in Chi- an early age and had been here ever since. She was the widow of William T. Place, a Spanish War Veteran. She belonged to the Warren G. Hard- ing Chapter, No. 31, Order of the Eastern Star. Baldwin may have had from the do- She is survived by a sister. Mrs. | minions, authoritative sources said Cora L. Hutson; a nephew, John H. President De Valera will not give any | Hutson. jr, and a niece, Mrs. Ada A. opinion. Hammer. | King Edward personally is extreme- | Iv popular throughout the Free State {and the story of his romance with Rheba Crawford Plans Church. |Mrs wallis Simpson has created more e LOS ANGELES, December 5 «F).— Evangelist Rheba Crawford, former excitement than anvthing in the past | 50 vears. former “angel of Broadway." friend and sssociate of Aimee Semple| Newspapers mo!v»d frantic re- McPherson, whom she is suing for | quests for more copies after the early $1,080,000, charging slander, an- | editions soid out. | nounced plans last night to open her own church and broadcast nightly sermons after January 1. “For too long I have been forced | False Fire—False Leap. A false alarm was a big pain to my own. Under a new arrangement City, Mo. I will be able to talk without restric- | bell, he leaped for the pole to the tions by any group.” said New York's | first floor—and landed with a broken ankle, THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAMS 2:00 | Your Host Is Buffalo 2:15 | b 2 2:30 Continental Words 3:18 & 3:30 | Week-end Revue | " Sunday School Lesson | Community Center Moments of Melody 3:00 Logan's Musicale | Lohengrin - W | Wakem: Sport Page | Secretary of State Hull and Music - s : Dancipators | Wakeman's Sport Page | Merry Makers i Tours in Tone 6:00 |Dinner Dance | News—Night Owl Kalley & Farley’s Orch. Midnite Frolics THIS EVENING'S PROGRAMS - | Bridge Tournament {Organ Interlude | Merrymakers C-Notre Dame | ~ * C.-Notre Dame | To “ | ‘Winners Be Announced | Knickerbocker Knights Al Roth’s Orchesra Arch McDonald Ann Leaf Swing Session Swing Session Souvenirs of Song U. 8. C.-Notre Dame | gd'eees [T, 5.°C.-Notre Dame Arthur Reilly ‘Timely Tempos Central Union Mission Central Union Mission Heidt's Orch. Hallett's Orch. - & 5858 Johnny Johnson News Songs of gmf!flr ~ |Howard Theater Orch. Venuta Headline Folk and What They Do Barber-Flyer Back From Spain After Missing Firing Squad. RBY LEMUEL F. PARTON. INCENT., the handsome barber's apprentice with the Barrye more profile, patent leather hair and inch-long eyelashes, {2 coming home from the wars. Hs was “‘next” for the morning firing squad in Madrid when Uncle Sam saved him, At Marseille, he awaits a ship home Hollywood never will catch up with the history books, the way things are breaking now. ‘This lad, Vincent Patriarca, a Bronx high xehnnl student, Wwas as romantic as he was good looking. Full of dreams and schemes, and with a yen for fiying, he per- suaded his father, a City Island barber, to give | him money for fiving Jessons a1 Mineola. He had a few hourz in the air, left school and #tarted learninz the barbering trade at, his father's shop. The fiying career didn’t come off. His shears and razor irked him. When the Ethiopian excitement was brewing, Young Vincent somehow got to Italy and persuaded the Itzlians he | was a fiyer. He was sent to Ethiopia, flew with the Italian forces and quaffed just enough glory to make him an addict When he was demob- | ilized. he signed up to bomb a few castles in Spain. At Turin, as he later | expiained. he was equipped with a false | passport under the name of Vicenza | Bocalari, eased into Spain and zent aloft in a fast single-seater, up-to-thes minute Fiat C-32 plane, with a few bombs and a machine gun. Over Madrid. a battered old Nieuport | plane circled high tn engage him. This old crate was a joke, as Vincent saw at a glance. Thev jockeyed for a minute or two and then closed in. Vincent did not known then, but learned later, that the attacking plane was piloted by Pietro Uturbi, weather- beaten and sky-wise Spanish loyalist air veteran. But it was no contest The old trap was no match for the powerful, swift and deadly Itahiah plane Vincent later told what happened: | “I could have dropped him n a minute or two more.” he said. “and then I realized that he was going to bang into me. I jumped just as we hit.” The American Charge d'Affaires at | Madrid saved his life and got him to Marseille. There's a pretty girl to be graduated from Roosevelt High School this vear whom Vincent expects to marry. If he goes back to the barber &hop and is a good listener, he may learn a Jot about wars and why thev start and which side is which. An | ambitious aviator can get a lot of ! lowdown around a barber shop. Vineent Patriarea. The massive and inscrutable Lord Rothermere puts his big strina .t papers behind the King in L'Affaire | Simpson. A diehard Tory. champion of fascism in England. he invokes the monarch’s right to wed a commoner if he wants—this in spite of the fact that he is allied in public affairs with the King's opposition. | Huge, wary-eyed. masterful. his | lordship reaches through his newse | papers about 80 per cent of the read- |ing public in England. He has been | called “a heavy, pervading presence | which creeps like a fog through every | household in the land, through the | keyhole.” | He is not a newspaper man. in the | eraft. sense of the word. His brother, | the Jate Lord Northcliffe, founded the great newspaper chain. He was a | genjus as an editor and publisher. Lord Rothermere is similarly gifted | in administration and organization. (Copyright. 1836,) |RENOVIZE ... your bome | PR ermicient &7 Years INEXPENSIVE &7 Years EBERLY’S SONS DISTRICT 6857 Phone_“Eberly's” | 1108 K N.W. Duontty your home.