The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1938, Page 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1938. HORE-BELISHA SHOWN T0 BE ENGLAND'S MAN OF ACTION 4 By The AP Feature Service LONDON, March 26.—A man to watch as Europe marches and England gropes for a foreign policy is Leslie Hore-Belisha, Bri-. tain’s Jewish minister for war. And it’s easy enough to watch him. Almost as revolutionary as his army reforms is the enthusiasm with which this budding 20th cen- tury Disraeli woos the press. Not since Lloyd George, cameramen say, have they had such a will- ing subject among Britons in high places. It’s a day to remember when Neville Chamberlain or any of his other ministers poses for the Press, and then they usually freeze their faces for a picture about as full of life as the moose- head in grandpa’s den. Not Hore-Belisha He Makes News The beaming, go-getting ad- ministrator has the photographers notified in advance where and when they can shoot him—and almost anything goes. But to get publicity, you have to make news. Once a newspaper- man himself, Hore-Belisha knows how to do that As transport minister before he took over the war office, he made news by revolutionizing Britain’s system of automobile traffic con- trol. Wears Monocle As war minister he has made news, and braved sneérs from old-fashioned soldiers, by order- ing a shakeup of the army coun- cil which boosted young men ov- er the heads of their seniors and BIKE PUMPS ORGAN IN ENGLISH CHURCH (By Associated Press) BENENDEN, England, March 26.—Necessity is still the mother of invention. After having difficulty finding a human being to do the job, the local vicar rigged up an old bi- cycle to pump the organ. , A driving belt runs from a small electric motor to the back wheel. Then the crankshaft is coupled to the pumping handle of the organ so that with every revo- lution the handle moves up and down, filling the bellows. Today’s Anniversaries 1753 — Benjamin Thompson {Count Rumford), one of the most interesting personalities in his- tory, New Hampshire teacher, English undersecretary of state, Bayarian war minister and world- famed social reformer, scientist, born at Woburn, Mass. Died in France, Aug. 21, 1814. 1773—Nathaniel Bowditch, fam-' ed mathematician and astronomer of a century ago, born at Salem, Mass. Died in Boston, March 17, 1838. 1820—John J. Upchurch, the railway master-mechanic who founded the Ancient Order of United Workmen in 1868, born in Franklin Co., N.C. Died Jan. 18, 1887. 1842—Arthur Parton, Yonkers, N. Y., landscape painter of note, born at Hudson, N. Y. Died March 7, 1914.' 1850—Edward Bellamy, Spring- field, Mass., editorial writer, pub- lisher, author of “Looking Back- ward”, 1888, a novel with strange and unique theories of social re- form, born at Chicopee Falls, Mass. Died there. May 22, 1898. oe . y Today’s Horoscope Serecccosccocccescessese pday gives great force of char- indicating one who will make a way in spite of discour- agement. There . disappointments. an res hen it will seem as if there was noth- ing left in life; but there is suc- cess at the end, principally due sheared eight years from the av- erage age of British war lords. 3, short, broad. ro- impeccably dressed. His wavy hair is greying, and he dangles a horn-rimmed monocle from a black cord. Personality: Wistful, polished, courteously agressive, with a bril- liant wit tinged by melancholy. Career: Educated in Britair France and at Heidelberg. Rose to} rank of major in World war. En-/ tered parliament 1923. Later qua-| B lified as lawyer and earned $15,-} 000 a year as newspaper writer.| In 1931 helped form National Lib- | eral party and became parliamen- tary secretary to the board of! trade. Promotion followed fast: } 1932, financial secretary of trea-| sury; 1934, minister of transport: 1935, privy councillor! 1937, war} minister. | Cuts Red Tape Though he has had several love affairs, he has never found a wife He lives in a luxurious bachelor flat adorned with exquisite statu- ary, leads a gay life, likes the the- | ater and movies, knows the be restaurants and the reigning en- tertainers of the moment, eats simply and drinks champagne. | Like Mussolini, he has his desk in one corner of a huge room—on} it a battery of telphones, behind | it rolls of maps which he unfurls | by jerking pulley cords. He hate: red tape and, as an executive. says he will “do nothing for myself which anybody else can do for} me.” His mother once said he “would make a good dictator.” JAIL QUARANTINE UPSETS JUSTICE (My Associated Presx) YORKSVILLE, IIL, March 26.— It was sort of disturbing to nave them tack a “Keep Out—Scarlet Fever” sign on the Kendall coun- ty jail door. | It meant that Sheriff William} Maier went home to live with his} father for a while. j The sheriff's daughters, Joanne, 9, and Shirley, 7, were confined to their apartment in the jail build- ing. Two minor offenders were in- carcerated indefinitely. And the lone prisoner awaiting trial couldn't even get to court”. oe - weoe |Today In History lee . | 1804—Act of Congress divided the recently purchased Louisiana Territory, the small southern part to be the Territory of Orleans and .the vast northern part the Terri- tory of Louisiana. 1894—Coxey’s Army of the Commonweal started march to ‘Washington from Massillon, Ohio. i 1913—Britain’s admiralty head, Winston Churchill, urges Britain and Germany suspend naval building for a year—th2 year be- fore world war broke out. 1918—Battle rages on Somme front. 1922—U. S._ Prohibition goes into action. Navy | Browning diun’t Th’ gov’ment must double—takin’ in one spendin’ two. Si Larkin says he'll bury th’ hatchet with Zack Winters if Zack’! be seein’ dollar an’ | throw in his musical saw. Goats Keep Gardner From Breaking Back (My Axanciated Press) JACKSONVILLE. Mar. 26.—J. 4. Browning used to wear himself yut pushing a hand plow over his ‘ three-acre truck garden. “It was awful tough”, he re- alls. “I just about worked my fool self to death. Then I got to thinking about my two goats”. The goats were living an easy, arefree, aimless sort of life. mind that, of course, but it was hard on his back pushing that plow. He just couldn’t see anything else to do but harness up the soats and let them pull the plow. “It’s easier for me now”, he ays—“and as for the goats—well. hey don’t seem to mind it much”. Today’s Birthdays Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen of Chi- cago, a famed surgeon, born at Rochester, Mich., 75 years ago. Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard, born in Boston, 45 years ago. Robert Frost of Shaftsbury, Vt., and Amherst, Mass., noted poet, born in San Francisco, 63 years ago. Conde Nast of New York, mag- azine publisher, born there, 64 years ago. Dr. Paul H. Douglas of the Univ. of Chicago, noted political economist, born at Salem, Mass., 46 years ago. Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the Amer. Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., born at Victor, N. Y., 48 years ago. Roosevelt seeks balance in na- tion’s price structure of the recession. 1928—Government's estimate of number of unemployed as of Jan. 1 given as 1,800,000; just a year before stock market crash. 1929—Wall Street stock tumble | in eight million share day HOW GENEROUS! BROOKLYN.—While Mr. and Mrs. J. Alcade of this city were out visiting friends, robbers car- ried away everything in their home except one chair. U. bombers Bue friendly BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24-Hour Ambulance Service Licensed Embalmer | FACTS THAT ARE NEWS =e THE KEY WEST CITIZEN HAZARD METER HELPS PREDICT FOREST FIRES POCKET-SIZE PAPER ENVE- LOPE, WITH FOUR SLOTTED WINDOWS AND NUMBER- COVERED SLIDING RULE (My Axsociated Press) ST. PAUL, March 26.—Science has taken some more of the guesswork out of forest fire fight- ing. This time it is the “fire danger meter”, a pocket-sized paper en- velope, with four slotted windows and ag number-covered sliding rule. Invented by J. A. Mitchell of the Lake States Forest Experi- station, it is intended as a 3 by which forest rang- ers may determine the fire hazard in their districts on any given day. Used experimen n nation- f the Lake States re- eter has proved un- was found in sections concentrations of wooded ar It permitted ranger in manpower. and in r. Sunday’s Horoscope A day of d honor, but, to the perseverance of native. like the I. ourage- It circumstance that determines’ the position in 1 Sweet and bitter mingle in this life. which is really far from an unimportant one. ments. 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