™*-Tt^UjjUCO - April 7, 1955 Good EveninR,Everybody:- It now looks as though Washington,D*Cwithin three weeks will be the most important center of news throughout the world. President Roosevelt’s invitation to Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald of Great Britain to come to Washington this month has been extended so that the conversations between John Bull and Uncle Same wild take on a far wider scope than was indicated early this week. Information comes from the State Department today that the President has extended an informal invitation to Italy to send a representative or representatives to the U.S.A. This information came out after the Italian ambassador had V visited the State Department and had a conference with Under-Secretary Bill Phil Id os. INTP.O - 2 weH±<*~be "feKfeac The informal suggestion will probably be followed up by a formal invitation. This comes on top of the announcement that France will send a delegation to Washington at the same time that Mr. MacDonald is talking to Mr, Roosevelt. The report from Paris is that the French delegation will be headed by no less a potentate than the Prime Minister, If Premier Mussolini himself were to head the delegation from Italy that would indeed be a story. It Is said, however, that this is unlikely as the Duce hitherto seems to have made it a rule not to leave Italy and has always sent his foreign minister, Dino Grand!, to represent him on foreign missions Still later advices from Washington indicate that not only Great Britain, France and Italy, but Germany,also, v,iH represented at this Washington conference. An informal invitation was extended to the Hitler government the medium of the German Embassy in Washington late this afternoon. It is understood that Mr. Boosevel intimated he would be particularly pleased if the heads of the governments came to Washington in person. That would mean a conference between Mr. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald, Premier Da'/aciie^,Premier Benito Mussolini, an'^Adolph Hitler. That would be a that gathering of potentates. TARIFF It is reported that President Roosevelt's next move in American domestic affairs will be the Tariff question. V*ashinfi;ton re 3 rters learned today that the leaders of Congress are expecting another Important message next week accompanied by a bill on which Mr. Roosevelt's advisors are now at work. The 1 gist of it will be a ten percent cut in Uncle Sam's tariff. Mr. Roosevelt will again ask for broad authority. He wants Congress to enable him to negotiate Tariff agreements with all foreign countries. It is exoected that the bill will give him extraordinary leeway in discussions to bring about a revival of trade al1 over the ’world. LABOH Ihere has been a great to-do in manufacturing circles ana also In labor circles over that bill for the thirty-hour week wnich the Senate passed. Labor, of course, is strong lor it; manui acturers declare it would be ruinous. I have been wondering for sometime how Congress could dictate the len-'th of the working day and the working week. It seems to take this form!- They would prohibit any inter-state transportation of goods made in factories where men work more than live days a week, six hours a day. A ell, announcement comes today from Washington that 4 this bill has been pigeon-holed for the time being/in the be kept on the siding at any rate until -f^Isition^ that ^r. Roosevelt wants, the Lecoiis ^ructxon legislation has been out through. Speaker Rainey in making this announcement s&id:- "that bill sure has a lot of dynamite in it." Incidentally, this bill is not an* part of the President's program so far as Congress knows. AKHOft lhe tnree survivors of the Akoon told their stories to an Investigating Committee of Congress today. Lieutenant Commander V-iley gave his description of the disaster first ca.nd Bosunmate Deal followed him. Deal told the Committee that ahouc a quarter past ei-ht while he iivas on duty Rear Ad iral Moiie*tt passed him. Deal said:- nGood evening. Admiral" and the admiral replied in kind. 7Z<ifsumiate flying or» than said: "Admiral, you must like!t’nis ship." The Admiral promptly replied: "I like it better than the Shenandoah". Deal then told the Committee that he was on his feet when the ship started go'ng down by the tail. He noticed tiai gas tank had dropped. The Akron slipped and Deal had to hold on. Then the lights went out and the ship^ tail struck the water. He swam around for twenty minutes until he saw some men clinging to a floating gas tank; he joined them but the high waves swept not only him, but the other men off. He grabbed a passing lifebuoy and remembers nothing further. J/e . . Moody Erwin, jp metal-smith, sajrA he was out on the saw one of the ship's girders carried away. When AKRON -_S the ship hit the water Erwin jumped through the fabric to the sea. "'Then,'1 he saj'J n the ship fell on me and I dived Erwin under it and swam beneath the rivinc." kESti told the A Committee further that he and the other two survivors were floatin ; for about thirty minutes before the German tanker "Phoebus" came hjqx to the rescue. Speaking of the crew of the tanker, Erwin said: "those people sure treated us nice." Commander V.iley read to the Committee the rep 'rt which th Navy Department made public yesterday. f * * , GER}.:Aijy Another sign of thj tiiaes to show that the Republic is practically a thing of the past in Germany, made its appearance today. The nitlerfes* Government took a direct slam at the Republican constitution when it annotmeed that titles, medtls. ribbons, ana. oth r c istinctions so comnion in iDtsrp Imperial G»- ri'any were to be reinstated. All such titles, and decorations were abolished 'under the Republic, but now they will be ta brought into use again as a reward for services. Titles and decorations will be conferred by the President. They will km differ from the old titles in one respect in that they can be recalled* In the old days if a man was made a Herr Geheimrat — a Mr. Privy Conn*?1 lor — he was a Mr. Privy ComiMilor for life. Apparently under the new regime he will onlv be a Ur. Privy Councillor 'uring his good behavior. (Incidentally I, the thousands of Ur. Privy Counsellors in the old empire never by any chance, v.'ere called upon to sit In th« Pri\y Council. It was a purely decorative title.) There was also another title callec ..irkllche Ueheimrat, which means real Privy Counsellor. The it ti GSBUAHY - B cifx erence bc tv.een a MrPrivy Councillor and a real Privy Counftt 1 lor i-as tiiat the latter used to be addressed as Excellency, ix xEiitay.aiitEstx which would almost put him in the same class as a general.^"rhis announcement comes on top of Hitler*s statement last night that only three hundred and thirty peopl had been killed in the process of establishing evolution, or as he called it- the rebirth of Germany. A - - Forty thousand were wounded, and a hundred thousand individuals have been kicked out of their jobs. The German Chancellor made this statement as an antidot' to t^he stories tnat great numbers of people have been killed. dy •v 1 a . ^ ^ a'"x> ^ pm FOLLOW GERMANY Thp head of the Beichsbank, the German Nattonal Bank,marie a statement today which has considerable bearing on nrooosal to boycott; German poods because of the treatment of the Jews. Doctor Schacht.who was aooointed head of the bank by the hitler Government said that unless Germany* s ex ort trade were improved she might be unable to oay private tebts as well as those of the government. He did not say this i n so man v words but his statement contained that 1 mpii cation. DUELLING Another interesting morsel from the Fatherland is that the Nazis are restoring the code duello. Under the Republic wipfed out. A-------—AwiP< permitted, it is compulsory. Now xjtsni it is not only Three of the German states had passed laws directed particularly against duelling at the universities. Those states were Prussia, ^atfden, and Bavaria, and all three of them have just repealed th03*» laws. Newspaper organs of the flazi party are loudly jubilaht over this. They say that duelling strengthens and steels not only the body but the spirit. The repeal of these laws against duelling will restore the sound healthy idea that a man should take a weapon in his hand to avenge an insult instead of going before a judge So the old-time German student with his face covered with saber scars will once more be a frequent and popular spectacle In the Fatherland. DRYS headers of the Dry forces today issued statements deplor ng the return of the stuff that oomes in seldels. Mrs. Boole spoke for the W.C.T.U., Dr. Leigh Colvin for the United Committee for Law Enforcement, and Fred Victor for the Anti-Saloon League. They all agreed that the^^^la^^^S? of A*. N the 3.2 per cent stuff was a grefct national calamity. But they repeal hope it will lead to such excesses that the ggaraKatl of the A Eighteenth Amendment will be prevented. Dr. Colvin and Mr. sent was habit-forming narcotic drug. They safrd that selling it v/as Victor declared this 5.2 per cent was intoxicating and a shameful and deplorable On the other hand many people were wondering whether the Dry leaders were right in declaring this 3.2 per cent stuff intoxicating —*JZ£L reporters to The Jersey Observer.sent out one of its veteran and he reported that after seventeen berwwme* glasses, he felt no effects^ L* , repx>i^t of the Jersey Observer i^s confirmed in verdict sterns to be th\t in oVder LKuXUl* OF It may sound incredible, but herefs ¥«hat happened, I attended a celebration of Army Day with a crowd of fighting men. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Service. The men present were the v.earers oi Uncle Sam1 s highest decorations, the Congressional Medal of honor and the Distinguished bervice Cross. And there was not a drop to drink - not even S.fc. ¥et they all seemed to have a good time. The occasion was also to organize aLryais the Chapter of The Legion of Valor, and to get ready for a national Cunventi-.n of medal of Honor# and D.S.C. men. George Bremen, the sailor who rushed into the blazing ammunition magazine and saved so many mmi of his pals on the Kearsage long years ago was there. J^en of the nainbow Division, the 3rd, the <,6th, the 27th, th 79th. Capt. Richard Dearson Hobson who helped bottle up the Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor, John iicCloy who has two medals of Honor and more decorations than a British Field Marshal. Only three women have the Distinguished Service Cross, and one of them was there - Beatrice Mary McDonald, who went right on caring for the wounded in spite of her own desperate wounds, also National Commander Ed4n Cooper, old Major "Coop" who's adventurous Legion of Honor trail X crossed so many times during The World War. These folks xx* are to this$ country what the wearers of the V.C. are to the British Empire. And I'd rather have a meal with them than any crowd I know. Admiral Moffett who lost his life in the Akron disaster was one of their number, and they paid a special tribute to him. It surely is the most distinctive organization in this country. They d n't like to talk of their deeds and if you ask one how he got the D.S.C. or the still rarer Congressional Medal of Honor, his answer xi±± usually is:- "Oh, I bought a general a drink," In fact that's their pass word. H \v. 1 if e BETS Snorting circles throughout the United States v,ill also be :nterested in a bill which was passed by the New York Assembly this afternoon. This repeals the law promoted by Chief Justice Hughes of the^^^^^wes^^^Efe. when ^ A* he was Governor of New York State, the lav/ against betting on the race track. The passage of this bill by the New York Assembly is described in the newspapers as one of the big surprises of the season. It means that betting will be lawful once more on all the txakz tracks in New York State,either for trotting races, running races, or steeplechases. a- ta-x ght-per-en the gre-se~r-e^nue--Qlf-al-l race tracks. It is bel i ev e« - fcwrt - thi s will - bring -Jai - he If-- a :lo-ITa-^xs— a-y-^ar revenue Intc—-the HOCKEY •# An Important sporting event is due to take place tomorrow evening, it will be a hockey match at Toronto, ’"hen the Nev. York Rangers and the Maple -OeaVc^, as the Toronto team is called, will play the second game of the series for the fctanley Cup, which is the principal prize in the hockey world. It is going to be a closely fought game, probably fought in every sense of the word, because there seems to be something about hockey that prompts tthe players to use their sticks on something more than the puck. In fact there are frequent encounters when fists fly on the ice and free-for-alls are not unknown. All the games will be played in Toronto this year because the^circus opens in Madison Square Garden, New Yon.., tomorrow. This fact made the New York hockey fans so sore that the other night they booed the announcement of the opening of the circus. A real dyed-in-the-wool hockey fan is one of the most intense individuals on earth. ^ ^ ^ ^ BASEBALL ( > The happy days of baseball are close at hand. As the opening of the season approaches the experts are busy doing their usual prophesying. Fred Lieb of the New York Evening Post is one of them, and Fred is certainly loyal to his home town. He says the World Series will be played, x3lx:£±xfi all five or all seven games, within the bounds of Greater New York. He picks the Yankees to cop the flag in the American League and the Dodgers, the Brooklynites, to lead the National League. Well, it there’s nothing like being loyal to your own community even as a baseball prophet WANTED: A uTFE Here c/iris is your chance. Raymond Scherer ot ±>esserner, North Carolina, wants a wife. Evidently he thinks a matrimonial bureau. Herefs the way his letter reads ’’Dear Mr. Thomas:- You are the only one I can think of who can nelp me out. What I want is a vife with a job that will support both of us until I can get back on my feet again. I am twenty-four years old. Six feet, three inches tall, weirh two-hundred and fifty pounds; brown hair and eyes; do not smoke or drink; have neve- had any love affairs, not even of the puppy love tXB® variety. Am at home in almost any society. Everybody ac vis s me to tret married . Can you help me?n There you ire eirls, a fine chance to help out a young fellow who doesn't ask for much; just ^.t7, ^ ^ ENDING Whenever I want an unusual item all I have to do is consult my friend, the Editor of the Sackville Tribune that interesting small-tawn newspaper in Eastern Canada, For instances- nThere was a timid knock at the door. "*if you please, kind lady,* said the beggar. II!ve lost my right leg.* ***7/611,* snapped the woman as she slammed the door in his face, *1 haven’t got it.*** And now I think 1*11 go out and look for that poor man’s lost leg, and So Long Until