relief The loud and rambunctious battle over relief flared uk E with both action csiid ■ ores. xhe action taxes the form of a decisive move by the government. Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins toaay took over all unemployment relief activities /A in the State of Georgia, ^removed all federal funds from the control c: state authorities and appointed Miss Gay Shepperson of Atlanta as his personal relief agent to act for him in passing out the money. isccthH Thatjxhuts Governor Talmadge and his adminis­ tration out of the relief picture. The Talmadge faction claims that Washington is trying to punish the Governor for attacks he has asd been making on the Roosevelt Administration, scathing blasts that he has been firing with an unrestrained vigor at the White House. The Administration claims it is taking the control of relief funds away from the state officials, because Georgia has- failed to put up stao© relief funds of its own, as it is supposed to do. Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins further declares that all federal funds for direct relief in Georgia will be discontinued by June 1st. Thereafter the state will have to zJlsL&J? ‘ ^ _»^clistinetion sssedm RELIEF - 2 provide its own money for direct relief. between nix ect reliei 9 \-< 111 cn is a do.ley and work relief^ which, provides jobs. The job-providing-work-rellef will be continued by the govern- mentj but the money will be handled_ by Harry Hopkins^ Federal Admin- S istrator. A That1s today’s action in the relief controversy. Now for the words. The battle of epithets is still on between Secretary Ickes, Number One Gag Man of the Administration, and Huey Long, the vituperative Kingfish. Huey replies furiously to the Secretary’s perfumed jibe of yes terday - that the emperor of Louisiana is suffering from halitosis of the ntellect. When the Kingfish heard this he bellowed, "I’ll slam his ears back." To which the Secretary asks - "With or without benefit of bodyguards?" It’s the most n furious kineb-of statesmansh; Vf Q_r0 tufree states now in which relief xunds ct3 e being kept out of the hands of the local political authorities - Georgia Louisiana, and Ohio, where charges of political corruption in connection with relief are now being investigated. And Relief Administrator Hopkins announces the same thing »©s? be extended to several other states, ^g.e may possibly take over personal l-r ^ RSLIK'F - 3 !, direction of relief in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Morth Carolina. The Relief Administrator explains his stand by saying, "Some politicians are digging their fingers into relief". These are all Democratic. The Republican states seem to be more careful. Or maybe you are saying "where are the Republican states?" And the President’s Social Security Program has passed the Lower House of Congress - overwhelmingly. republicans Signs of 1936 are evident, fore shadowings of the big political doings to be staged next suinmer* All over the land the Republicans are beginning their preliminary cannonade* It’s apparent that the G* 0* P* intends to make things hum as summer wears along and Autumn leads to the critical stage of things political, aexteapifitetfi At the head of the Republican cohorts march Ex-President Hoover^ and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt^ who is now President of the National Republican Club, and William Allen White of Kansas, who is^performing as a resounding publicity A man.T^Henry P* Fletcher, Republican National Chairman, outlines the strategy* The first move will be to fill theAtreasury* A nation-wide campaign will be started to gather plenty of funds* Then campaign offices will be established* From now until the end of summer Chairman Fletcher is going to do a lot of travel­ ing, hold conferences with Republican leaders throughout the H€L d.01!l # /• The trumpet calls are scheduled to be;— that the Constitution of the United States has been swept aray, the country*in a chaotic condition, N. R. A. organization and mmm . . * RSPUT-BLICANS -2 CVTut >} Relief funds^used To keep the Democrats in office. Those will be the battle slogans with which the G. 0. P. legions will try to overthrow the Roosevelt Administration When Admiral Byrd and his expedition land on home shores, New ¥ork won't start the welcome. The Antarctic explorer will head Blit i' straight for Washington and hurry to the White House. jT^hen, it is fitting that President Roosevelt should be the first to commend Dick Byrd. It ion't the first time he has done it. lears ago, when the President was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he commended 1 Lieutenant Byrd for war services. When he was Governor of New York he pinned the state medal for valor on Commander Byrd for his earlier expedition to Little America. And now once more. The Washington festivities for the ^katzr ^^ro^n»^wi 11 j close with a reception given in his honor by the National Geographical Society at Constitution Hall. Then will come further honors in New York, and presumably the usual ticker tape shower in the canyons of Broa.dway. HANGING If there's any argument against public executions it certainly was provided by that hanging in Kentucky today — on Good Friday* It was a scene hardly to be equalled In Dickens* William Deboe admitted that he was a robber* He was accused of having also attacked a woman* That carries the death pen­ alty in Kentucky* The whole town was there, his own family, the woman who had accused him, everybody* For forty-five minutes he delivered a wild harangue, denouncing axft the woman and a relative of hers, while they shouted back* He cried bitter reproaches at the people, especially the women who had come to see him hange** And that seemed the most justifiable in the mob lore of the French devolution* complaint of all* doom closed A scene worthy of being placed on record MM as an example of morbid mob excitement a. EASTER Churones all over the world today commemorated the most somber solemnity of the Christian year. In Jerusalem thousands of pilgrims tnronged the Via Eolorosah. In Rome during the three hours of the Good Friday rites the Eternal City was clothed in hush and silence. In London all business activities were suspended. But the day of Christian mourning moves swiftly to the Sunday of jubilation, -- Easter. And for this year a bright feast - day is promised, the weather man predicts sunny, balmy weather for most of the country. And that’s good news for the Easter parades when the ladies display their fancy Spring hats, and many a man looks rather self-conscious in his shining silk topper on Easter morning. there is one hotel in Hew York that has a traditional Easter ceremony, the Gotham. For just as the Easter parade begins, the head waiter, with majestic solemnity pulls aside the great drapes over the windows that front Fifth Avenue and there are the gay silk frocks of the ladies and the long tail frocks of the gentlemen. A solemn unveiling of the master Parade. This recalls one of the oddest of Easter parades ioui or EASTER - 2 ■five years ■ Tiial; was the period when a highly publicized philanthropist who went under the pseudonym of Mr* Zero was staging agitations for the betterment of the hoboes. On Easter morning he gathered an army of tattered “Weary Willys“ and sent them to mingle in with the Easter parade. Gave his hoboes battered and tattered plug hats of the vintage of the old cabbies. And were the swells annoyed when all those scores of tramps and vagrants joined them shoulder to shoulder, high hat to high hat, in the march down Fifth Avenuel Nothing could be done about it because the streets are free to everybody, and moreover the sight of the police shooing the hoboes away wouldn't have made the Easter parade any more dignified. In Moscow there’s the usual Soviet anti-religious drive in preparation for Russian Easter. It's the annual big drive of the League of the Godless, the setting up of counter- attractions against the age-old Russian tradition of Easter, Meanwhile among our own Easter Season doings will be one gold en with charity. It's the Pioneer Ball at the ./aid orf, the gold rush feast commemorating the days of ’49. The merry- EASIER - 3 malcers re-enact trie ol$ scenes ot' mining camps and gold miners. Colonel John Hays Hammondt that legendary figure of gold mining will preside -- the man who found King Solomon's Ming/s in Africa. The charitable part of the golden celebration lies in the fact that it is for the benefit of the blind, sponsored by the Xavier Free Publication Society, which gives books in braille to those who are sightless AO '■> \ EUROPE The international news was rather humdrum today - with Germany prepai ing to celebiace Reichsfuehrer Hitler * s^bifthday toniorrovt^ and with Hitler hir.sol: putting the finishing touches on his protest agaiiiSt the League—of—Rations—action- in condemning German rearma~ ment. In spite of the drastic tone .of yesterday's expression of German indignation, it is believed that Hitler's formal diplomatic note will not slam the door against German participation in various international conferences and agreements. So maybe Germany will have a representative at the Danubian Conference, which is scheduled to meet at Rome. It is reported that Berlin will be invited to take a part in that pow-wow which will debate the affairs of the nations in south central Europe, along the Danube. Mussolini will presider^~That's interesting, because Italy is by no means on the beautiful Blue Danube. But then Rome has all sorts of interest in the affairs of Austria and Hungary• One of the biggest questions to be considered will be the possible rearmament of Austria, and Hungary. The neighbors oi those two countries have always been keep the disarming peace treaties slapped But it is now said that Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and on. EUROPE - £ fioumania miuht consent to let Austria and Hungary rearm, now that Germany is going in for on one condition, a is™^a3aa2S^arm7“iiain. ^But they insist ^ pro tmo. Ii they permit Austria and Hungary to have a full quota of soldiers, why then Austria and Hungary must sign on the dotted line, agreeing to stay within their present frontiers. In other words, the nations who were given chunks of Austrial and Hungarian land by the Peace Treaties, want a guarantee that their possession of those lands will not be e'rmany1 s protest tomorrow ties up with simultaneous doings on the part of, France and Soviet Kussia. Ambassador Comrade LItvinoff arrives in Paris this evening from the League of Nations session at-Geneva. He and Foreign Minister Laval will go into a huddle and try to put the linishing touches on the treaty of mutual assistance between the French Republic and the Moscow Communists. It is expected that the accepted draft will be initialed before - the week is over, and the signatures may be put on the final formal document in May. The terms of the treaty are being kept a deep secret, but all sorts of rumors are circulating. They will specify that Prance and Russia will help each other in EUROPE - case of an attack by any third party. That of course means Germany. One exceedingly delicate point concerns Poland. If Germany were to have a fight with Frhnce, and Poland remain neutral, how could the Red army rush to the rescue? Poland stands very much in the vay. oo the rumor Is that if France should get into war with Germany, Russia would bring pressure to bear on Poland to lend a helping hand and join up with those two armies, the French and Red. But that's all a matter of whispering. Any such clause in a treaty would not be likely to be made public, because France is anxious not to offend Poland. On top of that we hear ofy^??cS» •£gj£&^ Warsaw diplomacy. Poland acts as though she' were walking on eggs, trying to keep friendly with everybody. Warsaw says to ^Soi^^^'Yes, we voted in favor of that League of Nations resolution denouncing German rearmament, but that was only a matter of form. And Germany is equally xg eager not to allow thgjPolish vote ^o become a matter of hard feelings. ^/German newspapers have been suppressing A all tidings about those various anti-German outbreaks in Poland. ----------- ^ ------ ------- - Hitler's birthday is accompanied by a birthday present. which they ha^e given him, or which he has given himself. Hereafter EUROPE - 4 the Reichsfuehrer will nave the right to appoint and dismiss all judges, also all states attorneys. That gives him an iron-handed grip on the machinery of the law. And the Reichsfu ehrer announces another rather startling decree, the death penalty for pacifists. It applies to wartime, and not only that, it also applies to any time of national emergency. Anybody preaching pacifism while the battle is on, or even when there is a period of national crisis, will be given the extreme punishment of the law. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam is protesting of those old German reparations bonds owned by Americans. --------- o --------- There are odd angles in the story of the letter Mussolini is supposed to have written to Arab leaders in Jerusalem. European consular officials point out that the letter has been published by one particular Arab faction, which is having a scrap with another faction. They add that rival parties among the Arabs have for months been trying to do business with Italy, form some kind of a line-up with Mussolini. That is the background of the appearance of what purports to be a photostatic copy of the letter the Duce wrote, a letter EUROPE - 5 with plenty of dynamite in it. It tells the Arab leaders that if they will get busy and carry on propaganda among the desert peo-oles of Arabia, why then Italy would support the cause of Arabian independence when the next war comes along. The phrasing would indicate that Eussolini decidedly expects a war, and also in the mention of Arabian independence he specifies Palestine and Syria. Syria is under French influence and Palestine under British control, with the further complication of the standing feud between the Zionist Jews and the Arabs. So, for Mussolini to talk of guaranteeing Arabian independence in Syria and Palestine does have a pungent perfume of dynamite - also a savor of incredibility. ^AKATHON !< l Flying feet in Boston today* (and Johnny telly's feet flew the fastest. He .von the renowned annual Boston Marathon on Patriot's Day. H© plodded over the twenty-six mile course in two hours and thirty-two minutes. Last year Dave Komonen won, hut today he dropped out of the race; and so did Clarence De Mar, the veteran rnarathona^ who won the Boston prize seven times. ROULETTE Vuien ib it unlucky to be lucky? Ask Police Commissioner Valentine ot New loric, I goo .* t moan the old. theory of ~ unlucky at cards, lucky in love. Police commissioners, who are supposed to make us all behave, wouldn't dream of being lucky at ouch a thing as love. Mci&fiXEs For the sedate Comissioner Valentine we have to put it this way - lucky at roulette, unlucky in logic. It was one of those dramatic occasions when the police were destroying, burning up, a lot of gambling paraphernalia seized in forbidden shrines of of Cchance. The reporters and I photographers were all there, in the vacant lot where a bunch of . ■■■ 5,lv ■ 't ' : ;lv.r i l.'/ Il *1 || coppers were making a big bonfire of the faro layouts, slot machines and roulette wheels. Qne of the highspots of the ceremony was to be a graphic demonstration by the Commissioner of the old truth that Jl /< / it doesn't pay, you can't win! ‘The roulette wheel was set up f "Gentlemen", quoth the big boss of the Hew York cops, "let me prove to you that it's a sucker’s game. Here’s how you lose. Suppose I put my money on the seven, . . And so, having picked the seven, he spun the wheel. Tne little white ball xftEJEiKri whirled and danced and dropped in the ROULSTTL - 2 seven! The Commissioner had won, but he had also lost. While the reporters and photographers nearly died laughing, he frowned with annoyance, seized the lucky, unlucky wheel, and tossed it into the fire. And what he said was a somewhat informal and not entirely the Sunday school version of -- SO LONG UNTIL MONDAY