BROWDER harl Dr'vder> the Number 0ne American Communist Commissar, Ldcame his own lawyer on the last day of his trial, fle took the ball away from uis counsel, George Gordon Battle, and delivered his own summation. He was called to book by the itaxlaebc&tjiiu Judge a couple of times when he strayed a. ay from the subject of his trial. He tried to improve the shining hour by delivering a dl tho Am cm; "you’re wandering away from the case," said the Judge, ’and Browder replied: "I’ am arguing on the seriousness of the ca»se.,? To which the court answered: "It is an extremely serious <case not only for the government but for your own person." Tiien again Browder proclaimed defiantly that he was a Communist and proud of it and head of the America Communist Party. Again Judge Coxa called him down, saying: "That has nothing whatever Hr, <=* to do with the case: These Jurats swore at the beginning o£-thi 'A t&ttt that they would give you a fair trial without prejudice. I am sure they will do that." Browder’s speech to the Jury was pretty short, for a Communist, He spoke for only an hour and fifteen minutes and asked that they acquit him in the American tradition. _ 2 The gist of his sell —de i exise was that the Government * s caaxges, in nis words, were compounded on a thin web of technicalities ihen he ..ent on to say that there was nothin^ secret about his action when he sailed for Russia on passports issued in other menfs names. He said there had been nothing clandestine about it, that he had left New York in the full publicity of the New York press, with reporters shooting questions and photographers1 bulbs flashing. No witnesses had been called for his*defense. Browder argued simply on the evidence offered by the Government. After the talking was over, it didnTt taKe the jury long. At eight minutes past three this afternoon they retired to consider tneir verdict. At seven minutes to four, after just forty-five Cl? minutes, they were back in the courtroom with bad news for Browder. The verdict was in one word - Guilty! ItmirzbecDae^The second time that the General Secretary of the bolsheviks in America has heard that word pronounced over him. furingthe World War, he was sent to federal prison xor violation of the draft act. Judge Coxe was just as swiit in action as th& jury A of eleven wsn ond on© women• pronounced sentence upon riroY.’derj Four years in prison and a fine of two thousand capitalistic dollars. PIr.S iioccii eiuent in Congress at last, alter all these dull days since the opening of the session. It started with an attack on Martin I ies, dhairnan of the Co^imittee on Un-American Activity. The House Co:imiittee on hules v.as debating whether or not to continue th» Committee for another year. Republican hook of Micnigan let d fly at the Texas Chairman, accused him of haying been in active association v>ith a prominent collaborator of the Christian Front, the same Christian Front of which seventeen members were arrested recently and charged with conspiracy to upset the Government. Hook also produced a letter signed by William Dudley Pelley^ the chief of the Silver Snirts. Th^t letter intimated that there had been an understanding betv.een the Silver Shirts and Dies, an agreement tnat none of the Silver Shirts should be called to testify in the investigation. Tills charge brought several Congressmen to their feet in defense of Chairman Dies. One of them was Republican Parnell Thomas of New Jersey. Dempsey of New Mexico interrupted the speech by Hook to say that Dies had tried to subpoena Pelley himself and had even asked the Department of Justice to help him, but that they had been DIKS - 2 unable to find Pelley. In fact, so many questions and objections were fired at Hook, that he got excited and shouted to the House the information that he is a red-blooded American. Bua.. iq *C ox of Georgia assured' the friends of Dies tnat they did not need to defend him and that it was a waste of time. When the excitement was all over, the Rules Committee by a large majority approved the suggestion to continue the Dies Committee for another year. BORAH The Chamber of the Senate of the United States was the scene of a spectacle today such as hasnft been witnessed in many, many years. It was the funeral of the late Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, t6^-the President of the United States, Justices of the A / Supreme Court, Cabinet members, diplomats and high ranking officials, ^ t op Senate. A Every seat was occupied andvthe floor -oX-the Senate Chamber was wap empty, filled with extra chairs. /Only one uX-JLii /A Senator Borah/fc3p***43^r^s==£B^ from which the old Lion of Idaho rose a^)n so many historic occasions. From there he roared against the League of Rations, against monopoly and special privilege, against the proposal to pack the Supreme Court, against every President from William Hov/ard Taft to Franklin Delcno Roosevelt. P-rociiderrt-itU'Jbrvelt"'atleuded Ihcr iunCT e-scarted by iii ^ —rrufi rjldns jnd aeo<Kii><imilx-'d^'bW WhlW i 11) u urr 0 e e i rt: Mrs. Borah was not present in the Cnamber, said she would prefer not to watch the ceremony. Yihile it was going on she sat in the lobby at a place that had been specially prepared for her. BORAH - near the ofiLee of Vice-President Garner. There were huge quantities of flowers and ulrs. Borah ordered them to be distributed among the hospitals in Washington. TtCe. the solemn simple^ftk?e^f*%^ of the ■orfrhory, no> EpiscopalfcSCSr Church. A Congressman from Massachusetts has dug up something about the Navy that he considers un-American. Democratic Representative Connery sent to the Secretary of the Navy a letter tnat he had run across, a letter written from headquarters of the First Naval District of Boston. It concerned a man who had applied to become a navy surgeon. And that letter read:- "Before taking final action it is requested that you furnish the Commandant of the First Naval District with such information as is possible regarding the doctor1s loyalty, moral character, professional and social standing, and - racial extraction.TT Connery sent this letter to the*Secretary of the Navy, and asked: nWh&t on earth has a doctor's racial extraction to do with his competent^ ability?" And he adds:- "Also, I am at a loss to understand what the social standing of a doctor has to do with his qualification for a place on the staxf of the medico.! corps." A spokesman for the Navy explained that for several years the Navy has been xxxxh $ checking and rechecking carefully (r»i_ everybody, from enlisted men up, who^entered the service. —£/V\ , JAPAN int! Japanese ore frothing at the mouth against the British, ItTs the seizure of twenty-one German seamen from aboard a Japanese liner that has the subjects of the Mikado t A Tne nev/spapers print infuriated demands for strong action and the Tokyo Government promptly handed a note of protest to the British Ambassador. In a public statement, tne Japanese Foreign Office then said that the Japanese Government cannot but regard the British fcct 1 as a serious, unfriendly action against Japan. And the A Japanese Government attaches the greatest importance to the affair. It cannot acquiesce in the measure taken by the British Navy and 5S tsas* demand that the British Government give a full and valid A explanation^ promptly. J apan even reserves the right to demand delivery of the Germans who were seized. CHUKCHILL Naturally, there v,as much debate over that speech by Winston Churchill, First Lord of the British Admiralty, the speed: in which he invited all small neutral countries to get in the war - on the Allied side, of course. As might be expected, the Nazis took every advantage of the First Lordfs words. They said, in effect, that!s just what we told you, the British have been trying to drag you in all along. Italian papers are angry. They resent the innuendo behind Churchill’s invitation, the intimation that Italy cannot defend herself without the aid of Britain and France. And|jn London the Government was busy repudiating Churchill. Quite in a nice way, of course; but nevertheless a spokesman for the government said that Churchill’s remarks should not be considered a statement of government policy althoug i the government does believe that an Allied victory will be of benefit to the small neutral countries. PADEREWSKI Herefs news from I^nace Jan Paderewski, the |,re&t pianist, patriot, statesman, ne is to emerge from the retirement in which he has oeen ever since he fell ill in Aruerica.isjad— Dor the sake of Po.i.and, his destroyed country, he will come to Paris and accept the presidency of the National Polish Council,which is to meet at Paris tomorrow. But his activity will only be formal and ceremonial. He’ll make a short speech and appoint a deputy, and then retire once more to his villa in Switzerland Lli^ER Sad news from that ship tragedy in the Mediterranean. Early reports v*ere that the Italian motor ship wnich burned at sea. thirty-one in her crewf Six hundred and forty-three persons in all. Of these, five hundred and thirty-nine have been rescued, but sixty-eight members of the crew and thirty-six passengers were listed as missing. Later this afternoon, the news from Genoa ji was that all hope had practically been given up for thmmm hundred A and four missing. squadron of vessels cooperated in the rescue. They included a French destroyer, an Italian mine sweeper, a hydroplane and a French tugboat. Tne waves were so high that tne tug boat ^as obliged to heave to for a wnile. Just a minute, herefs a later bulletin from Marseilles. The French radio information center at iuarseilles»bpoadea-st~~&. birb—infur+tttrtlefi the-*> -rs—if—a-U-a -trru^v Tne officials of the Italian Line aV iI’tgs have announced that all passengers on that burned liner have been rescued. That information was also made public at the Italian Consulate. But they still fear that fifty of the crew may have perisned - fifty or more, iqipxsx Representatives of the Italian Government are now busy 3xhkk £ questioning the rescued passengers and members of the crew. The belief is that they are investigating the rumor, first broadcast by a German radio station, that the origin of that fire was sabotage AIKPLAiiE FOLLOVr LINER From the other side of the globe comes dismal news of another disaster, the crash of an airliner in the Dutch East Indies, ^ of the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways on the way to Australia. The officials of the line made it public that the plane had taken off from Bali and. came to grief shortly thereafterwards. And they admit that eight people were killed, five passengers and the crew of three. .YRI Drama of high adventure near the South Pole. There!s news from Rear Admiral Richard E. byrd today. The United States Antarctic Expedition was near coming to grief, so the £dmiral radioed the Navy Department. His ships, the BEAR and the NORTH STAR, Nsx were unloading in the Bay of Whales. In the midst of the proceedings, gigantic masses of ice broke up oyer a line of eight miles long, the impact of those huge chunks offered the grave menace of grinding the two ships into splinters. And six members of the Byrd Expedition were marooned on a floating' xeakE ice floe. 1 It is all well that ends well. Byrd informed the Navy Department that his crew acted so promptly, cut loose the mooring lines of the ships and got them out into open water so quickly, that were saved. WEATHER Tne cold wave provided real human drama down in Florida, of all states. It was symbolized in an usual sight - fur coats at iiiamil For three days a real boreal wind brought such temperatures that in a couple of counties the schools were closed and the children sent home. But it v.as the truck farmers and fruit growers who watched the thermometer with' the greatest tension, For three days they’ve had to keep the smudge pots going in their fields and their citrus firsfic* groves. For three days they’ve been watching with anxiety to see whether the mercury would go below the deadline, the xjixindc point at which the cold ttettwce-* crops A 4 but & The tension is still on, so farjno damage. A f ^ In Buffalo, Mew York, the mothers and fathers of children are worried aoout a shortage of milk. There, a snowstorm has been raging for six days, almost a blizzard. All the roads leading into the city are closed and farmers have been unable to deliver di dairy products. Practically every road west of Rocnester, New York, is by snowdrifts and many of the motor car drivers marooned, stalled in the snowdrifts. HIGHWAY Ten miles east of Hyerett, Pennsylvania, a shot of dynaL.it e was fired off this afternoon. It should be added, hastily, that it was quite peaceful, no sabotage, no disaster. t blasted through the first of seven tunnels on the biggest super-highway project in the United States - the new one hundred and sixty mile speedway from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. r y.-ju-faay©n this road the engineers are making use of what was to nave been a Vandehbilt railroad, in the days when the Vanderbilts were threatening direct competition with the Pennsylvania Railway. cost seventy million dollars, with tunnels under seven mountain ranges. Incx 6 ^n.t.?ri,'They hope to throw this highway open to motor cars by July. Evidently, it pays to make soap. That is the job of the man who tops the list of highppriced executives of America in Nineteen Thirty-Eight. F.A. Countway, President of the American branch of the English firm of Lever Brothers, got in salary and bonuses four hundred and sixty-nine thousand, seven hundred and thirteen dollars. Soap-maker Countway got quite a raise. l1he year before he had to get along with a pittance of three hundred and four thousand, three hundred one dollars. This must be a clean country, when a man can get four hundred and sixty-nine thousand dollars a year for making soap. WEDDIN6 DRESS The latest discovery of the meanest man in the v.orld comes from Minneapolis, He came to light through a Want Ad in a Minneapolis newspaper. The keen eye of a city editor xxjaaiijREUa. spotted a line offering for sale a white satin wedding dress, size twelve, never used. There, obviously, vas a story, and a reporter was assigned to it. A girl’s voice answered the telephone and when the reporter asked whether she was sure it had never been used, she replied:- "Yes, indeed, very sure", and then a sob was heard over the line. Tsfa#* the story came out. Sne had fallen in love with a handsome fellow and when he proposed she not only said "Yes" but she gave up her job and spent all her savings on that white satin wedding dress. And then the knave, ran out on her. So now she has no job, no husband, only a white satin dress hanging in her clotries closet to remind her 1 * of fond hopes dashed to earth. 4^r\Jc