tr . WjLb 0 Jr. EUROPE rv \ \ i i Si 1 i m Diplomatists all over the world seem to be agreed tonight that Hitler has pulled another trick out of the bag. What's more, he's getting away with it. He has broken through the ring, the so-called sanitary cordon that the old-time wove aiound Germany at Versailles. ^Qff^cially. the much dreaded anschluss, the union with Austria, has not^ been consumated. But, in its main intents and purposes, it is_ an accomplished facty The picture presented tonight is of a Fascist^ws^c^'extending from < s U2J2 t&jL the Baltic into Africa, from the Sorth Sea almost to A A the mouth of the Danube and the Black Sea. / Late this afternoon came a fresh bulletin reporting l' i a still more formidable rumor?"- Hitler not yet satisfied. Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg has not gone faih enough, to please him in forming that cabinet with Nazis in the key positions^) j He wants more, though nobody y** knows exactly how much. The formal news from London Is that Downing Street is, in official language/^gravely preoccupied:' The belief la that Ten Downing Street 4-u^, TPnoH-pp-r is not m I ! U i will ask Berlin for official assurance that the Fuehrer is not EUROPE - £ eontemplcitlrig anschluss. But the grapevine reports are that the next step will be a customs union between the Third Reich and Austria. From Paris, reports contradict each other. A so-called spokesman at the Quai dfOrsai says France is not seriously worried. But a high-up French diplomat threw out the flat charge that Mussolini has deliberately broken his promise. He firmly undertook to protect Austrian independence. And now he has gone back on it. France1 s worry of course is, "What1 s going to happen to our ally, Czechoslovakia?" The country that used to be Bohemia is right under the gun, with no natural geographical formation such as a river or a mountain range.to protect it against easy invasion from Saxony or Bavaria. But the word wont further that France is helpless, can*t do anything concrete or aggressive to protect its ally. And advices from PraJia^ are that Czechoslovakia is nervously anxious to maintain friendship with Nazi Germany. It has reason to be nervous, if the story of a military expert in a Parisian newspaper is true. EUROPE - ? He reported that Hitler had moved twenty German divisions, a formidable threatening force, to the Czechoslovakian frontier. 41 me-"te^Hpee&»^t^ndlT~,^H±H&ey3riTrr Worry and anxiety of corrse are most acute in Austria, Thejtwo thousand Nazi prsioners in concentration camps and Jails have not been released yet 0*2 amnesty decree has to be signed by President Miklas. For some unexplained reason, he hasn* t signed fears grave disorders violent Nazi demonstrations, when those two thousand are set free. Their number will be swollen by several hundred Nazis who have been in exile to* Germany. BSCAPK A young American from Washington, D.C., faces court martial before officers of General Franco. Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle, a twenty-two year old citizen, left Washington last June. He went to Spain to serve on the Rebel side. A short time ago he was wounded on the Madrid front and brought to a hospital at L Ui LaLinea. Last Friday night he escaped from the hospital, wound and all, plunged into the sea, and started to swim toward Gibraltar. But in the darkness he made a wrong guess. He landed on netilra territory^ only a few yards from the British lines. Ax#j&®XH3Ex sfxifcjpikxxkxxiKxtkxxx&xxixSXjajj Dogs barked in the ^pbel camp and aroused the Rebel sentries. They found the would-be escaper, captured him, and sent him to Talavera for court martial. Today Mrs. Castle, his mother, ^nt to Seville in the faint hope of obtaining a pardon for her son. If he is lucky, he* 11 have better treatment than the American captain of a tanker flying Uncle Sam's flag, captured by the Rebels on the way to Barcelona, was released, but after months of imprisonment, during which he was be,.ten rubber hose* every day. ESCAPE RETAKE A young American from VVashington, D.C., faces court martial before officers of General Franco. Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle, a twenty-two year old citizen, left Washington last June. He went to Spain to serve on the Rebel side. A short time ago he was wounded on the Madrid front and brought to a hospital at LaLinea. Last Friday night he escaped from the hospital, wound and all, plunged into the sea, and started to swim toward Gibraltar. But in the darkness he made a wrong guess. He landed on awntrr.t territory^ only a few yards from the British lines, ibcghsmixx a£xjis6gxlajtik35xljax±lascx&KJejgix«3Eio® Dogs barked in the ^bel camp and aroused the Rebel sentries. They found the would-be escaper, captured him, and sent him to Talavera for court martial. Today Mrs. Castle, his mother, «nt to Seville in the faint hope of obtaining a pardon for her son. If he is lucky, he'll have better treatment than the American captain of a tanker flying Uncle Sam's flag, captured by the Rebels on the way to Barcelona, fte was released, but after months of imprisonment, during which he was beaten with rubber hose* every day. trqtso A curious fate seems to follow the offspring of Leon Trotsky,, exiled of the Bolshevik state. He had four A- children. Some time ago one of his daughters died in a Soviet prison. Two years ago another girl committed suicide in Berlin. His younger son, Sergei, is said to be seriously ill in a Soviet prison. Today his eldest son, Leon, died in a hospital at Paris. From all accounts, he was mentally ojaassrf, the most brilliant a graduate of the Sorbonne and a most, prof iclent mathematician ICE FLQB RESCUE Tonight thers’o sxcitsuiQnt throughout Soviet Russia. At six thirty-five this evening, MoseO'W time, a plane from the 3 ^. Eoviet icebreaker nAURMAN f landed on mu ice floe occupied by the four North Pole scientists. So it looks as though one of the most remarkable of polar expeditions is about to coma to a happy end^) Papanin, leader of the floating castaways sent out a radio message this evening that everything is okay, all set for the plane to take the party their equipment, instruments and papers, to -the icebreaker. It may take several hazardous flights to do it. This is the first direct contact with the outside world that those four Polar adventurers have had in ten months, binee May Twenty—First, their only communication with civilization has been by means of radio. Now they face their final thrill, rescue, flights from that floating ice to the ship1. WILKINS FOLLOW fiESCUE From Fdmonton, AlbQrtvi^ comss xrssii nows of snotlxsr Arctic rescue expedition. Sir Hubert Wilkins begin^another stage of his long effort to find the Arctic flyer, Levanevsky, and hi# five companions. The last time Sir Hubert and his pilot. Air Commodore Hollick-Kenyon, landed at Aklavik, their monoplane was damaged on the Ice. Sir ^Wilkins had to fly south to procure parts to repair the damaged plane./ Ee took off from Edmonton n in a ship of the MacKenzie Air Service Line, taking with him the necessary parts. The Soviet Government has commissioned him to continue his search for Levanevsky. This time in the desolate, almost Inaccessible, mountain regions of Alaska. vafoonfd forood %o-- live-^-ft-^er-^-e—^-e sh r—And-~ 44 —tsn of 1 —tfe-e- near Tahoe City, four hundred people, men, women and children. horse-flesh. Almost four hundred others are maiooned at Tahoe City, Tuloc, Emerald Bay and Lake Forest. No mail has reached that district for seven days. enlysi-th<»---poople-■■ ef—Gdronbrook1" who-' arc —re9;tr4"C4fe4---tQ - me»^-«r-°Tite--oirho^ hav e an settlement—California marooned by snows. At Glenbrook, A have been cut off for a week. Titsy^ssw^flo other food but abundance of canned foods but no fresh provisions, only way they can get out is by skis. flood In the rich fertile San Joaquin Valley of California, there ax was trouble, confusion and distress today. Flood waters 0 have marooned whole valleys in more than three counties. Hundreds of-trrinit are crowded into small tent shelters, sitting hopelessly in^dreary mud and cold. The only way of getting supplies is by rowboat. The situation is aggravated because thousands of families flocked into that part of California from the dust bowl, hoping to find work picking cotton. WHALE Would anybody llice a whale fifty feet long? If so, apply to R. W. Yeoman at Beauford, North Carolixia. This huge sea mammal made its appearance off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, ^appealed to Mr. Yeoman and a party of friends as a sporting proposition. So they went after whale with rifles. It took a hundred shots S to kill him. After which they beached the monster. Not until they had him beached, did it occur to them to ask: "Now that we!ve got him, what W do with him?" ^ whale of a problem. tttrst radio adv '; rti : ikg The other while at Stowe, Veriuont, skiing on tk* and around ht. Lansfield, a gentleman looked me up and told me a bit of radio history. He said that he we s the first ever to use radio for advertising purposes, His name.** F. y, pike. hr. Pike .said that in October 1925 he heard a nrogreio on K.D.K.A. in Pittsburgh, a program tkx which pleased him so much that he sent a lot of boxes of Vermont maple sugar to the radio station asking that they be passed around to those who we^e in any way connected with the broadcast. Evidently fck&xaqsx the maple sugar made a hit because the next time the same group came on the air they told all about thifmaple. sugar^ Mr. Pike believes 4e^~' V was the first incident of the sort in connection with radio -- unless some of you can think of an earlier bit of advertising th t was done over the air. In telling about this Hr. Pike had no motive other than to give me a bit of interesting information because he has long since retired from business. MINERS In the country around Waco, Missouri, every mine was shut down today. Not a pick or shovel was swung, not a cage went A '-{LckUo. 'to <*~ it. «iesrcrij<fr«^*-':±©ad:---and’^i-ni^^rkin^s - of -:-t±La±~ai-F X2L MA-C- » t3ia±=arEak» A strike? No, Those mines were closed so that the workers could join in the search for a. missing boy. A twelve year old lad from Pittsburg, Kansas, hgeb boon lost since Sunday night. It is feared teiigNt he have fallen in one of the open unmarked miitm shafts. So the miners were released from their Cey the best qualified to £JLx&, the missing boy. At last reports th4fi.. searoto' had failed. KENNEDY A new critic appeared on the horizon of Madam Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, i&zx&m Joseph P. Kennedy, Chairman of the U.S. Maritime &anBi»sia» Commission, soon to be our ambassador in London. He locked horns with Madam La Secretary, over the question of discipline in the American Merchant Marine. Madam Perkins had told the Senate Commerce Committee that the time was not ripe to settle labor troubles on American ships by mediation and arbitration. Said Chairman Kennedy:- "Madam Perkins is all wrong. Discipline at sea and the responsibility of the maritime unions has got to be established at the earliest possible moment* If not," he added, "the result will be fatal." And he declared further:- "If the maritime industry is not ripe for conciliation and mediation then it is over-ripe for ruin," ill CONGRESS There was much to do in both houses of Congress today. It's still about that big Navy program of the President’s. Senator Borah of Idaho ioday took up the cudgels for a small navy. ShKxaaKKusKd He accused our admirals of using ridiculous speech. He said: "Until there is an explanation forthcoming, ■? the armament program remains an unnecessary conundrum. vie need is an amendment defining the naval frontier of the United States. In other words. Congress should outline a certain should be bound by a line beginning at Bering Strait, from there to the western end of the Aleutian Islands, thence to Midway Island and Hawaii, thence to American Samoa, thence to Panama, ^ thence to the Virgin Islands, and from there to the eastern ^ fUiti, Hieu^jc ^ l 1 extremity of the State of Maine*^ And he said. xne noaval forces of the United States shall be used to maintain propaganda to incite our fears in order to promote a big jJasgEs, Republican Senator Vandenburg of Michigan joined the chorus on President Roosevelt to explain his Chicago In the House, Representative Kniffen of Ohio said what area and forbid the navy This area CONGRESS _ £ that frontier inviolate against all foreign foes, but in their Zo hostile operations not^ go beyond the hundred and eightieth Meridian of Longitude in the Pacific Ocean, nor the Sixteenth Meridian in the Atlantic.,T "But," he adds, "of course the historic policy of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine must be £ aintained." A. ftlibustkr ^ It looks as though the administration senators would have to give up their effort to put through the anti-lynching hi They had another vote today on the question of shutting down on debate, breaking that filibuster^^The last time ths^ was voted ch, there were thirty-seven votes for cloture, fifty-one against. ,Jt requires a two-thirds vote for the senators to abandon their ancient privilege of unlimited debate. These eight weeks of filibustering in the Senate have acted like a log jam on the river. Necessary measures, such as the Appropriation 3111, have been piling up. So today Majority Leader Barkley called f cJloturtiZ /V. , . it to a vote again.1 And once more^ha^ lost, jtip pive more votes . _____ "Ptaii than last time, forty-two in all. But ^ long way from the necessary two-third majority* Bvoi»y sejifttor— w&r$~ —and—fort-y—th am v^ted-- ^Semtor Barkley virtually had to throw up his hands and admit iEfEx± that the anti-lynching bill will have to be put on the shelf since there*s no breaking thfiU fillbustei . 1 CHE£SE The most interesting senatorial contest today did~nat take place on the floor of the chamber. It was held in the Senate restaurant. In the air was not only oratory, but the odoriferous eff^yia of toothsome cheeses, ®rie, Camembert, There was even that much under-estimated and admirable article, known as plain American cheese. The argument was between New York and Wisconsin. The New York senators, Copeland and Wagner, tomA cnlve* A their colleagues a feast. ’’See what beautiful cheeses the State of New York produces!” said Ha* Wagner. And, as he nibbled on a A cracker piled up with rich ripe Camembert, he proclaimed proudly: ’’Xhe State of New York produces more Camembert than all other states combined and we are alone in America in the making of Brie.” That aroused the local patriotism of Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin. "New York is all right in an amateur way,” said the Wisconsin Senator, "but I invite my colleagues* attention to the fact that last year six hundred c.n.. forty million, five hundred and fifty-one thousand pounds of cheese ! I ! J* ! were produced In the United States. Of that total, the State of Wisconsin produced fifty-six per cent, more than New York and all the other states put together," Then he added: "Give me two weeks and Ifll serve you with a cheese luncheon from the State of 'Wisconsin that the .senators will never forget." ^2 - £ - K -^ ' = Ipftjl i! fl I IP ——m+Mk B Tr; i i