J ?. ~urt 4 ' , ^ MOSCOW Perhaps the most astonishing news of the day is the bulletin that came in a short while ago from Moscow, It*s a brief thing, informs us merely that(Maxlm Litvinov, yho had been Stalin’s Foreign Minister for all these years, has been released from his ,_ . 4 X ~ “ A '*4 , , A . - r * 3 tzl ( J°b- irrr.fruw^ that, language «sa^ the Tass Agency, the official news agency of the Red government, t.ho 4-+****. adds that he was released upon his own request. A But nevertheless. fc(-it sounds like an ominous event for the man who for so long as been the spearhead of Red Dictator IBS# Stalin’s dwvAoiafc \ A- 4 wtw .1 - foreign policy. 1 ±: ■that nol—IV Litvinov separated from his^job as Foreign Commissar, \iv i■ ■ i L i u fog ten". yiears,—bet; the adds^aw A ---------- _ v v— i»w^p4wwiiP<i to-on a M vurW p separated from his shoulders. The history of the last few years.has shown that it was a bad idea for anybody to become too successful MaTTtt.=i=hAjak= outstanding Red, soldiei^ i A civilian, been liquidated in one of the^purges.^f=ttefe' la ti'C resignation \ A resignation comes as a s'^rpi’ise, not only to the ------- .. .-4 comes MOSCOW - 2 general public, particularly ■Xv diplomatic^ circles. but also it gives rise to all sorts of / conjecture. The principal interpretation of Litvinov’s exit is .gn policy. that it means a sharp turn-around iijstaiin^s for< Litvinov has been his instrument for making/f^iends with England and France. With Litvinov out, it might even mean th^ Stalin is about to achieve his long he Id y ambition, a treaty with Nazi / / / / Reader Hitler. / ^ ' His successor, the new Foreign Minister, is V.M.Molotov^ which sounds like caviar but isn*t. His position had been that /A. of President of the Council of People's Commissars. That, in une Red hierarchy, is equivalent to being Prime Minister. But of course it was more or less of a sinecure, since Dictator Stalin s is his own Prime Minister.J principal accomplishment was the inauguration of the A first p — famous Five year Plan. He also served as one of Stalin's hatchet men in the liquidation of the Kulak*,tne landed^l^^fefe?01 He has also been Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in the Ukraine . R a ), tai&J, EUROPE In Europe, the Poles and the flazi Germans continue to make faces at each other. So far itfs entirely a contest of words. German newspapers rave against Poland. And the streets of all the largest Polish cities were filled with excited crowds carrying banners that read;- "W© demand nothing from others, but we*11 relinguish nothing of our own.11 Aside from that, the principal interesijwas in Hitler’s A* attempt to establish a bloc of neutral powers to the north of him, and tlwis aaauiro him-frsm-attack, in—that dircettoiK The Foreign Minister’s of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, today decided to neet next Tuesday at Stockholm. There they will agree upon a reply to the Nazi Fuehrer. It has been announced that in case they accept his offer, he will consent to Sweden and Finland fortifying certain islands in the Baltic. ROME The report in Rome is that Mussolini is trying to put the brakes on Hitler. He is cautioning him to go slow in that Polish argument. The reason, of course, is that Fascist Italy doesnft want to be lugged into any general European war over any issue so remote and unemportant as Danzig. ENGLAND Another olive branch from Chamberlain to Hitler. The British Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that he was prepared to exchange guaranties with Germany against aggression. That means that Chamberlain has accepted the offer made by Chancellor Hitler last Friday in his speech to the Reichstag. CLOTHES Fashion note from the Viliite House:- Mrs. Roosevelt is having nine new costumes made to honor King George the Siztn and Queen Elizabeth of England. On® of them is an evening stole of white ermine which the First Lady will wear loosely over the shoulders, falling to the floor^ For evening wear, a gown of chiffon in pastel shades of manv<aJ \ To wear to the World*s Fair, the mistress of the Wxxite House will, wwt »n ensemble including a star print dress trimmed with A* A navy blue patent leather. (£un4t" bla»e~me-4-f~th±s—is wrongs it newe-eoaes-te my desk)^ The coat, you will be glad to learn, has a jacket effect to the hip-line and from there down is made of pleated print silk. A navy hat and navy gloves complete the costume. Another outfit that will adorn the First Lady is an afternoon ensemble of rose-^silk-print fashioned in a tailored suit, also a Scotch plaid chiffon dinner gown and two tAilored casual dinner gowns. Uwvr2^nTT-eja5*12J is a "casual dinner gown?" A onta J Wow for a fashion note from Canada. Mrs* Dionne, the mother of the quints, will wear an ensemble in tne new Japonica shade, a rust tan. what for? To be presented to 1 her King and Queen in Toronto, May Twenty-Second. Witn this I $he mother of the quints will wear a Japonica shade coat, cartwheel straw hat, shoes, purse and beige crepe dress, trimmed with green. The quints will wear white dresses, shoes and stockings. Somebody asked Oliva, the papa of the five little ladies, what he will wear. He replied:— **X*m Just a farmer and donft know. I guess it will be a business suit." BASES t ~teMd Soa«i 1'»news from Washingtor^- airports and naval bases in Mexico and the Gal&pagos Islands* It hasnTt been decided yet, but the word is that the admirals and generals are studying the plans. The object, of course, ±9 to protect the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. The Mexican government, we learn, is quite willing to allow us to use the harbor of Acapulco on the Pacific aterew within convenient striking distance ^ 4 to Panama, REOROAHIZATIQN This was quite a day in the history of the Roosevelt administration* in fact in the history of the country• The House of Representatives by an enormous majority* approved Mr* step in pushing through what seven presidents have been trying to do for the last twenty-five years. The vote was strictly on party lines. Taber of New York. He offered a resolution to reject the President’s plan. The vote which followed was decisive, Taber’s resolution was defeated, two hundred and sixty-four to a hundred and twenty-eight. This vote means that the plan goes through. Though the Senate will also have the privilege of scrutinizing and voting on it, Mr. Roosevelt’s Reorganization program has kumxlmnm* to be turned down by both Houses In order Roosevelt’s fir sit reorganization plan. Thi The opposition to fail WAGNER ACT The American Federation of Labor isnft the only body demanding changes in the Wagner Act, also an improvement in txi.e methods of the National Labor Relations Board. The|chamber of Commerce of the United States today opened a forum of business men, big and little. Several manufacturers appeared at this forum 1 .rul A’Y' j - bitter words about the N.L.R.B. A maKer A ‘ ^ of tractors said the Board has not reduced labor quarrels but increased them. He charged also that it is destroying democracy, Another speaker declared that the Labor Board is undermining the rights of working men, lowering productivity, increasing unemployment• g££IL,.£OAl, A silver lining appeared today in the cloud that hangs over the coal strike argument,. John Lewis, President of the miners and three of his lawyers, are considering a contract : k that has been offered by the mine owners- < The breaking of That deadlock TTOwii come any too soon. The effects of th!»t coal"^^Ny«C A /> A 4 are being felt even now. Some of the railroads in the east have used up their entire reserve supply of soft coal. Consequently, they are obliged to use anthracite, which makes the firemen*s Job exceedingly difficult. £££* ^ard to get up a good head of steam with hard coal. So railroad passengers in the east have been astonished when some of the trains carrying them stopped between stations for no apparent reason. Thcy-hgvr trv<gnmg to a halt to enable the hard working firemen to stoke up a fresh head of steam. METHODIST Here s more news about the Methodists* That unity meeting in Kansas City is evidently making rapid progress. An effective compromise has been reached on the much debated question of the^Board of Education. The new united Methodist Church will have a single Board^ c£rTi8nrTr4rhrn^ but it will be divided into two sections. Also, it was decided that the general conference will be held in HineteenForty. Methodist laymen and clergymen will be equally represented. The conference will have complete authority & all national affairs such as publishing, missionary work, Evangelical education, and the control of boards to administer those matters. There’s going to be one thing, however, that the general conference cannot do. It cannot alter the articles of the religion laid down a hundred and eighty-two years ago by the the great John Wesley. Founder DOGWOOD One of the sights in the east that many people travel miles to see is the dogwood at Valley Forge, and this is usually the approximate time when it's at its best. So here is an unusual piece of information from Pennsylvaniar— Because this has been such^a spring, the dogwood blossoms have not kept their appointment with the customers:- the trees won»t bloom until aa± next week. MSRPgft syaDICAgg The police of Philadelphia are still looking for the crook who was the real head of th murder syndicate theyT;**z±we» investigating. They thought they had him early this week when a gentleman named Louis-the-Rabbi walked into the police station and gave himself up. But now the Philadelphia detectives think differently. They’re convinced that he is still at large. They are also convinced of something else, that the murder syndicate was not confined to Philadelphia nor to Pennsylvania nor even to the eastern part of the United States. It was, they say, a nationwide racket, with tentacles reaching as far as the pacific coast. One of the best detectives in the City of Brotnerly Love is now on his way to California to investigate the western EXECUTION A curious thing came to light at the State Prison in Boston. One result of it was to prolong the lives of two murderers who had been sentenced to die. It seems the last time there was an execution in Massachusetts, the public executioner complained that the electric chair was obsolete and dangerous. In fact the chair* JbnratddifctaB- came mighty close to killing the executioner, informed Governor Saltonstall ^ cAx+Xr\ la used again, w£th«p he or even some of the witnesses, m±f« be electrocuted. Consequently, on the recommendation of Governor Saltonstall, the Executive Council of the State postponed the execution.^—ttoe two —Msirws wha-had^klllrd~a BfeqrpyMegpT 4a Sufftfnepvllle -Xer-thpee- dollaro and a -half-.- The business of dropping in uninvited on Lily Pons's country home seems to be contagious. The latest place where one such admirer was found was in the lady's geranium bed. Miss Pons's gardener found the man, and when he asked him what he was doing he replied that he was a detective and that he had been sent to Norwalk by the Philadelphia court authcrities. produced a detective's diploma from a mail order firm, a suitcase, an umbrella, a typewriter, some detective magazines, the plots of two plays, and a batch of sheet musict The cops then asked him: "What do you mean you were sent by the Philadelphia court authorities?" So he produced a letter from Judge Curtiss Bach of Philadelphia, Detective X-3, as he called himself, had written to Judge Bach, outlining a plan to protect Miss Pons from annoyers. The judge replied, advising X-3 to mind his own business* "But one of the words in the letter was blurred,"said X-3, "and I thought he meant, go ahead." When the police asked him for his credentials, he When he was arraigned in the Norwalk police court, the prosecutor told him he would be charged with "constigation.tt PONS - 2 Then he said: «Do you know what that means?” "Sure", said Detective X-3> "certainly I know." "Well,"said the prosecutor, "you1re a better man than I am, because I don’t." The upshot of it was that Detective X-3 was sentenced to three months in jail. But the judge suspended sentence upon the prisoner’s promise to go home with his detective badge, his typewritter, his umbrella, his suitcase, his detective magazines, his plays, his sheet music, and everything. The Norwalk authorities thereupon turned him over to a rabbi, who undertook to determine whether X-3 was harmless or not. BijRhl'ikiORB The course of the true love of actor John Barrymore for his^»^fcfci^ has run into the lau courts. After one of the most spectacular courtships in moaern times Caliban fexx as Jack has called himself is suing his for an accounting of three hundred thousand dollars. CjL&ft&Q, otherwise Miss miaine Barry, otherwise Mrs. John Barrymore and her mother have been looking after Jack’s money for him. And now he wants A it. The quarrel as some of you may have heard, started because Barrymore acted too realistically during a scene in a play in wnich he was required to spank Mrs. He applied the hand with such zeal and gusto that Mrs. Barrymore walked out of the cast.^xiuc walked out of Jaca’s life. How Jack says three ^ X hundred thousand dollars walked out with her. mamx A well-to-do widow in Boston became captivated by the voice of a A ^tiid Q=tiaoim»13: of ■Bosjton^«~^ftd you may remember that when the lady died it was found that in her will she had 7^j(2 c ^ T AePtrBAMt five hundred bucks. On the strength of that, a cousin of tha* rich widow, who had been ignored, contested the will, A fl-t-firirmx>i t indicated tha~t^shw was of unsound mind. The probate court of Boston rendered d a decision eompliaonbary to Billn- to radio announcers. The judge declared,legacy In fae-t, eompliment agyb e«* « to^radio announcers is no indication that you're weak in the head. K K What do you think of that, Hugh James?