LL"T» Another attack '^n the i\ew Deal by John L. Lewis. The President tne C.I.O. expressed himself today not only about the Democratic government, out also specifically about President Roosevelt. The Democratic Party, he declared, is in default to the American people because after seven years of power it has not solved j the major problems, unemployment, low income, increasing debt, growing taxes and restricted foreign markets. Lewis then made a political forecast. He said that six important states. Democratic in the last election, are swinging over into the Republican column. Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Newr Jersey and New York. As for the President^ && said he did not believe that Mr* Roosevelt would b< A a candidate for a third term, but if he does, Unitedwill take an ignominious defeat^ ^ <^ vva » L * U , When those remarks were Quoted at the Vvhite House, Secretary Early made a reply in somewhat indirect fashion. He refused to comment on what Lewis had said, but hm pointed out what William Green, President of the A.F. of L., was doing. 2 LkV.IS - Anat ur. Green v.as doing was bringing the President a birthday cake, a huge bit of confectionery carrying fifty-eight candles.and^t* five and a half feet high, ttirwa* made by the bakery and A confectionery workers union of the A.F. of L. There was a slight mishap attending that birthday present. They had to take it to the White House in a truck and on the wray the truck ran into a snowbank. jolted the cake and somewhat damaged its architecture. However, the confectioners Union will repair the came before tonight /* when it is to be showTi at a banquet that’s part of the program of the paralysis drive. Together with the cake, William Green gave the President a check for fifty-eight hundred dollars, contributed by labor unions to the infantile paralysis fund. ~ COAL Governor James of Pennsylvania made a spectacular announcement today. It concerns the huge anthracite coal industry of Pennsylvania, one of the most important industries in the *union, but for a long while in the doldrums, harass harrassed with price wars and &H»t±£ggija bootlegging. Tnat was one of the first problems fcfcHt former Judge James undertook to settle when he became Governor of the Keystone State, he appointed an anthracite emergency committee. And the work of that committee is now to bring fruit. The huge anthracite industry of Pennsylvania will start next Monday. T..e committee has worked out a stabilization program. There!s no N.R.A. in this program, no government interference or control. Tne conditions and rules have been worked out and imposed upon tne people in the Governor James adds that an increase in the price of coal is not part of the program. VETO A veto by President Hoosevelt, the first of this session of .ongres; . ItT s D/ei’ a bocial security payment to the State of Ohio, ti.i.en Martin Da.vey was Governor of the Buckeye State, there was an argument between Ouio and the Social Security Board, The heads of the security system witiiheid something over a million dollars from Ohio because it charged that Governor Davey was using the state Social Security machine for political purposes. So Congress passed a bill to reimburse Ohio, pay over one million three hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars of federal social security. That1 s the bill that tne President vetoed today, A a«K»ftg-etnci~ thing a, thftt -if were-to bo eeme-a it. would -make -1 ippogular things, in -partj—Is—the -present—re a^n f<or- Q<^igrese "^specifically refused to override that veto. -So^J K yor ehiL il1 fcnTfe t -sti-chy. Naturally, tnere ^as keen competition among Republican Senators ior one post held by the late Senator Borah of Idaho, by his deatn, a seat on the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate became vacant. Among those who wanted it were Senator Austin of Vermont and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. Byt, the place goes to Gerald Nye of North Dakota^^The announcement was made today by Republican leaders in the upper Chamber. By the rule of seniority, Senator Nye was -mes* entitled to th*# vacancy. A BRQy.D-L.rt £' to Jail in Atlanta. HeTd rather go to Congress. He*s going to run in an election to take place in Brooklyn, Rev; York, on February Sixth. It?s a special election on account of the death of the late Democratic Representative, Dr. William Sirovich. Where he’s running has always been a Democratic district, but Browder 1 s friends claim that tne Reds have six thousand ’’disciplined ’1 votes there and that the convicted head of the party has a good chance. However, a formal objection has been A filed with the Board of Elections, protesting against the placing of Browder’s name on the ballot. The protest charges ti.at the Communistskaxiy are not a political party, but a secret society that pays dues. FINISH LOAA An action v/as taken in Congress which might provide a loan tor the rinns, but not to buy airplanes. So perhaps the news will be received with mixed feelings in Helsinki, as the Finns have been saying for days to their sympathizers:- f1Thanks awfully for your admiration, but what we need fca airplanes, artillery and A ammunit ion.n The action in Congress came in the form of a resolution by the Bamting Committee of the Senate. The Committee said Okay to proposal to hand over another hundred million dollars to the Export-Import Bank. Out of that, the Finns could get a loan of twenty million.cte^-kfnKsa But not for war materials. FINNS ;»levs from Firuand again today. For seventy-two hours, t^e Red armies have been trying another strong mass attack northeast O j . Lake Ladoga. After tnree days in succession, the Finns drove the Russians back. The Bolsheviks lost heavily - thatTs what the Finns say. Tnere was one thrilling incident during the latest Russian attack. Seven of Stalin1s bombers appeared over the Finnish lines. A flight lieutenant in a fast combat plane, rose up in the air to meet them single-handed. One after another, he shot down six of them. So the story goes, from the Finnish side. Six Russian bombersby one Finnish pilot, aneh-taa-vrhai^-tnK^. * I t '- a~ sl COJTKArAflD The British Government is no^ beginning to offer an explanation and background for the seizure of United States mails. The Ministry of Economic Warfare made a statement in London today that maps are being sent to Germany, maps that might be of military value. The Ministry also gave out figures, a list of all the moneys, checks, diamonds, jewels and other valuables sent to Germany and held up by British contraband control. The spokesman of that Ministry then gave details of a racket, which he says has been conducted in this country, a racket intended to benefit the Nazis. The British claim that when a German sympathizer contributes money to send food tfr-t© Germany, only a small part of it is spent for food. The rest of it is held at a central point in the United States and used to build up Germany^ foreign exchange reserve in this country. These charges were repeated to the head of a forwarding "V" company in New £ork, through which a large part of thosejshipments 4 transacted. He replied that the charge arr-uttar^ ridiculous. -Cable ami radi^A/postage and other risks, leave the company with so small a profit that it's almost unbelieveabie.- CONTRABAND - 7U Ai American liner sailed into New York today from Italy A and her captain said tnings about the British contraband control at Gibraltar, He said that the delays there are wholely unnecessary. Some ships have been held up for days, some as long as a week and more. His own protests to the American Consul and the British Naval Commandant at Gibraltar were absolutely useless. And, he added that the British patrol^boel?~took off two hundred and thirty-five sacks of mail and didn’t return them. CONVICTS Uncle Sam^s officials on the Virgin Islands have a nev. problem on their hands. At the port of Frederiksted, on the Island of St. Croix, there arrived a small, waei* boat, open, % \ dilapidated and leaky. In it v.ere fourteen hungry, dilapidated men, four of them in chains. <^nvicts *ho escaped from tnea5?rsnch Devils island, tna*-penal colony has been the A A A subject of so many tales of hardship and escape, tales both thrilling and ghastly. Jk* The immigration authorities of the Virgin Islands donTt know what to do with those escaped French convicts. Therefs no precedent for such an event in the history of any Dnited States dependency. The practice of other governments owning territory in the Caribbean is to give the men provisions and send them out to sea again. That has happened already to these fourteen. They put in at Trinidad, were given food and water, then towed it to sea and told not to come bacji. ^ o cort of unwritten law among some There seems to oe a sori o ^ fficials that if convicts do escape from^tna ■ of* a sDorting chance# iey ought to have some sort of • P . . nozzles the authorities at the Virgin And thAvte wnat puzil - slinds'la , ^ : V.LATrJ£H An important public report v»as to have been issued in Washington today, the statement of Uncle Sam!s Treasury. But it was not forthcoming when it was expected, and that tells tale. The people who do the jobs at the Treasury had such a tough time getting to work today, that it was necessary to postpone the issuing of the statement. That illustrates what the nation*s capital has been going through for the last few hours. to§^Bigging itself out of the heaviest downfall of snow since NineteenTnirty-Six. At Chesapeake Bay no fewer than six ships in distress sent out calls for help. The waves were pounding xjsxxiiy so heavily that Uncle San's Coast Guard cutters had a hard time bring succor to battered vessel^ In the deep south, the thermometer is breaking all records. On top of the heavy snowstorm came a sharp frost. The snowfall affected thousands of children who couldn’t go to school and had their first experience of snowball fights. In Louisiana, Mississippi own Alabama and Georgia people whomotors were asked by the authorities to leave them at home. Accidents were numerous throughout the Carolinas,and in four communities of Virginia alone, there Vveie a hundred and tifty vvreclcs. ^The snowfall that blanketed Washington was even worse in Atlanta, Georgia.^ In the Great Smokey Mountains, twenty-four inches fell. In and around towns, the authorities did their best with improvised snow plows, which they found little better than useless. Even in southern Texas Jack Frost was on the rampage. At Hillsboro, in the Lone Star State, the cold was so acute that the whistle on the firehouse froze. And citrus fruit growers are in fear of serious damage to a fifteen million dollar crop. I Not^ifiany people have sucja^an experienced as that of^ Miss Beatrice Coucn of Canpelton , Indira. She teaches school^ hawesvilley'Aentucl^, on the opjjasite banx o-P^the Ohio River. She smarted t^'drive ta ^e^ job this morning and ^discovered tnat / X the Ohio had frozen^so solid tnat there wasxno ferry servi( Sodshe turned^ and drove through Evansville, Indiana,-and Henderson. nentuc^y^, in order''to cross the river, drove^ a hundred andxthirty 7 x .es to h^jd^job. But^siie got there^^'and school ^e^t as usual. And the weather-man has no optimistic promts to make. WMTKER - 3 Storm warnings have been hoisted ail the way from Boston to Eastport, unaine, advisory storm warnings from Cape Hatteras t Atlantic City. DIVER At New .uilford, Connecticut, a nuneh o^*business A A men are gnashing their teeth, A gentleman named Kelfount, who described himself as a ndiverT!, sold those merchants a publicity stunt. In order to make their shops and products famous, he’d undertake to dive off the town bridge into a hole in the ice that covers the Housatonic River, swim under the ice, and come to the surface through another hole. For this the diver Kelfount had collected seventy bucks, ne is described as a large fellow, some three hundred pounds of diver. And he had publicized himself as a fearless man, a stranger to fright. He produced photographs to -prove it. So today a big crowd assembled at the town bridge over the Housatonic at New Gilford, Connecticut. They waited and tncy waited, and tfasy waited. But no fckxx three hundred pounds of Diver Kelfount showed up. Not even a-hundred pounds, Hot even a pound. tm no t-'-evef*. henrs C O II.'H ct E &■. liKKOES In ^L.yy Nineteen Thirty—t^ight, a steeplejack was working at his job in Mobile, Alabama. Fifty-five feet above the ground he was repairing a tall factory smokestack. Incidentally, he was seventy-five years old. Suddenly his block and tackle came loose. Down he went, head first, bound for what seemed to be inevitable destruction. But there was a young boiler maker standing on the ground below’. The elderly steeplejack came hurcfling directly for the young boiler maker, |heodore Bennett of Mobile. Bennett didnTt run, didn’t get out of the way. Instead of that, he spread his legs braced himself, and stretched out his arms. He caught the aged steeplejack, xx saved him from death, saved him so effectively that the old man sustained only a few minor injuries. Bennett himself, was in the hospital ten weeks. All this comes to light because the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has just awarded to tefctrty -fourTheodore Bennett of Mobile, Alabama, a nedal, 7 c ^ VJ^0^vv\. Then hereTs another case which would be all too incredible if it didn’t come from the records of that Commission. For the Carnegie Fund people don’t nand out their medals without LEnQiiiS - 2 complete, exhaustive investigation.! A man was bathing in the Atlantic, at Folly Beach, South Carolina. He was attacked by a snark, a tiger shark, a real man-eater. A swimmer nearby was Harvey H. Haley, a forty-five year old superintendent of schools ^ K/" CL-'yvV at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Superintendent Haley to the rescue of the manN attacked^/^e had no weapon. But fcx with his o CK - bare fists he beat off ttSl shark, saved. ttie-Zi A A A the—-Fund-Gofflnifl GOATEE What is the origin of the term "goatee," the bunch of spade-shaped fuzz tnat some men wear below their lower lip? Once upon a time it used to be associated with chins of southern IF colonels^ Ordinary people liite you and me have usually thought tnat » was called a "goatee" because it looked like what was on the ^ /I cnin of a goat. Bnt a group of learned men at Chicago undertook to run down the word seriously, find out what was its real origin. And this is how it happened. Some years ago,.the University of Chicago started to get out an American-English dictionary^ ±t may provoke a smile when you learn that for the editor of this job they engafced an Englishman, V Sir William Crai-ie. It^ds a monumental work and will be.twenty sections when the last volume is issued in Nineteen Forty-Two. The printers are now at work on the ninth^seol^soi^ which includes the word "goatee." Now it so nappens t.uut editoi—in—chief Sir lniili©.ni Crai^ie himself wears In Europe, they call it an imperial, because^^f^ho^»^ft4ngm- worn by the Emperor Napoleon the Third. Sir William and ms staff went to work seriously on the word "goatee", it took them twelve years to come to the conclusion that goatee .aeans GOATEE just what you and I thought it meant - a bunch of hair that looks like the beard of a goat. VA— % "to ^ v] ^ < sk ^\JL y\^o VVM- ^JuKjZi , 0^\JI —tA_£/-u^ c?rvv. V V