^ /?J7 The capital of the horsey world,was transferred A was t .to Goshen, New YorJt. There, at the celebrated Good Time Track, some forty thousand people met to watch the champion harness horses of America trot off that trotting classic the HambletonianTp 11 m rather glad it only happens once a year because I always have to remember that in talking about that event one mustn't use the word "run” and maat not call it a"race. trotting match*and that the favorite, Peter Astra, won th»* ) \ T forty thousand dollar match in two straight heats. Peter Astra the book-makers wouldn't touch,*i5?ah He won the first heat by three lengths over his nearest rival, and the second heat comfortably by five lengths. The result was, of course, that no record was broken as some of the fans had hoped;— there wasn't a horse on the track to make Peter Astra go all out for the Hambletonian today, ne has made four starts this season and was such a favorite that he started at a prohibitive not been defeated yet. DANZIG Central Europe today is showing many of the symptoms that preceded the surrender of Chechoslovakia. With Danzig as his goal. Hitler appears to be using the well tried technique that he employed so successfully for the absorption of campaign in the dazi newspapers against Poland continues with increased vehemence* The; have tA /h threatened to bombard Danzig. *?®!r€hat, they say, will mean war. announce^ that he will speak tomorrow night to a mass meeting of Nazis in Danzig in a public square. What he’ll say to the mass meeting has been dictated, or at least approved, by the Nazi Fuehrer. In Paris it is admitted that the tension over that Danzig business is acute, but government spohesmen do not oeiieve not only Czechoslovakia but also Austria. In Berlin, the Albert Foerster, Nazi leader of Danzig, left Bavaria after passing two days with Hitler in his ^ there will be any flare-up immediately. JUSSOLINI Europe was considerably excited today over the rumors about ©a&d j J u s sol ini’s health, -'-v / My ‘ a heart attack, complicated a stomach ailment.^he real reason he stayed awray from the monster military review at — >—-CL-€? ^ t Turin, waa—that—he—had—fly to nome to consult his agcl£feaA .\ A /V afctendant:’a% 'dbl Officially, denied. The Duce is perfectly well, say the authorities>*• came away from the big military s A tjrf y y> MZ q SVZ Z.y show at Turin because King Victor Emanual was^o preside c 7 ^, SPAIN Francisco Franco, Generalissimo of Spain, no longer makes any bones about Doing a dictator, ng announced today a re organisation of the government. And one thing he did was to abolish the office of Vice-Premier. The Premier is Franco himself. and he authorizes himself to make laws and public decrees without even asking the opinion of the Council of his ministers. He also establishes a bureau of National Defense under his own direct control. Jte includes a general staff wifi fi authority over ttx» army, tta® navy and tfftw air force. by separate ministers^#=^fi» army, ,mm navy and air, swfr the real boss cvlhatl—fopgg» will ale» be Franco0 at least so lb la sal#t 4 There wasra ■i>Tav% specx&cle in the English Channel today. V Lying at anchor off the breakwater **^4' Port land ^-tohuT’ft b > ci >« fourteen if! A lines of battleships, each of those fourteen lines four miles long, | All that display of power represented the.reserve fjtowrfe. of the nritish Royal tiavy# only one part of—the—nttval-power—o# It included every kind of war, from the suoer-suoer-dreadnought to swarm of wasps. Every fighting vessel j|| motor torpedo boats _ tkjt nded-obseryor /V * ^ w ^ was completely manned, twelve thousand men of the naval reserves having been called to the colors ;/(2£a<L rut&stJLxjr^ | At the pierhead lay the royal yacht, and on it stepped an tn-H' ■xrht^rmmrr■ in the undress uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet. A Surrounded by the lords of tne admiralty? high ranking admirals together with Admiral Darlan. Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy, he srte nr^koBTboard the royal yacht. It was King George A the Sixth, Admiral of the Fleet and Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy. As he stepped aboard, the guns of the fleet thundered out the royal salute and the white mist on Weymouth bay was pierced by flasnes of flames from the saluting guns of ships that looked like ghost vessels. FL£BT - 2 The hing then made a personal inspection of several of his men*o’war, after which his barge passed up and down the line of ships while the crews in review-formation stood at attention on the decKs. After the review. His Majesty, as Commander-in-Chief, ordered the signal hoisted which read "Splice the main brace." Thatfs a signal always received with cheers in the Hoyal Wavy. It means an extra tot of grog for every man in the fleet. . And thereupon those hundred and A thirty-three warships weighed anchor and steamed out to sea in the mist, to join the home fleet for the biggest maneuvres •N held in many a year. For this was the first time in fifteen put on active service. Britannia has on active duty, ready for war at a moment*s notice, the most formidabie force that has strutted the high seas since the days of the V.orld War. british answer to the mobilization oi eight million A years that mobilized at full strength and H«rv4-> men on the continent -■ '-''W r . ---• -:- ,- - AIR ^ i ANEUVHES In addition to the gesture of that fleet review. the Royal air force held maneuvres on a scale without precedent, A fleet of five hundred war planes flew across the Channel from Paris in a sham raid oj the English coast. From the home airports, eight hundred fighting planes went aloft to defend the country from the raiders, while all the anti-aircraft units of the country were mobilized. squadrons of warplanes engaged in sham dog fights over London,and bombers dropped imitation bombs ?EST POLoOV* And wnilfe King George was reviewing nis reserve fiee%-. A the garrison of Gibraltar was making extraordinary preparations. %?■ 1 ;: : ' The Governor of GibFscsfcssr had ordered exercises for the evening to drill the garrison and population in the routine of what has to he done to guard against air raids. He ordered a complete blackout, lights to be turned off in every house at nine oTclock, all motor cars and pedestrians off the streets, and for the first time in such an anti-air raid drill units of the territorial forces took part as well as the special constabulary recruited from civilians. Tomorrow night there^S* to be a blackout, an sjiixxsLtxxxjs /) anti-air raid test in London^ , I :■ i SHAW George Bernard Shaw is at it again. He has published another one of those verbal slaps in the face to the British ptrfcrbie which he so much enjoys administering and which the British appear to love, /? G,B,S* has written another play, 'WtfotrfA in the last few A, 4 years he has frequently intimated that he thinks he has lived too long and that somebody ought to stop him.from writing plays. His latest is about a fascinating subject. King Charles the Second, the so-called '"Merry Monarch*" S-fia^latest stunt is to warn people to stay away from the theatre where tha$ play is being acted, if they’re interested merely in the charms of King Charles’s lady friends. He says that side of the Merry Monarch doesn’t interest him and he doubts if it ever did interest any grown up person. What interests him is a picture of what might have happened if met King Charles had^madis^the human prodigy, Isaac newton, or a prodigy of another sort, George Fox, whom Shaw describes as "Founder of the morally minded Society of Friends, called Quakers," And Shaw continues:- "anybody who is more interested in Sweet Hell of Old Drury than in is&a Isaac Hewton had better avoid SHAW - 2 my plays.11 -H-nd Jae adds that anybody who is more fascinated by the charms of Lady Castlemaine than by Fox's foundation of a great cult of friendship, should keep away from the theatres and frequent worse places, Arter all that diatribe against people of carnal tastes,the great G,B.S. admits that not only Sweet Nell of Old Drury but Lady Castlemaine and the French woman, Louise deKerouaille^ appear on the stage in his play, says he brings them on to relieve the intellectual tension. Well G.B.S., I never heard it called that before. NAVAL ACADEMY If war breaks out, we snail need a larger ftaval , ^ Acadecay at Annapolis. t>o President today by the official Board of Visitors. In war-time we^sisSrl^ need more midshipmen and, says the Board, any considerable influx of midshipmen would have to be quartered on the already over-erowxled drill grounds, and thcrte whett—they1 d-be more, f-h r ^ nT,nr>^ for -which they- The Board therefore recommends that additional land should be purchased adjacent to the Academy at Annapolis to alio?/ tlae1-On it <wl: expansion kURPHY The Honorable Frank Murphy, Attorney-General of the United States, seems to be seeking a reputation for a rigor formerly associated with the people of ancient Sparta. His latest dictum is that public officials should give all their attention to their jobs and none of it to seeking other offices. He wants a rule made which will prohibit Attorneys-General from looking for kk elective jobs He added that it should apply also to other important officials in the Department of Justice. He udTuuS'lr" mentioniwip^aSi^ other Cabinet officers, k* Huh' eyen an ALLtwnoy* MISSISSIPPI The folks in Mississippi held a primary election yesterday to decide who should be Democratic candidate for Governor. One of tjhur prfViiPM|iii»■ in the race was ^ A Basest. Paul burney Johnson, who waged his campaign on the s tatemert that President hoosevelt is the best friend “Vltbii?'' the bouth^ His most important rival was Martin bennet Gormer. moere is considered a friend of Senator Pat Harrison of ____ Mississippi wto nas acidly criticized ^ome o£^SStf, Hoosevelt*^ A A policies, bo far as the returns nave come in, the noosevelt champion is in the lead by a few hundred votes^ htrt"-Xh;at^fc» based on only twenty per cent of the election precincts. diilDG^S The lawyers, defending the Australian Labor Leader, Harry bridges, are basing their defense on a spectacular accusation* They charge that the efforts to deport the Australian are the result of a conspiracy by organizations of employers, officials of the Immigration Service, and Pacific Coast ^ ^ Port.land Today, the defense called Captain Joan Keegan of the rs as a witness* They hoped through him to > \ 4 establish a conspiracy. But he disappointed them, and testified that neither the United States Department of Labor nor anyone else ever asked him to investigate Harry Bridges. He said Portland co-p#- had become interested in Bridges in Nineteen Thirty-Seven, when the Marine Federation of the Pacific held a /Z7 convention Then ne went on to explain:- n"We had A" had a bitter experience in the maritiiae strike of wine teen Thirty—four. At that time we were not prepared to police the waterfront adequately. Bo when the convention was held in hineteenTh1rty-Seven, I wanted to 1ind out if another strike was to be called.11 A but'* said Police Captain Keeganf >no conspiracy )” against Bridges; AIRPLANE -r, Closer to the American coast, there was the report of another mishap at sea* At the entrance of Rarragansett Bay, a seaplane is down on the surface of the water, a large four-motored plane, Bhe was reported two miles south of the -f- Brenton Reef Lighship, near Newport, Rhode Island*- A A Coast Guard cutter was quickly on its way to the scene of the accident and an amphibian plane was sent out from the sea base at Salem, Massachusetts* lb—istr1*:' krigwri yet even ofMsfeeair 1 SHIP FIRE More dramatic news from aiid-Atlantic i ”ship afire l1’ Seven hundred miles northeast of Boston, an American freighter is in distress with fire in one of her holds. She radioed a call for help, which was received by the Coast Guard Cutter CHAMPLAIH on international ice patrol duty a hundred and sixty miles asfay from that fire, was^-also pisfeed -Trp----by-‘■ti#©- A out tor-CSEtJANy-Jii At first it was reported the fire was not serious. But later thm Coast Guard headquarters received word that the outcome was uncertain.i IB cutters are on their way. to— Iliat bwrning oha.p» — TRtLiiSUKhj SHIP years af.o, the Vvard liner iuKKlDA went to the bott<xQ oi the sea olf Norfolk, Virginia. She took with her a smarM* fortune in silver and gold certificates. Tne Italian treasure ship, F a LCO, undertook the job of salvaging tnat treasure, which was supposed to include twenty-two tons of silver bullion. For two seasons, tne F a LCO has been at work on g5* job. And at the end of all those labors, all that could be found was one small bar of silver worth, about seven dollars and twenty cents. The crew of that treasure ship have^brought to the surface the entire contents of the baggage room of the sunken MERIDA. And A seven dollars and twenty cents^ instead of twenty-two tons of However, they’re going to make one more last try. x / S' X X / y There whs a still more picturesque rumor in connection with the wreck of the MERIDA* I11 spite of all'' denials, there / // / / / / / / were persistant reports that in her cargo was a valuable consignment of historic jewels. Tney were the crown jewels of 7 / 7 / 7 7 i^xico, the gems that unhappy. Emperor Maximillian gave to X L ■: PAy cut 4 — * . The noble state of Michigan has^otie^f^"tne ^xt^n^datiar^ citizen^—i ei—heSTh' 15 ^-- Art^—bet -^eu ’ve jfieai^cr ofss^i©W‘ vliite hiiffbu He asKcd to have his salary cut. Wfaflp a public office holder, y-oh“jwi»li—•cre***’'s4ri'±-i>4MOPe The Michigander i^iff=^^^ftgg^ctec£at is Director of Drugs A and Drug Stores of the State Pharmacy Board. His name is '■£> E. J, Parr. He went to the Auditor-General of the State at Lansing and uttered a sentence that sounded incredible. So unbelieveable that the Auditor-General asked him to say it again. And Director Parr repeated these words:- T,I want to have my salary cut from five thousand to four thousand dollars a year." Tnen he explained:- "I used to hold this job at four thousand and thatfs all it’s worth.” The Auditor—General fainted* —n^-Mf-grr- js 0 j^s^SJ^isy^-oiftftnwonder s wns.t litt±e>'Wromair-'ria1d^'to--^5ay*'’a’b:Ge»t' it.