Siamese Monarch Renounces Throne
Prajadhipok
Will Reside on
English Estate
King Prajadhipok of Siam and his
queen, who are no longer rulers of
their tiny kingdom. The king, now re
siding In Surrey, England, announced
his abdication following months of in
ternal disputes over governmental mat
ters of Siam. It was hinted, however,
that the king would return to hia
throne only if the government recanta
and makes an about face on Prajadhl
pok's demand for trial in an ordinary
court for persons suspected of oppo
sition to the government.
Eleven-year-old Prince Anar.da, neph
ew of Prajadhipok, has accepted the
invitation to mount the vacant throne,
according to an announcement from
Bangkok. The prince has been living
in Switzerland while attending an ex
elusive school. Born in Europe, he
lived for a time at Cambridge. Mass.,
while his father was. attending Har
vard medical school.
A regency will govern Slam until
Ananda's majority.
Sprouted During Stay in Antarctic
Hauptmanrfs
Religious
Adviser
Lutheran Pastor
Named to Help
Convicted Man
Dr. D. ft. Werner, New York Luth
eran pastor, has been selected as re
ligious adviser to Bruno Richard
llauptmann, the convicted murderer
of the Lindbergh baby. Doctor Wer
ner will console llauptmann during the
latter's stay in Trenton, until the time
comes for his execution.
At first. llauptmann refused nil re
ligious aid, but during the past few
days he has apparently changed.' Signs
of discord have developed between the
Bernt Balchen, noted pilot; Dr. Dana Coman, with the luxuriant beard he
crew in the Antarctic; and Walter J. Lanz, three of the members of the Lincoln
Ellsworth Transantarctic expedition, as they returned to New York. Ellsworth
again was frustrated by bad weather in his attempt to fly across the Antarctic
continent.
Remove Ribs
to Make Room
for Heart
Operation Saves
Youngster's Life
Mary Erwin, age fifteen, In a Kansas
City hospital recovering from an oper
ation In which three of her ribs were
removed to allow her heart, which has
become enlarged, to l>eat normally.
For three years Mary has been con
fined to bed and slowly dying, but phy
sicians decided on the rib operation
and It is thought now that she will
get well.
The plucky little girl who has spent
so many months in a sickbed is now
happily looking forward to the time
MARY ERWIN
when she villi be able to resume her
school studies.
DR. D. G. WERNER
convicted man and his wife, Annie, fol
lowing a visit she paid her husband in
the ceil block of the condemned.
Mrs. Unuptnmnn brought their baby,
Mannfried, to the penitentiary, but left
him In an anteroom while she went In
to see Bruno.
Emerging from the death house, Mrs.
Hauptmann said:
"I don't care. I'll never bring my
baby into the death house. Why?
Don't ask me why. You know why.
Even if our appeal fails and my hus
band must die, I will not take my baby
in there."
Camp Fire Girls Received at White House
' Camp Fire Girls celebrating the twenty-third anniversary of their organisation at their convention In Washington were
received at the White House by Mrs. Franklin D. Hoosevelt. At the right Is shown Mrs. I.ida Foote Tarr, national presi
dent of the Camp Fire Girls.
Seek Overthrow of Greek Government
Army Presses
Forward to
Crush Rebels
Troops Capture
Town After
Battle in Mud
Scenes such as this took place in
Athens wnen insurrectionists attempted
to overthrow the Greek government. !
The rebels under the alleged leadership
of ex-Premier Venizelos were reported
to have suffered heavy losses in en
gagements with loyalist troops.
The Greek government reported that
they had recaptured the town of Seres,
northeast of Saloniki, after a hard
fight, and were pressing forward to
.crash the last vestiges of the rebel
lion. A heavy artillery bombardment
drove the Insurgents from their posi
tions with heavy losses, It is said.
Tension Increased in Europe as Bul
garia and Turkey massed troops on
their frontiers, although they insisted
their action was only as a protective
measure. Turkey has 80,000 men sta
tioned near the Greek and Bulgarian
boundaries, and preparations have been
going on for more than a month. It Is
said. France has ordered a destroyer
to proceed to Athens to protect French
property, and Great Britain has also
ordered a battleship to speed to Phaie
ron bay.
Venizelos is reported as ready to
flee from Crete, headquarters of the
revolutionists, and seek refuge in Alex
andria, Egypt, and the Jugoslavia gov
ernment has acceded to a request of
Greek authorities to hold Gen. Nich
olas Plastiras, veteran Greek revolu
tionary leader, if he should attempt
to cross into Greece by way of the
Jugoslavia frontier.
IN THE NEWS?1. Scenes ot dis
order In Greece follow attempt of reb
els to overthrow government 2?Fed
eral Judge J. P. NieTillr rules Section
7-A of NBA unconstitutional. 3?Babe
Ruth goes to Boston Braves as assist
ant manager.
SOME SPEED MERCHANT
Sets New Record at This Stunt
Glenn Cunningham, of Kansas, win
ning the 1,000 meter event at the fo-ty
seventh annual National A. A. O. in
door track meet at Madison Square
garden in New York. Cunningham
broke the world's record, being timed
at 3:50.5.
PWA SCHOOLS
Ten Millions Spent in 38 States,
Ickes Reports.
Washington.?More than $10,000,000
worth of school buildings have been
completed in 38 states with the aid of
PWA loans and grants, Secretary of
the Interior ickes announced. Hun
dreds of additional school are being
constructed and will be ready for oc
cupation by fall. Ickes said this pro
gram was woefully inadequate. He
held out hope for approval of a $630,
000,000 school building program this
year, if congress approves the Presi
dent's work-relief program.
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Cadet Simon B. Buckner, Jr., of Valley Forge Military academy at Wayne,
Pa., sets a new record for setting up a machine gun while blindfolded. Lieut.
Willet J. Baird is the Instructor while Cadet Ben Knowles of York. Pa., awaits
his turn to compete. Cadet Buckner Is the son of the commandant of cadets at
the United States Military academy at West Point
Champion Lady
Lumberjacks of
the Northwest
Champions, and real ones! Each one
is six feet two inches in height, and
can they fell trees! They are Miss
Kuth Hoerschgen (left) and Miss June
de Graff (right), both of Cataldo,
Idaho. They were pictured after they
had won the "Lady Lumberjacks" cham
pionship at Dalles, Ore., by felling a
sixteen-lnch tree in 1 minute 00 sec
onds. The girls undercut the tree with
an ax, and then felled it with a cross
cut saw. Their feat further disproves
the old term of the "weaker sex" and
the ancient's contention about "wom
an's place is in the home."
Wreck Gotham Slums for Tunnel Approach
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Demolition of ninety-one old houses In the Hell's Kitchen district, to make way for the Manhattan approach to the I
j Mldtown tunnel has been started. The work involves the razing of structures from Thirty-fourth street to Forty-sec
I ond street, between Ninth and Tenth aveilues.
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Uncommon
Sense B]
John Blake
Bell Syndicate.?WNU Service.
Unless you really want to know the
"whys" ol things, vou may go through
kindergarten, school
"Wh V9 and colIege' and at
wny^ the end of your days
you will be lucky If
you are able to do more than earn a
bare living.
Obviously we were Intended by the
Creator to be curious.
It is because of the able, wondering
people who have gone before you that you
are not chasing wild animals around with
a stone hammer, so that you can eat their
flesh and make clothing out of their
hides.
All the good teachers I ever have
had were men and women who, when
I plied them with questions, told me to
go and find out for myself.
The best any teacher or professor
can do is to awaken the curiosity of
those In their care.
Once start them wondering about
the "whys" and they will do the rest.
It was not so many years ago that
the people of the earth took it for
granted that apples on a tree, when
they fipened, should fall down and not
up.
Then Isaac Newton came along,
looked at the same kind of apples on
the same kind of trees that had been
I growing for ages, and inquired of him
self why this should be.
So the attraction of gravitation was
discovered, and out of that discovery
grew the science of physics.
It constantly occurs to me that we
of this generation are fortunate in the
date of our birth.
We came into the world In a think
? ing and an inquiring age.
The intelligent people all over the
world are not satisfied to know that
apples fall, that the sun shines, that
I water runs down hill.
They demand to know the reasons,
j And as they discover them one by one
they pass them on to those who don't
! want to take the trouble to think.
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Always there are problems to think
j out, always there is work on hand, al
ways there are opportunities to prod
others into a realization of how much
I is to be done, and how much can be
done.
T ndl r t }l O c/'iantlctc O pn nil(s?l>lr>ninr.
all other groups of people.
But presently the.men and women
who are working to reduce poverty, to
put an end to crime, and to increase
I opportunity in the world will have
their innings.
You and 1 have seen a great ad
vancement in thought, a great spread
of education. .
We shall see much more of these
things in our life times, if we use our
eyes and ears as knowledge scouts,
and our mind to put Into use the in
j formation that they bring to us.
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Not long ago I was shown a copy
of a newspaper published before the
Civil war.
Eyes of A scant third of it
the World wns news
The remainder con
sisted of opinions of the newspaper's
editors, or of prominent people, or of
long letters to the editor, written by
; very dull people who obviously had a
j deep belief in their own ability.
The newspaper reader of today
would be astonished if he found that
kind of a sheet on his doorstep.
Most of the news would be old,
sometimes a week, sometimes six
months.
There would he no pictures, no tidings
at all of great catastrophes, news o/ which
would not reach the town or city of pub
lication for weeks to come.
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The newspaper that you are reading
I now may be a great metropolitan pub
lication, or it may be a smaller paper
out in a town of a few thousand peo
ple.
But it will tell you what is going on
all-over the world.
It will be your eyes and ears w?le
you are sitting at the breakfast table.
It may differ with you in politics,
but it will tell you as much about
what your political party is doing as
It does about what its own party is
doing.
Reporters today are trained to state
facts briefly and succinctly, to write
the news so you will know what is ac
tually happening, and why.
Today the newspapers which do not
favor the administration give as
much news about it as the organs
which, in their editorial columns,
strongly approve of what is going on
in Washington.
And in a town so small that it has
only a weekly, you can still get the
news without prejudice.
I believe that more men and women
are sending their children to college be
cause they, and the children as well,
read what the colleges are doing, and
how much they do for the young peo
ple committed to their care.
I believe that in almost every depart
ment of modern life the newspaper is a
great and growing factor.
Moreover I aui certain that every
man and woman who reads a modern
newspai>er every day will increase his
intelligence, and become more and
more a factor for good in the world.
I am not rooting for any given pa
per. 1 have worked and written for
many of them.
But 1 am lor them. Without them
this country would never have grown
so rapidly, and would never have been
governed so wisely.