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1?Former President and Sirs. Coolldge In the grounds of "The Beeches," the new home In Northampton, Slass.,
which they have Just occupied. 2?Medal to be presented by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America to
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his crew of Antarctic explorers oh June 25. 3?Crew of the Swordflsh. schooner
which Is on [its way from Chicago for a three-year cruise around the world on behalf of the Chicago Centennial
exposition. I
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
Carol's Romantic Coup
Wins for Him the Throne
of Rumania.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
/"^AIIOL CARAIMAN, once crown
^ prince of Rumania, then an exile
from his country, Is now King Carol
II after one of the most romantic and
spectacular coup d'etat of modern
times. Everything being arranged by
his friends, he flew to Bucharest In an
airplane and was immediately wel
comed by the parliament, which voted
to give him the crown and to make
the little king, Michael, Carol's son,
the heir apparent.
Practically the entire population of
Rumania seemed to be glad to have
Carol back, though the Liberal party
voted his return was a "dangerous ad
venture" and refused to accept the
new order of things. Carol signed a
law legalizing all acts of the regency
In the name of King Michael and also
approved a general amnesty act; but
he then proceeded to punish certain
prominent politicians who spoke against
him after his return. He told cor
respondents he would work constitu
tionally through parliament and that
he had no idea of establishing a dic
tatorship. At latest reports he was
having some difficulty in forming a
government, since the National Peas
ants' party decided not to participate
and therefore Juliu Maniu could not
accept his former position of premier.
Carol's future family concerns were
somewhat , doubtful. Ills mother.
Queen Dowager Marie, hastened to
Bucharest from Oberajnmergau to wel
come him, and there were confident
predictions that he would be recon
ciled to Princess Helene, his former
wife, their divorce having been
annulled. *
/CHICAGO has been sroured to a tre
mendous anti-crime spasm by the
cold-blooded murder of Alfred J. I.ingie,
veteran police reporter of the Chicago
Tribune. Rewards totaling $33,100
have been offered for information lead
ing to the conviction of the slayer;
the city authorities have been sub
jected to the severest criticism for not
suppressing the gangsters, and the po
lice department is apparently devoting
most of its attention to rounding up
the known criminals or frightening
them out of the city.
Lingle was a remarkably well posted
crime investigator and was Intimately
acquainted with the affairs of both the
underworld and the police. Presum
ably because he knew too much, he
was shot down in broad daylight by
one of two men, who made their es
cape in the crowds on Michigan ave
nue. The press of Chicago and of the
entire countiy looked on the murder
as a bold challenge of the gangsters
to the press and there was a universal
demand for the arrest and punishment
of the slayer.
HALF a hnndred lives were lost by
fire and drowning when the
steamer Fairfax of the Merchants' and
Miners' line rammed and sank the
tanker Plnthls, laden with 500,003 gal- I
inns of high-test gasoline. Id Massa
chusetts bay off Scltunte. In the midst
of ? dense fog. Two minutes after
the collision the tanker exploded and
flames swept over the liner. The sea
around the two vessels was imme
diately covered with blaring oil and
many panic-stricken passengers and
memben of the crews who Jumped
overboard were burned to death. The
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tanker speedily went to the bottom
and her entire crew was lost. About
eighteen persons on the Fairfax died
in the accident and others were so
badly burned that recovery was
doubtful.
Federal authorities started an in
vestigation of the disaster in Boston
and had for consideration serious
charges including the allegation that
the Fairfax was traveling at almost
top speed despite the fog, and that the
liner's officers failed to give an ade
quate idea of the extent of the acci
dent in early radio messages. Capt.
S. J. Brooks of the Fairfax asserted,
according to a federal steamboat in
spector, that D. C. McNeil, vice presi
dent of the Merchants' and Miners'
line, instructed him to send the mes
sage to the company's offices in code
instead of broadcasting an S O S
call.
CONGRESS has finally disposed of
the tariff bill after months of hear
ings, debates and discussions. The
measure passed the senate by a
mighty slim majority. Senators Reed
and Grundy having decided to vote
for it despite their belief that it was
unfair to eastern industrial Interests.
The bill's passage through the house
was of course much easier.
D ISHOP CANNON of the Methodist
Church, South, and of various dry
organisations, probably will not be pun
ished for contempt of the senate com
mittee on lobbying, but his conduct has
been reported formally to the senate.
He appeared again voluntarily last
week and repeated his refusal to an
swer questions relating to his political
activities in the 1028 campaign. lie
already bad explained that he did
not intend to express contempt by
walking out of the hearing without
being excused. The committee In pri
vate conference decided it would be
fruitless to attempt to punish the
bishop for an alleged contempt com
mitted before less than a quorum of
the committee or to seek additional
authority from the senate to pursue
the Inquiry and perhaps force Cannon
to testify.
DISCUSSION of the naval treaty
was complicated by the Presi
dent's refusal to let th{ senate foreign
relations committee have all the docu
ments concerning the pact and the
London conference on the ground that
this would be Incompatible with the
public interest. Senator Johnson of
California was especially Insistent
that the committee should have these
papers since the senate has equal
power with the President In the mak
ing of treaties. After much talk Sen
ator Peed of Pennsylvania, one of the
delegates to the conference, offered
to turn over the secret correspondence
on the treaty to Johnson on condition
that the documents should not be
made public. The Callfornian re
jected this offer, and the committee
adopted a resolution setting forth the
contention that It Is entitled to ex
amine all documents relating to the
London treaty.
PRESIDENT HOOVER nominated
YV. Cameron Forbes of Boston to
be ambassador to Japan, and reap
pointed Chairman Legge and C. C.
Teague members of the federal farm
board.
REGULAR Republicans of Wiscon
sin held their state convention
in Oshkosh and indorsed Gov. YY'alter
J. Kohler for renomlnatlon. The dele
gates adopted a platform embodying
what Is called the "new progress!vlsm,"
the aim of which Is to provide a com
mon meeting place for folks In the
middle of the road between reaction
aries and radicals. It reiterates the
petition of the Wisconsin legislature
asking congress to authorize a na
tion-wide referendum on prohibition.
Another plank calls for restrictions on
the operations of chain stores.
The Democrats of Indiana also met,
put out a state ticket and assailed
the Republican party for all kinds of
alleged misdeeds, charging that the
people no longer govern themselves.
OBI.ES of the Mystic Shrine in
great numbers gathered In Toron
to. Ont., for their annual convention,
staged a wonderful electric parnde
that was almost wrecked by the im
mense throng of eager spectators, and
enjoyed themselves generally In a
city where they were not hampered by
prohibition laws. Thursday they dedi
cated a peace memorial, the principal
speaker being Senator Joseph T. Rob
inson of Arkansas. Tbe Imperial
council elected Esten A. Fletcher of
Rochester, N. Y., Imperial potentate
and selected Cleveland, Ohio, as the
scene of next year's convention.
PRESIDENT HOOVER awarded the
Charles R. Walgreen prize of $500
for the winning essay in the second an
nual Gorgas memorial essay contest
to Pauline Lodge of Lnkewood, Ohio,
a high school senior. She captured
the prize in a field of 5,000 high school
students all over the country. In ad
dition to the five $100 bills handed her
by the President, she received $250
for travel expenses to the National
Capital.
JUI.IO PRESTES, president-elect of
Brazil, returning Mr. Hoover's visit
to Brazil last year, was the guest of
the President and the government 111
Washington last week. Secretary of
State Stlmson and other high officials
met Doctor Prestos at the railwny
station and he was escorted by ma
rines, cavalry and artillery to u pri
vate residence placed at his disposal
by the government. The chief feature
of his visit was a state banquet Thurs
day evening.
WHAT may prove to be one of the
greatest discoveries of medical
science Is announced by Dr. J. A. Pfeif
fer of Baltimore. He says he has Isolat
ed the microscopic organism that Is the
cause of the common cold which Is esti
mated to cause the American worker
[ a loss In wages alone of two billions a
year. With tills micrococcus n vac
cine has been worked out that has
proved successful In a long period of
tests and that Doctor Pfelffer and his
associates say will Immunize people
against catching colds for one to three
years.
SOUTH FLORIDA'S oldest financial
Institution, the Rank of Bay Bis
cayne, and three of Us subsidiaries In
the Miami district failed to open their
doors last Thursday. Notices posted
on the doors said the action was taken
for protection of depositors and be
cause of recent substantial with
drawals. Heavy withdrawals were re
ported hy other Miami banks, but the
fears of depositors were allayed by
the arrival of $8,000,OCX) sent by air
plane from the Federal Reserve bank
at Atlanta. The Bank ot Bay BIs
cayne listed total resources of $17,
182.202 and deposits of $1,-.,037,108 as
of March 27, 1030, In Its last quarterly
report.
The Ohio state banking department
closed the Cosmopolitan Bank and
Trust company of Cincinnati and Its
seven branches because Its $037,577
capital was Impaired by the unsuccess
ful stock market gambling of A. W.
Shafer, discharged district manager
of the Henry L. Doherty company. New
York, one of its largest depositors.
After an Initial survey, examiners said
Sbafer was short $623,000 in his ac
counts with the bank.
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Stella; lee smiled with antici
pation as she descended from the
pullinan at Craig station. The
air was fresh from a recent
shower and the countryside seemed
friendly and Inviting. a neat, shin
ing car slid to a stop by the train
platform and a tall, sun burned man
Jumped out and approached her.
"Cousin Stellar I'm so glad to see
you 1' k
"Cousin James I This Is a pleasure!
Where Is Rose?"
"Frying a chicken for your supper,"
James answered. "These yours?"
It was a seven mile drive to Clear
Spring farm. Stella was glad that
she had come. She was fond of Rose
and Jim. Her middle-aged childless
cousins. It had been a hard year at
the office and Stella was sick of hurry
and noise and jazz. She would sleep
late every morning, take long walks
through the woods and pastures and
rock on the front porch.
That evening was all Stella had
anticipated and more. First came a
delicious supper of fried chicken and
gravy, hot rolls and honey and Iced
milk. Stella talked little, but her
cousins hung on everv word, eager to
learn morn about the new sound pic
tures, which they had never seen, and
to glimpse big business through the
eyes of an efficient secretary.
Later Stella went with Rose and
Jim after the cows and when they re
turned the purple and gold of sunset
was fading into soft, quiet pastel
shades. She watched Jim turn the
separator, helped Rose feed the portly
white cat and then sat in a comfort
able old chair and watched the moon
climb the sky. Quiet and peace; no
noisy neighbors or shrilling radios or
clanging traffic.
Next morning Stella was awakened
at six o'clock by a strident voice: "One
two, bend left; three-four, bend right."
A radio? Horrors! But Rose re
ferred to the Innovation with frank
pride. "Jlmmle Just got new bat
teries. Now we can have music
and programs nil day long. He likes
the stock reports and the jazz, but I
enjoy the cooking chats most of all."
"Things might be worse." Stella was
thinking optimistically, and before
noon they were. She heard an ex
cited telephone conversation and gath
ered that Sllns Smith, the 'nearest
neighbor, was III, and his wife ter
ribly worried. Leaving Stella to pre
pare herself a cold snack. Rose and
Jim hurried over to the Smiths. They
returned late In the afternoon and
when the car stopped it seemed as If
s dozen children tumbled out.
"Sllns has acute appendicitis," Rose
said breathlessly. "Doctor Carr took
him to the city for an operation. Bes
sie went along, of course, and we are
going to feed the stock and look after
the children."
"Too are certainly good neighbors,'1
declared Stella. "Come here, little
girl, and tell me your name."
"Jlggs," answered the six-year-old
towhead, "and I want to go with my
daddy."
She began howling lustily and It re
quired the combined elTorts of Rose,
Stella, and the ten-year-old twins,
Dick and Bob, to comfort her.
"Turn on the radio," Jim suggested.
"That will drown her out"
From that hour bedlam reigned.
The boys raced shouting through the
house and Jiggs and Tramp, a nonde
script dog chased the terrified chickens
from the front yard to back. Stella
peeled a mountain-high pile of pota
toes to the accompaniment of an ama
teur Jazz orchestra aome fifty miles
away.
"How long will you keep the chil
dren?" she Inquired of Rose, who was
baking plea.
"Until Bessie and Silas get home,
probably ten days or so. You'll get
used to their noise before long."
That evening Stalls and Rose
washed diahes. while Jim went after
the cows. The -portly cat did not
come for her evening milk; she had
disappeared. Later the twins rocked
vigorously In Stella's comfortable
rocker, wlHle the cold, chaste moon
climbed the sky and looked down dis
approvingly on the noisy group. Jlggs
sat In the squeaky porch swim beside
Stella and Tramp was close by scratch
ing fleas.
Stella ,-ose wearily. "I have a head
ache," she said; "J believe Til retire."
"Let me sleep with her, Mrs.
Bibber -oased Jlggs loudly.
"Well, you do have to sleep some
where, that's a fact," smiled Rose.
"How about It Stellar
"Whatever you suy," Stella an
swered weakly.
Jtggs slept soundly, her limbs out
flung In childish nbandon, but Stella
lay wide-eyed. She could never en
dure this for two weeks, but how
could she get nwuy without ofTendlng
Hose and Jim? She awakened still
undecided, but desperate. Fortun v
ately, the arrival of the moll offered
a solution of the problem. She hud a
letter from the ofllce, merely a friend
ly note from the filing clerk, but she
seized on It as a mrans of escape.
"1 must go buck," she tcld Itose.
holding out the envelope with the
Arm name engraved In the corner.
"An emergency has arisen and I must
take the next train 1"
"Ob. what a pity I" cried Itose. "We
were going to have such fun."
Late that same evening Stella en
tered her apartment. She flung wide
the windows and a cool breeze cntne
In, bearing a faint, pleasing hum of
traffic. Taking up the phone, she
called a nearby restaurant, ordered
her dinner und while she waited for
It sorted ber three days' accumulation
of mall. Iler favorite magazine bad
come, she noted, and thd book of the
month. Turning the dials of the radio
expertly, she allowed a silvery thread
of music, poignant und beautiful, to
enter the room. This was quiet and
peace. The bridge-playing couple who
lived In the apartment across from
her, she recalled, had gone to the
mountains on their vacation. The
radio fans who lived helow her had
gone to the seashore. Stella tasted her
shrimp cocktail and as she savored
Its cool, delicious flavor she let Iter
eyes linger with pleasant anticipation
on the wailing book and the soft, in
viting couch. 3be, too, bad em
barked on her vacation; a vacation?
with rest.
Africa'* Sausage Tree '
One of Oddest Known
A tree which bean fruit apparently
only to deceive Is the so-called "sau
sage tree" of East Africa, a queer
tree If a queer ODe Is to be found.
As the sausage tree is approached
while bearing fruit often reaches a
length of two feet, with a most Invit
ing look but a most disappointing re
sult upon Inspection.
The exterior seems to be edible
upon a glance, but the Interior is hard
and weedy pulp, neither tempting to
the pnlate nor edible.
The tree, which Is a member of the
catalpn family, has a use, however,
and enters Into both the religious and
medical life of the natives of the
country where It Is found. The negro
tribes of Nubia consider the tree
sacred and hold re'lglois festlvalsVn
the moonlight beneath its branches.
Poles made from the trees are erected
before the houses of the chiefs and
are worshiped by other members of
the tribe.
The natives cut and roast the sau
sages and place the tut shies against
pnrts of their bodies afflicted with
rheumatism and similar complaints.?
Washington Star.
In Barren Soil
Huge trees growing without any
visible means of support are one of
the queer sights of the Zapata swamp
of southern Cuba, which is nearly
1.800 square miles in extent. .Many
varieties of trees, some 4 feet in diam
eter, are found growing in limestone
areas where not so touch as a single
spoonful of Soil can be gathered from
an acre. The trees make a start In
small pockets and holes In the lime
stone, where collections of leaves and
dlstlntegrated rock furnish them with
cover for growth. In their search for
food the roots stray about over the
surface of the rock, finally plunging
through holes to find sustenance In
soil hidden deeply In the cavernous
recesses of the coral stone.
New Jersey Oyster Race
In Net* Jersey the sowing of oysters
hiss become nn annual event In the form
of u race. The sce<] beds offshore ere
under the protection of the New Jer
sey board of shell fisheries. It Is
against the luw for fishermen to gath
er oysterlets to renew their leased
beds close In until May 1. So on that
day the oysterrnen line their sailing
vessels up at Bivalve, N. J., and when
the const guards signal by firing a
gun the oyster crafts are off to the
seed beds.
Faithful Day
Doctor Dunlap of Klngfield. Maine,
made a call and left his tubbers on
the porch. Ills dog. Peter, a cocker
spaniel, was with him and took It up
on himself to watch those rubbers,
which he did until the latter part of
the afternoon, going without his din
ner to do so, until the doctor's family
was notified and came and took Peter
and the rubbers home. He had not
noted the doctor's departure from an
other door.
Carpe Diaml
Seize the day, handcuff It. place It
under arrest, lock It up and then sen
tenre It to hard labor for your own
benefits, lest It run away and leave
you In the night.
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Poland Today
A Village Street In Rural Poland.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Soclet>. Washington. D. C.)
POLAND'S Importance among the
nations of Europe lias been rec
ognized by the United States by
the raising of the United Stages
legation at Warsaw to the status of
?n embassy. There has been a marked
friendliness since the World war be
ween the great republic of the West
ern hemisphere and the new republic
>f Central Europe, and a loan of
many millions has gone from the for
mer to help place the latter on a
itrong financial foundation.
American business methods bare
-aptured the imagination and admira
:lon of the Poles, and scarcely a work
>n scientific management is published
n America today that Is not trans
nte-J into Polish. Poland has indus
:rles that were begun before the dis
covery of America, but some of them
ire being rejuvenated by American
methods under the guidance of Amer
can engineers.
Oldest of Poland's industries to be
iffected by new methods are her salt
mines which were adding to the savor
?f Central European - foods as early
ts the Tenth century. The first Iron
'orge began operations In 1333 and
mny be looked upon as the beginning
>f the iron founding industry which
now contributes millions of dollars
worth of values each year to Polish
manufacture. An Important lumber
Industry, based od timber lands cov
?ring 52,000 seres, was begun In the
Eighteenth century. A tree must be
ninety years old before it is cue The
entire forest area of the country Is
more than 22,000,000 acres.
One of Poland's most Interesting In
dustries is a plant for building rail
way equipment that was started to
Napoleonic times as a wagon factory.
The textile Industry keeps more than
1.000,000 spindles busy, and there are
numerous factories for the manufac
ture of paper, chemicals, and metal
articles. Germany, which Is Poland's
learest western neighbor, exports
more goods to the couDtry than does
the United States, in a recent year
he United Slates furnished approxl
mately 18 per cent of all Polish
mports.
Old Poland Resurrected.
The Poland of today Is not an en
tirely new entity. She Is rather a
resurrection of the old Poland which
once was one of the greatest nations
of Christendom. Id size she out
ranked nearly every nation of the con
tinent. iiussla slone of the European
nations Is larger than Poland was at
her greatest In population she stood
st the forefront of Europe: only Rus
sia and Germany had greater popu
lations before the war than are to be
found In the lands that once were
Poland; for unpnrtitloned Poland bad
an area of 282,000 square miles, and
the lands that once lay within her
boundaries support a population of
approximately 50.000.0u0.
Poland was three times partitioned,
and these partitlonlngs were read
justed between the partltloners by the
congress of Vienna In 1815. Where
the original partitions had given Rus
sia 181,000 square miles. Prussia 54.
000 square miles, and Austria 45,000
square miles, the reapportionment of
the Vienna congress gave Russia 220,
500, Prussia 2G.000. and Austria 35,
000 square miles. Much of the land
which Prussia secured, and particu
larly Kiev, had been Identified with
Russia generations before.
Poland, In the days of ber greatest
area, extended from a point within 50
miles of Berlin, od the west, to the
mertdlaD of the sea of Axor on the
east; on the north It reached Dearly to
the Gulf of Finland and on the south
down to the Khanate of Crimea.
Former Russian Poland.
What was knowD before the World
war as Russian Poland Is that neck of
territory stretching westward between
the Prussian and Gallda. This terri
tory has an area almost exactly equal
to that of New Tork state, yet. In
spite of the fact that Its extreme
southern boundary lies north of the
latitude of Winnipeg, its population
Is as great as those of New Tork and
New Jersey combined.
Former Russian Poland. In this lim
ited sense, consists of a treat plain,
somewhat undulating, with an ittt
age elevation of about *?> feet, slop
ing upward toward the highlands of
Galicla on the south and toward the
swelling ground paralleling the Baltic
on the north. It Joins the low lands of
western Germany with the great plain ,
of western Russia. Its titers are alas*
and sluggish. with their months often
but a few dozen feet below their
sources and seldom more than a few
hundred feet below.
Russian Poland usually has a winter
somewhat similar to that of .lew Eng
land. There Is an even cold, with not
a great deal of snow, but often with
razoredged winds from the northwardl
The rivers of this region usually
freeze over about the middle of Dp
cember, and tbe Vistula is under Ice
for approximately 80 days during the
average winter.
In the Eighteenth century, when the
city of Warsaw, nevt to Paris, was the
most brilliant citg in Europe, this flat
plain was unusually rich in kentn and
geese flocks, though almost bare at
manufactures.
Poland's history has been a tragic
one through the ages. Xert to the
Itussians. they are numerically the
most Important of the Stars. They
first appeared In Great, or North, and
Little, or South. Poland In the Teeth
ceDtury. where they found other
Slavic tribes in possession. The wise
policy of their kings early Induced the
whole nation to profess Christianity.
People Have Changed Little.
Of medium size, with round heads
and healthfnl faces, the blood more
common than the brnnet. their physi
cal appearance has apparently changed
little. The working classes, who con
stitute nine-tenths of the nation, hare
always been laborious, frugal, endsr
ing. temperate rather than abstemious,
and intensely patriotic. Their niacin,
or nobles, hare shown tiiemseivjj im
petuous. brave to rashness, chivalrous.
Insubordinate, emotional, artistic
During the formative period Poland
was consolidated by the dynasty ?f
the great Lithuanian. Jageiion. the
Polish Wadislaus II?a succession of
princes unsurpassed In constructive
ability. Union with the Lithuanians
doubled the population and the na
tional resources. Together they
crushed the Teutonic knights at Tan
nenberg In 1410 and half a century
later at the peace of Thorn pushed
them east of the Vistula. The Polish
lands oo the Baltic, together with
Danzig and Marienberg. were recov
ered. The Duchy of Uazorta. of
which Warsaw was the center. Ive
centuries Independent. voluntarily
joined the kingdom which a few years
later spanned Europe from the Baltic
to the Black sea. The Reformation,
regarded with a suspicion as having a
German origin, only for a time dis
turbed the country.
The advantageous situation of the
kingdom, the admirable qualities of Its
common people, and the development
already attained, seemed to assure the
greatness am] permanence of the
Polish state. Tet In Poland's history
there is disappointment on every page.
The brilliant passages are episodes
without connection or result. No
where else is so mnch valor wasted.
The chasm waa always widening be
tween the nobles and the common
people. The people paid all the
taxes. The nobles, all equal, pos
sessed all the wealth and power, bat
had no sense of obligation or respon
sibility. Intrepid in battle, they were
ready to fight for the country only
when so inclined.
The system of government waa
oligarchic In the extreme. Succession
to the powerless throne waa elective,
native or foreigner alike ellgiblw
Each election was an orgy of tur
bulence and bribery. Twice the throne
was put np at auction. The liberuaa
veto, established In 1652, whereby the
negative vote of a single member of
the diet nullified any act or all the
acta of all the rest, culminated In
anarchy and eventually brought about
the destruction at Poland.