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A Section of The Brooklyn Eagle Brooklyn, N. Sunday, June 4, 1939 National Affairs Week in Review World in Preview Books, Music, Art, Drama and Motion Pictures Foreign Affairs 'A i Mm -JLj R. I. P. THIS is a story that Trend Is reluctant to write.

Going to press, 97 brave British undersea sailors have been given up for dead In heavily charted depths, seven miles off the Mersey (Liverpool) bar, penned In the sunken submarine Thetis. Five men escaped in "safety" bubbles, one dying after coming to the surface. The London press is raging because the British Navy lacked telephone connections from below; because it lacked a diving bell such as rescued 33 from U. S. S.

(the Squalus). Pointed out that the Admiralty had rejected the rescue chamber because, -sitting comfortably in swivel chairs topsldes, it had ruled rescue should come from within a stricken submarine. The Admiralty today had the answer to a mistaken sense of security. But what makes the story all the more ghastly Is the fact that the destroyer Brazen located the sub with its tailpiece sticking 18 feet out of the water at low tide. This left the after escape hatch Just a little bit beneath the surface.

For some reason best known to themselves, the British Navy ceased rescue with the "bubble" after five had come up. It Is not for Trend say this aas folly. Incoming tide shifted the sunken boat, so that it sank again. And hour by hour the tappings from those entombed within grew fainter and fainter. (Shifting tides and bad weather balked the rescue of the men gone down aboard the U.

S. S. Trend notes with a heavy heart that one submarine disaster after another carries the same grisly pattern of heroism and death.) The British Navy has adopted the Davis "third" lung, a gas-mask contrivance similar to the TJ. S. Navy's Momsea "lung." It has all the disadvantages of diving; requires time, a factor in sub-surface accident which is.

beyond measure. Still that after hatch, even submerged, was never more than 62-3 fathoms below the fretting, unequipped loyal craft above. The fantastic plan of cutting off the stern of the sub with acetyline torches to let all out failed to take into consideration the tide. The Thetis was on a routine shakedown cruise. It was newest sub in H.

M. Navy. It had signaled its tug, escort over the Mersey bar, it would submerge for three hours. On board were a full crew and a complement of experts and builders' observers. Falling to reappear on schedule, its tug wirelessed an SOS Men ashore were called to quarters at all ports nearby and enough of the British Navy sped to and hove to at Gormes Head to save the crews of a score of submarines.

They might Just as well have stayed at their moorings. Lack of rescue equipment left them in a rage of impotency. i 1 King George VI of England and Hit A Highland Lass Wins The Glad Hand ALL the bigwigs and litUewigs of offficial Washington prepare this week to put their best leet forward to a king. Or at the least, they will cheer from the sidelines and veil That's him" when passes the royal procession down Pennsylvania Ave. to the White House.

Social whirl In the nation's capital reaches a crescendo as the great hour approaches. New York gets ready for a ticker-tape sensation (Klng George VI and his Queen will come up the harbor on TJ. S. S. Warrington); His Honor Mayor LaGuardia puts on his best smile, Mr.

Grover Aloysius Whalen gets out his snappiest gardenia and, on Saturday, Their Majesties sip tea In the World of Tomorrow before leaving for Hyde Park-on-the-Hudson for a quiet weekend with Mr. and Mrs. P. D. R.

So, city editors nave a fair Idea of What will get into the headlines. But Week Just passed was pretty full, too. Thus: 1. Major General George Van Horn Moseley, retired, was the center of much commotion at hearings of the Dies Committee. For one thing, he asked the Committee if it would "guarantee the water supply." Members were flabbergasted.

Didn't get the idea until General's pal, Mr. Charles B. Hudson, emptied gJass and drew a fresh one. The idea: Who knows but somebody might want to poison the witness? Neither witness nor inquisitors got very far, alas. Committee failed to get the General to admit he wanted to head a group to take over the government, and General failed to get a prepared statement read into the record.

Nevertheless, he did a lot of talking. And Inquisitors let him talk. Heard they: (a) The nation Is on the brink of revolution; (b) a period of martial law would do the country good; (c) Prey Roosevelt should call out the armed forces against Communists in our midst; (d) TJ. S. 6,000,000 Illegal aliens must go; (e) members of "world Jewry" should be denied suffrage; (f) Mr.

Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bund is a good thing; (g) Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic program is pretty good, too, and Der Fuehrer has done a fine job restoring Germany "to the hands of the German people," etc. Wound up, mixing a metaphor: 'The handwriting on the wall Is as clear as a bell." Witness advised his hearers to get a deep breath of the "pure, fresh American air" of Imperial Valley, Cal. of vigilante fame, "the only place in the country where the Constitution is 100 percent in force." With completion of this testimony, Mr. Dies' investigators signed off till August. 2.

Mr. Whalen's World Fair survived crisis. Patriotic folks around town wanted to know how come the big star held aloft by the Russian Soviet Pavilion's sculptured worker was higher than anything else around except the Try Ion. Pointed out they: Trylon is 700 feet, red star is 259 feet, but no stars and stripes are even half so far up. World's Fair panjandrums decided to unfurl American flag at some loftier spot forthwith.

And did. Set it atop the parachute jump in Amusement Area. Jump is one foot higher. IT. S.

honor was saved. 3. F. D. in Hyde Park for a few days, went over plans for changes in Dutch-style hill-top cottage (Architect: Franklin Roosevelt), where will be served a picnic lunch to Their Britain-nic Majesties next Sunday.

Cottage is at highest point of the estate, with excellent view of the Hudson; and may yet attain a measure of fame as the spot where British royalty meets the hot-dog. 4. Date is supposed to be a deep, dark secret but, say persons in the know, F. D. will leave for his West Coast-Alaska junket on June 14.

Say same omniscient persons: All arrangements have been made, route, schedule, etc. Stops will be few. Chief among them: "Frisco (to see the-Golden Gate Fair); Seattle (to see daughter Anna Boettlger and son-in-law John and new grandson Johnny); and then aboard the TJ. S. S.

Houston for 12-day round trip cruise to Alaska. Prexy figures hell be back in Washington before honorable Congressmen adjourn, oajf about July 15 by present schedule. Say those on the Inside: F. D. is anxious to be at his desk in case things start popping in Europe by mid-Summer.

5. Congressional Foreign Relations Committees had still to draft a new neutrality act (our last one having expired the first of May). They had before them, however, a letter from Secretary of State Cordell Hull urging that (a) our mandatory embargo in case of war be scrapped, and (b) a cash-and-carry program be adopted. Suggestions had okay of F. D.

R. Said some: Real reason for request (a) is that the Third Reich, with acquisition of Czech Skoda works, has become Europe's No. 1 source of supplies, with nigh on to a stranglehold on nations small and large when they go shopping for munitions. 6. Michigan's Senator Arthur Van-denberg (G.

O. said he wouldn't be averse to running for President in 1940 if his party gives him the nomination and, what's more, he'll only take one term. So! 7. Gray, gaunt Dr. Francis E.

Town-send sat in first row of the House gallery last Thursday. Peered through horn-rmmqd lajses as honorable representatives came io the vote on epochal Issue. To wit: the latest version of his old age pension plan. It was the first clear-cut vote on the program since the doctor's movement got under way five years ago. Plan was smothered, 302 to 97.

Some Republicans weren't sure they had heard the last of it. Were embarrassed, at any rate, by neat maneuver of House leaders who brought' the bill to the floor under a "gag" rule requiring a straight yes or no without face-saving amendments. Significance: (a) Townsend idea was burled (it la hoped) for good; (b) path is cleared for extending the Social Security Act. House leaders Intend to get busy on (b) immediately. 8.

As Trend went to press, fate or County Judge George W. Martin, on trial for bribery in the borough's abortion racket, was in hands of the Jury. Cause of surprise and consternation Friday was calling of Assistant D. A. Francis A.

Madden (himself under indictment for alleged bribery) as rebuttal witness for the State. Geoghan aide testified he had told the Judge there was a perfectly good case against Dr. Louis I. Duke in the Jane Doe abortion charge, thus contradicting Martin's testimony that he'd agreed it, would be proper to dismiss the indictment. (Sixty-three-year-old Judge is accused of taking $1,000 to throw out the case.

See page one of this morning's Brooklyn Eagle.) 9. Twelve good men and true deliberated also on the case of Martin T. Manton, former senior Circuit Court Judge charged with trafficking in Justice. Taking the witness stand in his own defense, man who was once No. 10 judicial officer of the TJ.

S. was trapped into admitting he was in debt in 1934, had a net worth of $750,000 in 35. Where did the money come from? Manton testified he or his corporations had borrowed more than $700,000 in recent years. Seems a procession of willing lenders walked Into his chambers and handed over big amounts in cash; sometimes $10,000, sometimes these be would put in his safe; and later would buy cashier's check, which went into one or another of his business ventures. Some of these "loans," the prosecution brought out, were never repaid.

According to Manton's. testimony, nearly $149,000 found Its way into his safe in tower of the' Federal Court Buldllng where he stood trial. ever heard of before. Quotrhe: "Comrades in rms are Indivisible." 2. Big celebration was on the cards in Italy when they arrived.

3. German "Condor" division of fliers and others arrived from Spain at a Rhine bridgehead. Were reviewed by Field Marshal Hermann von Goering. 4. Why the Western democracies don't believe anything the totalitarian say: Spanish civil war broke out early in July, 1936.

In a fever of enthusiasm, Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister of Italy, exulted last week that Italy "intervened" July 25, 1936. Germans boasted they did the same before the end of the month. Both had blandly announced to the insipid, abortive "Non-Intervention Committee' of the other Powers that any thought of their national Intervention was "nonsense." In October, It seems, the Russians stuck their finger In the bloody pie. Yet both Italy and Germany now proclaim that the Russian menace had made them fearful in those early days, had caused them to butt In. 5.

Russians were giving France and England quite a sweat. Some thought Moscow was rather capricious on terms, seeing that England and France were raising a front against Hitler and Mussolini, avowed mortal foes of Communism. New Foreign Minister (replacement for Maxim Litvlnov) orated a bombshell. Said England and France were trying to get Russia to pull chestnuts out of their own private fires. Nobody knows exactly what Moscow is up to; but most thought it was still bargaining like the little old lady at the fish market.

Threat of favorable trade treaty with Germany made most diplomatic experts laugh. Why deal with the folks that are trying to cut your throat? 6. Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, and his Princess were about to pay a visit to Berlin. Nazis hoped to help cut the ''encirclement" further by signing up the mountains of the old Serb kingdom. Knew, at least, they would get a trade compact.

(Trade with Germany has Jumped 400 percent since 1930.) 7. London and Paris weren't one little bit glum. Being expert filchers of small tid-blts from the groaning board of international diplomacy, they knew that when feelers were put out and rejected, the next step was to offer more. So Esthonla, Latvia and Lithuania (which has a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler) may wake up one of these days guaranteed by the Western Powers. What Soviet Russia hopes to gain by this no man knoweth, unless it be diplomatic kudos.

8. American and British merchants were eloquently protesting to moguls of India not to allow prohibition (of alcoholic liquors) to become a fact in August next. Explained they: TJ. S. tried it and begot a bunch of gangsters.

(India gave to the world the word: assassin. They do things up brown In the Far East. May not pay heed.) 9. Totalitarian in Berlin and Rome rejoiced over the utterances of Moscow. Said the "encirclement" had been split in two.

Some thought that Moscow had talked too much. Maybe England and France wouldn't have to give up so much, now, after new Foreign Minister and present Premier had orated. Fancy Soviets and Nazis in the same boat! They wouldn't have anything to fight for. World would laugh iU head off. 10.

Czechoslovakia, In disobedience to all orders, opened its pavilion at Mr. Whalen's World of Tomorrow. New! York cheered. 11. Nazis began to put their bee on Christian religion.

(See Germany.) 12. King and Queen of England continued triumphal progress through the New World without one word from Berlin or Rome. (See Canada.) 13. All nations respectfully replied to Pope Pius XII's exhortation for peace. Germany and Italy qualified their acceptance.

Asked for "Justice." Important thing about the announcement was that His Holiness' plea, scrupulously denied in many quarters, was finally confirmed. 14. Germany announced it wouli meet any thwarting of its inspire plans with thunder. Other side kepti right on re-arming and gave the Impression of getting ready to meet De. Goebbels' thunder with high explosive) shells.

15. Fact is that having gone thus far, all nations seem to think it might be a good idea to get the harvest In. (Hear, hear, says Trend.) After that, again big talky-talk. Wide World Queen a World ish any operation; and they can work only 30 minutes under present pressures. For every ten active minutes of work there are 45 minutes of "dead" time, while the diver Is being lowered and raised.

Airlines are threatened constantly with freezing. S. S. Sculpin, sister ship of the Squalus, has completed surface soundings of the course to be taken In shoaling the craft. Technicians, meanwhile, have been making divers' work easier.

Found a new way of feeding them air Continue; mi om 2 Bright white heat of American publicity turns this week upon His Majesty King George VI. Nosey newsmen's typewriters have been all oiled up. Nosey cameramen's worlUng 4Ui4mweea 4oded with platca. and flash, press has all decks cleared, ready to go to town. Reigning sovereigns have visited the Metropolis before now, but never in the history of God's Country has a crowned King of Engand set foot upon the bumpy fair asphalt of this, the biggest city in the New World.

Not even when England owned our town did the king of the day ever drop in, even for a piece of cake and a glass of sherry. Indeed, there was a time when King George III might have had quite a time trying to drive his horses from the Battery to City Hall. (Especially after the good burghers had torn down his statue in a fine fury of republican fervor.) But time heals old sores and King George this coming weekend is going to have a. look-see at Mr. Grover A.

Whalen's World of Tomorrow. He Is also going up the river to eat hot dogs with F. D. R. and the Missus tmder the trees at Hyde Park.

He's going to pass through a storm of grand canyon ticker tape after getting 21 guns from Governors Island and is going on to Flushing to get another 21 guns. Wherever he turns precedent is going to be smashed to smithereens. Thus, who would have dreamed, when Mr. Whalen began putting his World's Fair together, that the U. S.

destroyer Warrington would sail proudly up the harbor from Sandy Hook with the British royal standard flying from her foreptak? Beside his Majesty will stand a gracious lady, his Queen Elizabeth, in all ways a royal helpmeet. It is well known that the King is inclined to stutter. For years, at public functions, he referred to King George as "His Majesty" or "my father" to avoid the embarrassment of having to say "the k-k-k-king." In 1925, at the opening of the Wembley Exposition, the loudspeakers broke down, only to come on again full blast In time to pick up the then Duke of York's comment: "The d-d-damned thing d-d-doesn't w-w-work!" Wembly laughed and thought the Duke spoke well, for loudspeakers were then new. The Queen is the person who has patiently helped him overepme this hesitancy of speech. When he broadcasts she alone is allowed In the room.

Such Is the confidence he reposes in his wife and no better example might be had to Illustrate the loyal teamwork of this royal pair who contrive to make for themselves a happily wedded life despite the gold fish bowl existence to which the British condemn their royalty. Her Majesty was born in grim and ancient Glamis Castle Aug. 4, 1900. Glamis Castle is in Forfar, Scotland, and so steeped is it in and bloddy deed that tourists concede It has history truly classical. It was there that Macbeth slew Duncan, i X44ef4hft Slraohn Ljraa-tettth uto with Sir James Lindsay of Crawford, 4 November, 1382.

Sir John had wed Jean, daughter of Robert It, to found a family heroic In its tragedies. John, 6th Lord Glamis, wed Joan Douglas and died an uneventful death. But his widow, mother of the 7th lord, was given to the flames as a god-forsaken witch. The true story seems to have been that she was burned at the stake because of the Implacable hatred of James father of Mary Queen of Scots, for the whole House of Douglas. Her second husband, Alexander Campbell of Skipnish, was slain seeking escape from Glamis Castle.

Some said he had been hurled over the precipitous rock on which stood the castle by an old beau of the destroyed Lady Glamis. The 7th lord was sentenced to public execution as the son of a witch, but being a minor and the Scots, wanting to be sure he would have full knowledge of the unholy sin of the mother when he laid his head upon the block, forebore until he should become of age. Vindictive James died in the meantime and John of Glamis was given back both life and estates and thus survived to wed Janet Keith and beget the 8th of the line. Some thought he might better have died. For it is recorded that the 8th Lord Glamis was killed in an encounter with the Lindsays of Crawford, 17 March, 1578.

The 9th lord became the belted Earl of Klnghorne. Patrick became the Earl of Strathmore and Klnghorne (title still held by the Queen's family) in 1677. His grandson fell at Sheriff-muir, a Jacobite life among thousands given up to the cause of ungrateful Stuarts. Ill fate continued to haunt the Lyons of Glamis in the next century. Charles, 6th earl, was slain in "a scuffle," 1728.

James Carnegie was the slayer. His widow died In Paris after a disastrous marriage with her groom. The Bowes name (Elizabeth was a Bowes-Lyon before she married into the House of Windsor) derived from the United Kingdom barony of Bowes of Streatlam Castle, conferred upon the 10th Earl of Strathmore in 1815. But the most romantic tale of Glamis Castle had to do with the blood feud between the Ogilvles and the Lindsays. A party of the former, sore beset by a larger band of the latter, fled to the castle and begged they most earnestly for shelter.

A cynical Lyon admitted them and, so he said, would give them refuge. Bade them bide In a room. They were never heard of after. Continued on Paga 2 Britain's Mightiest The sunken Thetis was the newest of the famed Triton class of sub-mersibles, Britain's answer to the bid for undersea supremacy from both Germany and Italy. Of 1,090 tons on the surface, she went up to 1,575 tons with ballast tanks full.

She was 265 feet over all, with a beam of 26 feet, a draught of 12 feet. She sailed 15 knots below and 25 above. She mounted a 4-inch gun and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Her normal complement was 53. She cost $1,638,000.

In a word, she was power-plus. Liverpool was agog with strange tales of Irish Republican Army sabotage. Pointed out plenty of Irishmen worked in the shipwright's yard at Cammel, Laird. But all England was agog with tales of I. R.

A. dreadful-ness. In fact, the Irish Republicans, outlawed by Eamon de Valera himself In Eire, had only themselves to blame for becoming suspect by broadcasting mighty threats of terrific frightfulness here, there, everywhere. (Sean OTCelly, reputed leader of the I. R.

was so ardently sought by Scotland Yard that It asked the F. B. I. of U. S.

to please arrest him in or about Buffalo, Just the other day.) June Brought the Roses Mme. Irene, famed red-headed Goddess of Peace, went to the World of Tomorrow Fair today, a guest of Mr. Grover Aloysius Whalen out In Flushing. Gas mask was not In her handbag. She thought everything was swell.

But, reflected she, don't be too sure. Thus: 1. Italian Legionnaires were on their way home from Spain. Were bidden goodbj t5 a (Jpanh general nobody TREND Edited by George Curria Winston Burdott, Associate Index Paga 7,8 9, 10 Animals Art Books Canada Ciachia Drama England Fashion Finland Franca Genius Garmany Ladies Law Movies Music Refugees Scotland ttata of the Notion-World Crisis Its cargo of dead. How long that task would take, no one knew, but one official doubted it would be done before August.

In charge of the woricis Rear Admiral C. W. Cole. Thirteen of the 33 rescued- Joined the salvage force to relieve the deck crew aboard the S. S.

Falcon. Job Is first to blow 600 tons of water from the Squalus' aft compartments; then to lift the submersible in easy stages with pontoons, four astern, two forward. Alioady, forward sections of (he ship have been placed under air pressure; when water is blown from the aft, It should lift enough from its bed of mud to ease the next Job of looping a heavy chain under the stern to hold the four pontoons. With these, the $4,000,000 Squalus will be lifted 50 or 60 feet, towed two miles Inshore to shallower, warmer waters; another lift and another tow should bring it to depth of about 120 feet instead of 240, where now she lies. So hard is the work at 40 fathoms tfeat It teits two men two dives to fin Work of Salvage Work of salvage was under way last week off the Isles of Shoals.

Operations of the spectacular "rescue chamber," which saved 33 lives from the flooded Squalus, was followed by slow but Steady, progress in raising the ship and War Scare Dwelling on fabulous Pitcairn, tiny dot in the Pacific Ocean, are the de.