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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-13
By MILTON BRONNER NEA Carvica Writer

f L o n d o n Germany Helnrlcn { #0rnening, the man who finally took S{1lS plunge, admitted that even doaten nation may be pressed too TIT. and brought the whole inter- Iafional situation to a head, may 4morge from the present crlsis as 1Scond "Iron Chancellor" 2 He staked everything on that 1nst desperate throw of the dice, ms nIender parliamentary majority, his wolftical future, perhaps the future s0f his country.
 Yet he is far from a gambler In ]1<nnearance. Heinrich BrueninS, en- fireiv unknown outside Germany SIX $ 4oars ago is a quiet, modest, schol- aflv. almost cleriCal-looking man or
 Bruening occupies the most perl 46f1s position of any statesman Tn fhe world.
 Bismarck Had It Easy. ~ Tf he gets away with 1t and comes .&s,t on top in the end. grateful Ger 4 maens will have cause to call hlm '3 3Gnrmany's second Iron Chancellor. T S&twmarck, the first iron man. had Kn easy time compared with Bruen- i| 136x. After all, Bismarck never Ven- tired until he was fairly sure.
 Internally he kept the peace be- mute he over-aWed the dlSsldenl X1aments by a show of force which < TT prepared to be ruthless if ne- i S6ssary. And Germany was a go- {ng concern, rich, busy, prosperous
 and feared.
 Bruening's Colossal Task.
 Bruening has an entirely differ ( nt lob. His country has lost the
 reatest war in history, and Is con- * 1omned to pay the highest war tri- k11te. She is not going concern.
 TEE finances are in a muddle. Her < 3rmy of unemployed surpasses four 4 millions. :,
 To pay war separations, 1t IS Necessary for her to sell and sell { 9Sid sell abroad, and she finds the Inarkets of the world gradually be- MT closed to her partly by business ! Repression and partly by tariff walls IIer taxes are high. Her purchasing < Sower is diminishing. And internal { IF the state finds itself beseiged by { Xmbittered enemies--the Hitlerites
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who by any chance still hold this view need have no alarm in regard to sugar, for the outstanding feature of the Chadbourne plan is a safe guard against runaway prices due to temporary shortage in the sup ply of sugar which may occur dur ing the life of the agreement, and which may stimulate an increased production by those countries not being signatories.
 "The steadying effect of the Chadbourne plan on the sugar market will be most beneficial"
 The magazine also lauds the leadership and sacrifice made by
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to the right and the Communists to the left.
 It was under such conditions that BrueninS was called to form the cabinet a little over a year ago. He might have said to President Him denburg what Marshall Foch said to Clemenceau when he was made com mander- in -chief of all the Allied armies:
 "You give me a lost battle and ask me to be happy.
 But just as Foch reorganized his forces and proceeded to victory, so BrueninS has tried to do. Not even Bismarck ever resorted to grimmer measures. Germans of good sense realize that he did so with the best and purest of intentions. But they also realize that he has set dan gerous precedent which may very well in the future be used not by | a friend of the republic such as he | is, but by bitter enemies of demo- | cratic government.
 First-using powers conferred by | the Weimar constitution, he has had President Hindenburs help him by dismissiing Parliament for long | periods.
 Second-again using the constiut- | ion, he has governed Germany by decree-laws countersigned by the | President.
 Might Have Free Hand. If the Hiltlerites or the Commun- | ists ever got majority in the Reichstag, they could form a gov ernment and apply the same meth ods. They would institute a tyr amy and say they were governing h., l They could decree anything they | chose from absolute repudiation of all war debts and separations as promisd by the Hitlerites, to virtual confiscation of property as champ toned by the Communists. The emergency decrees issued just the other day by Bruening are the most daring ever penned by Ger man statesman. They have as- founded Germany. They have shock ed all parties. They have aroused antagonisms in all classes of society. For the first time the Chancellor has not called the war separations by that name. He called them "tri- bute." He asserted the limit had been reached by Germany. He said he was calling upon the people for one more and last sacrifice In order to balance the budget. Bruening has pinned all his hopes on this last throw. He hopes by 1t not only to balance his bud- get, but to force upon the atten- ton of the world, Germany's finan- cial plight.
 His latest decrees are serving to drive distracted Germans by droves into the arms of the Communists and the Hitlerites. The old parties are in despair. Success is the only thing that can save Bruening and he now eems to be the only man to stand between Germany and m evxtremst government of the right or left. If he wins through, he will also have won dazzling place In German history.
 A Quiet, Useful Career.
 And tho strange thing is that there was nothing in his previous
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ITALIAN HENS
 LOAF ON JOB

Rome. (UP)-Italian hens are loafing on the job Their lazy pro- duction of eggs. says an Italian economic expert, is considerable factor in Italy's world trade deficit.
 Before the war Italy was a heavy exporter of poultry and eggs. Now she is a large importer. Her imports have been growing larger every year with a consequent depressing effect upon Italy's trade balance.
 Before the war Italy exported eggs worth 4S,313,395 lire, while she imported only 4,065,930 lire. Her egg exports were more than 10 times greater than her imports, while export of live and killed poul- try was approximately four times greater than imports.
 In the first two months of this year, Italy paid 16,044,138 lire for foreign eggs. compared to 12,067,- 50 lire for the corresponding period in 1930 and S,OS2,184 lire in 1929.
 The same ratio of increase is re- marked for both live and dressed poultry, purchases of live poultry increasing from 2.022,000 lire in 1929 to 12,S84,435 lire for the first two months of 1881.
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Family Worth $25, ,oo0, 900.

In addition, there was the for tune of over 37 million pesetas left by Don Alfonso's mother. So that the total value of the combined for tunes of the former royal family is about 85,000,000 pesetas. This, even at the present low value of the peseta, would be over 10 million dollars. But the government points vested in dollar, pound sterling and other foreign currency stocks, so that the royal family is, perhaps, worth over 25 million dollars.
 Spain is mainly an agricultural land and in many places the wage for a hard, sIogging day on the big estates is three pesetas-30 cents. Road constructors get five pesetas, but pay about four for board and lodging. At the end of their day they have 10 cents left.
 "El Heraldo," Madrid news paper, voiced the feeling of these people when it bittery said:
 "The ex-monarch ~. placed his money out of the country and con- tributed to the weakening of our currency. He did not come with his fortune to aid works of national character. Big business at the ex- pense of the country! All who were defending the monarchy, defended, consciously or unconsciously, all this decay of which many lived. Only by participating Tn the booty was it possible to be a monarchist in Spain."
 NEXT: Mir Bronner tells of how life flows evenly in Spain, despite the revolution. He visits @ bull fight and there meets Sidney Frank lin, the famous American bull fight CT, who tells him something about the finer points of the art.
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duplicity of their character and the falsity of their conduct.

duplicity of their character and
 the falsity of their conduct.
 Another says he was taught
 French, because it was the lan-
 guage of diplomacy and courts
 and English because the royal family liked to talk in a language
 which few around them could understand. He was stuffed with
 a history of his country falsified
 to satisfy Bourbon pride.
 No attempt was made to iter-
 est him in intellectual things. h.
 stead, he was set off hunting, run
 ming autos and playing polo.
 "El Sol," great Madrid paper,
 has been printing a series of ar ticles on the Spanish revolution
 by the celebrated Madrid doctor, | G. Maranon, who is thought by
 many to be a future president of Spain. Among many shart things pr. MaranSSl says:
 "The Spanish monarchy died of | a disease typical of old states: of developing cyst. Doubtless the ! Spanish kings wrote or allowed to be written an account of glori- ous events, but they lived and
 reigned surrounded by hierachi-
 cal and unpopular groups, form ing by degrees colossal cyst at tached to the body of the nation
 Spanish politicians in Madrid
 formed their judgement about the
 people on information culled
 from their provincial and village | mandarins The former king was not even allowed to know
 these half truths, because every
 thing that was not pleasant was hidden from him. He lived in absolute ignorance of the real state of affairs in Spain."
 Truth Kept From Him
 He says that as late as noon on | the day following April elections,
 when all Spain knew the true facts, Alfonso still fatuously believed the country had voted to support him. No sooner had the republic been | proclaimed and the republican
 colors, red, yellow and purple. flung
 everywhere to the breeze, than
 patriots began to chop off of public | buildings the names, titles, shields
 and effigies of the king. Tradesmen,
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New "Sauior or Germany"
 q Quiet, Ascetic Bachelor

story to forecast such career. He was born in Muenster in Westphalia. Graduating from German universi- ties, he threw himself into the move- ment to keep Catholic workmen from being tempted by the Social democratic party. He organized the trades union movement which re- mained within the ranks of the Catholic Center party.
 The World War came. Bruenipg entered the army. By Hard work, this bespectacled, quiet, refined young fellow became a captain, and was given charge of a crack ma chine gun detachment which became famous on the Western front.
 The war over and Germany In the swirl of revolution, the Centre and the Social Democratic parties became the main supports of the republic.
 Bruening, noted for his work among the Catholic proletarians. was marked for advancement. Six years ago he was sent as a deputy to the Reichstag. He was not an an impressive speaker, but he show ed mastery of governmental prob lems. By 1929 he was the acknow- ledged leader of his party. Backed by Hindenburg. When the last Socialist cabinet fell, Bruening was called upon by President Hindenburg to form the cabinent. The quiet, scholarly Cath olic and the war-like blunt, old Lutheran general had come to know | and like each other. Hindenburg has backed Bruening to the limit. He is the kind of man who appeals to the simple-living president. Bruening is bachelor. His wants are few. He leads an almost monk like life of work and study. He only
 uses part of his salary for his fru- gal needs. The rest goes back to
 the treasury. Usually mild man
 nered, he has shown on occasion the
 consuming fire that is in him when | aroused
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who once proudly proclaimed that they were furnishers to His Majes- ty, hastily had this painted out.
 But still today and every day Spaniards see the ex-king's picture on their money. The fifty peseta bills have his portrait. The silver peseta pieces are coins dating back to 1892 showing his face when baby, on down through his young manhood and almost up to last year.
 The provisional governors are waiting until the country has a constitution, a parliament and an elected governmet. Then the treas ury will set about callig in all these bills and coins recalling Alfonsos days and substitute money in keeping with the republic.
 One of the deadliest blows the yonng republic has struck at Don Alfonso has been to publish an of- cial note concerning the vast amount of his private fortune and that of his family. This made tremendous impression upon the people. The government decided to seize all the private property of the former king on the grounds that the wealth was illegitimately ac- quired.
 Huge Royal Fortune.
 It followed this with an official note setting forth the amount of that fortune. It was explained that LID to 1921 the royal books were carefully kept but, after that date, were either muddled or taken out of the country. Nevertheless, the government estimated that Don Alfonso was worth 853,664 pesetas in cash; 7S8,505 in real estate and 24,546,680 in bonds.
 The canny monarch, foreseing eventualities, had the latter stored away in banks in England, France, Holland and Switzerland. And they were mainly in roreign corporations which the republic cannot touch, including 1,121,21S pesetas in Union Pacific Railway in the United States.
 His wife's private fortune was fig ured at 2,372,972 pesetas and that of his children as follows: The crown prince, 12,988,672 pesetas; Don Jaime, 2,498,214; Dona Beatriz, 2,289,61O; Dona Christina 1,707,5 ,566; Don Juan, 1,481,240, and Don Con- zales, 1,249,379.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-13
BY MILTON BRONNER
'nropean Manager, NEA servic.

X+--kORS<&AA xNAoAAes5SAs 4NASAA WI sA~SJ
 Madrid-If there ever was king
 l1onso XIII who reigned over tho 4Daniards, visitor now would have
 hard time finding it out. He who &4ce bulked so largely in the nation. nose picture appeared everywhere,
 now apparently never mentioned 11<her as king or ex-king-unless 1t < ID behind the locked doors of the 89xaes of the loyal grandees, court &mcials and politicians who still Uope to see him stage comeback. 10 cay in public "Hurrah for the 4lng" would be to invite being xnobbed.
 But a careful reading of the press 0f Spain reveals that there is still 4uch 8 person as the former king Only in the republican press of Mad rid he is always carefully labeled: Don Alfonso de Borbon" Spelling Bourbon in the Spanish manner). 1n the Barcelona press his appellation II simply "Senor Borbon.'
 In no case is Don Alfonso or Sem ox Borbon ever handled with gloves The whole policy of the papers is 10 break down the legend of his dem- ocratic ways, his intelligence. his Qua1ities as mixer and good sport. These things are all said to have 5 been fables invented by his courtiers
 Assailed by Press
 Hardly a day elapses that some Madrid or Barcelona paper does not Bfint some stories designed to show that Senor Borbon was poorly edu- Eated, puffed up with pride, inappre- { c1ative of the men who were the 5 Hterary, artistic and scientific glory ee Spain.
 ~ great newspaper warns It's foaders that the Bourbons have f fa1ways been characterized by the
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PAPER PRAISES
 SUGAR PLAN

London.-The British Sugar Beet Review" is numbered among impor- tant trade journals praising the Chadbourne plan.
 In a leading editorial the publica- ton says: Trusts and similar trade organizations are generally consider ed to aim at the ruthless exploita- ton of the consuming public. Those
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FAMOUS MINING TOWN
 BRINGS $0OO AT SALE

Warren, Idaho - (UP) - Dead leaders of this once famous mining camp must have turned over in their graves the other day when the town was sold flock, stock and barrer' for $900.
 It is far cry from the town of the "70s" to the present town or today. The Florence gold discovery impelled the settlement of Warren. Miners flocked in from all over the country.
 Then the mine began to peter out and the town was deserted. Some time ago the town was re- moved from the Idaho National for est and reverted to the interior de- partment. The sale was to estab- fish claims made by "squatters" previous to tho transfer.
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ANNUAL PRIZE
 PLANNED FOR : | AID TO FARMER
Agricultural Engineers to Award the cCormick
 Medal Each Year

St Joseph, Mich-An annual award of gold medal for exceptional and meritorious service in the in- terest of agriculture" has been an- nounced by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
 The award, to be known as the Cyrus Hall Mccormick Medal" is based on an endowment fund provided by Cyrus Hall McCor- mick, Mrs Emmons Blaine and Harold F. Mccormick, children of Cyrus Hall Mccormick, the in- ventor of the reaper.
 Established during the centen- ary year of the invention which revolutionized farm production and frightened immeasurably the farm CTS labor, the award will be pre- scented annually in recognition Of some outstanding meritorious scien- tific accomplishment in engineering as applied to agriculture.
 Workers in all phases of agri- cultural engineering such as farm power and machinery, farm struc- lures, rural identification, land utilization and reclamation, drain age and irrigation, will be eligible.
 The medal, designed by Fred M. Torrey, Chicago sculptor. shows on one side the figure of a man in an attitude of thought. On the reverse are depicted various stages in the development, of labor saving devices which have removed the burden of hand drudgery from the shoulders of the modern farmer.
 The winner will be selected each year by a jury composed of out standing members of the Amer ican Society of Agricultural En- gineers. The first award probably will be made at the 26th annual meeting of the society in June 1432
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EDITORS NOTE: This Is the
 ourth of seven exclusive stories tv Milton Bronner, European manager for NEA Service and The Democrat, who has just toured 8pain. The series is very timely in view of the fact that a constitu- <lona1 convention to set up a form of Government for the worlds Newest republic will convene at Madrid on July IA.
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operates the experiment apparatus. writes problems on the black board and corrects examination papers.
 Newton lost his sight several years ago after his appointment to the high school.
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such countries as Cuba to bring the plan into being. Many Euro pean sugar publications are ex- pressing the belief that the plan will bring good results to the grower and miller and that the general public will not suffer.
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Commercial planes in England flew 136.000 miles. and carried 61S.- 900 passengers and 13.000 tons of merchandise last year.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
V O L C A MIG A s H
 COVERS ALASKA VESSEL

Volcanic ashes covered the deck of the Bureau of Fisher ies boat Scoter as she was pro- ceeding off Port Heiden from False Pass a few days ago.
 Radio reports from the yes sel said the zone of falling ash passed through was 6 miles wide and the ash, black in col or, was so dense as to cause almost complete darkness. The ash is believed to have come from mountains located about 15 miles east of Port Heiden, from which flashes of fire were seen recently. Mt. Pay lov, an active volcano, is To- cated in the same section and has been smoking recently.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
DEALING
 FOR B. C S|LVER2

That Premimer Gold and E. c. Silver have been negotiating again recently on the basis of a working agreement is stat ed in local mining circles, says the Vancouver Sun.
 The Sun article continues as follows:
 "The plan is that Premier would undertake the operation and development of E. c. Sil- yer, whose operations, appar- ently pending the outcome of conferences, have closed down.
 "Selukwe Gold Mining and Finance Go. Ltd. of London has advanced a total of e186,300 to B. c. Silver and year ago there was reported to be be- tween S6,000,000 and $1O,- 000,000 of around S15 ore in ore bodies discovered up to that time. Work has been car ried on continuously since.
 "The Selukwe Company, which has other mining inter- ests in Rhodesia, reports liquid assets as at March 31, 1881, at 943,062, compared with e97,000 at the corresponding date of 1880, indicating that the company is not in posi- tion to spend further large sums on development or mill installation without further financing. Premier Gold has a 38 per cent interest in B. C. Silver Mines."
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
Slide Damages Engineer Camp

George Bum, managing di- rector of the Marmot Engineer Company, returned from a visit to the company property on Marmot river this week and reported that huge snow slide had caved in one side of the lower story of the camp building. In addition the slide also showed the building par italy off the piling founda- tions. The camp is entirely safe from ordinary slides, but in this instance it was one of very unusual proportions, as attest ed by huge banks of snow still piled up near the camp.
 So great was the downpour of snow from the upper heights that the slide swept far out on- to the Marmot glacier below the camp.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
U. 5. Chamber Commerce
 Endorses Highway Project

At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Atlantic City, what was regarded as a strong endorsement of the British Col umbia- -Yukon-Alasa Highway was reported by the resolutions committee and unanimously adopted by the meeting. The resolution adopted is as fol- lows:
 Substantial progress is re- corded in the development of an international highway south from the United States, which has been endorsed in principle by the National Chamber. More recently definite steps have been taken looking to the ex- tension of the highway north ward to Alaska, and commits sions of the United States and Canada are now making a pre- liminary study of the proposal. The chamber urges early con- pletion of the necessary engin- eering and economic studies and favorable consideration of the results thereof"
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
Trail fer Unuk is Urged

Resolutions urging the con- struction of a trail up the Unuk River to the Canadian bound any, to assist prospectors and the development of the mineral resources of the Unuk district, were passed recently by the Ketchikan Chamber of Com merce.
 The resolution recites the in. terest of Ketchikan residents in the Unuk and Leduc river areas contiguous to the inter- national boundary, describes a prospective route some 23 miles long and estimates the construction cost of suitable trail at $500 per mile or S1O,- 900 in all.
 Copies were forwarded to the U. s. Forest supervisor, Territorial mining inspector and departmental and Terri torial officials concerned.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
Stivers Returns to Nome

A postcard bearing an excel lent photographic likeness ot our old fellow townsman, Col. E. R. Stivers, clad in white duck trowsers and other hab- Ailments of the sunny south, was received by the Herald this week. The card disclosed that the urbane colonel was at the time of it's dispatch on May 20th basking amid the climatic delights of California, but pre- pairing to return to his present post of customs collector at Nome.
Hyder weekly herald., 1931-05-30
Robbers Plunder Mobile Camp

Visiting the Mobile camp this week for the first time since his return from the south, Clay Porter, who is develop ing the property, found that robbers had carried off every particle of food supplies and also some tools from the camp.
 MT. Porter was accompanied by Alex Murray on the trip. Fortunately they had taken along a small supply of food and were not compelled to tighten their belts in lien of upper at the end of their climb to the loftily sit uated camp.