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It Seems to Me HEWOOD BROUN ¥ WISH that wmf kmd friend would tap Mr. Hoo- * ver on the shoulder and say '•Rest, perturbed spirit - It is not M***rrjv that k of the United States should go clank. ng chains, rumbling and haunting deserted houses. Even Hamlet's father was considerate enough to remain within a restricted orbit. He stuck to his own battlements and sought neither national hookups nor the broad publicity of releases through the news ervices. Never was he known to bob up un-

expectedly at banquets or to send letters to be read for the record at Republican party conventions. He had his woes and tribulations did Mr. Hamlet, senior, but like a gho6t and a gentleman he intruded them only on such daring Danes as cared to come up and listen. "In a letter read before the ?tate-wide convention of the California Republican Assembly, an organization composed largely of th* younger members of the party, the former President characterized present tendencies of the national Administration a* ‘un-American regimentation and bureaucratic

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dorr.matinn' '* It ta quilt tree that there are many valid mtinsm; of the rule of Roosevelt. This column hope- tha* thev will crow far sharper and more nurrm .. But the*, can not come with any grace trom Herbert Hoover. a a a Hack la Earth ¥N the piping days of 1933 there were surface inJ diration* of anew sweep m Washington. It was nor mereiv a promise of new faces but new politics a* wri; The tramp of hurrying scurrying feet was Iren Which Herbert Hoover had assigned to the crowing of grass and fodder. You ro iiri m' look in anv tall tree without finding some Republican fa\orite concealed in the topmost hranehe* Malefactors of great wealth had sought refuge there and so violent was their rage and disapproval of the New Deal that they were incapable even of issuing critical statements. The best that thev could do was to pelt the proletariat with cocoanut': But bv now they have all come down to earth again and manv are in the boards and little groups set, up by the NRA in Washington. Mr. Hoover will ha\e only himself to blame if he ventures very long C Thev will make him the administrator of something nr other if he undertakes to pook:i\ around the large mansion m the District of Columbia where once he lived. But for the unerring eye of Jim Farley it would be quite impossible in Washington today to distinguish the sheep from the goats, the Hoover Republicans from the ilooeevelt Democrats. National politics is such a strange pastime that if would be unsafe to say with certainty that Herbert Clark Hoover may not beat the Elba rap and stalk again into the arena. He will look a little silly, to be sure, balancing a couple of cars, a garage, and a potted chicken on his head but he will hardly be the nnlv man in public life condemned to the eating of ‘ome few inconvenient phrases. This is a land of free speech and Mr. Hoover has his rights. I would not favor his deportation to Palo Alto on the ground that he may become a burden upon the community. I mereiv suggest that he continue in his post of rural sage for his own peace of mind and for the sake of sweet reasonableness and clarity. a a a Here's a Good Shout IT is hard enough right now to figure out whether Father Coughlin is left of Huey Long or viccver a Just where does young Bob La Follette fit m’o the picture and what will be the role of Gov. Olson’ Upton Sinclair has announced that his KPIC plan has nothing in common with "every man a king and Norman Thomas refuses to share his lot with any of them. ■ Fakers ’ cries the Daily Worker, and Senators Nv* and Norris are in parachutes uncertain where thev are going to land The Utopians meet nightlyjust across the street from the hall hired by the followers of the Townsend plan. And only yesterday I met a man of acumen who told me that the rallying cry for the next campaign should be. "Build a bridge to Bellamy.'* And it sounds like an excellent shout to me. But since there is confusion I wonder whether It might not be fair to ask Mr. Hoover to withhold his entry'. There really aren't enough starting stalls to go around and the public's interest is naturally In the more serious contenders. Maybe 1 am most unjust to the consecrated candidate from California. It is just barely possible that no comes to bring peace rather than a sword. Perhap- hr wants to make one last supreme sacrifice tor the American people. If he is truly an active candidate hr may compel the first and widest united front ever known in America. If Mr. Hoover seriously intends to run for the Presidency of the United States it should be possible to bring together left and right and dead center under the inspiring slogan. Anybody but Herbert.” • Copyright. 19351

Your Health -BY OK. .MORRIS FISHBEIN-

DEVELOPMENT of stones in the kidney is a conI dition that has existed since medicine has any record. For some time it has been realized that ktdnev stones are more common among persons living in certain districts. On various occasions this has been alleged to have been caused by the soil of ’.he country, the amount of lime in the water, and the nature of the climate. Today it is generally and that thc>e factors are comparatively unimportant. Most recent studies seem to show that the soil 1 not a significant factor —one reason being that the incidence of stones is steadily diminishing in the very areas in which formerly it was frequent. The ter.dencv today is toward the view that improvement in living conditions in these areas is largely responsible for diminishing the incidence of atone formulation. a a a \NOTHFR interesting fact that has developed from the study of this disease is the observation that the appearance of stone in the kidney is exceedingly rare m districts where dairy farming is extensive, and that stones are more frequent where cereals form the staple food of the population. In association with this point of new. recent indications place responsibility for the formations of stone in the kidney largely on absence of certain necessary vitamins from the diet. In certain parts of Asia kidney stone is observed only as a disease of childhood. It is known that women in India live on a diet deficient in vitamins, so that their children do not obtain an adequate supply of vitamins in the milk. a a a IT has also been observed that stone in the kidney appears quite often after a person has been kept a: rest in bea for a long time, as is the case after fractures of large bones or in severe diseases involving the bones or tissues. This is believed to be caused by the fact that, when the patient is kept on his back, the kidneys are not well drained and a deposit of crystalline material from the urine forms the nucleus of the stone. There seems to be no doubt also that various abnormalities of the kidneys may be associated with stone formation. Any obstruction to the flow of fluid to the kidneys leads to damming of the material and to deposit of crystalline material. A great deal of experimental evidence in animals indicate? that a deficiency of vitamin A brings about breaking down of the surface lining or membranes of many organs and tissues, including those of the urinary passages. Thus our present knowledge of kidney stone leads to the belief that a deficiency of vitamins, particularly of vitamin A. is an important factor. Q—Where and when was Shirley Temple bom, and who are her parents? A—She was born in Santa Monica. Cal. April 23, 1929. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. George F. Temple.

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Future Beckons to Three Who Seek to Mold American Opinion

HIGH in the Crucifixion Tower that looks dawn across the level plain at Royal Oak are the offices of the Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin. Here, hedged in by secretaries <he can make himself harder to see than the President of the United States when he wishes), are re-

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himself as a member” tomorrow. Such an organization Is best judged by its effectiveness a.-> a lobby, its apparent purpose. When the Senate was about to vote on the World Court recently, a flood of 40.000 telegrams descended on it, all demanding that the court be rejected. The night before. Father Coughlin had asked his listeners to so protest. Other appeals for such protests had also been made bv a large chain of newspapers, however, and again no one can measure exactly the influence either of the Radio Pnest or of his NUSJ. But it is clearly a powerful one. a a a FUTURE Os the NUSJ as an organization is uncertain. Its program, as at first announced, included: nationalization of banking and money and other national resources, annual wages, control of private property for the public good, cost of production for agriculture, government protection of labor unions, abolition of tax-free bonds, conscription of wealth in war, and human rights above property right. Local organizations, originally proposed, of NUSJ units, have not as yet materialized. The appeal for membership was on the basis of a non-partisan, non-sectarian organization, and there was to be a "board of legal advisers consisting of Catholic, Protestant. Jew and nonconformist.” to help draw* legislation to bo lobbied. If such a board was ever appointed, public announcement was not made. Up to now, the NUSJ is Father Coughlin, backed by the names on file. a a a THOUGH radicals freely accuse Father Coughlin of being the potential leader of an active Fascist movement. he has never given any indication that he wishes executive position for himself. Nevertheless, Roy M. Harrop. national chairman of the Farmer-Labor party, is quoted as saying that Father Coughlin is the leading candidate for the presidential nomination by a third party which is to hold a national convention in Omaha next July. In his most recent, talk. Father Coughlin again praised President Roosevelt * while Long continues to attack him bitterly >. For the future. Father Coughlin and his National Union will be whatever his radio listeners (and their cash contributions> choose to make them.

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

TIfASHINGTON. March 26—A1l signs indicate that the White House W secretariat is scheduled for some real overhauling. This is not due entirely to the elimination of Louis McHenry Howe, though his absence is most keenly felt. It is due chiefly to the fact that the President's closest advisers are becoming more and more convinced that only one type of caller is getting inside White House doors.

This blame they lay at the feet of Marvin Mclntyre, who passes on all Presidential appointments, and beyond any doubt is the most powerful man around the White House. There was a day in the first part of the Administration when a cross-section of the countrymen of every creed and colorgot in to see the President. It kept him in constant touch with what the nation was thinking. Now this has changed. And in the list of callers, day in and day out. there is a decided predominance of the representatives of biy business. Professor Raymond Moley has been one reason for this. Ever since he became receiver of the St Regis Hotel end began staging big business dinners in New’ York. Mr. Moley has been constantly trotting down to the White House to introduce some new financial potentate to the President. But the chief reason has been Mr. Mclntyre. ana A MAN of anything but a NewDeal background. Mclntyre has gone in for dinners, dances. Virginia hunt breakfasts and all the trappings which an effete Washington society can heap on a government official who has access to the throne. Mclntyre has taken it ail and asked for more. He has surpassed even Charley Curtis* high-watermark in the old Hoover days as the chief dinerout of the Capital. This association has direct repercussions on the White House. It shows up not only in the type of caller Mclntyre passes through the coveted inner gate, but also in the type of mail or government problems which he puts on the President's desk. * * has had bearing on many things lately. It directly affects the Cabinet. Those on good terms with Mclntyte find it easier to get in. Once Secretary Cordell Hull, who had taken no pains to cultivate Mclntyre. but is first man in the Cabinet, was told he would have to wait two days to see his chief. It also affects Congress. Various Senators have sat in the White House ante-room for hours waiting unsuccessfully to see the President. Then when they were called in and urged to vote for the World Court, or against the McCarran Amendment, the President wondered why there was no response. DURING < the*hey-day of Col. Howe this was partly circumvented—but in a roundabout manner. Even Col. Howe did not dare

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search assistants and scores of typists and office help. Here the talks of the Radio Priest are prepared, and here the affairs of the National Union for Social Justice are administered How many members has the NUSJ? Nobody knows. Vast files carry the names of all those who have responded to the broadcasts. Membership of the NUSJ has been estimated as high as 6.000.000. Figures, however. mean little in the case of loose organizations of this type, when the only requirement for membership is to send in a postcard. The man who sends his card today may not think of

cross the path of Marvin Mclntyre. Once when asked by a certain brain-truster if Col. Howe would make an appointment with Mr. Roosevelt, he replied: ‘ Do you want to have my throat cut? Don’t you know that the only way to keep peace in the White House secretariat is by a strict division of work? Mac makes the appointments.” But Col. Howe, until his health got bad. kept a remarkably sagacious ear to the ground and used to give the President, first hand, a pretty accurate picture of what the country was thinking. But for several months now Mr. Roosevelt has had to rely on himself and Mclntyre. The result is that even Mrs. Roosevelt and Anna Dali Boettiger have made one or two quiet moves to see that the President diversifies his list of callers, becomes emancipated from the dictatorship of his “appointment czar.” a a a OKLAHOMA’S startling Representative Percy L. Gassaway of ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots, gave the President quite a shock at the last White House reception. Mr Roosevelt was standing in the receiving line welcoming the hundreds of guests when Gassaway loomed up before him. He was attired in impeccable evening clothes—plus his high-heeled cowboy boots. After the Oklahoman had passed, the President turned to an aid. inquired incredulously: “Does Mr. Gassaway always wear those boots?” “Always, Mr. President,” was the replyCAPITAL'S CHERRY TREES TO BLOOM Display Stage to Come Sunday, Say Washington Officials. By United Pres * WASHINGTON. March 26.—The Japanese cherry trees which actually attract thousands of visitors to the capital, are expected to show first blossoms late this week and reach the display stage by Sunday, district park officials said today. They should be in full bloom by the middle of next week, experts said. The forecast is dependent upon continued warm weather. The double blossoms occurring on some of the treee are expected around April 13.

HUEY LONG is all things to all men. To the conservative, he is an irresponsible radical, ready to bring the country down in ruin for the sake of his own ruthless career. To the radical, he is the forerunner of American Fas-

cism, without a political philosophy, ready to woo the people with fair promises and then enslave them in a dictatorship. To thousands of submerged men and women he is a savior, promising to deliver them from the oppression of a vague "Wall Street” which has made and kept them what they are today. To thp Roosevelt Administration he is a pprpetual thorn in the side, who has seized for himself 12 lines out of every 100 in this year's record of Senate proceedings to boost himself through the Senate’s sounding board. To a few people in

Louisiana whom he has broken and insulted, he is a mad dog. To thousands of others, he is an unreal dream. Long takes his presidential aspirations seriously. He has started training physically. He has begun to temper his profane manner of speech. His legislature has given him a $500,000 radio station at Louisiana State University, which will soon be available to him at all times. In his most recent public speech, before a Philadelphia Republican Club, he plainly indicated that if the Democrats didn't nominate him in 1936, he would head a third party. tt tt tt ONLY Huey knows how many of his Share-the-Wealth clubs he has been able to organize. An effort has been made to plant them in every state. The “Every Man a King” program is indefinite: Huey changes the details from time to time. But the general theme of “tax the rich and give it to the poor” is clear to anybody. The most recent version runs about like this: Not less than one-third of the national wealth to be distributed so that no family should be without SSOOO, a car, and a radio. No one to get more than $1,000,000 a year. No individual to own more than $3,000,000 (recently reduced from $5,000,000). Old-age pensions of S3O month to all who need them. Shorter hours of work. Limit farm production to what can be sold. Care for veterans. Tax big fortunes to provide public works employment. a a a POLITICAL observers believe that even if Long could not be elected in 1936. he might take enough votes from regular Democrats to let a Republican slide in. Plenty of Republicans, licking their chops at this prospect, are not averse to cheering Huey on. And Huey is a young man. only 42. He would be only 46 in 1940. There is no sign that local opposition to in Louisiana is of any consequence at all. Even the “big business” he lias belabored has found its burdens no heavier in Louisiana than in most states. He is sitting pretty at home, though he finds an armed bodyguard is a constant convenience. His bid for a national following is now definite. It is 15 months until the nominating conventions of 1936. Between now and then an interesting story is to be written.

HITLER CHAMPIONED BY ARTHUR ROBINSON Forced Into Rearmament, Ex-Senator Says. The cause of Nazi Adolf Hitler was championed last night by Arthur R. Robinson, former U. S. Senator, in an address before the Irvington Republican Club. Mr. Robinson pictured Germany as being without lands or munitions and besieged on every side by lurking imps of communism and thus forced into reamament. France on the other hand has broken the Versailles Treaty several times, Mr. Robinson charged. CAPT. HARTLEY TO TALK Former Commander of S. S. Leviathan on Kiwanis Program. Capt. Herbert Hartley, former commander of the S. S. Leviathan, will be the speaker at the Kiwanis Club “Ladies Day” luncheon tomorrow at the Columbia Club.

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Huey Long . . . making his bid to Louisiana-ize the nation.

Hugh JOHNSON is just a private citizen today. He has no public office and political machine behind him. like Long. He has no organized radio following, like Coughlin and his NUSJ. He hasn’t even a job, except writing. But none of those things mean that the former

general is all through as a public force. In fact in the letter in which President Roosevelt accei ed Johnson's resignation from NRA last Sept. 25. there was a definite hint that there might be work still ahead for Johnson within the New Deal. The letter, after extending thanks and gratitude for Johnson's work with NRA. concluded: “I hope that during these next few months you will get a the.’-oughly deserved rest, and that then you will be able to help me further in new duties and new tasks of public service. . .” There is no reason

to think that the general's recent radio attack on the Longs and Coughlins is the result of this hint. In fact, there is every reason to believe that high Administration leaders tried to keep Johnson from making the speech, or tried to get him to tone it down. But it is plain that the general has had his rest, and itches to get back into the fight. His name has been suggested in connection with administration of several of the big public works projects planned for the coming year, but never with authority. a a a THE best bet is the possibility, already referred to by Long, of running Johnson lor the Senate from Oklahoma next year, when the term of Senator Gore expires. The matter of Johnson's residence is somewhat obscure, but it is believed he could establish unquestioned residence by next year. He lived in Oklahoma for many years as a boy, and his mother still lives in Okmulgee. Long has already indicated that he will jump to help Gore in that case. Which would be a curious sight: Long, who has split from the President because he doesn't consider Roosevelt radical enough, helping out Gore, who has already flayed the President as too radical. For such contradictions Huey cares nothing. No greater pleasure could come to Jim Farley than thus to support Johnson in a Senate campaign against the conservative Gore, especially if the latter were actively backed up by Huey Long. a a a REGARDLESS of his recent attacks on the scuttling of NRA. Johnson has never wavered in his faith in, and loyalty to. Roosevelt. And the President, though he was probably glad to see Johnson leave NRA. is personally fond of him and admires his fighting abilities. The Administration would naturally welcome in the Senate a defender who can match epithet for epithet with Long, and who would probably wield more influence than Huey with other Senators. But whether Roosevelt plans another executive job for Johnson, or whether plans are really afoot to place him in the Senate, it seems certain that some use will be found for his unique experience and the knowledge it has given him of today's problems. And the general has apparently served notice that even if no such place is found for him, he's going to find it himself.

‘Flying Battleships’ Are Tested by Navy

(Copyright. 1935. by United Press) WASHINGTON, March 26—Experiments with huge flying battleships designed to form a first-line defense were surrounded with strict secrecy today by the Navy. One of the giant planes is being given a final test by naval officers on the West Coast to determine its potential fighting ability. A similar ship at Norfolk, Va., soon will be ready for trial flights.

The Navy, if satisfied with the tests, may purchase 30 such planes at $150,000 each. It would take a year to build them. They would carry both bombs and machine guns and would be among the most deadly instruments of war ever constructed. Navy officers vision a fleet of 30 such planes as a first-line of defense against a naval attack. The tpst planes carry six machine guns, two tons of bombs and have a cruising range of 3000 miles. Tentative plans, provided the ''ships are constructed, are to distribute them on both coasts and assign some of them to Pearl Harbor. Hawaii. They would, it was believed, go far toward giving the United States domination of the Pacific.

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Hugh Johnson prospective Oklahoma Senator?

“/''VUR idea,” one naval official “is to develop these planes for use in both scouting and bombing. They ought to have a cruising range of 3000 miles.” The West Coast experimental plane was built in the Douglas Aircraft Cos. plant at Santa Monica, Cal. It is known as XP3D-1. It has a w’ingspread of 100 feet, two 830-horsepower motors and accomodations for a crew of eight. The Navy jealously guards tests of the plane, which already has passed the preliminary, or contractor’s test. A part of the ship was trundled out to the water before dawn. It was reported a ring of guards surrounded the plane while it was assembled and that onlookers were kept at a distance and forbidden to take pictures. Sufficient tests to determine whether the Navy w’ill go ahead with its purchase program probably will not be completed, is was said, until late summer. The full fleet would not be ready, in any case, until the latter part of 1936.

MOVIE PRESS AGENTS ARE PUT TO SHAME BY OLIVE GROWERS

By United Press WASHINGTON, March 26. Maybe it's the motion picture press agent influence, or maybe it’s just the Californians’ pride in the size of things that grow in their fertile state. In any event, the growers of California ripe olives got together and contrived a list of names for their product that ought to make the movie press agents envious. To begin with, it was agreed that no California olive possibly could be small. So the smallest size marketed is to be known as “medium.” And after that the sizes progress as follows: Large. ! Larger. Mammoth. Giant. Jumbo colossal. Super-colossal. It’s all been put down in black and whit© in the California marketing agreement for ripe olives, and has been given the final stamp of authority by approval of the AAA. Historical Painter Is Dead. By United Press NEW YORK, March 26.—Edward Percy Moran, member of a wellknown family of artists and a prominent painter of historical subjects, died yesterday. He was 72-

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1 Cover theWtrld WM nip MS WASHINGTON, March 26.-e-Chancellor Adolf Hitler, now talking with British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon in Berlin, is believed to be making a supreme effort to split the Allied front. To Nazi Germany this is vital. Nobody for a moment believes Herr Hitler has abandoned his aim to redraw the map of Euro{&, especially eastern Europe, and the Reich will remain frozen where she is if the long dreaded encirclement comes to pass. At almost any cost. Great Britain must be kept from

joining in the ring around Germany and the Nazi leader, therefore, is using every ounce of his persuasiveness to win Sir John, if not over to Germany, at least away from the threatening circle. Sir John is known to hold with other members of the British cabinet that, like it or not, the German fait accompli has brought Europe face to face with two alternatives. These are to swallow the bitter dose concocted by Herr Hitler and proceed to limit armaments at some point mutually to be agreed upon, or fight. Great Britain does not want to

fight. She has become almost, if not quite, as reluctant to get mixed up in European entanglements as the United States. And Sir John, her spokesman in Beilin today, is notoriously even more timid than the rest of the cabinet. If the Nazi chieftain can offer Sir John a formula affording Britain reasonable security against a renewed submarine menace and the new peril of attack from the air, therefore, the thin end of the wedge will have been driven into the wall now closing in aoout the Reich. a a a Open to Any Suggestion THE so-called unity of the ex-allies following the Paris meeting Saturday of French Foreign Minister Laval, Italian Under-Secretary Suvich. and British Lord Privy Seal Eden was more apparent than real. It will only become real if Herr Hitler stupidly decides to wear a Prussian ramrod down his back during his talk with Sir John. Simon is in Berlin to explore a way out of the perilous situation into which Herr Hitler's rearmament edict has thrown Europe, not merely to attempt to sell the European security pacts proposed before the Berlin thunderclap of March 16. Accordingly he is open to any suggestions the Fuehrer may have to offer. And Herr Hitler is reported to have at least one—a 20-year peace arrangement based upon bilateral understandings. If he can manage to sell this or any other scheme that promises well to his British visitor, Sir John will go to Stresa to meet Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Laval a week from Thursday with a brief in his pocket unholding, at least in part, the German thesis. tt tt tt Watt Depends on Hitler BRITAIN would not only refuse to participate in the encirclement of Germany, but eagerly jump at the opportunity to resume her traditional role of European balance of power. France, Italy and Russia, if they chose, might form an alliance against Germany and any others that might join her, but Britain would take the middle of the road. Only if Sir John is met today by a bristling, uncompromising Fuehrer who menaces Europe with a war out of which Britain can not possibly hope to stay, i> he expected to advocate a strong stand at Stresa, or subsequently before the council of the League of Nations at Geneva. Herr Hitler, it is observed, can scarcely have forgotten how Sir John turned his blind side both at London and Geneva when J ipan, in China, was violating the covenant of the League and other treatfe.s which Britain was equally solemnly pledged to uphold.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ANEW and revolutionary process by which sheet steel is made directly from the molten metal has been developed by the joint researches of the engineers of a group of American steel companies. The new process, hailed by many authorities as the most important changes of the present decade, is described for the first time by T. W. Lippert in the current issue of the Iron Age. A common criticism of the steel industry has been that the last decade has seen no great fundamental changes in steel-making. One of the most frequent objections has been that the molten steel is first permitted to cool and solidify into ingots, which are then rolled into finished products. It has been pointed out that the slow cooling into ingots of the original homogeneous molten metal brings about an ingot which is no longer equally homogeneous. Thus, whatever imperfections are introduced into the ingot remain in the metal in all subsequent rollings. The new method makes a sheet of steel directly from the molten steel. The molten or liquid steel is poured directly into the opening between a pair of rollers which are water-cooled. As the rolls rotate, a continuous strip of metal forms between them which then passes on to be suitably treated by both hot rolls and cold rolls. While the process sounds simple, its success depends upon the maintenance of a delicate balance bectween a number of important factors—temperature of the molten steel, temperature of the rollers, pressure, speed of the rollers, and so on. 0 0 0 THE implicatons of this new process are startling, according to Mr. Lippert. At such time as the new process becomes completely successful, It will mean the elimination of ingot casting, soaking pits, blooming mills and breakdown mills. He also says that it will lead to a much cheaper product and a much smaller capital investment for the steel industry or for steel consumers for each ton of steel produced 0 0 8 NOT only steel but other metals can be formed into sheets by the new process. It can be applied to any non-ferrous metal whose melting point is lower than that of steel. As amatter of fact, the method was first worked out with the nonferrous metals of low’er melting point since the problem was here a simpler one. It has been applied successfully to brass which has a melting point of 940 degrees centigrade, and to copper, which has a melting point of 1083 degrees centigrade. One machine recently completed delivers 12-inch strip brass. No annealing is required of this machine cast brass and after a so-called “pickling” operation. it is ready for cold rolling. Brass of this type can be produced in various thicknesses, including .011, .015, .020 and .029 inches. Questions and Answers Q —How many Presidents of the United States have been assassinated? A—Three: Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. Q —Do the employes of a non-profit orphanage come under the NR A? A—lnstitutions of that character are non-indus-trial and do not come under the NR A. Q —Give the names and addresses of the Japanese ambassador and Chinese minister to the United States. A—Hirosi Saito. Japanese ambassador, 2514 Massa-chusetts-av. N. W., and Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chines© minister. 19th and Vernon-sts, N. W. t Washington, D. C.

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