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By RODNEY DUTCHER

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/ ASHINGTON, Jan. 2—The most closely guarded secrets in Washington are those shared by the President and his experts on [goverment reorganization. ' i ’ Rough blueprints have been charted, however and rearrangement which will bring nearly all emergency .agencies under Federal departments and transfer many old-line bureaus. This much is certain at the time of writing: The President will ask Congress to create two and perhaps three new executive departments of Cabinet rank. He will ask for general authority to transfer and re-group Federal agencies, authority under which He would build up the structures of the new departments along functional lines and make other additions to and substractions from the old departments. A Department of Public Welfare and a Department of Public Works are the ones} which Roosevelt and advisers have decided should be created. ee Roosevelt (agrees with Secretary Mr. Dutcher Ickes that the name of the Department of Interior should be changed to Department of Conservation. Possibility of a third new [eperiment has been discussed, largely because there are so many New Deal agencies to be fitted in under the departmental shelter. One propcsal of the inner circle is for a Department of Economic Stabilization, which would include certain agencies and perhaps one or two new ones. The President, practically on the eve of his message to Congress, hadn't decided whether to take up the question of Ee at once or to wait three

or four weeks. . I was fairly dertain, however, that he would ask for creation ol the’new departments with only a general description) of their functions and with no specific mention of individual transfers of bureaus, commissions and administrations. ” 7 2 Experience Against Move : p HE objection to laying down a detailed blueprint : for Congress to chew on is based on a record of experience showing that such procedure leads to a chaos of inter-governmental lobbying and Congressional blocs. which effectively thwarts any reorganization program. Administrator Harry Hopkins of WPA, Chairman John Winant of the Social Security Board, and As sistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche are being discussed as possible Cabinet secretaries for the public welfare post. Hopkins is a 10 to 1 shot, although the President holds both Miss Roche and Winant in high regard. Ickes, according to the present dope, would be Secretary of Conservation rather than of Public Works. That's not entirely certain, but he will stay in the Cabinet unless he is drafted to be Controller’ General. Just who would he Secretary of Public Works is still anybody’s guess. . :

u zn = Plan for Department HE Department of Public Works would take in . PWA, the procurement division of the Treasury, and presumably administration of any new Federal housing program. Coneeivably, it would also embrace TVA and Rural Electrification Administration, but that's only speculative in so far as this dispatch goes. The Presidential Committee on Reorganization, consisting of Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam, and Luther H.-Gulick, has also recommended a drastic reorganization of the White House secretariat. The ‘present White House set-up is scarcely more than a stenographic secretarist.

Ars.Roosevelt’s Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

OSTON, Friday.—I am having the same trouble’ I have every year, adjusting to a seven instead of a six. It should not be so hard to remember for Mrs. Scheider, Miss Lillian Schoedler, who is Mr. Filene’s assistant, and I, really observed the coming in of the New Year last night. As the bells rang and the whistles blew, we wished each other a Happy :New Year and thought of all those not actually with us in the room, whom we also included in our wishes. I already had talked to my daughter and son-in-law in Seattle, for I realized that it was better to say Happy New Year on our time than to wait until 3 a. m. Very soon after midnight the telephone rang “and we exchanged New Year greetings with my husband, the boys, Miss Le Hand and the others gathered in the President’s study in Washington. : ' This morning dawned bright and clear and the sun was shining into Franklin Jr.’s window when I arrived at- Phillips House. He looks and is much better, so Mrs. Scheider and I are starting back this afternoon hoping he will follow within a week. Yesterday afternoon I went with a friend to see the WPA art exhibit here in a gallery on Beacon St. It was not exactly crowded with people, but there were a few there and I think the exhibit is worth seeing. There is a freshness and vitality in most of the painting. Not being an artist myself, my criticisms from the artistic point of view probably are valueless, so I always have to look at things and decide whether I would like to live with them. : Of course, our taste varies.. Some days no matter how well painted a seascape may be, one may not be able to bear it. The mere movement of the waves or the sea gulls, something about it may not meet your mood. Whereas, on another day, it may be just what you want to rest your eyes on. en I always thought the Japanese idea of keeping works of art put away and bringing them out one by one is a very good one, for you always can choose the ones which fit your mood. - I hate to leave this house which Mr. Filene has *so kindly given us for the last few days. There is a quality of hospitality about it which is very rare. You feel at home, even the absent host seems to think of your comfort and anticipates your wishes. All those in the house conspire to make you feel that everything is yours. Could hospitality be more perfect?

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AVIATION'S TRIPLE THREAT MAN

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Maj. Al Williams, famed pr flier and aviation authority, has returned from Europe where he made a survey of military aviation and the part planned for it in the next war. He tells about it in a series of articles, the first of which starts Monday on this page.

By BRUCE HORTON Times Special Writer

A TRIPLE-THREAT man

of Sorin careers is Maj. Al Williams, famous speed pilot and one of ‘the world’s greatest precision fliers of all-time. A fellow to have on your side in a rough and tumble fight, he plays the piano with the touch of an artist. He can talk the language of a Georgia mule driver, and as a member of the bar he can present his case with the sauvity of a master attorney. He can juggle the trigonometry that figures in the designing of ships and engines, and he can weedle tricks out of’ the finished product beyond the imagination of the builder.

Al Williams has been around. Baseball was his first love. He used to carry a ball everywhere, and slept with it at night. He made the high school team— doubled in football, too—and grew up to become the - “Fordham Flash.” John McGraw snared him upon graduation, and after a brief farming out, Al was pitching for the New York Giants. Career No. 1 ended two years later as the World War lured Williams. In the fall of 1917 he enlisted in the Navy, reported to

"Bay Shore, Long Island, and took

a plane up for his first solo after exactly two hours and 50 minutes of instruction in the air. He made a good landing, too.

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AMOUS since 1923 when he broke the world’s speed record with a little better than 266 miles an hour, he sandwiched into his busy life such items as graduation from Georgetown University law school; running down sea eagles to learn tricks of maneuvering from the birds. Trained on sea-

¢ planes, he got the hang of land

ships by weighting down a newspaper on a landing field and then aiming for it in the unfamiliar plane. He made 200 take-offs and landings in one day. He went to bed that night. with another trick learned. Maj. Williams bristles at the

word “stunting.” Creator of many .

intricate maneuvers — important in combat flight—and trail-blazer of inverted flying, he deals in precision flying. To stunt is to clown,

-using tricks already known. Maj.

Williams is among those pioneers who did the stunts for the first time; who discovered them for practical reasons. - It may have been contempt for stunting for’ thrills only that goaded Williams into belittling it all in 1929 at the National Air Races. He duplicated all the tricks on the program — flying upside down! Inverted flying came to Al ‘in the line of duty. In 1919 at Pensacola, ‘student pilots were having difficulty with the Navy’s N-9 seaplane. Cumbersome and slow, the crates had a knack of twirling around to inverted attitude. There were crashes and losses of life. This business’ of flying upside down always had intrigued Williams, and he Went to work on the N-9. Gingerly at first he tried it and: got the feel of the flight, then brazenly he defied the ship to do its worst. Motion pictures recorded his recoveries and from then on students knew in'advance the answers to their problems. There were no more deaths from N-9’s.

” 2 ” B*= there was more inverted flying. He figured as lon there was any mystery to such

Al Williams Frequently Risked His Life

flight, it was dangerous. He set about ta clear it up. v2 The Navy seaplanes lived a hard life. At the least excuse Williams warmed one up, put out to sea and worried a top speed of around 100 miles per hour out of it. Then, cutting the motor off because the oil and water sloshed around ineffectively when the upright motor was upside down, he would put the

When his altitude played out, he would make a ‘“dead-stick” landing, for he couldn’t start his motor again in the air. All this was to be followed by advanced research. in later-type ships as Maj. Williams mastered the art, climaxing his efforts by introducing the outside loop. In the midst of this flying, a “killer” plane showed up at Pensacola, and lured Al away from his fun. The HS type of seaplane was a normal ship tc all appearances and gave no indication that it would misbehave in flight. A wartime coast patrol ship, it turned out about 80 miles per hour, and was sturdy and heavily built. It was believed to be sound and free from bad habits. The first HS to crash caused no great anxiety. The next crack-up was cause for raised eyebrows, though, and then fatal accidents began to occur with murderous rapidity. Veteran pilots were assituation,

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No. 3—This crack-up was had a crowd to miss.

at the Cleveland Air Races, 1929.

picture was taken.

No. 1—First research in inverted flight was with a Nav as Lieut. Williams sought the answer to a lot of “whys.” No. 2—At Williams as an ensign. planned in advance by Williams, whe

to Ma ke Planes Safer

No. 4—Lieut. Williams, Charles A. Lindbergh and Jimmy Doolittle

No. 5—Williams caught this one on the wing—literally and figuratively. He chased down predatory birds, hooked them on his win wires, and in the chase learned new flying maneuvers. No. 6—Al Williams was pitching a few to Babe Ruth the day this

HS’s on stretchers. In every case the ships had evolved: into a pernicious spin from ~ which experts said there was no recovery. Al Williams asked and got permission to put one of the HS's through its paces, inviting trouble. For Williams it was a job of learning, while the plane was in

its death ‘spin, that it responded slowly to its controls and that

WRONG DONE TO GEN. GOUGH DURING WAR MAY BE RIGHTED

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent

had to protect a front of 42 miles with eight divisions. His intelligence Service informed him the Germans

fought grimly over every inch. There is no finer story in the British rec-

proper timing would bring it back |

to normal flight while over-timing swung it past normal and into a spin in the other direction. HS’s death spree was over. Maj. Williams typifies the airman, ideal for an illustrator. Six

feet tall, he weighs 189, is broad of |

shoulder and his sandy blond hair is closely cropped. His

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training, along with his impatience at delay. : 2 02 ® N. recognition of his service to aviation and to the Navy, Maj. Williams was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1929. The citation mentioned the time he flew a ship to complete destruction to discover a fault which had made the plane a killer. Acknowledged was the fact that many features of the combat plane were the results of his research and pioneering. The same year the American

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selected him as one of 12 men in the United States whose servIces to aeronautics were judged outstanding. Resigning from the Navy in 1930, Maj. Williams turned to industry as he became an executive in the aviation department of the Gulf Oil Corp. The military title he holds is of the U. S. Marine Corps, Reserve. His flying goes right on, and the new ship he has just purchased is a Navy type Grumman. : The tenseness of the European situation and the possibilities for war lured Maj. Williams to Europe this fall to see just what aviation is planning to do. From country to country he went, looking over the newest bombers and pursuit ships, comparing strength, watching mock air raids, chatting with fellow airmen, and in general getting a closeup view of the situation.

Building Trenches in the Skies

‘A series by Maj. Al Williams on Europe's military aviation plans for the next war starts Monday on this page.

Firm That Sod Planes

ToSpainHa:

By United Press

ASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Roberi

Cuse, president of the New

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behind this application for a li-

cense.” : The statement filed by Mr. Cuse last year was required under pres-

By ANTON SCHERRER :

THINK it incumbent on me to make some ; observation on the subject. of whooping cough, especially in view of the fact that Dr. John A Toomey made the front page the other evening with the news that he had

captured the whoop. Shucks! Fifty years ago, everybody kfiew how to capture the whoop. At any rate, mother did, because I distinctly remember that when whooping cough

<broke out in our household she immediately hustled us kids off to the gas works. Inside of a fortnight, the whoop was captured. It didn’t get on the front page at that time. The gas works were then on Pennsylvania = St., just south of Pogue’s Run, and took in most .of the territory down to South St. The entrance was on Pennsylvania St., and the reason I remember it so "well is because it was big enough to admit a team of horses. Anyway, we kids always used this entrance, ii Scherrer * probably because it gave immediate acess to the big courtyard inside the place. In the center of this courtyard, and a little to the north, stood | an immense cone-like pile of refuse, consisting of| cinders, coke and the like, It looked to. be about 200 feet high, but I guess, in, reality, it was about 20 feet high. In formation, it was not; unlike a sand pile, but it all other respects it had its own attributes. For one thing, it had a sinister dark greenish color; for another, it had a pungent, gaseous odor, but the really remarkable thing was that the pile was warm. So much so, that you could see tiny whiffs of smoke curling up from almost anywhere. ” ” »

Joe Was in Charge

T= pile was in the charge of Joe, a Negro, who had the habit of mumbling, which didn't mean anything except, maybe, that he thought himself good company. + As a matter of fact, Joe was good company, and I think he was at his best when he treated whooping cough. I still remember his technique. The first day we Kids appeared at the gas works with our coughs, Joe asked us whether we had any pennies in our pockets. We had eight, I remember, and Joe asked us to hand them over. We did 50, rather reluctantly I recall, and then to our utter amazement, he pitched every penny into the smoking pile. He was a southpaw, which enhanced the per= formance considerably. Next, Joe commanded us to dig into the pile and rescue the pennies. Sometimes it took half an hour, sometimes an hour—such was Joe’s cunning—but no matter how long it took, the day’s treatment wasn’t complete until we had.accounted for every penny thrown into the steaming pile. The pennies were green and wafm when we dug them up.

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WE did the same thing every morning for two weeks, and, believe it or not, ‘we got rid of the whooping cough. As a matter of fact, I think we were cured inside of a week, but we stuck around for another week because Joe was such good company, Anyway, a week wouldn’t have been enough to exhaust Joe's repertoire of Abe Lincoln stories. . Joe's best story was the one about the time Mr, Lincoln was challenged to fight a duel by an Irishman named James Shields. The challenge, I recall, grew out of some letters concerning Shields, published in a local paper. The first of the letters was written bad Lincoln, the others by Mary Todd and his sister. Mr. Lincoln, according to Joe; acknowledged the authorship of all the letters and agreed to meet Shields when he asked for it. ‘By the rules of the game, Mr. Lincoln had choice of weapons and picked broadswords. He actually went to the place selected for the battle, but, for some reason, Mr. Shields didn’t show up. Joe always maintained that Mr. Lincoln Youd have made mincemeat of Mr. Shields if- he ad.

A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

EE Homer sometimes nods,” runs the old line, and we might paraphrase by saying, even Dorothy Parker sometimes has a baby. The two facts are analogous in a way. For Miss Parker is a sort of female Homer of her age. .Now we're wondering whether a baby is going to be good for Miss Parker's drollery. Children do have a way of dulling the edge of maternal wit, and somes how one doesn’t think of mothers spouting epigrams. i is hard to explain why this should be true, but so is. Already, months before the event. the professional humorist shows signs of slipping. Think of the tremendous joke she might have played on us if she had been less eager to announce the coming of the infant. Let -us imagine the surprise, if we can. Here we would be, Miss Parker's public, thinking of her in her usual role scattering showers of repartee wherever she goes, and—presto!—tomorrow the headlines would scream the news, “Dorothy Parker Wisecracks With Stork; Becomes Mother.” \ I It was the chance of a lifetime and she muffed it, Yet there is something naive, charming, even ene dearing in the obvious delight shown by the greatest ~ woman humorist at the first signs of approaching motherhood. And it must ptove that underneath she is not one whit less sentimental than the rest of her tribe. 8 - Colonel's Ladies and Judy O’'Gradies, dullards and punsters, we women are all the same. The mother In us outwits whatever we cover it up with—intellec= tualism, buffoonery. nonchalance or preoccupation with business. The subject offers opportunity for endless sentimental musings. But we shall refrain, only to say that with all our hearts we wish Dorothy Parker happiness in her new role which, although it may for a time be a strain on her sense of humor,

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Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

: Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal ATER the tonsils have been repeatedly infected, L. they tend to become enlarged, and also to 1be= come more easily infected thereafter. The disturbances associated with chronic inflam= mation of the tonsils are not nearly so severe as those in the acute infections. Nevertheless, a person with chronic infection will complain of difficulty in swale lowing, of moderate soreness, and of a scratchy feel . ing in the throat. The breath frequently has a foul odor in cases of chronic tonsillitis. When the tonsils are infected, the crypts of follicles seem to be full of infectious material, which is responsible for the odor. This material can not be removed by. gargling or by using mouth washes, but only by being pressed out of the follicles or crypts, a performance which requires medical treatment. { Even though the material is removed repeatedly, it has a tendency to return and again fill the follicles, It has become recognized, therefore, that occasional treatment of chronic tonsillitis is only a palliative, and that the dangers of the condition are so great that’ palliation is not to be recommended. cr Chronic tonsillitis is seldom fatal in itself, but the possibility of infected ears, infected joints, or. heart disease associated with chronic tonsillitis is sufficient ly likely to make treatment seem desirable. LE Tonsils sometimes become so large as “to interfere with swallowing and breathing. we This relationship of infected tonsils to disease Sle : i where in the body is no longer a matter of theory, fianavolis, is' 715 fees above Investigations in many hospitals and laboratories now sea-level, and the altitude of have proved that tonsil infections may cause infection the .city’s lowest point 1s:664. | | of the heart, of the kidneys, and even of the tissues feet ; Gn Lining the abdominal cavity, a condition called per

Jersey company which has beer ent neutrality laws licensed to export arms to war-torr 2.2 » Spain, filed a sworn statement g R. CUSE listed his company as pam, a that hi 4 a- manufacturer only of airyear ago indicating tha US COM: | craft engines, but said the concern, pany was prepared to furnish to all | exported: comers anything in the munitions 1. Rifles or carbines, using amline fron a percussion cap to s

munition in excess of 26.5 caliber battleship, fully equipped and ready and their barrels. for war.

2. Guns, howitzers and mortars | The statement was brought to

ord of the World War. By March 28 the retreat ceased and the main force of the German attack quieted down. Gen. Gough was called home and was replaced by Gen. Rawlinson. By that time, the Government had found plenty of troops to send to the hard-pressed line.: Gough was the scapegoat. a The unfortunate general had unslaught by 42 German divisions. hn 0 Je Would be sania [tie ‘Fifth Army suffered terrible : losses. It fell back for miles, but . 8 =n \ : Grae never had the benefit of the inquiry.~He resignéd from the Army and is today a director of various business firms in The City —London’s Wall Street. Byng, who commanded the Third “Army; Plumber, who commanded the Sec-

“QLOWLY, one by one, the pages of the Arabian S Nights are being closed in Persia, and the pages of modern progress substituted for them.” Ancient Persia, modern Iran, both are described in THE PA-« GEANT OF PERSIA, by Henry Filmer (BobbsMerril). Many illustrative photographs are particularly fine. The author has traveled recently, by |years right a wrong that thousands motor, over' almost every section of this country— |cf men in and out of the British the country of Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus the Great, Fifth Army think was done to Gen. Darius and Xerxes, of Harocun-al-Raschid o> the |gir Hubert Gough? “Thousand and One Nights.” and of Omar Khayyam. 2 : : ; The present ruler of Persia, Riza Shah Pahlevi, od 38 a question hay 1s eng who ascended the Peacock Throne in 1926, is con- |2ired t oe days in the Dress an sidered by Mr. Filmer to be a farseeing and progres- |e meantime the main figure—Sir sive ruler. As fast as reforms can be assimilated, he |Hubert himself—maintains a gipniis emancipating the Persian people from ancient su- |fi€d silence. But he is-being de uged perstition; “co-education has now entered Persian [With letters and telegrams congratlife almost! unremarked.” The Shah recognizes the |Ulating him upon what is already importance of the Middle East in world affairs and is {100ked upon as a belated vindication. building a strongly centralized Persian state. How ; #2 2 =» Soviet Russia has been an important factor in this i : development is carefully analyzed by the author, Who § ERE are the facts is well-informed in political and diplomatic matters of the Middle East,

were massing troops for a break through on his front. Gough appealed for men. He was given grudgingly four more divisions, His demand for still more fell on the deaf ears of Foch, of the British General Headquarters: and of ‘ his Government at home.

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Oo" March 21, 1918, his devoted 12 divisions had to face an on-

nf all calibers, their mountings and light today as an aftermath of the. barrels. a furor created when Mr. Cuse took 3. Ammunition for all of these advantage .of the technicality in Weapons. this country’s .present neutrality . 4. Grenades, bombs, torpedoes and laws which permits shipment of im- mines, filled or unfilled, and apparplements of war to Spain simply atus for their use or discharge. because that country is engaged in _ 5. Tanks, military armored vehostilities only within its own bor- hicles and armored trains. ders. 6. Vessels of war of all kinds, in- ~ Mr. Cuse was pictured in the cluding aircraft carriers and substatement, filed in Washington Nov. marines, 29, 1935, almost as another Zarahoff 7. Military aircraft. who amassed millions in Europe 8. Aerial gun mounts, frames, etc. ond; Horne, who commanded the |through his traffic in arms and 9. Non-military aircraft. First, and Rawlinson, who com- | munitions, 10. Propellors, fuselages, hulls, tail

units and undercarria i manided the Fourth, were all given i : ~ 11. Aircraft Orr units peerages and Parliamentary grants ISCLOSURE of the extent to 12. Projectors and flame throwers, of $150,000 each for their services. which Mr. Cuse’s Vimalert Co.

) t 13. Mustard gas, and two other Gpugh got nothing. He was allowed | claimed to cover the munitions- ‘kinds of lethal gases. to remain with a cloud on his mili-

supply field came coincidentally | tary name. : with a drive for early amendment But some of these, who were in [of this country’s neutrality legislavarious Cabinets and who wrote tion and development of the possi-| | books, did much to vindicate him. |bility that a Congressional investi- | It is being suggested to the pres- (gation will be demanded of the | ent Cabinet that it would be a good | Cuse license. 4 move if, before his coronation next | The suggestion that an investigaMay, King George VI were urged |tion by Congress might be underto confer a belated peerage upon

taken came from Senator Frederick Gen. Gough, thus emphasizing that | VanNuys ‘ who said, “I hope the a long chapter of injustice had been | committee will

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Sir Hubert ¢ —born in 1870 of a military ‘family—had a fine early career. He served with credit in the South African/war. He was in command of the’ cavalry at the Curagh in Ireland in March, 1914, at the time of the famous “incident.” The Liberal Government, then in power, contemplated having to use the Army to quell anti-home rule agitation in Ulster. Officers at the Curragh were given the option of obeying orders to this effect or resigning. Many, particularly those of Ulster stock, |: resigned. Gough led in this. There was a political upset in the Cabinet, the resignations of the Army men were withdrawn and Gough, among others, went back into the service. He went to the front in the World War in 1914 and by 1918 was | in command of the Fifth Army, He

2 o- Nn T all happened because a party of natives came from Liberissima to dig up a lake dwelling near the village of Cranogue. The old women of the village began to fling curses right and left, and who could tell where they might strike? In Lord Dunsany’s UP IN THE HILLS (Putnam), you may read how Mickey Connor and his mighty army of eight lads went off to the hills to escape the women’s curses and of the grand private war they fought with Patsy Heffernan—all according to Napo- © leopic strategy, too. It would have ended well, with Mickey and Patsy agreed to an honorable truce, if it - had not been for the army of the Free State, which did not approve of private wars. : © As it was, it was only the backsliding of Ombolulu, who had been converted from heathenism to a frock coat, which saved Mickey. But how that came about, gentle reader, is part

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