ROOSEVELT AND WORLD CRISIS
ing For Magician With Rabbit
Europe Looking For
GRAPHIC. STORY OF RABAUL DISASTER
U.S. PREPARES FOR RAPID ARMS EXPANSION
ABORIGINAL DATA FOUND IN MONTANA
Discovery of an ancient shelter containing artifacts and other traces of human habitation which may shed light on the origin of man in North America has been disclos- Montana School of Mines. ed by Prof. Melville Sayre of the
The American freighter Golden Bear lost one member of its crew but rescued 750 persons when two Expert committees of the US building boom. Private Fards, he great volcanic eruptions destroyed Government are investigating the considered, would be unable to meet the town of Rabaul, New Guinea. emergency shipbuilding and air needs.
The shelter, weathered into a cliff Capt. E. M. Olsen of the Golden craft manufacturing facilities of
side and measuring 180 by 50 feet, Bear described the rescue upon ar-the United States, with a view to
Air Facilities Studied was found a month ago seven miles rival of the Matson Line ship in possible rapid expansion.
Construction, he said, would be south of Billings by three amateur Honolulu Risking envelopment of At the same time, President marine, toward which the maritime Browne of Denver and Herbert Bar-
Inecessary not only for the merchant archeologists his ship in the lava flow, he said Roosevelt feels he has no magic commission expects to expend some ringer of Billings
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
children, out of the city.
China
tant. Caked with six to 12 înches of more closely on foreign affairs. pumice and lava, the Golden Bear
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his men made their way ashore to formula with which to reply to re- $150,000,000 in Government money. The stratified site, Mr. Sayre ex- lead 750 persons, mostly women and quests coming to him almost daily in the next few years, but for actual plained, may provide clues to bolster to take a hand in the grave Euro-fighting craft and auxiliary ships the theory that man migrated from Victor A. Costner, the Golden pean situation. The State Depart the train" of the navy. A bill for Asia to North America by way Bear's wireless operator, disappear-ment, watching the North ed, Captain Olsen said, as the crew crisis, is acting along parallel lines at a cost of about $48,000,000 is in River valley in Canada. Preliminary construction of six auxiliary ships Bering Strait and the Mackenzie of
groped their way ashore in pitch with Great Britain. darkness, through downpours of vol- These developments,, emerging first non-warship construction in of human habitation.
conference and may provide the surveys, he added, showed two levels canic ashes and pumice Captain strikingly in the last few weeks, navy yards.
one about Olsen expressed belief that Costner have served to notify Washington walked off the wharf in the dark that Supreme Court or the labour cated air construction facilities are lower.
In addition, the President indi-ter and another about four feet four feet under the floor of the shel- ness, Rabaul's harbour had a deep struggles are far from being the being studied. scum of ashes and pumice on its only preoccupations of the National The boom in shipbuilding may said, are hundreds of buffalo bones, On the four-foot level Mr. Sayre surface.
Government. Reorganisation of the not necessarily be based on Using its two lifeboats and
2State Department is being pressed scare talk The parity-navy pro- other domestic implements The war- charcoal, flint knives, scrapers and work boat, the Golden Bear took to conclusion at the time when at- refugees to Kokopo, 15 miles dis- tention is beginning to be focussed Act with additions for further bat- graph, one portraying guns,
gramme, under way in the Vinson walls contain two types of picto- tleships, constitutes a mighty na-ing the authors had come in contact indicat- moved out of the harbour next day.. Mr. Roosevelt's viewpoint
cleus of work in many yards. The new bill for $48,000,000 in auxiliary largely rock covered, has not been with white man. The lower level, "calling a conference" or taking ships will take out another bite, "We narrowly escaped being en- some other dramatic action toward and the maritime commission's pro-explored. veloped by the flow from the othe European or world situation cano," said Captain Olsen. "A co-has been explained strikingly to vate yards. The commission has
gramme should pretty well fill pri-marine is being built up largely be lumn of steam and black lava shot several callers in the last day or assets of about $200,000,000 for new largely dependent upon foreign cause American shipping is up from Mount Tavurvur, an old two. He is reported to have out-
ships and subsidies. crater on the opposite side of the lined matters in this fashion:
bottoms, and wants to put itself in harbour from Volcano Island. Ra- Most European statesmen, and
World Situation But this substantial spurt in foreign shipping were suddenly ja more independent position in case "baul received the full force of this most thoughtful people there, the downpour of ashes and pumice. President believes, feel they are up from the world situation.
shipbuilding stems in large measure commandeered for the use of the
Naval flags it flies. These volcanoes," he said, "continu against a stone wall. Nobody in Europe, they think, can solve the ed erupting for two days.
deadlock present two
between the groups of powers. Individual na- tional leaders are afraid to take up the problem lest others single them out for attack. Hence Europe is looking round for somebody outside
in it. Now I," the President is of Europe with a hat and a rabbit.
said to have told his friends, "haven't got that kind of a hat and there isn't a rabbit în it”
"It was an awesome sight streams of smoke and black lava in the daytime, shooting up and join- ing about 4000 feet in the air to form an enormous arch above the harbour entrance. At night the eruption appeared like an immense display of fireworks."
Island's Rise
feet out of water
When the Golden Bear returned to Rabaul Captain Olsen said, Vol- cano Island towered 850 feet, where veltian language what informed ob
This parable puts in crisp Roose- previously it had stood only a few servers have felt about the White House attitude for some time: that "The harbour surface was cover-the President would not be averse ed with a layer of floating lava," he to taking helpful action if he knew said "No water could be seen." what action to take. But the Euro- "Before the eruption Rabaul was pean feeling of hopelessness in the a beautiful garden. Everything was face of an impasse is shared here covered, with gray pumice and with less despair, perhaps. States- ashes. Roads were blocked, littered men many of whom regard the with fallen trees and limbs." Cap-present drift as ominous-simply do tai Olsen said most of the inhabi-not know what to do. E tants opposed reoccupying Rabaul
WOMAN IN CHINA
GETS HOMESICK,
BOARDS CLIPPER
Different Approach Another, and far different, proach to the world problem was outlined by Mr. Roosevelt to his press conference yesterday. He conferred with Charles Edison, As- There are many reasons for fly-sistant Secretary of Navy, and or- ing the Pacific, but Mrs. Katherine dered a survey of the Government's N. Romer, widow of the former navy yards at Boston, Philadelphia, owner of the American advertising Norfolk, Va, Charleston, S. C., and magazine, Printers Ink, has a new New Orleans, La., to determine one. She is homesick
their capacity to expand produc- Mrs. Romer left Hong Kong last tion. The Brooklyn navy yard al- week in Hong Kong Clipper. She ready is busy to capacity. had gone to China by steamer, but It is just possible, said the Pre- suddenly felt a twinge of sident in carefully chosen language, homesickness, what with the Sino- that the nation is facing a big ship- Japanese troubles and all sorts of
wild rumours, and she decided to is not a war at all, but there seem go home the quickest way.
to be a lot of dead men around,”
"We hear people saying that this she declared
can-
construction is deemed necessary In any case, Mr. Roosevel because of the collapse of efforts to tious forecast of a shipping boom limit armaments; the merchant seems a calculated understateme
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