The Berlin press compared Adolf Hitler with Abraham Lincoln; the Rome press compared Anna Eleanor Roosevelt with Spanish Republican Heroine La Pasionaria.

Bowling along through Walpole, Mass. early one morning on his way to the Newport, R.I. naval training station, hard-driving Ensign Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lost control of his new sedan as a front tire blew, sent it slithering, turtle-turning into a roadside embankment. His injuries: bruises and lacerations about the head and face.

In Cannes, France, another of numerous attempts at a comeback during the past twelve years was made by fat, splashy Paul Poiret, 64, who bobbed up hopefully as sponsor of a new school of couture. Its title: Academy of Elegance.

Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, lugging a 16-mm. camera, visited habitually hard-hatted Al Smith in Manhattan, photographed him in a spanking new pearl-grey Homburg.

Unheard from and believed detained by Nazi authorities in Occupied France was famed Surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, 67, who had entered the occupied zone for a visit with his wife. In France to study malnutrition, he had made a date with a friend for April 25 in Madrid, never appeared.

To midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations.

Zoologist-Writer William Beebe (Jungle Peace), sailing for Bermuda, where defense activities were making a mess of his marine laboratory, spoke hopefully of starting another laboratory. Possible site: near the peaceful jungle of Brazil.

Against the Army's new requirement of the equivalent of a fourth-grade education in its men, Second-Grader Alvin C. York, 53, No. 1 hero of World War I, protested.

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ordered an about-face for the eagles on the Navy's uniforms, having discovered that they had been violating heraldic law (by turning their backs on the sword arm) for more than 100 years.

Button-eyed, bewhiskered, low-slung Scottie Fala, First Dog of the Land, was named first president of Barkers for Britain.

In a Pittsburgh traffic court Fighter Billy Conn, light-heavyweight champion, was arraigned for speeding, driving without a license, released on $500 bail. Same day, Fighter Conn's father, William Conn, drew a $5 fine for fighting in the street.

President Niles Trammell of NBC persuaded musical General Manager Kent Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl. Etc.

Governor Charles Edison of sudsy New Jersey plumped for more gubernatorial power, cried: "If the people of New Jersey were offering for sale a beverage with as much dilution as the article they offer to a Governor under the name of executive powers, I am sure the Federal Trade Commission would get after them."

While the House Military Affairs Committee prepared to study the proposed deferment of older draftees, ex-Senator Ernest William Gibson, 40, Defender of America by Aiding the Allies, was called to active service in the Army; air-minded Frederick Trubee Davison, 45, former Assistant Secretary of War, was slated for a commission in the Air Corps; hulking Cinemactor Victor McLaglen, 54, mooned: "I wish they would let me go out and make up a regiment of men who are 50 or older. They'd be the best darned soldiers in the world. . . ."

In France Nazis forbade circulation of Nicholas Murray Butler's The Path to Peace, and also the French version of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 63, of Mississippi, turned up in the Senate wearing red, white & blue shoes.

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