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mm i ' ' ■ f ‘ ’ -'J THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938 —Weekly News Review Mistrial Ruling in Hines Case May Be Setback for Dewey By Joseph W. La Bine IS etc York Long before a racket conspiracy charge was placed against Tamma- nyman James J. Hines, New York’s District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was mentioned as a potential G. O. P. gubernatorial nominee, even as a 1940 presidential possibility. By the time the state finished presenting evidence in Jimmy Hines’ trial, Tom Dewey’s political importance ■pras pretty well settled. Sc, certain was this importance that observers tried to find political sign jicance in repeated clashes between the dis trict attorney and Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Of one thing they could be sure: Justice Pecora’s political back ground was the antithesis of Tom Dewey’s. One-time assistant district i DISTRICT ATTORNEY DEWEY He Pipped over the poultry. attorney under Tammany regimes, later a New Deal district attorney candidate, still later a member of the securities exchange commission, Ferdinand Pecora had a thoroughly un-Republican background before he was named to New York’s Supreme court in 1935. Political or otherwise, Justice Pe cora has found cause to sit em phatically and repeatedly on the vig orous young district attorney. Once, when Mr. Dewey pouted that he was being treated like an “inter loper in the courtroom,” the justice shot back that he resented the re mark. By the time he was through preseming evidence, the 36-year-old racket smasher could rest assured he had built a good case, though his courtroom conduct had sometimes been irregular. As the defer>se began its case, two abrupt developments threatened Tom Dewey’s attempt to convict Jimmy Hines of conspiracy in Ar thur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flegen- heimer’s policy racket. First, De fense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker asked that the case be thrown out on grounds of insufficient evidence, but Justice Pecora denied the mo tion after a day’s consideration. Few minutes later, the district at torney began cross-examining At torney Lyon Boston, who made an admittedly half-hearted, youthful in vestigation of Jimmy Hines while an assistant under William C. Dodge, Dewey’s predecessor. Un der discussion was William Fel- lowes Morgan, commissioner of markets, who testified regarding the poultry racket before New York’s famed “runaway” grand jury in 1935. Asked Dewey: “Don’t you re member any testimony about Hines and the poultry racket there (be fore the grand jury) by him?” “One moment!” boomed Defense Attorney Stryker. “1 move for a mistrial.” The defense contended Tom Dew ey had made unfair reference to grand jipy testimony about a pos sible criminal matter with which Jimmy Hines was not charged. Though the prosecution claimed At torney Stryker had opened the sub ject, Justice Pecora thought other wise. Two days he pondered the mistrial motion. Then, to a tense courtroom, he read a two-hour opin ion upholding the defense. Result: Ohe juror was ordered withdrawn and the state’s laboriously built case was thrown cut. Ne:id day, Manhattan wondered whet ier Tom Dewey’s defeat would cost /um a chance to be New York’s governor. A more pertinent ques tion was whether he wanted the job. Biggest worry of Empire state Re publicans who would run him for governor is that no one knows how he stands on labor, utilities, so cial security, relief, civil liberties or budget-balancing. But all-impor tant to voters is the district attor ney’s record of law enforcement. So greatly is he feared that Frank lin Roosevelt is willing to support Gov. Herbert Lehman for re-elec tion despite the governor’s opposi tion to New Deal reform measures. Foreign The fact that he became a grand father for the second time was only one reason why British Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain felt old. To offset a London Times editorial urging German annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten popula tion, the prime minister had to speak louder than usual. Lest Adolf Hitler think Britain was capitulat ing, lest France think Britain had deserted her in the hour of need, he told Ambassador Nevile Henderson to give Der Fuehrer another warn ing for good measure. The warn ing: That Britain means business in demanding Czechoslovakia’s preser vation. Thus, armed with latest Czech concession offers, watched by pro- Czech allies that included Britain, France, Russia and Rumania, Adolf Hitler strode on the stage at Nur emberg’s Nazi congress to speak his mind on the subject as he had never spoken it before. His points: (1) That, if they can not defend themselves, Sudetens will “receive help from us”; (2) that Czech President Edouard Benes spread false rumors of Ger man troop movements during re cent Czech municipal elections, thereby practicing intimidation; (3) that, though Germany wants peace with European democracies, noth ing can prevent her from assuring self determination for Sudetens. Actually, Der Fuehrer’s only new assertion pertained to Sudeten “self determination.” Did this mean he favored a plebiscite? That night, as Europe pondered his words, the consensus said yes. Did his speech carry a dangerous threat of war? Most observers thought not, though jittery France had rushed so many troops to her German border that it might be almost embarrassing to withdraw them. Politics In Maryland, Democrats could choose one of three nominees for the U. S. senate. Senator Millard E. Tydings, whom Franklin Roosevelt wanted removed because his New Deal batting aver age is only .292. py record a polit ical opportunist, Senator Tydings was once a ragged boy on the docks of Havre de Grace, rising to Mary land’s house of delegates at the age of 23. His helper was Murray Van diver, state Democratic chairman who helped him through school, guided him into politics, was later unseated from Maryland’s treasury- ship with Protege Tydings’ aid. A distinguished war veteran, he rose to congress with the help of Vandi ver’s enemies, was boosted into the senate as compromise candidate by Gov. Albert C. Richie and Frank Furse. His favorable New Deal votes: Miller-Tydings price control act on trademarked goods, SEC, neutrality and "pump priming.” His handsome wife of two years is the daughter of Belgium Ambassador Joseph Davies. Rep. David J. Lewis, whose elec tion Franklin Roosevelt urged in a Labor day speech at Denton, Md., since he has been a faithful New Dealer. David Lewis dug -coal in Pennsylvania when nine years old, studied law at night, finally began practicing at Cumberland. In con gress since 1911, he has fostered parcel post, social security and workmen’s compensation. During the World war he handled tele phones and telegraph. He fought the bonus, as did Veteran Tydings. Arthur E. Hungerford, New Deal er whom the New Deal ignored, who closed his campaign by charging “there should be a grand jury and a federal investigation of the meth ods used.” On election’s eve, PWA Adminis trator Harold Ickes spoke encour agingly of two proposed bridges over Maryland’s Potomac and Sus quehanna rivers. Anti-New Dealers charged Franklin Roosevelt was buying votes. Same day, the sen ate’s campaign expenditures inves tigating committee found M. Hamp ton Magruder, Baltimore’s internal revenue collector, had attempted to coerce non-civil service workers into voting for David Lewis. Thus closed the most heated campaign in Maryland’s history. By the time Maryland’s first votes were counted next evening, Millard Tydings’ nomination was certain, though more than one unprejudiced observer mourned the defeat of a great liberal, David Lewis. For gov ernor, Democrats nominated Attor ney Gen. Herbert R. O’Connor. Meanwhile, Republicans chose Os car Lesser and Gov. Harry W. Nice for senator, governor, respectively. • Nothing is more embarrassing to a politician than unwanted support. Hanging to the coat-tails of Maine’s three Republican congressmen, Clyde Smith, James Oliver and Ralph Brewster, have been the Pine Tree state’s Townsend pensioneers, providing a juicy topic of speech making for their Democratic oppo nents. Principals in the race that until 1936 was said to forecast America’s political future (“As Maine goes, so goes the nation”) have been Republican Gov. Lewis O. Barrows, seeking re-election, and ex-Gov. Louis M. Brann, seeking a third term. Maine’s political visi tors included Republican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Democratic Chairman James A. Farley. Add ing a touch of color, Candidate Brann brought Crooner Rudy Val- lee back to his home state, had him sing Maine’s “Stein Song.” If the nation goes as Maine goes, next November’s elections will go Re publican, for despite Rudy Vallee, despite Townsendism, the G. O. P. elected a governor and three con gressmen. White House Fortnight ago, U. S. citizens were jerked into consciousness of war’s proximity. At Bordeaux, Ambassa dor William S. Bullitt reportedly as serted: “The United States and France are indefectively united in war as in peace.” In England, Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy spoke his mind about dictators. Mean- •vhile, back home, Franklin Roose velt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were periodically mentioning America’s inescapable interest in any 1938 foreign conflict. What John Public deduced was that his government had joined European democracy’s drive to “stop Hitler.” (See FOREIGN.) But after the U. S. press had harped on this idea for a week, the Presi dent administered a verbal thrash ing. At a Hyde Park press con ference, he charged these interpre tations of Roosevelt-Hull Bullitt statements were 100 per cent wrong; that there was political at tempt to misinterpret the record; that Ambassador Bullitt never said the U. S. and France were “inde fectively united.” Back at its Bordeaux correspond ent for confirmation went Associat ed Press. Next day came an ad mission that Associated Press was wrong, that Franklin Roosevelt was right. Said the correspondent: There was a misinterpretation of the ambassador’s words. What was America’s foreign pol icy? For an answer, the President referred reporters to the Roosevelt- Hull speeches on the subject. A few hours later came a typical Hull pronouncement on the subject, is sued by way of accepting an invita tion to the eighth international con ference of American states. Said Foreign Policy Maker Hull: ‘The nations of the world are faced with the issue of determining wheth er relations shall be characterized by international anarchy or by the principles of fair play, justice and order under the law. No nation and no government can avoid the issue. Neither can any nation avoid participation ... in determining which course . . . will prevaiL” # Non-stop from Hyde Park, the President sped to his son, James, bedded of a gastric ulcer at Roches ter’s Mayo clinic. Already there were Eleanor Roosevelt and James’ wife, Betsy. Accompanying the President was son Elliott. Shortly after Mr. Roosevelt arrived, James went into the operating room, came out two hours later minus his ulcer. By evening he was resting well. • To Brooks Hays, Arkansas Dem ocratic national committeeman, the President wrote endorsing a pro posed constitutional amendment abolishing poll tax. To his press conference, the Present charged such taxes (effective in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia) kept may people from vot ing. In the same category he placed Women’s Rebellion, Inc., a New Jer sey group trying to prevent WPA workers from voting. Miscellany Each September, Atlantic City woos beauty and publicity by invit ing bathing-suited contestants from each state, by naming one of them “Miss America.” To “Miss Amer ica” goes a silver cup and stage- screen tryouts. Last year’s winner, New Jersey’s Bette Cooper, scorned her honors and went back to school. This year, Atlantic City hoped for better luck. ,Up and down bfefore judges paraded 43 girls from almost as many states. Finally they gave the title to Marilyn Meseke of Mar ion, Ohio, gave second place to CALIFORNIA’S CLAIRE JAMES She was insulted and disgusted. Claire James of Los Angeles, third place to Muriel La Von Goods peed of Salt Lake City. Next day, Atlantic City felt reper cussions. Stormed doll-like Claire James: “I am insulted ... I can’t stand any more ... I am disgust ed.” Raged her mother: “Some of the judges called me this morning and said it was an outrage that Claire didn’t get first place.” In New York, Producer Earl Car- roll opined that Atlantic City’s judges were incompetent, that Claire James was the “true Miss America.” • Sirkka Saloner, who has never used lipstick, rouge, face powder or cold cream, was named “Miss Eu rope” at Copenhagen. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK The Letter Writers The average Englishman writes 78 lef.ers a year; an American writes 67; a New Zealander, 66; Swiss, 60; German, 56; Dane, 46; Austrian, 38; Dutchman, 34; Swede, 26; Frenchman, 26; Norwegian, 20, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese write less than 20 letters a year. BILLIONS of TOOTHPICKS A Yankee Brought the Idea from South America; Note These Tiny Splinters Provide a Big Industry in the Busy State of Maine. By LEMUEL F. PARTON N EW YORK.—In 1918, the Bolshe viks were fixing to shoot Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, but he persuaded them to let him go to _ , _ America so he Seversky Get» could g et a new A Wealth of wooden leg. He T-j, ■ got it, also a beau- Thtngt Here wife a $5 _ 000,000 airplane factory, and a lot of flying records, culminating in his new east-west transcontinental rec ord of 10 hours and 3 minutes, from New York to Los Angeles. Flying for Imperial Russia in the World war, he engaged in more than 100 dogfights with the Germans and dropped 13 of them. But one day they dropped him—into the Bal tic. A forty-pound bomb, which he had failed to release, exploded as the ship struck the water, and blew it to bits. Recovering consciousness lat er, he discovered that, witless as he was, he had been clinging to a pontoon. The water was red around him. Shifting ’his good leg over the pontoon, he made a torniquet of his torn trouser leg. He swooned again, as a Russian destroyer picked him up. He crow-hopped the Chinese border on his wooden leg, as a stupid border guard refused to recog nize his papers. Washington received him hospita bly, in April, 1918, and made him a consulting engineer for the army air service. He later experienced some rough going, but the only real crack-up in his career was encom passed in that drop into the Baltic. He was steadily on the uptake, de signing planes, flying and bringing through his factory. In 1933, he designed and built an amphibian plane which made a record of 177.79 miles per hour. Trained in the Im perial Naval academy, he has con tributed greatly to aviation engi neering and design. Several years ago, using an alarm clock and few electrical odds and ends, he made a waltzing plane, swaying rhythmically with band music from below. His waltzing days were over and he found this a satisfactory substitute. • - • • S IMON LAKE, the inventor of the submarine, 72 years old, hopes some day to get an under-sea peek at the sunken continent of Atlantis. , , _ In a mid-town ho- Lafte Uut to tel ^ New y ork> Redeem the he is up to his Submarine kn ; e ' 8 “ blue prints of subma rine adaptations and gadgets which he hopes will be found useful by the deep sea boulevardier. His father is 91; his grandfather lived to the age of 96 and his sister to 102. Al though his once red hair is white, he thinks he is just now getting his start in life. His 25 basic patents alone made the submarine possible. Like many, possibly most, inventors, he could devise a scheme for almost any thing except getting what was com ing to him. So, in his genial, casual way, he is broke. Reading Jules Verne, when he was 10 years old, led him to capsize a rowboat on the Toms river in New Jersey and test his staying powers in the submerged air cham ber. In 1894, he made a ^yooden submarine 14 feet long, with a »cda water tank supplying compressed air. It worked nicely. In 1894, he made the Argonaut, Jr., in which he cruised under the water for thou sands of miles on Chesapeake bay. Like the Wright brothers, he aroused little attention. He final ly got Washington interested when he telephoned to the eapi- tol from the bottom of the sea. His working submarine eame through. Washington didn’t seem to eare much what he did, so he took his invention to for eign eapitols. Czarist Russia made him some impressive of fers but he decided they were a dissolute lot and, as a self-re specting American business man, he wouldn’t have anything to do with them. All in all, he became fed up with bureaucrats and red tape and gov ernments in general and turned to deep sea treasure hunts. The sub marines, of course, destroyed much more treasure than they ever dredged up. This troubles him. Vig orous and energetic, with a wrin kled, knobby weather-beaten face, genial and friendly, he plugs along alone in his hotel to redeem the submarine by making it a general cargo and passenger carrier. C Consolidated News Features. WNU Service- Smart Fall Styles That Are Flattering TUT ERE are two charming fash- ions with the crisp, slim- waisted, very feminine look that proves they are new and smart! And you’ll notice that the sleeves are proudly puffed up, not out— they give height, not width, to the shoulders. These two simple de signs, each accompanied by a de tailed sew chart, make it very, very easy for you to have two leading fashions of the coming season at very little cost. Two-Piecer With Jacket Blouse. This charming fashion is ex tremely good this fall. It’s tailored or dressy, according to the mate rials in which you make it up. The skirt is slim and plain. The Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. B Y WHATEVER avenue he enters the state of Maine, the newcomer promptly realizes that it can best be described as a land of trees. Forests cover more than three-fourths of the area. The present 15 million acres of woodland represent a shrinkage of less than 20 per cent from the primeval condition. In recent years the few salients slowly won along the forest border by newly cleared farms are much more than offset by the steady push of pine, spruce, fir, and hemlock seedlings, every where winning back abandoned fields. At the first session of ’its legisla ture, Maine adopted a seal with the north star as the crest, below which the shield carries the white pine and moose, the two monarchs of the Maine woods. The descrip tion of the seal, in the 1820 laws of Maine, says of the pine: “It is as well the staple of the commerce of Maine, as the pride of her forests.” Seventy-five years later, the pine After the spring breakup in Maine, logs are drifted down rivers to the saw mills. It’s the job of these log rollers, with caulked shoes, to keep the lumber moving. cone and tassel was declared by legislative resolve to be the floral emblem of Maine, having been se lected by an informal popular ref erendum. As early as 1656, the town authori ties of South Berwick passed an order against waste of timber. In more recent times forest conserva tion was accepted as a business pol icy, and protective measures against fire were early adopted and generously supported by timberland owners, even before state laws were passed. Maine was the first state to erect lookout towers and also the first to build them of steel. The first lookout station was erected by private landowners on Squaw moun tain in 1906. At present the state maintains 86 fire stations. The first sawmill in America was built near York in 1623, and another at South Berwick in 1631; and 50 years later there were 24 mills in the province of Maine, including the first gang sawmill on the continent at a site aptly named Great Works. Opportunity for the infant colo nies came from the depletion of England’s forests. During the Sev enteenth and Eighteenth centuries, naval reserves meant oak, not oil, but Queen Elizabeth and her Stuart successors squandered the royal for ests to provide increased revenues independent of parliament, while ad mirals protested. There was a scarcity of oak timbers, and the white pine of New England gradu ally became England’s chief source of the masts sorely needed by its navy. In a way the royal navy’s timber poliflj contributed to the Revolu- Much of America’s paper comes from trees felled in the Maine woods. Here the timber is being shredded preparatory to paper manufacture. tion. The "broad arrow,” which in English forests was the sign of naval authority over chosen trees, did not hit the mark when intro duced into New England. The com mandeering of mast pines was re garded by the colonists as an inva sion of property rights. An official' complaint is on record that only, 1 tree in 500 suitable for masts was sent to England. A diameter of two feet being the lower limit for “broad arrow” trees, the Maine sawmills turned out boards just within the limit, so that roofs of old houses of that period show splendid pine boards 22 or 23 inches wide, but almost never one of 24 inches. Scores of “broad arrow” lawsuits were tried, but impartial juries were impossible to find for mast cases. The prejudice against masts reached a climax at the outbreak of the Revolution, when the export of masts was violently stopped, the opposition at Falmouth leading lat er to the bombardment and burning of that town. Shutting off the supply of American masts for seven years so weakened British fleets in their rigging that they suffered unduly from storms during the Revolution. One “broad arrow” inspector in his report mentioned one pine of over 17 feet in circumference. In time Bangor became the world’s largest lumber - shipping port, and in 1830 Maine led all states in output of lumber. Through out the timber states of the West many of the most skilled lumber men hail from the Pine Tree state. Cut Fast, Grows Fast The three decades of the Twenti eth century have witnessed the heav iest cuts of the whole 300 years of lumbering in tyfaine. But there is good reaoon to believe that at pres ent Maine spruce and fir are grow ing faster than they are being cut. More spectacular than the 300- year life of the lumber industry has been the development of pulp- and paper-making. This has become the state’s largest industry, with Maine leading all other states in pulp pro duction from 1914 to 1930. The spruce, poplar, fir, and hemlock from the forests of Maine are con verted into newsprint, and also into high-grade paper for books and for the popular magazines, and into writing paper and wrapping paper' of all grades, including the finest tissue. Paper bags, cartons, even pie and luncheon plates, demon strate the variety of wood-pulp uses. The white birch, which adds so much beauty to the scenery of river bank and lake shore, is converted into spools, shoe-pegs, clothespins, and toothpicks. In the Zjrm of tooth picks, the annual output of which reaches scores of billions, Maine birch is exported largely to the Lat in countries on both sides of the At lantic. Clipper Days For more than two and a half centuries shipbuilding flourished and became the chief industry in 50 coast and river towns. The clipper- ship era was when Maine came into her own with these beautiful ships built of Maine timber by Maine builders, and largely officered and manned by natives of Maine whose birthright was a knowledge of the ways of the sea. Bath not only won fame for its wooden ships, but when iron and steel replaced oak and pine, Bath met the new demand by building the first steel sailing vessel, a four- master. This vessel and the last wooden four-master built in Bath were both sunk by the Germans, the wooden William P. Frye being the first American ship thus sacri ficed. Battleships, cruisers, gun boats, and destroyers, as well as the ram Katahdin, are included in the total output of more than a million and a quarter tons of shipping launched at Bath alone. jacket-blouse as youthful and be coming as it can be. For street, make it of wool crepe, flannel or faille. For afternoon, choose vel vet or broadcloth for the skirt; satin, velvet or silver cloth for the jacket blouse. 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