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'’TV \ \ ^ ^ 0 "“1. /' .\ • V 7 The CliatoB Chroniclf, Clintoii, S. C^ Thursday, January 4,1934 s / News Review of Current Events the World Over Weir’s Conflict With ' National Labor Board—Johnson Plans Realignment of Code Authorities—^nsull’s Son and Others Indicted in Indiana. By EDWARD W. PICKARD W HAT tctloD, If any, the NKA and the ‘"natidnal labor board would take Id the case of the Welrtbn Steel company waa unrerealed by the au- ‘thorltica. E. T. Weir, chairman of the board of the company, main tained that he waa loyal to the Preal- dent’a recovery pro- fcrani but Insisted that the labor b-'ard had no right to coerce or abrogate the election L of employees’ repre- Ih' sentatives that was held at the NVelrton E.. T. Waif plant. The success ful candidates w’ere hand-picked, and so were those who were defeated, all being “company men." Members of the workers’ union, the Amulgnmnted Ass^iation . of Jron, 8t^ and Tin Workers, did not appear on the hal- lota Union repre.sentatives charged that workers were threatened with loss of their Jobs If they didn’t vote, and said many of the men .^lellher- stely spoiled their ballots. There were ugly threats that If the foverninent did not act the workers would begin to "take things apart." “VVe are putting our faith in Presi dent Itoosevelt and the NHA." said one of the union lekders. “They’ve promised to see this case through. Well, If they don’t then we’ll be forced to take things Into our own hands. Because we’re going to win this tight.’’ Thomas K. Mfllsop. assistant to President Williams, aaid the only wa^y the government would he allowed to enter the matter was on the strength of a Court order. "We are far the NBA.*’ he said. “hut there are some parts of the re covery law which frankly we do not like. It’s no secret that Weirton Steel la opposed to a closed 8hoi», which Is what the labor [trovisions of the act mean. Nor Is it any secret that we do not ititend to recognize the Anialga- uiate'd." He still Insisted that the “com|)any union’’ was not a company uni(»n at all hut iin association of eni|)lojees’ representatives cho.sen by free and untranuneled ballot by the workers. Cen. Hugh S. Johnson, NBA admin istrator, refused to comment on pub lished rejtorts that President WlMlain (ireen of the American Federation of lyuhor will demand a clear cut state ment from the rec<>very atliuiniidra- tion and the national labor hoard out- lawlng cotnitany tlnanced unions. (jreen said tliat on September ‘JO he had filed many affidavits with the recovery uuth(»rities charging that corporatioris in every secti<m of the country Were violating the NBA labor provision by company union activi ties. He chargt'd no action had been taken against the.se corporations. /^K.NKBAL JOIINSO.N has ma[)|)ed out a new alignment of code au thorities In order to provide more effective representation of consum ers’ Interests, His plan is to place on every code authority one NBA rep- dlinini.s- reseufative selected by the adil trator, 'I'hls representative will be a.ssl.sted by two “advisors," one drawn from the ranks of labor, and nominat ed by tla* labor advisory board of NB.\, and the other to he noniinuted by the consumers advi.sory hoard. An Important part of John.son’8 an nouncement was that he proposes to give the .NBA reiireseiitatlves on each^ •'</(le alithority a veto power over any of the actions tlie authority may elect to take. In Ollier words, in the “self gov ernment’’ of each' Industry, which the general has- often discussed as his aim, a code authority nuLy decide to take some step witli resjiect to p’rices, or pr«yluclion, or wages. If It suits the NB,\ representative. It will be put'into effect; otherw Ise he can veto the action. The administrator also 'announced the appolnlment of I.eon Henderson of the Bussell Sage foundation, New York, and S. J. Schlink, a <llrector of the ('.in.surners’ Besearch bureau, as special assisfiiuts in the consumers division of the NBA. He empha sized that Mrs. Mary Bumsey. society 'woman who heads the consumers ad visory iioard, would retain lier pres ent post. O .N'K of the encouraging signs of the * tidiesJs the decision of the Van >ear4ngen ri Swearingen railroads to purchase $‘25,- 000,tXK> worth of rolling stock, this be ing the biggest order for e<jul{»iijent authorized in many years. The pur chases will be, financed by the PWA. The railroads will buy the equipment with the prweeds of 4 per cent fifteen- year equipment trust certificates sold to the government. In this way the government will obtain security for ita loan without receiving as col lateral bonds or other evidences of mortgaged Indebtedness. By contrast, the RFC demands bonds as security where possible. The roads are the Chesapeake and Ohio, Nickle Plate and the of a nature to cheer op Pr^ldent Itoosevelt and ail the kupportera of his policies. Mr. Hoper subml^ed facts and figures showing that siderable progress toward business r covery had been made In the Untied States as a result of decisive action by the government, and that there were definite signs of a business re vival throughout the world. He als<i reported that, in line with the admin istration’s economy program, ‘ he had brought almut drastic reorganization in his department and had cut ex- I>enditure8 ‘2H.H i>er cent compared with those of the previous year. Secretary Wallace rei>orted. th« 19.33 farm income at $0,l(K),00().(ltK). against $5,H.3.(KXMHKt last year; exclusive of $,'ki0.(HK).0()() In.crop reduction benefits to be paid by the government before the end of the year. W HEN thd day Tor war oaoc pay* menta to tho United Btatea caaM aronnd the eypocted happened. France, Polan(l,3elcium, Hungary and Estonia made no paymente whatever. Finland, aa R did last June, paid in full—$229,* 623. Token payments were made by five nations aa follows; Great Britain. $7,500,000 of $117.- 670,765; Italy, $1,000,000 to $2,133,906; Czechoslovakia. $150,000 of $1.68‘J313; Lithuania, $10,000 of $105,474, apd Utvla. $8,500 of $180,706. So In all. Uncle Sam received $8,898,- 123, or approximately one-seventeenth of the $152,952,637 due that day from eleven European nations. There Is now $301,778,747 overdue on the $11,000,- 000,000 funded debts. Ici Y early reporta’^Eecretary Roper ot the Commerce department and Secretary Wallace ot agriculture were -^^tANIl Jury inveatlgation ot the affairs of the Northern Indiana Public Service company resulted in the returning of indictments at Crown Point, Ind, against Samuel Insull, Jr., and other officials of the company. Includ ing Morse Dell Plain, Its president. It !■' charged that the com pany’s treasury was looted for the benefit . i„(„]]) holding cotn- i+aniea. The report of ■ A jj the grand Jury In cluded these accusa tions : i'hat a bookkeeping wa.s pufposelyf O NE foreign nation has undertaken to bring suit against a state of the Union before the Supreme Court of the United States—the first Instance f the kind in history. The principal ity of Monaco seeks, through Its Am8r- attorneys, permission to sue the of Blississlppj.. for payment of prin<HpaL and Interest on $100,000 worthNof bonds defaulted In 1841. It was exmained by the Monagesque cop; •ulate ln\New York that Monaco is em powered V,8 a sovereign state to sue one of th^ United Slates, a privilege not accorde^ to Individuals, and that the bonds wwe given the principality by three‘desceMants of original Inves tors, who had ^nally been convinced that, so far as Wlvate holders were concerned, the delm state was going to continue too proudXt'o pay. A Samuel Insull, Jr. error of $lf),fXK)J)0() made to deceive the Itidlaua public service commission aud Justify high rates for service. i'hat huge exitense accounts for cer tain ollielals, covering trips to fhrll- for/ila and Atlantic (.'By and the send ing of vast quantities of flowers to hotels, were an unjustified charge agalii.st Northern Indiana Public Service, That properties, In many Instances worthless, and without exceivflon worth far less than the value charged, were A I.EJANDHO LEI^IOUX is pre mier of Spain again, having suc ceeded Diego Martinez Barrios, who was made vice president of the new cabinet and minister of war. Ijerroux said he was “pleased" withVhe minis try he had got together and that its formation of members of the left, the right and the center parties was com patible with the complexion of the new parliament, which is dominated by con servatives. A ppointment of niroshi'Saito as the new Japanese ambassador to the United States was confirmed by the cabinet In T<)kyo. The foreign office there cabled Instructions fof him to proceed at once to Washington from 'I'he Hague, whejre he has been serving us minister to the .Netherlands. iraiisferred to the treasury of Northern Indiana through a system of liiter- lockitjg directorates, i’his was done„ the report declared, to ’’milk .Northern Indiana Public Service of surplus earnings." — That' the fnnds and asset,s of the oi»eratlng coinpuny are still being “constantly depleted by the domina tion of Midland Utllltias and other parent organizations of the Insull group." ^ The Bivestlgatiorr was given Its start when Howard W. Duncan, former as sistant treasurer of Northern Indiana, confessed he hud embezzled $132,<K)Uof tlie company’s money and lost it on the race horses. Dnncan pleaded guilty to the theft of $1,.VM). He of fered to tell the inside story of tlie Insnll high finance and was allowed to do so. 'J'he Investigators ’then fol lowed out the lines he laid down for them to follow. P EACE, for the time being, has come to’ the (Jran~('hnco, for Paraguay and Bolivia agree<l to s truce and their warfare in the Jungle region was 8t<»pped. 'I’his was arranged by the League of Natlon.s commission with the backing of the delegates to the Pan-Anierl<‘an conference In Monte- vld«M). Negotiations for a permanent settlemetB of the long coufilct were proceeding In the Uruguayan cai)Itnl. Secretary of State Hull was given much of the credit for bringing about the armistice. C'BE.NUII police broke up wfiat they ^ asserted was an International es pionage ring and arrested ten iwrsons 118 spies. Among them jare Bolvert Switz and his wife of East Orange, N, J. The authorities said the gang was working for no particular nation. T he government of Greece notified Samuel Insull that he would have to' leave that country when his resi dence permit expired on December 31, but when the American fugitive'plead ed Iliuesa he was granted an extension of tlie permit to January 31. Insull has no consular status as an American citizen. Ills jiHssport having been re voked. Where lie cun go with safety Is a puzzle, for the IJnlteil States has extradition treaties with all countries i bordering on tJreeee and presumably lie wouUI lie nlSldied l;i.,uny of them. j 'I'lie government In Washington has Instituted proceedings to collect from liusull. Ills wife and Ilfs son $-21,000 la Income taxes. I W HE.N President Boosevelt’s pet project in the Tennessee valley is far enough advanced to manufacture electric power It Is going to produce a lot of It, and consumers will be n<M‘d- ed. So, to create a market for thl.-* energy the President has set up a million dollar mortgage loan corpora tion, using public works funds, and dl- re'eted it to finance electric apidiance purchases in the 'I'ennessee region, ' ('heap credit will lie extended' to all borne owners and residents within the 3>nne.s.see Valley Authority area for tills purpose. Muiiufacturers of electrical house hold goods are entbusia.stic over the [irospect of having the government fur nish funds with which their proOtucts can be bought-, Stephen T, Early, sec retary to the President, said In an official explanation of the order. T )M HEFLIN of Alabama, who. used to entertalh. the senate and the country with his long diatriiies against those who, he allegeij. were i>ersecutlng him on re ligious grounds, plans a come-back to Wash ington In the capacity of a member of the lower house. He was beaten for the senate In 1930 by John A. Bankhead and was virtually read out of „ til#- Democratic party ^ the year before by the state executive com mittee because he took the stump against Alfred E. Smith in 19‘28. Now Tom announces that he is a primary candi date for congressman from the Fifth district because be thinks the Demo cratic party Is weak in debating abil ity. He says lie will “help tlie Presi dent to obtain legislation flint will take the control of the money supply out of tlie hands of those who pro duce panlc.s every ten or twelve years." Mr. Heflin Is concededly an able de bater, but he may find the lower bouse le.ss patient with his lengthy s|>eviches concerning himself and his persecu tion complex thap. was the senate. Thomas Heflin T WO of America’s most ixvpular and widely read novelists dleil on the same day In New York. Louis Joseph Vance, author of many talcs of mys tery, was found dead In a blazing arm chair ill his apartment, the fire having apparently been set by a dropped ciga rette. Robert W. ChamlH‘rs, writer of best sellers for nearly forty years and noted especially fi>r- his /novels of American history, passeil away after an operation for an iutcstinul disorder troni which he had sufferevl fer several months. T IBET’S supreme religious and civil ruler, the daJai lama, died In Miasu, and a Bengal Correspondent says.it is reported he was poisoned. Thls'poweiful priest was regarded by Buddhist Asia us the relncarnatiou ; of a long desLd Buddha and was wor- shlp'eiKaa a deity. In his sixty years he had ma^ *d vent urea. When the .British opened up 'ril)et In 1964 he fled to Mongolia. Five years later he returned to Lhasa but was quickly driven out 1^ the Chinese and took refuge in India. In 1012 the Tibetan|^ ousted the Chinese and established their indepenideoce and the daiai lama went back and resumed bla place ta ruler of the coubtry. C hXbgES against William G. Donne, Illinois manager of the Home Own ers’ Lo(iu corporation, resulttnl in the acceptance of his resignation by the corporation board, after lie had been heard In Wa.shlngton. Various accusa tions of fraud and favoritism w’ere made against Donne, who was backed by the Illinois Democratic organiza tion. It was predicted his removal would have a serious political flare- back In the state. C OLONEL AND MRS. LINDBERGH ended their long flying tour of for eign lands when they arrived at Miami, Fla., jtfotn the Dominican republic. They took oflf soon after for New York. Their trip took them twice across the Atlantic ocean, and to four contlnentf and thirty nations. •, lilt, WcBtara N*wapap«r .UiUoa. This Week h Arthur Brisranb / Spies'Not Reeded What Kind of Dollars? ’ Her Bullet-Proof Car French Hun^r Army Two Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Swltx, and two Canadians, Mr. and Mrs. Ber- cowltz, with others. Including several women and Frenchmen, are arrested In Paris as members of “a huge In ternational ring of spies operating lo France." The spies are supposed to have revealed the plans of French frontier forts. When the next war comes French frontier forts. like our coast defense guns, will not be important, and spies will not be very valuable. It needs no spy to point out the big cities, Paris. London. Berlin, and war planes would fly straight to those-big cities. Washington says this year’s farm crops are valued by the Department of Agriculture at four thousand and seventy-six million dollars. I.Ji8t year’s crops were w’orth .only two thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine mil lion dollars. A big improvement, but some, hard to please, will ask “w’hat kind of dollars?" The possessions of the Texar Oulnan are sold at auction. The jewel ry and other things on which the late night club expert concentrated her In terest amount to little. But there was one most Interesting Item In the auc tion—the “Texas Gulrian bullet-proof limousine." Tliat car. In which the lady who knew the undervvorld of New York and other places and the char acter of night club habitues, was built so that bullets could not hurt those that traveled Inside of it. Tlie glass and the metal of the limousine were bullet-priMif. She knew tliat her night crowd did not all come under her favorite heading, ‘‘Hello, sucker." While other countries have gone through llerlous after-tlie-war troubles —millions In England on the dole, more millions In America on a dis guised dole—France lias been the most prosperous of nations. Now even In F'rance distress and hunger at last appear. Pliotograpbs of a great army of “hunger marchers” merging on Paris from all parts of France sliow many of the marcliers carrying .slioes tied around their necks to save the shoes. It Is a depressing siglit, yet. vlew’^ed historlcuHy, liow encouraging! 'I'here was a day In Fran<-e, before the revo lution got rid of tlie kings and the parasite nobility, wlien semlsturvation was tlie norinal condition among French peasants. IN RESERVE Freddy had been sent to borrow a gardening fork from Mr. Brown next door. “Daddy says will you lend him your fork?” he asked, politely. “But haven’t you forgotten some thing?" reproved Brown,.who was rather strict on manners. Freddy looked puzzled for a mo^ ment Then he brightened up. “Oh yes," he replied. “Daddy said, ‘if the old miser refuses, try Mr. Jones.’" Tk* Magastic Pol* Josephine—I uflderstand you had a chance to meet Paderewski when ha was here for his farewell concert. Bow did you like him? Gertrude—Oh, he’s Just too fasci Dating for.anything. Josephine—He must be one of those magnetic Poles they tell about —PatMador^-Magazlne, H*’« B*«a Told It Irate Father—How can that young man do a day’s work after sitting here playing and yodeling till mid night? Marion—He says four hours' sleep Is all s man needs. Irate Father—Who told him what a man needs?—Brooklyn Ragle. How It's Don# “How is it that that wizard den tist at the circus side-show can pull teeth so painlessly?"' “A brass band blares out so loud ly at the dentist’s signal that the audience can’t hear the victim when be hollers."—Pathfinder Magazine. Was It‘Monday? The Bosun—Wliy didn’t you re port those signals from the flagship? The Rookie—I thought they were Just hanging out their wash.—Brook lyn Daily Flagle. HI9 PREaOUS pearl The newly married conple were having tnrkey for the first titne. “I don't know how It Is," remarked the hnshand, “bat this bird's got bones all over It Just listen to tita knife on them." . “O. how silly of you. darling! Tb<^ aren't bones — those are shells." . - 1 -f Shells?" “Yes. Don't yon remember yoa said you liked turkey with oyster stuffing?" ' - '§ Night Work The magistrate looked hard at the rough-looking individual in the dock. “How fromes It that you dared te break Into this gentleman's house in the dead of night?" he asked. The man in the dock shrugged his shoulders helplessly. i “Well your worship." he replied, “last month,you ‘ad me op for steal ing in broad daylight. Ain't I going to be allowed to work at all?" COULD SHOW PROOF ' “Is your wife economical?" “Very. I..ook at the clothes aha makes me wear." Dafiaad Father—What la a debtor? Son—A man who owes money. Father—And what is a creditor? Son—^The mao who thinks he la going to get It back.—Vancoaver ■ Province. Gok Haasor Mess Cook McGarry (at football training table)—liow did you find the meat ? Clemens—By looking under the potato.—U. S. S. Holland Hollander. H* WaaU to Kaow Cupcake—Are you for reform la Plurikville? Pretzel—Who’s doing the reform ing?—I.x>ulsville Courier JoumaL V CROSSWORD PUZZLE The dalal Jama, siiiireme religious head of the 'Buddhists of Tibet and other Buddhist [xipulations In Asia, Is dead, aged sixty. Ills followers be lieve that he is a reincarnation of the original Buddlia, tlie young Prince Gautama, wlio left his dunciiig girls, his new wife and baby and went into the world to make It better. A small boy, carefully wlected, will take the place of the latuu, whose spir it Is siqiposed to take up its residence In the boy’s body. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the lama is not dead and has simply “discarded his mortal en velope to be horn again," How Interesting If tliat sliould hap pen to all of us and let us watch this enrtli in its future career of hundreds of millions of years. Governor Myers of the federal farm credit administration says foreclosures of Anierloan farm, mortgages have practically stopped, and tliat sloppage will he permanent. ^ * * ' i Farmers will he-'gla^x^pf tliat news and taxpayers will hope that tlie gov ernment will meet" some ohUg^utions by printing some nice new rnonejt rather than keep pouring out bonds oI^^^vlllch someliody must pay Interest. Tlie total expense of the United States government used to be $.500,- (k)0,0()0 a year. Now the Interest on bonds alone amounts to $1,000,000,000 a year. A drop In stocks at this time of the year does not mean that stocks are less valualile. It means that many are trying to sell stocks all at once to “fake losses” to offset income tax charges. To develop United States trade with South .America, thl.s country may offer s|iecial Inducements to Argentina, Uhiie and Mexico wine growers. Plans are made to iiopularize tlie wines, but It Is almost as difficult to change fash ions in wine as in dress. — For a long-Mmetjlhe Romans would drink nothing but GrWk w^ie. Later arlstoeratlc Romans would drink only Roman wines, although Gauls, In their wanderings, setth^d in France because they could not leave the wines of the Bordeaux and Burgundy regions. In Pennsylvania 35,000 candidates for state liquor Jobs, protest because the examination is difficult and foolish. Truck drivers are asked to purse and siiell. They might better be asked to back up, turn around and prove their Acquaintance with truck machinery. .One question much resented was ‘Four times nothing equals what?" Many applicants answered “Four." They, might have answered that. 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