Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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> Tilt Bamwtll P»op»»-8—tla«U BaniwtlL 8. C, Thursday September t 1937 JVem Review* •/ Current Events ' CHINA'S HORROR GROWS ThoutMidt Die in Unofficial War... Senate Confirms Black Appointment... House Debates Deficiency Bill IV, fildcjUbd. ¥ ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK • WMUrm 1 Declared or Not, Its War CgANOHArS "WIT" of 1032 was a ^ sacood-rata movie sham battle compared with what’s going on over thb* mv. The city of 3,900,000 in habitants asKl its environs are a scene oi destruction, terror, flames and death on a mass scale the hor ror of which is unthinkable. Thousands upon thousands of ci vilians tta dead, dying and wounded, and the toll increases day after day. No estimate has even been attempt ed to determine the amount of cas ualties aaaoug the Chinese and Jap anese fighting forces. Indeed such an estimate today might be woefully inadequate tomorrow, for reports tell of whale brigades being shot or blown to bits in a single encoun- Square mile after square mile, eepedahy la the native Chapel dis trict, has been gutted by fires that rise in the wake of bombs and artil lery she Is. Millions of men, wom en and children face slower, even more terrible death by hunger, for who is to bring supplies from the outlying farm fields while the whole area is under terrific fire? Even M the International Settle- aaent hie ia fleeting, insecure, for bombs and shells drop there, too. And with 1,000,000 refugees Inside to be ted. sbeps are rapidly locking their deers to protect their wares from rioter*. As this to written, the Chinese lend fore—, outnumbering the Jsp as— toes to one. are forcing the y beck to the Whang- round fighting Whetb- Ja penes* reinforce ibto to turn m* tide of At the same worship*—half the Appointee in judicial mien. former special assistant to Attornej General Homer S. Cummings, filed s plea for leave to pray an order for Black to show affirmatively why he should be permitted to serve as an associate justice. He raised the same legal questions as the Repub lican minority had: 1. That Black could not become a Justice because during his term as a senator the Sumners retirement act was passed, permitting Justices to retire at full pay. The Constitu tion provides that no member of congress shill be appointed to an office which was created or the emolument of which was increased during his membership in congress. 2. That no vacancy existed on the Supreme court anyway, since Jus- lice Willis Vsn Deventer had only retired, not resigned, and may still be called for Judicial service by the chief Justice It was e ■ pec ted that the Black appomtmetit would become politi cal fodder to the neat atoct—n cans, peigna Campaign AftermatK '"TURNED down by the house rules * committee when be demanded a special investigation. Rep. Bertrand H. Snell of New York, Republican floor leader, has carried direct to At torney General Homer S. Cummings his charges of violation of the fed eral corrupt practices set by the Democratic national committee. The charges arise from National Chair man James A. Farley’s Ingenious method of selling Democratic con vention books, autographed by Pres ident Roosevelt, for $230 each. In ,a letter to Cummings, Snell charged: 1. That sales of the book, auto graphed by the President, in 1936, at $250 each constitute an illegal collection of campaign funds and a direct violation of section 313 of the corrupt practices act 2. That a Colorado man was the "victim of eleven specific acts of reprisals? by the resettlement ad ministration and threats to "put him out of business" since his refusal last October to subscribe $500 to the book sales campaign. 3. That a New Yorker was ap proached by a Democratic campaign committee agent with promise of White House intervention in return for a $25,000 subscription or retainer. Snell attached affidavits and a synopsis of the evidence he had fur nished the house rules committee. Rebels Press Santander IY EPORTS from the insurgent ^ command said that 35 villages and 1,000 prisoners had been cap tured by the rebels in their drive on Santander and the tiny remaining •lice of the northern Spanish coast held by the government The gov ernment admitted that some ad vances had been made, but refused to concede that General Franco’s forces were threatening the main defenses of the Santander area. Franco, In his new drive, eras us ing the same tactics which eventu ally brought about the downfall of BUbac after a siege oi many months. Bombing planes and artil lery were pounding the fortifications while other airplanes poured ma chine gun fire upon trenches and dugouta. Insurgents planned the Santander advance to require aa little man power aa possible. — aa to leave enough men at the Madrid front to •tort • separate eAnsfve feere I necessary They admitted the top- abate had caught them napping with aa affenatee vest «g Madrid to July. kt ■IB >U> 'JMlmhd about Jape Killing Chinamen. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —The formula still holds good. A Jap kills a China man. That’s another dead Chinaman. A Chinaman kills a Jap. That’s a war. But before we get too busy de ploring Japan’s little way of disre garding pledges so as to gobble more Chinese territory let us look at some rec ords closer home. Since the republic was formed we have deliberately broken 264 separate treaties with the original Red owners of this land. From these viola tions of our solemn promises border g Cobb wars frequently en sued. When the Indians started fighting we called it an uprising. When we sent troops forth to slaugh ter the Indiana it was a punitive ex pedition to restore law and order. If the white soldiers wiped out the Indians, that was a battle. If the Indians wiped out the soldiers, that was a massacre. Those who make history rarely get a square deal from those who write history. • * • Keeping Undercover. T HIS is the land where, in self- protection. you hide your place of residence and have your tele phone privately listed. The result is. if your aged grandmother hap pens along and doesn’t know your address, ah* can never reach you. but any smart stranger may ap proach the right party—let us call —him a • phone-logger—end. by pay- ■Mat at a small to*, get the Instantly, Washington,|, Digest A Ndtionai Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART vt at 1 at Washington. — Some years ago, when New England’s sharp-tongued _ . George H. Moses Like gat in the presid- Old Time* ing officer’s chair as president pro tempore of the senate, I used to marvel at the speed with which he got rid of legislation. The Repub licans were in control of the senate. The late Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas was the Republican leader. Between the astute Curtis and the nimble-witted Moses, the senate many times really ran In high gear. To me. It was reminiscent of the old days, therefore, when I watched Vice President “Jack” Garner op erate in the senate the other day to get the judiciary reform bill through that body without permitting a del uge of debate. I think Mr. Garner performed on that occasion with even greater finesse than did Sena tor Moses because Mr. Garner did not wait for cues from the floor of the senate; he simply took charge and, knowing what the job was. saw to it that things were accomplished in record time. But the significance of this inci dent should not be overlooked. It was noteworthy, of course, that the senate should pass the court bill and •end it to the house in a total of alx hours. It was noteworthy that the Vice President established a precedent by granting permission to senators to include in the Congres sional Record speeches they would have made If the debate had been prolonged. And jret it eras the im plication at the senate action that seems to me to be the most Impor tant phase at that situation. The wsj I see the picture Is this: The ease with which that bill eras i that those original bill to add Justice* to Oto only to il to tho it Unto The toll aa M etdes tor a to *n fefiaJet stored feet "Thai vtS not beppi • * *J!fe Rumor Mot Farley OveMirvg ** ********** bend at i 19. denied Fee tow pro of rfcenpe* to a end toot od> lodwetsen at sentrsesrsp ran ho oo- eorwato ffrewNs «* « at fee Id ton •Mi Cast OKA rWs U r tit tod end la ee «# todsetofem tool atop Mew Pastors tool Mew Pool Ttosa naun I been* apoogp and fee J, • •• fee. rr. i’a greeter need at war defend” tt- trom the wicked its foreign office ss ’‘prejudiced.’* was being other fellow’s back authorities con- toatot that they meant no to* Chines* people, and atoa was still for the co- “ at China. Manchukuo . They also revealed that contributions to the na- f Asst, coming from all a, hod passed the $2,500,- Qutttion Hack's Eligibility npHE wto confirmed the Presi- dent's nomination of San. Hugo L. Black at Alabama to the Supreme court; 61 to 16, but only after a bitter fight, laDowing which the mi nority pc toasted that the confirma tion had bean railroaded through. Six Democrats and ten Republi cans voted against Black. The Dem ocratic inmwganta, lad by Edward X. Burke (Nab.) and Royal S. Cope land (N. Y.) based their objec- ttans principally upon charges that ha was asserts ted with the Ku Klux I unfitted to sit tho hi* tribunal for reasons idal and religious prejudice. notably William (Idaho), argued that ha ' become a member I eto*>flRy might be tasted Itself was a posai- toU. but wife ** many rt — 1 “CTiSJUTitl Fr«Ki< PwM? • va.gbteaed out before N could be 'J^HE Pan* • '-* bed approved a bend ueu* at rw OOO OOC the house aheved It to $500 000 The house aleo raised the percentage at funds which local communities must contribute to projects, increased the limitation at coat at a single dwelling to $3,000 or f 1.000 a room; and cut the limit of any one state's share tn the funds from 20 per cent to 10 per cent The house also pasaed a bill de signed to plug the tax loopholes by which. It was alleged, the wealthy have been, legally or Illegally, avoiding the payment of income taxes which they have a moral if not a legal right to pay. The ex tremely complicated bill carried unanimously after only two hours’ consideration. —h— Strange Doings at Sea TOUR insurgent airplanes dropped 1 25 bombs upon the Danish ves sel Edith and sank it in the Medi- terannean, came the report from Barcelona. The crew of 20 and a French observer for the non-inter vention control were rescued by two fishing boats. The owners of the vessel, in Copenhagen, said it was their twentieth ship to be captured or bombed by the rebels. The captain of the French freight er Peame reported to authorities that a torpedo had been fired upon his ship by an unidentified subma rine which floated beside his ship for several minutes off tha Tunisian coast When the Spanish tanker Campea- dor was sunk in the Mediterrane an. the rebel command issued a communique taking the full blame. But the captain of the tanker ia- slstad an Italian dastroyar ■»»»* it at Saving bar air nfe tha Far East beesue* of revolts to Syria. Censorship of tit* news out at Syria U strict but some reports have leaked through which Indicate the revolt recently quelled was a serious one. According to on* dis patch the population ia extremely dissatisfied with the terms of the Franco-Syrian treaty signed last September 10. As toon as the prop er machinery can be set up, the treaty provides, a unified Syrian state will be formed from four of the five mandate areas, which the French hold in the Levant Large sections of the population diffsr in religion from the Syrians in Damascus. They are willing to be governed by s foreign nation like France, aa they have been for cen turies, but they do not want to be subjected to the will of the Damas cus politicians. — Protests Lease of Ships T A NACION, influential newspaper of Buenos Aires. Argentina, caused some stir by vigorously pro testing the proposed leasing of ob solete United States warships to Brazil, declaring that such an act would upset the balance of naval power In South America. Secretary of State Hull had writ ten a letter to the senate naval com mittee asking congressional authori ty for the leasing of over-age war vessels to South American repub lic!. When the Argentinian objec tion! were noted. President Roose velt pointed out that the vessels in question were obsolete, and were only to be used for training. rt a peesedtort wtoto i estowe TW Weeftty I * ■A to aey re to wear more thaa a mere g string A Mother Hubbard would be bettor Or. anyhow, a toga. A statesman U greatly handicapped when he suggests a barrel at leaf- lard with the staves knocked off. A close-up at Mr. John L. Lewis with the Ups pouting out and a con gested expression. Would not this tend to confirm the impression that lately Mr. Lewis bit off more than be could chew? This candid camera stuff is trans lating into the pictorial fact the nightmare aU of us have had—that horrid dream of being caught out doors with pracUcally nothing oa • * • Field Days for Reds. U NDER the warming suns of tol erance and indifference and even tacit encouragement in cer tain quarters, many of our hot house Communists are changing from the pallid, timorous flowerlets of discontent into full-blown advo cates of the glad new age when Lenin will take over Lincoln’s niche In the gallery of the immortals and government everywhere will be of the Trotskys, by the Trotskys, for the Trotskys. True, there still remain some wavering souls who are so pink they’d be red if they weren’t so yel low! But these quivering aspens shrink in number as their bolder comrades openly profess the blessed doctrine which is doing so much for the uv- dertaklng business in Russia. otviN a. oototo. ''•erne**.—WMU tom lee. Mrs le I Capatoad baa pul to* ■i I TV at to* wife to the vast major- tad representative# Here wilhia sis | Roosevelt submit ted the court packing bill that be could not force It through. He ro- fused nevertheless to admit defeat In consequence, it took nearly six months of bitter and futile wran gling in the senate to convince the President that he was on the wrong side of the question as far as public sentiment was concerned. So, congress has wasted nearly all of the 1937 session on a proposi tion for which it was not respon sible. It may be said that congress should remain in session under those circumstances and give all of the time that is necessary to delib eration of measures before it Yet facts must be faced. One of these facts is that through all of the months prior to adjournment scores of members were wearing them selves down fighting against a prop osition with which they could not agree. In the meantime, Washing ton’s summer settled down. Wash ington’s summer is a completely hot and humid summer. Most of the members of the senate and house are no longer boys of college age. They cannot withstand the physical rigors of heavy work under weather conditions that prevail in a Wash ington summer. Thus it is not strange at all that as July passed and August wore on, most of the members wasted to go to placet more comfortable than the Capital city and that constituted a terrific urge to get rid of whatever legisla tion waa bafora th#« with tha very at Ssnaser Capesand by too tosaoan Ttoaunaop er feats* Map to Hew Ter* City we* too etg eel tor to* Hew Deal Ibcttop at too great city to tea# at tooto real* TWy presnpOy aaneonred setortisn of Hew Vest Supreme Court Josttoo Matoaey as toetr raodidsto against Copeland There are fa orgaattsbens behind There is only to* Tammany group behind Copeland. On tha face of It It would seem that the senator cannot win. Tho (act aeema to be. however, that there will be a rather doe* race for the reason that soma of the four organizations behind Ma honey may not be able to control the Democratic eotea In their baili wicks as antirely as Tammany Hall will control Democrats so long af filiated with that organization. Cer tainly, according to the best advices 1 can get, the Copeland charge against Mr. Roosevelt ia likely to swing a good many Democrats to the Copeland ticket Thia will be so because New York City always has resented outside influences in its political battles. Senator Copeland can be counted upon as well to broaden the charge so that Mr. Far ley’s tentacles in New York City politics where he has long been ac tive will be made to appear like the strangling, crushing arms of an oc topus. In other words, the conserv atives who are supporting Copeland will not let the charge of interfer ence by the President become of less consequence any time it is re told. True, Secretary Marvin McIntyre of the White House staff denied that the President had talked politics with the Mahoney leaders. But the denial was not accepted by Cope land as being sincere, for he added: ”1 am not afraid of Mr. Roose velt's reprisals. The President en joys a great personal popularity, but his political popularity ia swiftly il* appearing.” • Weesai & minimum of effort. In consequence, there has been some very bad legis lation and congress is now wholly to blame for it • • * A friend of mine, a well-known doctor, who is not a politician, knows nothing New York** about politics—a Fight man * ,hort ’ who minds his own business and tries to do the best job of which he is capable, asked me a question the other day that precipitated this discussion. He asked me why the newspapers throughout the country were giving so much space, front page space at that, to the political fight over the Democratic nomination for mayor in New York. My doctor friend observed that which is true, namely, that the may or of New York is only mayor of that city and has no Jurisdiction or power anywhere else; he observed as well that New York City is sim ply a subdivision of the state of New York and that New York state is only one state out of forty-eight in our nation. Further, he sug gested that he. and he believed mil lions of others, could not possibly have any interest in whether Tammany or the New Deal faction of Democrats in New York City should win the nomination and their mayoralty candidate. Superficially, the doctor was right His thoughts, however, do not touch the root of that situation. Fundamentally, the battle between Tammany and the Democrats tn New York is a battle between the old line, conservative Democrats throughout the nation and the New Deal faction at the party which is headed by President Roosevelt It to vilaity Important also to the Re publicans far the reason that the Presidential election af 1969 to bh tonal certain Is be a ramps UP* to wbtrb we will find conservative* from whatever party aligned on ono band and radicals from whatever party aligned a» toe ether side T* tost sotent. toe Hew Yorh primary and toayossNf atoetsen It toe begin- nsng at to* I Mi pramdnanal cane prtpt The toil*reeve feel la patog to pro- end towns neve an has bean green amnefemd at • prevww bp tow sharp* by IsnwSar CspntoadL tow Taoaanany enadsdato ton* P?*» Wans to torn! flghs fisaator CepetaaP* 4***************** : STAR : 1 DUST | {.Movie • Radio * By VIRGINIA VALEfrfr* S AMUEL GOLDWYN is tak ing bows again for suc ceeding where many other motion v picture producers have failed. He has made a new version of an old picture that is even better than the old one—and the first “Stella Dallas” was the best picture of its year, some twelve years ago. This picture is frankly a tear-jerk er, the story of a millhand’s daugh ter who married a gentleman, but could never become a lady. But “Stella Dallas” was fine and cou rageous enough to see to it that her daughter had a chance to be come one of her father’s set rather than hers. Barbara Stanwyck gives a sincere and gripping performance as Stella. If you would rather laugh than cry, Paramount and Twentieth Cen tury-Fox are all ready for you with two mad musical extravaganzas. Par amount’s contribu tion is "Artists and Models” and it stars Jack Benny. Twen tieth Century’s new one is “You Can’t Have Everything." and In it the Ritz Brothers are mad der and merrier than ever. Alice Fay* amgs sad songs and Dos Amec he is a pleasant hero. 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She hopes for better luck In the picture that she Just finished, James Cagney's "Some thing to Sing About.” She plays a comedy role, a sort of female Mischa Auer, and she had so much fun doing it that she doesn’t see why Grand National had to pay her a salary. ODDS AND ENDS — Everyb wondert if francer Farmer's costu in "The Toast of New York" were sponsible for the revival of bustle, the big Paris fashions showings . Benay V enuta, whose songs are popular on the air, got her start d ing in the same ballet with Myrna . . . Burgess Meredith used to sin) the same church choir with La Boss . . . Eddie Cantor eats his lit between scenes on the set these d because he uses his regular lunch h to dash over to the antique store luu bought to see how business is ing . .. Ina Claire’s Sunday night rt dramas on NBC’s blue network growing so popular that maybe won’t come beck to make motion lures, after ell . Gary Cooper bought a ranch for the old cowl who used le work with him ia West to a