Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Aerf#* •/ Cmrr+mi Uremia CONGRESS CALLED BACK President Calls for Crop Control Measurt and fha Ragulation of Labor's Wagas and Hours ■all, Davis sad Welle* Color to Coaler With Preeldeat ^jQbhtmJtd U/, JQhckjtUuL >* mnurMaoTTFS i rwr wnm.i SUMMARm loWMteni THE WORLD'S WEEK Uok«. President Roosevelt Special Session Called C ONGRESS was called in ex traordinary session to start No vember 15, and immediately after ward President Roosevelt explained in a "fireside chat” over the radio the necessity for this as he sees it Report ing cheerfully on his western trip, he out lined the legislative program which he declared the Amer ican people need to promote prosperity. These are the five measures he said should be passed without delay: Crop production control to "build an all-weather farm program so that In the long run prices will be more stable.” Wage and hour standards to "make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm prod ucts.” Regional planning to conserve nat ural resources, prevent floods and produce electric power for general use. Government reorganization to pro vide "Twentieth century machin ery” to make the "democratic proc ess work more efficiently.” Stronger antitrust laws in fur therance of "a low price policy which encourages the widest pos sible consumption.” Chairman O’Connor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure. Some Democratic leaders said the labor bill, which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee, would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session. Even that is strongly opposed by southern Democrats and has been condemned by the American Fed eration of Labor. Labor Hits Labor Board S EVERE condemnation of the fed eral labor relations board was voiced in a resolution adopted by the American Federation of Labor in the Denver convention. It was presented by John P. Frey, head of the metal trades department and charged that the board was act ing "without a Warrant or author ity” in interfering in disputes be tween the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and was violating "the spirit and specific intent of the labor relations act, with decided advantage" to the C. L O. affiliates and damage to the A. F. of L.; that the board has sought to "dtatroy the validity of contracts” betwien bona fide trade unions and employers and that such actions were taken “in some in stances with full knowledge of the facts involved”; that the board, in direct contravention of the mean ing of the law, has repeatedly “de nied employees the right of desig nating the bargaining unit and the right of selecting representatives of their own choosing with full free dom.'* Frey fa his speech asked that Ed win F. Smith be removed from the board and that three regional direc tory be dismissed. The convention adopted a resolu tion opposing the pending wage and bangs bill, and one calling for a boy- edl m all Japanese products. Authority was voted the executive bowl to expel finally the ten C. L O. talons under suspension, and Presl- d«t Green announced plans for the on the rival organization in greet Soldo. The first vig- bknr wifi bo struck on the Pacific coact In a drive to organise fa the cannery and agri- nd battle be among the white John L. Lewis C.I.O. Upholds Contracts I N A tumultuous session at Atlantic City 150 leaders of the C. L O. routed a "left wing” movement and went on record in favor of a policy condemning "quickie” strikes, sup porting the sanctity of collective bargaining contracts and pledging co-operation In safeguarding the op eration of these agreements. The delegates also condemned re cent decisions by the national labor board as being contrary to the pro visions of the Wagner-Connery set by which the board was created and approved a four-point federal legis lative program. This program called for a wages-and-hours bill, licensing of all industries operating in inter state commerce, appropriation of sufficient WPA and PWA funds to provide jobs for every American worker, and expansion of the social security act. No Peace for Labor TIT'AR between the rival factions W in American organized labor is not going to cease in the near future. The C. I. O. leaders gathered in Atlantic City for their first "wfer council,” and John L. Lewis, ‘ their chief, revealed plans for setting up s permanent dual organization. He condemned the sus pension of the C. L 0. unions from the American Federa tion of Labor os "cowardly” and "contemptible” end said those unions considered themselves now out of the federation and awaited any further action by the federa tion with complete indifference. Big Battle at Shanghai CHANGHAI was witnessing the ^ fiercest battle of the Sino-Jap- anese war. Land and air forces of both sides were fighting furiously and the casualties were piling up hour by hour. The Chinese were making a great counter-offensive for which they had massed men and guns about the city. The Japanese were ready for the attack, and des perately battled to turn back their foes. Observers described the hand- to-hand fighting as that of madmen, especially in the Chinese quarter. A big fleet of Chinese airplanes was sent down the Yangtse and bombs were showered on the Jap anese warships along the Japanese- occupied shore of the Whangpoo. An American navy radio man, J. P. McMichael of Connorsville, Ind., was slightly wounded by Japanese shrapnel as he stood on the signal deck of the United States cruiser Augusta between Admiral Harry E. Yamell, commander-in-chlef, and CapL R. F. McConnell, chief of staff. American navy authorities immediately entered a protest and tha Japanese commander expressed his regret —*— Brady Gang Wiped Out T AST of the big "mobs” of bank robbers and murderers, tha Brady gang was wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at Bangor, Maine. A1 Brady, the leader, and Clarence Shaffer, Jr., his lieutenant were killed; and James Dalhovor was wounded end captured. The outlaws were recognized by a clerk fa a sporting goods store and tha G-man wart summoned. Dalhover was to be taken to Indiana to stand trial for the murder of a state po- liceman, one of four killings attrib uted to tha gang. Ha made a full confession, and search began Ibr persona who had bean aiding them. The gangsters’ capture was be lieved to have nipped a potential New England crime wavs. Floor plana of two banka were found fa Dalhover’s poasyssiai with aaaps of nearby roods. : Qhjji . Giacinto Aurltl ^ wink* fa go fa fa* effect fa stop Japan fa Chine fa whet other powers, especially Greet Britain, are eager to know. Tht people of the United State* also would like to be Informed In that matter. The British statesmen wish America to take tha lead, and also they would like the suggested conference of the nine-power treaty signatories to be held in Washington. This latter sug gestion is definitely opposed In our capital, and to it was believed Brussels might be selected as tha meeting place. Mr. Roosevelt, who conferred with Secretary of State Hull, Undersecre tary Sumner Welles and Norman Davla, bis roving ambassador, was represented as being strongly a versa to taking a solitary lead in tha action to check the Japanese. Apparently he preferred that the "quarantining” of nations guilty of "international lawlessness” which he proposed in his Chicago speech should be limited to a united inter national moral stand. In his radio talk the President al luded to the conflict in China rath er vaguely, reiterating that "Amer ica hates war” and stating that the United States is going to co-operate with the other signatories to the nine-power treaty in an effort to find a "solution of the present situation in China.” He did not tell just what he proposes to do, but assured his listeners that he could be trusted to do the right thing. The National Council tor Preven tion of War, representing a part of the extreme peace sentiment in the United States, announced that its annual meeting had declared tor im mediate invocation of the neutrality law which the President has not seen fit to put in operation. Italy Supports Japanese T HERE was considerable doubt whether Italy would take part in tha Pacific treaty conference, but it was assumed that if it did, it would defend the course pursued by Japan in China and would do what it could to frustrate the designs of the other conferees. This was assured by the message con veyed to the Tokyo government by Gia- ciqto Auriti. Italian ambassador to Ja pan. According to a Japanese news agency, Auriti promised Kensuke Horlnouchi, Japanese vice foreign minister, that "Italy will never spare general support to Japan.” Japan Denies Violations IN A formal reply to the charges * of treaty violation the Tokyo for eign office flatly denied responsibili ty tor the Sino-Japanese conflict and asserted that China, not Japan, had violated the treaties. The anti-Jap anese attitude and the mobilizing of Chinese troops, said the statement, forced Japan to take military ac tion, entirely in self-defense. Japan disclaimed any desire to annex parts of Chinese territory, and de clared the accusing nations misun derstand the situation. Court Upholds Black F OR the present, at any rate, Hugo L. Black’s seat on the Su preme court bench ia secure. The court refused to permit Albert Levitt, former federal judge in the Virgin Islands, and Patrick Henry Kelly of Boston to contest the le gality of Black's appointment The ruling was announced by Chief Jus tice Hughes, who said the two men did not have sufficient interest in the litigation. —*— Ogden Mills Dies O GDEN L. MILLS, who succeed ed Andrew Mellon as secretary of the treasury and for years was a leader in the Republican party, died of heart disease at hit home in New York. Besides being a financier, Mr. Mills was an able lawyer and busi ness man and had a fine record as a member of congress. He served in the army through the World war. Divorce Rule Stands C HURCH laws against remarriage of divorced persons by Episco pal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years. Proposed lib eralization of the rule was defeated by the house of deputies of the church at the general convention in Cincinnati The deputies voted to continue for another three years tha commission on marriage and di vorce, but the question probably will not come up again for a long time. The defeated proposal would have permitted bishops to allow Episco pal clergymen to solemnize mar riage of persons, who were divorced for any causa, after study of each cast. —+— U. S. Consul Murdered J THEODORE MARRINER, •American consul general at Bei rut, Syria, was assassinated by an Armenian who had been refused a visi for travel to the United States. The murderer was arrested and the pollco said he admitted having act- ad for personal vengeance only. Marriner, who was forty-five years old and a bachelor, was considered on* at the most valuable men in our diplomatic service, which he entered as third secretary of the American legation at Stockholm. At on* time he was chiaf of the western Europe section of the Stst* department about: The Flee* ef Radi*. S ANTA MONICA, CAUF.- *'Deke" Aylesworth says radio can never displace newspapers. “Deke" is with Roy Howard’s newspapers now and naturally wouldn’l care to have his job shot out from under him by a loud speaker. Most of us feel that way about our jobs, unless we happen to be working in some state institution, such as a penitentiary. Radio never can displace news papers any more than milk-tickets can displace milk. The newspaper reader chooses what he pleases from the day’s coverage- gratifying obitutfry notices of people he didn’t like; convinc ing statements from financial wizards ex plaining why his in vestments turned sour after he’d bought them on ad- Irvin 8. Cobb ▼ice of aforesaid wizards; and, about once in so oft- ten, exciting special articles about the Hope diamond or the William Desmond Taylor case or the lure of Mr. Robert Taylor. But, the lis tener-in on radio must accept what somebody else already has predi gested, which puts him in the same class with tapeworms. So long as you can’t wrap up a picnic lunch in a radio or use short wave sets to line pantry shelres with, we’ll have newspapers. Thanks, "Deke,” I’m working tor a string of newspapers myself. • • • The League’s New Head. I TAKE back ail I ever said atom the League of Nations being as futile as a fly swatter 'in a saloon brawl The league has a new president— the Aga Khan, who has the largest private income on earth because 40,000,000 Mohammedans regard him as divine and pay for the priv ilege, often going hungry in order to do so. And he certainly is quali fied to head a society dedicated to peace—he never parted from any of his wives except with the utmost harmony. Well, to celebrate his election, the Aga Khan gave the most gorgeous banquet ever staged in Geneva— 1,500 bottles of champagne and 300 pounds of caviar. Thus did the league justify its right to existence. There were but few flies in the ointment. Ethiopia’s delegates were either deceased or missing, the league having drawn the color line, so to speak, which was more than Mussolini did when he wiped out their country last year. Spain’s delegates likewise were ab sent, being mostly dead or else fighting one another. • • • Sick Calls De Luxe. P AT O’BRIEN, the actor, tells this one about an Irish cop at the crossing who waved a car contain ing three priests to proceed after the stop signal had gone up and then, with harsh words, checked an other driver who sought to follow along, too. "But you let that other car with those three clergymen^ in it go through.” protested the halted one. "They was on their way to a sick call,” stated the officer. "Now wait a minute," said the citizen. ”1 happen to be a Catholic myself and I know about those things. Who ever heard of three priests going on one sick call?” For a moment only the policeman hesitated. Then he snapped: "Say, young feller, tell me this, you that knows so much—did you never hear of a solemn high sick call?” • • • French Slickers. P OLICE are still trying to round up the slickers who, in one day, raided twenty-nine banks scattered ail over France. This reminds a fellow of 1931, when the bank ex aminers were coroners simultane ously sitting on the mortal remains of an even larger number of Amer ican banks, the main difference be ing that these French banks were looted by outside parties. According to dispatches, this job was accomplished through fraudu lent credentials for strangers pre senting forged drafts. But I beg leave to doubt that part, remem bering when I turned up at various outlying points over there with prop er identifications and a perfectly good letter of credit What excite ment then on the part of the cashier (spade beard) and what deep dis tress for the president (trellis whiskers) and what stifled moans from t»)”> board of directors (assort ed beavers) when, finally, they had to fork over. Why you can wreck a perfectly good bank here in less time than it takes to get a certified check for $9.75, less exchange, cashed in a French provincial bank. But should it develop that any of these recently stolen francs were earmarked for payment to us on ac count ef that war debt—brethren, that would indeed be news. IRVIN g. COBB, fa—WNU Service. Washington! Digest Jfa National Topics Interpreted By WILLIAM BRUCKART Washington.—I doubt that there is any phase or function of govern ment that is less Our Foreign understood by the Policy people at large than questions or actions relating to foreign policy. It is easy to understand why this is so. American foreign policy, like the foreign policy of every other nation, ) is closely akin to patchwork. It cannot be otherwise because of the very nature of the matters to be dealt with officially. Foreign policy, indeed, is one thing to which Presi dent Roosevelt’s oft-quoted state ment about his decisions resembling those of a football quarterback can be most properly applied. It is a day-to-day treatment with new de cisions as changes come in the in ternational play. This brings us to the President’s Chicago speech and the announce ment by the State department of American conclusions that Japan is the aggressor in China. Of course, all persons who have read anything about the Sino-Japanese war knew long ago that the Japs were con ducting a raid on China. Officials of the government knew it also, but there is a difference and must be a difference in the methods employed by individuals as distinct from those employed by a nation which repre sents all of its individual citizens. Time had to elapse, therefore, be fore our government or any other could say definitely and publicly that Japan was seeking to acquire new territory by theft and seizure. Many observers and many in dividuals have indicated their sur prise at the President’s speech which, by the way. was the most distinct pronouncement of any that he has ever made. There was like wise surprise when the secretary of state, Mr. Hull, gave the press his statement condemning Japanese ag gression even though the statement should have been anticipated after Mr. Roosevelt’s Chicago speech and after word had come from Geneva that the League of Nations appeared unanimous in the same conclusion. The reason that I say there should have been no surprise concerning the final position which our govern ment has taken traces back to the administration of President Hoover and Henry L. Stimson. then secre tary of state. It was at that time that a fundamental change took place in our foreign policy but it was not a change that appeared to be sensational at the moment. In other words, the position which Mr. Hoover and Mr. Stimson took at that time was overlooked because there was no real crisis to attract attention to American policy. What that change in policy did is plain now. It was the beginning of the end of the isolationist program which followed the bitter contro versy over President Wilson's pro posal that the United States affiliate with the League of Nations and ad here to all phases of the program embodied in the league covenant The reaction against Mr. Wilson’s plan was violent and carried us to the other extreme—so much so that for a number of years we were a lone wolf among nations in fact as well as in name. The one thing that really repre sents an important change of pol icy that Mr. Roosevelt enunciated at Chicago is his view of neutrality. Without making any particular ref erence to the neutrality statute en acted last winter under the sponsor ship of Senator Pittman of Nevada. Mr. Roosevelt announced without equivocation that the United States will do everything it can. short of military force, to curb the Japanese course in China. That is to say, and 1 believe it is accurate, we will not invoke the neutrality laws if such a course will do harm to the Chinese. Rather, the American pol icy for the time being at least in volves working hand in hand with other nations that may be striving to maintain International order and morality in matters in which we are directly concerned. I have been asked several times recently concerning the possibility that the United Keep Out of States may en- For Etui War < a 5 e hi actual war in the Far East. 1 think that eventuality is very far removed. Possibilities always exist for a na tion to get tangled up international ly under conditions such as obtain throughout the world today, yet 1 do not believe that the United States ever will do more in the Far East than exert moral pressure upon the Japs. It must not be overlooked, however, that the bulk of. Ameri can sympathy is with the Chi nese. One cannot tell how far that may lead us as a nation. Nor is it possible to forecast the weight of this sympathy in ap economic way I mean by that, no one can fore tell what such a thing as a boycott of Japanese'goods may mean even tually. From all of this tt must.be plain that our national course in the next few months will have to be deter mined largely by the other fellow. Or, to state the proposition In an other way, the lengths to which the United States will go in punitive ac tion against Japan is likely to be determined, first, by the reaction of our own citizens to Japanese bar barism and,’* second, the moves by other dominant nations of the world. Mr. Roosevelt was returning from an a.OOO-mile trip when he delivered his Chicago speech. That trip was announced in advance as being for the purpose of at, inspection—to see how the country was taking the New Deal. That, however, was not the whole truth. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to feel the public pulse politically on the Supreme court packing prop osition and its related questions; he wanted to find out how the country felt concerning those Democrats who had opposed the court packing; he needed information about the de mand for an extra session of con gress to enact crop control legisla tion and, in addition, he wanted to see what the general feeling was about the Sino-Japanese whr. The trip was timed admirably. It took Mr. Roosevelt away from Washington and, further, away from the red-hot! cauldron resulting from the fact that Associate Justice Hugo L. Black of Alabama was a mem ber of the Ku Klux Klan. The information that filters back from observers aboard the Presi dent’s train presents something of a paradox. Almost unanimously, the observers found that Mr. Roose velt was still immensely popular personally. Concerning his various programs, including crop control legislation, the observers report that they found conditions ranging from violent opposition to plain apathy or complete lack of interest It is a most confusing situation from a political standpoint 1 have found few individuals able or willing to attempt an analysis of it Gen erally speaking, lack of enthusiasm for a program sooner or later will kill off politically the individual who sponsors the program. Yet no one will say. at this time at least that such a result can be expected in Mr. Roosevelt’s case. But the political effect of nis Chi cago speech must not be minimized. Whether Mr. Roosevelt so intended or not his speech demanding that Japan respect treaties and observe the rights of other nations and his pointed criticism of policies such as those employed by Mussolini, Hit ler and Stalin, have the effect of rallying the people behind him. • fa fa Some persons who are opposed to the New Deal have been mean enough to say that Black Mr. Roosevelt took Klan Affair his trip West in or der to get away from Washington until the incident involving Associate Justice Black had blown over. I do not know whether the exposure that Mr. Jus tice Black had been a member of lie Ku Klux Klan alone prompted Mr. Roosevelt to leave. I repeat only what is being said. Mr. Justice Black has now taken his seat as a member of the court. He told the country in a .radio speech before assuming the robes of office that he had resigned from the Klan and that, as far as he was concerned, the incident was closed He stooped somewhat, I think, when he tried to dodge the issue by charg ing that those who had expoted his Klan connections were trying to dis credit Mr. Roosevelt. But, Mr. Black is now a member of the court anc. 1 do not see what anybody can do in the way of unseating him. The reason for adverting again to the Black Klan affair is to make a prediction. That prediction is: as long as Mr. Black sits as a member of the Supreme court of the United States, he will receive repercussions of the case. I will wager now that regardless of what position Mr. Black takes in deciding any future litigation, there will be those who will point to him and remark that "he was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan.” Likewise, regard- lesa of the views or arguments he advances In any decisions rendered by the court, Mr. Black will be re ferred to continuously as "the Klan member” or as “the Roosevelt lib eral.” Take it any way you like—the ap pointment and the confirmation of Hugo Black as a member of the Su preme court under the circum stances now known and affirmed by Mr. Black himself constitutes one of the worst situations yet recorded on the appointive power of the Preii- dent and the power of the senate tc approve presidential nominations. But laying aside all of these things, there is a real tragedy re sulting from the circumstance. If there is one branch or agency of om government in which it is necessary for the people as a whole to have faith, it is in the Judiciary. I think I can foresee that the Black ap pointment and its attendant features will shake the faith of many fadi- 1 * viduals in courts. It ought never to have happened • Western Newspaper Umkm, Way fa As '"pHERE is on easy way to kaafa> a dust from sifting through tha cracks of the ashpit door when shaking furnace grates. Quits a few readers have asked me how H can be done, and I’m sure many more of you will be interested. Here’s how: Have a spray made of small pipe, connected with the cold wa ter system installed in the ashpit tninr\ of the furnace. Only a short length of pipe will be needed. In it have small holes drilled and cap the free end. Just before shaking the grates, turn on the spray. It will throw a fine mist over the whole ashpit, wetting down the ashes as they drop through the grate openings and settling the dust immediately. Then remove the ashes from the ashpit. They will be sufficiently wet to prevent the dust from ris ing and settling in the cellar. The cost and installation of such a spray will be but little, and it certainly will gave you consider able work in dusting off things on which the dust would otherwisa settle. The Lowly Peanut Some 300 useful products havs been made from or with peanuts, it is claimed, including butter, cheese, candies, coffee, pickles, oils, dyes, lard, shaving lotions, flour, soap, breakfast food, lino leum, ink and eve naxle grease. Paper is made from peanut shells. The peanut crop in the United States is worth about $00,000,000 annually. HEADACHE REMEDY STARTS IN SECONDS All people who suffer occasionally from headaches ought to know this way to quick relief. At the first sign of such pain, take two Bayer Aspirin tablets with a half glass of water. Some times if the pain is unusually severe, one more tablet is neces sary later, according to directions. If headaches keep coming back we advise you to see your own physician. 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