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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936 S.i- ■ MAJ ^mneur By Edward W. Pickard © Western Newspaper Union 2m M Vice Pres. Garner “Hunger Marchers” Parade in the Capital A BOUT six hundred men and worn en, members of the recently or ganized Unemployed Workers’ Alliance, staged a big parade of “hunger march ers” in Washington, shouting demands, singing and waving banners. They sought to present a petition to President Roose velt in the W bite House hut the best they could do was to obtain an audience from Secretary .Mar vin McIntyre for a delegation headed by David l.asser, presi dent of the alliance. Lasser declared after spending 30 minutes with the President’s secretary: “Mr. McIntyre gave us a lot of nice words, but nothing substantial. If nothing is done to give these people jobs there will be a hunger march on Washington next summer in which hundreds of thousands will take part. We are tired of Mr. Roosevelt’s prom issory notes.” Lasser and his delegation also called on Vice President Garner at the Capi tol and got even less satisfaction from him. “The Jobless feel that we have been sold out by the Democratic party,” Lasser declared. “I resent that,” snapped the Vice President, reddening. “I have been in politics for 40 years and I don’t think anybody has ever been sold out by the party.” The marchers carried banners and placards with such inscriptions as: “Give the bankers home relief; we want Jobs!” “Slaves will uot be killed,” “We demand employment in surance,” ‘‘Pass the Marcantonio bill,” this being a (J hillion-dollar relief bill introduced by the New York city rep resentative. Labor Says Industry Is Arming for Conflict B KFORK the senate subcommittee on labor appeared spokesmen for or ganized labor with charges that there is a great movement of machine guns, tear gas and police clubs into indus trial centers for use In contending with strikes and attendant disorders. The first witness to tell the story of the arming of industrial plants for con flicts with labor was J. P. Harris, a steel worker from Portsmouth, Ohio. In support of his assertions came a mass of data compiled b^ the senate munitions investigating committee and presented at the heating by Heber Blankenhorn. an employee of ttie na tional labor reunions board. At one point Harris testified that he knew the Wheeling Steel corporation at Portsmouth was “arming,” a state ment that brought from corporation officials at Portsmouth an assertion that company police were armed to protect property against “thieves and firebugs, and they will continue to be armed." At another point in the hearing three was testimony that general “rumors” were being circulated that the Ford Motor company was “shot through" with spies, hired to report on the ac tivities of labor. Maryland Young Democrats Hear Mr. Roosevelt P RKS1DKNT ROOSKVKLT. accom pahied by Mrs. Roosevelt, attended Faster services at St. Thomas Kpisc<*- pal church, after the First iJtdy bad witnessed the Knights Templar sun rise nervice at the Arlington amphi theater. Next day the President went to Raltiniore where lie addressed ihe Maryland Young Democratic clubs. Mr. Roosevelt accepted an invitation to speak before the annual convention of the Daughters of the American Rev olution which opens in Washington April *20. lie also will deliver an ad dress on April 25 at the JelTerson ban qnet of Ihe National Democratic club in New York city. m' - Death of James M. Beck Is Loss to Nation S UDDFN death, due to a coronary thrombosis, came to James M. Reck ' at his residence In Washington, and all informed Americans mourn the demise : of this public spirited citizen and eminent authority on const!in tional law. Though he was ft Sturdy and ton scientlous oitiament of the present national administration, lead ing officials In Wash Ington united wlih the Republicans in declar * ing that In Ids death the nation had sus talned a great loss. Mr. Beck was not only one of the foremost lawyers of America but for more than three decades was a public man of distinction, holding numerous otlices at Washington, and an lidlocn lial place in the counsels of the Re in party. Born in Philadelphia Jl.. he Ijrst held ofiice as United altornpy for the eastern district j. M Beck of Pennsylvania, as a Democrat. He left that party on the silver issue and was made an assistant attorney gen eral by President McKirrtey. In 1921 Mr. Harding appointed him solicitor general, an office which he filled with distinction. He then served three terms in congress, where he was one of the best debaters, and retired in 1934 be cause he thought congress had become a “rubber stamp.” Since then he had been prominent in the legal attacks on various phases of the New Deal. Richard Yates, former governor of Illinois and former congressman, died in Springfield at the age of seventy-five years. The son of the Civil war gov ernor of the state, Mr. Yates was for many years a picturesque figure in Illi nois politics and an influential mem ber of the Republican party. League of American Nations Proposed I N THEIR formal acceptances of the invitations of the United States gov ernment to the forthcoming inter-Amer ican peace conference, three of the Latin American nations have proposed that a league of American nations be formed to preserve peace in the west ern hemisphere. The suggestion comes from Presidents Alfonso Lopez of Co lombia, Jorge Ubico of Guatemala and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Re public. They believe the proposed league would be not only a means of preventing war in the New World but also would be an effective adjunct to organizations working to preserve peace in all the world. i Congressmen Working on Taxes and Relief C ONGRESS settled down to earnest work that would clear the way for early adjournment, the two chief mat ters under consideration being taxes and relief. Demo cratic members of the house ways and means committee worked in executive session to draw up the new rev enue measure which they expect will yield about $799,000,000 in additional taxes during the next year. The mi nority members stayed away, scornfully as- Harry L. sorting their presence Hopkins was useless because the preparation of the measure was utterly portisan. Representative A. P. Larnneck of Ohio, Democrat, was insistent on his plan to raise $.">00,000,- 000 by a flat 20 to 22 per cent tax on corporation income. Harry L. Hopkins, head of the WIVA, appeared before a subcommittee of the house appropriations committee, also in executive session, to urge compli ance with President Roosevelt’s re quest for an additional billion and a half to finance relief In the 1937 fiscal year. Various committee memi>ers at once demanded that Mr. Hopkins tell what had been done with the $i,S00,- 000.000 granted last year. The committee extracted from Mr. Hopkins a reluctant promise that re lief funds will not be spent hereafter on projects not approved by congress, these Including especially the Florida ship canal and the Passamaquoddy tidal power experiment. Hagood Given Command of Chicago Area F OLLOWING a conference with Maj. (Jen. Johnson Hagood, who was re moved from command of the Eighth corps area for criticizing WPA meth ods. President Roosevelt took the sol dier back into his good graces and ap pointed him to Hie command of ttie Sixth corps area with headquarters in Chicago. He will replace Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy and tin? assignment takes effect May 2. General McCoy is trans ferred to the Second corps area at New York to succeed Maj Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, who is retiring. Calles Is Expelled by Mexican Government P LUTARCO ELIAS CALLES. former president of Mexico and for long the most powerful figure In that republic, was forcibly exiled to the United States, together with three other once prominent citizens, by the Mexican government, which declared their pres ence there was dangerous to the wel fare of the country. Summarily ousted with Calles. who for II years ruled Mexico w-jtli an iron band, were Luis Morones, f.vo»»*r min ister of labor and leader of the refc-' > n- al confederal ion of workers ami peas ants; Luis de I .eon. former ’.sinister of the interior and agriculture; ami Ru fael Melchoi Ortega, former governor of Guanajuato Tlie loin men were, tty order of Pres Ident Cardenas placed aboard a plane at Mexico City and taken across the border to Brownsville, Texas From there they took another plane to Call fornla Leftist* « harge«l ihal Calles and tils associates were fomenting agitation against the Cardenas administration This Calles denied, adding: “A slate of anarchy exists in Mexico and com munism is spreading with government help.” Spanish Parliament Ousts President Zamora S OMETHING new in Spanish history took place in Madrid. The parlia ment, by a vote of 238 to 5, ousted Niceto Alcala Zamora from the office of president of the republic. This ac tion, accomplished by a coalition of Socialists, Communists, Left Republi cans and ten minor groups, was taken on a Socialist motion that the presi dent had acted illegally in dissolving the last parliament before the elections and that therefore be should be ex pelled from office. Diego Martinez Barrio, speaker of parliament, was made temporary pres ident to serve until elections are held. Black’s Lobby Committee Wins Court Decision S ENATOR BLACK’S lobby commit tee won a considerable victory in the District of Columbia Supreme court when Chief Justice Wheat refused to ^ enjoin the committee from using the tele grams from and to Wil liam R. Hearst which had been seized. The judge held that the court had no jurisdic tion over the commit tee, and said lie could not gee that the free dom of the press was in any way Involved. Said Ids honor: Senator Black „j j iave no f j )een i n . formed yet of any case in which any court lias assumed to dictate to a com mittee of the senate what it should do and what it should not do, and I do not feel that I have any right to inau gurate any such principle as that.” Elisha Hanson, counsel for Mr. Hearst, announced that he would ap peal from the decision, and it was certain that the case would ultimately be taken before the Unitel States Su preme court. Continuing its Investigation, the Black committee heard the testimony of Fred G. Clark of New York, na tional commander of the Crusaders. Mr. Clark denied that the organization had ever engaged in lobbying, and de clared that it had assailed the meth ods of lobbyists in a national radio broadcast. Japanese Arrest Five Mongolian Officials H EADQUARTERS of the Japanese army in Manchukuo announced that five Mongolian officials high in the service of the Manchukuan govern ment had been arrested on the charge of being secret agents of Soviet Rus sia and would be court-martialed. One of them Is Lin Sheng, governor of Northern Hsingan province. It was asserted that the officials were accused of conniving with the Russian government and of supplying to Russia and Outer Mongolia military information which was used advan tageously by both of Manchukuo’s neighbors in recent frontier clashes. Eleven Persons Killed in Air Liner Crash F LYING through a fog on Its way to Pittsburgh, a Transcontinental and Western air liner went far out of its course, plowed through the for est seven miles southeast of Union City, Pa., and smashed into a granite wall on Chestnut Ridge. Nine pas sengers and two pilots were killed. The stewardess, Miss Nellie Granger, man aged to drag one man and the sole woman passenger from the flaming wreckage, hound up their wounds, ran four miles to a farmhouse from which she telephoned to Pittsburgh the news of the disaster, and then returned to the scene to care for the survivors un til a rescue party could arrive. The pilots were flying on a radio beam, and it was believed their radio failed. Tangle of Diplomatic Rivalries in Europe M USSOLINI’S African adventure and Hitler’s Rhineland doings and future intentions, tangled togeth er. have created a situation that seemed to imperil the formal friend ship between Great Britain and France. The British were Insisting Hint Italy he curbed, that her use of poison gas in Ethiopia he taken up by the League of Nations and that peace negotiations between Italy and Ethi opia he opened quickly to forestall any attempt by Premier Mussolini to sign a settlement which might rise from ruins of Haile Selassie’s Efhi oplan empire. Foreign Secretary Eden Indicated the British were determined to make peace progress “before we leave Geneva.” The conelliatlon 'committee of the league was making little or no prog ress, ami In Rome Mussolini told his cabinet that Ethiopia's armies should and would lie “totally annihilated.” His own forces, meanwhile, were mov ing rapidly toward Dessye and Addis A Italia. France was reverting to her for mer policy of letting Italy go ahead with Its African conquest, devoting her attention mainly to Germany and cen tral Europe. The British continued to treat all that in a conciliatory way, which disgusted the French. Premier Sarraut handed In his government’s reply to the Hitler settlement pro- posals. suhinttting in return Its own plan. This demanded that Germany keep “hands off” the rest of Europe tor 2f* years, renouncing her apparent intentions of action against Austria, Danzig and Memcl, and claims for colonies. It submitted a French peace plan based on “collective security” witli regional mutual assistance pacts hacked by an international army di rected by a commission working through (lie league. y jlli iiftfitttT Irvin S. Cobb about: S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Maybe the English have the right idea. The Reds spout as they please—so long as they stay off the radio and take it out in spouting. There’s a story in point: In Hyde Park where the crack pots and clack-jaws speak their pieces, an impassioned radical is In full eruption. Be ing a hater of kings, he would drive the royal family forth and set fire to their official London residence. A heckler quarrels with the orator; the crowd joins in, about equally divided, trouble im pends. A large calm policeman plows through the jam. “ ’Ere, now!” he commands. “All them as is going to burn down Buck- ingham palace form on this side, please. All them as is not going to burn down Buckingham palace kindly form on that side.” When you start people laughing at an agitator you’ve killed him colder than though you used an ax. I wish we’d club in and laugh some of our half-baked Communists to death. But for desperate cases we might keep an ax or two handy. * * * Rise of Landon Boom. A S ONE state delegation after an ofher swings toward Landon, his campaign managers are as optimistic as a seed catalogue. To be sure, taking the first heat doesn’t necessarily mean your nag will win the county trophies, but it certainly does cheer up the sta ble-hands—and sometimes starts a stampede for front seats in the grand stand. For once in G. O. P. history the rank and file shun a brother from the Atlantic seaboard as though he were a pesthouse. At the ensuing convention It looks as though all the easterners will get will be the seconding-the-motion conces sion. And yet I can remember when, if you called a fellow a Wall Street Re publican, you didn't have to smile as you said it. • * * War Debt Specters. F IVE and a half million European troops are drilling and seven mil lion more are practically ready for service, more by one million and a half than there were in 1914, when the last big mess broke out. Those Americans who are being griev ously taxed because the powers won’t pay back what they have owed us since the armistice for refinancing and re habilitating their own lands—and that, one way or another, includes every liv ing soul In this country—are invited to save up these statistics for use next time they meet one of those gentle souls who’d cancel these mounting for eign debts. Not war debts, mind you. but peace-time debts. So let’s call them by their right name as we sing: “I didn’t raise my dough to arm a soldier hut by golly that’s what happened to it.” * » • Idlers on Relief. A T LAST we know wherein the League of Nations really func tions. It keeps a good set of statistics. It says that in the world are 24,000.000 unemployed, and of this total more than half are in the United States. Since we are spending more govern ment funds to aid the idle than any country, can it he there are persons among us who prefer staying on relief projects to taking regular Jobs? Next time I pass a public works un dertaking I’m going to put the ques tion to some able-bodied party who, if he’s following the frequent custom, will he whiling away the hours be tween meals by genlly fanning himself with a shovel. A pick handle, as I’ve often observed on one road-digging operation that’s being financed by Uncle Sam. comes in handy for leaning purposes, but the shovel is preferable for fanning. * • * Kentucky Colonel. O UT here they’ve found a mail-or der theological mill which, for $10. ordains you to preach, christen, marry, bury, and—oh. goodie—take up collections. Mickey Mouse lately lost Ids commission as a Kentucky colonel, hut on behalf of Joe Benner’s duck somebody wrote in and he became the Rev. Drake Googoo. D. D. Tims are honors balanced in this world. Re'ently. when the present bumper crop of Kentucky colonels was plowed, under, we natives stayed calm. No body takes away our titles—we were born with ’em. In my youth, anybody good at guessing flic weight of hogs was called ‘‘Judge.” and a man who cured warts with stump water was “Doctor,” and all the rest of us auto matically were colonels, except one chap who was a major on account of having so many major operations. Boor fellow, he died before he attained his life’s ambition. He wanted to run somebody’s general store and he a general. IRVIN S. COBB •oi>\ right—W NU Service Remove Splinter From Brain A soven-eighths-lncli splinter was re cently removed from the brain »f a Canadian hoy. It Is believed he will ful’v recover. m., . : '• 'A.:? W'Ti. Charlie Chaplin I STAR f | DUST | ★ jMovie • Radio * ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ A RMIDA, the fascinating little “ Mexican girl who has made a name for herself on the screen, the stage and the air (at present she’s heard from coast to coast on the “Paris Night Life” program), re cently returned from Hollywood to New York with a lot of information about the radio programs which screen stars like best. She’d been mak ing shorts in the movie center, but she checked up on the broadcasts between times. She found that Charlie Chaplin doesn't listen to the radio comedians; lie likes the broadcasts of symphony concerts, and the songs of Law rence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas and Nino Martini. Bing Crosby likes to hear Dick Bowell sing; he listens to Rudy Val- lee’s broadcasts, too, and to Jessica Dragon- ette. Joan Crawford will take dance music every time. And Clau dette Colbert, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire rarely fail to listen to Major Bowes’ amateur hour. Marlene Dietrich got what she want ed again. After fussing with Para mount over “I Loved a Soldier,” and announcing that she’d' go to Europe as fast as she could get there, to make a picture, she stayed in Hollywood, did some effective talking, and landed the role of leading lady in “The Gar den of Allah,” which Merle Oberon was supposed to make. Which means that now there’s even less love lost be tween the two. Miss Oberon probably will do “Dark Victory” now. Doris Dudley, whom you’ll see before long in an R K O picture, believes that you’ve got to be goofy if you’re going to get along either on the stage or on the screen. As she’s a remarkably clever actress, (though she lias had very little experience) she is likely to become one of our most important movie stars—so don’t miss her first ap pearance on the screen if you like to be in pn film history. —X— Ann Sothern had a grand time In New York, where she once appeared in musical comedy as Harriet Lake. Like all new arrivals from Hollywood, the one play she wanted to see was “Queen Victoria,” Helen Hayes’ current success. And like all the others, she left cheering. She is so pretty that people turn on the street to stare at her; they don’t recognize her, as a rule, but she has no illusions about her own great ness so that doesn’t bother her—and unlike some of her co-workers, she doesn’t go in for dark glasses and oth er similar invitations to be recognized as a celebrity. Fred MacMurray seems to he the fair haired boy on the Bnramount lot these days — perhaps because Gary Cooper seems inclined to sign with Samuel Goldwyn when his present con tract expires. Fred ha> a new seven-year con tract, and is slated to make three picture- that were originall> intended for the la conic Mr. Cooper. —k— Jean Barker’s mar riage startled a lot of people; she was honey mooning with her bridegroom, a young newspaper man, before most people realized that site knew him. If yon want to congratulate her. address her as Mrs. George E. MacDonald. They have four pictures lined up for Eleanor Powell when she feels well enough to begin work again, and how she dreads them! She feels that she gave everything she had in her first one, and doesn’t see what she can do r.ow that will interest those of us who sit out front. Frank Liprkcr, whom you’ve heard on the air in any number of programs, is said to receive more proposals than any other radio star. He claims that they’re attracted not by his romantic tenor voice, or by his personality, hut by ids salary ; it runs into four figures eacli week. —k— ODDS A\n E\US . . . Dolores Del Rio is on her tvuy to England to make m t picture for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. .. . Grace Moore also sailed, still talking about having to work with a cow in her latest picture . . . H alt Disney- is still searching for amateur artists whom he can train to work for him . . . Stoopnagle and Rudd will take Fred Allen's place on the air this summer ... If you like “Ihe Ghost Goes West'' you're in good com pany; Fx-King Alfonso of Spain saw it in Far is, and liked it. too . . . Harold Lloyd is a howling enthusiast . . . And his “The Milky H ay” Ls one of the fun ■tiest pictures he ever made. & Western NewuDHAjei Union 31 Fred MacMurray Disobedient Boy of 13 H^mgg Self After Being Sent Bed Glenn Halberg, thirte£n-year-old farm boy, of South Beiyd Ind., be lieved to have become^ despondent over being sent to bed for bis re fusal to w&sb dishes, hanged himself. Sheriff’s officers said the body was found suspended from rafters in the upper story of a neighbor's house where the youth had been staying while his parents visited in Chicago. The boy had become morose over his parents’ absence. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Plerce’a Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach.—Aav^^^.’ Penalty of Fame When one achieves fame, one loses privacy. 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