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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936
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By Edward W. Pickard
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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★★★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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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