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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937
By Edward W. Pickard
© Western "Newspaper Union
Germany and Loyalist
Spain Come Near War
X/fOST of the ingredients of
a good European war were
tossed into the pot by loyalist Spain
and Germany, but it seemed likely
the statesmen of
England, France
and other countries
would be able to
prevent the lighting
of a fire beneath the
pot. To start with,
two Spanish air-
planes dropped
bombs on the
German battleship
Deutschland, killing
23 men and wound
ing 83. The German
vessel, participating in the intema-
tional» naval patrol, was lying off
Ibiza island, one of the Balearics
under rebel control. It replied to
the attack with anti-airplane guns,
and the claim of the Valencia gov
ernment was that the vessel was
the first to fire.
Nazi Germany was tremendously
aroused by the incident and Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler and all other promi
nent government leaders gathered
at once in Berlin. Immediate re
venge was demanded by all Nazis,
so the pocket battleship Admiral
Scheer and four destroyers shelled
Almeria, southern Spanish loyalist
port, without warning, killing twen
ty or more citizens and destroying
many houses. Coastal batteries re
plied, probably without effect, and
after 90 minutes of firing the Ger
man vessels departed.
Germany announced it would no
longer participate in the interna
tional patrol of Spanish coasts until
it could be assured such incidents
as the bombing of the Deutschland
would not be repeated; and Italy
announced it also had withdrawn
from the international committee
and firmly supported Hitler.
The Valencia government assert
ed the Deutschland had no business
being at Ibiza. It also charged that
an Italian submarine launched a tor
pedo that sank the 3,946-ton Span
ish passenger liner Ciudad de Bar
celona 37 miles northeast of Barce
lona. It was declared 50 members
of the crew were drowned and a
number of others injured.
Five Killed, Many Hurt in
Steel Strike Battle
RGED on by C. I. O. organizers
and other agitators, a mob of
some 1,500 steel strikers and their
sympathizers undertook to invade
the Republic Steel plant in South
Chicago and drive out the loyal em
ployees. The rioters were met on
company property by 150 city po
licemen and warned to turn back,
but they replied with a shower of
missiles. The police first used tear
gas, but when the strikers began
shodting they opened fire in earnest
and a desperate battle ensued. Four
men were killed and nearly a hun
dred, including 26 officers, were
hurt. Two days before the police
had dispersed a crowd that sought
to close the steel plant, and later a
fatal riot developed from a meet
ing held to protest that action. Ma
yor Kelly of Chicago upheld the
course pursued by the police and he
and the police commissioner said
the situation could be handled with
out the aid of the National Guard.
Authorities blamed Communist
agitators for the riot.
Loyal workers in Republic Steel
plants at Warren and Youngstown,
Ohio, were besieged by strikers and
were supplied with food with diffi
culty. At first food was mailed to
them, but the government refused
to guard mail trucks in Warren
which the pickets stopped, and the
acting postmaster there said United
States District Attorney Freed at
Cleveland had authorized him to re
fuse packages of food intended for
delivery through the picket lines.
The Republic Steel was continu
ing to operate, but the Inland Steel
and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
corporations, the two other com
panies against which the S. W. O. C.
had declared strikes, had closed
down their plants.
Green Ordered to Press
War Against the C. I. O.
HE A. F. of L. executive coun
cil closed its conference in Cin
cinnati with the heads of affiliated
unions, after directing President
Green to push vigorously the cam
paign against Lewis and his C. I. O.
First steps were to order the Chi
cago and New York labor federa
tions to expel all unions affiliated
with the Lewis organization. Sim
ilar orders were to be sent to all
other central bodies and state fed
erations. The council also ordered
the collection Of a war chest, all
members to pay two cents a month
instead of one cent for the national
federation.
The C. I. O. replied with an
nouncement of a drive intended to
penetrate every industry which has
no organization or where existing
unions “are not taking care of their
members.” An impending contest
between the two factions is for con
trol of the maritime workers.
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
New British Premier
TANLEY BALDWIN, prime min
ister of Great Britain, enter
tained the king and queen at dinner
and then retired from his high of
fice. He is succeeded as head of the
government by Neville Chamberlain,
who has been chancellor of the ex
chequer, and a few other changes
in the cabinet were made.
Mr. Baldwin is to become Earl
Baldwin of Bewdley and sit in the
house of peers. But Ramsay Mac
Donald, former prime minister and
afterward lord president of the
council, who retired from the cab
inet with Baldwin, has declined to
accept a title, presumably because
he didn’t wish to be laughed at by
the Laborites. He probably will be
given membership in the Order of
Merit.
If another war comes, the British
empire will not be caught unpre
pared. The imperial conference in
London turned its attention to this
matter and a special committee was
formed to organize all the empire’s
resources for an instant shift to war
footing if that becomes necessary.
Goebbels Makes Fierce
Attack on Catholics
AUL JOSEPH GOEBBELS, Nazi
minister of propaganda, in a
speech at Berlin that was widely
broadcast by radio, replied to the
strictures of Cardinal Mundelein of
Chicago with a fierce tirade against
the Roman Catholic church. He re
iterated the charges of gross im
morality against priests and monks
who have been tried or imprisoned
in Germany, and charged that lead
ers of the church had done nothing
to remedy the alleged conditions.
The propaganda minister demand
ed that Catholic attacks against the
Nazi regime be stopped, both at
home and abroad. Should they con
tinue, he threatened drastic meas
ures against the church, hinting at
wholesale expulsions of Catholic
clergymen from Germany.
Duke of Windsor Will
Get $250,000 a Year
L'DWARD, duke of Windsor, and
his bride will not have to won
der where the next meal is coming
from; for King George has ar
ranged that his
brother shall receive
a pension of $250,-
000 a year, practi
cally for life. The
money will come
from the crown re
venues, and there
for the consent of
the government was
necessary. This was
granted, and Sir
Walter T. Moncton,
attorney general for
the duchy of Corn
wall, flew to the Chateau de Cande
with the papers for the duke to sign.
It was believed the settlement in
cluded the transfer to Edward of
part of the revenues allotted to
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King
George VI, and heiress presumptive
to the throne, from the duchy of Corn
wall until she comes of age or mar
ries.
In another respect the duke has
lost out. The last act of the Bald
win cabinet was to have the king
announce in the London Gazette that
Windsor was “entitled to hold and
enjoy for himself only the title,
style or attribute of royal highness
so, however, that his wife and de
scendants if any shall not hold the
said title, style or attribute.”
As one step in settling the duke’s
official status, King George has be
stowed on Edward a special ban
ner as a knight of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter. The banner
has a label with a crown on it, sig
nifying that Edward is a former
king. It is hanging in the chapel
of the order in Windsor castle, im
mediately after the banner of the
duke of Gloucester, Edward’s broth
er, which is next to that of the king.
Duke of
Windsor
George F. Baker, Rich Banker,
Dies on Yacht at Honolulu
EORGE F. BAKER, chairman
of the First National bank of
New York and reputedly one of the
wealthiest men in the United States,
died aboard his yacht in Honolulu
harbor, Hawaiian islands, of peri
tonitis. He became ill as the yacht,
carrying a party of his friends, was
heading toward Honolulu on the way
from Fiji. An operation was per
formed at sea but his life could
not be saved. Mr. Baker was fifty-
nine years old. His father, George
F. Baker, one of the greatest figures
in the financial world, died six
years ago.
Golden Gloves Tourney
Results in a Tie
tpUROPE’S eight amateur boxing
champions, from Italy, Germa
ny and Poland, battled with the
eight best of the Chicago area in the
Golden Gloves tourney in Chicago,
and each side won four matches.
More than 21,000 persons saw the
fights. The net receipts of the tour
nament go to charity.
^JkLnhd about
Deporting Alien Criminals.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Wouldn’t it be lovely if the
other states, not to mention the
federal government, followed
the example set by the gover
nor of New York?
He commutes the sentences of for
eign-born, long-term convicts so
they may be eligible
for parole—not mind
you, to go free and
sin some more, but
to be turned over to
the port authorities
for immediate de
portation.
That is, it would
be a lovely idea if
only we could b e
sure that these same
criminals wouldn’t
come slipping back Irvin s# Cobb#
in again. The pres
ent immigration law was devised
as a barrier to protect decent cit
izens, both native and naturalized,
against the human scum of the old
world, but it appears to be more
like a sieve if we may judge by the
hordes of nondesirable aliens who
somehow manage to get in and stay
in and even go on relief, some of
them.
In other words, when we give
these unpleasant parties a compli
mentary ride back where they come
from, let’s make sure it’s not going
to be a round trip.
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Missionaries From China.
ROM Peiping a group of believ
ers in the doctrine of Confucius
are sending missionaries to the
United States. We’ve been sending
out missionaries to their country
for centuries, but that Chinamen
should dare to try the same thing on
us—well, that’s a white horse of a
yellow color.
What if, not content with seeking
converts, these interlopers inculcat
ed among us certain phases of their
heathenish philosophy, such as
teaching young people consideration
and respect for their elders; and
showing that rushing about in a
frenzy does not necessarily indicate
business energy; and that the natur
al aim of man is not always to
worship speed and—up to thirty-
odd thousands a year—to die by it;
and that intolerance as between re
ligious creeds isn’t invariably proof
of true piety; and that minding
one’s own affairs is really quite
an admirable trait?
f Why, native Americans wouldn’t
be able to recognize the old home-
place any more!
I Such threats against a superior
civilization are not to be borne.
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Vanished Americans.
I T’S exciting to prowl among the
ruined cities of the first Ameri
cans, who scattered into the twi
lights of antiquity when the Chris
tian era was still young. They were
our oldest families, older than even
old Southern families—and who ever
heard of a new Southern family or
even just a middle-aged Southern
family?
I But afterwards, it’s confusing to
read the theories of the expert re
searchers who have passed judg
ment on those vanished cliff-dwell
ing peoples, because few such
learned gentlemen agree on any
single point. There is one very emi
nent authority who invariably in
sists that all the rest of the emi-
n e n t authorities are absolutely
wrong about everything. He is the
Mr. Justice McReynolds of the ar
cheologists.
i* After reading some of the conflict
ing literature on this subject, I’ve
decided that a true scientist is one
who is positive there are no other
true scientists.
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Unemployment Statistics.
HANKS to bright young bureau
crats in Washington, we know
how many goldfish are hatched ev
ery year and what the gross annual
yield of guinea pigs is, and the exact
proportion of albinos born in any
given period, but it never seemed
to occur to anybody to compile
reasonably accurate statistics on un
employment.
Yet, with depression behind us
and business up to boom-time levels,
it’s estimated that between eight
and nine million people are out of
work, not counting those on strike,
and judging by the papers there
must be a couple of million of them.
Apparently the more prosperous we
grow on the surface, the more de
plorable becomes the status of
those off the payrolls. It doesn’t
make sense. Or anyhow there was
a time when it wouldn’t have made
sense.
This curious situation puts a fel
low in mind of the old old story
of the chap whose wife had an
operation, and, every day when he
called at the hospital, he was told
the patient showed improvement.
One morning, as he came away,
weeping, he met a friend.
“How’s the wife?” inquired the
latter.
“She’s dead.”
“I’m so sorry,” said the friend.
“What did she die of?”
“Improvements,” said the widow
er.
IRVIN S. COBB
©—WNU Service.
Wide Use of Prints for Sports Togs
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
\X7HEN the world takes a holiday
at the beach, tennis court, golf
course, aboard ship or wherever va
cation lures the playful, watch
prints. We promise you that you
will see prints this summer such as
you have never seen before, armies
of them, droves of them, proces
sions of them!
It would seem as if style creators
are just discovering that if there
is one place more than another
where riotously gay prints lend
themselves dramatically to the pic
ture, it is at the beach and its en
virons. The vibrant blue and green
hues of the sea, the vast dome of
a glamorous opalescent sky, the
bright glare of the sun, the stretches
of golden sand call to the colors,
and to more color and more ift the
fashion parade.
So it is that prints for beach and
for swim wear have become a hob
by with designers this summer.
Needless to say, for the most part
it’s linens and cottons that “steal
the show” when it comes to rollick
ing, frolicking beach and sea-going
costumes. The grand thing about
the spectacular printed linens and
cottons that are so thrillingly en
livening the pageantry of fashion
where sea-breezes blow is that you
can wear them with all confidence,
knowing that they have been scien
tifically processed so that they won’t
shrink and they won’t lose their high
color no matter how wet the water,
no matter how many duckings they
get, no matter how relentlessly
scorching sun rays attack. This as
surance of non-shrinkage and of col
or endurance that goes with mod
ern wash materials has, as a mat
ter of fact, proved persuasive in
encouraging the movement that is
now on of featuring tub prints in a
big way for beach fashions and also
for swim suits.
As to whether you don linen or
cotton in the existent orgy of prints
that is being staged on land or sea
is entirely a matter of choice since
one is declared as good style as the
other. A truly amphibian suit done
in the modern spirit is worn by the
exultant water nymph centered in
the accompanying picture. A swim
suit of this type, made of print, the
patterning of which is as smart and
distinctive as is this patterning and
which is guaranteed sanforized
shrunk as is this print, will do honor
to even the most ultra-of-ultra
cruise wardrobes.
Any girl would look pert and mod
em in the clever sport pajamas here
shown. It is one of the newer prints
that have so much swank and at
the same time so many practical
advantages not only for beach wear
but for house wear as well. This
gaily patterned linen washes like a
hankie.
And do for fashion’s sake see the
cunning play suit to the right in the
group. Yes, you can have a cos
tume exactly like it, buy it already
made or get the material and sew
your own. The new Hungarian cot
ton prints such as have been used
for the making of this fetching out
fit are selling as fast as they can be
measured off on the yard-stick. The
colors are rich and glowing and the
prints faithfully reproduce original
old-world fabrics. The trick is to
make them up in keeping with their
quaint design, in just some such
peasant manner as here shown.
Full skirt of course and rather short
is according to the prescribed for
mula. Tune it to practical active
sports wear by choosing a divided-
skirt pattern. Let the bodice be
backless for comfort and for “style”
on a hot summer day. And to the
entire add a smart bolero to give it
that picturesque peasant flavor
which fashion thinks so well of this
season.
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TIPLESS GLOVES
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Here it is, the latest step toward
chic and toward greater freedom—
the tipless glove, cut to show bright
ly polished nails. The open-air fe
ver, starting with toeless shoes and
crownless hats, has gone to the fin
gers. If your gloves are copper red
as gloves and accessories are apt
to be these days it’s robin-red nail
polish you’ll be wanting. The suit
is of horizon blue, softest feather
weight woolen. The wide revers,
the modified umbrella skirt, the
squared shoulders and the boxy
jacket with its jaunty swing make
this smart street-and-travel costume
as modish as it is practical.
PASTEL LACES FOR
WEDDING DRESSES
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Pastel laces for the wedding gown,
as well as the bridal party’s dresses
are a new note this season, and
one that bids fair to gain in popular
ity through the season. Very pale
pastels are used, so pale that they
are almost white, and yet have a
special shimmer that would not be
attained by plain white. One of the
loveliest of these pastel wedding
gowns that we have seen is of palest
blue linen thread, and the edge of
the train, and the edge of the slit
skirt, are scalloped with the scallop
ing accented by tiny-pleated net in
the same blue. The neckline, too, is
edged with the fine net pleating.
Net, as well as lace, ranks highly
for bridal gowns this season. Silk
net, particularly, is adapted to mold
ing the figure, and when cut on a
princess line, accenting the slender
figure, it makes a truly beautiful
bridal gown. And whereas net veils
are prevalent over lace bridal
gowns, a net wedding dress is best
set off by a lovely lace wedding veil.
One veil that we have seen, over
a net gown, was of lace, and very
short. A bertha collar of lace was
attached to the net train, the lace
forming borders on the sides of the
train.
Summer Velvet
Summer velvet is taking its place
in the sun. The sheer quality of the
fabric with its rich velvet pattern
adapts itself particularly well to
summer wedding clothes.
Gloves
Gloves deserve a whole chapter
in themselves. They mirror fashion
trends as clearly as clothes. Fem
ininity is uppermost.
Flowers Everywhere
Flowers are everywhere. It is
newest to wear two boutonnieres,
one on each lapel of your suit.
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
J OAN BENNETT is so home
sick for the stage that she
has signed up to work with a
Cape Cod stock company this
summer for a few weeks. Some
of the motion picture producers
who have planned busy sum
mers for th«ir players wish that
she wasn’t quite so thrilled at
the prospect.
Her infectious enthusiasm has
sent half of Hollywood scurrying to
their bosses to ask if they can’t
have leave of absence too. Bette
Davis wants to go, but Warners
have big plans for her. Josephine
Hutchinson wants her annual fling
on the stage. And Joan Crawford
and Franchot Tone are acting
mighty mysterious, reading plays
and time tables.
Add one more picture to the cur
rent list of those you simply have to
see. Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer’s “Captains
Courageous” is one
of the finest pictures
of all time. There
isn’t a woman in the
cast, but even the
young girls who
think any picture
without torrid love
scenes is a washout,
confess that they
never even miss the
romantic angle in
this one. It is a story
of the Gloucester
fishing fleet in which Spencer Tracy
and young Freddie Bartholomew do
the finest acting of their careers.
Indeed, it is the first picture in
which young Bartholomew has had
a chance to show that he is not just
a sweet and handsome lad with pa
thetic eyes. He is a grand actor.
As soon as Ernst Lubitsch finishes
directing Marlene Dietrich and Her
bert Marshall in “Angel” he is go
ing to turn actor for a few days.
Long ago when he was an actor in
Germany, his great ambition was
to play Napoleon, and just now it
happens that Cecil De Mille is
searching the highways and byways
for a man to play Napoleon in “Buc
caneer.” Lubitsch got into costume
and make-up, presented himself to
De Mille, and was hired at once.
Executives at the Twentieth Cen
tury Fox studio are disappointed
that the public hasn’t made more of
a fuss over Simone Simon, so they
are going to put her in a comedy and
see if she goes over better. They
are teaming her with Jack Haley,
who made such a hit in “Wake Up
and Live,” in a fast-moving comedy
called “Love at Work.”
Motion picture studio officials al
ways change the subject when any
one asks if their stars really sing
or if some singer substitutes for
them, but radio listeners can rec
ognize their favorite voices under
any circumstances. They insist that
Buddy Clark of the Hit Parade did
Jack Haley's singing, that Virginia
Verrill sang for both Jean Harlow
and Virginia Bruce, and that in
“The Great Barnum” it was Fran-
cia White who sang for Miss Bruce.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has de
cided that he likes the United States
better, after all. While he was in
England, he realized his ambition
to become a producer, and felt so
grateful to the countrymen who
backed him that he thought he
would live there always. Coming
back to Hollywood to make just one
picture, “The Prisoner of Zenda,”
he found when it was finished and
he was free to go back to England
that he just couldn’t bear to leave
all his childhood friends.
Warner Brothers have arranged
to borrow Miriam Hopkins for two
pictures and it looks
as if it would keep
the entire studio
busy for weeks find
ing stories to which
she won’t raise
a violent objection.
Scheduled to appear
with Errol Flynn in
“The Perfect Speci
men,” she flatly re
fused. Instead she
will make a tearful
little romance called
“Episode” supported
by Ian Hunter and
Charles Winninger. After that, War
ners would like to have her in “Sis
ters” with Kay Francis.
Miriam
Hopkins
Freddie
Bartholomew
ODDS AND ENDS . . . Joe Fenner
doesn't mention ducks even once in “Neto
Faces,” which is being filmed by R-K -O,
and furthermore he appears in black face
for the first time . . . Ken Murray always
dresses more conservatively when he shows
up for a broadcast, but around home he
goes in for the dizziest colored smoking
jackets and lounging robes . . . Motion
picture producers are wildly enthusiastic
over the intimate, caressing voice of Rosa
lind Greene who announces Mrs. Roose
velt's radio program, and since they have
heard that she is young and extraordi
narily beautiful they are rushing to her
with contracts for pictures.
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