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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1937 News Review of Current Events LION'S TAIL TWISTED British Soldiers Are Killed by Japanese . . . English Ship Is Sunk by an Italian Bombing Plane Friends of the duke of Windsor when he was prince of Wales and Edward Yin, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sims will be hosts of the duke and his duchess during their forthcoming visit to Washington. Mr. Sims is an attache of the British embassy. ^u^lunsJui US. t r ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLE SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK • Western Newspaper Union. British Are Enraged JAPAN and Italy have been vig- orously twisting the tail of the British lion, and if they keep it up, that mighty beast may be stirred to action. Within a few days five Brit ish soldiers were killed and a num ber wounded by Japanese shells in the fighting at Shanghai. The Eng lish there charged the killings were deliberate, in retaliation for the aid the British gave a “suicide battal ion” of Chinese in escaping from a warehouse in Chapei, the native quarter, to the international settle ment. The British and Japanese admirals had a hot dispute over the right of the former to prevent the passage of Japanese launches up Soochow creek. Soon after the Japanese began shelling the residential area of the settlement and an outpost where English soldiers were quartered was destroyed. Continuous shelling of Shanghai by the invaders endan gered the British and American lines on the border of the interna tional settlement and shells fell • close to the American warship Au gusta, Admiral YarnelTs flagship. Japan is angry over the alleged help Britain is giving China in the warfare and there is a movement in Tokio to break diplomatic rela tions with London. This is urged by the “council on the current situa tion,” an unofficial body composed of high army officers, political leaders and other influential per sons. The council adopted a reso lution warning that unless Britain “reconsiders its improper attitude” Japan may be forced to take cer tain steps of “grave determination” against Britain, despite the “deep friendship existing between the two countries for the last sixty years. Japanese troops invaded a part of the international settlement guarded by American marines and seized a Chinese junk loaded with rice. General Beaumont, comman dant of marines, immediately en tered a protest and the Japanese apologized but the marines did not consider the incident closed because the Japs didn't return the junk. The British government was not expected to take any action that would further anger Japan lest it should endanger the success of the parley in Brussels. But wise ob servers do not believe the nine- power treaty conference will have any definite results. —*— Morocco Uprisings RATIONALIST uprisings in French Morocco, which have been giving the French government a lot of trouble, are blamed on agents of “a foreign totalitarian power,” meaning Italy. The disorders, main ly in Casablanca, Fez and Medina, were quelled by troops, mostly Sen egalese legionnaires, and hundreds of arrests were made. Authorities said investigation showed many of the natives had been paid from 10 to 20 francs to take part in the demonstrations. The nationalists plotted to set up an independent Arab state with Moulay Allal El Fassi as king. —■¥— More "Piracy" JTALY’S latest twist of the lion’s * tail came in the form of the bombing and sinking of the British steamer Jean Weems in the Medi terranean by a “pirate” airplane. The London Daily Herald’s Barce lona correspondent reported that the Spanish loyalist government as serted that the plane bore markings M. S. Eccles showing that it was piloted by Bruno Mussolini, son of the Italian premier. The pilot gave the freighter’s crew only five minutes to take to life boats and then sank the Weems with bombs. The British battle cruiser Hood was sent at full speed from Palma, Majorca, to Barcelona to' investi gate the attack. In parliament the critics of the government, led by David Lloyd George, demanded a stronger Brit ish Mediterranean policy. Lloyd George flayed the government for bolstering up the international com mittee on nonintervention in Spain, whose history after 14 months he de nounced as “discreditable and dis honorable.” —*— Budget Conference W HILE members of congress were beginning to move to ward Washington for the extraordi nary session, President Roosevelt in his Hyde Park home was busy planning means of carrying on the gov ernment program. Especially was he interested in the budget, and related financial matters, and to advise on this he called in Marri- ner S. Eccles, head of the federal reserve system. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell already were there, and all listened closely to Mr. Ec cles' talk concerning current busi ness conditions and the stock mar ket situation. An immediate problem before the President and his budget advisers was financing a proposed loan on corn, to help farmers hold their com past the present period of low prices. Morgenthau and Agricul ture Secretary Wallace have been studying possible means of financ ing that government aid program, without increasing the treasury def icit beyond the last estimate of $695,000,000. It was decided by the President that the Commodity Credit corpora tion should provide $85,000,000 for the corn loans, obtaining the money from the RFC and repaying the latter agency when congress makes the necessary appropriations. Sec retary Wallace said the com loans would be about 46 cents a bushel. Wallace Plan Attacked S ECRETARY WALLACE’S “ever normal granary” plan is “politi cally inexpedient, economically un sound, and fundamentally unwork able,” according to the Cash Grain association of Chicago which sub mitted a brief to a senate sub committee at a hearing in Spring- field, 111. “The application of artificial means to solve this national prob lem cannot but prove disastrous to the producer, consumer, and to all lines of commerce and industry,” the brief said. —¥■— Miss Roche Quits Treasury X/IISS JOSEPHINE ROCHE, first woman to be an assistant sec retary of the treasury, has resigned that post and returns to the pres idency of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company of Denver. The position will be left unfilled, for the adminis tration hopes she will resume it lat er. She was appointed by President Roosevelt three years ago. Irvin S. Cobb S^_about: Species of Candidates. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—It takes all kinds of candidates to make up this world. Maybe that's why the world seems so overcrowded. There’s the candidate who belongs to all the secret orders; if he left off his emblems, he’d catch cold; knows every grand hailing sign there is; hasn’t missed a lodge brother’s fu neral in years; can hardly wait for the next one to die. No campaign complete without him. Candidate special izing in the hearty handshake, the neck- embrace, the shoul der-slap, the bear-hug, the gift of remembering every voter by his first name, and the affectionate inquiry regarding the wife and kiddies. When he kisses a baby, it sounds like somebody taking off a pair of wet overshoes. Usually has a weath erbeaten wife needing a new hat. Strutty candidate who’s constantly leading an imaginary parade of 50,000 faithful followers. Loves to poke his chest away out and then follows it majestically down the street. A common or standardized species. • • • Biblical Wisdom. JN THE Book of Nahum, Chapter II, I came upon this verse: “The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.” Those Old Testament prophets certainly peered a long way into the future. Because I traveled by night through a main thoroughfare leading from Los Angeles to the sea and vice versa, and I knew what Nahum was describing. But not even an inspired seer of the Bible could imagine a record of traffic mortality so ghastly as the one we’ve already compiled in this year of grace 1937 A. D. (automo bile destruction)—or a people so speed-mad. • • • How to Fight Japs. W HENEVER we have a Jap anese war scare, I think of Uncle Lum Whittemore, back in west Kentucky, who loved to dis pense wisdom as he hitched one practiced instep on a brass rail and with his free hand fought the resi dent flies for the tidbit of free lunch which he held in his grip. One day a fellow asked Uncle Lum, who had served gallantly in the Southern Confederacy until a very hard rainstorm came up, what he’d do if the yellow peril boys in vaded America. “I’d hunt me a hollow tree in the deep woods,” he said. “Yes, son, the owls would have to fetch me my mail. I been readin’ up on them Japs. They’re fatalists.” “What’s a fatalist?” demanded someone. “Near ez I kin make out,” stated the veteran, “a fatalist is a party that thinks you’re doin’ him a deep pussonal favor when you kill him.” • • • Hollywood Fashions. ^ OME envious style 'expert says Hollywood fashions are too gar ish. If he’s talking about Hollywood males, I say they’re just garish enough. If they were any more garish than they are, visitors would have to wear blinders, and if they were any less garish, Italian sunsets would stand a chance in the com petition. And I want the champion ship to stay in America. Billy Gaxton picks out something suitable for a vest to be worn to a fancy dress party and then has a whole suit made out of it. Bob Montgomery’s ties are the kind that I buy in moments of weakness and then keep in a bureau drawer be cause I’m not so brave as Bob is; and also I keep the drawer closed because I can’t stand those sudden dazzling glares. And Bing Crosby is either color-blind or thinks every body else is. But his crooning is mighty soothing. And so it goes— red, pink, green, purple, orange, sky-blue and here and there a dash of lavender. Our local boys gladden the land scape with the sort of clothes I’d wear, too—only my wife won’t let me. Stop, look, listen! That’s our sartorial motto, and these jealous designers back east can kindly go jump in a dye-pot. IRVIN S. COBB. C—WNU Service. Home of the Celt Little reference is made to Brit tany in the ancient classics, save that Pliny speaks of it as the “Look ing-on Peninsula,” with its eye and vision set upon the Atlantic, and Caesar tells something of the fight ing qualities of the Veneti who in habited the southwestern seacoast. As is well known, it is the home of the Celt, and neither the highlands of Scotland nor the west of Ireland, nor Wales can produce a finer type of that ancient race that dowered Europe with a civilization long be fore Homer sang of the Greek gods. ILTERE’S something new in the way of triple-threats, Milady: This trio of smart contestants in the thrilling game of Sew-Your- Own! With all three in your ward robe you’ll know stadium style, classroom coquetry, and sorority chic. Best of all, you won’t spend a king’s ransom nor a “long stretch” in their making, thanks to the economy and simplicity of these modern Sew-Your-OwnsI Sorority Chic. 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