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s McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938 AW* Review BLACKLISTED BY LEWIS More Than Forty Democratic Congressmen Marked For Opposition by His Political Agency ■Si mm Vincent Meyer, farmer ot Johnson county, Kansas, received the first crop insurance policy issued by the Federal Crop Insurance corporation. Left to right in the picture above are: Donald Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, Rita, i James, Joseph and Vincent Meyer, Roy M. Green of the Washington bureau of the corporation, and Roy Turner, Johnson county bureau super intendent. ~^J^cJLura/ui ftlcJccJui * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK O Wert* rn Newspaper Union. C.I.O. Proposes a Purge iX/f ORE than 40 members of con- ,■*■*■* gress are marked for C. I. O. opposition in the fall elections by a blacklist formulated by John L. Lewis and given out by E. L. Oliver, ex ecutive vice presi dent of Labor’s Non- Partisan league, the political agency of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion. Oliver said the opposition to those named was based chiefly on their , stand on the wage- John L. Lewis hour bill. He indi cated it merely was a coincidence that almost without exception those marked for defeat also fought Mr. Roosevelt’s government reorganiza tion and Supreme court packing bills. Ten of the fourteen members of the house rules committee, which blocked consideration of the wage- hour measure for many months, were named on the blacklist. Chair man John J. O’Connor was not in cluded but Oliver said he was not in favor with the league. Among the Democratic rules com mittee members marked for opposi tion were Rep. E. E. Cox of Geor gia, opponent of administration poli cies in the house; Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia, against whom James Roosevelt and Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran have put up a young radical, William E. Dodd Jr.; and Rep. Lawrence Lew is pf Colorado,. chairman, of the Democratic' congressional campaign committee. The other Democratic members marked for the purge were Repre sentatives William J. Driver of Ar kansas; J. Bayard Clark of North Carolina and Martin Dies of Texas. All four Republican committee members were on the blacklist. They are Joseph W. Martin of Mas sachusetts; Carl E. Mapes of Michi gan; J. Will Taylor of Tennessee; and Donald H. McLean of New Jer sey. Included in the Lewis blacklist are Senators Tydings of Maryland, Adams of Colorado . and Lonergan of Connecticut. Among the Democratic repre sentatives marked • for opposition are Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, A. P. Lamneck of Ohio, Leo Kocial- kowski of Illinois, R. L. Doughton of North Carolina, H. B. Steagall of Alabama, C. F. Lea of California, Fred Cummings of Colorado, C. I. White of Idaho, R. L. De Rouen of Louisiana, John Rankin and Will Whittington of Mississippi, H. B. Cof fee of Nebraska, Sam McReynolds of Tennessee, J. I. Mansfield, Fritz Lanahan and M. H. West of Texas, S. O. Bland of Virginia and Joe Smith of West Virginia. * 'Sneak* Flight Over Ocean r) OUGLAS P. CORRIGAN, a young airplane motor expert from California, Wouldn’t get per mission from the air commerce bu reau to fly across the Atlantic, so he started off secretly from Floyd Bennett field, New York, and land ed at Baldonnel, Ireland, 28 hours and 13 minutes later. The remarkable feature of the flight was that it was made in a rickety old single-motored Curtiss Robin plane that was not equipped with navigation instruments, radio or the ordinary safety devices. Cor rigan did not even carry a para chute. Having neither flight permit, land ing papers nor passport, Corrigan laughingly declared in Dublin that he had intended to fly back to Cali fornia but set his magnetic compass wrong and flew in the opposite di rection. His was the sixth west-east solo flight across the Atlantic. In the opposite direction only Mollison and Beryl Markham have been suc cessful. Veteran flyers said Corrigan’s feat was accomplished against odds of 100 to 1. He himself told the people in Dublin 4 ‘it was just dumb luck that I got here.” American Minister John Cudahy took care of the aviator at the lega tion. It was decided that the adven turer should return to this side by boat. British Monarchs in Paris ITING GEORGE VI and Quefen Elizabeth of England went to Paris for a state visit of four days, and this was regarded as a vitally important event politically. Appar ently it was undertaken to let the dictator countries know that Great Britain and France would continue to stand firmly as allies. Britain’s foreign secretary, Vis count Halifax; the French premier, Edouard Daladier, and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet held po litical talks to discuss the world situation during the visit. Every precaution to insure the safety of the visiting monarchs was taken by the French, fully 100,000 police, reserve officers and soldiers being mobilized to look after them. —*— Wheat Allotment TLJ R. TOLLEY,t AAA administra- '*■■■■• tor, announced a national wheat allotment for fall and spring planting of not more than 55,000,000 acres — the mini mum allowable un der the act. The action, which came as the result of the 96T,000,Ot0- bushel yield forecast for this year on a seeded acreage of 80,000,000, came in the form of an order signed by M. L. Wilson, acting secretary of agricul ture. Details to cover the state allot ments on this 30 per cent reduction basis are expected to result in pro tests in winter wheat areas where the seeding will get under way this fall, despite the minimum loan of 59 to 60 cents a bushel announced by the AAA in hope that a sizable part of the 1938 crop will be kept on the farms. “The acreage allotment provided for in the agricultural adjustment act of 1938 puts into effect one more phase of the general AAA wheat program,” Tolley said. “Both this acreage allotment and the wheat loan are a part of the ever-normal granary program. Loans in years of surplus help farmers hold over their surplus for years of shortage. Acreage allotments keep the sur plus within bounds and help main tain prices and income of farmers. “This acreage allotment contem plates maintaining adequate sup plies in this country for domestic consumption, for our usual share of the world export trade, and for ade quate reserves equal to 30 per cent of a normal year’s domestic con sumption and exports.” The order placed the total avail able supply for the current market ing year at 1,147,000,000 bushels, and the “normal supply” level, as pro vided for in the farm act, at 866,000,- 000. " H. R. ToUey Queen Marie Dies PJOWAGER QUEEN MARIE of Rumania, who had been ill for a year, died at her summer resi dence at Bucharest, mourned by the entire nation. King Carol, her son, was at her bedside as she passed away. Marie was an English prin cess, granddaughter of Victoria, when she married Ferdinand, who ascended the Rumanian throne in 1914. She attained international prominence by her activities and led Rumania to enter the World war on the side of the allies. In 1926 Queen Marie made a spectacular five- weeks' tour pf the United States. Insull Dies in Paris C AMUEL INSULL, one-time chief ^ of an American public utilities empixe valued at many millions of dollars, fell dead in the subway in Paris, France. Mrs. Insull, the for mer Gladys Wallis of the stage, was there with him and she took the body to London for burial. Insull came to the United States from England when twenty years of age. After working for a time with Thomas A. Edison he went to Chi cago and began building up his great financial structure. In 1932 his personal fortune was estimated at $100,000,000 and he owned or con trolled various big electric and gas companies. Then the depression came and Insull engaged in a strug gle with eastern capitalists who sought possession of his properties. The great crash ensued in which the Insulls and thousands of others lost enormous sums. Insull fled to Eu rope and was indicted on mail fraud charges. He was arrested at Istan bul, Turkey and brought back for trial but was acquitted. Despite his financial mistakes and misfortunes, Insull was admittedly one of the ablest organizers of pub lic utilities the world has known. Much of the financing of the corpo rations in his control was accom plished through holding Companies and investors for many years profit ed handsomely by his success. He was a patron of the arts and deep ly interested in agriculture. * Wage-Hour Chief TXT’HILE in California President Roosevelt announced the ap pointment of Elmer F. Andrews, in dustrial commissioner of New York state, to be adminis trator of the new wage-hour law. This selection was a dis appointment to the southerners, who had hoped a resi dent of their region would be named. Andrews, who is forty - eight years old, lives in Flush ing with his wife and three children. E.F.Andrews Graduated from Rensselaer Poly technic institute in 1915 as a civil engineer, he built railroads in Cuba and factories in New York, worked for compensation - rating groups, planned civic improvements for the Queensborough Chamber of Com merce, and piloted army planes dur ing the World war. As industrial commissioner, he was largely re sponsible for New York’s “Little Wagner Act,” the state minimum wage law for women, extension of unemployment insurance and work men’s'' compensation. He opposed wage differentials in the federal wage bill, although this feature was enacted into law. Primaries to Be Probed S ENATOR SHEPPARD’S senate campaign committee voted unan imously to investigate charges of misuse of federal and state funds in the Democratic primaries in Ken tucky and Pennsylvania. The com mittee also disclosed that it has been conducting an inquiry into sim ilar charges in, Tennessee. The social security board also has ordered an investigation in Ken tucky into charges by Senator Bark ley that state social security agents are playing politics with pension checks. % Hughes* Great Flight tJ OWARD HUGHES and his crew 1 of four completed their remark able flight around the world when they landed at Floyd Bennett air port, New York, 3 days, 19 hours and 17 minutes after starting • from that place. They had cov ered 14,824 miles and made six stops for refueling — at Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks and Min neapolis. They cut more than three days off the record made by Wiley Post in 1933, but Hughes said after landing that he still consid ered Post’s solo flight was the most remarkable job of flying ever done. On the hop across the Atlantic the time made by Lindbergh was near ly halved. With Hughes, wealthy sportsman and aviator who financed and or ganized the flight, were Harry Con nor and Thomas Thurlow, naviga tors; Richard Stoddart, radio opera tor, and Ed Lund, flight engineer. Hughes himself was at the con trols all the time, but said the robot pilot did all the flying except the takeoffs and landings. Much credit also was given the automatic navi gator loaned by the army air corps. Howard Hughes Japan Cancels Olympics IAPAN evidently thinks the war ^ in China is not near its end. The Tokyo government has cancelled the Olympic games of 1940, dropping all plans to be the host of the world’s athletes. In Tokyo it was said the govern ment’s action was due to the cost of financing the games and to military leaders’ opposition to a growth of nationalism among the Japanese people. It was expected the international committee would meet soon to de termine the next move. London and Helsingfors, Finland, were men tioned a i possible sites for the 1940 games. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK MISSISSIPPI INDUSTRY By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK.—Of wide public in terest is the pressing problem of f . who’s going to en- Louis to or restrain Fight 2-Ton Joe Louis. It has Galento? seemed that all they could do would be to match him against a threesome — possibly Farr, Pastor and Baer. But now there is actually serious consideration of launching him against the huge, bulbous two- ton Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., pub keeper who trains on beer and hot dogs. Tony has never been knocked down, but neither has a hippopotamus or a steam shovel. Built like a couple of hogsheads, he is a morass in which assailants get swamped, like Japan in China. He fights with his mouth open, as if he were catching flies, which is disconcerting to his opponent, as is his flailing, free-style, generally scrambled atjack. His defense con sists mainly in his absorbent quali ties. They cut him to ribbons, but never cut him down. He has had about 70 fights. Dumping Nathan Mann marked his _ . heaviest scoring in i rains * on r i n g # jj e has Applejach flattened A1 Et And Beer tore, L e r o y Haynes, Charley Massey and quite a few not alto gether negligible fighters, but, as yet, no maulers of championship specifications. For some of his 1 fights he trained on applejack, but now says he has found beer is best. In the little family gin mill and spaghetti palace, down by the rail road tracks, he shadow boxes for the customers and yells for a match with Louis. He says he would like to have it barehanded in the cellar, with $10,000 on the doorstep for the man who comes Out. They have a two months’ old baby, who, says his father, never will be a fighter or a barkeeper. “Me—” says Tony—“they had to burn doWn the school to get me out of the fourth grade. I didn’t know my strength and one of my spitballs knocked a teacher unconscious. I’ll make this new guy behave and he’ll grow up to be a professor or doctor. • e • Sir Patrick Hastings, counsel for Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- - - Reventlow in her Lawyer for elaborate and ‘Babs? Wins complicated dis- Big Cases agreement with her husband, is one of the most interesting front page lawyers of London, usually a contender in any exciting interna tional wrangle in which London’s West End or New York’s T»ark Ave nue might be interested. He repre sented Mrs. Joan Sutherland in the slander suit which grew out of gos sip about the Wallis Warfield Simp son divorce suit. It was he who got thumping big damages for Princess Youssoupoff, in the suit over the Metro-Goldwyn Rasputin picture. He won the fight for the Warner Brothers to keep Bette Davis from appearing without their consent. In court, he has alluded to an epi sode when, hungry and footsore, he was turning his back on London, but was somehow flagged back again by an indulgent fate. He was trained as a mining engineer, fought in the Boer war an4 returned to London to precarious years in ‘which he sparred for an opening. He was a journalist, a “leg man” around the grubbiest of the police courts. In his attic lodgings, he studied law and was admitted to the bar—with nice going thereafter. He now has one of the largest professional in comes in England. He was knight ed in 1923 and was attorney general in 1924. He is widely and intimately known in social and literary circles, but draws no class lines in his profes sional work. One of his most spec tacular cases was his defense of the Welsh miners in 1925. He moves into his middle sixties with no let down in mind or person. • • • Sir Robert M. Hodgson is a shadowy but noteworthy figure in Eu- rope’s diplomatic Cagey Job underground. Handed about whom a Sir Robert book ma y some day be written. He is Britain’s go-between in delicate negotiations with Generalissimo Franco of Spain about the bombing of British ships. When he is on a government mission, it is an indica tion that some subtle business is on. He had retired in 1936, but Ne ville Chamberlain called him back as a diplomatic pinch-hitter in this ship-bombing embarrassment. He is the son of an arch-deacon, of some what clerical mien, and was in the consular and diplomatic service for many years. From 1924 to 1927, he was British charge d’affairs at Moscow. He is usually working qui etly off-stage, never in the spotlight. Q Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. The smith still plies his trade in Mississippi. / How Machinery Is Transforming* This Once. Agricultural State •jp.‘ *» Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. ’ACHINES are coming to agricultural Missis sippi. After a morning tour of in dustrial Jackson you scrape from your shoe soles layers of cottonseed oil, pungent creo sote, and clayey bentonite, all caked hard with dried mud from a petroleum well being dug by special appropriation of the state legislature. Twice daily the red and silver streamline Rebel train flashes through the state—past ox teams plodding along sunken roads, new myriad-windowed garment fac tories, Negroes driving ramshackle buckboards—and glides beneath air planes that are heading into the capital’s spacious, four-way airport. Over in Natchez girls in lavender hoop-skirt gowns trimmed with rare old lace sidle into automobiles to drive annual pilgrimage-week visi tors to ante-bellum homes straight from the pages of “So Red the Rose.” Up the Delta a sprightly gentle man of eighty-two years calls his chauffeur to take you in his car to a log cabin still standing on the plantation of 6,000 acres of cotton, com, pecans, and hay. He and his uncle built the cabin only 65 years ago, after they had cleared the land and floated the timbers in from the surrounding forest and the chim ney brick from the river dock 10 miles distant. This epic from covered wagon to limousine in one man’s lifetime is a clue to why Mississippians call their state “the last frontier.” Jackson Is Spacious and Busy. Busy, modern Jackson illustrates the transformation. This city is no. upstart; it has been the state capital since 1822. Stately homes with wis teria growing over columned por ticoes and with crape myrtle on the lawns line wide avenues. Barber shops still are spacious forums of political argument where a southern colonel may doff his broad-brimmed hat in courtly salu tation without toppling over a coat rack. Rooms in hotels, office build ings, and homes knew not the builder who estimates costs in cubic feet. From sidewalks beneath rusty tin roofs you look across the street toward shop fronts with onyxlike tiles, burnished metal, and neon lights. One tall office building with cu bistic floors and chromium elevator doors rises knife-edged to carve an otherwise gracious skyline just op posite a colonial-type home now painted green and occupied by the Salvation Army. As recently as 1920 century-old Jackson still had only 22,817 people; by 1930 it counted more than twice that number; in 1937 a local census estimated nearly 60,000, a rate of growth rivaling that of Los Angeles. The citizens disclaim any boom. The increase, they assert with rea son, is the normal result of several obvious causes. One impetus was the discovery only seven years ago of natural gas which now flows from nearly 100 wells in the city limits, much of it into pipe lines that radiate all over the state and reach even into Louisiana and Florida. Another change was putting through high-power transmission lines—the state had none until 1925 —and the consequent encourage ment of factories in Jackson as well as in many other places. Roads and Cottonseed Oil. Most important factor, perhaps, is the road-building program which gives centrally-situated Jackson an ever-wider wingspread as a shop ping point, and controverts the old taunt that “Mississippi has three big cities: Mobile, New Orleans, and Memphis.” Early among Jackson’s indus tries, naturally enough, were cotton seed oil mills. In the musty archives of the squat old state capitol are ante-bellum laws which prohibited gin owners from polluting streams with cotton seed or dumping it inside town and city limits. No need for enforcing such laws now, when for every 500-pound bale of cotton the planter may sell an average of 900 pounds of seed for about $18. All around Jackson’s “hoop skirts,” as someone aptly called the outlying industrial belt, tall, circu lar warehouses with conical metal tops rise like the oasthouses of Kent’s hop-growing districts. Each seed house stores 5,000 tons or so of cottonseed which awaits the mechanical alchemy that will con vert its parts into horse collars, salad dressing, blotting paper, cheese ( crackers, house roofing, and an amazing variety of other products. Should you be listening to a re cording of Lawrence Tibbett’s voice or Guy Lombardo’s orchestra, you will be indebted to the velvety cot tonseed for ingredients in the phono graph record. The seeds pour first into huge machines which whirl, shake, screen, and pull out all the dirt and foreign particles. The clean seed goes to delinters where the lint fiber is removed and collected to help make felt, absorbent cotton, mat tresses, and even underwear. The kernels, or meats, emerge from a steam-jacketed cooker info hydraulic presses which squeeze out. the oil that will be used to pack sardines, make butter substitutes, soap, and cooking oils. The cakes remaining in the powerful hydraulic presses are removed and broken up to feed cattle and rejuvenate the soil. “Hot Cakes” Wrapped in Hair. Negroes, stripped to the waist, deftly handle the literal “hot cakes,” wrapping them for the presses into mats made of human hair from China, which best with stands the high temperatures. The odor from the presses is like that of hot buttered toast. At. lunch time you see the workers dip their bread into the dripping oil, and eat the oil-spread slices with evident relish. Enter a bathroom of an ocean liner and you encounter Mississip pi composition board; stroll along Atlantic City’s boardwalk or go aboard some British man-of-war and your feet tread the state's yel low-pine planks; contract a cold in London, Australia or Argentina and your prescription is apt to contain pine oil extracted from Mississippi stumps; buy gasoline as you tour Italy or Japan and it may have been • bleached by a distinctive product, bentonite, from the state some people call provincial. A plant at Jackson hauls in each week some 800 tons of bentonite, mined in Smith county. The soft, porous clay, sleek as an alligator’s belly, product of ash from volcanic eruptions of bygone geologic times, is dumped from car to conveyor belt, mixed into a slurry, and treat ed with acids. You must climb a high platform to see the giant drum, covered with fine cloth, which draws the water content through a screen as it re volves, permitting the residue cake to be scraped from the outside. A glass-bottle works at Jackson best illustrates Mississippi as a customer of many states and for eign lands. Tons of old bottles from every where are piled high in the yard to be carried on moving belts to crush ers, then to be mixed with sand . from Arkansas, salt cake from Chile, lime from Ohio, barium from Missouri, feldspar from Colorado, arsenic from Montana, and sele nium from Canada, to make enough bottles every day to supply one for each white family in the state. i You can look, but not too long, through colored glasses into fur- j naces where these products and others from huge bins are melted by natural-gas flames at 2,700 de grees Fahrenheit. Seventy tons of raw materials are shoveled out of the bins for each ' day’s production of about a quarter million bottles. Out they go, in car load lots, toward their ultimate des tinations on drugstore shelves, cos metic counters, nocturnal milk wag ons, liquor cabinets and beauty^ parlor tables.