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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
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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.
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* ^ 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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.