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/ McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938 News Review of Current Events CHALLENGES THE N.L.R.B. Hoffman of Michigan Will Test Freedom of the Press i • • • Texas Democrats Nominate a Yankee Davi» E. LiHenthal, TV A director, at left, trying to explain to the congressional investigating committee the methods by which TV A “yard stick” rates for power were established. Next to him is J. A. Kurg, chief power planning engineer; and at extreme right is Dr. A. E. Morgan, the deposed head of the authority. U/ * ^ SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK £ Western Newspaper Union. Hoffman Dares N.L.R.B. C LARE E. HOFFMAN, Republi can congressman from Michi gan, has challenged the National La bor Relations board in the matter of constitutional guaranties of free dom of speech and of the press. He sent to the board a letter recalling that the body recently declared the circulation of a house speech by Hoffman constituted an unfair labor practice under the Wagner act. In the speech Hoffman declared that known communists were active in the Committee for Industrial Organ ization and denounced C. I. O sit- down strikes as communistic meth ods. “This speech,” Hoffman’s letter said, “was republished, with illus trations, by the Constitutional Edu cational league of New Haven, Conn. “I am now offering, and intend to continue to offer, to furnish tc any and all interested persons, in cluding employees, employers, or others, copies of this address for circulatiOh at the actual cost of printing, and to recommend that employees might well read this ad dress before joining the C. I. O.” Commenting on the letter. Repre sentative Hoffman said that the board’s ruling would preclude the distribution of newspapers contain ing news items or editorials criti cal of any organization or of activi ties of the labor board. The American Federation of La bor charged in its officiEd organ, the American Federationist, that mal administration of the Wagner act is threatening American democracy. The publication printed an editorial bluntly accusing the National La bor Relations board of promoting the rival Committee for Industrial Organization “which seeks to set up a dual labor movement despite all the social and economic waste which dualism involves. “Every agency of the government that gives status to the C. I. O gives the same recognition,” it continued. “Surely this is not freedom for workers to choose their own unions and representatives for collective bargaining, but union development ’wider government patronage.” * *— Texas Picks a Yankee 'T' EXAS Democrats in their pri- A mary selected a Yankee to be the next governor of the state. W. Ijee O’Daniel, born in Ohio and raised on a Kansas farm, received a clear majority over 11 other candidates for the nomination which is equivalent to election. O’Daniel is a flour jobber. He cam paigned with a hill billy band and a platform ' that in cluded the Ten Com mandments and the Golden Rule, ridi cule of professional politicians, prom ise of a business administration and more liberal pensions for the aged. More important nationally was the fact that Rep. Maury Maverick, leader of a considerable bloc in con gress, was defeated for renomina tion by Paul Kilday, a San Antonio attorney. Maverick is an enthusi astic New Dealer. Kilday says he will not be a rubber stamp. Two other administration backers were defeated for renomination. They were Representatives W. D. MacFarlane and Morgan Sanders. & Third Term Boost G OV. FRANK MURPHY of Mich igan told Democratic leaders of the state that Michigan must keep its mind open on the possibility of a third term for President Roosevelt. Said he: “The welfare of the nation and continued success of the New Deal must come first. If the suc- W. Lee O’Daniel Jesse Jones cess of the New Deal depends on President Roosevelt running for a third term, then we must be pre pared for that.” Murphy’s statement is only an other indication that the third term movement is growing rapidly. Vari ous groups have petitioned the Pres ident to run again in 1940, and Re publican National Chairman Ham ilton says WPA Administrator Har ry Hopkins launched a third term boom the other day when he assert ed that 90 per cent of those receiv ing relief would vote for Mr. Roose velt again. Of course Mr. Roosevelt says nothing about all this, but political observers seem to agree that if the 1940 convention does not appear ready to get together on a candi date who would and could carry on the New Deal, the President might well consider it necessary for him to accept another nomination. Breaking a precedent wouldn’t wor ry him. —* To Expand Business Loans /CHAIRMAN JESSE JONES of the ^ Reconstruction Finance corpo ration announced a new policy for forcing the expansion of business loans, by which competitor banks will be pitted against each other. When a loan applicant ap proved by the RFC is turned down by his local bank an RFC agent will con tact the bank and try to persuade it to participate in the loan. If it refuses the RFC agent then will contact a competitor bank. In its most optimistic monthly business survey of the year, the fed eral reserve board said industrial production is on the increase and available data indicate that in July the index will show a considerable rise. The business summary particu larly pointed out healthy business signs, noting that activitity in many industries was on the increase con- traseasonally. * Hull Prods Cardenas C EGRET ARY OF STATE HULL, ^ out of patience with Mexico, sent to President Cardenas a sharp note protesting Mexico’s failure to pay for American owned farm lands that the Mexican government has seized. Mr. Hull asked that the matter be submitted to arbitration. The sec retary has in this the full approval of President Roosevelt, for the ad ministration feels that Cardenas is endangering the “Good Neighbor” relations between the two countries. Sen. Key Pittman of the senate foreign relations committee also backs up Mr. Hull, asserting that if Mexico refuses to arbitrate she will be subject to economic penal ties. “Mexico,” he said, “then would forfeit all the financial and other voluntary aid we have given her through our spirit of friendship and desire for peace, prosperity, and up building of that country.” * Spanish Rebels Gain CPANISH insurgents started a ^ drive in Estramadura region in the southwest as a feint to prevent reinforcement of the loyalist eastern front, and found the loyalist de fenses were astonishingly weak. So they went ahead in a whirlwind at tack that gave them possession of 23 important towns and villages. The Barcelona loyalist govern ment announced acceptance of the international plan to purge Spain of its foreign forces. Insurgent General Franco was expected to fol low suit shortly and accept the plan framed by Great Britain and spon sored by the 26-nation noninterven tion committee. V: WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON 'hJEW YORK.—The British lion has been taking kicks from all comers lately, but it stiffened up and began looking a lot more her- D .. aldic when the an- Farhament cient bill of rights Shows Spunk seemed to be in- In Army Row Ringed. It was no rubber-stamp par liament which reacted angrily to the army’s summary action against young Duncan Sandys, conservative member, who had revealed undue knowledge of air defense secrets. The government was embarrassed and backed up considerably. The swift parliamentary kick- back was an instance of the latent staying power of the British demo cratic, tradition, as the representa tive body rattled the bones of its late and great libertarians in telling the executive where it got off. The row overflows into impor tant political by-ways, as the tall, handsome, loose - geared Mr. Sandys is both a son-in-law and political ally of Winston Churchill who is pot-shotting the government just now in a po litical no-man’s land. There is a threat of conservative defection to. the side of the still am bitious and powerful Mr. Churchill, with labor and liberal recruits, and, according to close observers of Brit ish politics, some important new alignments may result. Mr. Sandys, thirty years old, is still just a rookie in this league, c , - and, like Mrs. bandy* Is O’Leary’s cow Freshman may not have in- 7n Politics tended to start anything in partic ular. He is, however, an energetic and capable young politician and there are those who say he may be another Anthony Eden in a few years. Running for parliament in 1935, he was assailed by the come ly young Mrs. John Bailey who was leading the fight for the opposi tion. She is a daughter of Winston Churchill. He won the election in a rock- and-sock battle and then, in the chivalrous Eton and Oxford tra dition which is his background, he married Mrs. Bailey. She, incidentally, is a granddaughter of the Jennie Jerome of New York who became Mrs. Ran dolph Churchill and the mother of Winston Churchill. Jennie Jerome’s father was one of the fighting editors of the New York Times in the 1860s. Mr. Sandys, studious and some what ministerial, was with the dip lomatic service until 1933. He is a second lieutenant in the London anti-aircraft force, a son of the late Capt. George Sandys. * * • G REECE never had any luck in trying to get the Elgin marbles back from England. Judging from this precedent, American aviators W'crh* PI tint* haVC 3 l0ng fight Wright rlane a head in trying to Sought by bring back from U. S. Flyers the Kensington Science museum in London the Wright brothers’ air plane of the historical Kitty Hawk cfow-hop of December 17, 1903. Such will be the endeavor of .the newly formed association of men with wings. They will appeal to Orville Wright, who let the plane go to Eng land in 1928, after the Smithsonian institution had tagged the Samuel P. Langley plane as “the first ma chine capable of flight carrying a man.” There is as yet no word from Mr. Wright, who lives and works somewhat aloofly in his office and laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. That twelve-second flight put him in the history books, brought him a string of honorary degrees and gathered more medals than his plane could lift, but all this was marred by the misunderstanding about who flew first. He had been trained in science at, Earlham college when he and his brother made their plane in a bicycle shop. He continued his studies in aerodynamics and his lat er contribution was the stabilizing system which has made modern avi ation possible. Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever in 1912. * * * C TIFF-NECKED, hard-boiled Gen- ^ eral Alexander von Falkenhaus- en, German sparring partner and coach for the Chinese generals until r'U" u/*»» recently, stirs ex- cmna Will citement in Shang- Win, Says hai by predicting Strategist Chinese victory. He says, “I feel sure that China is gaining a final victory and that Japan will fail in both war and peace.” * The general and all others of the German military mission to China are homeward bound, suddenly re called by their government, al though their contract, with $12,000 a year for General von Falkenhau* en, was to have rim until 1940. G Consolidated News Featwes. WNU Service. « SIX GUNS / A Gallos County and *■ Story • CARPET TACKS © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. V/fOST times, here in Gallos county, a six gun’s a-got just a leetle the best of the argument, but there was one time when the difference between two gun toters was a box of carpet tacks. See that tree a-standin’ out there, there at the bend in the road. Well, that’s where they finally lynched Butch Manton. Folks just beared that some of Butch’s friends was a-plannin’ to ride in to town and take him out o’ jail. And Butch a-bein’ a cow thief like he was, they just up and taken him out and strung him to that there tree. And Butch’d been livin’ right, like as not, if it wasn’t for them carpet tacks. It was right here in the Happy Hour where things was a-begin- nin’. Butch was at the bar when Johnnie Rucker comes in and was a leetle slow when he said some thin’ ’bout Butch stealln’ 50 head of steers from Johnnie, but John nie did nick Butch’s right foot as the lead from Butch’s gun went a-tearin’ through his own heart. Course, Butch’d shot Johnnie without givin’ him a chance, but Butch still had that gun in his hand when he backs out of the Happy Hour. ’Fore long after the shootin. Sheriff Tom rides into town and hears bout the shootin’. It kinda hits him hard on account of John nie bein’ a pal of his’n, and he don’t wait for reason why there ain’t been no posse after Butch. He lights out for the Diablo can yon country down close to the bor der where Butch and his gang has holed up for years. Butch oughta gone right on to the border, but he don’t. He stops by the shack, sends them riders of his’n on with them steers he stole from Johnnie and waits back to see if he can’t do somethin’ ’bout that foot of his’n. He’s a doin’ a leetle doctorin’ of his own when Tom rides up. Tom ain’t never been a fool ’fore, but a-thinkin’ ’bout Johnnie musta got him off, ’cause Butch gits the drop on him and takes Tom’s gun but Tom does manage to kick a table over and put out a candle. Along the Highway Don’t let ownership of an automobile rob you of your po liteness. Probably the worst fault in driving a car is believing you haven’t any fault. In these days, on the roads, it’s a case of the survival of the flittest. Thinking about one thing while doing another causes ac cidents. the only light that’s in the room. No sir, Butch don’t get away from Tom and Tom lives to bring Butch Manton right to the jail from which he was taken and hung on that tree at the bend of the road, down yonder. You see, Tom, he’s been out a-tackin’ up signs when Johnnie was shot. Well he’d just brung them tacks long with him, and them tacks is how he catched Butch. He just spread them on the floor quiet-like while he was movin’ around there in the dark and a-fore long Butch steps on" one with his foot that ain’t got no boot on. 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