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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.
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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.
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SIX GUNS
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A Gallos County
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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.
Butch’s kinda surprised and lets
out a hoop and Tom just grabs in
the direction of that hoop.
yi restone,,.
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