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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938 ! Weekly News Review Mistrial Ruling in Hines Case May Be Setback for Dewey —By Joseph W. La Bine New York Long before a racket conspiracy charge was placed against Tamma- nyman James J. Hines, New York’s District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey was mentioned as a potential G. O. P. gubernatorial nominee, even as a 1940 presidential possibility. By the time the state finished presenting evidence in Jimmy Hines’ trial, Tom Dewey’s political importance was pretty well settled. So certain Was this importance that observers tried to find political significance in repeated clashes between the dis trict attorney and Justice Ferdinand Pecora. Of'one thing they could be sure: Justice Pecora’s political back ground was the antithesis of Tom Dewey’s. One-time assistant district DISTRICT ATTORNEY DEWEY He tripped over the poultry. attorney under Tammany regimes, later a New Deal district attorney candidate, still later a member of the securities exchange commission, Ferdinand Pecora had a thoroughly un-Republican background before he was named to New York’s Supreme court in 1935. Political or otherwise, Justice Pe cora has found cause- to sit em phatically and repeatedly on the vig orous young district attorney. Once, when Mr. Dewey pouted that he was being treated like an “inter loper in the courtroom,’* the justice shot back that he resented the re mark. By the time he was through presenting evidence, the 36-year-old racket smasher could rest assured he had built a good case, though his courtroom conduct had sometimes been irregular. As the defense began its case, two abrupt developments threatened Tom Dewey’s attempt to convict Jimmy Hines of conspiracy in Ar thur (“Dutch Schultz”) Flegen- heimer’s policy racket. First, De fense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker asked that the case be thrown out on grounds of insufficient evidence, but Justice Pecora denied the mo tion after a day’s consideration. Few minutes later, the district at torney began cross-examining At torney Lyon Boston, who made an admittedly half-hearted, youthful in vestigation of Jimmy Hines while an assistant under William C. Dodge, Dewey’s predecessor. Un der discussion was William Fel- lowes Morgan, commissioner of markets, who testified regarding the poultry racket before New York’s famed “runaway” grand jury in 1935. Asked Dewey: “Don’t you re member any testimony about Hines and the poultry racket there (be fore the grand jury) by him?” “One moment!” boomed Defense Attorney Stryker. “I move for a mistrial.” The defense contended Tom Dew ey had made unfair reference to grand jury testimony about a pos sible criminal matter with which Jimmy Hines was pot charged. Though the prosecution claimed At torney Stryker had opened the sub ject, Justice Pecora thought other wise. Two days he pondered the mistrial motion. Then, to a tense courtroom, he read a two-hour opin ion upholding the defense. Result: One juror was ordered withdrawn and the state’s laboriously built case was thrown out. Next day, Manhattan wondered whether Tom Dewey’s defeat would cost him a chance to be New York’s governor. A more pertinent ques tion was whether he wanted the job. Biggest worry of Empire state Re publicans who would run him for governor is that no one knows how he stands on labor, utilities, so cial security, relief, civil liberties or budget-balancing. But all-impor tant to voters is the district attor ney’s record of law enforcement. So greatly is he feared that Frank lin Roosevelt is willing to support Gov. Herbert Lehman for re-elec tion despite the governor’s opposi tion to NeW Deal reform measures. Foreign The fact that he became a grand father for the second time was only one reason why British Prime Min ister Neville Chamberlain felt old. To offset a London Times editorial urging German annexation pf Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten popula tion, the prime minister had to speak louder than usual. Lest Adolf Hitler think Britain was capitulat ing, lest France think Britain had deserted her in the hour of need, he told Ambassador Nevile Henderson to give Der Fuehrer another warn ing for good measure. The warn ing: That Britain means business in demanding Czechoslovakia’s preser vation. Thus, armed with latest Czech concession offers, watched by pro- Czech allies that included Britain, France, Russia and Rumania, Adolf Hitler strode on the stage at Nur emberg’s Nazi congress to speak his mind on the subject as he had never spoken it before. His points: (1) That, if they can not defend themselves, Sudetens will “receive help from us”; (2) that Czech President Edouard Benes spread false rumors of Ger man troop movements during re cent Czech municipal elections, thereby practicing intimidation; (3) that, though Germany wants peace with European democracies, noth ing can prevent her from assuring self determination for Sudetens. Actually, Der Fuehrer’s only new assertion pertained to Sudeten “self determination.” Did this mean he favored a plebiscite? That night, as Europe pondered his words, the consensus said yes. Did his speech carry a dangerous threat of war? Most observers thought not, though jittery France had rushed so many troops to her German border that it might be almost embarrassing to withdraw them. Politics In Maryland, Democrats could choose one of three nominees for the U. S. senate. Senator Millard E. Tydings, whom Franklin Roosevelt wanted removed because his New Deal batting" aver age is only .292. By record a polit ical opportunist, Senator Tydings was once a ragged boy on the docks of Havre de Grace, rising to Mary land’s house of delegates at the age of 23. His helper was Murray Van diver, state Democratic chairman who helped him through school, guided him into politics, was later unseated from Maryland’s treasury- ship with Protege Tydings’ aid. A distinguished war veteran, he rose to congress with the help of Vandi ver’s enemies, was boosted into the senate as compromise candidate by Gov. Albert C. Richie and Frank Furse. His favorable New Deal votes: Miller-Tydings price control act on trademarked goods, SEC, neutrality and “pump priming.” His handsome wife of two years is the daughter of Belgium Ambassador Joseph Davies. Rep. David J. Lewis, whose elec tion Franklin Roosevelt urged in a Labor day speech at Denton, Md., since he has been a faithful New Dealer. David Lewis dug coal in Pennsylvania when nine years old, studied law at night, finally began practicing at Cumberland. In con gress since 1911, he has fostered parcel post, social security and woipunen’s compensation. During the World war he handled tele phones and telegraph. He fought the bonus, as did Veteran Tydings. Arthur E. Hungerford, New Deal er whom the New Deal ignored, who closed his campaign by charging “there should be a grand jury and a federal investigation of the meth ods used.” - On election’s eve, PWA Adminis trator Harold Ickes spoke encour agingly of two proposed bridges over Maryland’s Potomac and Sus quehanna rivers. Anti-New Dealers charged Franklin Roosevelt was buying votes. Same day, the sen ate’s campaign expenditures inves tigating committee found M. Hamp ton Magruder, Baltimore’s internal revenue collector;’ had attempted to coerce non-civil service workers into voting for David Lewis. Thus closed the most heated campaign in Maryland’s history. By the time Maryland’s first votes were counted next evening, Millard Tydings’ nomination was certain, though more than one unprejudiced observer mourned the defeat of a great liberal, David Lewis. For gov ernor, Democrats nominated Attor ney Gen. Herbert R. O’Connor. Meanwhile, Republicans chose Os car Lesser and Gov. Harry W. Nice for senator, governor, respectively. • Nothing is more embarrassing to a politician than unwanted support. Hanging to the coat-tails of Maine’s three Republican congressmen, Clyde Smith, James Oliver and Ralph Brewster, have been the Pine Tree state’s Townsend pensioneers, providing a juicy topic of speech making for their Democratic oppo nents. Principals in the race that until 1936 was said to forecast America’s political future (“As Maine goes, so goes the nation”) have been Republican Gov. Lewis O. Barrows, seeking re-election, and ex-Gov. Louis M. Brann, seeking a third term. Maine’s political visi tors included Republican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, Democratic Chairman James A. Farley. Add ing a touch of color, Candidate Brann brought Crooner Rudy Val- lee back to his home state, had him sing Maine’s" “Stein Song.” If the nation goes as Maine goes, next November’s elections will go Re publican, for despite Rudy Vallee, despite Townsendism, the G. O. P. elected a governor and three coi» gressmen. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK ' By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK.—In 1918, the Bolshe- viks were fixing to shoot Maj. Alexander -P. de Seversky, but he persuaded them to let him go to „ . i America so he Seversky Gets could g e t a new A Wealth of wooden leg. He Things Here al /° a beau - tiful wife, a $5,- 000,000 airplane factory, and a lot of flying records, culminating in his new east-west transcontinental rec ord of 10 hours and 3 minutes, from New York to Los Angeles. Flying for Imperial Russia in the World war, he engaged in more than 100 dogfights with the Germans and dropped 13 of them. But one day they dropped him—into the Bal tic. A forty-pound bomb, which he had failed to release, exploded as the ship struck the water, and blew it to bits. Recovering consciousness lat er, he discovered that, witless as he was, he had been clinging to a pontoon. The water was red around him. Shifting his good leg over the pontoon, he made a torniquet of his torn trouser leg. He swooned again, as a Russian destroyer picked him up. He crow-hopped the Chinese border on his wooden leg, as a stupid border guard refused to recog nize his papers. Washington received him hospita bly, in April, 1918, and made him a consulting engineer for the army air service. He later experienced some rough going, but the only real crack-up in his career was encom passed in that drop into the Baltic. He was steadily on the uptake, de signing planes, flying and bringing through his factory. In 1933, he designed and built an amphibian plane which made a record of 177.79 miles per hour. Trained in the Im perial Naval academy, he has con tributed greatly to aviation engi neering and design. Several years ago, using an alarm clock and few electrical odds and ends, he made a waltzing plane, swaying rhythmically with band music from below. His waltzing days were over and he found this a satisfactory substitute. • • • CIMON LAKE, the inventor of the ^ submarine, 72 years old, hopes some day to get an under-sea peek at the sunken continent of Atlantis. _ , . In a mid-town ho- Uut to tel ^ New Y ork, Redeem the he is up to his Submarine kn . eas “ Re prints of subma rine adaptations and gadgets which he hopes will be found useful by the deep sea boulevardier. His father is 91; his grandfather lived to the age of 96 and his sister to 102. Al though his once red hair is white, he thinks he is just now getting his start in life. His 25 basic patents alone made the submarine possible. Like many, possibly most, inventors, he could devise a scheme for almost any thing except getting what was com ing to him. So, in his genial, casual way, he is broke. Reading Jules Verne, when he was 10 years old, led him to capsize a rowboat on the Toms river in New Jersey and test his staying powers in the submerged air cham ber. In 1894, he made a wooden submarine 14 feet long, with a soda water tank supplying compressed air. It worked nicely. In 1894, he made the Argonaut, Jr., in which he cruised under the water for thou sands of miles on Chesapeake bay. Like the Wright brothers, he aroused little attention. He final ly got Washington interested when he telephoned to the capi- tol from the bottom of the sea. His working submarine came through. Washington didn’t seem to care much what he did, so he took his invention to for eign capitols. Czarist Russia made him some impressive of fers but he decided they were a dissolute lot and, as a self-re specting American business man, he wouldn’t have anything to do with them. All in all, he became fed up with bureaucrats and red tape and gov ernments in general and turned to deep sea treasure hunts. The sub marines, of course, destroyed much more treasure than they ever dredged up. This troubles him. Vig- orous and energetic, with a wrin kled, knobby weather-beaten face, genial and friendly, he plugs along alone in his hotel to redeem the submarine by making it a general cargo and passenger carrier. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. The Letter Writers The average Englishman writes 78 letters a year; an American writes 67; a New Zealander, 66; Swiss, 60; German, 56; Dane, 46; Austrian, 38; Dutchman, 34; Swede, 26; Frenchman, 26; Norwegian, 20, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese write less than 20 letters a year. Plaids, Stripes and Prints Radiant With Fall Colors By CHERIE NICHOLAS CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT A N EPIDEMIC of plaids is grip- ping the entire fashion world. It matters not whether you are a grown-up or a juvenile, or a junior or a between-age, you will never be able to remain immune to the wiles and winning ways of the gor geous plaids that have come out in such brilliant array at the dawn of this new fall season. For that mat ter who wants to if they could re sist the witchery of anything so in triguing as are the new plaids. So if you would be fashion-wise enter into the spirit of the current mode and “go in” for plaids with a will. It certainly is an exciting story that the new plaids are telling. The plot carries on and on in efidless variety via costume suits that are smartly tailored of glorified plaids and as to the separate skirts that are fashioned of plaid you couldn’t keep count of their vast number if you tried. Then there are the cun ning flattering shirtmaker dresses, the skirts of which radiate tucks or pleats from a slim waistline. Al most invariably the sleeves of these youthful frocks are short in defiance of most fashion reports that tore- cast “long sleeves for fall and win ter.” The separate plaid jacket that is tailored to a nicety is also an im portant item and as for the plaid blouse, it’s the rage whether in fine wool weave, or’a synthetic material such as rayon or it may be of taf feta. Nor does the present plaid craze stop at the costume proper, but it carries on full force into the accessory area. With your sweater and plaid skirt if you play the game of fashion as it should be played on campus and in spectator sports* womanship at the gridiron series, you’ll see to it that your costume is completed with a jaunty cap and bag of matching plaid. In the illustration we are showing a plaid, a stripe and a gay print school-girl model. These fetching fashions had their initial showing at a prevue showing of fall styles re cently presented at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Off to school is the young miss to the left in a clever Scotch costume. The skirt is a red and black plaid, with a matching Scotch cap and purse. The sweater is also red. “The Barber of Seville” is the ap propriate name given to the gaily striped wool afternoon dress cen tered in the picture. The skirt is pleated and the new longer-than- formerly-shown jacket is striped in jungle green and dregs of wine (much exploited color this season) A green ascot tie completes the dress. The peasant dress still dominates in dresses for the young for fall, as the model illustrated to the right portrays. The dress is navy blue broadcloth with splashy yellow and red flowers, over which is worn a brilliant front-laced peasant bodice. The Scotch plaid dress pictured in the inset below is typical of present- day trends in wear-to-school fash ions. HOTELS WHEN IN ATLANTA EIGHT-NINETY-TWO HOTEL 892 Ponca De Leon Avenue Low weekly rates with two meals, rooms furoishea extra nice. Near Sears Boebnck and Ball Park. wwwwtrww w w wu w ooowww Jlsk Me .Another ^ A General Quiz The Questions 1. How many kinds of twins are there? 2. How many words are there in the Bible? 3. What is the deepest hole in the world? 4. Can the Panama canal ac commodate the largest ships afloat? 5. In French history what was a dauphin? 6. How many teams in the ma jor leagues have never won a pennant? 7. What is the difference be tween a majority and a plurality? The Answers 1. Three—identical, unlike and SI H1T16S6 " 2. The Bible has 3,566,480 letters forming 773,746 words in 31,173 verses arranged in 1,189 chapters. 3. It is the Continental Oil com pany’s K. C. L. A-2, which is 15,004 feet deep, or nearly three miles. The well is four miles west of Wasco in the San Joaquin valley. 4. No. The S. S. Normandie and the S. S. Queen Mary are too long for the lock chambers. 5. The oldest son of the king of France. After the revolution oik 1830 the title was abolished. 6. Only one, the St. Louis Browns. 7. A candidate receiving more votes than any other receives a plurality; one receiving more votes than all the other contest ants combined—more than half of all the votes cast—receives a ma jority. Tarotife 10.QcipQ of} the iVcek'-**' HONEY FUDGE CAKE Cream % cup butter Add \'i cup sugar and cream thoroughly, while gradually adding % cup honey Add 3 well beaten egg yolks, and beat well Sift together 2 cups cake flour, 2 tea spoons baking powder, \\ teaspoon salt, Va cup cocoa Add to creamed mixture alter nately with % cup sweet milk. Beat 3 egg whites until stiff. Grad ually beat in % cup sugar. Fold into batter. Pour into 2 well greased layer cake pans and bake 30 minutes. Icing for Cake. To 4 tablespoons butter, add 1 cup powdered sugar, and cream. Add % teaspoon vanilla and 1% squares melted chocolate. Add an other cup powdered sugar. Beat well, adding 4 tablespoons heated honey until frosting will spread easily. Cl Western Newspaper Union. Bi-Cblor Suede Autumn Costumes Suede gains in style importance. Now that this supple beautifully colorful medium is being worked just like fabric, the fashion- minded are calling for it increas ingly each season. Here, as pic tured, an oriole orange suede jacket is worn by Gloria Stuart of cinema renown, over a simple one-piece dress of paradise blue suede. Short sleeves and a sail or collar give the frock a youthful look. The blue suede cap is ideal for informal knockabout wear. Favor Boxy Coats Although the edict of finger-tip length jackets is general for first autumn suits, several French de signers are defying this rule by in troducing short, boxy ones to wear with contrasting dresses. One of these brief coats is little more than waistline length and flares in all directions. Its roomy shoulder line and wide sleeves con tribute to the carefree impression. Some striking color combinations are achieved with these jackets of light weight wool worn over wool dresses. Since mauve and violet tones continue to be popular they are being used extensively, often in alliance with blue or dark red. The suit which has a jacket re sembling an overblouse or a brief tunic is the one which designers regard with favor and which looks so much like a dress that it may be worn during cold weather under a fur coat. Place for Watch The new place for the watch, in stead of hanging as a pendant on the tailleur lapel, is with the vanity and cigarette case, according to Lancel, stylist. The case comes in different shades of enamel and gold and silver, modeled in an oblong. New Bonnets Appear Little lingerie baby bonnets, often with a sophisticated nose veil, are the latest millinery conceit. They are not worn as dinner or evening hats, but to complete day costumes. Monogram Shoes Monogram shoes are the latest attention to the “personality” fads that increase in popularity with the seasons. America in Print A composite picture of modern America is featured on a print made into a simple evening dress. Queen of Color Pale pink is on the way to be thf current queen of color. |T|SNOW-WHITE PETROLEUM JELLY liARGE JARS S$ AND 104 Cheerful, Confident A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays. And confident tomor rows .—W ords worth. MOTHERS! Attention If your child has Worms or Tapeworm, one single dose of‘DEAD SHOT* Dr. Peery’s Vermifuge will drive them out. Dr. Peery’s ‘DEAD SHOT Vermifuge 50c a bottle at dronista or Wriffht’s Pill Co., 100 Gold Bt., N.Y. Otj. iVNU—7 38—38 HELP KIDNEYS To Get Rid of Acid end Poisonous Waste Your kidneys help to keep you-Well by constantly filtering waste matter from the blood. 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