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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937 New* Review of Current Event* CONGRESS CALLED BACK President Calls for Crop Control Measure and the Regulation of Labor's Wages and Hours -VOS 0#! : .*0 - Hull, Davis and Welles Goinr to Confer With President. -sMtrexJ W. PLJuviJ - V ^ STTMMART7TS THE WORUD’f SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK e Western Newspaper Union. President Roosevelt Special Session Called CONGRESS was called in ex- traordinary session to start No vember 15, and immediately after ward President Roosevelt explained in a “fireside chat” over the radio the necessity for this as he sees it. Report ing cheerfully on his western trip, he out lined the legislative program which he declared the Amer ican people need to promote prosperity. These are the five measures he said should be passed without delay: Crop production control to “build an all-weather farm program so that in the long run prices will be more stable.” Wage and hour standards to “make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm prod ucts.” Regional planning to conserve nat ural resources, prevent floods and produce' electric power for general use. Government reorganization to pro vide “Twentieth century machin ery” to make the “democratic proc ess work more efficiently.” Stronger antitrust laws in fur therance of “a low price policy which encourages the widest pos sible consumption.” Chairman O’Connor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure. Some Democratic leaders said the labor bill, which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee, would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session. Even that is strongly opposed by southern Democrats and has been condemned by the American Fed eration of Labor. Labor Hits Labor Board S EVERE condemnation of the fed eral labor relations board was voiced in a resolution adopted by the American Federation of Labor in the Denver convention. It was presented by John P. Frey, head of the metal trades department and charged that the board was act ing “without warrant or author ity” in interfering in disputes be tween the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. and was violating “the spirit and specific intent of the labor relations act, with decided advantage” to the C. I. O. affiliates and damage to the A. F. of L.; that the board has sought to “destroy the validity of contracts” between bona fide trade unions and employers and that such actions were taken “in some in stances with full knowledge of the facts involved”; that the board, in direct contravention of the mean ing of the law, has repeatedly “de nied employees the right of desig nating the bargaining unit and the right of selecting representatives of their own choosing with full free dom.” Frey in his speech asked that Ed win F. Smith be removed from the board and that three regional direc tors be dismissed. The convention adopted a resolu tion opposing the pending wage and hours bill, and one calling for a boy cott on all Japanese products. Authority was voted the executive board to expel finally the ten C. I. O. unions under suspension, and Presi dent Green announced plans for the attack on the rival organization in several great fields. The first-vig orous blow will be struck on the Pacific coast in a drive to organize workers in the cannery and agricul tural field. The second battle ground will be among the white collar workers generally. John L.Lewis C.I.O. Upholds Contracts I N A. tumultuous session at Atlantic City 150 leaders of the C. I. O. routed a “left wing” movement and went on record in favor of a policy condemning “quickie” strikes, sup porting the sanctity of collective bargaining contracts and pledging co-operation in safeguarding the op eration of these agreements. The delegates also condemned re cent decisions by the national labor board as being contrary to the pro visions of the Wagner-Connery act by which the board was created and approved a four-point federal legis lative program. This program called for a wages-and-hours bill, licensing of all industries operating in inter state commerce, appropriation of sufficient WPA and PWA funds to provide jobs for every American worker, and expansion of the social security act. No Peace for Labor AR between the rival factions ’’in American organized labor is not going to cease in the near future. The C. I. O. leaders gathered in Atlantic City for their first “war council,” and John L. Lewis, their chief, revealed plans for setting up a permanent dual organization. He condemned the sus pension of the C. I. O. unions from the American Federa tion of Labor as “cowardly and contemptible” and said those unions considered themselves now out of the federation and awaited any further action by the federation with complete indifference. Big Baffle at Shanghai CHANGHAI was witnessing the ^ fiercest battle of the Sino-Jap- anese war. Land and air forces of both sides were fighting furiously and the casualties were piling up hour by hour. The Chinese were making a great counter-offensive for which they had massed men and guns about the city. The Japanese were ready for the attack, and des perately battled to turn back their foes. Observers described the hand- to-hand fighting as that of madmen, especially in the Chinese quarter. A big fleet of Chinese airplanes was sent down the Yangtse and u cmbs were showered on the Jap anese warships along the Japanese- occupied shore of the Whangpoo. An American navy radio man, J. P. McMichael of Connorsville, Ind., was slightly wounded by Japanese shrapnel as he stood on the signal deck of the United States cruiser Augusta between Admiral Harry E. Yamell, commander-in-chief, and Capt. R. F. McConnell, chief of staff. American navy authorities immediately entered a protest and the Japanese commander expressed his regret. Brady Gang Wiped Out T AST of the big “mobs” ot bank ■*- / robbers and murderers, the Brady gang was wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at Bangor, Maine. A1 Brady, the leader, and Clarence Shaffer, Jr., his lieutenant, were killed; and James Dalhover was wounded and captured. The outlaws were recognized by a clerk in a sporting goods store and the G-men were summoned. Dalhover was to be taken to Indiana to stand trial for the murder of a state po liceman, one of fSur killings attrib uted to the gang. He made a full confession, and search began for persons who had been aiding them. The gangsters’ capture was be lieved to have nipped a potential New England crime wave. Floor plans of two banks were found in Dalhover’s possession with maps cd nearby roads. Giacinto Auriti May Meet in Brussels LJ OW far President Roosevelt tl 1 1 willing to go in the effort to stop Japan in China is what other powers, especially Great Britain, are eager to know. The people of the United States also would like to be informed in that matter. The British statesmen wish America to take the lead, and also they would like the suggested conference of the nine-power treaty signatories to be held in Washington. This latter sug gestion is definitely opposed in our capital, and so it was believed Brussels might be selected as the meeting place. Mr. Roosevelt, who conferred with Secretary of State Hull, Undersecre tary Sumner Welles and Norman Davis, his roving ambassador, was represented as being strongly averse to taking a solitary lead in the action to check the Japanese. Apparently he preferred that the ’quarantining” of nations guilty of ‘international lawlessness” which he proposed in his Chicago speech should be limited to a united inter national moral stand. In his radio talk the President al luded to the conflict in China rath er vaguely, reiterating that “Amer ica hates war” and stating that the United States is going to co-operate with the other signatories to the nine-power treaty in an effort to find a “solution of the present situation in China.” He did not tell just what he proposes to do, but assured his listeners that he could be trusted to do the right thing. The National Council for Preven tion of War, representing a part of the extreme peace sentiment in the United States, announced that its annual meeting had declared for im mediate invocation of the neutrality law which the President has not seen fit to put in operation. —•*— Italy Supports Japanese 'T'HERE was considerable doubt whether Italy would take part in the Pacific treaty conference, but it was assumed that if it did, it would defend the course pursued by Japan in China and would do what it could to frustrate the designs of the other conferees. This was assured by the message con veyed to the Tokyo government by Gia cinto Auriti, Italian ambassador to Ja pan. According to a JapaneoO news agency, Auriti promised Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese vice foreign minister, that “Italy will never spare general support to Japan.” Japan Denies Violations I N A formal reply to the charges of treaty violation the Tokyo for eign office flatly denied responsibili ty for the Sino-Japanese conflict and asserted that China, not Japan, had violated the treaties. The anti-Jap anese attitude and the mobilizing of Chinese troops, said the statement, forced Japan to take military ac tion, entirely in self-defense. Japan disclaimed any desire to annex parts of Chinese territory, and de clared the accusing nations misun derstand the situation. Court Upholds Black C'OR the present, at any rate, F Hugo L. Black’s seat on the Su preme court bench is secure. The court refused to permit Albert Levitt, former federal judge in the Virgin Islands, and Patrick Henry Kelly of Boston to contest the le gality of Black’s appointment. The ruling was announced by Chief Jus tice Hughes, who said the two men did not have sufficient interest in the litigation. Ogden Mills Diet O GDEN L. MILLS, who succeed ed Andrew Mellon as secretary of the treasury and for years was a leader in the Republican party, died of heart disease at his home in New York. Besides being a financier, Mr. Mills was an able lawyer and busi ness man and had a fine record as a member of congress. He served in the army through the World war. —+— Divorce Rule Stands CHURCH laws against remarriage v-' of divorced persons by Episco pal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years. Proposed lib eralization of the rule was defeated by th£ house of deputies of the church at the general convention in Cincinnati. The deputies voted to continue for another three years the commission on marriage and di vorce, but the question probably will not come up again for a long time. The defeated proposal would have permitted bishops to allow Episco pal clergymen to solemnize mar riage of persons, who were divorced for any cause, after study of each case. —*— U. S. Consul Murdered J THEODORE MARRINER, •American consul general at Bei rut, Syria, was assassinated by an Armenian who had been refused a visa for travel to the United States. The murderer was arrested and the police said he admitted having act ed for personal vengeance only. Marriner, who was forty-five years old and a bachelor, was considered one of the most valuable men in our diplomatic service, which he entered as third secretary of the American legation at Stockholm. At one time he was chief of the western Europe section of the State department. .about: The Place <cH Radio. S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. — “Deke” Aylesworth says radio can never displace news papers. “Deke” is with Roy Howard's newspapers now and naturally wouldn’t care to have his job shot out from under him by a loudspeaker. Most of us feel that way about our jobs, un less we happen to be working in some state institution, such as a penitentiary. Radio never can displace news papers any more than milk-tickets can displace milk. The newspaper reader chooses what he pleases from the day’s coverage— gratifying obituary notices of people he didn’t like; convinc ing statements from financial wizards ex plaining why his in vestments turned sour after he’d bought them on ad- i rY i n g. Cobb vice of aforesaid wizards; and, about once in so oft- ten, exciting special articles about the Hope diamond or the William Desmond Taylor case or the lure of Mr. Robert Taylor. But, the lis tener-in on radio must accept what somebody else already has predi gested, which puts him in the same class with tapeworms. So long as you can’t wrap up a picnic lunch in a radio or use short wave sets to line pantry shelves with, we’ll have newspapers. Thanks, “Deke,” I’m working for V string of newspapers myself. • • • The League’s New Head. ( TAKE back all I ever said about the League of Nations being as futile as a fly swatter in a saloon brawl. The league has a new president— the Aga Khan, who has the largest private income on earth because 40,000,000 Mohammedans regard him as divine and pay for the priv ilege, often going hungry in order to do so. And he certainly is quali fied to head a society dedicated to peace—he never parted from any of his wives except with the utmost harmony. Well, to celebrate his election, the Aga Khan gave the most gorgeous banquet ever staged in Geneva- 1,500 bottles of champagne and S00 pounds of caviar. Thus did the league justify its right to existence. There were but few flies in the ointment. Ethiopia’s delegates were either deceased or missing, the league having drawn the color line, so to speak, which was more than Mussolini did when he wiped out their country last year. Spain’s delegates likewise were ab sent, being mostly dead or else fighting one another. • • • Sick Calls De Luxe. DAT O’BRIEN, the actor, tells this ‘one about an Irish cop at the crossing who waved a car contain ing three priests to proceed after the stop signal had gone up and then, with harsh words, checked an other driver who sought to follow along, too. “But you let that other car with those three clergymen in it go through,” protested the halted one. “They was on their way to a sick call,” stated the officer. “Now wait a minute,” said the citizen. “I happen to be a Catholic myself and I know about those things. Who eVer heard of three priests going on one sick call?” For a moment only the policeman hesitated. Then he snapped: “Say, young feller, tell me this, you that knows so much—did you never hear of a solemn high sick call?” • * * French Slickers. DOLICE are still trying to round * up the slickers who, in one day, raided twenty-nine banks scattered all over France. This reminds a fellow of 1931, when the bank ex aminers were coroners simultane ously sitting on the mortal remains of an even larger number of Amer ican banks, the main difference be ing that these French banks were looted by outside parties. According to dispatches, this job was accomplished through fraudu lent credentials for strangers pre senting forged drafts. But I beg leave to doubt that part, remem bering when I turned up at various outlying points over there with prop er identifications and a perfectly good letter of credit. What excite ment then on the part of the cashier (spade beard) and what deep dis tress for the president (trellis whiskers) and what stifled moans from the board of directors (assort ed beavers) when, finally, they had to fork over. Why you can wreck a perfectly good bank here in less time than it takes to get a certified check for $9.75, less exchange, cashed in a French provincial bank. But should it develop that any of these recently stolen francs were earmarked for payment to us on ac count of that war debt—brethren, that would indeed be news. IRVIN S. COBB ®—WNU Sarvtc*. Deanna Durbin *★★*★★★***★**★★★★★★ ! STAR ! | DUST | * ]M.ovie • Radio £ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ S OMETIMES a bad break in Hollywood leads to a good one, which is just another way of saying that motion-picture producers are slow to make up their minds. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer is going to star Willie Howard, the veteran comic of the stage, in a big musical ex travaganza, because he was so funnv in a skit in “Broadway Melody of 1938.” You never saw the skit, no mat ter how carefully you watched the picture, because it was cut out. When they first saw it, the officials of the studio didn’t think it was so funny, and having to take some thing out to shorten the picture, they sacrificed what Howard was sure was the most hilarious skit of his career. Taking another look at the discarded film, officials have decided that it was very funny— so funny that they won’t waste How ard’s talents in the future. —+— With the season of big motion pic tures only a few weeks old, four of the thirty or so pic tures released have made outstanding hits. These are “Prisoner of Zenda” with Ronald Colman and Madeline Car- roll, “100 Men and a Girl” with Deanna Durbin, “Thin Ice” with Sonja Henie, and Grand Nation al’s “Something to Sing About” with James Cagney. This last is a grand bit of nonsense in which the pugnacious Jimmy sings, dances, and fights his way through a delightful story, aid ed and abetted by Mona Barrie. —■*— Victor McLaglen roared into New York recently on his way to London to make a picture, and when Victor roars anyone would think the whole, boisterous good-humored American Legion was back in town. His high spirits are infectious and his mag netism so overpowering that when he introduced his friend Brian Don- levy as the greatest actor in the world, everyone agreed—for the mo ment. —+— Paramount goes right on announc ing one picvare after another for Frances Farmer, but Miss Farmer says that she is coming to New York to do a stage play called “The Manly Art” written by Luise Rain er’s husband. —■¥— Out at the Universal studios where Henry McRae turns out thrilling se rials faster than you can say “To be continued next week,” they don’t have much time to humor tempera mental actors, but recently they had to give in and waste an hour or so while an actor had a tantrum. The actor was a lion. McRae thought he would save the lion from the ex hausting period of posing while hot lights were adjusted, and brought in a stuffed lion as double. Jealous of this interloper, the lion broke loose from his cage, rushed on the set and tore the stuffed animal to bits. —*— Theater owners all over the coun try are begging Republic and Grand National officials to speed up pro duction on Westerns starring Gene Autry and Tex Ritter, so that the warbling cowboys will have time to make personal appearance tours. The ever-growing popularity of these two lads is the sensation of tbe bookkeeping departments. —k— Ever since Claudette Colbert broke out in “She Met Him in Par is,” as an accom plished figure - skat er, all the other girls have wanted to show off their profi ciency at winter sports. Ruby Keeler, recuperating from her recent illness, is planning for her first starring picture at R. K. O. The story is called “LoveBe- low Freezing” and the big surprise is that skiing is the main feature of the picture. Claudette Colbert ODDS AND ENDS—Marlene Deitrich’t eyebrows that used to extend way out like streamers return to normal in her new picture “Anger and will probably start a new fashion . . . Jean Parker made herself a hat, copied from one, Gary Cooper wore in “The Plainsman” and now she is very bury helping friends make copies of it .. . Ronald Sinclair has proven entirely satisfactory in roles intended for Freddie Bartholomew, to it is doubtful that Freddie will get any where with his strike for more money . . . Simone Simon is going to sing a difficult coloratura aria in her next pic ture. The studio just found out that she used to make records in France . . . Bing Crosby wants his friend. Babe Hardy, to play a dramatic role in his new picture, now that the team of Laurel and Hardy have split. G Western Newspaper Unton. GOOD TASTE TODAY emily" post World's Foremost Authority on tmquono © Emily Post. DotTs Birthday Party Raises Note Problem r) EAR Mrs. Post: Will you please write a form of invitation for us under the following circum stances? I am one of four ehildren, only one of us married, who want to give a party in honor of my fa ther’s birthday, although I suppose it would be better not to mention tbe occasion. We would like to write the invitations by hand on small sized note paper stamped with our house address. While we are ask ing at least 75 people we want the invitation to sound as friendly and informal as possible. Answer: I would suggest that each one of you write notes to your own personal friends, and that whoever has most time and perhaps neatest handwriting also write those to your father’s friends and relatives, fol lowing this general wording: “Mary, Jim, Bob and I are having a party for father, on Sunday after noon, January 31st. Won’t you come in between four and six o’clock?” As you notice, I have left the birth day out, but this does not mean that I think it improper to write, “Mary, Jim, Bob and I are having a birthday party for father . . because those who know him very well and know it is his birthday will probably bring him a present, and this might make others who are very fond of him and would have liked to remember his birthday feel that they have come empty-handed. On the other hand, in going to a birthday party of any size no one should feel obliged to take a pres ent. • • • Are Parents Obligated for Children's Visits ? r> EAR Mrs. Post: What is my po- sition regarding the parents of friends of my daughter? She is at college far away and goes home frequently with the girls whose homes are closer to the school. She sometimes mentions in her letters home that these girls’ parents are going to New York on a holiday, and as we live in the environs of New York I'm wondering whether it is expected that we extend some kind of hospitality to the parents at such times. Answer: Your real obligation is in encouraging her to invite these girls home with her when they have longer recesses or perhaps to let her ask them to come between school terms when they can stay longer. But why don't you ask her whether she wants you to show par ticular hospitality to the parents she knows especially well, and what she suggests. She knows what type of people they are and whether they have friends in New York, or on the other hand, whether they are going as strangers or whether the mothers are likely to be alone while their husbands attend to business, or just what the individual situa tions are. • • • Note Is Mandatory. p\ EAR Mrs. Post: A .ian I know spent a week-end at my mar ried brother’s house. My sister-in- law had let me ask him so that my visit would be more pieisant. She and my brother certainly put them selves out to entertain us. I feel tnat the least my friend can do is write her a note, which I happen to know he hasn’t done. Is there a way 1 could remind him to write her, because his thoughtlessness certainly puts me in a bad light? Answer: I can think of nothing else to do except say to him, “I hate to ask you to write another one, but my sister-in-law never got your letter.” Then he will probably say, “What letter?” and you an swer, “Why, didn’t you write and say anything for that pleasant week end we had?” And that is that! • • • Butter Balls Remain D EAR Mrs. Post: Has the vogue for “butter balls” gone out? Several years ago it seemed that every hostess served fancy designs of individual butter portions but to day I never see them anywhere. Answer: No, 1 think butter balls are still seen in many houses al though it is true that in quite as many others butter is simply cut neatly into squares. The reason is probably that of time saving since very few of us have as many serv ants as we used to. One might, in fact, say that comparatively few have any. • • • Better Late Than Never EAR Mrs. Post: Is one sup posed to be able to hold over social obligations from one season to tbe next? I should have enter tained several new friends last spring but had no money to give a party of any kind then. I’m wonder ing if now, which is the first it has been possible, would be considered too late to repay these kindnesses? Answer: Not at all. There is no time limit on any return you want to make. After all, there are so many reasons why we may not be able to do what we want to when we want to. WNU Service. V A Happy Family of Bluebirds for Linens Take the Bluebird family “un der your wing” and embroider their five plump images on what ever household linens you’d like to make colorful. In eight to the inch cross stitch, enhanced with a bit of lazy-daisy and outline stitch. Pattern 1524 contains a transfer pattern of two motifs 6% by 15Vi inches; four motifs 6 by 7 inches and six motifs 2Vi by 2Vt inches; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches used; material require ments. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to the Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. = A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger i r No matter how many you have tried for your cough, chest cold, or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with any remedy less potent than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble and aids na ture to soothe and heal the inflamed mucous membranes and to loosen and expel the germ-laden phlegm. Even if other remedies have failed, don't be discouraged, try Creomul sion. Your druggist is authorized to refund your money if you are not thoroughly satisfied with the bene fits obtained from the very first bottle. Creomulsion Is one word—not two, and It has no hyphen in It. Ask for it plainly, see that the name on the bottle Is Creomulsion, and you'll get the genuine product and the relief you want. (AdvJ •Today’s Happenings Not what has happened to my self today, but what has happened to others through me—should be my thought.—F. D. Blake. 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