Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE StfN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1938 Evidently these three leaders in the fight about the administration- backed “Third Basket” tax bill did not get enough pro and con on the house floor. They continue their argument in the corridor, with the bill’s author, RepresenUtive Fred Vinson of Kentucky, right, rebuking Repre sentative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, left, for his opposition to the measure. Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, center, who introduced the bill to the house, backs Vinson. -iMumxJ. WrPiduJvd SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. 1 Berry Claim Cause of Row T ONG existing warfare between ■ L -' Dr. A. E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and his fellow directors, David Lilien- thal and Harcourt Morgan, has come to a climax, due to the claims of Sen. George L. Berry for $5,000,000 be cause his alleged marble quarries were flooded in the Norris dam area. Doctor Morgan has demanded a show- down in the form of A. Morgan a con g ress j ona i in. vestigation of the whole TVA setup and its activities. A commission appointed by a fed eral court in Tennessee reported the claims of Berry and his associates were worthless because their prop erties could not be profitably operat ed commercially. Chairman Morgan then issued a long statement revealing that the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and hia colleagues over policy, but to his efforts to obtain “honesty, openness, decency and fairness in govern ment.” Dr. Morgan intimated that the Berry deal was only a part of the issue of honesty and decency which he had to face and that there was a lot more he would like to tell a con gressional committee. Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan retaliated with a long defense state ment, severely criticizing the chair man and suggesting that he retire from the commission. President Roosevelt made public this state ment, leading observers to believe he rather sided with them. But Chairman Morgan replied that he would not resign under fire and in a letter to Representative Maverick of Texas reiterated his demand for an investigation by congress. Reso lutions for such an inquiry were in troduced, and Senator Norris, pa tron saint of TVA and similar proj ects, sought either to smother the proposed probe or to see that it was carried on by friendly hands. In the midst of the rumpus Lilien thal announced that the government is willing to buy the properties of private electric power companies in the TVA area provided the owners will sell them at sacrifice prices. The utility officials interested were invited to meet him and Harcourt Morgan for a discussion. Lilienthal said that if the proposed purchases were carried out, private power en terprises would be eliminated in northern Alabama, northeastern Mississippi and nearly all of Ten nessee. He also announced that the TVA would be ready to advance cit ies in the area, otherwise unable financially to purchase local power plants, funds from an appropriation of $50,000,000 voted by congress in the recently amended TVA act. —*— Franco Warship Sunk OPANISH insurgents sustained a se- ^ vere loss when their cruiser Ba- leares was torpedoed and sunk in a big naval battle off Cartegena. The 10,000-ton cruiser went down in flames and probably about 300 of her crew were drowned. Some 400 others were rescued by two Brit ish destroyers. The loyalist attack by warships and planes was carefully planned to break the rebel blockade of govern ment ports on the Mediterranean coast. The loyalist authorities were highly elated by this victory in what they called the first real naval bat tle of the civil war, and War Minis ter Prieto said they were now pre pared to fight the conflict to a finish on the seas. The British admiralty announced that two British destroyers were at tacked by five airplanes off the Spanish coast while on “anti-pira cy” patrol duty. There were no casualties. General Franco was reported to be reorganizing all his troops from Africa so that he can carry on if Mussolini withdraws the Italian con tingents in accordance with the ex pected agreement with Great Brit ain. Conversations to lead to that agreement were started by British and Italian diplomats. * We Take Two Islands T TNDER orders from the Presi- dent, Secretary of the Interior Ickes added to the island posses sions of the United States which he supervises two little bits of land in the Pacific—Canton and Enderby is lands, in the Phoenix archipelago. Their value is as stopping places for transoceanic air flights to Aus tralia. Great Britain has held a disputed claim to the two islands, as well as to others of the Phoenix group. The President’s order for control of the islands is based on settlements made three years ago by American citizens. The government now is in a position to discuss the conflicting claims with Britain. Included in the President’s order are lands in the Antarctic first visit ed by Admiral Byrd and other Americans. R. L. Doughton Saint-Quentin who aroused New French Ambassador C OUNT RENE DOYNEL DE SAINT-QUENTIN, who replaces Georges Bonnet as ambassador from France, arrived in Washing- ton and proceeded to the White House in full regalia, to present his creden tials to President Roosevelt. The count is fifty-four years old and a bachelor. He is a distinguished citizen of France and the scion of a long famous family. Other callers at the White House much interest were the three unmarried sisters of King Zog of Albania. The princesses are on a pleasure tour of the United States and it is officially denied that they are seeking suitable hus bands over here. * Borah Hits Navy Bill TUST before the house began con- sideration of the administration’s billion-dollar naval construction bill, Senator Borah virtually gave notice that the measure would not get through the senate without a lively fight. He gave out a statement at tacking the naval building program as an unjustified step toward “the beginning of another World war— an armaments war.” “Such a program is not in the interest of peace,” he said. “It is not for the welfare of our people These vast sums are being drained off from the people at a time when they are in sore distress to find means to carry on.” Borah is the senior member of the senate foreign relations committee. * Widens Tax Field IN A 5 to 2 decision of far reach- A ing implications, sweeping aside more than a century of precedents, the United States Supreme court held that income from leases of state school lands is not immune from federal taxation. Justice Pierce Butler, dissenting with Justice James Clark McRey- nolds, said it was impossible to foresee the extent to which the court’s opinion upsets the long set tled principle of reciprocal tax im munity in our dual system of gov ernment. The decision was the latest of a series in which the Supreme court has greatly narrowed the field of reciprocal tax immunity. Another Trade Treaty CECRETARY HULL and the ^ Czech minister signed a sweep ing reciprocal trade treaty between the United States and Czechoslova kia. It includes tariff concessions covering 76.7 per cent of American exports to Czechoslovakia and 55 per cent of Czechoslovakian exports to the United States. Limited con cessions on shoes are granted the Czechs, who manufacture vast quantities of cheap footwear for the American market. $— No Wage-Hour Bill? t) EPEATED reports that house leaders had decided not to push through the President’? wage-hour bill aroused the anger of several members. Chairman John J. O’Con nor of the rules committee demand ed that a start on “this momentous problem” be made before congress adjourns. He said he would be “greatly disappointed” if a' “flexi ble” wage bill were not enacted at this session, warning that the work ers are “concerned with their gov ernment assuring some minimum wages which will lift them out of starvation and some maximum hours that will free them from in dustrial slavery.” * Tax Bill Baffle Rages D OBERT L. DOUGHTON of North Carolina, chairman of the ways and means committee, submitted to the house the revenue bill formulat ed by a majority of the committee, and the struggle over this measure began at once. The admin istration leaders claim the act will stimulate trade and remove hardships on both bfg and lit tle business without lowering the aggre gate federal income. Mr. Doughton knew he had a fight on his hands, but pre dicted the speedy passage of the measure substantially as reported. The most vulnerable provision ad mittedly was a proposed penalty tax on closely held corporations. McCormack of Massachusetts and Lamneck of Ohio filed a separate report attacking this feature. Republican members of the com mittee united in a report which blamed New Deal taxes for the “Franklin D. Roosevelt depression” and which charged that the tax on closely held corporations is a polit ical weapon to be used to purge the nation’s business structure of cor porations controlled by New Deal foes. Chairman Pat Harrison, Demo crat, Mississippi, of the senate fi nance committee, said his group would begin hearings soon on the measure. A majority of his com mittee is reported to be opposed to several provisions of the house bill, including the retention of the prin ciples of the undistributed profits tax. Veto Power Refused T EGISLATION granting Presi- dent Roosevelt’s request for power to veto individual items in appropriation bills was refused by a senate-house conference commit tee. Such a provision had been added to the independent offices appropri ation bill by the house but the sen ate rejected it and the conference agreed to the elimination. —*— Corn Acreage Cut FARMERS of 12 commercial corn 1 producing states were told by the Agricultural Adjustment adminis tration that they might plant this year in corn 40,491,279 acres in 566 counties. This compares with 58,- 616,000 acres in 1,123 counties har vested last year. The complete na tional goal for 1938, including the commercial corn acreage allot ments, is 94,000,000 to 97,000,000 bushels. Disaster in California COUTHERN CALIFORNIA, espe- cially the region about Los An geles, was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary rains. Nearly 200 persons were drowned or killed in landslides and thousands fled from their homes. It was thought the property damage might reach $65,000,000. * Czechs Defy Hitler U ITLER is progressing with the 11 nazification of Austria, with the aid of Interior Minister Seyss-In- quart, the latest concession being the opening of state payrolls to hundreds of Nazis. But Czech oslovakia will be a harder nut for the fuehrer to crack if Premier Milan Hod- za knows what he is talking about. In a statement at Prague Hodza defied the threats of Germany and told the franti cally cheering mem bers of the chamber of deputies that Czechoslovakia, if the neces sity arises, will “defend, defend, defend herself.” Hungary is entering the arma ment race to the extent of her lim ited abilities. Premier Dayanyi an nounced an internal loan of $200,- 000,000 would be floated and that the money would be used principally for air defense and other rearmament measures. Some of it, however, will be spent for measures to increase employment. Milan Hodza ML V I WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON ■NJEW YORK.—Many years ago, in South America, this writer was always hearing somebody mut ter “Perros!” (dogs), as he passed _ . by. It expressed Propaganda dislike of all North Trick Hurt Americans. Upton U. S. Trade Sinclair’s book, “The J u n g 1 e,” about the Chicago packing houses, had been carefully mistranslated, in a widely circulated version, which made multitudes of South Ameri cans believe all North Americans ate dogs. Even in remote jungle towns, I found European trade scouts and salesmen making dili gent use of the book. It was the neatest trade propaganda trick of the century. The one-sided battle has contin ued through the decades. Late re ports are that South American ra dio stations are belting Uncle Sam with everything at hand, and, to the same degree, apostrophizing It aly, Germany and Japan. For this reason, there appears to be more than meets the eye in the printed story of onr new airwave rearmament, and the assignment of a new short-wave channel for broadcasts to South America. With Secretary Hull, Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general of the Pan- American union, pleads for “strong er cultural ties” in the first broad cast. Spanish translations follow the English version. While all this is in the name of “peace and good-will,” and official announcements carry no hint of a d j- a-j defensive propa- Kaaio Aias ganda war, it ap- in Fighting pears to be the an ti. S. Smear swer—perhaps the only possible re ply—to the widespread smearing campaign against the U. S. A. in Latin American countries. The sixty-six-year-old Dr. Rowe is a happy choice to head Ameri ca’s “cultural,” if not propaganda, outreach in this direction. He has become widely known and decidedly persona grata in South America in his 32 years of pleading and prose lyting for solidarity, friendship and understanding in the Americas. He has fraternized with South Americans more than any other northerner, lecturing, writing, evangelizing and expounding his doctrines of friendly co-opera tion—always on the high plane of cultural and intellectual inter course. He has been head of the Pan-American union since 1920, succeeding John Barrett. • • • L IFE begins at forty for Gracie Fields, English Music Hall ac tress, who curtsies to the king and becomes a commander of the Order of the British Em- Jane Alger pj re . it is another Career of Jane Alger story, Stage Star this tale the Lancashire mill girl who became the highest-paid entertainer in the world. Her earnings from her 5,000,000 gramophone records, and from the stage and cinema have reached $750,000 a year. Her film, “Mr. Tower of London,” ran seven years. She lives simply with her mother, who manages her af fairs, and never has anything more than pocket money. Ev ery so often she visits Rochdale, the mill town where she sang for pennies at the age of seven, and has a rollicking time, sing ing for her old friends. She was a “half-timer” in the cotton mills, half the day in school and half at work. In 1930, she made a brief appear ance at the Palace theater in New a c •» j York. It wasn’t Act Spoiled much of a suc- by Fear of cess. She ex- Gum-Chewere plained afterward that she had been warned in England that entire audi ences in America chewed gum to gether and in time, with dreadful facial contortions. This frightened her and spoiled her act, although, she admitted, there was only one observable gum-chewer. She was glad to land safely in England, where she is widely be loved and known as “Good Old Gra cie.” Just a few days before her forti eth birthday, she returned home from a party at four o’clock in the morning. The milkman, the police man on the beat and a street- sweeper ceremoniously handed her a morning paper with her name in the king’s honor list. She is tall, blonde and merry. © Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Oilcloth in the Making Oilcloth is a thick canvas coated on both sides with thick oil paint. First the canvas is passed through liquid glue, etc., pressed by heavy rollers, dried, and rubbed with pum ice-stone. The paint is applied in several coats, the final coat being in a pattern. The quality of the oil cloth is governed by the number of coats of paint. ★ ★ it ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ it STAR DUST ★ JMLovie • BLadio ★ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ T HE millions who have read and loved “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” will rejoice that it has been brought to the screen almost intact. A few memorable scenes of the clas sic of boyhood had to be skipped, but the important ones are all there, the whitewashing of the fence, Muff Potter under suspicion of murder, Tom’s startling appearance at his own funeral. Filmed in Technicolor, the tones are subdued and pleasant, making the town and all its inhabitants of some sixty years ago look entire ly natural. There was a great to-do a year or so ago over David Selznick’s country-wide search for just the right boy to play Tom. Finally, Tommy Kelly, son of a WPA work er, was found in New York. Every one who sees the picture will surely be glad that Selznick passed up the precocious actors of Hollywood and waited until he found Tommy.. For Tommy Kelly fits perfectly the character of Tom Sawyer. All Hollywood is talking about the great ehange in Katharine Hepburn. The roustabout comedy that she in dulges in for her new picture, “Bringing Up Baby,” has affected her manner in private life. No long er is she aloof and haughty. No longer does she scurry away as if frightened, or very bon d, when co workers approach. Lawrence Tibbett will come back to the screen if Warner Brothers have anything to say about it. They want him for “The Desert Song” and he will have time to make a Lawrence Tibbett. picture soon, for Grace Moore is go ing to replace him on his radio hour. Joan Crawford was quite startled recently when she heard an early- morning news broadcast announc ing that she had left her husband, Franchot Tone, and would soon in stitute divorce proceedings. She glanced across the breakfast table, and there was Franchot as usual. “Never mind, honey,” he coun selled, “they have been trying to separate us for three years, and I don’t believe they can do it ever.” Hollywood casting directors de serve a vote of thanks. They have put back to work three popular ac tresses who have been playing hookey from the screen too long. Zasu Pitts was dragged out of her kitchen, where she has been busily writ ing a cookbook, to play opposite Victor Moore in “Strictly Accidental” for R. K. O. Joan Bennett, just returned from a stage tour and very happy to be settling down in her new house in Beverly Hills, was persuaded to go to Texas to film “The Texan” with Randolph Scott and several hun dred long-horned cattle in support. And Claire Trevor, so well liked in her radio serial with Edward G. Robinson, was cast opposite him in a Warner Brothers picture. ODDS AND ENDS—"Bad Man of Brim- Hone" revived IEallace Beery’s career which has been under a cloud of so-so pictures lately. He will follow that up with a sequel “Bad Man From Arizona” . . . Peter Pan Steeden received congratu latory telegrams from several New York university professors on the fourteenth anniversary of his radio debut. It seems that in 1924 they excused him from his classes one day so he could audition for a radio program. He has been on the air ever since . . . Martha Tilton who sings with Benny Goodman’s Tuesday night swing school did the song numbers that Joyce Compton appeared to be singing in the film "The Awful Truth” ... When you see the “Goldwyn Follies” you may think that Andrea Leeds is singing, but your old friend Virginia Verrill of the radio really recorded those song numbers. • Western Newspaper Union. Zasu Pitts 'T'HESE three dresses are up high on the list of fashion’s fa vorites, and you can easily make them at home by using our simple, easy-to-follow patterns, each ac companied by a complete and de tailed sew chart. Start right now, for even if there’s a shiver in the air at this moment, Easter is not very far offl And you’ll want to be ready! Dress With Lifted Waistline. This is a very,. very popular fashion because it makes you look so slim and graceful, what with the waistline high in front, and soft gathers above it, the gently flaring skirt. 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