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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C~ FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938 News Review of Cnrremt Events HUGE LOANS ON WHEAT B.umper Crop Makes These and Acreage Reductions Probable . . . Wage-Hour Bill to Be Passed Congresswoman Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman of the labor committee, affixes her signature—the first one—to the petition which was signed by 217 other house members to force house consideration of the revised wage-hour bill. With Mrs. Norton are, left to right, Congressmen R. J. Welch of California, J. Burrwood Daily of Pennsylvania, Arthur Healey of Massachusetts and Edward Curley of New York. U/. ]&LcJctuut * M SUMMARIZES THE WORT.E SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Western Newspaper Union. Sec. Wallace (Ftp ; •.' Wheat Loan Program O NLY a major crop disaster like a nation-wide drouth can pre vent the United States from hay ing the largest supply of wheat this summer in the coun try’s history. Con sequently the De partment of Agricul ture is preparing to announce a huge wheat loan program designed to prevent prices from falling to extremely low levels. Under the new crop control act loans are mandatory if the 1938 yield ex ceeds domestic needs and estimat ed export needs, which are put at about 740,000,000 bushels. At the same time Secretary Wal lace, as head of the AAA, was con templating the prospect of asking the wheat growers of America to make the heaviest reduction in plantings ever proposed. This re duction may be as much as 37.5 per cent. Growers who this season planted approximately 80,000,000 acres would be asked to reduce their operations to about 50,000,000 acres—the smallest since before the World war. Allotments then would be 12,500,000 acres less than for 1938. Government estimates place the crop at between 925,000,000 and 950,- 000,000 bushels. The winter wheat estimate is between 740,000,000 and 750,000,000 bushels while the spring wheat crop is expected to reach 200,000,000 bushels. Added to this will be a carry-over of 150,000,000 bushels or more from last year’s crop of 874,000,000 bush els. The total supply is expected to reach an all-time high of approxi mately 1,100,000,000 bushels. . In addition to the loan program, Secretary Wallace will move to bol ster the market through the new government crop insurance pro gram. Already a campaign is un der way to “sign-up” farmers for wheat insurance. The insurance program is expect ed to remove about 50,000,000 bush els of wheat from the market through farmer payments of pre miums on 1939 wheat insurance. The government will store this wheat in elevators for future indemnity pay ments to insured farmers. Officials of the AAA expect that reduction of acreage will stir up pro tests from wheat growers similar to the current revolt in the com belt, and among the cotton and tobacco farmers of the South. Concessions already have been made to the Southerners, and the AAA people said some “minor adjustments” in com acreage allotments were planned. The revolt in the Middle West, however, was growing steadi ly under the leadership of the Com Belt Liberty league, now incorporat ed in Illinois. When and if wheat acreage allot ments are made, farmers can com ply with or ignore them, but only those who comply will be eligible for maximum federal benefit pay ments and wheat loans. * Crop Report Birthday /~\N THE day it issued its May crop report, the Department of Agriculture celebrated the seventy- fifth anniversary of the government crop reporting service. The names of the oldest living crop reporters were inscribed on a roll of honor, and the ceremonies were witnessed by a group of veterans of the serv ice who were invited to Washington by Secretary Wallace. The crop reporting service was started in May, 1863, by Isaac New ton, first commissioner of agricul ture, appointed by President Lin coln in 1862. The first report was prepared on the basis of reports from 2,000 farmers in 21 states. Today reports are based on returns from 200,000 voluntary reporters. * President Returns PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT re- 1 turned to Washington from his ten-day fishing trip not only brown and well but highly elated. There was reason for his elation for the political tide in the capital had turned in his favor. The successful revival of the wage-hour bill in the house demonstrated the waning op position among southern Democrats, following closely on the renomina tion of Senator Pepper of Florida, who defeated Congressman Wilcox, an opponent of the Roosevelt bills to enlarge the Supreme court, to re organize the executive government and to control wages and hours of labor. The $5,000,000,000-pump prim ing bill seemed assured of passage with only some earmarking of funds to which the administration has no serious objection. Mr. Roosevelt resumed work by calling Secretary Hull to the White House presumably to discuss the Nye resolution to lift the arms em bargo against Spain. He then held a legislative conference with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bank- head, Majority Leaders Barkley and Rayburn and others. It was be lieved they considered resumption of the drive for enactment of parts of the President’s program that have been defeated or delayed. * Wage-Hour Bill to Pass HEN 218 members of the house of representatives signed the petition to discharge the rules committee from consideration of the administra tion’s wage-hour bill it became virtually certain the measure would be passed by the house on May 23. Chairman Mary T. Norton of the house labor commit tee and other propo nents of the bill pre dicted it also would be approved by the senate, but admit tedly it faces a bit ter fight there, for the southern sen ators are angered by the omission of differentials favoring the South. There is a chance that they can or ganize a filibuster and prevent passage before congress adjourns. Opposition in the house crumbled suddenly and there was a veritable stampede to sign the petition forc ing the measure to a vote. Mrs. Norton was first to put her name on the paper, and 217 other mem bers rushed forward to get on the band wagon. The 218 signers were divided by parties as follows: 182 Democrats, 23 Republicans, 8 Progressives, and 5 Farmer-Laborites. In its present form the bill pro vides for minimum wages of 25 cents an hour to be raised to 40 cents an hour over a three-year pe riod and maximum hours of 44 a week to be reduced to 40 hours in two years. It would be adminis tered by the Labor department and enforced by the Justice department. It carries no differentials between the different sections of the country. * Davies to Belgium T OSEPH DAVIES, wealthy law- yer, was nominated ambassador to Belgium by President Roosevelt. Davies will be transferred from Moscow which he and his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Hutton Davies, found boring because of the lack of social life among the soviets. Mary T. Norton Gen. Chn Teh Labor Board Foiled 'T'HE Federal circuit court of a?> peals in Covington, Ky., in an amended order forbade the Nation al Labor Relations board to with draw its records from the court in the board’s decision against the Ford Motor company. The court previously had permitted the board to withdraw its petition for an en forcement order against the com pany. The board was trying to avoid judicial investigation of its procedure. The Inland Steel company was in formed that the board would set aside its order to Inland to deal with the C. I. O. This was resisted by the company, as the Ford company had resisted in its case. —*— Deal of the Dictators T N THE absence of official state- ments, the foreign correspond ents were forced to guess at the re sults of the meeting of Reichsfuehr- er Hitler and Mussolini in Rome. They felt certain that the friend ship between the two dictators was strengthened, that Hitler assure'd H Duce Germany would not try to ab sorb the German minority in South Tyrol, and that Mussolini promised Italy would not interfere with the Nazi plans affecting the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia. Mussolini was believed to have received from Hitler recognition of Italy's economic and political inter est in central Europe, and a prom ise the Italian port of Trieste would not lose ad Its Austrian traffic as a consequence of Austria’s absorption by Germany. For six days Hitler was lavishly entertained with feasts, and with naval, military and aviation dis plays that revealed the armed pow er of Italy in an astonishing man ner. He then went to Florence to view that city’s art and architectur al treasures, and returned to Ber lin apparently satisfied that the Berlin-Rome axis had not been weakened by the Anglo - Italian peace accord. * Chinese Make Gains JAPAN’S hold on North China was endangered by the aggressive ac tion of Chinese guerilla armies that were concentrating near Peiping and Paoting, former capital of Hopei province. Savage fighting in that area was reported as Gen. Chu Teh, lead er of the Chinese communist Eighth route army, smashed [ the lines of the in- | vaders. 1 . T . he . . Japanese claimed to have de feated a large Chi nese force that attempted to cut off Nantung-chow, an important supply base for 10,000 Japanese fighters. The Japanese government has in voked parts of the general mobiliza tion law; and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota called on the Japanese peo ple to prepare for “possible extreme personal financial sacrifices” to achieve victory in the Chinese war. He added that "no optimistic view of the future is warranted.” * Big Navy Bill Passed PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S $1,- * 157,000,000 naval expansion bill was passed by the senate by a vote of 56 to 28. The measure empowers this gov ernment to surpass the rearmament programs of other nations with con struction of the most powerful war ships ever floated. However, it pre cludes the possibility of the United States precipitating a race of super warships by limiting the size of fu ture battleships to treaty specifica tions of 35,000 tons unless it is de termined foreign powers are build ing in excess of treaty restrictions. In the latter event, the United States will be authorized to con struct super-dreadnaughts of 45,000 tons, armed with deadly 18-inch guns. * U. S. a ’’Debtor” Nation JT IS popularly believed and fre- 1 quently asserted in political quar ters, or by those engaged primarily in foreign trade, that the United States is on balance a creditor coun try, and that because of this fact our tariffs should be reduced in or der to make it possible for foreign ers to pay their current bills to us. The facts as currently available from Department of Commerce studies tell a different story, and show that for several years, when all the current items are appropri ately considered and analyzed, the United States has been in a “debt or” rather than in a “creditor” po sition. If intangible items are excluded, our commodity balance of trade, in cluding the net silver and gold im ports, during the past three years has indicated in this brief period of time an aggregate “unfavorable” balance of approximately $4,500,- 000,000. * Tax System Study Asked 'T' HE National Association of Man- -*• ufacturers, contending the pres ent federal, state, and local tax structure is a tremendous burden on the national economy, asked con gress to inaugurate a study aimed at its simplification. “Much can be done to simplify and co-ordinate our system of tax ation,” said a statement by the as sociation’s board of directors. It was transmitted to congress by C. R. Hook, association president. Star Dust ★ Farrell-Gaynor Re-Make ★ Blondell Sisters ★ Hollywood Boomerang? By Virginia Vale AT LAST Charles Farrell has -fa- an opportunity to stage a come-back in American movies, one that his admirers of the days when he was making pic tures with Janet Gaynor have wanted for him. He will ap pear in a re-make of one of the Farrell-Gaynor hits, “Sunny Side Up.” Remember it? It was the picture for which Far rell and Gaynor had to learn to sing, to the dismay of practically every body else on the Fox lot. For they worked at it endlessly, it seemed to 'll? ’ Immm *' , - ^1 * -f > 1 Janet Gaynor the others, with a voice coach, and the results were distracting, to say the least. But the result was worth it. But this new version of the picture is going to be something different, judging by the cast. It will star Shirley Temple—and will include Bert Lahr and Bill Robinson. * Every so often come rumors that Mande Adams will appear on the screen. Now it’s David Selznick who is said to have captured her, to play the dowager in “The Young in Heart,” with Janet Gaynor, Paulette Goddard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Roland Young in the cast. Since her retirement from the stage in 1918 she has refused to discuss movie offers, b%t this time she at least was willing to talk things over. —* — Remember that little native lad in “Elephant Boy”? You’ll see him in “Gungha Din,” with Victor McLag- len, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie. The fact that he’s to be included would look as if, when the poem is screened, the picture will show the influence of “Kim,” which has been about to be screened for years. * If you want to see a movie star in the making, go to “Accidents Will Happen” and see Gloria Blondell, sister of Joan. She’s on her way. She has been for quite .s while, so far as that’s concerned but it is just leading her to the movies, be cause she didn't want to cash in on her sister’s success. * If you encounter a man who’s tremendously interested in the folk music of your part of the country he’ll probably turn out to be one of the Radio Rubes. Each Friday each of the three leave New York, going in different directions, in a search for old American melodies; they al ready have a collection of two thou sand. Recently Harry Duncan de voted himself to New England, while that same week Zeb Turney flew to the Mid-West and Eddie Smith went south. —*— Marlene Dietrich Now that Marlene Dietrich has signed to make a picture for Twen tieth Century-Fox, with Ronald Col- man, and to make three for Colum- bia, you can’t blame the Para mount officials who let her go if they are doing a bit of worrying. For Frank Capra may direct one of the Columbia re leases, and he has a way of turning out smash hits. And it’s no fun to lose money on a star, let her go, and then have her bring gold into the box office for somebody else! I —*— ODDS AND ENDS—W Uliam Janney, whom you’ve teen et the kid brother in the “Hopaiong Cassidy’’ series, has taken to the air, in “Pepper Young's Family* . . . Joan Crawford, after twelve years with M*tro, has signed for anathe- five— can do one stage play a year if the liket . . . They’re shooting again on “Marie Antoinette’ , . . Johnny Weismuller will play Tartan again for Metro toon . . . Seven stand-ins who have been in the movies for years got their chance when they were cast as themselves in “Shop worn Anger . Crane Wilbur, of the silent films, will play Napoleon for Warners’ in “The Hundred Days* . . . Frances Dee drew a nice assignment when she was chosen to play opposite Ronald Caiman in “If l Were King* • Wutsrn Nmrspapar Union. ping and general street wear, the other ideal for round the house, and made on slenderizing lines. Notice that they both use the smart front closing. Both these patterns are quick and easy to make up, and each is accom panied by a complete and detailed sew chart. Frock With Girdled Waistline. Fashion says ( everything must have a certain amount of soft de tailing this season, and this charming tailored dress obeys with draping at the neckline, the girdled waist, and bust fullness beneath smooth shoulders. Easy AROUND THE HOUSE Stuffed Eggs.—To stuff eggs, put them into cold water as soon as taken from the stove. This will keep the whites in better condi tion. • • • Improving Fudge.—If you will add a small spoonful of cornstarch to the next batch of fudge you make, you will be amazed at the improvement in flavor. • « » Stoning Raisins.—To stone rai sins easily, first place them in boiling water for a short time. • • • Cooking Dried Fruit.—Soak and cook slices of lemon with dried apricots, prunes or peaches. One thin slice of lemon will be enough for each two cups of dried fruit. * • • Stretching the Salad.—When the salad is limited and you wonder if it will go around comfortably, scoop out tomatoes and use the salad as a filling. Then you will surely have enough. "Quotations" A The attribute* of a (treat lady may still be found in the rule of the four S’s—sincerity, simplicity, sympathy and serenity.—Emily Post, Men hate to think largely because they cannot do it—Nicholas Murray Butler. The home is a laboratory where we learn to get on in the wider field that we must all step into as we grow older.—Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt. Nobody can ever set anything right if everybody is equally wrong. —G. K. Chesterton. Business men know today that their employees are also their cus tomers.—Colonel Arthur Woods. sleeves, cut in one with the shoul ders, make it a cool style for sum mer. Silk crepe, silk print (in that case, have a plain-colored gir dle effect) sharkskin, linen and shantung are good fabric choices for this. House Dress for Large Women. It’s a diagram dress, so that it may be made in just a few hours. The long, unbroken, unbelted line, the utter simplicity, the v-neck, make this dress extremely becom ing to women in the 36 to 52 size range. Short, pleated sleeves give plenty of ease for reaching and stretching. Make this up in pret ty cottons that will stand plenty of wear and washing—percale, gingham, seersucker, broadcloth The Patterns. 1489 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires 4Vk yards of 39-inch material, plus % yard of contrasting for girdle. 1476 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 5 yards of 35-inch ma terial. Spring-Summer Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book which is now ready. It con tains 109 attractive, practical and becoming designs. The Barbara Bell patterns are well planned, accurately cut and easy to follow. Each pattern includes a sew-chart which enables even a beginner to cut and make her own clothes. Send ypur order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. £ Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. 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