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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938 Kelts Review of Current Brents BLACKLISTED BY LEWIS More Than Forty Democratic Congressmen Marked For Opposition by His Political Agency iMvei ■ wm V- - . . few x W X • ; r ,1 * - -J Vincent Meyer, fanner of Johnson county, Kansas, received the first crop insurance policy issued by the Federal Crop Insurance corporation. Left to right in the picture above are: Donald Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, Rita, James, Joseph and Vincent Meyer, Roy M. Green of the Washington bureau of the corporation, and Roy Turner, Johnson county bureau super* intendent. W. PuJuutA 1/>4 ^SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK C Wcitcrn Newspaper Union. C.I.O. Proposes a Purge V/f ORE than 40 members of con- gress are marked for C. I. O. opposition in the fall elections by a blacklist formulated by John L. Lewis and given out by E. L. Oliver, ex- STMUtStm ecutive vice presi dent of Labor’s Non- Partisan league, the political agency of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion. Oliver said the opposition to those named was based chiefly on their . . stand on the wage- JohnL. Lewis hour bill. He indi cated it merely was a coincidence that almost without exception those marked for defeat also fought Mr. Roosevelt’s government reorganiza tion and Supreme court packing bills. Ten of the fourteen members of the house rules committee, which blocked consideration of the wage- hour measure for many months, were named on the blacklist. Chair man John J. O’Connor was not in cluded but Oliver said he was not in favor with the league. Among the Democratic rules com mittee members marked for opposi tion were Rep. E. E. Cox of Geor gia, opponent of administration poli cies in the house; Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia, against whom James Roosevelt and Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran have put up a young radical, William E. Dodd Jr.; and Rep. Lawrence Lew is of Colorado, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. The other Democratic members marked for the purge were Repre sentatives William J. Driver of Ar kansas; J. Bayard Clark of North Carolina iu;d Martin Dies of Texas. Ail four Republican committee members were on the blacklist. They are Joseph W. Martin of Mas sachusetts; Car! E. Mapes of Michi gan; J. Will Taylor of Tennessee; and Donald H. McLean of New Jer sey. Included in the Lewis blacklist are Senators Tydings of Maryland, Adams of Colorado and Lonergan of Connecticut. Among the Democratic repre sentatives marked for opposition are Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, A. P. Lamneck of Ohio, Leo Kocial- kowski of Illinois, R. L. Doughton of North Carolina, H. B. Steagall of Alabama, C. F. Lea of California, Fred Cummings of Colorado, C. I. White of Idaho, R. L. De Rouen of Louisiana, John Rankin and Will Whittington of Mississippi, H. B. Cof fee of Nebraska, Sam McReynolds of Tennessee, J. I. Mansfield, Fritz Lanahan and M. H. West of Texas, S. O. Bland of Virginia and Joe Smith of West Virginia. —*— ’Sneak* Flight Over Ocean lOUGLAS P. CORRIGAN, a young airplane motor expert irom California, Wouldn’t get per- ^ • mission from the air commerce bu reau to fly across the Atlantic, so he started off secretly from Floyd Bennett field, New York, and land ed at Baldonnel, Ireland, 28 hours and 13 minutes later. The remarkable feature of the flight was that it was made in a rickety old single-motored Curtiss Robin plane that was not equipped with navigation instruments, radio or the ordinary safety devices. Cor rigan did not even carry a para chute. Having neither flight permit, land ing papers nor passport, Corrigan laug.iingly declared in Dublin that he %ad intended to fly back to Cali fornia but set his magnetic compass wrong and flew in the opposite di rection. His was the sixth west-east solo flight across the Atlantic. In the opposite direction only Mollison and Beryl Markham have been suc cessful. D ( Veteran flyers said Corrigan’s feat was accomplished against odds of 100 to 1. He himself told the people in Dublin “it was just dumb luck that I got here.” American Minister John Cudahy took care of the aviator at the lega tion. It was decided that the adven turer should return to this side by boat. —*— British Monarchs in Paris T£ING GEORGE VI and Queen Elizabeth of England went to Paris for a state visit of four days, and this was regarded as a vitally important event politically. Appar ently it was undertaken to let the dictator countries know that Great Britain and France would continue to stand firmly as allies. Britain’s foreign secretary, Vis count Halifax; the French premier, Edouard Daladier, and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet held po litical talks to discuss the world situation during the visit. Every precaution to insure the safety of the visiting monarchs was taken by the French, fully 100,000 police, reserve officers and soldiers being mobilized to look after them. —*— Wheat Allotment LT R. TOLLEY, AAA administra- Ll* tor, announced a national wheat allotment for fall and spring planting of not more than 55,000,000 acres — the mini mum allowable un der the act. The action, which came as the result of the 967,000,000- bushel yield forecast for this year on a seeded acreage of 80,000,000, came in the form of an order sigped by M. L. Wilson, acting secretary of agricul ture. Details to cover the state allot ments on this 30 per cent reduction basis are expected to result in pro tests in winter wheat areas where the seeding will get under way this fall, despite the minimum loan of 59 to 60 cents a bushel announced by the AAA in hope that a sizable part of the 1938 crop will be kept on the farms. “The acreage allotment provided for in the agricultural adjustment act of 1938 puts into effect one more phase of the general AAA wheat program,” Tolley said. “Both this acreage allotment and the wheat loan are a part of the ever-normal granary program. Loans in years of surplus help farmers hold over their surplus for years of shortage. Acreage allotments keep the sur plus within bounds and help main tain prices and income of farmers. “This acreage allotment contem plates maintaining adequate sup plies in this country for domestic consumption, for our usual share of the world export trade, and for ade quate reserves equal to 30 per cent of a normal year’s domestic con sumption and exports.” The order placed the total avail able supply for the current market ing year at 1,147,000,000 bushels, and the “normal supply” level, as pro vided for in the farm act, at 866,000,- 000. H. R. ToUey Queen Marie Dies T~\ OWAGER QUEEN MARIE of Rumania, who had been ill for a year, died at her summer resi dence at Bucharest, mourned by the entire nation. King Carol, her son, was at her bedside as she passed away. Marie was an English prin cess, granddaughter of Victoria, when she married Ferdinand, who ascended the Rumanian throne in 1914. She attained international prominence by her activities and led Rumania to enter the World war on the side of the allies. In 1926 Queen Marie made a spectacular five- weeks’ tour of the United States. InsuD Dies in Paris CAMUEL INSULL, one-time chief ^ of an American public utilities empire valued at many millions of dollars, fell dead in the subway in Paris, France. Mrs. Insull, the for mer Gladys Wallis of the stage, was there with him and she took the body to London for burial. Insull came to the United States from England when twenty years of age. After working for a time with Thomas A. Edison he went to Chi cago and began building up his great financial structure. In 1932 his personal fortune was estimated at $100,000,000 and he owned or con trolled various big electric and gas companies. Then the depression came and Insull engaged in a strug gle with eastern capitalists who sought possession of his properties. The great crash ensued in which the Insults and thousands of others lost enormous sums. Insull fled to Eu rope and was indicted on mail fraud charges. He was arrested at Istan bul, Turkey and brought back for trial but was acquitted. Despite his financial mistakes and misfortunes, Insull was admittedly one of the ablest organizers of pub lic utilities the world has known. Much of the financing of the corpo rations in his control was accom plished through holding companies and investors for many years profit ed handsomely by his success. He was a patron of the arts and deep ly interested in agriculture. —*— Wage-Hour Chief W HILE in California President Roosevelt announced the ap pointment of Elmer F. Andrews, in dustrial commissioner of New York state, to be adminis trator of the new wage-hour law. This selection was a dis appointment to the southerners, who had hoped a resi dent of their region would be named. Andrews, who is forty - eight years old, lives in Flush ing with his wife and three children. E.F.Andrews Graduated from Rensselaer Poly technic institute in 1915 as a civil engineer, he built railroads in Cuba and factories in New York, worked for compensation - rating groups, planned civic improvements for the Queensborough Chamber of Com merce, and piloted army planes dur ing the World war. As industrial commissioner, he was largely re sponsible for New York’s “Little Wagner Act,” the state minimum wage law for women, extension of unemployment insurance and work men’s compensation. He opposed wage differentials in the federal wage bill, although this feature was enacted into law. *— Primaries to Be Probed CENATOR SHEPPARD’S senate ^ campaign committee voted unan imously to Investigate charges of misuse of federal and state funds in the Democratic primaries in Ken tucky and Pennsylvania. The com mittee also disclosed that it has been conducting an inquiry into sim ilar charges in Tennessee. The social security board also has ordered an investigation in Ken tucky into charges by Senator Bark ley that state social security agents are playing politics with pension checks. —* Hughes’ Great Flight LJ OWARD HUGHES and his crew of four completed their remark able flight around the world when they landed at Floyd Bennett air port, New York, 3 days, 19 hours and 17 minutes after starting from that place. They had cov ered 14,824 miles and made six stops for refueling — at Paris, Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks and Min neapolis. _ . They cut more Howard three dsys oft Hughes the record made by Wiley Post in 1933, but Hughes said after landing that he still consid ered Post’s solo flight was the most remarkable job of flying ever done. On the hop across the Atlantic the time made by Lindbergh was near ly halved. With Hughes, wealthy sportsman and aviator who financed and or ganized the flight, were Harry Con nor and Thomas Thurlow, naviga tors ; Richard Stoddart, radio opera tor, and Ed Lund, flight engineer. Hughes himself was at the con trols all the time, but said the robot pilot did all the flying except the takeoffs and landings. Much credit also was given the automatic navi gator loaned by the army air corps. * Japan Cancels Olympics TAP AN evidently thinks the war in China is not near its end. The Tokyo government has cancelled the Olympic games of 1940, dropping all plans to be the host of the world’s athletes. In Tokyo it was said the govern ment's action was due to the cost of financing the games and to military leaders’ opposition to a growth of nationalism among the Japanese people. It was expected the international committee would meet soon to de termine the next move. London and Helsingfors, Finland, were men tioned u possible sites for the 1940 games. llp^f m » WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK.—Of wide public in terest is the pressing problem of , . who’s going to en- Louia to join or restrain Fight 2-Ton Joe Louis. It has Galento? seemed that all they could do would be to match him against a threesome — possibly Farr, Pastor and Baer. But now there is actually serious consideration of launching him against the huge, bulbous two- ton Tony Galento, the Orange, N. J., pub keeper who trains on beer and hot dogs. Tony has never been knocked down, but neither has a hippopotamus or a steam shovel. Built like a couple of hogsheads, he is a morass in which assailants get swamped, like Japan in China. He fights with his mouth open, as if he were catching flies, which is disconcerting to his opponent, as is his flailing, free-style, generally scrambled attack. His defense con sists mainly in his absorbent quali ties. They cut him to ribbons, but never cut him down. He has had about 70 fights. Dumping Nathan Mann marked his _ . heaviest scoring in Train* on the ring. He has Applejack flattened A1 Et- And Beer £ re . ^ r ? y Haynes, Charley Massey and quite a few not alto gether negligible fighters, but, as yet, no maulers of championship specifications. For some of his fights he trained on applejack, but now says he has found beer is best. In the little family gin mill and spaghetti palace, down by the rail road tracks, he shadow boxes for the customers and yells for a match with Louis. He says he would like to have it barehanded in the cellar, with $10,000 on the doorstep for the man who comes out. They have a two months’ old baby, who, says his father, never will be a fighter or a barkeeper. “Me—” says Tony—“they had to burn down the school to get me out of the fourth grade. I didn’t know my strength and one of my spitballs knocked a teacher unconscious. I’ll make this new guy behave and he’ll grow up to be a professor or doctor.” • • • Sir Patrick Hastings, counsel for Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz- . , Reventlow in her Lawyer for elaborate and ‘Bab*’ Win* complicated dis- Big Ca*e* agreement with * her husband, is one of the most interesting front page lawyers of London, usually a contender in any exciting interna tional wrangle in which London’s West End or New York’s Park Ave nue might be interested. He repre sented Mrs. Joan Sutherland in the slander suit which grew out of gos sip about the Wallis Warfield Simp son divorce suit. It was he who got thumping big damages for Princess Youssoufcoff, in the suit over the Metro-Goldwyn Rasputin picture. He won the fight for the Warner Brothers to keep Bette Davis from appearing without their consent. In court, he has alluded to an epi sode when, hungry and footsore, he was turning his back on London, but was somehow flagged back again by an indulgent fate. He was trained as a mining engineer, fought in the Boer war and returned to London to precarious years in which he sparred for an opening. He was a journalist, a “leg man” around the grubbiest of the police courts. In his attic lodgings, he studied law and was admitted to the bar—with nice going thereafter. He now has one of the largest professional in comes in England. He was knight ed in 1923 and was attorney general in 1924. He is widely and intimately known in social and literary circles, but draws no class lines in his profes sional work. One of his most spec- tacular cases was his defense of the Welsh miners in 1925. He moves into his middle sixties with no let down in mind or person. • • • Sir Robert M. Hodgson ir, a shadowy but noteworthy figure in Eu- — . . rope’s diplomatic Cagey Job underground. Handed about whom a Sir Robert book rna >' sorne day be written. He is Britain’s go-between in delicate negotiations with Generalissimo Franco of Spain about the bombing of British ships. When he is on a government mission, it is an indica tion that some subtle business is on. He had retired in 1936, but Ne ville Chamberlain called him back as a diplomatic pinch-hitter in this ship-bombing embarrassment. He is the son of an arch-deacon, of some what clerical mien, and was in the consular and diplomatic service for many years. From 1924 to 1927, he was British charge d’affairs at Moscow. He is usually working qui etly off-stage, never in the spotlight. ® Consolidated News Features. WNV Service. ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “The Particular Thief By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: And who’s the guest speaker at our Adventure banquet today? Well, sir, it’s Mrs. Anna Robinson of Bronx, N. Y. And what’s she going to talk about? Why, Anna is going to tell the strange tale of the thief who didn’t want money. That thief certainly made things complicated for Anna. If he had wanted money, it would have been simple. Anna could have given it to him, and he’d have been satisfied. But when a man demands some thing you haven’t—and threatens to kill you if you don’t give it to him— Well, if you’re ever hi a spot like that, I hope you make out as well as Anna did. It all happened in a doctor’s office in the little upstate New York town of Jeffersonville. In 1927, Anna wa§ working there as a nurse. It wasn’t a hard job, but it was a lonesome one, for the doctor was out on calls most of the day, leaving Anna in charge. One quiet afternoon in March, though, Anna had a caller. The doc tor was out as usual when the door bell rang, and Anna answered the ring to admit a tall, ragged stranger with a desperate look in his eye. One look at him told Anna that this w_s an emergency case—but litti* did she dream that the emergency would be her own! This Caller Just Wanted “Coke.” The man pushed his way past her and hurried into the office. “Is the doctor in”? he wanted to know. That’s where Anna gave the wrong answer. The man was obviously in a hurry. The doctor wouldn’t be back for several hours. Anna told him she wasn’t expecting the Doc to return for quite a while and sug gested that he try at the office of another doctor nearby. It was just wlat the stranger wanted to know. A change came over his fai e, and a crafty look gleamed in his eyes. “So you’re alone, eh”? he said. “I was taken aback,” says Anna. “I said, ‘Yes, I’m alone,’ but the minute I said it I could have bitten off my tongue. If I’d only thought first—told him there were other people in the building—I could have saved myself the trouble that I was evidently in for. But the damage was done, and all I could do was stammer, ‘What do you want?’ He said: ‘Oh, I’ll get it myself,’ and started walking toward the inner office.” At first Anna thought he was just a petty thief, and as the man walked toward the office she remembered something the doctor had often told her. “If ever a tramp or a thief comes in,” he had said, “don’t try “Where’s the coke?” he cried angrily. to oppose him. Let him take what money there is and get out.” But the stranger didn’t seem to be interested in money. He passed straight by the desk, went to the medicine cabinet and began staring at the labels on the bottles. He stared a long time while his forehead knitted in a puz zled frown. Evidently he couldn’t understand the labels. At length he turned angrily on Anna and cried: “Where’s the coke?” Ready to Kill for the Drug. That explained things—and at the same time it threw Anna into a panic. This man was no petty thief who would be satisfied with money. He was a dope addict, crazed by a craving for cocaine. He would rob— kill—do anything to get that precious “shot” of narcotic, and to her dis may, Anna realized that there wasn’t so much as a grain of cocaine in the place. “We have no cocaine,” she stammered. The man turned on her in a rage, his eyes blazing, his hands clenching and unclenching at his sides. “Don’t lie to me,” he shouted. “Get it. Get it or I’ll—” And he took a step toward her, raising his claw-like hands to her throat. Says Anna: “I was terribly frightened. My thoughts ran in circles. He stood between me and the telephone, madness and murder in his eyes. I could not hope that someone would come in, as the local people knew the doctor’s office hours were in the evening. Screaming would do me no good, for screams coming from a doctor’s office might only mean that some poor devil was having a broken bone set. And if I even tried to scream, those terrible claw-like hands would close about my throat. There was only one way out. I had to gamble on the one defense God gave to women—talk.” She Talked Him Into Submission. With fear clutching at her heart, Anna began to talk quietly to the stranger. She explained that few doctors kept pure co caine—that they used derivatives like novocaine instead, and that novocaine wouldn’t give him the effect he wanted. She told him a lot of other things about drugs, too. As she talked, her fear of the man wore away, for the madness had gone out of his eyes and he sank into a chair, head hanging and dejected. Then Anna switched to another tack. She began talking against the use of drugs, painting a terrible picture of what they would do to him if he kept on using them. She told him the best thing to do would be to go to the local health officer and take a cure for drug addiction—told him that if his system really needed cocaine, the health officer would give it to him. And believe it or not, the dope addict agreed with her. He waited while Anna called the health officer on the phone, and went along peacefully when the officer came to get him. After he had gone, though, Anna lay down on the couch and cried hysterically. When the doctor came back he gave her a sedative and sent her home. All that was quite a few years ago, and Anna has been away from Jeffersonville a long time. She’s married now, she tells me, to a New York policeman, but I doubt if that cop husband of hers ever did a finer bit of police work than Anna did with her tongue when she talked that drug-crazed maniac right into the hands of the law. Copyright.—WNU Service. Wiped Out by Indians The first English-speaking settle ment in Ohio, established at the mouth of Laramie creek on the Great Miami river in what is now Shelby county in 1749, was wiped out by French and' Indians three years later. Hair Combs Long in Use Hair combs are of great antiquity and specimens made of wood, bone and horn have been found in Swiss lake dwellings. Among the early Greeks and Romans they were made of boxwood and in Egypt of ivory. Purchased Sandringham Palace Sandringham palace, a favorite residence of British royalty, was purchased in 1862 by the prince of Wales, afterward Edward VII, for $1,100,000. Name of Lake in Massachusetts Chargoggagoggmanchauggogogg- chaubunagungamaygg is the name of a lake in Massachusetts. It was named after the terms of an Indian fishing treaty, and means: “You fish on your side, I fish on mv side, no body fish in the middle.” Shock of the Electric Eeel Those who have investigated the strength of the shock of the electric eels of the Amazon river reported that it was not strong enough to kill human beings, but will sometimes stun them as well as larger ani mals, such as horses. Flocking Birds Choose Sentinel Flocking birds of the more intelli gent kinds, such as wild geese, com monly designate a sentinel, he se lecting the next one by touching or pecking. en of the Lounted by Captain G. Elliott • Nightingale Copyright, WNU REDCOATS GUARDED TRAIL OF ’98 ATGLUMES have been written on ’ what happened here and there during the Klondyke gold stampede, but very little has been said about the handful of Men of the Mounted who brought law and order and de cency to many an outlaw camp. The first steps along the historically fa mous “Trail of ’98” were taken two years before, in 1896, when Car mack’s discovery just about electri fied the whole world, and when thousands of men, and a few hun dred women began converging upon the Yukon from all corners of the earth. Eighteen months after the Carmack discovery the population of Skagway had tyeen increased by more than 30,000 newcomers, gold- seekers taking a breathing spell there before heading north into the Yukon goldfields. The majority of the newcomers were Americans, and whatever they might have been before they hit Skagway, they cast off all desire for law and order. The decent law- abiding element, being in the mi nority, laid low, outfitted their two or four - man expeditions, and mushed silently away toward the Yukon, while the outlaw element hung around Skagway, living on their wits. From Skagway, the rallying point, the stampeders, tugging and carry ing their outfits, headed for Lake Bennet where they built their boats and pushed off to the north and into the Lewes river that flowed north through the rugged but rich Yukon goldfields. That is, they pushed north provided the two or three Men of the Mounted stationed on the six tieth line of latitude were satisfied that the stampeders were properly outfitted, had sufficient food, and were not criminals or outlaws or bad characters. During the early days of the rush, the American stampeders kicked up quite a row because they were asked to pay customs and duties at Line 60 and they demanded to know what the Mounted were doing there, on American territory. Although the one hundred and forty-first parallel had not yet been decided upon as the dividing line between American Alaska, and British Canada, the Yu kon territory, nevertheless, had been uader 4he British or-Canadian Sag . || and government for some time. Most of the stampeders really thought they were heading for their own American Alaska, and it was quite a startling discovery for them to find the Northwest Mounted Po lice on guard on what the stamped ers thought was American territory. When the vanguard of the ’98 hegira were stopped by the Redcoats, there was, of course, considerable argument, a bit of nose punching, and a few shots exchanged. As the crowd grew larger, indignation meetings were inaugurated at which it was voted that the only way out was to tiq the Northwest Mounted Police into a bundle and throw it into the lake or some roaring river. One group of foreign - speaking Americans (?) staged a bloody riot, then voted to gather the redcoats, place them aboard a barge or raft, and anchor said barge or raft in the middle of the lake. One Yank climbed to the top of his outfit and called for a thousand men to help him wipe the Mounted off the face of the earth forever. But, he shout ed in vain, for in that mob were scalawags and cutthroats and crim inals who, while they did as they pleased in Skagway, were now will ing to impress the Redcoats that they were decent, law-abiding min ers eminently qualified to take their places beside law-abiding Canadi ans. Reason was again enthroned as these wily lawbreakers did ev erything possible to appear to the best advantage to the half dozen men of the Northwest Mounted Po lice who, during all the rumpus and riot, had stuck to their post on the sixtieth line just a few yards away, watching and listening, and realiz ing, no doubt, that the several thousand stampeders could soon eliminate half a dozen redcoats if they ever set out to do it. But, they never set out to do it. Those who came to destroy re mained to childishly beg the Men of the Mounted to pass them through into the gold-filled Yukon territory. The human jackals and rascals that had terrorized Skagway, now turned into soft-spoken, well - mannered, sensible and very obedient children as they stood by to be examined by the Mounted. Thus it happens that thousands of bad characters who claim that they were in the Klon dyke gold rush really never took one step past the half dozen red coats that held the Chilcoot and White passes. Half a dozen against thousands. Truly the Redcoats were the Daniels in the lions’ den in the Klondyke gold rush of 1898. i Long Ron for Fire Department One of the longest “runs” of fire apparatus on record occurred in February, 1904, when the New York fire department rushed nine engine companies and one hook-and-ladder company, on flatcars, to the great fire in Baltimore, a distance of 180 miles. «