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WINS RECOGNITION
John Holmes, who started with
Swift & Company as a messenger
boy 31 years ago and became presi-
dent of the company recently. He
succeeded G. F. Swift, a son of the
founder of the business, as execu-
tive head of an organization of 60,000
employees engaged in the dressing
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bution of meat, poultry, eggs, but-
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tion in the business as vice chair-
man of the board of directors.
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leader, is greeted by followers as he arrives in Calcutta. 3—Capt. George Eyston of London shown after he set
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By Lemuel F. Parton
Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative
Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee,
discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new
farm bill.
Eliot Ness
prompted to volunteer their infor-
mation because of the security of-
fered them and the knowledge that
many others were prepared to tes-
tify.
In addition to protests from busi-
ness men that they were being shak-
en down, Ness also had numerous
complaints from rank and file union
men that their leaders had obtained
dictatorial control of the unions and
had used it for racketeering pur-
poses.
This resulted in hundreds of men
being thrown out of work, impeded
legitimate business, and kept hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars in new
industries out of the city, the Ness
report was said to have stated.
HpHE Republicans, like the Demo-
*- crats, go to the Grove of
Academe when they are short on
ideas.
Savants May
Aid G. O. P.
in Comeback President
After Labor Racketeers
pOR four months Eliot Ness, the
* young safety director of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been investigating
labor racketeering in Cleveland, es-
pecially in the build-
ing trades, and then
he made a report of
his findings that re-
sulted in a special
session of the Cuya-
hoga county grand
jury to hear the
stories of scores of
business men who
allegedly have been
terrorized by labor
union officials. Ness
said these men were
Trade Treaty with Britain
TN WASHINGTON and London it
■*• was officially announced that the
United States and Great Britain had
agreed to negotiate a reciprocal
trade treaty, which
has been sought by
Secretary of State
Hull ever since he
started his recipro-
cal program in 1934.
The negotiations are
s expected to begin
before the close of
the year.
American admin-
istration officials be-
lieve such a pact
may lead to a com-
VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM
Michigan Senator's Plan to Give Honest Business a
Chance . . . President Talks Peace with Utility Chiefs
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2. Progress as rapidly as possible
toward a balanced budget.
3. Amendment or repeal of the
surplus and capital gains taxes and
substitution of “incentive taxation’’
for “punitive taxation.”
4. Amendment of the social secur-
ity act to eliminate the “needless
drain upon the resources of com-
merce and labor.”
5. Revision of the Wagner labor
law to make for greater certainty in
■“long range industrial planning.”
6. Abandonment of the so-called
wage-hour bill and substitution of
legislation to protect states from
the importation of goods produced
\l?y substandard labor.
7. Repeal of many of the Presi-
dent’s emergency powers in order
to free business from “executive
despotism which is at war with ev-
ery tenet of the American system.”
8. Reasonable and practical farm
relief, without bureaucratic controls,
processing taxes, or price pegging,
but with benefits for soil conserva-
tion practices, financing of export-
able surpluses, and return of the
domestic market to the producer.
9. Foreign policies that will keep
America out of war through pur-
suing “an insulating neutrality”
rather than sanctions.
10. “Frank abandonment of all
anti-constitutional activities and in-
trigues which shatter democratic
faith.”
He’d Summon
Army to Get
Star Player
his palace in Ciudad Trujillo. He’ll
practically call out the army to sur-
round a good ball player.
He was a farm boy when the ma-
rines came along. He worked up
in the Dominican army from pri-
vate to brigadier general, gaining
the presidency by a clever coup
d’etat. In 1933, he liquidated a
strong opposition by putting it in jail.
Several thousand exiles have for
several years maintained a junta in
New York city, led by Dr. Angel
Morales, former Dominican minis-
ter to Washington. They have ac-
cused President Trujillo of whole-
sale killings and of ruthless sup-
pression of all political rights and
civil rights.
When Sergei Bensome, former
secretary of war, was murdered in
New York in April, 1935, the polit-
ical enemies of the dictator said his
agents had committed the crime.
When he became president in 1930,
at the age of thirty-seven, he was
the youngest ruler of any sovereign
state.
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I T tILLIAM GREEN president of
VV the A. F. of L., practically
broke with the administration by
denouncing the pending wage and
hour bill as unacceptable to labor
and demanding that it be sent back
to committee for revision.
Green assailed the national labor
relations board and declared it no
longer is safe to permit a govern-
ment board of that kind to admin-
ister laws governing labor relations
with employers.
D. Aiken, Republican,
Charles F. Hurley,
Massachusetts;
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Windsor Wins Libel Suit
*TAHE duke of Windsor won his
1 libel suit against the author and
publisher of the book “Coronation
Comments/’ and in a settlement
out of court received a substan-
tial sum, said to be $50,000, from
them, which money he gave to char-
ity. Lord Chief Justice Hewart
commented that the libels “ap-
peared almost to invite a thorough
and efficient horsewhipping.”
That the prudent investment
method of determining the rate base
might well be used for determining
values to be added hereafter and
that it could be studied as a means
of finding present value, that in any
case no system of valuation does
or should bring about the highly
watered capitalization which the
President condemned in a number
of examples which he cited at a
recent press conference.
Governors Ask Tax Repeal
OVERNORS of the six New
kT England states, in conference
in Boston, adopted resolutions se-
verely criticizing the tax and tariff
policies of the administration. They
demanded repeal of the capital
gains tax and the tax on undistrib-
uted corporate profits, and de-
nounced the pending reciprocal
trade agreement with Czechoslo-
vakia as imperiling the jobs of
thousands of American citizens.
The governors who took this ac-
tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Re-
publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re-
publican, New Hampshire; George
Vermont;
Democrat,
Wilbur L. Cross,
Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert
E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island.
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Vandenberg’s Program
SENATOR VANDENBERG of
Michigan didn’t wait for the
leaders of the Republican party to
formulate a program on which to
battle the Demo-
crats. He broke out
with a ten-point pro-
gram designed to
“give honest busi-
ness a chance to
Peace Talk with Utilities
RESTRICTION of the construc-
tion and expansion activities of
the privately owned public utilities
being recognized as an important
factor in the current business re-
cession, President Roosevelt began
a series of conferences with the
heads of these concerns. He seemed
to be in a conciliatory frame of
mind and sought to lessen the utili-
ties’ fear of the effect of govern-
ment policies, but without making
any concessions. His first caller
was Wendell Wilkie, president of the
Commonwealth & Southern corpora-
tion, and next day he talked with
Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hud-
son Power corporation.
Though he appeared amiable, the
President at the same time was
sending to various congressional
committees and federal agencies a
report by the New York state power
authority, whacking friends and
agents of the private utilities for
“propaganda” against public power
development. It presented figures
to show the government could pro-
duce water power at a much lower
cost than private utilities could pro-
duce power by steam plants.
It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub-
mitted these points:
That there is a general fear
throughout the country of govern-
ment competition and interference
with private utilities which can be
subdued only by concrete reassur-
ance from the administration.
That money for private expan-
sion purposes and refinancing to ob-
tain lower interest rates, which in
turn would be reflected in lower
power rates, is hard to obtain.
That the government had a right
to sell power from its dams, but a
basis for marketing it could be
found without frightening the whole
industry.
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to over-
throw the republic
and set up a dicta-
torship and eventu-
ally a restored mon-
archy. The govern-
ment announced,
however, that the
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XJEW YORK—If President Rafael
■LN Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the
Dominican republic persists in his
impromptu war with
Ball Player
Might Solve
Latin Feud
Rand Is Acquitted
TAMES H. RAND, JR., president
•J of Remington Rand, Inc., and
Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were
found not guilty of violation of the
Byrnes act by a jury in the United
States District court in New Haven,
Conn.
The verdict was a blow at the
government’s first attempt to en-
force the act, which forbids the
transportation of strikebreakers
across state lines with the intent of
interfering with peaceful picketing.
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Another Judge Wanted
CENATOR MINTURN of Indiana
introduced a bill authorizing the
President to appoint an additional
judge to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals at Chicago. That
court has jurisdiction over the sev-
enth circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and
Indiana, and has had one vacancy
since the retirement of Judge Sam-
uel Alschuler last year.
Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich
of Illinois said they had no candi-
date for the place.
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Chino-Japanese War
JAPAN’S armies were slowed up
J by rain and ffiud in their ad-
vance up the Yangtse valley, but
as there seemed no likelihood that
the Chinese line of defense would
hold, the Nationalist government
moved out of Nanking, scattering its
departments among a number of
cities. American Ambassador John-
son and his staff moved to Hankow.
The Japanese commanders in
Shanghai took over full control of
most of the city and its customs of-
fice. They demanded that the in-
ternational settlement and French
concessions officials hand over the
city’s four leading citizens as hos-
tages. Most prominent of these was
T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Dic-
tator Chiang Kai-Shek.
The Far East conference in Brus-
sels, unable to accomplish anything
to end the Chino-Japanese conflict,
was on the point of final adjourn-
ment.
Word from Washington is
that they are
sounding out Har-
ris Willis Dodds,
t of
Princeton; James
Bryant Conant, president of Har-
vard; James R. Angell, president
emeritus of Yale, and Robert Gor-
don Sproul, president of the Univer-
sity of California, for the work of
drafting a comeback program foi-
the party.
A former member of the Repub-
lican National committee, who still
keeps a few pipe lines open, tells
me chances favor President Dodds,
as to both choice and acceptance of
the chairmanship of the program
committee.
President Dodds, who looks and
works like President Wilson, is a
specialist in government. He has
a generally liberal slant, but has
been vigorously outspoken against
bureaucracy and has steadily cried
down the juggernaut state. The
curse of “statism,” he says, is the
world’s greatest menace. He would
appear to fit into the picture of a
rejuvenated and realistic party re-
organization.
He has for years been known as
an expert on plebiscites, electoral
j j » r> » practice and mu-
Dodds Book nicipai gov er n-
Saved Jersey ment. He was a
technical adviser
in the Tacna-Arica
boundary dispute and refereed the
Nicaraguan election of 1928. Later
he saved New Jersey $14,000,000 by
a 150,000-word digest of a govern-
mental reorganization survey.
He is a native of Utica, Pa., edu-
cated at Grove City college, Pa.,
and Princeton, with a doctorate
from ’ the University of Pennsyl-
vania. He lectured on political sci-
ence at Western Reserve, Pennsyl-
vania and Swarthmore and became
a traveling student of Latin Amer-
ica, finding there a useful laboratory
of political techniques.
Princeton made him a lecturer on
politics. It all sounds pretty dry,
but he is always alert to the human
equation and stipples his dessicated
thesis with a dash of color.
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WNU Service.
After French Throne
A LARM of the French govern-
■7L ment over the plotting of the
Cagoulards or “hooded ones” that
led to the arrest of many rightists
» and the raiding of
| hidden stores of
weapons and ammu-
nition was far from
baseless. Evidently
there was a real
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plot had been wrecked.
From his place of exile in Bel-
gium the Due de Guise, pretender
to the throne of France, issued a
manifesto announcing he had de-
cided to try to regain the throne.
“Have the moral courage not to
abdicate before present difficulties,”
the manifesto appealed to French-
men. “Do not permit, in a moment
of abandon, dictatorship of any kind
to impose itself.
“Certain of my ability to assure
your happiness, I have decided to
reconquer the throne of my fathers.
France then again will reassume
her mission in the world and again
will find peace, unity and prosperity
through a union of the people with
a titular defender-king.”
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mercial union of all English-speak-
ing peoples and will be a powerful
influence in preserving world peace.
London looks upon it as an in-
strument to form a front which all
nations may enter later on condi-
tions of most-favored-nations reci-
procity, and therefore as an indi-
rect reply to the new German-
Italian-Japanese alliance.
Principles said to be already
agreed upon provide that Great
Britain would receive reduced
American tariffs on textiles and
coal.
In return she would grant the
United States lower tariffs on food-
stuffs, certain raw materials, iron
and steel and other essentials of a
rearmament program,
Immediate opposition to the pro-
posed pact developed among the
statesmen in Washington. Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois,
Democratic whip, protested against
any British accord until the Eng-
lish pay off their defaulted war
debt to the United States. He called
the proposed pact “trade treason.”
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Massachusetts Republican, served
notice he would sponsor a resolu-
tion halting negotiation of all new
trade treaties until congress can
determine whether they are respon-
sible for the current business re-
cession.
Representative Allen Treadway,
Massachusetts Republican, de-
nounced the proposed treaty as cer-
tain to prove disastrous to Amer-
ican business. He warned it would
throw “more Americans out of their
jobs.”
ness a chance to
S create stable pros'
perity.”
His ten ’ '
were:
1. An end to gov-
ernmental “hymns
of hate” and bitter
attacks on business
men.
Haiti, and
spurns President
Roosevelt’s offer
of mediation, it is
possible that they
might buy him off
with a fast black shortstop and a
couple of outfielders.
President Molina is a rabid base-
ball fanatic, and only last June he
was accused of stealing many of the
best players of the American negro
teams. The charges, quite violent
and vehement they were, were
made by the National Negro League
of America, comprising six teams,
and were backed up by Ferdinand
Q. Morton, New York civil service
commissioner, who is the Judge
Landis of the league.
It was asserted that agents and
emissaries of the President did re-
peatedly, by trick and device,
snatch an ebony ball player wher-
ever they might find him; that they
had thus cashiered some of the best
talent of the negro league. The
Pittsburgh Crawfords were especial-
ly loud and insistent in their com-
plaint.
The dictator of Santo Domingo
learned fighting and ball playing
with the United States Marines,
with them eight years, until the end
of the period of occupation in 1924.
When he took over the country in
1930, by double-crossing old Presi-
dent Velasquez, his enemies said,
he made baseball a major detail of
his planned economy.
He helped build up the Central
American league and brought
through quite a
few pennant win-
ners. He throws
big parties for the
visiting teams at
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