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He Is Grows in Capital . . . State Troops Act
in oiii^es ... Mediation Board Hits Snags
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Being; human at bar on island where President Roosevelt "humanized"
relations between the White House and majority members of congress:
Senators Key Pittman (left) of Nevada and John H. Overton of Louisiana.
"Humanizing" the Majority
A S MAJORITY members of con-
f*- gress met on Jefferson island
in Chesapeake bay with President
Roosevelt, to have their relations
with the chief execu-
tive "humanized,"
the belief in Wash-
ington circles that
the President is will-
ing to accept a third
term expanded t o
the greatest propor-
tionsithasyetknown.
The spark which
touched off the lat-
est cloakroom whis-
„ .. . perings of a third
president term was the dec-
Roosevelt laration by Gov.
George H. Earle of Pennsylvania
that he would give "unqualified
and final" support to a Roose-
velt - for - President movement in
1940. Further reports had it that
John L. Lewis, chairman of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion and leader of the sit-down
strikes that have swept the nation,
was working toward the same end.
The President has only indirectly
disavowed such an ambition. He
said at his victory dinner:
"My great ambition on January
20, 1941, is to turn over this desk
and chair in the White House to my
successor, whoever he may be, with
the assurance that I am at the
same time turning over to him as
President a nation intact, a nation
"hum /\n „ I a
the Apex Hosiery company plant at
Philadelphia were forced t o
evacuate under a federal court evic-
tion order. During the seven weeks
the sit-downers had occupied the
plant they had wrought damage to
machinery and books totaling $3,000,-
000, according to company officials.
Nazi Fleet Moves on Valencia
C*OR the second time Germany
1 and Italy withdrew from the
four-power non-intervention patrol
of Spain, asserting that by this act
their "freedom of action" was re-
stored. Hitler immediately ordered
the strongest units of the Nazi fleet
to Valencia, the loyalist capital, the
while assuring Great Britain he
would commit no rash act. Britain,
in turn, let it be known through her
ambassador at Berlin that she
would regard any hostile act against
the Spanish government "most seri-
ously."
The reason for the Fascist nations'
withdrawal was that Great Britain
and France had refused to join
them in a naval demonstration at
Valencia to protest the alleged loy-
alist submarine attack against the
German cruiser Leipzig on May 18.
Germany and Italy, who support the
rebels, were assigned to patrol the
eastern, or loyalist, coast of Spain
under the four-power patrol agree-
ment. Although they have quit co-
operating with the patrol their ships
remain in the patrolled waters.
The "humanizing" on Jeff ergon
island was interpreted as attempts
to salvage the New Deal programs,
which have been getting a mild
kicking around in congress of late,
through, heart - to - heart talks
between Mr. Roosevelt and his sup-
porters in the Capitol.
Several pieces of attempted leg-
islation, most notably the Pres-
ident's Supreme court bill, have
apparently created a split between
the conservatives and liberals in
the Democratic party. The Presi-
dent's continued silence throughout
the C. I. O. strikes has been a fac-
tor, too. Democratic members of
congress are puzzled to decide
whether the President is unwitting-
ly bringing about the split, or is
doing so deliberately with an eye
to freezing out the conservatives
and creating a completely liberal
party. They would also like to know
whether he is silently supporting
John L. Lewis or is simply giving
the C. I. O. leader plenty of rope
with which to hang himself.
States Patrol Strike Areas
AS NATIONAL guardsmen, or-
dered out by Gov. Martin L.
Davey, arrived on the scene to pro-
tect the public peace in Ohio cities
Where C. I. O. steel strikes have
caused bloodshed and threatened
more, violence dwindled, temporar-
ily at least, to the throwing of a
few stones and choice epithets.
At Warren, troops dispersed pick-
ets and allowed loyal workmen to
move in and out of the Republic
Steel plants. A general strike which
the C. I. O. had ordered and
claimed to be 40 to 70 per cent ef-
fective was recalled after a day,
with the threat, "The next time our
men are called out, it will be on
even a larger scale."
At Youngstova the strikers were
celebrating the order by which sev-
eral hundred state troops were
forcing the four plants of Republic
and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube
company to remain closed. Then
Gov. Davey reversed his order, com-
manding troops to keep, the plants
open.
Shortly before the arrival of the
troops, in Youngstown two C. I. O.
strikers had been killed and 25 per-
sons injured as strikers and local
police fought for hours in front of
a Republic plant.
Bethlehem Steel's plant at Johns-
town, Pa., was closed and kept
closed for several days by Pennsyl-
vania state police under instructions
from Governor Earle. Martial law
was finally lifted.
Any eastward movement of the
sit-down strikes was given some-
thing of a setback when strikers in
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WORKS PROGRESS ADM^IyxS.
TRATOR HARRY L. HOP-
KINS is busy ..rimming 314,759''
names off the WPA rolls, to shave
the total to 1,655,477 by mid-July.
The cut was to be effected "simply
through not replacing men who
found jobs in private industry" and
by combing the lists for ineligibles.
WPA officials emphasized the need
for economy by comparing the es-
timated $2,175,000,000 spent in 1937
with the $1,500,000,000 approved by
congress for relief in fiscal 1938.
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Miss Perkins Names Three
TP HE federal government took a
hand in the settlement of the
dispute between John L. Lewis'
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion and the big in-
dependent steel
companies, as the
mediation board of
three, appointed by
Secretary of Labor
Frances E. Perkins,
sat in Cleveland to
hear the cases of
both sides. The
government's move
was prompted as
the steel strikes, af-
Secy. Perkins fecting plants in
several states, threatened new out-
breaks of violence which might be
beyond the powers of local or even
state governments to control. >
As the mediators began their task
of effecting a compromise, a dozen
persons had been killed in strike
riots and scores more injured since
the strike against Republic, Bethle-
hem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube,
and Inland started May 26. Eighty-
five thousand workers already had
lost approximately $10,000,000 in
wages.
Charles P. Taft II, Cincinnati
lawyer. Son of the former Presi-
dent and chief justice, and a mem-
ber of the "brain trust" of Gover-
nor Landon's presidential cam-
paign, was named chairman of the
mediation board. Appointed to sit
with him were Lloyd K. Garrison,
former president of the national la-
bor relations board, and Edward F.
McGrady, assistant secretary of la-
bor and a former A. F. of L. or-
ganizer under Samuel Gompers.
The mediation board had a job
cut out for it. It was to conduct an
investigation of the strikes and the
grievances of both sides, then make
recommendations for a settlement.
It has power to act as arbitrator
only if both sides request it to do
so. The first stumbling block it en-
countered was the refusal of Tom
Girdler, chairman of Republic, to
sit in the same room with C. I. O.
representatives.
olar Bear Nearly Kills
Mate for Her Disloyalty
A triangle drama among polar
bears nearly ended with the at-
tempted murder of the disloyal fe-
male bear at the famous Krone
circus, widely known in Europe and
other parts of the world. ,
One female bear of the group of
eleven performing stunts every
night deserted her "lover," a strong
and very jealous animal and fell
victim to the wooing of another
male "colleague" in the drama.
The jilted bear deceived his ex-
mate thoroughly by making her
feel that he did not care very much
about her anyhow, and continued
to perform wonderfully well every
night with the white-furred artists.
One day, however, when the group
took a bath, he saw his chance. As
soon as his faithless love jumped
into the water he jumped after her
and kept her under for such a long
time that everybody believed her
drowned. But she emerged alive.
believe it possible
to bring order into
the treasury without
"o drastic a meas-
ure. When it was
refused he and the 20
members of his cab-
inet resigned. lie
had served 117 days
of his Second year as
premier of France—
something of a modern record. Pres-
ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca-
mille Chautemps, radical socialist
and a former premier, to attempt the
The Popular Front government
was one of the bulwarks of leftist
tendencies in Euroue. 89 nnnnanH n
loyalists. Its passing is extremely
important in international affairs.
The Mail Must Go Through
p EDERAL warrants were issued
at Cleveland for six C. I. O.
leaders in the strike at Youngs-
town and Warren, charging them
with preventing delivery of the
United States mails to loyal em-
ployees of the steel company plants
there. Their names were not re-
vealed.
The order for the obtaining of the
warrant was given by Attorney-Gen-
eral Homer S. Cummings after he
had looked over testimony) at the
senate post office committee's hear-
ing. Charges have been made that
C. I. O. leaders were censoring the
mail in Ohio cities and refusing to
permit delivery of parcel post pack-
ages containing food, clothing and
other "irregular" articles for work-
ers in the plants.
"All mail that the post office de-
partment sees fit to attempt to
deliver must be delivered," said
Cummings. This did not conflict
with the post office department's
refusal to deliver packages to the
plants, but sought to prosecute per-
sons who would prevent the delivery
of mail the department had okayed.
B'lbao Falls at Last
DILBAO, capital of the Spanish loy-
alists, fell before an attacking
force for the first time in history; it
had withstood many
sieges dating from
medieval ages. In
the bombing and
shelling which broke
the "iron ring" of
defense the loyalists
had so steadfastly
maintained the city
was literally torn to
shreds and the death
many women and.
Gen. Franco children, was enor-
mous. But as the
Fascists moved in, parading jubi-
lantly, co take possession of the city
for Gen. * Francisco Franco, not a
shot was fired. The last defenders
had fled toward Santander, 45 miles
to the west. The Basques were es-
timated to have used 75,000 men in
defending Bilbao; 10,000 were either
killed or wounded.
Louis Is Champ by K. O.
J )E LOUIS, the "Brown Bomber"
from Detroit, became heavy-
weight boxing champion of tKe world
when he knocked out Champion
James J. Braddock of New York
in the eighth round of a scheduled
15-round bout at Chicago. A total
paid attendance of 41,675 saw the
furious battle in which the young
Golden Gloves graduate came back
to win after being knocked down
himself in the first round.
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The Tax Parade
A congressional committee
opened hearings on tax evasion
and avoidance by wealthy citizens
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau was among the first to testify.
He said the nation was losing hun-
dreds of millions of dollars in annual
revenue through <-uch tactics. Then
his under-secretary, Roswell Magiil
suggested three changes in the pres-
ent tax laws: That depletion reduc-
tions be eliminated, that community-
property provisions now in effect in
some states be circumvented, and
that higher levies be put upon the
American-earned incomes of non-
resident aliens.
The first names mentioned in the
hearings were connected with the
practice of forming foreign corpora-
tions to which individual incomes are
■transferred, a scheme which treas-
ury officials said was usually within
"the letter of the law." Among the
first names were: Philip De Ronde
former president of the Hibernia
Trust company of New York, now
Paraguayan consul in New York-
Jules S. Bache, New York banker;
Jacob Schick, ex-army officer and
electric-razor inventor, and Charles
Laughton, motion-picture actor.
Barrie's Last Curtain
CIR JAMES M. BARRIE, novelist
^ and playwright, whose whimsical
pen gave to the world many impor-
tant works of literature, including
"Peter Pan," "The Little Minister,"
Dear Brutus," and "What Every
Woman Knows," died of bronchial
pneumonia in London. He was sev-
enty-seven years old.
@ Western NcwepuVr Union.
rneys From Orient in Iron Lun^
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Frederick B. Snite, Jr., of Chicago inside the "iron lung," or respirator in which he was brought from
China. Stricken with infantile paralysis more than year ago while on a world cruise, young Snite owes his
life to the iron lung. He has been brought to the United States for treatments which, it is hoped, may result
in his eventual recovery.
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Charles P. Taft T
Heads Strike '
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Mediation Board I
Charles P. Taft, sonI of the late j
chief justice of the Supreme court, I
who is one of the meipbers of the
three-man mediation board appoint- j
ed by the U. S. Laboc.-department
at President Roosevelt^ direction to |
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of hooting if the instructions in
the book can be followed to the
letter. But it takes a wise owl to
score an ace on any course. /
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No. 2: Mental Hazard. Look out,
Mrs. Owl, you're looking up. Might
miss entirely!
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bjang about peace in the steel in-
dustry. The other members are
Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the
law school of the JJniyersity of Wis-
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sistant secretarvyrf
department's acjj'tn
kbor and the
tie shooter.
An essay on "The Importance of Mosquito Control and the Gorgas
Memorial" brought a check of $500 to William L. Drake, Jr., of Mil-
waukee, Wis. The check was presented to young Drake in the White
House. Photograph shows, left to right, Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, who
donated the prize; William Drake, receiving the award from Presiden
Aiij"'""*1 '*>— ^ ntirl Senator K Rvai
Wisconsin. The essay contest was the eighth annual in memory
Gen. William C. Gorgas.
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Private Frank Kaufhold, of the Second air base at Mitchell f|e'd,
N. Y., seerns amazed as he hears Mitchell field's new rrtechanical bug e
blow the familiar strains of "Reveille." His own bugle is now outmoded
with the new contraption that has been adopted here. Although it t^kes
some of the romance from army life, bugle calls, mechanical ones we
mean, now have exceptional clarity and perfection.
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No. 3: Approach,
moment, but aren't
to see in the dark?
This is a dark
owls supposed
A close-up of Robert Sweeny,
handsome Anglo-American, v.ith the
cup emblematic of the British ama-
teur golf championship v. hich he re-
cently won in a 3S-hole final match
with fifty-year-old Lionel Munn at
Sandwich, England. The twenty-
five-year-old American-born Lon-
doner won by three and two.
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No. 4; Rimming the Cup. Never
up, never in, is the old golf adage.
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takes steady nerves and a good
heart. If you don't crack you're
likely to get a "birdie" here.
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boys, members of the ISationai xouin vi], Eastport. Maine, the model com
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been taken over by 1 le N Y. A. for the purpose of vocational training.
"Dentist Fish" at London Zoo
aU*ur flsh with its rod
and bait and the tailor flsh with its
shears-like jaws there has now
been added a "dentist flsh" to the
aquarium at the London zoo. This
flsh, according to The Observer,
actually uses its tubular snout to
extract food particles from between
the teeth of large voracious sea
perch. As in most coral fishes, the
newcomers are gorgeously tinted,
wearing vivid silver liveries, striped
with orange and black.
Plying Hookey I
Schools Statf
I Philadelphia.
hookey any m«r
Take it fron( the I
State Education
boys and girls must
sons these days. . .
records are any critt.
The association has
of statistics which pr<
nine-tenths of one per
can figure that one <
gs in
;stics Show
don't play
Pennsylvania
ition, the
their les-
attendance
a lot
that only
if you
: the ab-
sentees in Philadelphia public
schools might be classed as a case
of hookey-itis.
Back in 1915, the percentage of at-
tendance was 88.8 per cent. In 1925-
26, it was 89.7, and last year the fig-
ure was 91.2.
Now, of the absent 8.8 per cent,
only nine-tenths of one per cent
failed to bring excuses from home.
Even in the rural districts about
the little old red brick schoolhouse,
the ancient practice of playing hook-
ey is not blamed for vacant desks*
No, it's usually snow or bad roads
in the spring or colds that keep the
kids home from school.
Flaws in Diamonds
A diamond of the "first water"
is invisible when submerged, in
water. A second-water stone has
some slight imperfection . . . flaw-
less, but tinged with color ... or
colorless with some slight flaw. The
average person cannot recognize
the common flaws found in ordinaty
diamonds.
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No. 6: Follow Through. But there's
a caddy down here who says you
kicked one while you were in the
rough. "Hoo-oo-oo? Hoo-oo-oo-oo?"
No. ?: Holed Out.
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Watts, W. R. The Naples Monitor (Naples, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1937, newspaper, July 2, 1937; Naples, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329512/m1/3/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.