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PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS, TEXAS
July 28,1938
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New* Review of Current Events
BLACKLISTED BY LEWIS
More Than Forty Democratic Congressmen Marked
For Opposition by His Political Agency
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Vincent Meyer, farmer of Juhiison 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, Kita,
'James, Joseph and Vincent Meyer, Roy M. Green of the Washington
bureau of the corporation, and Roy Turner, Johnson county bureau super-
intendent.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
C.I.O. Proposes a Purge
MORE 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-
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
A chiefly on their
stand on the wage-
John L. Lewis hour bin. 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-
liour 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 if 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 and Martin Dies of Texas.
All four Republican committee
members wore on the blacklist.
They are Joseph W. Martin of Mas-
sachusetts; Carl 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
Whitdngton 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
DOUGLAS P. CORRIGAN, a
young airplane motor expert
from California, couldn'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
laughingly declared in Dublin that
he had 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.
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.
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British Monarchs in Paris
T7TNG 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,
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Wheat Allotment
U R. TOLLEY, AAA administra-
tor, announced a national
wheat allotment for fall and spiiug
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 signed 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.
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H. R. Tolley
Queen Marie Dies
l~\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
asccnded 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.
Insull Dies in Paris
SAMUEL 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 foi 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
Insulls 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
"XITHILE 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.
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.
— Speaking of Sports—
Football Ace
Chapman Is
Diamond Star
By GEORGE A. BARCLAY
CAM CHAPMAN used to boot foot-
1 balls over Pacific coast goals
last fall and help Stub Allison's Uni-
versity of California Golden Bears
smear iheir opponents.
Now Sam belts baseballs around
American league parks and helps
Connie Mack's Athletics stay in the
pennant race.
The metamorphosis of this All-
American football player into a star
outfielder has baseball wiseacres
shaking their heads. Sam has vio-
lated the axiom which says that
star football players never make
star baseball players. He stepped
wT the Ciirr.j>u» without any minor
league seasoning and because of
the way he has been pounding the
ball, has won himself a regular
berth in the Athletics outfield.
Chapman was rated the best back
on the Pacific coast last year. He
was the spark plug in the attack
which gave the California machine
a 13 to 0 victory over Alabama in
the Rose Bowl game on New Year's
day.
When the grid season was over,
Sam turned to baseball. He devel-
oped something of a reputation as a
slugger and had big league scouts
trailing him around the college cir-
cuit. The big league training sea-
son came and went and while Sam
had his ears cocked for offers, he
decided to wait until a real bid
turned up.
Ty Cobb, the retired Immortal of
baseball, had been watching him
and growing more enthusiastic all
the time. Finally he got hold of
E.F.Andrews
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SAM CHAPMAN
Connie Mack and told him to grab
Rummy as a sure-fire "natural." "I
told you once I'd never recommend
a ball player," Ty said, "but I've
got to this time. This kid Chapman
has a future "
[58,500 Bonus
Howard
Hughes
Hughes' Great Flight
U 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
than three days off
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
ana 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
JAPAN 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 as possible sites for the 1940
games.
Mack, who has always had a
weakness for college men, offered
Sam an $8,500 bonus for signing
with him.
Chapman thought it was a good
idea, accepted, and joined the team
early in May. He got into the line-
up almost right away and began
banging the ball all over the lot.
| In his first five weeks in the league,
he got 44 hits in 123 times at bat,
including nine home runs. And he
has contributed punch to a hustling,
hard-hitting ball club that can give
any team in the league a run for its
money.
He isn't a finished fielder yet,
but he's learning rapidly and under
Connie Mack's tutelage does a sat-
isfactory job of playing batters
properly.
Not many college men have
! stepped off the campus and into the
I big leagues to stay. Few if any
great football players have accom-
plished this feat. Sammy Baugh,
who has been a sensation as a pass-
j heaver for the Washington Redskins
in the National Professional Foot-
| ball league, failed to make the grade
this year as a member of the St.
Louis Cardinals and even faded
when he was farmed out to Colum-
bus in the American association.
There have, of coursc, been some
great college players, like Eddie
Collins, Frankie Frisch and Ted Ly-
nns, but their specialty in college
was not football. One exception was
Riggs Stephenson, who pacctl the
Chicago's Cubs outfield a few years
ago. The "Or IIoss," who was one
Df the most consistent hitters of his
day in the National league, was an
all-American fullback at Alabama
during the World war.
Besides Sammy Baugh, three
classic examples of Ail-Americans
who failed in big league tryouts
were: Jim Thorpe, who couldn't
make the grade with the New York
Giants many years ago, Ernie Nev-
ers, who was a flop when the St.
uouis Browns tried to turn him into
a diamond performer and Earl Cald-
well, famous Yale back who faded
rapidly when the Cleveland Indians
put a uniform on him.
Sam Chapman looks like the glit-
tering exception to this somber list.
At present writing he appears to
have licked the jinx that follows star
football players from the gridiron
to the baseball diamond.
Night Baseball
T^HE success of night baseball,
pioneered by the Cincinnati Reds
a couple of years ago and Intro-
duced with satisfying financial re-
turns by the Brooklyn Dodgers re-
cently, indicates that before very
long floodlights will be part of the
equipment of every big league ball
park. In its first two games after
dark, Brooklyn drew 66,000 patrons
through the turnstiles—considerably
more than would have come in the
afternoon.
The results at Cincinnati thus far
have been equally favorable. So
there is little reason to doubt that
night baseball would draw well in
other big league cities.
Few teams do very much busi-
ness on week days. The average
fan does not find it possible to at-
Joe Di Maggio
Leo Hartnett
tend such games regularly. The
chance of actually seeing a game
after dinner instead of reading
about it in the box scores should
prove attractive. All things being
equal, the average man would just
as soon see Joe Di Maggio or Gabby
Hartnett in action on a ball field as
he would watch Clark Gable or
William Powell on the screen. Night
baseball, however, would not be
a serious competitor to the movies,
because only- a dozen games at
most would be scheduled during a
154-game season by any team.
A number of big league magnates
and managers look with rather sour
eyes on night baseball. Bill Terry,
manager of the Giants will have
none of it. But with the demon-
stration of proved success in two
big league cities, it seems inev-
itable that it will be adopted gen-
erally in the big time.
Here and There
("~\NLY three of the eighteen play.
ers who made up the National
league All-Star team of 1933 were
included in the 1938 roster. They
were Gabby Hartnett of the Cubs,
Carl Hubbell of the New York
Giants and Tony Cuecinello of the
Bees. The other 15 have either
drifted out of the league or have
slipped out of the star class . . .
The longevity of stars seems great-
er in the American league, for nine
of the original eighteen were includ-
ed on this year's All - American
baseball team. They were Lefty
Gomez, Bill Dickey and Lou Geh-
rig of the Yanks; Bob Grove, Joe
Cronin and Jimmy Foxx of the Bos-
ton Red Sox; Rick Ferrell of the
Washington Senators; Charley Geh-
ringer of the Detroit Tigers and
Earl Averill of the Cleveland In-
dians.
A Rhodes scholarship at Oxford,
or $22,500 a year with the Pittsburgh
Pirates in professional football were
the offers which Whizzer White, Col-
orado university's great halfback
had to consider recently. He chose
the Oxford scholarship. The deci-
sion was his own, too. He asked
his father for advice, but White pere
insisted on leaving it up to him.
Comeback Trail
r)OWN In the Texas league, fans,
managers and scouts are
watching the performance of two
young men who until last year were
pitching sensations in the big
leagues—Schoolboy Rowe, former-
ly of the Detroit Tigers, and Paul
Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Shipped to the minors this year by
SCHOOLBOY ROWE
their respective clubs, these fel-
lows are trying a comeback trail
that will land them in the big show
again.
Should the pitching magic that
once made them great return to the
arms of these athletes, they will find
a hearty welcome back in the ma-
jors, for the Tigers could use Rowe
and the St. Louis Cards might cease
floundering if they had a pitcher of
the caliber Paul Dean used to be.
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But They Only Get
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-Attacks
on Mt. Everest, 29,141-foot world
summit, are of little scientific
value, states John E. Burchard.
With nothing of scientific value
known or likely to be found above
20,000 feet, the crampon-shod feet
of the oxygen-starved climbers
wearily plod upward through a
barren region, containing nothing
but ice and snow.
Tired, Says Savant
Five British, two German, and
several oilier expeditions have
already attempted to reach Ever-
est's summit, to be turned back,
literally within sight of their goal,
by weather conditions. In 1924,
Mallory and Irvine, members of a
British expedition, climbed up-
ward into the cloud-veiled region
near the summit pyramid, and
were never seen again.
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Climaxing a long battle by
humanitarian forces, the new
wage-hour bill recently enacted
carries a provision outlawing
child laborers under fourteen
years of age except in seasonal
and other specified industries.
For years the practice of ex-
ploiting youngsters has result-
ed in undermined physiques
and poorly developed minds.
But in defense of the practice
parents have claimed their
own salaries were insufficient
to keep the family. Certainly
a just amount of hard work
never hurt any child, but cases
shown here are exceptional.
Long hours in mills, carrying
heavy bundles to and from the
cleaner or laboring under a
tropical sun to cultivate sugar
beets are unquestionably detri-
mental to any growing child.
Let childhood be set aside for physical and mental development,
with laboring days to come later, is the plea of child welfare workers.
But this youngster must become a breadwinner as soon as she is capable.
Oldsters may scoff at child labor legislation. This boy would prob-
ably be happier at play, but who can draw the line between healthful
work and harmful work?
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