The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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1—Dr. Frederlco Laredo Bru being «worn in aa president of Cuba, following the ousting of Pre
Miguel Gomez. 2—Leon Trotzky, former Soviet leader who has been given an exile haven in Mexico.
National army that threatened civil war before the release of kidnaped Marshal Chiang Kai-shek
PRODIGY OF PIANO
Wins Chicken-Eating Championship
Slenczynski, eleven-year-old
of the piano, who, when she
dé her debut in New York at the
of eight, could barely reach the
of the piano, la shown above
she stretches her fingers—two
over an octave.
Using a two-handed, harmonica style technique with devas
feet, Mrs. Edna Mae Potter is pictured as she ate her way to
Los Angeles county champion chicken eater trophy, feature of
show. Consuming 4S pounds of a roaster-dressing combination,'
feated four men for the prize.
'Madamoiselles Vie in Cross Country Race
sWapei
ice at^t.
I pes of all sizes, blondes and brunettes, tall and svelte, short and stumpy—the annual cross ci
race af§t. Cloud, near Paris, France recently was open to all. Here you see the fleid charging over $
at rough terrain, Mile. Fanchon was the victor.
Winners of Rhodes Scholarships
75th Birthday of
Finnish President
Widely Celebrated
President Pchr Evind Svlnhufvud
of Finland whose seventy-fifth birth-
day was celebrated throughout the
country with great enthusiasm re-
Ntwa, Thursday,
(5
14. 1937
By Edward W. Pickard
are In order and the four lucky ones felicltau. each
clicks. They aro four collegians selected for Rhodes
middle Atlantic district Standing are Harvey Well-
erry* N. Y„ student at Cornell university, and Nelson
N. Y., a student at Lehigh. Sitting—Robert Hart-
N. J., attending Yale, and James R. Gardner, of
cently. He was hailed
of his country and praise^
ing a protracted fight for I
tutlonal rights of Finia
czarist Russian oppress!
General Strike Threatened
General Motors Plants
ENERAL MOTORS corpora-
TION flatly refused to consider
collective bargaining in its 60 plants
Mcept through local management.
Whereupon 300 dele-
gates from those
plants in ten cities
met in Flint. Mich.,
and granted to a
"board of strategy"
power to order a
general strike. The
board is headed by
Homer Martin, in-
1^1 ternational president
Ik'" the Umtcd Auto-
' mobile Workers of
EdwsrtF. America, one of the
Mcurady Lewjs c j 0 un.
j ions. Ten of the corporation's plants
already were closed by sit-down
strikes and walkouts, and 37,000 of
j its employees were idle.
Edward P. McGrady, assistant
i secretary of labor, who has spent
| three months in futile effort to stop
the maritime walkout on the Pacific
| coast,' hurried back to Washington
to take a hand in the General Mo-
i tors strike. Afte.- reporting to Sec-
retary Perkins, this chief mediator
held a conference with John L. Lew-
is. Miss Perkins already had dis-
cussed the situation with Lewis,
seeking data on which conciliation
could be recommended, though she
said this would not be undertaken
a once.
The auto workers in their Flint
meeting, besides creating the board
of strategy with power to call a
strike, approved of eight demands
on the corporation ranging from rec-
ognition of their union to higher
wages and shorter hours. They also
appointed a committee to negotiate
with the corporation.
William S. Knudsen, executive
vice president of General Motors,
declared the company never would
agree to collective bargaining on a
national basis and. despite strikes,
would continue to produce automo-
biles as long as possible.
The prime object of the C. I. O. is
organization of the steel industry,
and the crisis, in the automotive in-
dustry was not expected by Lewis
and his associates or wanted at this
time. However, they are giving the
auto workers their full support, mor-
ally and financially!
In the Youngstown district the
number of idle steel workers rose to
about 1,000 when the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company suspended
operations in its strip mill because
of "stop" orders from automobile
customers.
Milburn L. Wilson Gets
Rex Tugwell's Place
Vi ILBURN L. WILSON of Mon-
*** tana, who has been serving as
an assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, has been made undersecretary
of the department to succeed Rex-
ford G. Tugwell, resigned. Wilson's
post was given to Harry L. Brown,
a dirt farmer who rose from herds-
man on an Iowa hog farm to be di-
rector of Georgia's agricultural ex-
tension service.
j William H. Moran retired as chief
of the secret service with the close
of the year and was succeeded by
Frank J. Wilson, whose detective
work was largely responsible for the
conviction of Al Capone on income
tax evusion charges,
Charles T. Fisher, Jr., resigned
as a director of the Reconstruction
Finance corporotion to become
banking commissioner of Michigan.
He had been with the RFC since
its creation
Herbert Hitchcock New
South Dakota Senator
TOM BERRY, before retiring
from the governorship of South
Dakota, appoinied Herbert Hitch-
cock of Mitchell, S. D., to llll out
the term of the late Senator Peter
Norbeck. The new senator is Demo-
cra.ic state chairman and his ap-
pointment brings the Democratic
membership of the senate to 70. the
highest party total .in history. The
Republicans now number 18.
Mr. Hitchcock was born In Ma-
quoketa, la., In 1807 and was edu-
cated at Anamosa, Davenport and
Chicago. He went to Mitchell In
18M and was admitted to the bar
two years later. He was president
of the school board in his home
town tor ten years and state's at-
torney four years. He served as
state senator in 1809. 1911, and 1929.
Naval Treaty Expires;
Building Race Is On
AT THE close of 1930 the Wash-
ington and uondon naval treat-
ies expired, and a great naval con-
struction race started among the
powers. Great Britain got off well
In the lead, for on New Year's day
•he laid the keels of two huge bat-
tleships, the George V and the
Prince of Wales. The British pro-
gram calls for the building of 78
new vessels at a cost of nearly a
billion dollars. The British also are
understood to be planning to rebuild
the Hongkong and Pacific bases.
Accotding to Jane's Fighting
Ships, authoritative naval yearbook,
the United States has 89 warships
under construction or planned;
Italy, 88; France, 43; Germany, 39;
Japan, 38.
Though no figures were given for
soviet Russia, it is known the Reds
are planing to launch a sea pro-
gram which will bring their naval
strength up to that of their land
forces, now the largest in the world.
Information in Washington says
the United States has and will have
under construction 93 warships. It
expects to increase its personnel
by almost 10 per cent and build up
a strong naval reserve. The ships
will include light and heavy cruis-
ers, destroyers, and submarines.
President on Child Labor
and Starvation Wages
Elimination of child labor,
long working hours and starva-
tion wages is a necessity, and must
be carried out by the federal gov-
ernment since it cannot be done by
state action. So declared President
Roosevelt In his press conference.
He warned the correspondents not
to say he was planning to revive
the NRA and insisted all he could
say at present was that someUiing
should be done to fix maximum
hours and minimum wages.
Since the day of the NRA. said
Mr. Roosevelt, there has been a
steady decline in child labor, gruel-
ing hours and starvation wages by
00 per cent of American business.
As for the other 10 per cent, he
said, they were still fulling to live
up to the best standards since the
death of the NRA.
Attorneys for the American Fed-
eration of Labor were reported to
be about ready to submit to the
President a bill designed to restore
labor protective features lost in the
death of NRA. It provides that
congress catalogue unfair "con-
duct" which would be forbidden to
employers and assure workers ade-
quate protection. Violations would
be punishable by a tine. The fed-
eration is expected also to back
federal licensing of interstate cor-
porations us provided by the O'Ma-
honey bill.
President
Laredo Bru
Mellon Offers Great Art
Collection to Nation
ANDREW W MELLON, Pitts-
burgh multimillionaire and for-
mer secretary of the treasury, has
offered ¡o present to the nation his
magnificent art col-
lection, valued at
t23.000.000, together
with a $9,000.000
building for its hous-
ing in Washington
and a fund for its
maintenance and in-
crease. The offer is
made through Presi-
dent Roosevelt, with
whom Mr. Mellon
has been in corre-
spondence and con-
ference on the mat-
ter. It will be submitted to con-
gress with the President's favorable
recommendation.
The Mellon collection, part of
which Is stored in the Corcoran art
gallery in Washington, includes
many paintings of highest Impor-
tance and some line works of sculp-
ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank. head
of a celebrated art Arm, says that
its actual value is more than $50,-
000,000 and that it is the "grcutest
collection ever assembled by any
individual collector."
Andrew
Mellon
Chang Gets Ten Years
but Is Pardoned
Marshal chang hsueh
LIANG, who kidnaped Gene-
ralissimo Chiang Kui-shck, dictator
of China, and then repented, was
courtmartialed at Nanking and sen-
tenced to ten years in prison. How-
ever. the government listened to
Chiang's plea for mercy and agreed
to give Chang a full pardon. The
government rejected for the third
time Chiang's resignation of his mil-
itary and civil posts.
There wns much speculation In
Shanghai on probable political re-
adjustments. One newspaper pre-
dicted the early dismissal of six
•o-called pro-Japanese officials of
the national government and the
appointment of a number of left-
wingers including Mine. Sun Yat-
sen, widow of the "Father of the
New China." She has advocated a
communist regime and alliance
with Moscow.
Nebraska's Unicameral
Legislature Opens
AS NEBRASKA'S unicameral
legislature, unique in the Unit-
ed States, was about to begin its
first session, Gov. R. L. Cochran de-
clared politics was out. He dis-
couraged party caucuses among the
members and said he would have
no spokesman in the legislature.
The governor pointed out that the
constitution provides that the one-
house chamber shall be non-parti-
san and that the voters had done
their part by electing, on a non-poll-
tical ticket, aa Democrats and at
Republicans.
Robinson Wants Federal
Law on Baaie Pay
UNLESS Joe Robinson Is wrong
In his predictions, congress will
at this aeaslon adopt a constitutional
amendment to provide for the regu-
lation of wages and hours of work
either by the states or by the federal
government. The Democratic ma-
jority leader of the senate promised
that this would be done, and at the
same time he bitterly attacked Su-
preme court decisions which, he
said, now make such regulation im-
possible. The senator was especi-
ally aevere in his comments on the
decision in the New York state wage
case, declaring:
"It is simply incomprehensible—it
is ridiculous—that there should ex-
ist no legal means for protecting
a woman or a child from working as
long as anybody can extort money
from them. I don't hesitate to say
that the Supreme court opinion in
the New York case ought to be re-
versed and the American bar by a
great majority supports that view-
point. That opinion was bad law."
■V
Mrs. Hattie W.
Caraway
Bru Plans Settlement
of Cuban Obligations
Federico laredo bru. the
new president of Cuba, proposes
to settle all Cuban
obligations in the
United Stales and is
expected soon to In-
vite the bankers and
bondholders con-
cerned to enter
negotiations to that
end. Credit for in-
ducing Bru to do
this is given to Col.
Fulgencio Batista,
who appears to be
largely in control of
affairs in the island.
The obligations include about $75.-
000,000 owed to many Americans
; who Invested in public work gold
bonds which were issued during the
administration of President Gerar-
do Machado.
The new constitution which the
Cuban congress recently voted orig-
' inaily prohibited any such negotia-
tions as those contemplated beforo
1940, but when it appeared in the of-
ficial gazette that article hud been
radically altered. It now orders the
government to find a satisfactory
way to settle all debts to the United
States before 1940 and authorizes
the president to open negotiations
Immediately.
j This "error" in the gazette's com-
posing room is supposed to have
been ordered by Colonel Batista,
and though congress has the power
to correct it. a majority of con-
gressmen, after reading the artl-
I cle In the gazette, gave it their ap-
proval. , - .
Spain Plans to Resist
German Aggression
GERMAN warships continued to
halt Spanish steamers, in re-
prisal for the seizure of the Nazi
freighter Palos by the Basques; and
the Spanish government made ready
to resist such action to the best of
its ability. Foreign Minister Julio
Alvarez del Vayo said: "We are
firmly resolved, come whut may,
not to permit another single aggres-
sion from the German fleet and to
reply as soon as they occur with
all the means at our command "
The Valencia government an-
nounced through its Paris embassy
a flat refusul of a German offer to
cease molesting Spanish shipping
if the cargo of the Palos and a Spa-
nish passenger were returned.
Fascist planes rained incendiary
bombs on Malaga, setting flre to
many buildings and killing or in-
juring hundreds of men. women and
children. The loyalist forces wi-re
reported to have recaptured Alma-
drones on the Guadulajaru front af-
ter three days of heavy lighting.
Ginger Cookies
3 cupfuls moiasses
1 cupful sugar
1 cupful cold water
lMi cupfuls lard
10 teospoonfuls ground ginger
5 teuspoonfuls soda
4 eggs
Enough flour to make a nica
dough.
Roll moderately thin and out
with cookie cutter. Bake well but
not too fast. Makes large quantity,
i'opyritfltt — WNIJ Mtfi vict*.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
One hundred years ago thera
was published in Copenhagen m
pamphlet, badly printed on poor
paper and bound between thin
blue paper covers. Its author and
publisher were faint hearted
about the enterprise. Thus did the
first series of Hans Christian An-
dersen's Fairy Tales appear.
Hans Andersen, as he is known
in Denmark, was one of the found-
ers of modern Danish. He intro-
duced Danish language into Dan-
ish prose, and before his death
Denmark credited his name with
national holiday in honor of his
birth.
Dr. Pierre's Favorite Prescription Is*
tunic which lias been helping women
of ail ages for nearly 70 years. Adv.
Man as Nature
Nature is undei law; man has to
subject himself to law.
EMINENT DOCTORS WROTE
THIS OPINION!
"... colds result from
acid condition of the
body... they prescribe
various alkalies" ex*
cerpt from medical journal. The
ALKALINE FACTOR in
LVDEN'S
MENTHOL COUGH DROPS 5/
hum auno up voua
ALKALINE RESERVE
Fatigue Forgotten
On the day of victory no fatigue
is felt.—Arab Proverb.
Don't Bleep
on Lett 9me,
Crowds Heart
MS PNCSSVK MAT CAME
RWHT HOt NIT.
If you toss In b«d and can't sfsep «•
right sido, try Adltrika. Just ONE
dots relieves stomseh OAS presalne
on heart so you sissp soundly.
Adlsriks acts on BOTH upper and
low r bowels and brinos out fout
mattsr you would nsvsr believe wsa
In your systsm. This old matter may
havo polsonsd you for months ana
causad OAS, aour stomseh, headache
or nsrvouinsss.
Or. #• I" Shmmh, Htm Ymrk, nmuru«
•i* mlJItU■« la IumImI tlmmmtimt, AdUrikm
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Mrs. Jas. Filler: "Oas on my stem-
sch was so bad I could not oat or
alssp. Even my hosrt sssi. id to hurt.
The first dos* of Adlsrlka brought ma
rslisf. Now I sat aa I with, slatp fine
and nsver felt butter."
Oivs your bowsls a RBAL cleansing
With Adlarika and see how good you
feel. Just ONE dose relieves OAS and
constipation. At all Leading Druggists.
Britain and Italy Sign
Mediterranean Pact
GREATBRITAIN and Italy signed
a treaty concerning the Medi-
terranean that is of the highest im-
portance, Italy first pledging itself
to keep hands off Spanish territory.
In the public declaration are these
three leuding statements:
The interests of Brituin and Italy
In the Mediterrunenn do not con-
flict but on the contrary are
"parallel."
The two powers announce they
rccognize their respective maritime
rights in the Mediterranean, mean-
ing that Italy will huve a free access
to the oceans by way of Gibraltar
and the Suez canal and that Brit-
ain'* imperial trade route to India
will remain free and inviolate.
Britain and Italy announce to all
the world thut they favor preserving
the stutus quo everywhere in the
Mediterranean.
States Get $200,000,000
for Road Improvement
CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
^ WALLACE haa Just apportioned
$200,000,000 to the states for road
Improvement. Of this sum $120,-
800.000 will go toward improvement
of the federal-aid highway system,
$29,000,000 for Improving secondary
or farm-to-market roads, and $00,-
000,000 for grade crossing elimina-
tion.
The fund Is for use during the fis-
cal year beginning July 1, 1937, and
funds for Improvement of roads
must be matched by the states.
Grade crossing elimination funds
ñoñi not be mstehed. Highway
projects selected, contrscts and
specifications sre subject to federal
approval after designation by state
commissions.
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