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, British Prime Minister
e Chamberlain had received
trances but merely Benito
[fs threat to end the Span-
i war immediately by helping
_bel| against Loyalists. That done,
Duce would have his hands free
press Mediterranean territorial
nands against France. England
France1 could choose between
unking the Loyalists or keeping
hands off and letting Mussolini win
-toa'war. Since Chamberlain had
reportedly made np concessions in
it was first tfronghl-AJgMi-
of non-appeasement was
Rome,
policy
dawning, inferring a Franco-British
\ plump for the Loyalists.
But within a few days some nega-
tive results of the Rome conversa-
tions were apparent. Back in Lorn
don, Mr. 'Chamberlain paid no at-
tention to a letter from Clement-R.
Attlee, Parliament's labor leader:
"It is obvious that the policy of non-
intervention (in Spain) has now be-
ly Joseph W. La Bine—i
rent parity payments of *212,000,-
000, congress is in no mood to take
the initiative.' It may well be that
this indecision is responsible, for re-
vival of last year's McAdoo-Eicher
farm bill. Just reintroduced in house
and senate respectively by North
Dakota's Rep. William Lemke and
Sen. Lynn J. Frazier. ItS crux:
Minimum cost-of-production-price
levels would be established for do-
mestically consumed* farm jjrod-
ucts, while ail surplus products
would be dumped on world markets
for whatever they would bring. Pro-
ceeds, less marketing costs, would
be returned to the farmer.
Cost-of-production' critics argue
that removal of crop restrictions
would glut the market, dfive prices
down and force grain dealers to pay
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Mr. Chamberlain ignored his letter.
come the means of insuring that the
Spanish (Loyalist) government shall
be linable to provide for its defense
against aggression by a foreign
power."
In Paris, where first news of
Chamberlain's alleged non-appease-
jment was greeted by demands for
French assistance to Loyalist Spain
as a self-defense measure, later
news from London brought a cool-
ing off. The whispers: That Cham-
berlain had secretly agreed with
Mussolini to let Rebel Spain "win-,
constituting an additional appease-
ment at the expense of France.
Whatever the cause, the Paris
chamber of deputies felt obliged to
approve Foreign Minister Georges
Bonnet's declaration decreeing
"hands, off" in Spain.
Meanwhile, - despite disastrous
losses in northeastern Catalonia,
Spain's Loyalists felt their cause
was not defeated. Authoritatively
reported from Paris was the fact
that Loyalists had reached, an un-
derstanding with the Vatican, aided
by a growing Catholic opinion that
Rebel Generalissimo Francisco
Franco may be using the religious
issue merely as a cloak for his fun-
damental •FascisJ^aims. Neverthe-
less, Loyalist Spain still has much
weaker friends than Gejieral Fran-
co, who continues to get aid from
both Italy and Germany.
Pressing their current advantage,
Berlin and Rome are hastening dip-
lomatic victories in the east before
Britain gets around to calling a new
four-power conference for European
peace. While Italy's County Gal-
leazo Ciano visits in Jugoslavia and
Warsaw, Germany ia making hay
in at least three eastern countries:
(1) A $60,000,000 credit agreement
has been signed with Turkey for de-
livery of German manufactured
goods; (2) Germany has accredited
^ minister to Saudi Arabia; (3) Hun-
gary and Germany have tightened
their bonds.
Agriculture ,
-When commodity price* drop, U.
co-operating in the AAA
iti® program receive parity
pajmimt^'rdeaigqed I*"- maintain
power. Under the
AAA -parity payments j$lme
processing taxes, later out-
twed by the Supreme court Un-
second AAA parity pay-
ely increase the federal
sine* last winter1* -congress
no provision for_them. This
WM brought to con-
in President Roose-
at budget message.
t even the President has failed
means of financing the
r havttt merely stipulated
new taxes shall b« levied
ease the consumers' bur-
taxes would do
ttary of Agriculture
lee favors pulling this
bag once more, hpp-
i Supreme court will
Secretary of the
iu, whose
handle the Mai,
market price and the cost-of-produc-
tion price. This margin, it is main-
tained, would eventiiaUybe assessed
against the consumer.
Taxation
Two former U. S. treasury secre-
taries, Andrew W- MellQn and Og-,
den L. Mills, condemned the in-
equity of tax exempt federal, state
and,local bonds. Since .his "soak-
the-rich" revenue proposal of 1935,
President Roosevelt has fought t^x
exempt securities and one other un*-I
popular exemption, that on federal,
state and local employees' salaries.
If these exempliOni could be abol-
ished the U. S. government figures
it would net eventually $300,000,000
annually from government securi-
ties. plus $16,000,000 from employ-
ees' income taxes.
One day before the President of-
fered this program to congress in
a special message, he sent Treas-
ury Undersqyrfetaty John W. Hanes
to pave the way bGfOT-e „ a special
senate committee. Said Mr. Hanes:
'.'The time for action has come."
. The Constitution's- Sixteenth
amendment gives congress power to
"lay and collect taxes on incomes
from whatever source derived."
therefore the administration thinks
statutory enactment rather than
constitutional amendment will suf-
fice. Later, after congress has spo-
ken, the courts candeCide whether
its action is constituticfhal. Argued
Mr. Hanes:
Tax exempt securities ,now per-
mit many large-income persons to
escape income taxes entirely, there-
fore they are unfair. The $65,000,-
000,000 in tlx exempt securities now
outstanding (of which some $50,000,-
000,000 would be taxable) is so for-
midable that it discourages invest-
ment in private enterprises~~tlivolv-
ing risk. Thus industry cannot com-
pete. As for income tax exemp-
tions, the U. S. Supreme court has
alre^d^ set a precedent by ruling
that salaries of such quazirpublic
agencies as the Port of Neiv York
authority are subject to federal tax-
ation.
As might be expected, state and
local groups jumped into the fight,
overnight. Argued the Conference
"River of Death
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HELLO EVERYBODY:
Here's a yarn of two men who followed a dog—al-
most to their doom. One of these men Was Fred Rowan of
Pelham,. N. Y. The other jvas his friend and hunting com-
panion, Bat. t—*-. .
Fred was working down in Costa Rica in 1922, as over-
seer of a banana farm. Bat was another young American
who also worked on the plantation. On New Year's morn-
ing, the pair of them startecTout oira hunting trip, taking
along Bat's dog. And that mutt led them into the worst
spot either of them had ever been in in their lives.
The dog. Frethsaysr-was-^a brainless animal,.untrained
Brown Bomber Strikes Again
and more trouble than he was worth oh a hunting trip. They
had crossed a bridge over a river, struck into the tropical
jungle along a well khotfh frail, and had been hunting for an
hour when the dog ran off into tiii? underbrush and, a few
moments later, set up a terrific yelping.
Bat yelled: "Come on—the pigs have him!" And the two men were
off the trail, crashing through matted brush to save the dog from the
wild pigs of the region which would tear him to, pieces in no time. They
plunged intCk^ow, swampy land and found the; dog. To Fred's disgust
there were no pifife. The cause of all the commotion was a little moth,
eaten swamp squirrel.
_ Rain Drives Them Toward Higher Ground. .
At that moment it started raining, as only it can rain in the tropics.
Hastily the two men started back in what they thought was the direction
of higher ground. "But," says Fred, "we couldn't see more than 30 feet
ahead through the dense vegetation, and soon we were hopelessly mud-
dled. All day long we tried this direction and' that, but tt) no avail.
Seldom hat Twentieth Century tporldom teen a figure to
ational and consistently spectacular at Joe Louis, heavy•
treight champion irfur irffpt ft'f "" /'"tf 22, 1937 by
knocking out Jamet J. Braddock in the teventh round, of a
tcheduled 15 round bout, Joe Louit it again in the newt be-
cause he ritkt hit title again January 27, Negro Louit (above
left) will fight John Henry Lewit (above right), light heavy-
weight titleholder and also a Negro, a boxer whote success hat
been almost at tensational as that of the "brown bomberIn
1937 he rose like
lightning, winning 11
out of 12 bouts.- But
Joe Louis has fought
I about 39 times since
j July 4, 1934, and has
lost only once. That
teas when Max
Schmeling, the Ger-
man, knocked him
out in the 12th round
cannot
HMPIvok
TREASURY'S HANES
"The time foF aetiiAi has- ctrme-."—
of State Defense: Tax yield would
not approa'ch the immediate treas-
ury estimate of $70,000,000 a year.
Moreover it would work hardship on
states and municipalities by increas-
ing, financing costs. The statutory,
procedure would be unconstitution-
al. Most important, once congress'
power to tax income of state and lo-
cal securities has been, established,
a situation could arise in which con-
gress would" "attempt, ^to tax state
revenues. Argued the u^S. Confer-
ence of-Mayors, in a similar vein:
Federal and state governments may
recoup from income taxes the high-
er costs to municipalities, in interest
on their bonds.
Observers thought income tax ex-
emption-couldj&e repealed easily.'
but were less confident about tax
exempt securities.
He covered the crossing with a big automatic rifie.
Stumbling over vines and roots, we floundered helplessly in that tropic
] swamp. Late in the afternoon we came out on a bit of solid ground
! beside the river. We tried to head upstream, but ran into another
- swamp. We made our way back to the high ground and all night we
| huddled there, cold and' wet, with the rain dinning in our ears. Dawn
! found us wretched with hunger and thir,stv for with all the water around
; us, none of it was safe to driftk. Across the river we.could see waving
banana leaves. Over there would be trails, and a trolley line leading to
'the railroad. If we could only get across."
But to get across that river meant swimming—and the river
was full of alligators. On the other hand, it would be almost
as bad to go back into the jungle. In front of Fred's eyes was
a picture pf a native he had found a month before. He had been
lost for 13 days and wffen Fred found him he had gone into his
[ last sleep—a shrunken body covered with torn and festered skin.
Even alligators would be better than that.
j- It was Bat who decided Fred. Bat was just over an attack of
| fever, and he was the weaker of the two. "Stay here and rot if you
| want to," ^he croaked. "I'm going across the river." Fred felt the
I same way about it. He told Bat to go ahead—that he'd stay on the bank
with a rifle and "cover" his. crossing with his big automatic rifle. Car-
rying the lighter rifle—a .22—Bat called his dog a-nd plunged into the
j water. He made, steady progress, and no alligators showed their noses
(. above th£ surface" of *he stream. But Fred was relieved when at last
he climbed up on the other bank.
"Bat motioned to me to come along," says Fred, "and with a sick
feeling I made a few simple preparations. My rifle was much too
heavy and awkward to hold, so I unlaced my belt half way, threaded it
through the trigger^guard and refastened' it around my waist. This per-
mitted the barrel to swing between my legs~and gave me freedom to
kick.- As I entered the water it occurred to me that Bat was covering
rfly -approach with a .2ZTull of water. A .22 wouldn't even dent-aa yili-
gator's tough hide. But by then I was out in the current and swimming."
Fred swam steadily. He was making it. And theb, when he
was a scant 15 feet from shore, something struck him a terrific
blow in the small of the back. At that moment, Fred bad visions
of a big, scaly snout poking at him before making the final grab.
An alligator! Panic seized him. He threw up his hands and.
screamed, "Oh my God!" And as he did So he got a glimpse of
Bat's face above him—and horror was written all over H.
He Crawled Ashore and Fell Face Down.
"I thrashed madly in the water," he says, "and as 1 did so I
felt bottom with my knees. I crawled ashore and flopped face
down on the ground, gagging and retching with nausea. I lay
there for a while, and then Bat helped me to my feet and steadied
1 me while I took the rifle off my belt."
As they started to walk away, neither man spoke. Nothing^ was
said about Fred's terrifying experience.' Darkness had > fallen again,
when, after much stumbling they came to the trolley line that led to the
railroad. Just before midnight they came in sight of the winking lights
of tjiair^plantation c?mp. They took some whisky and a" stiff dose of
quinine' apiece—and went to bed.
The next'morning Fred got up and began taking stock—and
got the surprise of his life. When be came to examine his rifle
he found that the barrel was split from t|ie muzzle almost up to .
the stock. Then he asked Bat a few questions—they hadn't spoken
of that swim across the river before—and found out all about that
"alligator" that had given him such a scare The evening before.
That ailigator just .didn't exist. It was the gun that had given him
that poke, "The motion of swimming," Fred says, "had pushed the
catch off 'safety' and the drag against the belt had pulled the trigger.
The cartridge, exploding under water, created a terrific recoil which
drove the stock of the gun into the small of my back. Bat had 9een
what took place, and thought from my cries that I had been shot. Hence
the expression of horror on his face. And i; oT course, thought it was
because something had attacked- me. ,My mind had been too dazed to
realize the folly of swimming with a loaded gun."-
And another folly Fred„says he'll never repeat is going to the rescue
of a half-witted dog.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Last June 22, Louit met
Schmeling again. Earlier, For•
mcr Champion Jim Braddock
and Jack Dempsey vitiled
him at camp. Said Braddock:
"/ believe he will turn the
trick in five rounds." Joe
fooled him. After 2:04 min-
utes, the shortest champion-
ship bout on record, An-
nouncer Harry Balough raised
the victor's hand. Joe floored
Max three times in the first
round. Schmelinp's seconds
threw in the towel.
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confer with prjaMent Roosevelt
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Louis was in top
form that night, as
shown by the above
picture. Schmeling
completely missed a
left to the head as Joe
drove aj-ight uppercut
to the chin aHd swung
his .left into action.
This was revenge, and
it brought joy to the
youngsters at Detroit's
Bretcster Center, where
Joe received his first
boxing lesson. At right
he is shown holding
two hero ivorshipers.
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Jarvis island is on the equator in
longitude 159 deg. W„ while Pal-
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gitude„_lj02,/i deg. W. Both are tiny
islands in the Pacific, with an area
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Palmyra Is uninhabited. The States-
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* '' '•"*•nC"
^ fighter, Joe Louit it retiring in prU
vate life. Much of hit tuccett he attributes to hit wife, Marva
Trotter Louit, shown here eating breakfast with him the morn-
ing after he trounced Max Schmeling.
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939, newspaper, January 27, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243101/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.