Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 1, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 December 1937 — Page 2

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Sports Broadcasters. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.--Somebody said that there were always two big sporting events--the one Graham MeNamee saw and the one that actually took place. But, alongside the present sports broadcasters, Graham's wildest

flight would sound like the dulcet twitters of a timid love bird as compared with the last ravings of John McCullough. Coaches brag of the lowered percentage of serious football accidents this fall. But oh, think of the radio descriptionists who’ll wind up the season suf-

sering from nervous exhaustion, wrecked vocal chords, violent rush of loud words to the mouth, complete collapse, even madness. You’ll be passing the rest cure sanitarium, and, as the windows burst outward, you’ll hear pouring forth something like this: “Oh boy, boy! with one tremendous burst, Irish Goldberg is jamming his way from the red back line right through the black interference! Nothing can stop him!” But don’t get worked up. What you hear is merely a convalescent microphone orator mentioning a checker game between two fellowinmates and reverting to form. * * * Virtues in Snakes. SOMETHING I said recently about the folly of killing every snake on sight, without investigating the snake’s character, brought a flock of letters from readers who don’t like snakes. Even a so-called venomous snake may have his better side. In Kansas, in the old local option days, you could get a drink only on a doctor’s prescription, excepting in case of dire emergency, such as a snake bite. So every properly run drug store kept a rattlesnake on the premises to serve the citizenry. And the only time a drug store rattler ever refused to bite a thirsty stranger was when he was all worn out from accommodating the regular local trade. And what though it was a snake that led Eve astray in the garden of Eden? He may have brought sin into the world, but wouldn’t we have missed a lot of spicy reading matter in newspapers if he hadn’t? Yep, I plead guilty to thinking an occasional charitable thought for any decimated and vanishing group. I feel that way about old line Republicans and mustache cups and red woolen pulse-warmers. * * * Political Predictions. WE TAKE the opportunity to announce that the Literary Digest, or rather its journalistic successor, will not conduct a poll on next year’s congressional and state elections. The burnt child dreads the poll. Let others go around taking straw votes, but, the way the Digest folks feel now and, in fact, have felt ever since last November, they wouldn’t start a canvass to provle that two and two make four. Because, look here--what if it should turn out that two and two merely make some more Marx brothers or a double set of Siamese twins? Anyhow, the business of basing cocksure predictions on half-cocked estimates doesn’t seem to be flourishing these days. Figures don’t lie, but the citizens who furnish the figures may do so, either unintentionally or just for the sake of a laugh. The rise of candid camerasa-tionalizing--say, we just thought up that word--proves that a photograph of things as they are is mightier than a lot of loose statistics predicated on what the voters may or may not do--and probably won’t, when the time comes. * * * Forgotten Stars. ONCE interviewers clamored for a hearing and her face was on half the magazine covers and her name in letters of flaming light above all the marquees. Once impressive tycoons catered to her temperamental whims; press agents waited upon her, courtiers attending a queen. Autograph seekers besieged her then, while now only bill collectors desire her signature --and they’d like to have it on a check. Speak of her to the newer generation, and somebody will say, “Who? Spell it, please.” She is all through, all washed up. But, like the deaf husband whose wife has slipped, will be the last person in town to hear the news. Having traveled a road which issues mighty few round-trip tickets, she still dreams of a come-back. She is the most tragic and the most pitiable figure--and one of the commonest--to be found in this place called Hollywood. She is any one of the host, men and women, who, ten years ago, or even five, were glittering stars in movieland.

Copyright.--WNU Service.

Irvin S. Cobb

IRVIN S. COBB.

News Review of Current Events U. S.-BRITISH TRADE PACT

Treaty Planned That May Affect International Relations . . . Insistent Demand for Modification of Tax Laws

Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and 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.

Edward W. Pickard

SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK Western Newspaper Union.

Trade Treaty with Britain IN 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 reciprocal program in 1934. The negotiations are expected to begin before the close of the year. American administration officials believe such a pact may lead to a com-

Secretary Hull

mercial union of all English-speak-ing peoples and will be a powerful influence in preserving world peace. London looks upon it as an instrument to form a front which all nations may enter later on conditions of most-favored-nations reciprocity, and therefore as an indirect 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 oh foodstuffs, certain raw materials, iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program. Immediate opposition to the proposed pact developed among the statesmen in Washington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, protested against any British accord until the English 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 resolution halting negotiation of all new trade treaties until congress can determine whether they are responsible for the current business recession. Representative Allen Treadway, Massachusetts Republican, denounced the proposed treaty as certain to prove disastrous to American business. He warned it would throw “more Americans out of their jobs.”

Governors Ask Tax Repeal GOVERNORS of the six New England states, in conference in Boston, adopted resolutions severely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of the. capital gains tax and the tax on undistributed corporate profits, and denounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia as imperiling the jobs of thousands of American citizens. The governors who took thiis action were Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Republican, New Hampshire; George D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island. Plotters Alarm France FRANCE was in a great dither over an alleged plot of the Cagoulards or “hooded ones,” and other rightist groups to overthrow the republican government. The secret police have been making many arrests and have uncovered secret arsenals and depots of the conspirators. Among the men they seized was Jean de la Meuse, wealthy textile manufacturer of Paris. In their pursuit of the plotters the police went as far as Switzerland, persuading the government of that country to oust the count of Paris, who would be heir apparent of the throne of France if there were any longer such an institution. He had been holding conferences with royalists.

THE KANKAKEE VALLEY POST

After Labor Racketeers FOR four months Eliot Ness, the young safety director of Cleveland, Ohio, has been investigating labor racketeering in Cleveland, es-

pecially in the building trades, and then he made a report of his findings that resulted in a special session of the Cuyahoga 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

Eliot Ness

prompted to volunteer their information because of the security offered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to testify. In addition to protests from business men that they were being shaken 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 purposes. This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work, impeded legitimate business, and kept hundreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. At a meeting of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, Don A. Campbell, president of the Painters’ District council, who had been mentioned in connection with the investigation, called the entire case “a lot of newspaper propaganda which has been passed around since the labor movement began,” and added that “it’s high time this stuff was stopped.”

Harrison Backs Water PREVENTED from considering the pending government reorganization measure by a filibuster against the anti-lynching bill, the

senate engaged in a lot of talk about tax revision. Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee, after conferring with Secretary Morgenthau, declared that additional revenue to compensate for modification of the undistributed profits tax could be raised only by broadening

the income tax base or by a general manufacturers’ sales tax. Mention of a sales tax aroused Senator Borah and others, and the Idahoan prodded Harrison until he backed down and said he did not quite mean what he had said. “If, in the revision of the tax laws, we should lose some revenue, I do not believe, with the spending program that is now going on, that we would help business,” Harrison told the senate. “I think the goal should be to try to balance the budget at the first opportunity. I believe the wise way to do it is to curtail some of the emergency expenditures.” Harrison proposed a return to the old normal income tax on corporations and, if necessary, to increase the rate to 18 or 20 per cent instead of the former maximum of 15 1/2 per cent.

Bullet Kills Howard Coffin HOWARD E. COFFIN, who was chairman of the World war aircraft production board and sponsored the development of the Liberty airplane engine, was found shot to death at his winter home in Sea Island, Ga. Beside his body was a hunting rifle from which one shot had been fired. It was assumed his death was accidental.

Crop Control Opposed IN ITS annual convention in Harrisburg. Pa., the National Grange voiced opposition to crop control legislation, but named cotton and tobacco as possible exceptions. “Drastic curtailment of production or destruction of large quantities of food products in the United States,” said a resolution adopted by the delegates, “eventually will result in bringing about a condition detrimental to the whole people. “We believe the problem now facing American agriculture cannot be brought to a satisfactory conclusion by either of these means, but lies in bringing about better distribution systems and increasing the purchasing power of the whole people/’ Senators Smith and Byrnes of South Carolina have declared themselves against Secretary Wallace’s proposal for processing taxes for cotton and wheat, considering them in reality sales taxes.

Rand Is Acquitted JAMES H. RAND, JR., president 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 enforce the act, which forbids the transportation of strikebreakers across state lines with the intent of interfering with peaceful picketing.

Another Judge Wanted SENATOR 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 seventh circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and has had one vacancy since the retirement of Judge Samuel Alschuler last year. Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich of Illinois said they had no candidate for the place.

New Land Speed Record CAPT. GEORGE EYSTON of England set a new world record for speed on land when he drove his 24cylinder automoile, Thunderbolt, two miles on the salt bed speedway in Utah at an average speed of 311.42 miles per hour. This is the fastest man has ever traveled in a motor car.

Chinese Flee from Capital ANKING, capital of China, was abandoned as the seat of the government because of the rapid advances westward of the Japanese

forces. Officials were being scattered in several cities, the central point Hankow, on the Yangtse 300 miles west of Nanking. One army of the invaders was moving from Shanghai on Nanking, and another was about to attack Tsinan, capital of Shantung province in North China.

China, however, was far from giving up the fight. It was reported in Shanghai, that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had resigned as president of the executive council in order to lead his troops in a final effort to stop the Japanese and win the war. H. H. Kung, it was said, would succeed Chiang in the presidency. He is finance minister. Thousands of civilians and foreigners were fleeing from Nanking. But military authorities remained there and declared the city would not be surrendered to the Japanese without a desperate fight.

Peace Prize for Cecil VISCOUNT CECIL of Chelwood has been awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1937. It is worth $40,600. Lord Cecil was selected because of his work in behalf of the League of Nations, of which he was one of the founders. When informed of the honor he was in New York city receiving an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Columbia university. He had just attended a conference of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through Churches in Washington and was a week-end guest of President Roosevelt. Twelve years ago Lord Cecil, who is seventy-three years old, won the Woodrow Wilson peace prize.

Senator Harrison

Britain Woos Hitler VISCOUNT HALIFAX, lord president of the council in the British cabinet, was in Germany ostensibly for the purpose of visiting a hunting exhibition but actually to negotiate with Hitler and other Nazi chiefs for the establishment of more friendly relations between Great Britain and Germany. Public belief was that he was authorized to hint to Hitler that there was hope Germany might regain some of its lost colonies if Germany would abandon its economic isolation and co-operate with other European powers in a revised League of Nations. The British want to detach Germany, and Italy, too, if possible, from their alliance with Japan. Halifax was a fitting messenger to send to Berlin, for he is an outstanding friend of Germany among British officials.

An ordinance requiring thumb printing of all persons who pawn articles in Indianapolis was signed by Mayor Walter C. Boetcher. Thomas D. Baker, twenty-three years old, of Burns City, ally shot himself to death while crawling through a fence. Brandt C. Downey of Indianapolis, who was sixty-four years old, a banker and active in fraternal orders. died as the result of injuries received in a traffic accident. Art Bodeau of Chicago, the most consistent performer on Purdue's freshman cross-country squad, has been elected captain of the 1938 varsity squad. Elvin Stout, age sixty-seven, president of the Orange county farm bureau, and widely known farmer, died of pneumonia at his home near Orleans. Mr. and Mrs. George Fry, aged eighty-four and eighty-three, observed their sixty-third anniversary at their home in Deer Creek, south of Logansport. John B. Stewart, thirty-five-year-old farmer, whose right arm was amputated above the elbow after it was mangled in a corn picker, died in a hospital at Frankfort. Miss Daisy Shugert of Spencer, widely-known Methodist church organist, died of pneumonia in an Indianapolis hospital on her thirtythird birthday. George Byer of Winnemac, age twenty-eight, suffered the loss of his right hand at the wrist when a gun he was attempting to unload exploded. Joseph Zehr, age sixty-five, prominent farmer and president of the Berne Review Publishing company since its origin in 1924, was found dead of a heart attack in a barn at his home in Berne. Eugene H. Glass, sixty-seven years old, president of the United Vacuum Appliance corporation, died at the home of his son, Loren Glass, at Shelbyville, where he was visiting. Governor Townsend intends to go back to farming in Grant county at the end of his present term. He told delegates to the Indiana farm bureau convention in Indianapolis he had no future political ambitions. Claude C. Zook, forty-five years old, a merchant of Flora, died in Logansport. He was injured when his car skidded off the ice-coated pavement and crashed into a utility pole. His skull was fractured. President William Gear Spencer of Franklin college filed suit against the Pennsylvania railroad for $100,000 damages for the loss of his son’s leg and arm. The son fell from his bicycle beneath a switch engine. An old-time “town meeting” was held at Greensboro, a small community southwest of Newcastle, to fill two vacancies on the town board left open by resignations; Although the meeting is not within the law, members of the community were of the opinion none of the citizenry would object, as the town could not afford a general election. Dr. Charles Du Bos, French critic, writer and scholar, "has arrived at Notre Dame from Paris to join the faculty of the English department of the University of Notre Dame. Although he is the grandnephew of the late Sen. James B. Eustis, the first United States envoy to France to bear the title of ambassador, this is Dr. Du Bos’ first visit to America. Postmaster nominations sent by President Roosevelt to the senate include those of the following Hoosiers: Santa Claus (Spencer county) Oscar L. Philipps; Osceola (St. Joseph county), William H. Menaugh; Holy. Cross (St. Joseph county), Jane Agnes Quinlan; Fountain City (Wayne county), Gene Harris; Elkhart, James J. Littrell, and Cynthiana (Posey county), Marjorie I. Stevens. Trapped by state police after looting a tavern, Henry Davey, fiftyone, a former convict, was slain at Worthington. Davey, believed responsible for numerous crimes in recent weeks, had been trailed from Terre Haute in connection with a Jasonville burglary. He had broken into the tavern, and after taking $8.55 from the cash register was walking out with a slot machine when confronted by seven state policemen. Five bullets pierced his chest, Davey served a brief sentence at Indiana state prison in 1915 for transporting stolen goods; was convicted of highway robbery at West Palm Beach, Fla., in 1928, serving a sentence there; was sentenced to four years in federal prison at Atlanta as a counterfeiter in 1929 after escaping from a United States agent, and was arrested at Louisville in 1934 for possession of burglar tools. Charles H. Hartley, chairman of the Madison county labor council, has been appointed to the Anderson city board of safety, succeeding Harry Thomas, resigned. Both men are Republicans. The board has supervision of the city fire and police departments. Herschel A. Yoho, age thirty, and his brother, Walter Yoho, age twen-ty-two, both of Danville, Ill., were sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined $100 each on their pleas of guilty to second-degree burglary before Judge J. Raymond Powell in Bloomfield.

Chiang Kai-Shek

Seen and Heard In Indiana

Foxy Little Terrier For Tea Towels

Terry, the Terrier, will dry your dishes with the same “punch” he displays when rolling glasses and hurdling silver. It will make your dish-drying a joy just to see his jolly self on the towels you use. These motifs require so few

Pattern 5746.

stitches, so little floss, they’re economical and ideal pick-up work. Single, outline and cross stitch make this splendid embroidery for a gift. In pattern 5746 you will find a transfer pattern of six motifs averaging 5 by 8 1/2 inches; material requirements; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to the Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly.

YOU CAN THROW CARDS IN HIS FACE ONCE TOO OFTEN

WHEN you have those awful cramps; when your nerves are all on edge--don't take it out on the man you love. Your husband can't possibly know how you feel for the simple reason that he is a man. A three-quarter wife may be no wife at all if she nags her hus- . band seven days out of every month. For throe generations one woman has told another how to go "smiling through” with Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Preparing for motherhood. 8, Approaching “middle age.” Don’t be a three-quarter wife, take LYDIA E. PINKHAM' S VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go “Smiling Through.”

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FOR THAT COUGH KEMP'S BALSAM

THE CHEERFUL CHERUB I'm thankful that I have a sensitive soul My emotions are deep and extensive It really quite fills me with rapturous thrills Just to gaze at the moon and feel pensive!