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THE ALAMANCE GLEANER Vol LXV GRAHAM, N. C? THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939 No. 47 ! v - I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Opening of Garner's Campaign ? Fails. to Stir Political Circles; New Nazi-Italian Plot Hinted (EDITOB'8 NOTE?When optnteas are expressed la these ostamas, they are these at the news analyst and not necessarily ef this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper POLITICS: Announcement "I will accept the nomination for Presi dent. I will make no effort to control any delegates. The people thould decide. The candidate thould be selected at primaries and conventions as provided by law, and I sincerely trust that all Democrats will participate in them." In these 44 words the sage of Uvalde, Texas, whom John Lewis once called a "labor-baiting, jjpker playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man," tossed his hat in the 1940 presidential ring. Nobody in Washington was sur prised by the announcement at first, GARNER AND CHICKENS Hatched at Uvalde. but over the week-end those 44 words received considerable study. Points of interest: 1. Unlike other Democratic hope fuls, Gamer did not offer to step aside if President Roosevelt decid ed to run again. 2. He promised to make no effort to control delegates, indicating he would be a hard man to deal with in the convention hall. Jack Gar ner presumably refuses to enter into any trades. THE WARS: Plot? C1ANO It Rtusie the price? Her disrepute sharply heightened when the League of Nations ex pelled Russia, the German Reich got some solace when Italian For eign Minister Galeazzo Ciano made an unusual announcement of his na tion's foreign policy. European diplomacy is now clear as mud, with Germany's ally, Italy, aiding Fin land to fight Russia, who is also Germany's ally. , But Ciano's speech indicated the picture may soon clear. Only point of difference between Rome and Berlin was Germany's method of "settling" the Danzig-Polish dispute, in the course of which Herr Hitler agreed that Italy should remain out of the European war. As for the Reich's friendship with Russia, Ciaho charged Britain and France forced this solution on Hitler. This, possibly, is the key to future Ger man-Italian collaboration. Italy is still loyal to Berlin in every way, and still maintains that K o-1 a n a, Czechoslova kia and Aus tria cannot be restored if there is to be peace. And by charging the Russian pact was "forced" on Germany, Italy admits that, the So viet has m?r0lv hpPll used as a tool to bring pressure on France and Britain. Can it be that the axis may now force peace on the allies as the price for keeping Rus sia out of Europe? Western War Almost as a repercussion to the Grmf Sper incident <tm keloid the western front saw its first direct artillery duel over the Rhine. This was purposeless, because the Rhine was so flooded that troops could not cross. Biggest news developed from Brit ain's new aerial patrol, developed to combat the Nazi mine-laying cam paign. On three successive nights royal air force planes raided Ger man seaplane bases, after which the air ministry said it "tentatively be lieved" the mine menace was coo quered. Next day, however, the war's biggest air battle took place over Helgoland Bight, the Nazis claiming 34 British ships were downed. London admitted seven losses and claimed Germany had lost 12. British boast-of-the-week: How her tiny submarine Urmia had pene trated the mine-infested mouth of the Elbe to sink a Koln class cruiser at her anchorage. Northern War Still playing to a full house was the Finnish-Russian war, in which the Soviet was taking a terrific lick ing both in manpower and prestige. For the first time, U. S. newsmen like United Press' Webb Miller and Chicago Daily Nam' Leland Stowe visited the Karelian front and saw Finnish troops resting snugly in their warm trenches while the Rus sians stormed away like madmen across the river, wasting ammuni tion and getting nowhere. Soviet tanks were disabled by the score, running against snow-covered boul ders or being blasted by anti-tank guns. In the north the Finns re ported they had encircled two Rus sian forces of 10,000 men each. ? Spee Pan America awoke suddenly to discover its "neutrality zone" It ma pi was ineffectual. Before she dashed for the safety of Montevideo harbor in Uruguay, the Nazi pocket battleship Graf Spat had almost been blasted to pieces by three Brit ish cruisers. One of them, Exeter, was so badly damaged she headed for Britain's Falkland base in the south Atlantic, also within the neu trality zone. (Although Britain won the engagement, Germany lost few er men.) Three days later, her 72 hour Uruguayan permit having ex pired, Graf Sptf headed for open sea where British ships waited like lions tor the kill. Suddenly she ex ploded, four-inch steel plates bulg ing like paper sacks. Graf Spaa went to the bottom, her skipper hgving chosen to scuttle her in the face of hopeless odds. Back at Montevideo a storm was brewing, but Foreign Minister Al . ' li I |\ BOOTH rj g AMERICA / By] ij SITE or [jfl if 1ATTLEJ / ^iritisbH J NAVU ? NEUTRALITY ft 8PEE The ex plot ion hod rt percussions. berto Guani (tuck to his post. The German minister charged him with a "flagrant violation of international law" for not giving Craf Spee enough time to repair her damage. The Nazis even planned to demand reparations for the ship. Taking no chances, Uruguay promptly arrest ed four of the crewmen and charged them with blowing up the ship. INDIA: Zetland's Worry Rapidly approaching, perhaps, is a crisis in which British domination of India may pass away. A good start at satisfying Indian national ist ambitions was made several years ago when a quasi-home rule plan was instituted. But in Novem ber, faced with racial differences between the all-India congress and the Moslem league. Viceroy Mar quess of Lithlingow invoked emer gency powers vesting authority in provincial governments. Native congress ministries in seven prov inces promptly resigned. Up in the house of lords to com ment on this situation rose the Mar quess of Zetland, secretary of state for India. The result of this whole sale resignation, he said, has been to "set back the hands of the clock more than 30 years." Meanwhile German propagandize? are trying to make the Indians "look to Nazi Germany for their freedom." Only hope for peaceful settlement, he thought, was division of legislatures on communal instead of political lines. RATES DOWN?At Washington the interstate commerce commis sion ruled there is "nothing un lawful" about reduced rates for trainload shipments, thus revers ing its former policy. DEBT OP?Also at Washington, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau was quoted as testi fying he favored raising the pub lic debt limit from $45,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000. EXPORTS DOWN?November tf. S. exports were $287,000,000 against $323,168,000 in October, $12,000,000 of the drop being ac counted for in blockaded ship ments to Germany. DIES DP?A Gallup poll showed 75 per cent of the U. S. still favoring continuation of the Dies un-Americanism investigation, though presidential criticism has caused a 4 per cent decline the past six weeks. LABOR: Bad Business NLRB'S SMITH A boycott ? First witness before the house committee investigating the Nation al Labor Relations board was Dr. William Leiserson, NLRB member, whose testimony actually keynoted the hearing. Its gist: That Dr. Leiserson has been a minority mem ber, conservative and opposed to Members Edwin L. Smith and War ren Madden, whose agents had been "impartial" and had used "tactics one might expect from the (Rus sian) O. G. P. U." Called to the stand, Boardsman Smith found himself in hot water uyrng iu ex plain his ac tions during labor trouble at the Berk shire Knit ting Mills, Reading, Pa. First he ad mitted "ex tra-legal" action in try ing to medi ate a strike before r? h a r a p> a had bteen filed with NLRB the strik ing union (now a C. I. O. affiliate) represented a minority. But his biggest mistake was in suggesting to a Boston department store handling Berkshire products that "any stand you might adopt would be listened to with the great est respect by the Berkshire com pany." That, charged the commit tee, constituted an attempted boy cott sponsored by an NLRB mem ber. 1 At such an embarrassing moment in the Wagner act's young life, C. I. O.'s John Lewis chose to make his own recommendations for amendments at the next congres sional session. The suggestion: Criminal penalties for violators of the act AGRICULTURE: Certificates There were plenty of eigne that the administration's campaign to make ita farm program ?e If-financ ing will take shape in a processing tax ? provided congress approves. Meeting in Washington "to study something for the President" were Secretaries Morgenthau and Wal lace, Federal Reserve Chairman Ec cles, Budget Director Smith and oth er fiscal bigwigs. When they parted it was learned the "certificate plan" had been discussed. Its gist: A processing tax in new dress (the last one was thrown out by the Supreme court in 1930) it would consist of parity payments paid to the farmer directly by the processor, who in turn will pass them on to the con sumer directly. Reason: The U. S. needs more money next year for defense, hence must find a source of income without boosting taxes in a campaign year. MISCELLANY: Ambassador to President Back home from Washington to the republic of Panama went Am bassador Dr. An gusto S. Boyd, first vice president of his country, to as sume the post vacated by death of 59-year-old Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, president Purge C At Istanbul, Turkish officials clamped down on Nasi propagan dists, ordering expulsion of 1(T7 Ger mans charged with suspicious activ ities. Probe C President Roosevelt ordered the tariff commission to find out wheth er large amounts of foreign wheat? particularly Canadian ? are being imported to compete with the U. S. product One reason for the probe: For several weeks American wheat has sold at about 30 cents a bushel above Canadian quotations. Bruckarfa Washington Digest Closing Session of Congress To Set Stage for 1940 Campaign Proposals to Aid Party in Power Sure to Appear; Effort Will Be Made to Make Money Bills a Political Focus; Trade Treaties Expected to Draw Fire. By WILLIAM BRUCKART t WNU Service, National Press Bids., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON.?It is generally possible to forecast in broad out line what will happen in the session Of a congress that winds up a sec ond term of an eight-year national administration. That broad outline will include the annual appropria tions for running the government, the promotion of several legisla tive proposals designed to aid the political party in power when its presidential nominee gets out on the hustings, and much talk by rep resentatives and senators. Con gress, and a Washington dateline, make fine springboards, and the pol iticians who are "in" make full use of the opportunity. Since the last session of congress in the Roosevelt administration is upon us, it seems that a prediction on several phases is indicated. 1. The coming session is going to be longer than some of the politi cians would like. Contrary to the average of such sessions, the nation al legislators are likely to be here until almost the middle of June. The length of the sitting probably will be determined by the dates of the Democratic and Republican na tional conventions, and there is ev ery reason to believe these will be later than usual. 2. Appropriation bills will occupy a great deal of the time in the early weeks of the session, as usual. Bat contrary to what has bean the situation respect ing the money bills, there is going to be a determined effort to make them the center of an issue, a politi cal focus. Tangled up with the appropria tion bills this year will be a delicate question involving the national debt because President Roosevelt is go ing to put up to congress the ques tion of increasing the present nation al debt limit from 45 billions to 50 SOME FORECASTS Next session of congress will be longer than politicians would like. Republicans will seek a big do mestic issue. Roosevelt will ask SO billion debt limit. Garner will be on watch for New Deal fumbles. Senator Wheeler may Join contest for delegates. billions. And it must not be over looked that the question of national revenue?taxation?is bound to fig ure in this controversy because the national treasury has been in the red?more spending than receipts? in the seven years of Mr. Roose velt's administration and two years at Mr. Hoover's administration. Proposal to Create Second Budget Sore to Draw Fire S. National defense?expansion of the army and the navy?obviously will get attention and here, again, the question of taxation appears. Mr. Roosevelt has suggested to some of the senate and house lead ers that there should be a separate listing of these expenditures and a separate tax to pay for them. That is to say, the President is thinking, at least, of creating a second, and distinct, budget covering such out lays of money Just as he has re sorted, heretofore, to the use at separate budget listing 1 for "regu lar" and "emergency" expendi tures. 4. Another controversial proposi tion will be the President's proposal to extend the life of the reclpiucnl trade treaty program. If one ex pects fire from the trick budget plan, there is likely to be found a no-man's land, filled with gaases at the latest poison, hand grenades and machine gun strafing, between those who favor and those who oppose ex tension of the trade treaties. 5. In addition to the trade treaty program and tied to it in a fashion that makes a skein of tangled yarn appear simple of solution, is the widespread demand that congress revise the general agricultural pro gram. Many farmers and farm or ganizations, as well as numerous politicians, are chasing Secretary Wallace and bureau fanners and 1 farmerettes, is full cry. They are demanding changes and Mr. 'Wal lace is resisting. Schism Within Democratic Party Dae for Finish Fight 6. Lastly, there is the politics of the picture. This new session will be somewhat different than the or dinary run of "last" sessions be cause of the schism within the Dem ocratic, or majority, party. Real Democrats are determined to get control of the party back in their hands; New Dealers, who have been running the show with increasing power to themselves until lately, are faced with what many observers be lieve to be conservative trend in the country as a whole. The best evi dence of this is the gTeat strength admittedly shown for the Democrat ic presidential aspirations of Vice President Jack Garner. There will be other cart' did tides that mast be wa tered and fed with artifi cial stimulants. It looks like Sen. Burton Wheeler of Montana may jump out one of these days to contest for delegates to the Democratic convention against Mr. Garner. Each man will have his partisans, as will Paul McNutt, former Indiana governor, who holds himself in the spotlight through be ing social security administrator. But make no mistake about the vice president's ability to break up New Deal plays, if I may use a football term. Conservative Tinge to Moat Republican Aspirant* The Republicans have presiden tial aspirants, also. There are three of them in the senate?Taft at Ohio; Vandenberg of Michigan, and Bridges of New Hampshire. Some others may be found in the house of representatives. That is, there are those who are thinking of them selves as dark horses. Except for Vandenberg, there is a distinct con servative tinge to most of the fel lows whose hats may be noted in the Republican ring. Hovering over the candidacies in each of the two parties undeniably is the mist of a possible third term decision by President Roosevelt I do not believe Mr. Roosevelt is go ing to run again, but he has not said so. Politically, of course, he would be foolish to announce it too early for the reason that once he takes himself out of the race, the wild scramble begins and Mr. Roosevelt loses control. The political possibilities of the coming session are many. There is. of course, the evident move on the part of New Dealers, to drag the foreign situation further and fur ther into the limelight. That has the dual effect of enabling appeal* to patriotism and of helping voter* to forget mistake* and grievances. I understand that Republican wheelhorses are moving to make is sues out of purely domestic problems and alleged shortcomings of the New Deal administration. The undercur rent of information seems to indi cate that Mr. Garner will make his campaign on proposals for improve ment of conditions at home. Will Result in Shaping Policies for Campaign The presidential candidacies will make themselves felt likewise in the decisions which will be taken by congress on varibus at the other questions that I enumerated at the outset of this discussion And when I say "presidential candidacies." I speak broadly of all of them, wheth er the aspirants be in, or out at, congress. It is to be remembered that the current session win re sult as much in shaping at policies to be fought out in the campaign of 1M0 as in determining which at the men shall be selected by the re spective party conventions. Consider tor example, the Rooee velt proposal for contkmatkm at the trade treaties. Or, take file ques tion at continued heavy spending and the resulting debt that to being piled up for future generaitme to pay, on which Mr. Rooaevelt lately challenged Senator Taft to show how the budget can be balanced in two years. Or, examine the general ag ricultural problem. Any one or all at these may make or break tha el forts at those now in foe field. Speaking of Sports Yankees Face Restrictions in Player Deals By ROBEBT Mc SHANE E*XCEPT for a few thousand down with-the-Yankees advocates, ma jor league baseball fans in general were not too well pleased with the outcome of the big baseball pow wow at Cincinnati recently. Major reason for their lack of en thusiasm was the fact that they had seen the American league adopt an extraordinary ruling which prohib its the Yankees, as long as they are champions, from obtaining any players through trade or sale from their rival clubs unless such players have been waived by all the clubs in their circuit. " This legislation, of course, would be invoked against any champion ship American league team. The kindest thing that can be said of tt is that it penalises success. It is planned restraint against the Yan kees for any future powerhouse of like greatness. The Yankees suffered an equally damaging blow when Baseball Com missioner Kenesaw Mountain Lan dis, casting a deciding vote, reject KENE8AW MOUNTAIN LAND IS ad proposals which would have placed limitations on hia activities against chain-store baseball and vast fanning systems, land is has long warred on fanning systems, one of his pet hates and one at the Yankees' bulwarks of strength. Solid Foundation The value of the ruling prohibit ing intra-league buying by the champions is debatable. On the face of it, the action handicaps the winners to a damaging extent. It seems discriminatory ? aimed at weakening a team which has been built up carefully through experi ence and great cost. Then, tee, the action iirai ? )ast ta that it tends to bring the champions dews to the level ef the average team instead of raising the average team to a higher plane. However, the proponents ef the ruling can speak with logic and. in the eyes of many, complete fair ness. They grant that the legisla tion will, for a while, penalise the Yanks as it will penalise all fu ture champions. And they argns rightfully that ae attempt is being made to drag the champieaship team dewa to a tow er level. Instead, the average team is being bailt ap to a higher plane threagh the aeqnisMtoe of desirable playing talent. As long as the champs are prohibited from baying the hosd^ totra-teagwo ptoyers, the Intra-Loop Trading As long as the commissioner doesn't interfere to any great ex tent with the Yankees' farm bold <nw. the champs will ^ntinut to get along with little difficulty. They have done very little trading within their own loop. Their man-tor-man trades havs been vary rare. They did acquire Monte Pearson from the but in return they gave up Johnny Allen. When they traded Baa Chapman for Jake Powell they disposed of a better. reputation than they received. Net al Americas league slabs re joiced ever the baa an New Yerfc trading. Beaton and Detroit voted against the earb, sad at toast two er three ethers were est highly em thesisstlr about the whole thing. They were evidently ef the iptniie that aaaaa day they might catch the make aa advantageoaa deal. And it does leave one wondering what would happen If, for instance, Bed Ruffing and Lefty Gomes were injured seriously in spring practice and the Yanks had to find pitching replacements in the minors or pick 1 up waived burton. Sport Shorts THE Yankee farm system cleared H$50,000 in player sales last year . . . Wisconsin's football team, though it won only one gams this season, drew enough gate receipts to cover the university's entire ath letic budget with something left over _______ . . . Wrestler Jim I r i__ s piratically that hall quit the game to ca ter the movies. Says he plans to retire to about three years . . . Bach team playihg in the Boss Bowl receives oee-~fl third of gate re ceipts. The other third goes to the as ?ociation sponsoring the game . . . Ex cellent practice is given tennis play ers by a new electric robot which throws 100 balls in rapid order, varying delivery speed, twist and I height . . . Baseballs are stitched by hand, and a good sewer can torn out 40 in an eight-hour day . . . Sam Sne?#t rlflimi hie backhand swing is helped by a double-jointed left thumb caused by a football in jury . . . Bob Feller of Cleveland will get $1,000 per win if he wine 20 games next year . . . Member* of the Green Bay Packers profes sional football team once itceised $16.50 each as their pro rata share of season's profits. Pro Football Gains I? OR the tenth ?<sm>< ntive year " the 10 teams of the National Foot ball league has* show* a kadh$ increase in attendance figures. ij^a'ssrnsss unHfstMs :rMf ?w*MT' " Only owe team fel kehw laat year's attendance mark. Detroit w* a* SO per^ssnt* heeet^"*" ^ New York led the league, playh? to 233,427 in six home games. De troit led the western iliiiiiun, at tracting 182,541 fans. The Chicago Bears were second with 50,000 few er in attendance. Jim Lata BOWLING Made Easy By NED DAT fTft* * <*? II n? m? rn mnm at I > ? )??>? ty D?y HI H OW TO PLAT ALLEYS. Gen I ? erally speaking. alleys cu be defined as slow or fast. The daw alley is the hook baU bowler's para I dise. An alley is cone stared fast when, because ot its highly polished surface, the ball will not hook, or. if it does, the bowler has little con trol over it. fawiMar alley, try a beak with a I sataral Whery. ? the thy b tea I slew, the ball will beak tee ehaiplj I pies. If yea are satisfied, Ana, hat thL type*isay be eecessaryTerea to taereasisc the speed eftbe bah la ea iter Upkeep H ee the right side afi The reverse procedure is resorted to ob alleys that are too fast, la other words, the bowler reisassa his ball nearer the ri^it-haad gutter to increase the angle, perhaps eves slowing down the speed of As ball to give It a chance to hook on the highly polished surface A rhanga of speed, however, is not ad i lead unless the bowler tads it absolutely
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