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The Alamance Gleaner VoL LXVI ' GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940 '* * No. 9 . ' 1 i ? i ? , , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE Boost in Relief Fund Forecast As House Joins Spending Spree; Leave Tax Bogy for Next Year (EDITOR'S NOTE?When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those o1 the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ? Released by Western Newspaper Union ____________ | CONGRESS:' Coup de Grace mYou have fust done the most tragic thing in the history of the country. You have shown a reversal oj the spirit con gress adopted from the beginning in try ing to live within the budget ... I feel this afternoon very much like the poet who said: 7 was at the funeral of all my hopes And tombed them one by one. Not a word was said, not a tear was shed When the mournful task teas done.'" Thus did Virginia's Hep. Clifton Woodrum scold and eulogize his fel low congressmen who had just ad ministered the coup de grace to a great and idealistic crusade: The 1940 congressional economy cam paign. Until the senate added al most $300,000,000 to the farm appro VIRGINIA'S WOODRUM He felt poetic. ? priation bill, house skinflints had slashed more than that from early budgetary requests. They had saved almost enough to avoid the $450,000,000 new tax levy which Franklin Roosevelt wanted in order to avert a boost in the $45,000,000,000 debt limit. But senate spendthriftiness now found its way to the house. Dpped $55,651,058 above the President's budget request were CCC and NYA funds, and it was this particular in crease that made Virginia's Wood rum wax poetic. Next item would pe relief, for which the President asked $1,000,000,000; but everyone knew that this figure would be in creased. Sole remaining bulwark of economy was the house appropria tions committee, which was ru mored about to slash $60,000,000 from the navy bill. Meanwhile it was a safe guess that congress would shun new taxes this session. Reasons; (1) It's an election year; (2) the debt limit won't be exceeded until next year, and a new congress will then be in session. Also in congress; C Flayed by customarily ardent New Dealers like Key Pittman, Joe 0*Mahoney and Pat McCarran, a resolution for three-year extension of the administration's reciprocal trade act neared its showdown in the senate. Chief quibble; Whether the senate should retain ratification power. Franklin Roosevelt prom ised to veto the bill if the senate did. C The perennial and controversial anti-lynching bill, already passed by the house, went to the senate floor after an okay by the judiciary com mittee. C. Inserted in the Hatch anti-politics bill by a house committee was a clause forbidding expenditures of more than $3,000,000 by any national political party in any campaign. C. Hearings opened on the chain store tax bill, flaming torch and ceeue ceUbre of Texas' Rep. Wright Patman. First blow: Weaver My ers, legal staffman for the congres sional committee on internal rev enue, opined that the measure was "clearly unconstitutional." Rea TREND How the wind is blowing ... POLITICS ? At Dallas, ex-Gov. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson an nounced she was willing to run for a third term. JAPAN?At Tokyo, Rear Adm. Shozaburo Kanazawa viewed with "grave concern" a report that the U. S. is strengthening its Philippine naval forces. INCOME ? Salaries and other money paid U S. individuals in February totaled- $5,554,000,000, a ? per cent increase over February, 1M9. j son: It proposes a graduated tax, based on the number of stores. My ers pointed out that the Constitu tion requires that taxes be levied uniformly, geographically speaking. WHITE HOUSE: Welles' Return Down the bay at New York went some 25 reporters to meet the in coming Corns di Sovoul A few minutes later, in her card room, they faced a tall, dark-suited and handsome diplomat. Behind him was a 90-minute talk with Adolf Hit ler; two meetings with Benito Mus solini; long and private discussions with Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier. Had he wished. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles might have pulled big news from his bulging portfolio. Instead he said: "I am mighty glad to see you, and I'm glad to be home." With that he caught a train for Washington where rumors were al ready mounting fast. Revived was the favorite chestnut that Sumner Welles' report held the key to Franklin Roosevelt's third term am bitions. Said the wiseacres: If Mr. Welles felt a European peace was in the air, the President would re tire; otherwise, no. Judging by Eu ropean news Mr. Welles read the American papers, it looked like a third term. EUROPE: Telegram *Thanks to Ihe wisdom of the Soviet government and to our valiant Red Army, the plans of the British-French war mongers who attempted to fan the flames of war in northeastern Europe again failed . . Such was the telegram sent to Dictator Josef Stalin the day Russia made peace with Finland. It came not from friendly Germany but from hostile France?from Soviet Ambassador Jakob Souritz. Two weeks later Envoy Souritz's recall at request of the French govern ment created a mild diplomatic flurry that echoed across the Eng lish channel. There, Britain and Russia were at swords points over British seizure of a Soviet freighter in the Pacific. After several days the excitement had apparently died down, but not a big question mark: ENVOY SODRITZ Cm hit torn crowd? Did Envoy Souritz, a seasoned dip lomat, send this uncoded wire as a deliberate attempt to shatter Franco-Soviet relations? Chancellories In Paris, Premier Paul Reynaud's new cabinet made an auspicious start in its aggressive campaign against Germany. Summoned home one by one were all of France's diplomats, chief among them Am bassador to Italy Andre Franco is Poncet. Reason: Premier Reynaud will do his best to keep Italy away from Berlin and Russia. Meanwhile Great Britain was also starting trade negotiations with Rome, but more important for the moment was creation of a five-man "inner cab inet." The War For two days the British block ade worked its way into the Skager rak and Kattegat and threatened to cut off Germany's merchant trade with Scandinavia. There was still a chance it might succeed, but the Nazis began fierce warfare in the North sea with the apparent pur pose of diverting British attention from the blockade. Meanwhile spring flowers began blossoming on the western front. NEWS QUIZ I Know your newt f One hundred it Mr/?d score on the following quiz. Deduct 20 points from each question you mist. Score of 60 or more is ac ceptable to excellent. 1. Above is the cannon-firing P 40 Curtiss pursuit ship, one of three new army models which France and Britain asked per mission to Imp. Did the army grant or refuse such permission? 2. (Each part of the following counts 10 points). Why were the following movie stars in the news: (a) Dorothy "Penny" Sin gleton; <b) Bob Burns? ). True or False: Reprimand ed by the state department after delivering an anti-Germanspeech, U. 8. Minister to Canada James H. B. Cromwell resigned in a huff. 4. What record-shattering event made residents of Syracuse, Cti ca, Rochester, and other upper New Tork cities stay borne against their will? 5. Choice: The new explosive of Lester P. Barlow, demonstrat ed before congressmen, is made of (a) liquid oxygen and carbon; (b) T. N. T., dynamite and ear bon; (e) glycerin and rosewater. News Quiz Answers ; 1. Permission was granted. 2. (A) "Penny" Singleton was hospi talized after an auto accident; (B) Bob Burns and others were sued by man who said he was kidnaped and forced to sign a denial that Burns had stolen his wife's affections. 3. False. He refused to resign. 4. The biggest blizzard since 1888 blocked all roads and piled drifts up to | 30 feet in depth. 5. (A) Is correct. AVIATION: Achievement Skies were overcast but radio re ception was good. Pilot A. P. Olson nosed his Northwest airliner into the night toward Billings, Mont. Just west of Helena a bolt of lightning "appeared from nowhere," ripped the fabric from the right aileron and gave Pilot Olson, his two fellow crew men and 21 passengers a good scare. When Pilot Olson landed at Bill ings he also brought home the bacon. That night the nation's 21 commercial airlines completed a full year's operation, flying almost 88,000,000 miles with not a single crew or passenger fatality. While Operators slapped ? them selves on the back, actuaries fig ured this record made it safer to fly than to walk. UNAMERICANISM: 'Amazing' Back into the headlines after his vacation in Florida went Texas' Rep. Martin Dies and his un Americanism investigating commit tee. Current enemy: Russia and Communism. While Chairman Dies announced plans 'to "summon wit nesses as fast as we can locate them," his operatives swooped down on Pittsburgh Communist headquarters in search of a Red who used the name "Franklin D. Roosevelt" on his party member ship card. Also hard at work was New Jerry's Rep. J. Parnell Thom as, *a Dies aid, who told reporters that "any number" of school text books used in the U. S. contain "one subversive passage right after another . . Taken with the sur rounding material, they may mean little, but when they are put with other selected passages they fit to gether perfectly, and the result Is amazing." COURTS: Sherman Vengeance At Washington last year an A. F. of L. teamsters' union allegedly "conspired" to make concrete mix ing companies hire union teamsters to drive mixer trucks. About this time the anti-trust division of the department of justice began cast ing a suspicious eye at the sorry plight of America's building con struction Held. Taking a long shot. Trust Buster Thurman Arnold slapped a charge of Sherman act violation against Washington's teamsters. The allegation: That this squabble interrupted building operations, therefore the union had restrained trade. Protesting loudly that unions do not fall under the Sherman act, A. F. of L. cooked up a demurrer and a motion to dismiss the in dictment In late March Federal District Judge Peyton Gordon sur prised everybody by upholding the indictment, maintaining the Star man act applies to unions where their objectives are not "legiti mate." ^ - . yf B rue hart's Washington Digest Third Term Backers Dismayed By Roosevelt's Failure to Speak Candidates Farley and Garner Confuse Issue for President's Followers; Hull-Jackson Combination Further Complicates Political Scene. By WILLIAM BRUCKABT WNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. _ WASHINGTON.?The political sit uation that fails to provide a good laugh somewhere along the line is rare, indeed. There is, of course, that time-worn expression about pol itics making strange bedfellows, which frequently happens. There is just'as much of a laugh for me, however, when these same stran gers have got into the same bed mentioned in the preceding sentence ?and the slats fall out from under one of them. Actually, collapse of the slats gives anyone quite a sink ing feeling, sort of an all-gone sen sation. And, so, I am writing this week about how fallen slats have forced some of the boys on the Democratic team to prepare a pallet on the floor. In some quarters, I have heard expressions within the last few days indicating that there is no particular shortage of pallets, but the would-be wheelhorses are having difficulty at discovering the proper floor. It all came about in a series of events, some of which I have dis cussed in these columns before but, of necessity, must be repeated. Ev eryone knows, for instance, how the payroll boys, anxious to keep their jowls inside the trough, have been carrying on a great drive that they hope will eventuate in'a third-term nomination for President Roosevelt. They have been doing right well by themselves, what with federal mil lions to spend; a patronage army mustered by Secretary Wallace who also pays farmers to let him show them how to farm; the vast relief legions and the other government agents of one kind or another, ag gregating nearly a million persons, not to mention postmasters. United States attorneys and marshals and the others. They are, or they were, cocky and pretty happy about the whole thing. I There were such things as Vice President Garner's candidacy which was announced without strings -a* U?1 J ..Itk BlUltilCU Oiiu Wiur out any reference to whether Mr. Roosevelt should decide the country needs him, again. That candidacy was not welcome; nor was it taken seri ously, at first. But someone among the amateur strategists within the corps of Presidential advis ers suddenly awak ened to the fact John Garner < that the Garner candidacy might be regarded as serious. Well, there wera deep discussions of what to do. Whatever else you can say ' about the true New Dealer, the hell and-high-water New Dealer, it must be said that he is a serious person, and he plana his reform of the popu lation with grave determination that what is about to be done for you is, of course, always for your best in terests. Whispering Campaign Sacs Garner at Stooge Out of these discussions has come a whispering campaign. It is ex actly the same type of whispering campaign as was used against Her bert Hoover, when he was Presi dent. Only, these whispers are by Democrats about a Democrat. It has a technique that is well worked out and it gets results. That is, H gets results if it goes on long enough without anyone seeing what the game is. In the current whispering cam paign?and Its source can be traced to an expert?Mr. Garner was pic tured as just a stooge, just someone striving to break down the New Deal. He was pointed out as dis loyal, a personally disloyal man de spite 40 years as a Democratic bat tler, and his campaign was said to have "flattened out" to such an ex tent that everyone interested in the Democratic party could go home and go to bed?you know, the way that is done after an election vic tory is safely in the bag and the worry to over. I am not prepared to argue that Mr. Garner's candidacy is, or is not, washed up. Just as a one-man guess, I have thought he was rather popular In the parts of the country where I have traveled in recent months. But that is not the story about which I am writing. The story at this time is what has happened in another direction. In the efforts of the strategists to make the fences safe against the Garner bulls, they forgot about the man who built the Democrat ic machine of which these strategists are a part In other words, they forgot about "Big Jim" Farley, postmaster general and chair man of the Demo Jim Farley wcbvm. uauuuu v.uui mittee. They apparently overlooked Mr. Farley, except that they did a lot of things contrary to his idea of smart politics and fairness to those who had been riding herd in the pastures where votes grow. Mr. Farley has not been happy about the whole thing, and he has been reported on several occasions as be ing prepared to resign. Farley1! Candidacy Surprise to Loaders And, now, what confronts the boys? Just an announcement by Mr. Farley that he is an out-and out candidate for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party, an announcement that ended with "that's that!'" When Mr. Farley made that statement to the party leaders in Massachusetts recently, he pulled out more bed slats than you can imagine. He did not say "if the Chief does not run." He said he was running "and that's that!" There are not many folks in the country who do not realize that, as a machine politician, Mr. Farley has few equals. He has a personal fol lowing that he has built up through out the nation, men whom he calls by their first names and who write to him as "Dear Jim." The ranks of those who jumped too soon include a lot of senators and representatives who had ar rived at their places on the payroll by virtue of a happy ride on the Roosevelt coattails. But the Roose velt coattails might not have borne up under the strain, except for the Farley direction. That is what the early bandwagon crowd is now toy ing to measure. They are looking around to see whether their pallet should be on the Farley floor, the Gamer floor or the Roosevelt floor, and they are casting squints through partially open doors to see whether there might be comparative peace and political quiet in the next room where the second-choice delegates may have to go at convention time. Hall-Jackson Team May Enter 1940 Race This whole stage scene is further complicated by continued stories that Mr. Roosevelt looks upon Sec retary Hull of the state department as a "good man," but with sort at a side glance that "some good lib eral like Bob Jackson (the attorney general) should be nominated with him." Of course, there is no way to substantiate the story that Mr. Roosevelt wants Hull and Jackson as the team. He has said nothing. I have said before, and there is no reason to change the belief, that Mr. Roosevelt is not going to say anyuiing un til about con vention time. In the mean time, the folks who owe their po litical places to Mr. Farley and who have gone off the deep end for Mr. Roose velt as a third ? term Corded Ball canuiaaie are spending aieepieu night*. They are afraid to make up their pallets on the floor anywhere in fear of the boogey-man. Aa I aaid at the beginning, nearly j every political situation contains a good laugh. It is always the more amusing when you see the amateurs trying to play the game at profes sionals. The final scene on the stage may not have Garner or Far ley or Roosevelt in the center to take the acclaim at the audience, but Mr. Gamer is going ahead and Mr. Farley is going ahead, and the third-term leaders are practically helpless since Mr. Roosevelt stead fastly declines to make a public statement on his intentions. Ha Just lets the slats stay on the floor. CT. PETERSBURGH, FLA.?The ^ Red Bird engraved upon the shirts of the St. Louis Cardinals has turned into a hawk, seeking its prey. A year ago these Cardinals were not sure whether they might finish second or fifth. They caught your eye in this sun flooded city that now lays claim to the World Series training spot. But too many of them had just begun to wield a razor along downy cheeks. They were Red Birds then ? not hawks. They needed the hammering experi GrutlulUct ence of a hard campaign. It was in thi shade of a sheltering oak, ash or palm tree that Branch Rickey advised me to pick the Reds for 1939 and the Cardinals for 1940. "We have quite a ?her of young fellows," he said, "who need Just one asore season. The Reds will get the jump on this young iein but we went be far away in the stretch. It will be different next year." This happens to be the "next year" mentioned by Mr. Rickey. If he is as sound a prophet in 1940 as he was in 1939, the Cardinals are already in. Sound Pitching Staff They have that year's experience stack under their belts and they have the same speed and the same spirit. More than that, In addition to such veterans as Curt Davis, Lea Warneke and Big Bob Wetland, they also carry along the younger pitch ing arms of Cooper, McGee, Lanier, Bowman, Sonkel and Barrett?the soundest all-around aitehiag staff in the National league and one of the best la baseball. It has both quantity and quality. From the nine pitchers mentioned Ray Blades should be able to get at least Ave moving briskly along, which is well above the average. There are those around who will advise you not to climb too far * J- sk. 1 .? luworus uie cuu w the limb in this Cardinal matter. They mention the (act that Davis, Wameke and Wei land are no longer kids?that most of the younger pitch ers have yet to prove their place? and that Pepper Martin can't retain the iron in his sys tem and the flame Cut Davis in his sou] forever. Temperamental Medtcick They also bring out the tact that Joe Medwick hasn't been any too happy under the St. Louis setup for some time. And Ducky Med wick happens to be one ot the best ball players in either league. He may be high-strung and tempera mental, but he can hit. Held, run and throw?the (our main essen tials. Ray Blades figures there are six teams that can win the National league pennant. I can't agree with him. The race should be between the Cardinals and Reds, with the Dodgers and Cubs making the main challenge. Prank Friseh will need at least a year te get the Pirates nataagled and beaded forward. I can't Ignis Giants, Braves er Phillies with snythiag bat a miracle chance. Most of the old Gas House Gang have left the scene. They are scat- , tered tar and wide. Only a few years ago at Braden ton there were the two Deans, Jim my Wilson, Rip Collins, Leo Du rocher. Bill Hallahan and several others. Now Pepper Martin and Joe Med wick are about the only ones left. Baseball has seen better teams,' was lbs time when Jimmy Wlissn. the crack Cardinal catcher, began missing Us silk shirts (rem the lack er. Dlny began wearing them. Dixsy was then a rsskls. When Jimmy pat the blast an Dis tar pO feriag ihis favorite shirt, Dis aaly 11''Listen, Jimmy," be said. "I came down here with only one shirt. 1 knew you wouldn't want the great est pitcher baseball ever knew to go around with the game shirt for a month. Now, would >SU?" "1 guess you're right, Dis." Wil son said. So Dean kept the shirt. But there is still enough color in this present Cardinal outfit. It's a youn^ optflt, in the mam^an outfit ' ' ? i ' f Speaking of Sports 3-Count 'Em-3 DiMags Join in Baseball Wars By ROBERT McSHANE (Releutd bjt Weitern Ntinpipn Dnkxl.) I /"?ONTRARY to rumor, there is no ^ ruling to the effect that every major league baseball club must include at least one DiMaggio on Ms roster. , The public unconsciously has been misled by the frequency with which the name appears in the pubHs prints. The bell-playing members of the elan are net numbered by the dozen. In fact, there are enfy in big Urns baseball. Joe DiMaggio, veteran of the tribe, is not unknown to baseball ?addicts. He commanded a consid erable degree of attention when he made a runaway of the race for individual batting championship of the American league last season, hitting at a distinctly passable clip of .381. The Yankee star led his rinse rt competitor by the comfort able margin of 21 points, establish ing himself as ooe of the truly great batsmen of all time. Wis Duplicate Honors Brother Dominie DiMaggio. a bee Sox. la 1939 ha was vatad the meet valuable player cf the Pastte Coast league. (Joe resales the saase award h the Americas league.) Though Dominic still has to wear glasses with thick lenses, he hits the ball hard -had the second high THE Dl MAGGI06: Jse sad Vtoee est batting average an the West coast, JH, led in total hits and rusas scored, and eras among the leading home run hitters. Dom started playing ball with the Monterey Presidio team. From there he jumped to the San Fran cisco Seals, where he hung an in spite of a couple of bad starts. Ha batted just above JOO in his first two seasons. Like the rest at the family, he is an outfielder.' ?rather Tinea DtMiggie. new fia property of the Clai haill Beds, Is the eldest bat least bnsnn at the illustrious trio. It was Vtoee who first went la the baseball warm. be was picked as a ass ?bar of a San Francises all-star teems, la picked ap by the finals. Father Giaseppe DiMaggie brasul at afi oa th nsiastic. He argued. U the DiMaggies had baau libuwa Viaee 's liking far the game wen eat. Joe's Introduction It was Vince who brought Brother Joe into the game. Late one sea son, when Vince eras with the Seals and when all contests for place Ik the Pacific Coast league had bean decided,'Augie Galan, the abortsSan, asked to be excused from a gams to go on a barnstorming tour. Use manager said he could go M ha would find somebody to play mart stop. Vince DiMaggio dug m his brother Joe. That eras Use start at the greatest DiMaggio career. Largely an the strength at Joe's reputation. Vince erent to the Di,ntan Bosk He couldn't hit major league pMoking. and in ISM lad the Nation al circuit in strikeouts. He eras sent to Ksasas City. There he began to ; hit home runs, gained confidence and removed s bothersome hitch in his string. Then he was brought back to the big time with Cincinnati. Despite toe (set tost Vtoee itissk out 12 times to M times st hut tw ist bust^year^ p rauset figto. Mam DIMaggios 'iT*retting probably Ma last chance to make goad. There you have the DiMaggio j family?Joe, king-pin slugger at the ' world champion New York Yankees; Dom, highly touted mtoor league i star getting his golden oppnrtwrHy with the Red Sox; and Vines, whom big?and undoubtetftf last rhsnca i la with the Reds.
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