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Mine Union Gave
FDR $469,668 Sum
(Continued from Page One.)
as wholly chargeable against the
United Mine Workers.
The greater part of it, UMW spokes
men say was put up by other organi
zations, dominated, indeed, by John
L. Lewis, the UMW’s president, but
distinct from it, Nevertheless, Sena
tor Augustine.. Lonergan’s campaign
investigating committee jots down
$409,608.91 as having eQine out of the
UMW’i, pocket, directly or indirectly.
Inasmuch as Lonergan is a staunch
administrationist and his committee
is Democratically dominated, it seems
unlikely that they would wish to ex
aggerate, in this particular instance.
OBLIGATED TO MAVIS?
Nearly half a million dollars is a
good bit of money for a single labor
group, though a big one, to ante (if
the UMW did c:o) into the political
jackpot.
It was all right of course, and hon
estly accounted for to the last penny.
All the same, the suggestion is
heard from politicians that the Roose
velt administration is under a tre
mendous load of obligations to John
!L. Lewis.
The question frequently is put:
“Is Lewis engaged in creating a la
bor party?”
A N E\\ PARTY?
Well, what if he is?
I do not find any fault with such a.
program; I am a workingman. I think
that Lewis has qualities of real .states
manship: I might lie one of his sup
porters.
I simply echo the query:
“Is he forming a new political
party ’’
From the moment when he launch
ed his movement for industrial (as
opposed to craft) unionization it has
seemed to me that a political realign
ment was inevitable, if he succeeded
in accomplishing his object.
I am not sure that he had that in
mind at the time.
No matter; that was what his plan
tended toward.
Says Constitution
Not Constitutional
(Continued from Page One.)
its attention to constitution-framing,
quite without authorization to do sx>«”
lIOW IT WAS DONE
"Having completed this task, in to
tal disregard of the purpose it was
created for, the convention,” proceed
ed the Empire State lawmaker, “sub
mitted its draft to Congress which
might, with perfect technical propri
ety, have said, ‘This is not what we
asked for,’ and thrown it into the dis
card unceremoniously.
“But Congress did not do that.
“It accepted the draft, subject to
ratification by the states, and sub
mitted it to them, in turn. In so doing
it virtually voted for its own extinc
tion as a pre-constitutional body, in
favor of the proposed new regime.
Nevertheless, that is what it did.”
THUS, WE HAVE IT
“However,” continued the Manhat
tan repre.entative, "the states, in all
propriety, might have balked.
"Each legislature might have said,
‘We did not send our delegates to that
DR. TOWNSEND FINGERPRINTED
Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Marshal Charles Hough
Surrendering to a U. S. marshal in Los Angeles, on a Washington,
D. C., indictment charging him with contempt of a congressional in
vestigating committee, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, of “ORP” is
seen being fingerprinted by a deputy marshal, Charles Houp-h. Dr.
Townsend furnished SI,OOO cash bond in the form of a cashier’s
check for hi 3 appearance “when wanted” in federal court in Wash
ington. Dr. Townsend walked out of a congressional hearing while
being questioned. —Central Pres*
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Toe Tinker, famous shortstop of the legendary double-play combination
ui i inker-to-Evers-to-Ghance, is shown in a hospital bed in Florida,
recovering from serious illness. The famoua ball player will soon be on
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convention to frame a constitution;
we sent them there to revise the ar
ticles of confederation and the con
vention did something utterly differ
ent from that.’
“But the legislatures did not do it-
With one exception they swallowed
the whole thing hook, line and sink
er.
“Thus we have cur unconstitutional
ly-adopted Constitution."
Kidnap Gang Grabs
Son of Ambassador
(Continued trom Page One.)
the Army and Navy club date Christ
mas night when accosted by three
men in a o'o ed automobile.
They forced him into the machine,
the bey said, compelled him to smoke
a cigarette, which he suspected was
drugged, and drove with him through
the city streets for several hours, ques
tioning him about members of his
family.
About 3 a. m., the boy said, they
ejected him from the ear in the south
east section o? the capital, when he
made his way to a telephone and sum
moned his father.
Wife Preservers
A housewife says she finds the
apples cooked for applesauce
with their skins on are best
strained through a potato ricer
instead of through a wire sieve.
It is easier to so strain them and
makes a smoother sauce
l ’ f*\ NfS VO H\ F
Fore, being-
LF\"T(=l Fori- -school.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1936
The Itoval palace, Amsterdam —' ' '~,
Principals and the scene of the forthcoming royal BiesterfelJ. German prince, are shown above. The
wedding between Crown Princess Juliana of the wedding is to take place Jan. 7. The official
Netherlands, first-in-line to the throne held by her “bridal fortnight” holiday already has started in
mother, Queen Wilhelmina, and Bernard Sur Lippe- towns and villages throughout the Netherlands. |,
-Central Press l
The Sea Scores Another Victory Over Man
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Running aground off the shore of Lornesville, New Brunswick, the King County was being pounded against
the rocks by the raging surf when Harold Hansen (inset), a sailor, swam ashore with a lifeline from which
an improvised breeches buoy was slung. The crew of 35 was brought to safety. This dramatic picture a?
disaster at sea shows the doomed ship slowly being broken against the rocks on which it piled in the midst of
a storm. (Central Pre&3)
MILIT ANT LEADER OF REBEL UNIONISTS
John L Lewis, snapped | '
Once more John L. Lewis, militant leader of the
Committee for Industrial Organization, takes the
stage as he maps battle lines with his lieutenants
for the largest unionization drive in American
history. The conferences held between union
leaders and the General Motors officials in Detroit
provided a basis for Lewis to make a few recent
declarations. The United Automobile Workers,
backed by Lewis’ group, sought collective
% i
ing from General Motors. W. S. Knudsen, General
Motors vice president, had suggested that the
UAW negotiate individually with the managers «#
each of the G. M. far-flung plants. Lewis reiecteri
such a proposal, claiming evasion. Lewis de
manded of the motor industry the same type of
bargaining which is practiced in the coal Industry
by the Lewis-led United Mine Workers of Am«ric;.
—on an industry-wide-basis*- -*-cr
HIS ILLNESS CAUSES CONCERN
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., walking, rowing and with his fiancee
While Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., was said not to be in serious con
dition, concern was felt over his failure to recover as rapidly as had
been hoped. Young Roosevelt, son of the president, recently under
went an operation in a Boston hospital for a sinus infection. The
youth, a student at Harvard, where he rows on the crew, is shown
above walking - , rowing and with his fiancee, Ethel duPont
CANNES RETREAT OF MRS. SIMPSON
Newsmen and photographers are seen besieging one of the gates
of the villa at Cannes, France, where Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simp
son found retreat following her departure from England. The villa,
heavily guarded, is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rogers of
New York. —Central Press
EX-KAISER AND CONSORT TODAY
Princess Hermione and the former kaiser
most recent photo of former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
tmd his wife. It was taken in the garden of their castle at Doom,
Holland. Although the former kaiser still receives notables from
the country he once ruled, he does not ogenly show, any interest in