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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Irun Falls to the Rebels;
San Sebastian Next

U IERCE attacks by the Spanish
u rebels resulted in the capture of
Irun, on the French border, and
the defenders were mercilessly
slaughtered save for those who were
able to take refuge in France. The
town was reduced to smoking ruins,
and the victors promptly started
an advance westward against San
Sebastian, their main objective in
the north. Recognizing the ia ct
that this large resort city could not
long be defended, the government
administration there offered 10 sur
render the place if full amnesty
were promised; but declared if this
were refused the city would be
burned to the ground and the 625
fascist prisoners held there would
be shot. There was great discord
among the defenders, the anarch-
lists insisting on destroying the city
anyhow.
South Of Madrid the government
forces were said to have made
progress and there were claims that
Talavera had been taken and that
the Alcazar in Toledo was practical
ly battered to pieces by loyalist
artillery. The rebels advance on
Madrid from the south and west
was supposed to have been halted.
The Madrid government was re-
organized and Francisco Largo Ca
ballero, left wing Socialist, was
made premier.
French workers in Paris in a
great demonstration insisted that
the government abandon its nom
Intervention policy and give active
aid to the Spanish government.
Premier Blum, while not conceal
ing his sympathy with the Madrid
crowd, declared that if France
dropped neutrality, Italy and Ger
many would be able to give the
Spanish rebels much speedier and
more effective aid than the French
could give to the loyalists.
Representatives of twenty four
powers were scheduled to confer in
London on plans for the establish
ment of nonintervention control
committee. Portugal, however. was
still holding out. La
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Relief Work Will Be
Continued for Farmers

TN HIS radio talk the President
l. asserted every governor with
whom he had talked on his trip to
the drouth area gave approval to
his policy of providing federal work
relief for the distressed farmers on
projects that will protect their crops
in the future. This policy, he said,
would be continued. He did not
give specific details of the drouth
relief plan, which will be based on
the report of the Presidents drouth
study committee.
Mr.. Roosevelt asserted that work
relief for the unemployed in the
cities has restored consumer pur-
chasing power, sustained every
merchant in the community, and
provided a backlog for heavy in
dustry.
Declaring unemployment in pri-
vate industry is proceeding rapidly,
the President announced ALLEGATION
of an additional $1,000, 900 to the
United States employment service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Japan Will Build Big
Submarine Fleet

Japan proposes to build up a
- submarine fleet approximately
80 per cent larger than hat o. either
Great Britain or the United States.
Such was the substance of note
delivered by the Japanese embassy
in London to the British foreign Of
fee. The decision replaces the SUBJ
marine parity among the three pow
ers established by the 1880 London
naval treaty.
Japan notified Great Britain that
it was determined to keep af1oat
11,059 tons of destroyers and 49,
598 tons of submarines above the
1880 London treaty quotas. This
tonnage, if the treaty's provisions
were carried out, would be scrapped
at the end of this year.
The United States, like Great Brit
tain, has decided it must keep in
service after the end of the year
10000 tons of over age destroyers
in excess of the total permitted by
the 1880 treaty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

will end June 80, 1887. During his
absence from the capital it was is
sued by Acting Budget Director
Daniel w. Bell.
The chief items changed by the
estimate were:
l Receipts, fixed at 5,665, 1886, 900.
2. Expenditures at $7,762, 1885, 300.
8. Gross deficit for the year at
$4,000, 1896, 300.
4. Public debt on June 80, 1887,
at $34, 1888, 543, 493.73.
These estimates compared with
January figures as follows:
1. Receipts of SIS, 654 PIT $50.
2. Expenditures of $7,645, 301 1888.
8. Deficit of 81, O98, 1888, 100.
4. Public debt at end of year of
$31, 1851 $685.
The $4,000 100000 deficit Mr..
Roosevelt estimated is the lowest of
the New Deal. Regarding this fig
ure the President said:
"The estimated deficit for 1887 is
$2,O96, 900, 300 which includes $780,
OOO, 900 for statutory debt retirement
and $500, 100000 for further pay
ments under the adjusted compen-
sation payment act.
tDeducting the amount OF the
statutory debt retirement leaves a
net deficit of 81 Isle, 1896, 300.
"This does not mean that there
will be an increase in the public
debt of this amount for the reason
that it is contemplated during the
year. to reduce the working balance
of the general fund by approximate
ly 81, 100, 900, 000."
What Mr.. Roosevelt meant by
this was that instead of borrowing
money to cover the difference be-
tween receipts and expenditures,
the Treasury would dip into the gen.
eral fund for $1,100, 900, 900.
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for meeting visitors who sneaked
upon them just as upon the Giants
of season back.
There are several reasons why
the Cards still may be fortunate in
the pennant chase. One of them is
that the Giants started their squirt
early and from very far back and
so may be halted by the law of
averages. Another is that there are
men, especially pitchers, who can
quickly be brought in from the
farms, if Breadon and Hickey de-
eide to risk a minor league pen
nant for the sake Of a big-time sue
cess. The third, and probably best,
reason is that the Cards are a set
of husky, hard-bitten athletes. Only
the Yankees, formed out of a very
similar mold, have previously
seemed able to recover as quickly
from adversely. That ability to rise
above defeat is most important in a
flag chase. In fact, no team with
out this quality ever won pennant.
Success in baseball often is al
most entirely a matter of spirit.
When the Braves came from the
bottom to accomplish their 1914
miracle, they scarcely believed
what was happening until almost at
the finish. Then, when the going
might have been tough, they were
sustained by the conviction that,
no matter how good opponents
might seem to be, their own luck
was considerably better. So they
felt they had nothing to worry about
and devoted their best efforts to
playing baseball.
Somewhat the same thing hap
pened to the Cubs last fall and
to the Cards in 1894, although in
both cases the short space of re-
naming time and utter collapse of
a rival had much to do with the
result. Indeed, several Cub stars
quite frankly admitted that all along
they felt it merely was beautiful
dream and only woke up when they
found the Tigers whaling the mer-
ry blue blazes out Of them in the
World Series.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Cards Tumble Sign
Possibly Gang Has
Underrated Rivals

II AS the same sad fate which
L overlook our own Polo Grounds
front runners for pair of seasons
caught up with the once proud Gas
House Gangsters?
Definitely-for all that they were
well aware of their pitching frail-
ties-the Cards all along have been
vocally confident they were the
class of the circuit. When, now and
then, they labcred through an I'M
fortunate series it did not seem to
distress them. They merely shout
ed that this could be charged up
to what Dizzy Dean terms "speri-
mentin" and then moved on to the
next address.
In quieter moments all of them
manager and batboy-confided that
they looked forward to the waning
days of the season. Then, when
experimenting had gone quite far
enough, they expected to turn on SO
much heat that even Manhattan eli
ents would be panicked into grudg-
ing applause.
They spoke with such great-and
apparently quite honest-unconcern
about the future that there is little
wonder even the Giants believed
them early in July. Even now
as one who picked them at the start
and has abode with them in happy
confidence ever since-I cannot be-
lieve they were up to some of their
old sly tricks on a faithful follower.
Now that they have undoubtedly
fulfilled the letter of their prophe-
cies by turning on the heat and
causing previously tirnid men and
maids of Manhattan to indulge in
ecstatic patty-cakings, 1 cannot be-
lieve that such miracle working
mortals were guilty of double-talk-
ing all the while.
Ssk&ar as I am concerned they
c0dld scarcely have known that
their boisterous antics would so
sorely enrage the Boston and Pitts
burgh peasants that the heat would
come from such directions. Neither
could they have had any inkling that
the Manhattan merriment could be
partly occasiOned by the support
they recently have been giving to
one of the most amazing teams of
recent seasons.
Instead, it seems that frankie
Frisch and his followers moderated
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

other states that had suffered espe-
cially from the drouth, began in
the state house in Des Moines,
where Governor Herring enter
tanned the distinguished visitors at
a luncheon. The President and Mr..
Landon, it was said, did most of the
talking at this repast and exchanged
a lot of joking remarks. Then the
conference was started in earnest,
each state being taken up in turn.
Early in the evening Mr.. Roose-
welt entertained the governors at
dinner aboard his special train. On
that occasion he and Mr.. Landon
had their most intimate talk. Re-
suits of the conference, if any, were
not made public at once, the Presi-
dent reserving announcement of his
plans for a radio address.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
France to Spend Vast Sum
for Military Defense

~NN
U RANGES government has de-
L cided that conditions in Europe
are so threatening that it must spend
a huge sum for national defense.
So it adopted a program for in
creasing the efficiency of the army
which will cost 1890, 100000 in the
next four years. The proposal was
made by Edouard Daladier, min
lister of defense. The first install
ment of 100000 will be dis
bursed in 1887.
The program calls for an in
tensive increase of mechanical
units and also for rearmament.
Furthermore, it provides an in
crease in the size of the professional
army and the creation of special
lied group of long service noncom-
missioned officers such as already
exist in the French navy.
The program also provides for
strengthening the frontier fortifica-
tons. But the chief improvement
will be made in the air force which
will be increased by 1000 planes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Six Men May Be Cited
for Conternpt of Senate

NITED STATES DISTRICT AT
" TORNEY L. c. GARNETT of
Washington was asked by Vice
President Garner>to present to the
federal grand jury the case of six
Railway Audit and Inspection COM
pany officials who failed to appear
before a senate committee some
two weeks ago. Those cited by Mr..
Garner were: w. w. Groves, presi-
dent of the company; w. B. Groves,
vice president; Earl Douglas Rice.
vice president; J E. Blair, secre-
tary-treasurer; r. S. Judge, direc-
tor, and J. C. Boyer.
The committee, headed by Sena-
tor La Toilette, is investigating the
alleged use of labor "spies" by en-
ployers in disputes with their en-
ployees. At the time of the hearing
an attorney for the company told
the committee an injunction was be-
ing sought in federal court to pre-
vent the officials appearance and
to prohibit production of their rec
ords.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Lithuania May Abandon

fdSCtSC Regime
z ASCISM in Lithuania, astab-
L lished about a year ago by An
tanas Smetona, the president-dic-
tator, is likely to come to an end
very soon. The new parliament is
now in session and has begun to
study possible revision of the consti-
tuition.
The Lithuanian government has
had serious trouble with Germany
over Memel, which, though mainly
populated by Germans, was turned
over to Lithuania for use as a port
by the League of Nations. The
country's second source of woe is
its broken relations with Poland.
There have been no formal rela-
tons between the two countries
since Poland seized Wilma, the origi-
nal Lithuanian capital. There is no
mail or telegraphic communication
across the border and no trade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
High Labor Costs Drive
Big Concern From New York

ID ECAUSE labor costs in New
- FORK city are too high, the
Charles Schweinler Press, largest
magazine printing house there, has
decided to close the plant in which
it employs 1000 men and women
and move where costs are lower.
Executives of the company said
they did not object to the wage
scales imposed by New York UNI
ions, but found the differential be-
tween the local. scale and the rates
in force elsewhere so great that it
was impossible" to continue in
New York.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

their adverSarieS. In
spite of the fact that
several st. Louis
pennants have been
won by mad drives
down the home
S t r e t C h, tn e y
seemed to feel that
they never could be
so sadly overtaken,
as were the Giants
and Cubs of other
too recent seasons.
So they were caught
iI,onronnr1v orroUad
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

OcrIHdny DeLOFe He
forgot it all and be-
came a heavyweight
boxer. His friends
say he would prob
ably have had big
success as an ad-
vertising man for
he is a shrewd bust
n e S S m a n :.
Pat Malone never
has cashed a base
ball salary check.
Sends them home to
the MiSsus The
average bank roll of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

Great ana Napo-
leon had little
idea of wars fu-
ture. But marvel
Gus things, some
of the greatest,
Napoleon espe-
cially, m i 6 h 4
have done with
t o d a US inven-
tions.
Frederick the
G r e a It's father
selected the tall
est men he could
find for hi S
guard, probably
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

Moines, Iowa; but
they met as chief
executives Of the
United States and of
Kansas respectively
for the purpose of
discussing pl a n s
for the relief of
drouth stricken
farmers. The con-
ference, held at Mr..
Roosevelt's sugges-
ton and including
tho oOxyorporc IF the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

had just become Ell
fective. However,
the holiday was eel
ebrated as much as
usual all over the
country a nd tn e
workers were adj
dressed by many
notables. President
William Green of
the A. F. of L.,
speaking at Knox
vile, Tenn, d e.
olarod 4 h 81 0n1v
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:

nv LIN lie DIVA OSONGs
MRS. JOHNNY COONEY sings
AVA in the same high-claSs man-
ner that her husband snares those
line drives in the Brooklyn outfield
Pat Malone says that Tony
LaZzeri is the smartest player with
whom he ever has teamed :.
Johnny Evers once stole third base
with a broken leg. He doubled to
left, slid into the bag and came up
limping. After that he went down to
third and shortly thereafter discOv-
cred that a bone had been broken
in his ankle.
What with salaries, the tracks
cut, etc., it costs the average ring
book $1,000 a week to operate on
New York courses. Because they
pay higher salaries, the clubhouse
mobiles have a nut of close to $3.50 a
day while the field hands need $63
for expenses each afternoon
Practically the only big fight Ar
thur Donovan has missed refereeing
in New York during the past 80
months was the Baer-Braddock up
set. Baer's advance squawk kept
him out of that one When
viewed from a few yards away FL
mer Voight, pro at Sunningdale, is
almost a ringer for Paul Runyan.
All of which helps explain the al
most hopeless confusion of gallery
ties at the recent Westchester pro-
amateur tourney. While playing in
the same foursome, Runyan, who
usually wears a hat, went barehead-
ed and Voight wore the type of hat
Runyan usually affects.
Schmeling First Trained
for ADVERTISING Career
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caused by the bonus
and the AAA invali-
dation will put the
public debt at the
all-tinae high figure
of $34, 1873, 543, 494.
He says, however,
that better business
will run tax receipts
up $4,000, 900 high
er than was expect
ed. The Presidents
revision covered the
fiscal year that be-
IL. 4 I-1G @Nd
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@ western Newspaper Union.

scratches she was unhnrt, but the
plane was badly damaged.
Another woman, Louise Thaden
of the United States, gained fame
by winning the $4,000 Bendix
trophy race, transcontinental dash
from New York to Los Angeles;
and yet another woman, Laura In
gals, took second place. In the
Los Angeles air meet Michael De-
troyat, French race and stunt pilot,
won high honors.
Nine persons were killed when a
sightseeing plane crashed near
Pittsburgh.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Mrs. Markham Flies Atlantic,
Landing in Nova Scotia

MRS. BERYL MARKHAM of
lN1 England put her name on the
roll Of fame as the first woman to
make solo fight across the north
Atlantic from east to west. She
Started from London for New York,
but her fuel gave out and she was
forced to land her small monoplane
at Baleine cove near Louisberg,
Nova Scotia. Except for q few
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Railway Labor Act Is
Attacked in Court

TN AN appeal to the Supreme
L Court of the United States the
Virginian Railway company made
an attack on the provisions of the
railway labor act authorizing collec-
tive bargaining between representa-
tives of the employees and the car
riers.
The railroad appealed from rul-
ings by the Eastern Virginia Fed
eral District court and the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals re-
quiring it to negotiate concerning
disputes with unit of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Roosevelt and Landon
Confer on Drouth

rankin D. ROOSEVELT and
i ALI M. Landon, rival candidates
for the Presidency, met in some
what dramatic fashion in Des
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Split in Labor Ranks
Is Now in Effect

r ABOR DAY, for organized labor,
IL was considerably marred by the
fact that the suspension of the ten
unions which followed John Lewis
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

The wholesale killers of the old
days prepared their killings by
marching men up and down, drill
ing them, encouraging them with
titles, brass bands to lead them,
fancy uniforms. All that means
little now.
About 100 miles from Berlin there
is a station called Leuna. There
most useful work is done, in theory
and through study of the manufac-
ture of synthetic petroleum; and
there most important, learned men
with big heads, spectacles and an
amount of education that would
make you dizzy if you could mag
inc it, concentrate their brains on
the preparation of better, more eff
fcient poison gases and high ex-
plosives.
Every country has its similar
death laboratory; men perhaps as
efficient as those of Germany,
though Germany is the kingdom of
chemistry, the teacher of other ma
tions. 5r
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18

81 Henry Irving, on the stage of his
theater in London, prepared an i'm
pressive presentation of the witches
in Macbeth" old, toothless hays,
preparing their hell-broth, with
power to summon spirits from the
dead and make them foreteA the
future. g.5J i4l.--.] -y--.f
Far more efficient are those sol
emn German chemists, physicists
and other professors, preparing the
real hell-broth of poison gas, upon
which the future of civilization and
the domination of the earth may
depend for many centuries. q
We had our periods of universal
barbarism and cannibalism, our
ages of flint, bronze and iron, our
many interesting forms of ruler
ship, planned to give one or few
control over all the others. We had
the age of military feudalism, and
many think that we are now seeing
the end of industrial feudalism.
There may be in the centuries
ahead of us a period of airplane-
poison gas rule, which will make
the peoples of the world as COM
pletely subject to single Dictator
ship as were the ancient galley
slaves, swinging their oars under
the lash. '-'~
There are a good many things
we haven't seen and many to which
we devote too little thought, includ-
ing perhaps the fact that it is dan
gerous to be too rich if you are not
prepared to defend yourself against
burglars.
Those thousands of millions in
gold that we are hiding away in a
hole in the ground, as ingenuously
as any squirrel hiding his hickory
nuts, may bring us trouble some
day. t
The thought of those ten thou
sand millions worth of gold bars
and dollars, hidden not very far be-
low the surface, might cause some
ingenious Asiatic or European to
say to himself:
''FOr one or two billions could
prepare the necessary machinery,
flying ships and poison gas includ-
ed, to conquer tho necessary areas
of the United States and brighten
the others into submission. Having
laid down my layer Of gas, would
descend and take the ten thousand
millions and go home with clean
prOfit of eight billions in gold"
Mussolni races his big Italian
built automobile, the engine burn
ing alcohol, made of Italian farm
products-no gasoline. Some law
makers in America suggest COM
polling the use of 10 per cent alco-
hol in all fuel for American auto
mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made
from corn, and the law, it is said,
would give work to 1000, 900 men on
10000, 900 acres of farm land.
It seems impossible ii believe the
hideousa accounts of the maltreat-
ment and cruel deaths inflicted upon
women in the civil war now raging
in Spain.
That men should fight and muir
der each other is to be expected,
since they are at best :.'half tiger,
half monkey" and often the mon
key gives way to the tiger. But
that they should infict shameful i'll
treatment and hideous death on de-
fenseless women seems utterly I'M
believable, even when you know
what men are, in mob.
g King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Service.
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Revised Budget Figures
Increase the Debt

ID EvISING the 1887 budget fig
IN ures he submitted to congress
in January, President Roosevelt
now estimates that expenditures
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
Schmeling First Trained
for Advertising Career

Max Schmeling put in three years
learning the advertising business in
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-18
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Worlds Chemists Busy
The New Hell-Broth
Our Huge Gold Pile

The great fighters in Asia and
Europe in the days of Frederick the
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from the firing line. In battle they
would have been killed first, hit by
the bullets that go over the heads of
shorter men.