Carbon County news., 1937-12-03
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BY Lemuel +. Parton |
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Roosevelt'S offel
Might SOLUe Of mediation, it is
Lofin Feud possible that they
might buy him of
with a fast black shortstop and q
couple Of outf1elders.
President Molina is a rabid base.
BAH fanatic, and only last June he
was accused Of stealing many of the
best players Of the American negro
teams. The charges, quite violent
and vehement they were, were
made by the National Negro League
Of America, comprising six teams,
and were backed up by Ferdinand
@. Morton, New York civil service
commissioner, who is the Judge
Lands Of the league.
It was asserted that agents and
emissaries Of the President did re-
peatedly, by trick and device,
snatch an ebony ball player wher-
ever they might find him: that they
had thus cashiered some Of the best
talent Of the negro league. The
Pittsburgh Crawfords were especial
ly loud and insistent in their COM
plant.
The dictator Of Santo Domingo
learned fighting and bali playing
with the United States Marines,
with them eight years, until the end
Of the period Of occupation in 1924.
When he took over the country in
1880, by double-crossing old Presi-
dent Velasquez, his enemies said,
he made baseball a major detail of
his planned economy.
He helped build up the Central
American league and brought
through quite a
he'd Summon few pennant win
Army to Get ners. He throws
Star Player big parties for the
visiting teams at
his palace in Ciudad Trujillo. He'll
practically call out the army to sur
round a good ball player.
He was farm boy when the ma
rines came along. He worked up
in the Dominican army from pri-
vate to brigadier general, gaining
the presidency by clever coup
d'etat. In 1888, he iquidated a
strong opposition by putting it in Jail.
Several thousand exiles have for
several years maintained junta in
New York city, led by DR.. Angel
Morales, former Dominican minis
ter to Washington. They have ac-
cused President Truiillo Of whole
sale killings and of ruthless sup
preston of all political rights and
civil rights.
When Sergei Bensome,. former
secretary of war, was murdered in |
New York in April, 1885. the polit-
ical enemies Of the dictator said his
agents had committed the crime.
When he became president in 1880,
at the age Of thirty-seven, he was
the youngest ruler Of any sovereign
state.
THE Republicans, like the Demo-
l. Gratis, 60 to the Grove of
Academic when they are short on
ideas. Word from Washington is
- ux that they are
Aid G. o. p. ris Willis Dodds,
IN Comeback president Of
Princeton; James
Bryant Conant, president of Har-
7ard; James r. Angel, president
of Yale, and Robert Cor
Ion Sproul, president Of the Univer- /
;ity Of California, for the work of
lrafting a comeback program for
he party.
A former member Of the Repub-
ican National committee, who still
,eeps a few pipe lines open, tells
ne chances favor President Dodds,
IS to both choice and acceptance Of
he craftsmanship Of the program
committee.
President Dodds, who looks and
works like President Wilson, is
pecialist in government. He has ]
generally liberal slant, but has
Ieen vigorously outspoken against
and has steadily cried I
own the juggernaut state. The
urse of "statism, he says, is the
vorld's greatest menace. He would
ppear to fit into the picture Of a
ejuvenated and realistic party re- r
rganization. j
He has for years been known as t
n expert on plebiscites, electoral
,,,n, practice and mu- =
,odoS BOOK nicipal govern
'aDed Jersey ment. He was: a
~ mn nm technical adviser
=, in the Tacna-Arica
oundary dispute and refereed the
ricaraguan election Of 1928. Later
e saved New Jersey $14, 4,o00, 900 by
$50, 0,O00-word digest Of a govern
rental reorganization survey. 7
He is a native Of Utica, Pa, edu-