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Evening star., 1937-05-21

Friendship Book Sold Widely.
Dale Carnegie's book, How to Win
Friends and Influence People" has
sold more than 100000 copies to date.
Evening star., 1937-05-21
DR.. LUTHER DECLINES
TO COMMENT TO PRESS

in Denying Interview to
Albany Paper.
b the Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y, May 21.-Dr Hans
Luther, returning to Germany after
four years as German Ambassador to
the United States, stopped at hotel
here last night as "a private person"
In telephone interview, he told a
reporter he was here "incognito," and
Il do not want to talk about inter-
national affairs.
1T would be improper for me to
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
WayBackWhe
BY JEANNE
GERTRUDE STEIN DROVE AN
AMBULANCE
BY JEANN

D ERHAPS your brother or your
father went over to France with
the A. E. F. and saw a rafting old
French ambulance jolting over the
shell-torn roads with two women on
the drivers seat. One, a husky,
healthy woman with hair clipped
short and heavy masculine shoes,
was Gertrude Stein: the other. tall
and angular and more feminine,
was her secretary. Alice B. Toklas.
Gertrude Stein was born in Ale
gheny. Pa. in 1872. Much of her
childhood. until she was five years
old. was spent in Europe. Then
her family moved to California. and
she was raised in San Francisco
and Oakland. After attending Rad
cliffe college, she went to medical
school at Johns Hopkins. She set
tied in Paris in 1903, and the world
may have lost a great surgeon as
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Washington university, came to
New York to Columbia university,
and for years wrote without having
single story accepted. From the
Saturday Evening Post, alone, she
received 36 rejection slips.
Her first encouragement came
from r. H. Davis, editor of Num-
sey's, and success followed swiftly.
Her first book, a collection of short
stories, was published in 1914, and
her works appeared regularly there
after, including "Mannequin" in
1926, which was awarded a prize
of $4,000 by moving picture cor
poration.
Fannie Hurst now lives in luxury
in New York city. A handsome
woman, she loves fine furs, rare
laces, and brilliant colors. What a
contrast to the humble scenes that
made possible her successful inter-
probation Of shopgirl hearts and
souls are the rich surroundings her
persevering ambition has won for
herl
G-WNII Service.
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she abandoned the scalpel to carve
out career as an author.
She paid to have her first book
printed, because no publisher would
accept it. Wide recognition came to
her with the publication of her
book, THE Autobiography Of Alice
B. Toklas." in which she uses
her secretary's life story as a
means Of praising her own accom-
plishments. There she asserts that
her book, THE Making Of Ameri-
cans" is the greatest ever written.
Her motto. "A rose is a rose is a
rose" and some of her sentences
such as Toasted Susie is my ice
cream" or this one from her play.
-Four Saints in Three Acts" (there
were actually many more saints
and there were four acts). IF a
magpie in the sky on the sky can
not cry If the pigeon on the grass
alas can alas and to pass the pigeon
on the grass alas and the magpie
in the sky on the sky and to try and
to try alas on the grass alas the pig
con on the grass the pigeon on the
grass and alas" have made many
critics think that the strain of am
bulance driving may have been too
much for her.
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several states. threatened new out
breaks of violence which might be
beyond the powers of local or even
state governments to control
As the mediatass began their task
of effecting compromise, dozen
persons had been killed in strike
riots and scores more injured since
the strike against Republic, Bethle-
hem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube,
and Inland started May 26. Eighty
five thousand workers already lost
approximately $40, 600. 900 in wages.
The climactic incident which
finally goaded the government into
some action other than occasional
"off-the-record'' statements was a
widely-publicized telegram to Presi-
dent Roosevelt from Gov. Martin L.
Davey of Ohio. fearful lest the
bloodshed already occurring in
Youngstown and other cities breed
into a little civil war.
Apparently every avenue of ap-
proach available to the state Of Ohio
has been exhausted for the time be-
ing" Governor Davey wired. 1T
appears that the matter has gone
way beyond the powers and oppor-
tunities Of one state to deal with it,"
Charles P. Taft II. Cincinnati
lawyer, son Of the former Presi-
dent and chief justice. and a men,
Der Of the brain trust" of Cover
nor Landon's presidential cam
paign. was named chairman of the
mediation board. Appointed to sit
with him were Lloyd K. Garrison,
former president of the national la
Dor relations board, and Edward F.
McGrady, assistant secretary of la
Dor and former A. F. of L. or
ganizer under Samuel Gompers.
The mediation board had a job
cut out for it. 1t was to conduct an
investigation of the strikes and the
grievances of both sides, then make
recommendations for a settlement
1t has power to act as arbitrator
only if both sides request it to do
SO. The first stumbling block it en-
countered was the refusal of Tom
Girdler. chairman of Republic, to
sit in the same room with c. /. o.
representatives. Girdler, leader of
the companies fight to keep the
plants open despite the unions,
agreed to help in the supplying of
facts and information, but would
rot consider appearance at a con-
ciliation conference.
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After the Red PURGE

L OR the first time since the World
L war the chief of staff Of the Ger
man army, Gen. Ludwig Beck, went
to Paris to visit the French chief of
staff. And just about the same time
Baron Constantin Won Neurath. Ger
man foreign minister who recently
completed a tour Of central Europe.
announced that he would visit Lon
don as a guest of the British govern
ment.
1t was believed that the purpose Of
the two visits was to reach an under
standing between the four great
powers Of western Europe, to the
exclusion of Soviet Russian un-
derstanding such as Germany and
Italy have long dreamed about
With eight important Russian gen.
erals having been recently executed
for treason, with virtually the entire
Red military staff under suspicion.
it was apparent that Russia's impor-
tance as military power had taken
a sudden drop, for the immediate
future at least. And with the resig-
nation of the Popular Front govern
ment in France, which had been ia
vorable to the communists, it looked
like the golden opportunity to con-
vince France that an alliance with
Soviet Russia was an unreliable one.
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The Tax Parade

4 S A congressional committee
1 4 opened hearings on tax evasion
and avoidance by wealthy citizens,
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau was among the first to testify.
He said the nation was losing hun
dreds of millions of dollars in annual
revenue through such tactics. Then
his under-secretary, Roswell Magill,
suggested three changes in the pres
ent tax laws: That depletion reduc-
tions be eliminated, that community
property provisions now in effect in
some states be circumvented, and
that higher levies be put upon the
American-earned incomes of nom
resident aliens.
The first names mentioned in the
hearings were connected with the
practice of forming foreign corpora
lions to which Individual incomes are
transferred, a scheme which treas
ury officials said was usually within
1.-The letter of the law" Among the
first names were: Philip De Ronde.
former president of the Hibernia
Trust company of New York, now
Paraguayan consul in New York;
Jules S. Bache, New York banker:
Jacob Schick, ex-army officer and
electric-razor inventor, and Charles
Laughton, motion-picture actor.
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FANNIE HURST LIVED LIKE
HER CHARACTERS

II AVE you read Back Street"
l. i or Five ana Ten? Have
you wept and thrilled over the shop
girls Of Fannie Hurst's short sto-
ries? Fannie Hurst, herself. was
once a waitress, a nursemaid, a
salesgirl, and a sweatshop worker.
Had you met her then. you could
hardly have known that some day
she would be hailed throughout
America as a leading novelist.
Fannie Hurst was born in Hamil-
ton, Ohio, in 1889. She was raised
in st. Louis, Mo-, an only child who
had many lonesome hours for read
ing. At fourteen, she submitted
blank verse to the Saturday Eve
ming Post. Spurred on by ambi-
tions, she wrote until three and four
in the morning while a student at
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Steel Wants It's Mail

THE Republic Steel corporation
l. filed in the federal district court
in Washington a petition for a writ
of mandamus compelling Postmas-
ter General Farley to deliver parcel
post packages to steel plants in Ohio
which local postmasters have re-
fused to deliver.
The petition charged that the local
postmaster at Niles. Ohio. was re-
fusing to deliver packages contain
ing food and clothing and addressed
to the loyal workers who were be-
ing housed inside the Republic plant.
1t charged that this refusal was
made after the postmaster had
reached an understanding with
two members OF the union.
Having waited a week for re-
ply to our letter to Mr.. Farley
and having received none. we have
no recourse but to such legal action
as is available to us under the cir
cumstances involved" said John S.
Brooks, Jr.. counsel for the corpora
ton. He said separate suits will be
instituted in Ohio against the local
postmasters involved.
Harry J. Dixon, local postmaster
of Warren, at hearing by the sem
ate post Office committee. testified
that because of a ruling by W. w.
Howes. first assistant postmaster
general. he had refused to accept
for delivery to the plants thousands
of packages containing food. soap,
clothing or other articles considered
abnormal"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
To Sion or Not

THERE is no issue of wages,
- hours or other material de-
mands in the strife between the
independent steel corporations and
John L. Lewis Committee for In
dustrial Organization. The corpora
tions have agreed to all of the
demands of the unions-verbally
''Verba lly"-that is the word which
has for weeks kept thousands of
workers in eight or ten states from
returning to their jobs.
The G. /. o. demands that the
corporations put their agreement in
the form Of written contract. The
corporations refuse. And the unions
have refused to call off the strikes
until they get the signatures on the
line.
Union officials have taken the po-
sition that il the company officials
are willing to agree orally to union
demands they ought to be willing TO
confirm the agreement in writing.
Lewis has demanded that President
Roosevelt intervene to force tn e
companies to sign. At a press con-
ference the President refused to
say officially what was his reaction
to the demand. He did say-and
emphasized that he was not speak
ing "offieially'-that he could not
see why the companies would not
make written agreements.
Tom Girdler, chairman OF the
board of the Republic Steel corpora
ton, explained the companies
stand:
"The reason the c. I. o. wants
a signed contract is because such
a contract would be the first step
toward the closed shop and the
check-off.
Under the closed shop every
worker has to belong to a union,
whether he wants to or not. The
closed shop is actually a deal be-
tween the employer and the union
whereby the employer helps to force
every employee into the union.
Under the checkoff the company
takes unions dues out Of the pay
envelopes Of all its employees and
hands them over to the union.
Does the c. /. o. contract pre-
serve industrial peace? 1t does not.
They have broken numerous con-
tracts"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Johnstown's Martial Law

MAYOR DANIEL j. SHIELDS.
AVA of Johnstown, Pa, where Is, 1000
were out of work because of the
forced shut down of Bethlehem
Steels Cambria plant, was not so
successful in his appeal to the Pres
ident. Federal action to prevent
recurring riots with attendant in
iuries was refused him. But Gov.
George H. Earle declared martial
law there and forced Bethlehem to
close the plant, despite vigorous
protests. Forty thousand coal min
ers had announced they would hold
a mass meeting to decide upon ac-
ton in aiding the steel strikers;
rioting between strikers, non-strik-
ers and police seemed imminent,
but in the face of the Pennsylvania
police they did not come off.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Short Cut from Soviet

IT HREE Russian airmen success
L fully completed the first nonstop
airplane flight from the Soviet Un-
ion TO the United States. Taking
the short, but hazardous, route over
the North pole, they hoped off from
Moscow to arrive in Vancouver,
Wash. So hours and II minutes lat
er, after taveling nearly 5000
miles. They had planned to alight
at Oakland. Calf, but poor visi-
bility drove them down $50 miles
from their goal.
The three were Pilot Valeri Chek-
aloff. Co-Pilot George Phillipovitch
Baibukoff and Navigator Alexander
Vassilievitch Beliakoff. Their fight,
in a singie-motored monoplane,
took place only few days after
the opening Of the Soviet floating
weather station at the pole. to make
scientific observations preparatory
to establishing trans polar air
routes.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
London's Foreign Trees

Although nearly 60 per cent Of
London's trees are planes, it is not
an English tree. Like most Of its
fellows, it comes from abroad. Odd
ly enough, British trees do not
thrive in London. The British oak
never rises to its full stature in the
city, whereas the Turkish oak
seems little troubled by town life.
1t is the same with the North Amer
lean oak. Where our trees languish
and die, foreign trees quicken and
thrive.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
First English Tragedy

The first real tragedy in the Eng
lish language was not written until
ten years after the first English
comedy, Ralph Roster Doister, "
says the Montreal Herald. The au-
thors were Thomas Norton and
Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
1t was called "Gorboduc" and was
acted by the gentlemen Of the Inner
Temple before the Queens most
excellent Majestic, in her highness'
Court of Whitehall, the 18th day OF
January. 1861"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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XXI BY VIRGINIA VALE*k,

DERHAPS the happiest, but
i certainly the most bewild-
cred family in the country
just now consists of Michael
Kelly, his wife, and five chill
dren who live in that part of
New York City known as the
Bronx.
Their twelve-year-old Tommy has
been selected to play Tom Sawyer
in the Selznick-International film Of
the Mark Twain classic.
Such an opportunity for a young
ster would be dramatic thunder
bolt in any family, but for the Kellys
it was the first good break in years.
Papa Kelly has been on the relief
rolls for two years, his jobs as jani-
tor in a school and lifeguard at a
beach having dwindled to nothing.
Mamma Kelly has been to the
movies only three times in her %
years of marriage.
Tommy and his father are in
Hollywood now, and Michael gets a
days extra work every now and
then while his son is being groomed
for stardom.
y
When you see Claudette Colbert in
81 Met Him in Paris" YOU will find
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Death Strikes for Two

TWO c. /. o. strikers were killed
l. and Is persons were injured as
strikers and police fought for three
hours in front Of the Republic Steel
plant in Youngstown. Ohio, before
a truce was arranged between Sher-
iff Ralph Elser and John Steven
son, union organizer. Gov. Davey
finally sent state troops.
A mob of strikers had attacked a
company of police on guard at the
plant. forcing the latter to retail
ate with tear gas guns. Snipers
among the mob tried to pick off
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Fascists moved in, parading jubi-
lantly, to take possession OF the city
for Gen Francisco Frnco. not a
shot was fred. The last defenders
had fed toward Santander. IS miles
to the west. The Basques were es-
timated to have used $4,000 men in
defending Bilbao: 10000 were either
killed or wounded.
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ton and the big in
dependent st e c /
companies. as the
mediation board of
three, appointed by
Secretary of Labor
Frances Z. Perkins,
sat in Cleveland TO
hear the cases of
both sides. The
governments move
W a s prompted as
the steel strikes, af-
fecting plants in
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something of a modern record. Pres
ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca
mile Chautemps, radical socialist
and former premier, to attempt the
formation of new cabinet. A sue
cessor to Blum was not Immediately
in sight.
The Popular Front government
was one of the bulwarks of leftist
tendencies in Europe, as opposed to
extreme Fascism, and openly ex-
pressed its sympathy for the Spanish
loyalists. Its passing is extremely
important in international affairs.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Barrie's Last Curtain

CIR JAMES M. BARRIE, novelist
" and playwright, whose whimsical
pen gave to the world many impor-
tant works of literature, including
Peter Pan," ''The Little Minister"
Dear Brutus," and What Every
Woman Knows" died of bronchial
pneumonia in London. He was sew
enty-seven years old
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01

naQ WluStOOQ many
sieges dating from
medieval ages. In
the b o m b i n G and
shelling which broke
the Iron ring" of
defense the loyalists
had so steadfastly
maintained the city
was literally torn to
shreds and the death
toll. which included
many women and
children, was enor-
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include all the treas
ures that she and
Douglas Fairbanks
collected in tn G i r
travels around the
world. When S h e
marries Buddy Rog-
ers, she will live in
a sim pie beach
house and an old
fashioned r a n C h
house, and wants no
reminders of her
forp,or lifa around
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would m a k G him
financial dictator of
france for about six
weeks. He did not
believe it possible
to bring order into
the treasury without
so drastic a meas
ure. When it was
refused he and the 20
members of his cab
met resigned. He
had served lit days
of his second year as
"A
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01

NAA~ . q . ~ AAACo
u t t e RI y delightful
film in m a n y
months. Claudette
c ol b e r t. Melvyn
Douglas, and Robert
Young romp through
the picture as if they
were having the
time OF their lives.
1t is the story of a
girl who has saved
for five years for a
trip TO Paris, and
when she gets there
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policemen from vantage points on
nearby hills.
At neighboring cities of Warren
and Canton police were apprehen-
sive because of threats by the c. l.
o. union to prevent proposed
back-to-work movement by loyal
Republic Steel workers.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
French Premier Quits

L AGED with one of those financial
L crises all too frequent in recent
French history, Premier Leon Blum
asked the senate for powers which
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Miss Perkins Names Three

THE federal government took
L hand in the settlement of the
dispute between John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
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Floyd &16oe's.
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES 49,
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF
death Traps the Eeler"
BY FLOYD GIBBONS
FamouS Headline Hunter

FISHERMAN takes his living out of the water, and at
times the water is pretty But it's treacher
element when it wants to be- and there times when
it takes back than has given Sometimes 1t drives
mighty hard bargain.
months wheedlng
Judd didn't
udds life payment for those
few months of subsistence.
of living
the fishing
bit equipment set line
material work putting
together
long rope weights every
of
which along bottom of the their
with the ebbing
Old Man River Presents His Bill.
Judds anchored
end there
could it. You
When gather
along
letting fall
back in the behind
All living digging clans and
Man River him with bill for what The bill
punches
he started collecting it.
to bait their they passed Judds
working
side Of the He until about
half and then the line stuck.
When 1t Looks Safe 1t Sometimes Isn't
Judd figured caught bottom
would couldn't pull the two and owed get
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01
Bilbao Falls at Last

ID ILBAO. capital of the Spanish 10y
- alists, fell before an attacking
force for the first time in history; it
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oOWn-0oWn
way began thinking didn't
for it.
of his tied the boats anchor
to
Judd got he wanted George able haul him
But sometimes the contrapions for safety the
things that the most harm.
his line working his toward
where snaggd He found the place An old waterogged tree
rolled the had lodged top of it. Judd
surface The only thing could to cut the line each side
the stump and much possible Taking his fishing knife
he dived again
Trapped Beneath Surface of Icy Waters.
sde then after rising
the surface for another breath of air. he went down again. But this
his distance He reached bottom the
side the had work his around it. That took few
seconds Judd because the current was becoming
stronger and getting increasingly hard to hold my feet on the
found the line cut quickly doubled knees
under and shot toward the surface
He shot about five feet and
the air out of his lungs That jerk
don't why should have thought that
largest suid weighed only pound and half
araned - and h.usd ravseM dounward hand over hand
Judds aching The air out OF em and
before he could untange that
beating and
his spinning At last he reached the point where the
snagged, and then-caamty .
suddenly frightened drawing him
close against the stump Up in the boat George Croft had picked
become alarmed and try to haul Judd out the water
with the the George hauling him down
instead Of up-down to his death
Judd couldn't possibly free it from the
to free bursting
inside out He swallowing waeand that moment he
knife brought the set hne
his belt He got out the that the last Judd reem
suddenly
the again.
with gaf and then worked him until he brought him around
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-07-01

For the first time since their mar
riage, Joel McCrea and Frances Dee
will play opposite each other in the
Paramount picture wells Fargo"
Adolph Menjou and the Mrs. known
to us as Verree Teasdale will be
together In Sam Goldwyn's "Marco
Polo" and the one extra clause they
insisted on In their contract was that
the dividing wall between two dress
ing rooms should be taken down SO
that they could be together.
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to haunt her. Whoever is purchaser
will possess an estate at which no.
tables of the world were entert9 ed
in the days when Mary and Doug
were filmdom's most celebrated
couple.
ODDS AND ENDS-Mdrtha Raye
gets furious when anyone refers to her
as a rubber.fqc coniedienne, but Joan
Crawford altoays refers to herself as
Elephant Annie, because she neuer for
gets anything All the girls on the
RKO lot are grateful to the costume
designer, Eddie Stevenson, for making
then, look so elegant. By tUdy of shOtC-
ing their gratitude Ann SOthern, Hdr-
riet HiIiqrd, Gertrude Michael and
Ann Shirley got together and knitted,
se,Ued, and bought him knockout
summer iUardrobe Mary Carlisle
has added pretty penny to her earn
ings by having Bing Crosby ddUise her
on hOrse-race bets.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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as il might have in a fantastic
dream. A giddy novelist and Gym
ical playwright fall in love with
her.