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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
After the Red PURGE

TOR the first time since the World
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 tour of central Europe,
announced that he would visit Lon
don as a guest of the British govern
ment.
It 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 UNI
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-
lance 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.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Dean-Frick Battle
Has Made Cardinals
More Serious Outfit

MO DOUBT the real facts in the
~ case are merely that Dizzy
Dean has recently happened to have
some Of his best days while ill-luck
has been continuing its overdue
catching up with Carl Hubbell.
Maybe that isn't the whole expla-
nation, though. Certainly change
has come over the Cards dugOut
since the st. Louis representatives
were training in Florida and since
the season opened.
During the training period
frankie Frisch's young men were
more concerned with the lighter as
poets of life than with the business
of baseball. Having read in the
newspapers that they were due to
win a pennant they let it 60 at that
and devoted their more diligent
attention to guitar concerts on street
corners. Once the National league
season had started there was no
greater concern over frequent de-
feats. Somehow the athletes seemed
to believe that such rebuffs could
not happen to them in real life and
~ 1t they would wake up almost any
morning to find they merely had
been victims of bad dreams.
Captain Leo Durocher, having
played with a Yankee team or two
that similarly misplaced its conf
dence over a portion of the season,
was one of the few who had cor
rect line on the situation.
"Yeah, we've got a good team
but it's young One," he explained
when the Cards were moving blithe-
ly and none too adeptIy through
their early season exercises. "A
team like that can win a pennant
and it also can finish away down
with the Dodgers. It's all how the
breaks fall or, rather, how things
click. Something's got to wake us
up and start us going. What? How
do know? How does any one know?
Those things just happen.
Remember that time in Cleve-
land when Mike Gazella, just SUBJ
stitute, practically browbeat Yam
kee team into swapping out of it
and grabbing the flag? Nobody told
him to do it. He just happened to
touch off the spark when too many
great players were feeling low or
acting careless. Something similar
can happen to us. Then watch"
Viewing the Cards in the dugout
before a game recently, remem-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
The Tax Parade

AS A congressional committee
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-
lions 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, scheme which treas
ury officials said was usually within
"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.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
To Sion or Not

To Sign or Not
IT HERE is no issue Of wages,
i 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
tons have agreed to all of the
demands of the unions-verbally.
"Verbally"-that is the word which
has for weeks kept thousands of
workers in eight or ten states from
returning to their jobs.
The C. /. 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 if 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 t h 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 "officially"-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 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 it's employees and
hands them over to the union.
"Does the C. I. o. contract pre-
serve industrial peace? 1t does not.
They have broken numerous con-
tracts"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Steel Wants It's Mail

THE Republic Steel corporation
l. filed in the federal district court
in Washington a petition for 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 a 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 a 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 midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Short Cut from Soviet

HREE Russian airmen success
L fully completed the first nonstop
airplane flight from the Soviet I'm
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, 60 hours and II minutes lat
er, after travelling 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 single-motored monoplane,
took place only few days after the
opening of the Soviet floating wealth
er station at the pole, to make scien-
tific observations preparatory to es-
tablishing trans-polar air routes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

two or three seasons ago but Meth
er were they joy-riding youths.
More than anything they were like
the Giants who sat in the dugout
across from them. Serious athletes,
that is. Young men not given to
too much carvings on but intent
upon giving the fans who crowded
the stands a fair break for the at
tention lavished upon them.
Even Dean, ordinarily gentle
man who could give ten-mile start
to Tennyson's famed brook in any
babbling contest, was as silent as
Hubbell across the way. Only once
in the 80 minutes Immediately pre-
ceding game time was there any,
thing like the celebrated Dean wit
and humor. Then some stranger
intruded to ask for the classic Dean
signature on baseball.
"Shucks," was the reply then.
"Get away, man. The only way I'll
sign anything with that guys name
on it is with bat"
Since the name OF Ford FLICK,
president of the National league and
the recent spanker of Mr.. Dean, is
prettily written on all the league
baseballs before they leave the fac
tory, there seemed no doubt about
who ''that guy" was. Also the
chorused amens which followed this
fervent announcement seem now to
indicate what has converted the
Cards into a team.
Definitely, the st. Louis represen-
tatives continue to chafe under the
reprimand of the league president
who was only doing his duty. Prick
revealed to them that they were not
quite the objects of popular -adora-
ton that some of them had con-
ceived themselves to be. Since the
truth hurts worse than anything else
the young men were bound to get
even.
Dean pitched as he can pitch when
he remembers he is no longer a
barefooted kid in an Arkansas cot
ton patch. The Cards played the
ball of which they are capable.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02


the Army-Navy game last fall has
spread to the hunts field where
it is used to give permanent ap-
pearance to the temporary jumps
Paul Mellon, incidentally, has
joined that very select group Of life
members in the United Hunts.
Pug Peace, 190-pound blocking
back who starred for the frosh team
last fall, is being named as sure
fire star on the Pitt varsity, which
should be better than ever in Octo-
Der Although boxers are sup
posed to appear entirely in the nude
when they weigh in for fights, the
ever modest Tony Galento always
wears his wrist watch Flam-
lingo Joe Widener, the Belmont own
er who always runs off to Europe
before the seasons big race at his
track, has patched up his feud with
the United Hunts. 4
Ky LaffOon is the only big-time
golfer who chews tobacco during a
tournament. whenever he gets in a
tough spot he just spurts out thin
geyser of Juice and steps up and
belts the ball Mrs. ]. G. Clark
named her clever Irish Battle jump
er Wibm because of her friendly
rivalry with Mrs. Marion Gibson,
M. F. III. of the G0ldens Bridge
Hounds. The name means "Win I
beat Marion" and the boOkmakerS
don't like it Gabe GenOvise,
manager of the former middleweight
champion, Babe RiskO, paid trans
pOwtation charges on Hans Haver-
lick, the Austrian heavyweight who
is being handled by the WOodman
and Lawrence combination.
Battling Nelson, who held the
lightweight championship from 1908
to 1910, celebrated his 55th birthday
recently Amateur golfers in
Philadelphia play annually for a
trophy donated by Howard Ehmke,
former Athletic pitcher who struck
out 10 Cubs in the 1929 worlds series
opener at Wrigley field Sad
Sam Gibson, who won his first ten
games for the San Francisco Seals
this spring, is thirty-nine years old
Frank Kanaly, Yale track
coach, devised a set of blinkers,
similar to those used on horses, to
break Easton Burlingame, one of
his sprinters, from looking back in
a race Hans Wagner, the
Pirates coach, has stopped riding
subways to the Polo Grounds since
a Johnny Quick Fingers picked his
pocket for $50 on the Pirates first
trip to New York this year
Jimmy Isminger, dean of the Phil
adelphia baseball writer's, has dis
covered what's wrong with the Ath-
letics Their first western trip
didn't last long enough.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

PICIII1GI Oh T dIICC-
something of a modern record. Pres
ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca
mile Chautemps, radical socialist
and a former premier, to attempt the
formation of a 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 midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Johnstown's Martial Law

M AYOR DANIEL j. SHIELDS,
1VA of Johnstown, Pa, where $4,000
were out of work because of the
forced shut down of Bethlehem
Steel's Cambria plant, was not so
successful in his appeal to the Pres
ident. Federal action to prevent
recurring riots with attendant in
juries 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 midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

bered that converse
ton. The collection
of babbling, care
free young men who
were more con-
cerned with carry
ing on feuds among
themselves t h a n
with doing serious
damage to the oppO-
siti0n a month ago
had changed. The
Cards were not the
hard = bitten Gas
Hnvscn G0m~o{0pc NJ
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

pretty MRS. Tony get
their thrills out Of
watching h Ors e
races. Al
Schacht, the base
ball comedian w h o
has just signed a
Acknowledgement
movie contract, gets
$3.50 each time h e
puts on his act in a
big league park
The use of that green
aniline grass d y 9
that attracted SO
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Death Strikes for Two

TWO c. I. Q. strikers were killed
\ and Is persons were injured as
strikers and police fought for three
hours in front of the Republic Steel
plant in Youngstown, Ohio, before
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
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

had withstood many
sieges dating from
medieval ages. In
the b o m b i n 6 and
Smelling 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-
NOUS But as the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

ton and the big in
dependent s t e e !
companies, as the
mediation board of
three, appointed by
Secretary of Labor
Frances E. 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
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Ss]ls'ir5,('s||s5.es
about:
The New NRA Bill.

CANTA MONICA, CALF. =
- They do say the new MIRA
bill, as drawn by the Gallagher
and Shean of the administra-
ton, Messrs. Corcoran and
Cohen, is more sweeping than
was the original NRA.
Even Gen. Hugh Johnson, once as
conversational as Mrs. Astor's par
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

would m a k e 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
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

TOT, DuL lately eXlleo
amid the uncongen-
ial silences, crawls
out from under a log
in the woods with
lichens in his hair,
but the lower jaw
s t i'll W o r k i n G
S m o o t h ly in the
socket, to tell how
drastic a thing it is.
Critics assert this
legislation will COW
er business like a
wet blanket over a
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

Fascists moved in, parading jubi-
lantly, to take possession of the city
for Gen. Francisco Franco, not a
shot was fired. The last defenders
had fled toward Santander, As miles
to the west. The Basques were es-
timated to have used $4,000 men in
defending Bilbao; 10000 were either
killed or wounded.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Barrie's Last Curtain

g IR 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 midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
French Premier Quits
EACEI

FACED with one of those financial
crises all too frequent in recent
French history, Premier Leon Blum
asked the senate for powers which
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

policemen from vantage points on
nearby hills.
At neighboring cities of Warren
and Canton police were apprehen-
sive because of threats by the c. /.
o. union to prevent proposed
back-to-work movement by loyal
Republic Steel workers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Bilbao Falls at Last

BILBAO, capital of the Spanish 10y
II alists, fell before an attacking
force for the first time in history; it
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Now
Follow the Horses

Now that he has retired from
prizefighting Tony Canzoneri and the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02
Privileges Of Nazidorl1.

ALL SC11AAClA NOAA44llO4ACL Alldy NC
= shy on the food rations and have
some awkward moments unless he
conforms to the new Nazi religion.
But he enjoys complete freedom of
the press-or rather, complete free
dom from the press. And lately an
other precious privilege has been
accorded him.
He may fight duels. Heretofore,
this inestinable boon was exclusive
ly reserved for the highborn. But
now he may go forth and carve and
be carved until the field of honor
looks like somebody had been clean
ing fish. .ftrs,s ELL.
This increase in his blessings
makes me recall tale that Charley
Russell, the cowboy artist, used to
tell: *5f
"The boys were fixing to hang a
horse thief" Charley said. she only
weighed about ninety pounds, but
for his heft he was the champion
horse thief of Montana. The rope
was swung from the roof of barn.
Then they balanced a long board
out of the loft window, and the con-
denned was out at the far end of it,
ready for the drop, when stranger
busted in. . .2af s1.- te
Everybody thought he craved to
pray, but that unknown humanita-
rian had better notion. than that.
In less'n a minute he came inching
out on that plank and there wasn't
dry eye in the crowd as he edged
up behind the poor trembling wretch
and slipped an anvil in the seat of
his pants"
IRWIN S. COBB.
G-wNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

Miss Perkins Names Three
THE federal government took a
L hand in the settlement OF the
dispute between John L. Lewis
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

sick pup, and point out that the
number of sick pups benefited by
being tucked under wet blankets is
quite small. However, these fussy
persons belong to the opposition and
don't count. Anyhow, they didn't
count much at the last election ex-
cept in Maine, Vermont and one
backward precinct in the Ozark
mountains.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-07-02

%AAsS oAAASa1As 4AOWONSAy tlOoC AdO5J
persons belong to the opposition and
don't count. Anyhow, they didn't
count much at the last election ex-
cept in Maine, Vermont and one
backward precinct in the Ozark
mountains.
Friendly French Visitors.
1T SEEMS we were cruelty wrong
4 in ascribing mercenary motives
to those French financiers who've
been dropping in on us lately. They
came only to establish more cordial
relations. OF course, there's a new
French bond issue to be foated, but
these visits were purely friendly
and altruistic.
Still and all, can't help thinking
of Mr.. Pincus, who invaded the east
side to invite his old neighbor, Mr..
Ginsburg, whom he hadn't seen in
years, to be guest at Mrs. Pincus'
birthday party.
He gave full directions for travel
ing uptown, then added:
''Vere we lif now it's Won of dose
swell valk-up flats. So NIT your
right elbow you gif little poosh on
the thoid button in the DORIAN
downstairs und the lock goes CLICK
CLICK und in you come. You go up
two floors und den, NIT your other
elbow, you gift one more little poosh
on the foist door to the left und walk
in-und will mommer be surprised"
wait" exclaimed Mr.. Ginsburg.
81 could get to that Bronnix. I got
brains, amt it? But ulso I got fin
gers und thumbs. Vot is de poosh-
mit-elbows stuff" "
Murmured Mr.. Pincus gently:
Surely you wouldn't come empty
handed"
Visiting Ancient Ranches.
/ 7 NDER the guidance of Leo
- Garlic, that most native of all
native sons, I've been visiting such
of the ancient ranches as remain
practically what they were before
the Gringos came to southern Cali
fornia. You almost expect to find
Ramona weaving in a crumbly pa
ito. y ~ - tiG -l.s A- -
What's more, every one of these
lovely places is lived on by one of
Leo's cousins. He has more kim
folks than microbe. They say the
early Carillos were pure Spanish,
but, ! insist there must have been a
strong strain of Belgian hare in the
stock. When it came to progeny,
the strain was to the Pacific coast
what the, Potomac shad has been
to the eastern seaboard. It's more
than a farnily-it's a species.
And mighty noble breed it is
y,r0dI1cin0 evan vet the fragrant &C.
Evening star., 1937-11-17
GRANGE PRESENTS
ANT|-WAR PLAN
Act to Draft Capital and
Industry Approved by
Committee.
BY the Associated Press.


HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 1.-THE
National Grange Convention consid-
cred for adoption today the report of
its Foreign Relations Committee
recommending policies directed at pre-
venting the United States from be-
coming involved in war.
Declaring the most important
question before the United States to-
day is how to safeguard the peace of
our Nation" the report outlined this
seven-point program
I'VE oppose any entangling foreign
alliances that sooner or later may
lead to war
We are unalterably opposed to any
way Of aggressive nature.
Armament Program.
I'VE approve an armament pro-
gram to fully protect our Nation
from invasion
We oppose use of armament to
protect investments in foreign lands.
I'VE favor stronger neutrality legis-
latlon to include embargoes on basic
war materials, and also prohibit
American ships from carrying sup
plies to nations at war.
we favor an act to draft capital
and industry as we'll as manpoWer,
thus taking all profits out of war.
We approve settlement of interna-
0onal disputes by arbitration"
In drafting its report, the committee
had before it resolutions submitted
by masters of seven State Oranges.
representing the views of thousands
Of farm people
Farm Woodlots Urged.
Earl w. Tinker, Washington, as
slstant United States forester in
charge of State and private forestry
told Grangers that developing farm
woodlot-a saleable commodity-Was
one of the most secure investments a
farmer can make. He described it as
a resource available in times of dis
treSS