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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

The obligations include about $751;
100000 owed to many Americans
who invested in public work gold
bonds which were issued during the
administration of President Gerar-
do Machado.
The new constitution which the
Cuban congress recently voted orig
inally prohibited any such negotia-
tons as those contemplated before
1910, but when it appeared in the Of
fetal gazette that article had been
radically altered. 1t now orders the
government to find satisfactory
way to settle all debts to the United
States before 1910 and authorizes
the president to open negotiations
Immediately.
This "error" in the gazette's COM
posing room is supposed to have
been ordered by Colonel Batista,
and though congress has the power
to correct it, majority of con-
gressmen, after reading the arti-
Gle in the gazette, gave it their ap-
prevail.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Robinson Wants Federal
Law on Basic Paw

T Unless Joe Robinson is wrong
~ in his predictions, congress will
at this session adopt a constitutional
amendment to provide for the regu-
lation of wages and hours of work
either by the states or by the federal
government. The Democratic ma
jority leader of the senate promised
that this would be done, and at the
same time he bitterly attacked Su-
preme court decisions which, he
said, now make such regulation inn
possible. The senator was especi-
ally severe in his comments on the
decision in the New York state wage
case, declaring:
''It is simply incomprehensible-it
is ridiculous-that there should ex-
list no legal means for protecting
a woman or a child from working as
long as anybody can extort money
from them. l don't hesitate to say
that the Supreme court opinion in
the New York case ought to be re-
versed and the American bar by a
great majority supports that view
point. That opinion was bad law"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Britain and Italy Sign
Mediterranean Pact

REAT BRITAIN and Italy signed
~ a treaty concerning the Medi-
terranean that is Of the highest inn
portance, Italy first pledging itself
to keep hands off Spanish territory.
In the public declaration are these
three leading statements:
The interests of Britain and Italy
in the Mediterranean do not con-
flict but on the contrary are
parallel"
The two powers announce they
recognize their respective maritime
rights in the Mediterranean, mean
ing that Italy will have a free access
to the oceans by way of Gibraltar
and the Suez canal and that Brit
aims imperial trade route to India
will remain free and inviolate.
Britain and Italy announce to all
the world that they favor preserving
the status quo everywhere in the
Mediterranean.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Spain Plans to Resist
German Aggression

- ERMAN warships continued to
" halt Spanish steamers, in re-
prisal for the seizure of the Nazi
freighter Palos by the Basques; and
the Spanish government made ready
to resist such action to the best of
it's ability. Foreign Minister Julio
Alvarez del Vayo said: "We are
firmly resolved, come what may.
not to permit another single aggres-
sion from the German feet and to
reply as soon as they occur with
all the means at our command"
The Valencia government an
nounced through its Paris embassy
a fiat refusal of a German offer to
cease molesting Spanish shipping
if the cargo of the Palos and a Spa
nish passenger were returned.
Fascist planes rained incendiary
bombs on Malaga, setting fire to
many buildings and killing or in
Turing hundreds of men, women and
children. The loyalist forces were
reported to have recaptured Alma
drones on the Guadalajara front af-
ter three days of heavy fighting.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Chang Gets Ten Years
but Is Pardoned

M ARSHAL CHANG HSUEH-
Ava LANG, who kidnapped Gene
ralissimo Chang Kai-shek, dictator
of China, and then repented, was
courtmartialed at Marking and SEN
fenced to ten years in prison. How
ever, the government listened to
Chiang's plea for mercy and agreed
to give Chang a full pardon. The
government rejected for the third
time Chiang's resignation of his mil
itary and civil posts.
There was much speculation in
Shanghai on probable political re-
adjustments. One newspaper pre-
dicted the early dismissal of six
so-called pro-Japanese officials of
the national government and the
appointment of a number of left
wingers including Nine. Sun Vat
sen, widow of the "Father of the
New China" She has advocated a
communist regime and alliance
with Moscow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

ions. Ten of the corporations plants
already were closed by sit-down
strikes and walkouts, and 1000 of
its employees were idle.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant
secretary of labor, who has spent
three months in futile effort to stop
the maritime walkout on the Pacific
coast, hurried back to Washington
to take a hand in the General Mo-
tors strike. After reporting to Sec
rotary Perkins, this chief mediator
held conference with John L. Lew
is. Miss Perkins already had dis
cussed the situation with Lewis,
seeking data on which Cancellation
could be recommended, though she
said this would not be undertaken
at once.
The auto workers in their Flint
meeting, besides creating the board
of strategy with power to call a
strike, approved of eight demands
on the corporation ranging from rec
ognition of their union to higher
wages and shorter hours. They also
appointed a committee to negotiate
with the corporation.
William S. -Knudsen, executive
vice president of General Motors,
declared the company never would
agree to collective bargaining on a
national basis and, despite strikes,
would continue to produce automo-
biles as long as possible.
The prime object of the c. I. o. is
organization of the steel industry,
and the crisis in the automotive in
dustry was not expected by Lewis
and his associates or wanted at this
time. However, they are giving the
auto workers their full support, NOR
ally and financially.
In the Youngstown district the
number of idle steel workers rose to
about 1000 when the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube company suspended
operations in its strip mill because
of "stop'' orders from automobile
customers. .e.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

Ships, authoritative naval yearbook,
the United States has SO warships
under construction or planned ;
Italy, Sc; France, 43; Germany, 49,;
Japan, 38.
Though no figures were given for
soviet Russia, it is known the Reds
are planning to launch sea pro-
gram which will bring their naval
strength up to that of their land
forces, now the largest in the world.
Information in Washington says
the United States has and will have
under construction 95 warships. 1t
expects to increase its personnel
by almost 10 per cent and build up
strong naval reserve. The ships
will include light and heavy cruis-
ers, destroyers, and submarines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

voice, too, because
the public is so familiar with the
sounds that Mickey and his co-play-
ers make.
Maybe some day We'll see that
Disney feature-length picture that
has been talked about for so long,
"Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs."
ODDS AND ENDS Ever since
he finished "The Gay Desperate" Nino
Martini has been travelling around, GU
ing concerts, and flying east each
Wednesday for his broadcast-so i'm.
agine ho,o thankful he is that the opera
season has started in NetO York, keep
ing him home for the tUinter b. r.
Schulberg, the movie producer, finally
admitted that he and Sylvia Sidney soiH
probably marry iUhen his martial affairs
are Strengthened out He and Mrs.
Schulberg haze been living apart for
some time Richard Dir is taking
out a patent for thornless rose ichich
he has developed at his ranch Rob
ert Young will appear iUith CIaudette
Colbert in "She Met Him in Paris"
,ohich may console him for losing out
on Love on the Rum" the Crawford
Cable-Tone picture NotO they say II
is Gladys George iUho tUiH play the role
Of the mother in Stella Dallas"
@Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Milburn L. Wilson Gets
Rex Tugwell's Place

M ILBURN L. WILSON of Mon
AvA tana, who has been serving as
an assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, has been made undersecretary
of the department to succeed Rex
ford G. Tugwell, resigned. Wilson's
post was given to Harry L. Brown,
a dirt farmer who rose from herds
man on an Iowa hog farm to be di-
rector of Georgia's agricultural ex-
tension service. .-..-.
William H. Moran retired as chief
Of the secret service with the close
of the year and was succeeded by
Frank j. Wilson, whose detective
work was largely responsible for the
conviction of Al Capone on income
tax evasion charges.
Charles T. Fisher, Jr., resigned
as director of the Reconstruction
Finance corporation to become
banking commissioner of Michigan.
He had been with the RFC since
its creation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Herbert Hitchcock New
South Dakota Senator

TOM BERRY, before retiring
= from the governorship of South
Dakota, appointed Herbert Hitch
cock of Mitchell, S. D., to fill out
the term of the late Senator Peter
Norbeck. The new senator is Demo
cratic state chairman and his ap-
pointment brings the Democratic
membership of the senate to rs, the
highest party total in history. The
Republicans now number is.
Mr.. Hitchcock was born in Ma
quoketa, Ia, in 1867 and was edu-
Gated at Anamosa, Davenport and
Chicago. He went to Mitchell in
1894 and was admitted to the bar
two years later. He was president
of the school board in his home
town for ten years and states at
torney four years. He served as
state senator in 1909, 1911, and 1929.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

screen version of "Tovarich," the
successful stage play; she should
be grand in it.
f.
Claire Luce, who was Fred
Astaire's first dancing partner after
his sister deserted him for matri-
mony, is in Hollywood, with yearn-
ings to become a motion picture
actress. On the stage she got along
beautifully with the nimble Fred,
but she's not making tests for RKO,
so apparently she isn't being con-
sidered for his partner on the
screen. Practically everyone else
has been, apparently!
The blonde Miss Luce has life
time on the stage behind her-that
is, she has her lifetime, as she
started at the age of four. She was
one of the six or eight chorus girls
in the musical show in which Mir
lam Hopkins and various other cell
ebrities were also chorus girls-and
what tales they all tell about each
other in private!
X
1t looks as il James Cagney would
break out again-nOt in fight with
a motion picture company this time,
but in a new venture. He is talking
of reviving the theater in small
towns, so you may see him in per-
son before long.
1t is said that Robert Montgomery
and Pat O'Brien may appear with
him, as well as his brother Bill.
Meanwhile his first picture for
Grand National, is completed at last.
How do you like the idea OF a
picture with Robert Taylor, Spencer
Tracy and James Stewart in it? The
picture will be "Three Comrades"
and the author is the man who
wrote Journeys End" so the story
ought to be good. Once upon a time
studio executives would h ave
screamed at the idea of putting
three such players in one picture,
but nowadays the big companies
plan to give us as much for our
money as they can.
~
Have you been missing "Minnie
Mouse" from the screen? If you
i
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
President on Child Labor
and Starvation Wages

ELIMINATION of child labor,
IL long working hours and starva-
ton wages is a necessity, and must
be carried out by the federal gov
eminent since it cannot be done by
state action. So declared President
Roosevelt in his press conference.
He warned the correspondents not
to say he was planning to revive
the MIRA and insisted all he could
say at present was that something
should be done to fix maximum
hours and minimum wages.
Since the day of the NRA, said
Mr.. Roosevelt, there has been a
steady decline in child labor, Cruel
ing hours and starvation wages by
80 per cent of American business.
AS for the other 10 per cent, he
said, they were still failing to live
up to the best standards since the
death of the MIRA.
Attorneys for the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor were reported to
be about ready to submit to the
President bill designed to restore
labor protective features lost in the
death of MIRA. 1t provides that
congress catalogue unfair Soon
duct which would be forbidden to
employers and assure workers ade-
quate protection. Violations would
be punishable by a fine. The fed
Grafton is expected also to back
federal licensing of interstate cor
porations as provided by the O'Ma-
honey bill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
States Get $20o,0o0,oo0

TOR Road Improvement
CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
- WALLACE has just apportioned
5000, 900, 900 to the states for road
improvement. Of this sum $685.
100000 will go toward improvement
Of the federal-aid highway system,
SOS, 100000 for improving secondary
or farm-to-market roads, and $780,
100000 for grade crossing elimina-
ton.
The fund is for use during the ifs
cal year beginning July 1, 1887, and
funds for improvement of roads
must be matched by the states.
Grade crossing elimination funds
need not be matched. Highway
projects selected, contracts and
specifications are subject to federal
approval after designation by state
commissions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
STAR.
DUST
Movie . Radio
x*+ By VIRGINIA VALE xxi

OF COURSE you've seen Sid
~ Silvers, and laughed at
him, in many a movie; now
you're going to hear him on the
air with AL Jolson, whom you've
also seen in pictures, but not
recently.
Silvers is something new under
the sun. He writes the very funny
lines he speaks; that is, he makes
them up, but he doesn't put them
down on paper. He just says them.
Somebody else takes them down.
And if he gets very funny idea
during the final filming of a scene,
in it goes and the scene is done over
again. But what havoc that will Gre
ate if he forgets himself and does it
on the air, since radio scripts have
to be written and rewritten,
and then approved.
II
Now it's Claudette Colbert and her
husband who are going to adopt
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
l1Ez NE;Ei
Poorly NOurished Women
They Just Can't Hold Up
Fruit of Patience
Patience is bite, but it's fruit is
sWeet.-RouSseau.

Are you getting proper nourish-
ment from your food, and restfuI
sleep? A poorly nourished body
just can't hold up. And as for that
rundown feeling, that nervous ia
tigue,-don't neglect it!
Cardui for lack of appetite, poor
digestion and nervous fatigue, has
been recommended by mothers to
daughters-women to women-for
over fifty years.
Try it! Thousands of women testify
Cardui helped them. OF course, If 1t does
not benefit YOU, consult a physician.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
SS5i,li<5,(a|!b@es
about:
GLORY VS.. Undernourishment.

Glory VS.. Undernourishment.
CANTA MONICA, CALF
- Because their dictators are
piling up ornaments and build
ing up armies at a rate I'M
precedented, the German peo-
pie must, it appears, go on ra-
tons, cutting down their daily
consumption of breadstuffs and
fats, with the prospect of still
more stringent restrictions.
But their overlords-a reasonably
well-nourished lot, to judge by their
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

ter. It will be submitted to con-
gress with the Presidents favorable
recommendation.
The Mellon collection, part of
which is stored in the Corcoran art
gallery in Washington, includes
many paintings of highest impor-
lance and some fine works of sculp-
ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank, head
of a celebrated art firm, says that
its actual value is more than $780,
100000 and that it is the greatest
collection ever assembled by any
individual collector"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

Photographs keep
right on preaching
that such compul-
sorry undernourish-
ment is all for the
greater glory of the
vaterland.
/ know of but one
historic parallel to
match this. 1t is to
be found in Mother
Goose, where it is
POLITICALLY set forth:
There was a piper
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

magnificent art col
lection, valued at
$23, 900, 900, together
with a SO, 900, 900
building for its hous-
ing in Washington
and a fund for its
maintenance and in
crease. The offer is
made through Presi-
dent Roosevelt, with
whom Mr.. Mellon
has been in CORE
spondence and con-
ference on the mat
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

Whereupon 300 dele
gates from tn o S e
plants in ten cities
met in Flint, Mich,
and granted to a
"board of strategy"
power to order a
general strike. The
board is headed by
Homer Martin, in
ternational president
of the United Auto
mobile Workers of
America, one of the
.o,,,ic n 7 q I'M
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

to settle all Cuban
obligations in the
United States and is
expected soon to in
vite the bankers and
bondholders con-
cerned to enter
negotiations to that
end. Credit for in
ducing Bru to do
this is given to Col.
Fulgencio Batista,
who appears to be
largely in control of
aHoirc II, tho island
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

a baby from that
famous orphanage
in Chicago. Irene
Dunno and her hus-
band were the latest
couple to do it-and
Irene, worse luck,
had such a bad cold
during the first few
days of the little
girls presence in her
new home that she
couldn't 60 near the
infant. Meanwhile
Claudette has been
0iven the lead in the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

Alo NSe AOAA
she'll return. You
see, her voice-that
is, the young woman
who plays "Minnie's
voice - got married
and went off on a
honeymoon.
Being the voice for
one of Walt Disney's
popular characters
is a pretty good job
and it means a
contract for the
actual owner of the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
ShampOOed

Policeman Ito woman driver)-
Hey, you, what's the matter with
you, anyway?
Lady Tin traffic jam) - Well,
officer, you see I just had my car
washed and I can't do thing with
it'll
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Nebraska's Unicameral
Legislature Opens

A S NEBRASKA'S unicameral
1 \ legislature, unique in the Unit
ed States, was about to begin its
first session, Gov. r. L. Cochran de-
clared politics was out. He dis
couraged party caucuses among the
members and said he would have
no spokesman in the legislature.
The governor pointed out that the
constitution provides that the one
house chamber shall be non-parti-
san and that the voters had done
their part by electing, on a non-poli-
teal ticket, % Democrats and 81
Republicans. - en- t $3.50
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Naval Treaty Expires;
Building Race Is On

A T THE close of 1896 the WASH
"A ington and London naval treat
les expired. and great naval con-
struction race started among the
powers. Great Britain got off well
in the lead, for on New Years day
she laid the keels of two huge bat
tleships, the George v and tn e
Prince of Wales. The British pro-
gram calls for the building of 70
new vessels at cost of nearly a
billion dollars. The British also are
understood to be planning to rebuild
the Hongkong and Pacific bases. 81
According to James Fighting
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Moral Courage

Moral courage is more worth
having than physical, not only be-
cause it is higher virtue, but
because the demand for it is more
constant.-Charles Buxton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Well-Expressed

"What a long letter you have
there"
"Yes, sixteen pages from Aileen."
''What does she say?"
"That she will tell me the news
when she sees me-" : Pearson's
Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Mellon Offers Great Art
Collection to Nation

A NDREW w. MELLON, Pitts
"A burgh multimillionaire and for
mer secretary of the treasury, has
offered to present to the nation his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
General Strike Threatened
in General Motors Plants

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA
~ TION fatty refused to consider
collective bargaining in its SO plants
except through local management.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Stunts in the Films.

TOR ordinary film stunts, current
4 prices are:
Tree fall, $25; stair fall, $50 leach
additional fight, $3.50; head-on auto
crash, 5000; parachute jump, $3.50;
mid-air plane change, 5000; high
dive, $75; being knocked down by
auto, SIS being knocked down by
locomotive, $500; trick horse rid
ing, $125; crashing plane, $1,000.
1t doesn't cost a cent, though, for
practically every slightly shopworn
leading man, on or off the screen,
to crave to play Hamlet on the
stage. But it is almost invariably
expensive for the producers who
occasionally satisfy these morbid
cravings.
IRWIN S. COBB.
q Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15
Bru Plans Settlement
of Cuban Obligations

z EDERICO LAREDO BRU, the
4 new president of Cuba, proposes
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-01-15

anu paQe the cow consider.
Signs of Disapproval.
q nee, in Montana, I heard two
" cowboys talking about the faith
er of the sweetheart of one of them.
"I've got kind of a sneaking
idea that Miles paw don't care
deeply for me-" said the lover.
what makes you think so-some-
thing he said?"
mo, because he don't never say
nothing to me, just shifts. But the
other night ! snuck over there to
see Mile, and, as 1 was coming
away, / happened to look back and
the old man was shoveling my
tracks out of the front yard"
The archbishop of Canterbury is
likely to wake up any morning and
find the British public shoveling his
tracks out of the front yards.
International "Messifications."
JUST about the time the contest
~ ing groups in Spain lose the
twenty or thirty confusing names
the correspondents have hung on
them and resolve themselves into
the army that's going to take Ma
drid not later than o'clock tomor-
row afternoon and the army that's
going to keep Madrid until the cows
come home, a fresh complication
breaks out in China. General Chang
gets into mixup with General Chi
ang, possibly on the ground that
he's typographical error, and the
red forces of the north get all twist
ed up with the white army of the
north and the pink army of the
north by northeast and so on and
so forth, until the special writer's
run out of colors.
Just one clear point stands out of
the messification. When the dust
clears away some small brown
brothers wearing the Japanese uni
form will be found sitting on top Of
the heap. China's poison is Nip
pon's meat, every pop.
Rationalizing the Calendar.
THE plan to adopt rational cal
l. endar is finding favor in admin
istration circles at Washington, as
in European countries.
Every time this proposition -
which is so sensible and seemingly
unattainable-bobs up, I think of
the little story of the venerable Ala
bama pessimist who dropped into
the general store just in time to
hear the proprietor reading aloud
from the newspaper that the prof.
ect for thirteen months of twenty
eight days each had been laid for
consideration before the League of
Nations.
"I'm ag'in' it," declared the aged
one. "It'd be jest my luck for that
extry month to come in the win
ter time and ketch me short of
fodder"
.