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The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

the cotton fields were Dizzy's equip
ment for facing life.
He learned to throw baseball
with amazing speed and control.
In 1929, he was signed up by Don
Curtiss, scout for the Cardinals
Texas league. The salary was COM
paratively small, but it looked like
a fortune to the former cotton pick
er. After training in Houston, he
was shipped to st. Joseph, Mo-,
where his confidence and fast pitch
ing won II games. Transferred to
Houston, he developed rapidly and
soon became star pitcher for the
St. Louis Cardinals. Meantime, his
brother Paul, or "Daffy," also won
a pitching berth on the Cardinals.
Dizzy was always the more spec
tacular, the higher paid, and the
more widely publicized. He has
endorsed many advertised products,
made a motion picture, appeared in
vaudeville, and spoken over the ra-
dio. His recent earnings have been
$40, 900 or more per year.
&-WNU Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Shells Pepper Great Wall

EIRST clash Of the Chinese CEN
L trail governments army with the
japanese invaders occurred at his
toric Nankow pass in the Great
wall, 80 miles northwest Of Peiping,
when the Eighty ninth division.
from the provinces Of Suiyuan and
Shansi attacked the japanese gar
rison.
Through this pass the Japanese
have been able to move reinforce
ments from Manchukuo, its protec-
torate, and the Chinese wanted to
gain control of il. They wiped out
a whole battalion Of Japanese SOL
diers in the opening battle.
The japanese opened up immedi-
ately afterward with heavy artillery
fire which the Chinese failed to re-
turn. Indeed the latter were silently
retreating into positions they
thought more secure. AS shells fell
in the city Of Nankow, fires were
seen to arise from heavily populat-
ed areas. The Chinese, however,
were said to be equipped with
trench mortars with which to de-
fend the pass once they considered
their position satisfactory.
Japanese warned that all of their
forces in North China, some 40, 900
fighting men, would be loosed upon
the Chinese if they made any at
tempt to return to the old capital in
Peiping, now held by the invaders.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Strange Doinqs at Sea

EOUR insurgent airplanes dropped
Is bombs upon the Danish ves-
sci Edith and sank it in the Medi-
terannean, came the report from
Barcelona. The crew of 20 and a
French observer for the non-inter-
vention control were rescued by two
fishing boats. The owners of the
vessel, in Copenhagen, said it was
their twentieth ship to be captured
or bombed by the rebels.
The captain of the French freight
er Peame reported to authorities
that torpedo had been fired upon
his ship by an unidentified subma-
rine which f1oated beside his ship for
several minutes off the Tunisian
coast.
When the Spanish tanker Campea-
dor was sunk in the Mediterrane-
an, the rebel command issued a
communique taking the full blame.
But the captain of the tanker in
sisted an Italian destroyer sank it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

parable Akin Tamiroff-provides
the rough and ready drama.
ODDS AND ENDS - Randolph
Scott attended his first film premiere
in July, 1923, standing on an orange
crate i0atching the cr0tUds arrive to see
Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper in
Lilac Time" His most recent pre-
miere found hin, in choice aisle
seat watclting himself as star of "High,
Vide and Handsome" Jack Haley
has bot0ed oHt Of the "ShO,o Boat" pro-
ram but he ,oiH have one of his own
cry soon Adolphe Menjou and
catherine Hepburn are bitter rivals
IN the golf course Dorothy Cish,
Uhom film fans have neuer forgotten,
Gill play the lead in Mutual broad.
casting system serial called "The Cou-
pie Next Door" . When John Barry.
more returns to radio, it ,0on't be in
Shakespeare, but in "The Animal
Kingdom" and accent on YOUTH"
some time in September. Meanwhile
he is making a picture at RKO With
Irene Dunno.
Western Newspaper Union.
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Rebels Press Santander

D EPORTS from the insurgent
IN command said that 35 villages
and 1000 prisoners had been cap
tured by the rebels in their drive on
Santander and the tiny remaining
slice of the northern Spanish coast
held by the government. The gov
ernment admitted that some ad-
vances had been made, but refused
to concede that General Frances
forces were threatening the main
defenses of the Santander area.
Franco, in his new drive, was u.s.
Ing the same tactics which eventu-
ally brought about the downfall Of
Bilbao after a siege of many
months. Bombing planes and artil-
lery were pounding the Notifications
while other airplanes poured ma
chine gun fire upon trenches and
dugouts.
Insurgents planned the Santander
advance TO require as little man.
power as possible, so as to leave
enough men at the Madrid front to
start a separate offensive there if
necessary. They admitted the 10y
alists had caught them mapping with
an offensive west of Madrid in July,
causing them to abandon the San
tander drive temporarily, but de-
clared that That will not happen
this time"
That all might not be going as
we'll as General Franco insisted was
indicated when he was forced into
the paradoxical act of shelling one
of his own cities, Segovia. This was
done. it was reported. to quell re-
bellion among the insurgent forces.
! It was also said that the insurrec-
ton had been spreading among sew
eral provinces.
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Protests Lease of Ships
r A NACION, influential

T A NACION, influential newspaper
LOT Buenos Aires, Argentina,
caused some stir by vigorously pro-
testing the proposed leasing of OBJ
solete United States warships to
Brazil, declaring that such an act
would upset the balance of naval
power in South America.
Secretary of State Hull had writ
ten letter to the senate naval COM
mittee asking congressional authori.
ty for the leasing of over-age war
vessels to South American repub.
lies. When the Argentinian objec.
tions were noted, President Roose-
velt pointed out that the vessels in
question were obsolete, and were
only to be used for training. State
department policy, he said, would
prohibit their use against any gov-
ernment friendly to the United
States.
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S1awu3d ~. NEckGtd
@ Western Newspaper Union.

il clear that il will not push through
the Presidents much-desired wages
and hours bill, as dictated by Will
liam Green, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, unless
southern farmers get their cotton
loans. Furthermore, the Southern
ers under the capitol dome are now
asking for loans as high as Is cents
a pound, and in some cases even
18 cents. The South is not any too
well in accord with maximum hours
and minimum wages anyway.
The result Of the whole affair is
a complete stalemate. Somebody
will have to give in; somebody prob
ably will, and there will be old
fashioned ''hoss-tra aiding" on
wholesale scale. For congress wants
to adjourn before the snow flies.
Southerners in the senate were
also worried when Senator Robert
F. Wagner of New York succeeded
in winning recognition to debate an
anti-lynching bill, the type of which
the South has been successful in
blocking since the Civil war. Some
were of the opinion that the bill, al
ready passed by the house, might
be defeated by filibuster (Senator
Bilbo of Mississippi threatened to
filibuster until Christmas) but more
believed that the Southern members
would consent to its passage to put
President Roosevelt Ion the spot"
They explained that if he did not
sign it he would lose the negro vote
so essential to the third term that
is being whispered about, and that
if he did sign it the Democratic
South would drop him like hot
potato.
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IT is children's day in Hol-
l. lywood, with contracts be-
ing signed in carload lots to
exploit youngsters in films.
The five tough young lads
whom Sam Goldwyn import
ed to play in Dead End"
made such a hit at the pre-
view that he promptly put all
them under contract to make
more pictures.
Their next for him will be Street
Corners" after which Mervyn LIE
Roy would like to borrow them for
series. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's IA
vorite is fourteen-year-old Judy
Garland. They have lined up three
stories for her. Universal intends
to keep Deanna Durbin very busy
for the next year, and Paramount
plan to star the youngest of all,
four-year-old Kitty Clancy, in Call
Back Love-"
Rubinoff does not like to expose
his priceless Stradivarius violin to
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WayBackWhen
BY JEANNE
SCIENTIST WAS BORN IN
SLAVERY
BY JEANNE

II is master traded broken-down
L race horse, worth about $500.
for George Washington Carver
when he was a little pickaninny
just before the Civil war. Today.
he is the pride of the negro race.
A worn-out speller was the only
education available to him until he
was ten years old, when he attended
a small school in NeoSho, Mo. He
slept in a barn there and did odd
jobs to earn a living while learn
ing. The young negro boys thirst
for knowledge grew, and he went
on to finish his elementary school
education in Fort Scott, Kan. where
he worked as hotel cook. dish
washer, and a housekeeper. Later
he bent over wash tubs night after
night doing laundry for people. to
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Field Days for Reds.

7 1NDER the warming suns Of tol-
~ erance and Indifference and
even tacit encouragement in GER
tain quarters, many of our hot
house Communists are changing
from the pallid, timorous fowerlets
Of discomfort into full-blown advo-
Gates of the glad new age when
Lenin will take over Lincoln's niche
in the gallery of the immortals and
government everywhere will be Of
the Trotskys, by the Trotskys, for
the Trotskys.
True, there still remain some
wavering souls who are so pink
they'd be red if they weren't so yell
low!
But these quivering aspens shrink
in number as their bolder comrades
openly profess the blessed doctrine
which is doing SO much for the un-
dertaking business in Russia.
IRWIN S. COBB.
Copyright.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

cy on the Supreme
court bench caused
by the retirement Of
Justice Willis Van
Devanter. Senator
Black had not even
been mentioned for
consideration previ-
ously, and the ap-
pointment was a
complete surprise to
his colleagues.
For 20 years it has
been a US m,
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
PURGE Toll TO Date: 800

CEVENTY-TWO Russians in East
~ Siberia were lined up and shot
by the government, bringing the to-
tai number of eastern executions in
Russia's purge of 'Trotzkyists" to
800. The 72, described as rightist
terrorists, were charged with op-
Grating along the Siberian railroad
for the japanese secret service.
It was alleged the accused had
wrecked a train, killing IA persons
and injuring 40.
Arrests of officials in charge of
various branches of the Soviet econ
omy who had failed to make their
production quotas continued,
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
II Still Wasn't War

~ EN-. SHERMAN was the Yank
~ who is credited with the re-
markable observation that war is
hell" Now the 1000 Yanks in the
North China danger zone are agreed
that while the current unpleasant
ness" may not be official war in
the eyes Of the japanese govern
ment, it surely is the other thing.
With shrapnel raining around
their ears, Americans in Shanghai
prepared to leave while the leaving
was good, and the u. S. S. Augusta,
flagship Of Uncle Sans China
squadron, stood by to help them
make their getaway, as the great
city Of $500, 900 inhabitants sweated
in a crisis that threatened greater
destruction than the fighting of 1882.
At least three Americans were
killed in the opening skirmishes,
along with about 600 others, mostly
Chinese Yet the American State
department indicated that the Unit
ed States had no intention of becom-
ing involved, even if some American
lives were lost
The gravest situation in the unde-
clared war to date arose when three
Chinese bombing planes attacked
the Idzumo, japanese flagship as it
lay in the nothern end of the Bund.
The bombs missed their mark. but
they drew the fire Of the Japanese,
and it was not long before consid-
cradle areas of Shanghai were set
ahame by the incendiary shells.
Ironically enough. most Of the
damage and loss of life was caused
by the Chinese themselves. Chinese
planes zoomed over the city in the
direction of the Japanese ships. to
the cheers of the populace, still
mindful Of the fact that the out
come of the 1882 affair might have
been different had the Chinese
owned military planes at that time.
But the cheers turned suddenly into
screams Of horror as bombs began
dropping not upon the hated enemy,
but upon defenseless Chinese civil
ians who filed the native quarters
streets.
Frightful were the scenes which
filed the bombed area, as 1,500
dead and wounded lay about. some
of them blown to bits. Explanation
for the slaughter. as prepared by
Nine. Chang Kai-shek, wife of the
Chinese dictator, was that the men
flying the bombers had been wound
ed by Japanese anti-aircraft and
machine guns and their planes had
been so crippled that the bombs
were released unintentionally before
the fiiers reached their objective.
Two Of the airmen were killed.
The planes Of destruction had
been purchased in the United States.
However, the opinion Of members
of the United States senate commit
tee on foreign affairs was that a
statement expected from President
Roosevelt would not involve the neu-
trality act, with its power to outlaw
the sale of arms and the extension
of credits to belligerent nations.
Japanese authorities continued to
insist that they meant no harm to
the Chinese people, and that their
aim was still for the cooperation"
Of China, Manchukuo and Japan.
They also revealed that voluntary
contributions to the nations war
chest, coming from all over Japan,
had reached a total of $500, 900.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
STAR PITCHER WAS A COTTON
PICKER

JEROME HERMAN (DIZZYO
- DEAN was born in Lucas, Ark,
in 1911. Son Of poor cotton pick
er, he was forced to quit school
when he reached the fourth grade.
because the family was so poor that
the so cents a day he could earn in
the cotton fields was a necessity.
Under-nourished, poorly clothed
and uneducated, as he was, Dizzy
Dean always had confidence in him.
self. Perhaps that explains why he
was able to develop what small ad-
vantages circumstances in life al
lowed him, and develop them to
championship quality. Confidence
and strong right arm hardened in
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

cording to his friends, today in debt.
The story went that he would be-
come an executive of the Pierce
Arrow Motor corporation, that 5000
new shares of stock would be deliv-
cred to him, and that he would also
be allowed to share in the Sl00,000
stock purchase warrants.
Wonder if the Pierce-Arrow sales
force is watching the charts for
Maine and Vermont?
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iylVanld, is dtLrdCL-
ng attention. 1t
more than lives up
to the promise of its
title, for it is spec
tacular. melodious
and frenzied. Irene
Dunno and Dorothy
Lamour provide the
beauty and melody;
Randolph Scott, pit
ted against as tough
a lot of villains as
you ever hissed-in-
cluding that incom-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

sued. When the Indians started
fighting we called it an uprising.
When we sent troops forth to slaugh-
ter the Indians it was punitive ex-
pedition to restore law and order.
If the white soldiers wiped out the
Indians, that was a battle. II the
Indians wiped out the soldiers, that
was massacre.
Those who make history rarely
get square deal from those who
write history.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

garulng pledgeS so
as to gobble more
Chinese territory let
us look at some rec
ords closer home.
Since the republic
was formed we have
deliberately broken
264 separate treaties
with the original Red
owners Of this land.
From these viola
tionS Of our solemn
promises ord e r
yxyorc frant,nnfIu -.
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friends in Washing
ton say, and Jim
has not denied the
rumor, as he has
promptly d e n i e d
similar rumors in
the past. Farley, it
is said, seeks to re-
habilitate his per-
sonal fortunes. AS
postmaster general
he has lost $40, 600 a
year over his salary
of SIS, 600 and is. ac-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

brilliant tud i o
lights any longer
than is necessary,
so during rehearsals
and whenever he
was not playing for
the sound track of
You Can't Have
Everything" h e
used a double. The
husky virtuoso car
ries a big insurance
policy on the violin
and would feel lost
il ANYTHING hap
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
uJt@t .
6HNHKn
O.Nlobb
Wuv1bD about
Japs Killing Cinnamon.

CANTA MONICA, CALF.
- The formula still holds
good. A Jap kills China
man. That's another dead
Chinaman. A Chinaman kills
a Jap. That's a war.
But before we get too busy de-
ploring Japan's little way of disre-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Camera SHINING.

g NAPSHOOTING of famous folks
- from ambush may be upsetting
to the victims Of the sniping, but
the subscribing public certainly gets
an Illuminating eyeful every time
one Of the Photographic magazines
appears.
I've just laid aside the current
copy of periodical which could be
called either 'The Weekly Expose
or stop, Look and Laugh" Among
other fascinating, not to say illusion
ing, illustrations, I note the follow
ing:
A reigning movie queen with her
mouth SO wide open that her face
looked like a "gates ajar" design.
If / had tonsils like hers, I'd have
'em right out.
A political idol taken in a brief
one-piece bathing suit. Next time
they snap him, he would be well
advised to wear more than a mere
g-string. A Mother Hubbard would
be better. Or, anyhow, toga. A
statesman is greatly handicapped
when he suggests barrel of leaf
lard with the slaves knocked off.
A closeup of Mr.. John L. Lewis
with the lips pouting out and a con-
gested expression. Would not this
tend to confirm the impression that
lately Mr.. Lewis bit off more than
he could chew?
This candid camera stuff is trans
lating into the pictorial fact the
nightmare all of us have had-that
horrid dream of being caught out
doors with practically nothing on.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Nominee Draws Rebuke

MYTH his customary exercise Of
w the dramatic, President Roose-
welt nominated Senator Hugo L.
Black Dem., Ala.) to fill the vacan-
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Rumor Has Farley Ouittinq

Is Genial Jim" Farley going to
L resign as postmaster general to
become the executive head Of an
automobile firm? That's what his
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

pened to it. He had it with him
when he played at an open air con-
cert on Chicago's lake front recent
ly when more than 100, 1000 people
listened to him.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
Keeping UndercOver.

THIS is the land where, in self
l. protection, you hide your place
OF residence and have your tele-
phone privately listed. The result
is. if your aged grandmother hap
pens along and doesn't know your
address, she can never reach you,
but any smart stranger may ap-
proach the right party-let us call
him a 'phone-legger-and, by pay
ment of a small fee, get the number
instantly.
So, in about two calls out of three,
you answer the ring to find at the
other end of-the line somebody with
a neat little scheme, because here
in movieland neat little schemes
grow on every bush and gentlemen
promoting them are equally numer-
Gus.
Through long suffering, I've be-
come hardened to this, but today
over the wire came winning voice
saying the speaker desired to give
me, as he put it, "a checking over
for white termites."
I admit to a touch of dandruff and
there have been times when I sus-
pected fleas-we excel in feas on
this coast-but resent the idea Of
also being infested with white ter
mites.
I've about decided that, to mod
ern civilization, telephones are what
cooties are to a war-nobody likes
'em, but everybody has 'em.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

~ WHeH IIlOTG uldu 1OOJOOU pSOplc
listened to him.
-
When Frances Farmer arrived in
New York, instead of pausing po-
litely to let all the news photogra-
pliers take pictures of her, she
rushed off to Mount Kisco upstate
to go i'm rehearsal for her first stage
engagement. Four nights later /
saw her performance and sudden
ly found myself wanting to burst
into cheers. Playing a role quite
unlike any she has done on the
screen, a role simply made to or
der for Lupe Velez, she displayed a
cat-like grace of movement, a voice
musically rich, and great variety
of moods.
Ozzie Nelson and his popular
radio orchestra are currently ap-
pearing at the Astor roof in New
York. but soon he will move his
activities to Hollywood so as to be
near his wife, Harriet Hilliard, who
is under long-term contract at the
RKO studios. Ozzie is the hero Of
all boy scouts who want to make
name for themselves: At fourteen
he was honored at a jamboree in
London as the youngest Eagle scout.
Youngsters who were the original
fans of "The Lone Ranger" are
getting pretty grown up now. but
they confess that they still follow
the adventures with bated breath.
The popular three-times-a-week Sc
rial recently celebrated its seven
hundred and twenty-fifth broadcast.
Fran Striker, who has written this
series ever since 1t started in Janu-
ary, 1888, estimates that more than
$500 characters have appeared in
the adventures.
All the summer radio surveys re-
ported that Edgar Bergen and Char
lie Mccarthy were miles ahead Of
every other performer in popular
ity Their salary is said to have
sky-rocketed from $500 to $4,000 per
week.
High, Wide. and Handsome"
story of the early oil rush in Penn
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26
NeErs ReUieIC of Current EUenfS
YANKS DESERT SHANGHAI

Bombs Shells Rain Death . f.. Sen. Black Nominated
For Court Post :. White House Legislation Snagged
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-08-26

Improved D Sunday
Uniform o(-o~
-:-LESSON = =
BY REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
g Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for August 20
GOD CONDEMNS
INTEMPERANCE.

LESSON TEXT-Leviticus l0:1. 2, 8-11;
Proverbs 3l:4. S: Isaiah 28:1-8: Romans
14:2I
GOLDEN TEXT-Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging: and whosoever
Is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov.
20:1.
PRIMARY TOPIC-What Wise King
Said.
JUNIOR TOPIC-When a Man Drinks.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR
TOPIC-How Drinking Harms Others.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT
TOPIC-Why Beverage Alcohol Is a So
cial Foe
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-21
FRATERNAL ORDERS
I. O.. o. F..
NOME LODGE NO. As Next Meeting Jan. :: 8 P. M.
 Odd Fellows Ruildiny

VuU TCIIVWS DuHHUHHTS Business of importance, to be followed by refreshments. Come.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-12-21
GOOD NEWS FOR
 CHRISTMAS

Home comings are happy times for everyone but gayest of all are those that re-unite the family at the Christmas season. With the approaching festivities of Christ mas at hand mothers and fathers are planning surprises that will gladden. the hearts of their boys and girls. All about the home is the delightfully."- mysterious air of Christmas.
 Soon thousands of our nations s youth will be leaving schools and colleges to enjoy Christmas at home. They will bring with them a knowledge of new things and thousands of them will be able to tell their parents that they are feeling fit and are in the best of health. Thousands can say proud ly that they passed perfect phy- sical examination and that the doctor congratulated them when they were given the tuberculin test and showed no signs of hav- ing tuberculosis.
 No news should thrill the hearts of fathers and mothers like this pa,,rc haco11ca tuberculosis claim c more victims between the ages of l5 and 25 years than any other disease. That is why we need tuberculin tests periodically for all our young men and women and especially for young women in this age group because the death rate for them is one and one-half times that of young men of the same age. Scientists have