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Balkans

On January IS Hungary joined
the German-Italo-Jap anti-Commit-
ern pact, undoubtedly the willing
victim of Rome-Berlin pressure.
Russia's unexpected retaliation was
a virtual break-off in diplomatic re-
lations with Hungary on the excuse
that Budapest is now under for
eign thumb and has lost its indie
pendence to a considerable de-
gree"
BY far the smallest significance
of this step is that Russia again
shows an interest in world affairs,
breaking the painful silence that
has kept Europe guessing since the
Soviet was ignored at Munich last
September. More important is the
warning that Moscow will take sim
liar action against any other nation
joining the anti-Commitern pact.
Observers now wonder if the slur
concerning Hungary's lost "inde-
pendence" may not revive antiNazi
sentiment in that nation and
throughout the Balkans. Within a
week after the Soviet's action three
favorable signs could be seen:
Martial Law. Following explosion
of a bomb in Budapest's largest
Jewish synagogue, the nation went
under military law and two influen-
tial Nazi newspapers were suspend
ed
Pan-Balkan. Rumania and Jugo-
Slavia have signed an agreement to
Cd defend their present borders;
CD adopt a "conciliatory attitude"
toward all Balkan countries, and 90
improve relations with Hungary and
Bulgaria, chief Nazi conformists in
the Balkan area.
New Premier. At Belgrade Jugo-
slavia's pro-Nazi Premier Milan
Stoyadinovitch resigned under pres
sure concerning the Croatian auton-
omy move, being succeeded by 46-
year-old Dragisha Tsvetkovitch. la
Dor leader and strong foe Of die
:atorShips.
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their English friends. Anxious lest
London be left off U. S. transat-
lantic schedules, the British govern
ment has waived the treaty provi-
sion calling for a simultaneous
start by u. S. and British planes.
This clears the way for Pan-Ameri-
can anyways ships to start between
March Is and 81. Probable settle
ment, now that the U. S. holds
agreements with both Britain and
France, is a service from New York
to Paris via London.
Alreidy undergoing observation
flights for the civil aeronautics au-
thority is one of Pan-American's
new 42-ton clipper boats, largest
practical ship yet built. Carrying
more than so passengers, complete
even to a highly-publicized bridal
suite" the new clippers would
make one flight a week in each di-
rection at the start. Later, with
more ships and experience. three
weekly trips will be booked.
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Frances Purchase of
Americdn-Mode AirpIdnes

To get back to this airplane thing,
| should like to set out some of the
facts. France is buying American
made airplanes-several hundred of
them. She is doing this because her
own airplane production has stalled
and France has sufficient gold to
buy them elsewhere. The French
military service must have them in
case there is that outbreak of force
that seems so imminent on the sur
face for the reason that Germany
and Italy are superior to France in
the air.
The contracts were let in this
country after Mr.. Roosevelt had
talked over the whole question with
his cabinet and with the war and
navy departments and certain lead
ers of the airplane industry. They
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Business

AS counsel for q New York state
legislative insurance committee,
Charles Evans Hughes made a
name for himself in 1906 uncovering
what he thought to be irregularities.
The chief Hughes fear: That in
surance company resources were so
large as to make conservative, re-
sponsible management increasingly
difficult The Hughes remedy: Fed
eral supervision of insurance invest
ments.
Since 1906 Mr.. Hughes has risen
to the U. S. Supreme court and may
have changed his mind. At least
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-02-16
President Has Authority
To Shape Foreign Policy

When it comes to foreign rela-
tons, however, the situation is en-
tirely different. The constitution,
wisely enough, provides that such
matters must be dealt with by the
President. 1t allows him the power
of negotiation but it curbs that pow
er by requiring him to ask congress
for a declaration of war. In other
words, the President is provided
with authority to shape and conduct
the foreign policy, the dealings with
foreign nations, but he must have
the approval of congress, which rep.
resents the people, when the con-
Guiding phases of those negotia lions
are reached and the nation is about
to be bound.
That condition was arranged at
the outset of our nations history.
1t has worked well. The rights of
the people are amply protected
Think for a moment what the situa-
ton would be if our foreign poll
cies were in the hands of addle-
pated demagogues in the house or
the senate! l hazard a guess that
some of them would talk as long as
Hitler did the other day and create
just as much grief.
So, firmly believe there should
be some secrecy about our foreign
policy and that the President should
have some liberties in working out
arrangements with other govern
ments. After all, any program that
he has must eventually be published
and debated by congress.
G Western Newspaper Union.
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u. S. and British airliners have
been hopping the Atlantic in test
flights for two years, planning to
start London-New York service 81
multaneously next summer. Last
fall a reciprocal agreement was
signed but the English. piqued be-
cause the U. S. refused to let I'm
perial airways ships land at Homo
lulu, shrank back in a pout. Anx-
ious to start transatlantic service
this year regardless of the British
attitude, the U. S. opened negotia-
tons with Paris and Immediately
arranged Paris-New York flights via
the long Azores route. Meanwhile
the British announced they would
inaugurate independent service
next June.
But the Americans showed them
selves better diplomatic pilots than
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were authorized after Ambassador
Bullitt, in his reports from Paris,
had laid bare the whole situation.
am told that Mr.. Bullitt ad-
vised Mr.. Roosevelt to treat the
matter as a routine; that to talk
much about it would excite people,
unduly. Well, the Bullitt idea was
working until the unfortunate acct
dent out near Los Angeles when q
big bombing plane fell, injuring a
member of the French mission that
is in this country buying the planes.
Then, out popped the secret and out
came the critics of the Roosevelt
foreign policy.
1t is not within my power to say
whether Mr.. Roosevelt's foreign pol
icy is right or wrong. l do not
believe anyone can tell yet. Any
foreign policy is something of a
gamble. If it works, the author is
hero; if it fails, the author of the
policy promptly is termed a sap.
But Of this phase, l can write:
why should the howlers now arise
and denounce the Presidents for
eign policy on the basis of sales Of
planes to France, when more than
year ago the British government
began buying planes from our man.
ufacturers? Why is it wrong to let
the French buy and right to let the
British buy? Or, to state the mat
ter affirmatively, it seems to me
that we.cannot well differentiate be-
tween two nations with whom we
have friendly relations
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Weekly News Analysis
Federal Insurance Supervision
Nav FolloU Committee Probe
by Joseph w. La Bine-

was ready to surrender, but not
Premier Juan Negrin. His terms:
Cd elimination Of foreigners from
Spain; CD plebiscite by the Span
ish people to decide their future
form of government; 80 no repris-
ais on either side. Those terms
having apparently been rejected by
the Insurgents, Premier Negrin pre-
pared to fight to the finish in the
large southeastern section of Spain
his government still holds.
Anglo-French concern over the
Spanish war may be expected to
grow daily Until that conflict is end
ed. AS last chance for peace with
security, London and Paris jumped
on the bandwa gon for Negrin's plan,
realizing these terms held a scant
promise that Spain might emerge
from the war as sympathetic ma
ton, rather than as a tool for Italy
and Germany.
But it would obviously be fool
hardy for the Fascist governments
to accept peace with partial victory
when a full victory is so near. That
accomplished, France will have to-
talitarian neighbors on three sides
Spain, Italy, Germany and will
be ripe for plucking by Mussolini.
It is significant that Italian terri
torial claims against France are
being held up until the war is over.
But the approach of this French
italian struggle draws Paris closer
to Britain each day. Before the
house of commons, British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain has
promised full military support in
case France is involved in war.
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nothing has been done about it and
the vast insurance fund has quad
rupled. Whereas Mr.. Hughes sug-
geSted limiting new policies to
$3.50, 1000, 900 a year per company,
some now write So, 900. 900, 900 year.
Today there are $4,000, 900, 900
worth of policies in effect and in
surance investments cover a sur
prisingly wide field. Samples: Gov
eminent securities, $4,000, 600, 900;
railroads. So, 600. 900, 600; farm mort
cages and corporation securities,
$1,000, 000. 000; state, county and city
bonds. 1900, 900, 600.
If this business was worth inves-
tigating % years ago it is even
more vulnerable today. Just started
in Washington is a 12-month probe
by the temporary national economic
committee, headed by Wyoming's
Sen. Joseph c. O'Mahoney and bet
ter known as the monopoly in
vestigating committee Ginning in
is William o. Douglas Securities
and Exchange commission. PERTH
nent question marks include Cd
what influence insurance invest
ments exert on U. S. money mar
kets, banks, railroads. etc.; 90 how
insurance executives are chosen;
CD possibility of interlocking direc-
torates between insurance firms and
utilities.
Though the monopoly committee
has often reiterated that il is not
hunting witches, and although Mr.
Douglas maintains he only wants to
bring the Hughes report up to date,
there is good chance of new legis-
lation providing federal regulation
over all interstate insurance bust
ness. This would supplement state
supervision now in effect.
Adding to their discomfort is the
demand by Montana's Sen. Burton
K. Wheeler that insurance COM
panies take greater hand in help
ing reorganize U. S. railroads. The
Wheeler charge: That present in
surance company negotiations with
carriers feature repeated conces-
sions to investment bankers at the
expense of bondholders. But if rail
aid presents as many obstacles as
insurance men claim, the probable
solution of this problem will not be
a federal whipping post for insur-
ance companies but revision in the
railroad reorganization statute.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-02-16
WAR IN MANCHUKUO

Map shotos ~ site Of latest border
clashes; ~ site OF last summers
Changkuteng hill incident.
except for diplomatic protests in
Tokyo, Japan asserts the as
saults" were aimed to force a re-
treat from Russian fishing grounds.
And well might Japan throw
back any attack in Manchukuo,
because foreign observers report
the isolated puppet state is manned
not with easy-going border guards
but with veteran troops, barracked
along the Siberian border to guard
against the fatal day.
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People

Demonstrated at Washington by
Laurens Hammond, Chicago inven-
tor, ''novacord" piano-type instru-
ment which reproduces sounds Of
most string and brass instruments.
. Signed at Mexico City, by Cuba's
Col. Fulgencio Batista and Mexico's
Lazaro Cardenas, a pact to de
fend democracy"
Q Died at Washington, D. c., Fred
erick Steiwer, 55-year-old retired U.
S. senator from Oregon, and 1886
C. o. P. keynoter at Cleveland.
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NERVOUS?

Do you feel so nervous you want to scream?
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold
those dearest to you?
If your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
made especially for Donsen.
For over 60 years one woman has told an
other how to go Smiling thru" with reliable
Pinkham's Compound. 1t helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often &C
company female functional disorders.
Why not give it chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written in
reporting wonderful benefits from Pinkham's
Compound.
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MISCELLANY

The year 1889 being basebalrs GEN.
tennial, Postmaster General James
A. Farley has announced plans for a
special postage stamp, first ever is
sued to commemorate a sport.
o DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, pres
ident of Columbia university, pre-
diets New York will become the
capital of Western civilization, sue
ceeding London as London once sue
ceeded Rome.
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GANDHI - Mrs. Kasturibhai
Gandhi, faithful, silent" wife of
midas Mohandas K. Gandhi, has
been arrested for participating in
a civil disobedience campaign.
FLEGENHEIMER - Mrs. Ar
thur Flegenheimer, widow of
New York's late policy racketeer,
Dutch Schultz" Flegenheimer,
testified she saw her husband in
conference with James J. Hines,
Tammany leader who is accused
of selling protection.
MOONEY-Mrs. Rena Mooney,
wife of CALIFORNIA; ex-Convict
Tom Mooney, promises to fight
her husbands reported attempt
TO divorce her.
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Trend
Hoto the ,vind is blo,Uing

HO1U LVC tCtItu u OtONtHS - .
DEFICIT-The u. S. treasury
ended the first seven months OF
this fiscal year with 1861, 543,-
858 deficit, having spent S., 222,-
500, 4o4, compared with $4,262,-
464, 425 in last years similar Pc
Rod.
RESERVES-Excess reserves
of federal reserve member banks
are declining after steady, dis
couraging, rising trend in Janu-
airy.
EGGS-Oficers from two Ital-
ian cruisers were rotten-egged
while driving through Panama
City to visit government officials.
TAXES-Jewel Tea company
reports its taxes now cost 1898. %
per worker compared with S87.57
in 1882. Total: $1,10o, AIS against
S248, Asst in 1882.
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Miners Salute
Topnotcher in
Copper World

yet thousands of small mining men
up and down the Rocky mountains
today are sending him congratula-
tons.
The American Institute of
Mining and Metallurgical Engi-
neers awards him the William
Lawrence Saunders gold medal
for "signal accomplishment" in
mining and metallurgical enter
prises. This honor goes to Mr..
Gates as a depresSiOn-made
leader in the copper industry.
His methods have facilitated
copper recovery from low-grade
ore. However, much of the
cheering comes from the small
mining men of the West for his
successful efforts for four
cents-a~pound import tax on for
eign copper.
He is a miners miner and nc
swivel-chair industrial captain-this
57-year-old president of a $3.50, 600,
600 corporation. For every mile Of
bride path which he may ride il
suburban Connecticut today, he has
spent long hours in the saddle years
ago, directing mining operations II
Utah and Arizona. He is M. I. T.
1902, a native of Boston. His dos
sier clicks off 'timekeeper, shift
boss, foreman, superintendent, gen
eral manager, vice president anc
president of the Phelps Dodge
Corp. and now medal.
G Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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The fate of Britain and France
marched with Rebel Generalissimo
Francisco Franco into Barcelona,
tagging along as he pushed north
ward through the rest of Catalonia
to shut off an important sector in
the two and one-half year old civil
war. No sooner had Loyalist Pres
ident Manuel Azana fled to Paris
than peace rumors began. The
probability is that President Azana
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" for the hired help in the New
York World building, a few years
ago, there was quite a stir and
stew of ambi-
Dream Book ton. Swapping
Came Through dreams, on e
As Advertised Maxwell Ander-
son was going to
write play; Louis Weitzenkorn had
the same idea; big, jovial Phil Stong
had written 16 novels, to the quite
considerable Indifference of all pub
fishers, but Mr.. Stong said all this
was just a little practice workout
and he promised to deliver later on.
Swarthy, saturnine James Cain
thought he might have the making
Of book or two in his system, but
said little about it. Young, Whippy
Dudley Nichols, a demon reporter,
trained as an engineer, had writ
ing career neatly blue-printed. Paul
Sifton, burned up by social injuS-
tice, was going to write few plays
and tear the lid off things in gen.
eral. Ben Burman, whom Phil Stong
could carry around in his pocket,
was going to be bell-ringing nov
elist.
A kindly Destiny presided over
the old beanery. The above play
wrights, noveIists and Holly
wood big shots probably could
have bought the then sinking
world with their collective re-
sources of tOday-althOugh Mr..
Sifton, after pulling two or three
lurid Broadway plays, now is
sunk voluntarily in the some
what undramatic federal wage
board, as it's assistant director.
The spot news of this chronicle is
that Mr.. Burman has been honored
with the Southern Authors award for
his recently published novel, BLOW
for Landing" This is the highest
literary award in the gift Of the
South, in which non-fction also was
judged. His previous books include
Steamboat Round the Bend"
which became Will Rogers last
screen play, and several other Mis-
sissippi yarns. He has more or
less of personal copyright on river
tales.
Mr.. Burman once told me how his
dream was almost sidetracked. He
quit the World. to become an author
with no luck, and, at long last,
only a dime. The fragrance of fresh
ly baked buns in shop window de-
throned his reason and he shot the
dime for four buns. Back in his
garnet he found a letter from a
magazine. saying they liked his
"Minstrels of the Mist" which they
had had for months, and which he
had given up as lost. Would he
come up and consult them on a mi
nor change? He would, but lacked
arfare.
He had seen a pretty girl in a
nearby studio. He didn't know
her, but he told her his troubles.
She was similarly situated, but
staked him to three two-cent
stamps. He raised nickel on
them at stationery store, saw
the editor and got not only a
check, but a big hand on his
story.
And, naturally, he returned
and married the pretty girl, who
thereafter illustrated his books
as they traversed, not only his
pet river, but Damascus, the Sa-
hara desert, Bagdad and other
such mother-lodes of literary
raw material.
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EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those Of the news analyst, and NOT
necessarily of the newspaper
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-02-16
WHO'S
NEWS
i xxxN
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-At the old beanery
! Y for the hired help in the New
York World building, a few years
ago, there was quite stir anc
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looks out over
the House of
Morgan and the
New York Stock
exchange, and
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Choice of Evils

The lives of the best of us are
spent in choosing between evils
Junius.
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r OUIS SHATTUCK GATES, sill
IL ver-gray and semi-corpulent,
heavy-spoken and decisive, is a
Bourbon whose Wall Street office
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The BruiSe Weakens
The least strength sufices to
break what is bruised.-Ovid.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-29
|. A. Vice Crusader
Seeks VainIy to
Stay Behind Bars

LOS ANGELES, March 20. CUP)
Clifford Clinton, vice crusader
and chief supporter of Mayor
Fletcher Bowron, today prepared
to force authorities to keep him in
Jail until April r. when he will go
to trial on a traffic charge.
Clinton spent a restless night in
his luxurious Hollywood home,
troubled by dreams of the COM
forts of Lincoln Heights jail. from
which he was rejected yesterday,
The unsought 'jail delivery" came
about when Councilman James
Hyde of Hollywood, leader of the
anti-Bowron bloc in the city coun-
Gil and head-man on Clinton's
purge list" of councilmen, posted
$25 bail and demanded that Clin-
ton, who owns a cafeteria, cease
to eat at the expense of the tax
payers.
Clinton refused to accept Hyde's
bail but he was put out when City
Attorney Ray Chesebro ruled he
would have to go. Clinton then
went before Judge Joseph Call and
demanded his bail be eXonerated,
but the judge refused.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-29

Gawthrop, 20, was teller of theE
Powell First National bank which
Durand tried TO rob last Friday.
Using President Robert Nelson,
Cashier Maurice KnutSen and
Gawthrop as a shield, he backed
out of the bank shooting wildly
at toWnspeople who returned his
fire. During the fusilade Gawthrop
fell, mortally wounded.
A minute later Durand went
down before the rifle of 17-year-
old Upton Cox, former school,
mate and friend of the killer.
Durand raised himself on one ell
bow and sent a revolver slug thru
his brain to end his life.
Ray Easton, Park county coro-
ner, testified at the inquest today
that the bullet he removed from
Gawthrop's body was not of the
same Caliber which came from
Durand'S gun. For a time, it was
conceded both officially and un-
officially that the 26-year- old
marauder, who went berserk when
he learned he faced a 1O-year pris-
on sentence for killing a neighbor-
ing rancher's beef, fired the fatal
shot.
Durand was buried by his par
entS in a secret ceremony Sunday,
shortly after his four victims had
been inferred.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-29
Boy Battle For
Health Rewarded

MORRISTOWN, N. j., March 80
(UP)-A year and a half ago 10
year old AnSon BeckWith came
home with a pain in his ankle and
the doctor said he would never
leave his bed again because he had
rheumatic fever
Everybody believed the doctor
was right-except Anson His GAL
liant fight won visits TO his bed
from Johnny Wander Nicer, the
pitcher, and Hoot Gibson, the &C
tor. Two New Jersey governors
Harold Hoffman and A. Harry
Moore-Wrote to him.
Today Anson's courage won its
reward, He slipped a pair Of
crutches under his arms and went
outdoors for the first time since
October, 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-29

owners association.
It called for immediate resump-
ton of work and conference Oh
union complaints, mainly concern
ing crew quarters, with DR.. Bloch
or another member of the maritime
board participating. DR.. Bloch said
he would visit crew quarters aboard
ships now in port before meeting
with unionists and operators.
Company officials, who charged
the strike was in direct violation of
signed contracts calling for no work
stoppage, said the agreement was
acceptable to them.
Hugh Gallagher operations man
ager, said the settlement did not
commit the company or the ship
owners association to withdraw
law suit against the unions which
represented new tactics in employ
err employe relations in maritime
disputes.
ShipoWners contended the unions
violated their contract and asked
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-29
Sailor Will Tell
Jury Of Murder
On Edqe of Cliff

LOS ANGELES, March 80. CUP)
"A handsome, 17-year-old sailor
appeared before coroners jury to,
day to explain his purported con-
fesSion that he Dashed in the head
of Clarence McCann, 33, of Long
Beach, organist, and showed his
body over q San Pedro cliff.
After the youth, William D
Vaughn, testifies, county officials
said they were prepared to charge
him with murder.
Vaughn, who "joined the navy To
see the world" only to spend nine
months on shore at Mare Island as
a seaman aboard the u. S. S. Vim.
cennes, told the story of the death
battle on the peters roost' above
a 300-foot cliff, when he was ques.
toned by police and naval authori-
ties.
Vaughn said he killed McCann
in self-defense during their battle
on the brink of the cliff. He saio
McCann made improper advances