Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-11

Karl U1rnanis was a milk man at
Lincoln; Neb.,. for five years. and
Anyone in Need rieht n Z before
OF Good Milk he went back
Wagon DriUer? to Latvla, to
be president
of the country and sit on hot seat
for Is years thereafter. 1t was err
roneously reported that he had fled,
as the Russians moved in, but the
news today is that he is still around,
and has broadcast a message to his
people to be nice to the invaders.
Nobody knows the trouble he's seen.
Considering that steady job he had,
it looks like a score for the isola-
tionists.
In Lincoln, in 1909, he was
Karl UIIman, not UImanis, for
mer dirt farmer and country ed
it0r in Latvia. The dean of the
state college of agriculture got
him the milk route, so he could
work his way through college.
He was graduated in the allot-
ted time. He was. steady and
dependable, and might have
been mistaken for a Nebraska
farmer.
One day, he discarded his bib
overals, appeared in a store suit
and was seen no more in those
parts. Everybody liked him and
they were especially shocked by the
fact that he owed about $1,000,
which he had borrowed to start a
cheese factory in Texas. Six years
passed when A. L. Hacker, one of
his creditors, had letter from him,
enclosing full payment of his debt.
He explained that he had a nice
job as president of Latvia and was
glad to be able to pay what he
owed. Other bank drafts followed.
The $1,000 was paid in full. |
!" As president and foreign min
lister of Latvia, he lived in an
ancient, turreted castle and
ruled in a medieval throne
room. On the wall behind his
desk, the medieval heraldic en-
bIem Of Latvia was crossed with
the green pennant of the Ne
braska State College of AgricuI-
ture. But he wasn't having
wonderful time.
). The country was under czarist
Russia when young Mr.. U1lman ran
his newspaper. An indiscreet edi-
torial brought about his departure
for Lincoln by devious routes. To
stave off Nazi aggression, he made
himself dictator in 1884.
THE possibility of South and Cen
= trail American countries picking
up empire salvage before the U. S.
A. works out it's hemisphere de-
Gen. Ubico Out selse - pans ha,,s
To Beat Hitler to been but
British Honduras Zig htly re-
garded. How
ever, here's little Guatemala reach
ing out for. British Honduras. and
Sir Samuel Hoare's mahogany for
ests and mills therein, according to
news reports.
Gen. Jorge Ubico, dictator of
Guatemala for the last nine
years, brings forward in the files
the tale Of a British pirate who
snatched British Honduras from
his country 60 years ago. "Los-
ers weepers, finders keepers"
Whether that applies to the
wreckage of empires seems not
to have been covered in interna-
tiOnal law.
General Ubico is the only living
ruler who. looks like Napoleon. He
often is called the " Little Napo-
leon of the Tropics. He was elect
ed for his first one-year term as
president He survived two revolu-
tons during this term, and then set
aside the constitutional limitation
against more than one term-and
has had eight repeats, so far.
The general received a tech
nical and military education in
the United States and Europe,
and rose to political power
through various provincial and
national offices. He entered the
national assembly in 1918. He
concentrates on bodybuilding,
sanitation, agriculture and voca-
tional training for young people.
He has been strongly pro-U.
S. A., and. reports from Wash
ington are that our. state depart
ment probably. wouldn't make +"
much of fuss over his grabbing "
British HondIras-as long as .
Hitler doesn't.get it. =.
Brilliantly educated, hard-boiled
and diligent, he has worked out in
his small laboratory his own idea of
an authoritarian state. Monopoly
is the central idea. He grants ex-
elusive concessions in basic goods
and industries. To restrain grab
bing and grating, he establishes a
probity department. in his cabinet.
Anyone working for the government
or doing important business with it.
has to file complete inventory of
his own and his family's possessions.
If these goods and .chattels increase
too rapidly, the generals busy little
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