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Show TIIE BULLETIN, BINGIIAMJJTAI j Xcirs Mtevicic of Current Evvnt After Labor Racketeers POR four months Eliot Ness, the young safety director of Cleve-lan-d. Ohio, has been investigating VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM labor rarketeering in Cleveland, es- - Michigan Senator's Plan to Give Honest Business a Chance . . . President Talks Peace with Utility Ch.ets pecially in the build-ing trades, and then he made a report of his findings that re-sulted in a special session of the Cuya-hoga county grand jury to hear the stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been r , ! i " t terrorized by labor I V"-- ; ';! 1 ' & V '. I , ' vl 1 "W ;;; tKhk union omcials. Ness Kes said these men were prompted to volunteer their infor-matio- n because of the security of-fered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to tes-tify. In addition to protests from busi-ness men that they were being shak-en down, Ness also, had numerous complaints from rank and file union men that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control of the unions and had used it for racketeering pur-poses. This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work, impeded legitimate business, and kept hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. mimiinnwmtMimMitimmm-m- Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee, discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new farm bill. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Wtittrn Newspaper Union. Vandenberg's Program VANDENBERG of SENATOR didn't wait for the leaders of the Republican party to formulate a program on which to Governors Ask Tax Repeal of the six New GOVERNORS in conference in Boston, adopted resolutions se-verely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of the capital gains tax and the tax on undistrib-uted corporate profits, and de-nounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslo-vakia as imperiling the jobs of thousands of American citizens. The governors who took this ac-tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Re- - publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Re- -' publican, New Hampshire; George D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; Charles F. Hurley, Democrat. Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Isiai.d. That the prudent investment method of determining the rate base might well be used for determining values to be added hereafter and that it could be studied as a means of finding present value, that in any case no system of valuation does or should bring about the highly watered capitalization which the President condemned in a number of examples which he cited at a I recent press conference. f Ao-- ; 'J battle trie Demo-crats. He broke out with a ten-poi- nt pro-gram designed to "give honest busi-ness a chance to create stable pros-perity." His ten points were: l. An end to gov-ernmental "hymns Trade Treaty with Britain N WASHINGTON and London it I was officially announced that the United States and Great Britain had agreed to negotiate a reciprocal Chino-Japane- se War JAPAN'S armies were slowed up and mud in their ad-vance up the Yangtse valley, but as there seemed no likelihood that the Chinese line of defense would hold, the Nationalist government moved out of Nanking, scattering its departments among a number of cities. American Ambassador John-son and his staff moved to Hankow. The Japanese commanders in Shanghai took over full control of most of the city and its customs of-fice. They demanded that the in-ternational settlement and French concessions officials hand over the city's four leading citizens as hos-tages. Most prominent of these was T. V. Soong, brother-in-la- of Dic-tator Chiang Kai-She- The Far East conference in Brus-sels, unable to accomplish anything to end the Chino-Japanes- e conflict, was on the point of final adjourn-ment r trade treaty, wnicn has been sought by Secretary of State Hull ever since he started his recipro-cal program in 1934. The negotiations are expected to begin before the close of the year. American admin-istration officials be- - of hate" and bitter Senator attacks on business Vandcnberg men 2. Progress as rapidly as possible toward a balanced budget. 3. Amendment or repeal of the surplus and capital gains taxes and substitution of "incentive taxation" for "punitive taxation." 4. Amendment of the social secur-ity act to eliminate the "needless drain upon the resources of com-merce and labor." 5. Revision of the Wagner labor law to make for greater certainty in "long range industrial planning." 6. Abandonment of the wage-hou- r bill and substitution of legislation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by substandard labor. 7. Repeal of many of the Presi-dent's emergency powers in order to free business from "executive despotism which is at war with ev-ery tenet of the American system." 8. Reasonable and practical farm relief, without bureaucratic controls, processing taxes, or price pegging, but with benefits for soil conserva-tion practices, financing of export-able surpluses, and return of the domestic market to the producer. 9. Foreign policies that will keep America out of war through pur-suing "an insulating neutrality" rather than sanctions. 10. "Frank abandonment of all activities and in-trigues which shatter democratic faith." After French Throne ALARM of the French over the plotting of the Cagoulards or "hooded ones" that led to the arrest of many rightists r ' i A Birriiiti,.i4iiiaiiJ and the raiding of hidden stores of weapons and ammu-nition was far from baseless. Evidently there was a real conspiracy to over-throw the republic and set up a dicta-torship and eventu-ally a restored mon-archy. The govern-ment announced. lieve such a pact SecretaryHulI may ,ead tQ com. mcrcial union of all English-speakin- g peoples and will be a powerful influence in preserving world peace. London looks upon it as an in-strument to form a front which all nations may enter later on condi-tions of reci-procity, and therefore as an indi-rect reply to the new German-Italian-Japane-alliance. Principles said to be already agreed upon provide that Great Britain would receive reduced American tariffs on textiles and coal. In return she would grant the United States lower tariffs on food-stuffs, certain raw materials, iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program. Immediate opposition to the pro. posed pact developed among the statesmen in Washington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, protested against any British accord until the Eng-lish pay off their defaulted war debt to the United States. He called the proposed pact "trade treason." Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts Republican, served notice he would sponsor a resolu-tion halting negotiation of all new trade treaties until congress can determine whether they are respon-sible for the current business re-cession. Representative Allen Treadway, Massachusetts Republican, de-nounced the proposed treaty as cer-tain to prove disastrous to Amer-ican business. He warned it would throw "more Americans out of their jobs." Due de Guise however. that the plot had been wrecked. From his place of exile in Bel-gium the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France, issued a manifesto announcing he had de-cided to try to regain the throne. "Have the moral courage not to abdicate before present difficulties," the manifesto appealed to French-men. "Do not permit, in a moment of abandon, dictatorship of any kind to impose itself. "Certain of my ability to assure your happiness, I have decided to reconquer the throne of my fathers. France then again will reassume her mission in the world and again will find peace, unity and prosperity through a union of the people with a titular defender-king.- " Peace Talk with Utilities RESTRICTION of theactivities of the privately owned public utilities being recognized as an important factor in the current business re-cession. President Roosevelt began a series of conferences with the heads of these concerns. He seemed to be In a conciliatory frame of mind and sought to lessen the utili-ties' fear of the effect of govern-ment policies, but without making any concessions. His first caller was Wendell Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern corpora-tion, and next day he talked with Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hud-son Power corporation. Though he appeared amiable, the President at the same time was sending to various congressional committees and federal agencies a report by the New York state power authority, whacking friends and agents of the private utilities for "propaganda" against public power development It presented figures to show the government could pro-duce water power at a much lower cost than private utilities could pro-duce power by steam plants. It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub-mitted these points: That there is a general fear throughout the country of govern-ment competition and interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassur-ance from the administration. That money for private expan-sion purposes and refinancing to ob-tain lower Interest rates, which in turn would be reflected in lower power rates, is hard to obtain. That the government had a right to sell power from its dams, but a basis for marketing it could be found without frightening the whole industry. Rand Is Acquitted uTAMES H. RAND. JR., president of Remington Rand. Inc., and Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were found not guilty of violation of the Byrnes act by a jury in the United States District court in New Haven, Conn. The verdict was a blow at the government's first attempt to en-force the act, which forbids the transportation of strikebreakers across state lines with the intent of interfering with peaceful picketing. Windsor Wins Libel Suit THE duke of Windsor won his suit against the author and publisher of the book "Coronation Comments," and in a settlement out of court received a substan-tial sum, said to be $50,000, from them, which money he gave to char-ity. Lord Chief Justice Hewart commented that the libels "ap-peared almost to Invite a thorough and efficient horsewhipping." Green Opposes Labor Billl WILLIAM GREEN president of F. of L., practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that it be sent back to committee for revision. Green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer is safe to permit a govern-ment board of that kind to admin-ister laws governing labor relations with employers. Another Judge Wanted CENATOR MINTURN of Indiana introduced a bill authorizing the President to appoint an additional judge to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. That court has jurisdiction over the sev-ent- h circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and has had one vacancy since the retirement of Judge Sam- uel Alschuler last year. Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich of Illinois said they had no candi-dat- e for the place. New York Post. WNU Service. Clint Frank, Rams Leading Performers in Footl)all World NOT IN THE BOX SCORE: COMMANDER ANDY McFALL, of athletics at Annapolis, thinks the present Bill Ingram Is the greatest of all that famous Navy family so far as all around athletlo ability is concerned Bill's a baseball slugger as well as a smooth basketball guard and almost everybody knows what he can do on a football field Now that King Clancy has retired Aurel Jo-Ii-at holds the National Hockey league continuous service record. He's starting his sixteenth season with Les Canadiens Among other very good reasons why Helen Wills will not turn pro Is the fact that tennis promoters will not offer 'enough money. They say she would be a good draw with the Park ave-nue trade on a one night stand but would flop on the road Herb McCracken, former Lafayette foot-ball coach, now devotes himself to publishing a scholastio magazine and scouting Columbia for Stanford. He rates Mayberry of Florida as SOME day I am going to learn to the best back he's seen In years. say "No" in the manner of those I Wrestling moguls are In the midst of a new under-cove- r peace confer-ence. This time they claim order can be established in their pretty profession if the Dusek boys are left out in the cold Bill Stewart, Na-tional league umpire and Chicago Black Hawks manager, Is the only American born hockey boss but he Is not the only American citizen. Detroit's Jack Adams took out his final papers last summer "Funny thing about that touchdown we scored against Navy," says Colum-bia's Sid Luckman. I yelled: 'C'mon, gang, let's go 75 yards for a touchdown.' And we did." Fudge Hcffelfinger, all-tim- e Tale great, picks Hector Cowan of Princeton as the best lineman he ever saw. He calls Bum McClung or Yale and Willie Hcston of Michi-gan the best backs . . . Chuck Good, whose dad writes sports for the To-ronto Star, will play center for the Bronx (hockey) Tigers this winter. Cuyler Slated for Syracuse Manager big personality boys whose square chins adorn the success ads. Mean-while It looks as though I am hooked again. On the desk there is the reg-ular weekly assortment of Invita-tions to serve (gratis) on various committees to .name the sports greats of the last eleven months. Obviously, such a task should only be undertaken by those supremely confident that they are divinely guided. With millions of boys and girls straining muscles daily for the sake of Alma Maters, or merely for the fun of It, a lone mortal's a suck-er for thinking he has a chance to guess right Nevehcless, having always been a pushover for guessing games, I have been devoting the last two and three-quart- er minutes to the re-quests. Herewith are the answers: Best football player of the year-C- lint Frank of Yale. Best Eastern football team Ford-ha- Best football team Fordham. Best amateur athlete Johnny Goodman. Five greatest athletes of the year Henry Armstrong, Clint Frank, Don Budge, Charley Gehrlnger, Johnny Goodman. UNTIL 600 millionaire were overcome by their own Ineptituc";', Madison Square Garden was the biggest name in the prize-figh- t business. Watching the show at the St Nicks the other night and listening to the oldtim-er- s' gossip, I was reminded, though, of something. It is that boxing nev-e- r could have prospered in New York save through the diligent ef-forts of the small-clu- b promoters. St. Nicholas Palace Rich in Memories Word Is out that Kiki Cuyler will manage Syracuse in the Internation-al lcasue next sum- - mer . . . The reason for Minnesota's fail-ure to score more often was the ab-sence of Ed Wid-seth- 'i down field blocking. The big fellow really wiped 'em out last season, just as he recently did for the Giants. Although the lobs pay $25 " night pIU" Kiki Cuvler $6 fof expenseSi re(. erees shy away from Canadian-America- n Hockey league assign-ments. Too many fans like to heave pop bottles in too many of the towns . . . Harry Morrissey, the celebrated race starter, who died last week, liked to be called a "commencer." Brenner, flashy Plcbe back who lost out at Navy last year because of eye trouble, is expected to star for Stanford in 1938 . . . The Middies stand to lose another budding Grange In Hardin, a husky line-smack-er who is having study dif-ficulties ... Harwood, center, and Lens, back, are the best prospects now with the Plcbes . . . Down In Maryland they say that a 115-pou- Washington college senior named Hugh Gibbons Young could make any team in the country. He is a triple threat who never gets hurt, backs up a line like a Mallory and runs the 100 in 9.6 .. . Lou Fink, wbo used to train Gene Tunney and Tony Canzoneri, now is doing the same for John Hay Whitney, the boss man . . . War Admiral and American Flag, both sons of Man o'War, are the only celebrated three-year-ol- ds of the last seventeen years to go through their season unde-feated. In recognition of these men, the ambitious kids willing to chance beatings and small purses for the sake of future fame, and the fans who long have supported them so loyally, I am starting a new se-ries. Other fragmentary sketches, written in the attempt to catch the spirit of these Bulwarks of Boxing, will follow from time to time. St. Nicholas Palace Uhls year re-- , named the Royal Windsor) It was here that Diamond Jim Brady, a regular ringside patron, Jumped up from his seat to present Ted Kid Lewis with a diamond pjn from his He after one of Lewis' swell brawls. A boisterous place it was soon aft-er it came into being 38 years ago. Jim Buckley heaved a cop out of the window one night when boxing was banned in New York and the law tried to stop one of Buckley's membership shows. An Injunction, granted by the late Mayor Gaynor, permitted Buckley to run his shows, and he refused to let anything pre-vent him from doing so. Many a pickpocket was loose In those unhallowed days, too. It was here that Joe Humphries Jumped Into the ring one night when two battlers were heaving leather. "Bet-ter keep your hands in your pockets, boys. You, too, Al Smith," Joe roared. "A couple of boys from downtown just walked in." When Willie Jackson Fought Johnny Dundee Bowling shares popularity with hockey as Winnipeg's winter mad-ness with 110 alleys being grouped in one area near the center of the town A week or so ago, while mentioning the number of married men among the hockey Rangers, this misinformer clean forgot that Ott Heller became a husband last summer Informed football men will tell you that the field Judge, whose job is the newest of the four, is the most important official operat-ing on the gridiron. If he is as active as Tommy Degnan or Shorty Miller, to mention two very good ones, he Is always in a position to spot those down-the-fiel- d fouls which win or lose games Joe Medwick broke into professional baseball un-der the name of Mickey King New York will bid for the public parks tennis championships for 1939, the World's Fair year. Of course, there were more digni-fied proceedings upstairs, just as there were down in the basement, where Princeton's great Hobey Bak-er started his hockey career. Jimmy Johnston brought Jem Drlscoll and Owen Moran here first to astound local fight fans with their skill and speed. Gunboat Smith, in his debut at St. Nicks, hit his op-ponent so hard that the fellow's left shoe went flying through the air. Abe Attell used to come here. Stand with the gambling gentry in the back and wager all the bobs he could on himself. After a hasty visit to the dressing room, rush into the ring and give one of his greatest exhibitions. Willie Jackson fought here. Life has not been entirely kind to Willie. He gets in on Annie Oakleys now when he visits fight clubs. But once he drew over $10,000 against Johnny Dundee at this club. A guy bad to be good to draw that kind of money. But good ones were always fighting at the St Nicks. Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis, got his start here. So did Mexican Joe Rivers, K. O. Brown, Jack Dillon, Mike Gibbons, Tom Kennedy, Leach Cross and, oh, to many others. Notre Dame's first football game was played against Michigan In 1887. The Wolverines came to South Bend a day in advance of the contest so that they might instruct the green Irish as to how the game should be played. They did such a good coaching job that they won on-ly by 8 to 0. Marshall Newell, one of the four men to be placed on Walter Camp's team for four years, was one of the lightest tackles of all time. Fully equipped with a Harvard accent b weighed only 156 pounds Yale beal Dartmouth, 113 to 0, In 1884, but eves at that there were some compen- - sations in being an Indian gridiroz warrior in those days. Tne athlete were fed rare roast beef three timei a day and for dinner each of them had two mugs of ale. "in Step With Sap KEEPING up with the Joneses easy it's keeping up with Santa Claus that has Sew-Your-O-in stitches currently. We got a peek at his wares, though, and frankly we copied some of his art-istry. (You can 6ee for yourself there's a "Christmasy look" about today's trio of fashions.) And hap-pily you can do more than look and wish you can make them re-alities the easy way: just sew, sew, n! Cute and Cozy. Look your prettiest in leisure or on the job in the lusciously femi-th-e house coat) above, to the left. Made in handsome silk crepe or very lightweight corduroy it is as cosy as a love seat before an open fire. Make it either in the short length (see inset) or regular dress length. Feminine Flattery. Polish yourself off in a bril-liantly styled new frock for the holidays just ahead. newest success (above cen-ter) will be your success once you wear it in the public eye. It is most gifted in its distinct, I sign, below-wai- st sUmnea, simplicity, l your version the very essel ii chic in sheer wool or t& f. your most nattering color, : A Blouse or Two, Tops in the fashion pichir now is that friendly little i the blouse. A completely! ing one is shown here fori who sew. Wear it tucked peplum style. And here's a tical idea: you have ack: sleeve lengths. For variety1! why not make the long si; model in silk crepe for dres short sleeved one in jersef sports and all occasion weal Pattern 1412 is desigwi sizes 32 to 42. Size 34 requiri yards of h material al yard for contrast. Short It requires 4Vs yards. f Pattern 1394 is desigce; sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust), ' 16 requires 27s yards of 51 fabric. Pattern 1417 is designed sizes 34 to 44. Size 36 req 2Vt yards of material; short sleeves, V yards. Rend your order to The Se Circle Pattern Dept., W Montgomery Ave., San Frani Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in c New Pattern Book. Send 15 cents for the Bai Bell Fall and Winter Pa Book. Make yourself attw practical and becoming do selecting designs from the bara Bell well-planne- ai make patterns. BeU Syndicate. WNU ServiM YOU CAN THROW IN HIS FACE ONCE TOO OH are MI on edge-d- on twa on the man you tow your husband art ! know how you feel for taw reason that be ., J A three-quart- er wlft J no wife ataUlfhea band seven days out f ij hreegeneraao ha. told another bowtt ham's Vegetable CoOT helps Nature tone UP JJVS Se functional lessening the d oq omeninustendOTtaW rdoals of Ufa: 1-- , to womanhood. girlhood motherhood. I " paring for proadung-mldd- W Don't be a tJSgHAMf take LYDIA VEGETABLE OOMPO"-- ! Go "Smiling Through. J HOTEL BEN LOS, life i I $srf f V 4 1" Family Eoomi for Air Cooled tfjf W hob tifti Chamber of Commwc. HOTEL ESMOND i J' HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Manipulating Velvet. The usual method of pressing seams, espe-cially in velvet, is to get a second person to hold one end of the mate-rial while you hold the other. Flatten out the two sides of the seam, then pass the iron along on the wrong side. That Breakfast Omelet. That omelet will not fall if a pinch of powdered sugar and a pinch of cornstarch are added to the omelet mixture. Concerning Mirrors. Never hang a mirror where it faces a glare of light. The back of the mirror should be protected so that no light or water could possibly enter. Ripening Bananas. Green ba-nanas can be ripened by placing them in a paper bag and keeping them in a dark closet for a day or two. Cleaning Brassware. Brass or-naments should be put into hot soapy water to which soda has been added and scrubbed with a soft brush to remove any polish that may have stuck in previous cleanings. Finish off by rinsing with clean hot water and dry with a soft cloth. Vegetable Water Sauce Two tablespoonfuls butter, two table-spoonfu- ls flour, salt and pepper to taste, one cup vegetable water or half cup milk and half cup vege-table water. Melt butter in a saucepan, stir the flour and sea-sonings into it, and stir over the fire until frothy. Add vegetable water gradually and stir constant-ly over the fire until it boils and thickens. Kidneys With Apple Rings.Cut three sheep kidneys in halves and skin. Fry lightly in 2 ounces of butter. Fry also as many small rounds of bread as there are half-kidney- s, and a large cooking ap-ple peeled, cored, and cut into rings. Place the rings on a hot dish, with a piece of fried bread and a half-kidne- y on each. Sea-son and sprinkle with lemon juice. Put a scrap of butter on each and serve immediately. Improving Vegetables. Sugar, added in the proportion of a fourth of a teaspoon to two cups of vege-tables, will improve the flavor of cooked corn, beets, peas and lima beans. |