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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER - ... The State of SANTA Declared or Not, It s War 1'ews Review of Current Events vrust thinks about: the World. CONGRESS ENDS SESSION Dodges Most of 'Must' Legislation . . . Shelves Wages and Hours Bill . . . Shell Hits U. S. Flagship in China MONICA, CALIF. Montreal a veteran showman says he talks with chimpanzees in their own language. I wish hed ask one of his chimpanzee pals what he thinks about the present setup of civilization. Because I cant find any humans who agree as to where we all are going and what the chances are of getting there. In fact, the only two who appear to be certain about it are young Mr. Corcoran and young Mr. Cohen, and they seem to hesitate at times not much, but just a teeny-ween- y bit which is disconcerting to the lay mind. We are likely to lose confidence even in a comet, once it starts wobbling on us. Im also upset by a statement from Englands greatest star-gaz- er they call him the astronomer royal, which, by coupling it with the royal family, naturally gives astronomy a great social boost in England and admits it to the best circles. He says the moon is clear off its mathematically prescribed course. Cash Versus I. O. U.s. ago the front A breathing Members spell! of 75th congress, happy in adjournment at last, file out of the Capitol in Washington. IV. feLduutA S' SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK ) Western Newspaper Union. Hooray! School Out! EVEN if thereofwere moreI than a Is Waitll get you threats after school, the nations lawmakers were happy as schoolboys at the end of the term, as the first session of the congress Seventy-fift- h came to a close at last. The senators and representatives, fairly jogged down with months of wranmuch of it futile, the gling, carrying dis- intolerable Washington through summer, patches saying the adjustment of were glad of release, even if such Great Britains defaulted debt was release carried the implication that just around the corner. Economists there might be a special session in and financiers had discussed terms October. of settlement. Figures were quoted But the legislators left the Capitol mainly figures calling for big re- in the realization that the session ductions on our part, but never mind just ended will probably become that. They were figures anyhow. mown less for what it did than what Lately the papers have been it did not do. strangely silent on the subject. PerFour out of five of President haps you remember the old story Roosevelts major must meastold on the late John Sharp Wil- ures it did not the fifth it pass; liams, who frequented a game at passed only with reservations which Washington where sportive states- put a new complexion upon it. men played poker for heavy stakes Congress did not pass the wages mostly with those quaint little fic- and hours bill. After being passed tional products called I. O. J.s as jy the senate in unacceptable form, mediums of exchange. with the understanding that it would Early one morning a fellow sena- be improved in the house, the bill tor met the famous Mississippian was still buried with the house rules session. coming from an committee when the bell rang. I certainly mopped up, he proCongress did not pass the new I won $3,000 and whats claimed. control bill which includes Seccrop more, $8.75 of it was in cash. Wallaces retary ! granary project. It was agreed Autumn Millinery. this legislation be brought up that JUST asarethe poor, bewildered during the first week of the January becoming reconciled session or the special session. to the prevalent styles in womens It did not pass the Presidents dehats, up bobs a style creator in New sired legislation for York warning us that what weve of the executive department. It did thus far endured is merely a fore- vote the White House six new sectaste of whats coming. In other retaries, though. words, we aint seen nothin! It did not to For autumn, he predicts a increase the pass the proposal Suof the membership quaint number with a slanted peak preme court by six justices, who fifteen inches high, which, I take would apparently be selected with a it, will make the wearer look like view to insuring the constitutiona refugee trying to escape from unof New Deal measures. By a ality der a collapsing pagoda. vote of 70 to 20 it permitted a subAnother is a turban entirely comstitute measure, which would have posed of rooster feathers. A matching coat of rooster feath- added the justices one at a time, to die a natural death in committee. ers goes with this design. But in In addition to failing to enact this the old days they used hot tar. demanded by the chief egislation A third model features for its a series of kalsomine executive, congress defeated the brushes sticking straight up. Nat- Norris bill to create seven little and the crop insurance TVAs, urally, the hat itself will imitate a bill, proposing a revolving fund of barrel of whitewash. The senate failed to But the gem of all is a dainty $100,000,000. the convention with ratify sanitary of Scotch structure plaid. globular Can you imagine anything more be- Argentina, modifying the restrictions on imports of meat and live coming to your lady wife than an stock. balancthat shes effect suggesting However, congress did: bag on her brow? ing a Pass the Wagner low-cohousing but with restrictions on the unit bill, McGuffeyisms. lieutenant-governor of Ohio cost which will, it is charged, make THE the program virtually unavailable to McGuffey-isurges a return for settling modern problems. for New York and other large cities Twas in a McGuffey reader that which constitute the principal slum problems. The $526,000,000 measure of litI met those prize half-wit- s erature the Spartan boy who let was on the Presidents must list. Pass a sugar quota which may be the fox gnaw his vitals ; the chucklevetoed by the President. He threatburnon who stood the headed youth to veto such a bill if it limited ened idiot who the congenial ing deck; the output of Puerto Rico and Haclimbed an alp in midwinter while to 126,000 and 29,000 short tons waii but a shirt night wearing nothing, and carrying a banner labeled Ex- annually, and it does just that. Extend the neutrality law to proi celsior. in order to freeze to death; hibit the shipment of arms, amwas the when who, the skipper ship munition and implements of war to to calm the undertook passinking, sengers by but wait, read the im- oelligerents or extension of credit to them. mortal lines: Pass the Guffey act, creating a We are lost! the captain shouted. commission to fix prices and control As he staggered down the stair. And then the champion of all the the marketing of bituminous coal. Dutch lad who discovered a leak $1,500,000,000 Appropriate for in the dyke so he stuck his wrist in work relief in the current fiscal the crevice and all night stayed year. Pass a bill to outlaw personal there. In the morning, when an and came asked riser along holding companies and other alearly what was the general idea, the leged means of tax evasion. heroic urchin said but let me quote Passed a reform bill for the lower the exact language of the book: courts, designed to speed appeals to I am hindering the sea from the Supreme court and permit the running in, was the simple reply of Department of Justice to intervene the child. in cases the constitutionIll tell the world! ality of a involving Simple? statute. IRVIN S. COBB, Ratified the Buenos Aires peace C Western Newspaper Union. a few weeks A NLY pages were all-nig- ht ever-norm- al top-hamp- hot-wat- er er st m V 1932 was a movie sham battle compared with whats going on over there now. The city of 3,500,000 inhabitants and its environs are scene of destruction, terror, flames and death on a mass scale the horror of which is unthinkable. Thousands upon thousands of civilians lie dead, dying and wounded, and the toll increases day after day. No estimate has even been attempted to determine the amount of casualties among the Chinese and Japanese fighting forces. Indeed such an estimate today might be woefully inadequate tomorrow, for reports tell of whole brigades being shot or blown to bits in a single encounter. Square mile after square mile, especially in the native Chapei district, has been gutted by fires that rise in the wake of bombs and artillery shells. Millions of men, women and children face slower, even more terrible death by hunger, for who is to bring supplies from the outlying farm fields while the whole area is under terrific fire? Even in the International Settlement life is fleeting, insecure, for bombs and shells drop there, too. And with 1,000,000 refugees inside to be fed, shops are rapidly locking their doors to protect their wares from rioters. As this is written, the Chinese land forces, outnumbering the Japanese four to one, are forcing the invaders slowly back to the Whangpoo in fierce ground fighting. Whether expected Japanese reinforcements will be able to turn the tide of the same battle is problematical. time Japanese warships half the entire Japanese fleet must be in the Whangpoo are showering exploding shells upon huge concentrations of Chinese soldiers. In the great aerial battle of the war, the Chinese scored a decisive victory, successfully turning back scores of Japanese bombers and fighting planes. The Nanking government reported that it had brought down 46 Japanese planes in the first ten days of the fighting, including 30 bombers, said to cost $150,000 each. The Japanese were reported attempting to land 50,000 fresh troops as reinforcements for the ground forces being pounded by the Chinese. SHANGHAIS war of treaties, which include a consultative pact for common course of action when war anywhere threatens the American republics. Extended the CCC three years. The President had asked that it be made permanent. Passed a farm tenancy bill to help share croppers buy their own farms. This provides for the expenditure of $10,000,000 the first year, $25,000,000 the second year and $50,000,000 in succeeding years. Appropriations for the session totaled $9,389,488,893; this was less than for the 1936 session, which included $2,237,000,000 for the soldiers bonus. $946,-910,3- 79 Guffey's Unholy Three the Presidents SINCE the fight on in it plan began the senate, has become more and more obvious that a serious split impends in the Democratic party ranks. It was not a secret that certain of the senawere tors and representatives marked for extinction, fish fries and harmony dinners notwithstanding. But few expected the bombshell that broke when Sen. Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, in a radio speech just before the end of the session, openly named Senators OMahoney of Texas, Burke of Nebraska and Wheeler of Montana as senators who would not return to Washington after the next elections. Burke summed up reply of the three men attacked when he said that if Guffeys statement were true we might just as well forget about Jefferson Island and harmony dinners and get ready for a real battle. Wheeler, on the senate floor, said that if the Democratic bosses . . , want to drive us out of the Democratic party they will not have any difficulty in doing so. I say to you (Guffey) that if you nominate your governor of Pennsylvania or yourself for President of the United States, you will not have to drive us out. Question Black's Eligibility senate confirmed the nomination of Sen. Hugo L. Black of Alabama to the Supreme court, 63 to 16, but only after a bitter fight, following which the minority protested that the confirmation had been railroaded through. Six Democrats and ten Republicans voted against Black. The Democratic insurgents, led by Edward R. Burke (Neb.) and Royal S. Copeland (N. Y.) based their objections principally upon charges that he was associated with the Ku Klux Klan, and therefore unfitted to sit with the high tribunal for reasons of racial and religious prejudice. The Republicans, notably William E. Borah (Idaho), argued that he could not legally become a member of the court. That his eligibility might be tested before the court itself was a possibility when Attorney Albert Levitt, former special assistant to Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, filed a plea for leave to pray an order for Black to show affirmatively why he should be permitted to serve as fc an associate justice. He raised the Admiral Yarnell Protests same legal questions as the Repubnearer lican minority had: UNCLE SAM towas brought ever the unofficial war 1. That Black could not become a in North China when a shell ex- justice because during his term as ploded on the deck of the Augusta, a senator the Sumners retirement flagship of the United States Asi- act was passed, permitting justices t, atic fleet, killing Freddie John to retire at full pay. The Constitua seaman, and wounding 18 tion provides that no member of others of the crew. The ship was congress shall be appointed to an lying at anchor in the Whangpoo riv- office which was created or the er in the heart of the International emolument of which was increased Settlement of Shanghai. It was im- during his membership in congress. 2. That no vacancy existed on the possible to determine whether the shell had been fired by the Chinese Supreme court anyway, since Jusor Japanese. tice Willis Van Devanter had only Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, com- retired, not resigned, and may still mander of the fleet, warned the gov- be called for judicial service by the ernments of both nations against chief justice. shellfire over American and foreign It was expected that the Black warships. The President and the appointment would become political State department were inclined to fodder in the next campaign. leave diplomatic overtures to the military, naval and diplomatic off- Franco Batters 'Iron Ring' icers in China. The President deT OYALIST Spains second iron clared that under the circumstances one the Sanaround ring one the which as accidents such beset the Augusta were bound to tander on the northern coast is proving no more invulnerable than occur. its first the fortifications about Bilbao. Rebels have broken through Premier Sees Long War it, besieging the hungry city and DREMIER FUMIMARO KONOE bombarding its fortifications with declared in Tokyo that there artillery. General Francos forces would be no settlement of the un- have captured several important declared war until Japan had pun- neighboring towns in Villacarriedo, ished the Chinese army. He ad- considered an important sector. mitted that he believed the fighting In a communique the national dewould be of long duration. fense ministry at Valencia admitted The Japanese foreign office was that the government had met defeat said to have rejected a British plan in the fighting about Santander, but to establish a neutral zone in Shangclaimed the victory had cost the inhai. A spokesman said the Chinese surgents heavily in men. It also soldiers must withdraw far enough claimed that an Italian sergeant, taken prisoner, reported that four beyond the limits of the demilitarized zone of 1932 to make an attack Italian divisions were fighting with the rebels on the Santander front. impossible. Fal-gou- ' ; THE Movie Radi By VIRGINIA VALE SAMUEL GOLDWYN again for succeed tog where many other motion picture producers have failed He has made a new version oi an old picture that is even bet. ter than the old one-a- nd first Stella Dallas was the best picture of its year, SOffi twelve years ago. This picture is frankly a er, the story of a millhands dau ter who married a gentleman but could never become a ladv n,, tear-jer- k Stella Dallas was fine and cZ rageous enough to see to it that her daughter had a chance to one of her fathers set rather than hers. Barbara Stanwyck gives a sincere and gripping performance as Stella. K If you would rather laugh cry. Paramount and Twentieth are all ready for you with two mad musical than extravaganzas. Paramounts contribution is Artists and Models and it stars Jack Benny. Twentieth Centurys new one is You Cant Have Everything, and in it the Ritz Brothers are madder and merrier than ever, Alice Faye sings sad songs and Don Ameche is a pleasant hero. Funny part about this picture is that you will adore Phyllis Brooks who plays one of the most unpleasant parts you have ever seen. Gent Autrey sets a pace that it is tough for other cowboys to maintain. Now producers expect them all to sing. Buck Jones hasnt fallen for vocal lessons yet, but he has hired a heavy for his new picture, Sudden Bill Dorn, who can warble Western ballads with the best ot them. His name is Harold Hodge. Dorothy Day, one of the famous clothes models who worked in Walter Wangers Vogues of 1938 came to New York for a brief vacation, and when she returned to Hollywood, she learned that she had a brand new name. Mervyn Le Roy, who gave her a contract to make pictures for him decided that Dorothy Day was not a good name because there are several actresses and two authors already using it. He is going to bill her as Vicki Lester, the name of the character that Janet Gaynor played in A Star Is Born. When you saw I Met Him in Paris you must have wondered why Robert Young fled from such an attractive wife as the one played by Mona Barrie. Well, she explained all when she arrived in New York recently to rehearse for a f j I n U , ' ' V. I j stage engagement. there It seems that long scenes that explained their differences, but the were picture was too long, and Mona landed on the cutting room floor. She hopes for better luck in the picture that she ust finished, James Cagneys Som- a She plays ething to Sing About. of female sort a role, comedy so much had Hischa Auer, and she fun doing it that she doesnt see why Grand National had to pay her, a salary. K -- woODDS AND ENDS-Every- body t in nders if Frances Farmer's costumes Toast of New York were responsible 1 the revival of bustles in the big or fashions showings . . . Benay enuJ whose songs are so popular on the do got her start dancing in the same with Myrna Loy . . . Burgess 3eredim used to sing in the same church c with Lanny Ross . . . Eddie Cantor t t his lunch between scenes on the set tu days, because he uses his regular s hour to dash over to the antique he has bought to see how business u radio Ina Claire's Sunday night ing are gr network dramas on NBCs blue ing so popular that maybe she come back to make motion pictures,ranen a Gary Cooper has bought to for the old cowboys who used with him in Western dramas . . she loves sunbathing Bette Davi . have to slay away from the studio for a month, most of the tun darkened room. Western Newspaper Union. ... all... |