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President’s Business Conference Already Showing Results
—F. C. Considers Loans —Court Establishes
Roosevelt’s Right to Remove Mayor Walker.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
IF PROSPERITY can be restored by
the united efforts of individuals
the business and industrial confer
ence in Washington should have
marked results. The
300 men who partici
pated pledged them
selves to work along
these lines:
To spread employ
ment by shortening
the hours of each
worker; to stimulate
capital expenditures
by Industry; to ex
pand employment and
repair and replace
ment work on the
railroads; to stimu
late home improve-
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Henry M.
Robinson
ment and repair; to assist home own
ers in carrying their mortgage bur
dens; to make credit affirmatively use
ful by making it available to those en
titled to it.
The central committee named to car
ry out this program Is headed by
Henry M. Robinson of Los Angeles, a
white-haired hanker and lawyer who
has been one of President Hoover's
closest friends and unofficial advisers
and who has previously served the
public in various capacities, notably as
a member of the commission that for
mulated the Dawes plan. It Is said in
Washington that Mr. Robinson may
sooi be known as the Colonel House
of the Hoover administration.
Os the sub committees named at the
conference, the first to get into action
was that on spreading employment.
Its chairman. Walter C. Teagle. pres
ident of the Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey, said the committee in
tends to educate Industry to do the
most convenient thing to be worked
out from the various methods already
devised and operated by nearly 400
companies throughout the country,
which reported to the unemployment
relief organization in the course of
its study of the program and its ap
plication to industry.
Dispatches received in Washington
from all parts of the country indi
cated that the conference already was
having an effect on the revival of In
dustry. and the news from banks, was
especially cheerful.
Andrew w. mellon, ambassa
dor to England and former secre
tary of the treasury, had a long talk
with the President, and on emerging
from the White House said he believed
the current advance in -‘ock prices
was justified and would be main
tained. Mr. Mellon’s reputation as a
financial wizard has been consider
ably lessened, but there are still many
who think his judgment is sound.
MONTAGU C. NORMAN, governor
of the Bank of England, came
over to this country recently as "Prof.
Clarence Skinner," ostensibly to spend
a vacation in Maine. But it was not
long before he was in New York con
sulting with some of our leading bank
ers, and then it was officially admitted
in Washington that he would "see or
communicate with” Ogden L. Mills,
secretary of the treasury. In the
minds of many this made it certain
that the main object of Mr. Norman's
visit was to discuss war debts. It
also probably had to do with Britain’s
return to the gold standard in 1933,
this being dependent on the settlement
of the war debts and reparations and
the lowering of world tariff barriers.
PESIDENT HOOVER and Budget
Director J. Clawson Roup have
begun preparation of the budget for
the 1934 fiscal year which starts July
1 next. Cabinet mem-
bers and all heads of
independent establish
ments have submitted
their estimates and
Mr. Roup has begun
hearings on them
Whether the budget
will be larger or
smaller than the one
submitted to congress
for the current fiscal
year is not yet known,
but probably it will
be larger.
The naval, general board completed
Its new building program and laid It
before Secretary Charles F. Adams.
Whether or not he would submit it to
the President with a recommendation
that it be offered to congress in De
cember was not to be decided until
Secretary Adams had consulted with
a number of ranking admirals.
It was understood the general board
program included a one-year install
ment of the Vinson $800,000,000 ten
year program. It recommanded start
ing work on the seventeenth 8-lnch
gun cruiser permitted under the Lon
don treaty and already authorized.
Other parts of the program presum
ably cal) for the laying down of
two cruisers, one airplane carrier, and
additional airplanes and submarines.
SPREME COURT JUSTICE ELLIS
J. Staley at Albany ruled in the
Walker case that Governor Roosevelt
had the authority to sit in judgment
on the mayor, and that the courts could
not interfere in the executive acts of
the governor. However, he also ruled
that court action might be taken after
the governor has given his decision on
the Walker ouster charges, provided
the mayor’s three constitutional de
fenses had been violated.
Mayor Walker, however, decided not
to await the governor’s decision, and
late Thursday night he resigned, turn
ing his office over to Joseph V. Mc-
Kee, aldermanic president. In a long
statement Walker made a scorching
attack on the governor, declaring the
hearing had been conducted unfairly
and developed into "travesty, a mock
trial” in comparison with which a
drumhead court martial would seem
liberal. He said he was convinced the
governor's verdict, whether for or
against him, would be dictated by
political expendiency.
Walker closed by asserting he would
seek vindication by running for re
election. He said he was taking the
advice of “the most loyal and distin
guished Democrat in this country,”
evidently alluding to Alfred E. Smith.
UNLESS late returns from the Dem
ocratic run-off primary upset pres
ent figures, “Ma” Ferguson will be
governor of Texas again. At this writ
ing she has a rather slight lead over
Gov. Ross S. Sterling. The vote had
veered and swayed from the incum
bent to Mrs. Ferguson in such dra
matic manner that A. F. Henning,
head of the Texas election bureau, de
clined to forecast either the possible
outcome of the race or the probable
total vote.
The returns were still to be can
vassed by the county committees and
then by the state committee.
GOVERNOR’S day at Seagirt, New
Jersey, was taken by Franklin
D. Roosevelt as the occasion for his
first campaign speech on the prohibi
tion question, and what he said to his
150,000 listeners was highly pleasing (
to the wet Democrats. Some of the
Republican leaders, on the other hand,
called it old stuff and ludicrous; and
It did not have the approval of the
Prohibitionists.
After speaking a good word for
genuine temperance, Mr. Roosevelt
dealt with the “tax burden” that pro
hibition has brought, declaring “the
only business in the country that was
not helping to support the government
was in a real sense being supported
by this government.”
Describing the Republican platform
as “long, inditect, insincere and false,”
the governor compared its stand on
prohibition repeal with “the concise
sincerity of our own platform.”
“The Democratic party squarely met
the issue,” said the governor, “while
the Republican administration at
tempted to evade and confuse the
issue.”
ONE after another the state con
ventions of the American Legion
are disregarding the advice of the
leaders of the Legion and adopting
resolutions calling for
immediate payment of
the veterans’ bonus in
full. The meeting of
the New York Legion,
in Brooklyn, was en
livened by an almost
violent demonstration
against F. Trubee Da
vison, assistant sec
retary of, war for av
iation and now an as
pirant for the Repub
lican nomination for
governor of New
York.
Mr. Davison, defending the federal
administration for the use of force in
expelling the bonus army from Wash
ington, charged that many members of
the B. E. F. in the National Capital
were “tramps and hoodlums” posses
sing fake military discharges that
were produced by a “Communist
owned diploma mill.” His speech was
frequently interrupted by loud jeers
and boos and cries of “put him out,”
and finally it was necessary to call
the police reserves to restore order.
THREE major conditions on which
it will make loans for self-liqui
■ dating proiects were announced by the
! Reconstruction Finance corporation
| board. The applicant must prove that
his project is self-liquidating; he must
prove that it is adequately secured by
good collateral; and he must be able
to give the board complete information
on all phases of the project Among
the minor conditions are the barring
of convict labor; limitation of labor
to 30 hours a wek, and giving pref
erence to war veterans with depend
ents.
When the applicants gathered In the
corporation’s offices Los Angeles was
near the head of the line, asking $132.-
000,000 to carry to the city the water
and power made available by the Boul
der dam. New York wanted $75,000,-
000 for a bridge across the Hudson to
■ Weehawken and $55,000,000 for the
; projecte' triborougb bridge.
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Sec’y Adams
NATIONAL air races at Cleveland
were almost disrupted at the
start because the aviators learned
that the prizes for closed events had
been reduced to 28 per cent of their
advertised value. But the flyers final
ly gave in and consented to go ahead
with the contest. James G. Haizlip,
former army flyer, won the Bendix
dash from Burbank, Calif., to Cleve
land in 8 hours 19 minutes elapsed
time. He then continued to New
York, establishing a new transcontinen
tal record of 10 hours 19 minutes.
IOWA farmers engaged in the “strike
•or higher prices were being investi
gated by a grand jury in Council
Bluffs which was instructed to inquire
C. P. Savery
had the best of it, but not always.
Near Cushing, la., a force of fifty dep
uties that undertook to escort five
truckloads of hogs was attacked by
hundreds of farmers armed with lead
pipes and sticks, and eleven deputies
were injured. The aroused sheriff de
clared the picket lines would be
broken. It is noteworthy that many
of the members of the late bonus army
have entered the fray on the side of
the striking farmers.
ENGLAND was confronted with one
of the worst strikes of recent
years when more than 125.000 cotton
weavers in Lancashire quit work be
cause of a wage cut and working con
divans. While most of the mills
were forced to close, some continued
with depleted staffs and others, which
made private arrangements with the
workers, operated at full capacity. The
leaders of the weavers’ union esti
mate that the walkout was two-thirds
effective on the first day and believe
it will spread to all the mills.
A direct appeal to King George to
intervene through the government in
the dispute was sent to Balmoral by
Joe Compton, a former Laborite mem
ber of parliament, who wields great
influence in the mill district.
It appears likely that the 20,000 con
ductors and drivers of London busses
would strike soon because of wage re
ductions and changes in working con
’ ditions ordered by the London Gen
eral Omnibus company.
GERMANY was tremendously ex
cited when its parliament met,
for Adolf Hitler had decided that his
230 Nazi members should not support
the Von Papen government. At the
last moment the chancellor had
luncheon with Hitler and in their dis
cussion the breach between them was
widened. Von Papen then went quickly
to Neudeck, where President Von Hin
denburg was resting on his estate and
received from him authority to dis
solve the reichstag al his discretion,
giving him almost dictatorial powers.
The aged president told the chancellor
he was at liberty to take this step if
the reichstag tried to vote no confi
dence in Von Papen's government and
its $500,000,000 reconstruction pro
gram, which seemed a certainty. This
would give the chancellor’s regime at
least three months further life.
The entire German press features
the Neudeck confab as of historic mo
ment. There Is no doubt that Von
Papen enjoys the president’s full con
fidence and the chancellor will not
yield even to a Nazi-Centrist combina
tion unless the president can be shown
that such a coalition would set up
a presidential and not a party cabi
net. and that it would offer a con
Crete program of action, acceptable to
the majority of the reichstag and at
least as good or better than Von
Papen’s.
Clara Zetkin, seventy-five-year-old
Communist, presided over the opening
session of the reichstag, being entitled
to that prerogative by being the old
est member. She demanded the Im
peachment of the president and cabi
net in a long speech. The National
Socialists behaved with dignity and.
with the aid of the Catholic Centrists,
Nationalists and Bavarian People’s
party, they elected as speaker Her
mann William Goering, one of Hitler’s
lieutenants. Goering declared he would
act impartially but would stand for
nothing derogatory to the national
honor.
LAST wifi of Mrs. Edith Rocke
feller McCormick, daughter of
John D. Rockefeller, signed by her
just three weeks before her death, was
filed for probate in Chicago. Edwin
Krenn, the Austrian architect who was
Mrs. Rockefeller's close friend and
business associate, is the principal
beneficiary, being bequeathed five
twelfths of the estate. To her daugh
ter Muriel Hubbard she left one-third
of the estate; to her daughter
Mathilde Oser, one-sixth; and to her
son Fowler McCormick, one-twelfth.
Edward A. Dato. Krenn’s partner in a
real estate firm, has announced that
before Mrs. McCormick died Krenn
signed an agreement with Dato by
which he waived all claims to the es
tate as well as his interest in the
firm of Krenn & Dato, and accepted
in lieu thereof a guarantee of $2,000
a month Income for life.
The estate was once estimated to
have a value of $40,000,000, but it has
been greatly depleted.
©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.
F. Trubee
Davison
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA
Into wilful obstruc-
I tion of highways, de
| struction of property
I and intimidation of
I truck drivers. The
I ‘holiday” movement,
| started by C. P. Savery
| and other leaders,
I meanwhile was losing
| its peaceful aspect
| and there were con
flicts between the pick
* ets and sheriffs' pos
sees at various points.
Generally the officers
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WOULD’ST add an unmistakable
touch of chic and an air of new
ness to your mid-season and early fall
appearance? Here’s howl Women
keenly alert to those subtle moves
which make for good style are finding
immediate appeal in the idea. That
is, they are topping their flowery chif
fons and afternoon prints, their pastel
country club frocks and oth r of their
dainty gowns which are too pretty to
lay aside until the “frost is on the
pumpkin,” with perfectly stunning lit
tle velvet hats such as all Paris is
wearing in restaurants, to theaters and
at all smart gatherings.
And If you have already acquired
your “first” fall frock or suit, why of
course you will be wanting to wear
with it one of the new and fascinat
ing velvet chapeaux which milliners
are now featuring, so as to stamp
your costume with that last-minute
look which all covet.
Ruby is the newest color for the
alluring little toques which are now
gracing the style picture. For that
matter, even the newest velvet sailor
is apt to be in that flattering shade.
However, be assured that black and
whlje are definitely holding their own.
That "touch o' white” which fashion
so persistently calls for is frequently
supplied by the little toque or beret
of twisted or braided or otherwise
draped white velvet. Just to be “nif
ty,” wear with it one of the sprightly
wee white veils which flare out like
a halo about the head.
Perhaps you are partial to brims.
If so you will find waiting to answer
your bid and call attractive black
velvet capelines. Decidedly shallow
crowned are these newest models
They sure do a lot for any costume in
the way of topping it with style. Mil
ONE-PIECE FROCKS
SIMPLE IN DESIGN
Simplicity is the "keynote speech”
of some of the new one-piece knit
frocks that are going to be much worn
when the election results begin to roil
in next November, says an authority,
in the Kansas City Star, Monotone
for the most part, these slim frocks
with either short or long sleeves. One
still sees the boucle suit in some of its
younger moods. A rum brown boucle,
made in three pieces, had a three
quarter length coat and a slim skirt,
worn with a cream color fagotted
(magic word, this fall) blouse. The
coat has widened smartly seamed
sleeves, tightly buttoned cuff bands,
a pull-through scarf with ends of
brown galyak and a slightly fitted
waistline.
The one-piece frock with the detach
able high-necked cape is not to be
crowded off the smart street scene
this autumn. In a rich wine novelty
woolen it has matching octagonal but
tons tipped with silver meta) that
fasten the cape, trim the sleeves, and
aid a deep side pleat in achieving a
wrap-around effect These coat frocks,
by the way, are tremendously im
portant for early fall wear—-you really
should have one.
New Stockings Proof
Against Mosquito Bites
Stockings are smarter than no stock
ings at all this summer. Mesh stock
ing are tremendously popular. But
what about mosquitoes and their un
pleasant little stings?
The newest in hosiery ideas is the
chemically treated stocking. It doesn’t
look any different from the stockings
we’re used to and you, yourself, can't
detect the chemical, but the mosquito
can and he makes a hasty retreat.
Three-Quarter Coats
This new length between the knees
and the ankles is the smartest for
summer coats whether they be of
wool, silk or linen, or one of the gay
new striped cottons.
liners are placing considerable em
phasis on this type of hat for imme
diate wear.
The new cuffed hats are proving
just to the liking of women who seek
a change from the cap-fitting little
berets and toques such as have been
holding the center of the stage so
long, and yet do not fancy the wider
brims. These little hats with a cuff
are smartly in fashion at the present
moment. The perky little cuff effect
at the top of the picture to the left
brings velvet back in truly Victorian
manner. In the original it is of vio
let, but it will prove ever so good
looking in black for genera) wear.
Just below this model the hat shown
is of gray velvet, for gray as a mil
finery color is high style for fall. The
velvet is in this instance handstitched
and the crown and brim are made on
a stiff wired crinoline frame—a very
new and significant move in the
realm of millinery, for it has been
many a day since hats were workud
on a foundation. We forgot to men
tion that the little violet velvet hat
above described is also done over a
frame.
The wee toque at the top to the
right is conjured of velvet which is
stitched to form a checkered effect.
By the way, milliners are doing all
sorts of fancy stunts with velvet thia
season in the way of stitching, tuck
ing, shirring and such.
And now we come to the concluding
number in this group—a velvet sail
or, than which there is no more Im
portant type forespoken for the com
ing months. The model shown Is a
very conservative one. Some ultra
sailors have amusingly shallow crowns
with narrow brims worn tilted over
one eye.
©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.
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Perhaps the most outstanding tea
ture of the definitely new suits is the
three-quarter length of their jackets.
It does not matter if the suit is strict
ly tailored or designed along soft
lines, as in the mode) pictured, the
new length is its claim to last-min
ute creation. The fact that the suit,
shown has a slenderizing straightllnq
i skirt, also that the jacket buttons up
to the neck and that the sleeves are
’ of dolman Influence, establish the cor
rectness and chic of this model sot
fall.
Baking Companies
Unify Operations
New York. —The National Biscuit
Company and the Iten Biscuit Com
pany, will unite their operations
throughout the Central West, a joint
announcement states. The two com
panies have been affiliated since 1928,
but have continued to operate sep
arately, each maintaining its own
complete line of crackers and cookies.
The move will take effect short
ly, and Otto H. Barmettler, of
Omaha, Neb., President of the Iten
Biscuit Company, has been elected
Vice-President of the National Bis
cuit Company to have jurisdiction
throughout the territory, with head
quarters at Omaha. Mr. Barmettler
has been a prominent figure in the
baking industry for thirty years, hav
ing had previous associations with
the American Biscuit Company, the
Continental Biscuit Company, and
also with the National Biscuit Com
pany.
The Iten Bakeries at Clinton, la.,
Omaha, Oklahoma City and Memphis,
and the National Biscuit Company
bakeries at Des Moines, Kansas City,
St. Louis, St. Joseph, Mo., Will con
tinue to be operated on the same
scale as heretofore. Iten products
will be made and distributed by
National Biscuit Company under its
name and trade-mark. So far as pos
sible, sales and delivery territories
will be rearranged to provide work
for the employes of both companies.
This move will co-ordinate the
business interest of the National Bis
cuit Company in Nebraska, lowa,
Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ax kan
sas, and Tennessee, and parts of
Wyoming, South Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, New
Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississip
pi, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky.
The National Biscuit Company was
organized In 1898, and Is the largest
baking company in the world, em
ploying about 25,000 people, and op
erating fifty bakeries and 260 branch
offices. It makes approximately 500
varieties of crackers and cookies.
“Porky” Evidently Has
His Own Dietetic Ideas
The appetite of the porcupine has
long been a wonder to those who are
acquainted with the habits of this
animal. Practically any person who
has spent some time in the wilder
ness has started his day’s activities
with the frequently embarrassing
discovery that gnawed shoes and
saddles indicate a fondness for
leather.
However, it remains for Ranger
Lou Hanson of Glacier National
park to report the most startling
discovery with reference to the diet
of this woods inhabitant. Hanson,
who is one of the park’s “old tim
ers,” states that in the past he has
found that “porky” considers card
board boxes, ax handles, asphalt
roofing, and tar paper as being deli
cacies. This should leqd a person
to expect almost anything from the
animal, but even the ranger was
completely surprised when he found
that one or more porcupines had
made away completely with a 50-
pound bale of oakum.
With reference to this diet, Han
son states, “A more indigestible ma
terial would be hard to find, and yet
they seem to have suffered no ill
effects, as they are still around
there enjoying the best of health,
and I imagine are even hoping some
body will provide another bale.”
Letter Makes a Difference
The importance of one letter to a
word is most aptly illustrated In the
story in the Milwaukee Leader which
attributed to Aiderman Pr.ul Gauer
the statement that “only by hanging
the rulers of the nation” will the re
building for a new social order be
possible. What Aiderman Gauer told
Ihe picnickers at Sheboygan is “only
by changing the rulers’’ will the
change be possible. Only the letter
“c” was missing. But what a change
in the meaning.—Milwaukee Leader.
Saving Billions
A saving of ten cents a day in the
food bills of all the city dwellers tn
America is predicted by statistical
experts of the Country Home as a
result of certain agricultural econ
omies now being begun. The sav
ing will amount to a national total
of $2,500,000,000 every year without
reducing anybody’s diet by so much
as a radish.
“Bad” Wolf’s Career Ended
“Big Foot,” a gray wolf of the
Ozark national forest that has been
credited with the destruction of
more than • $5,000 worth of liv**
stock, has been caught at last.
Hunter “Uncle Bud” Woodward, of
the Arkansas-Oklahoma district, was
responsible for the notorious wolfs
downfall. “Big Foot” weighed 75
pounds, was 5 feet long and 31 Inches
high.
Should Be Popular
“Well, what’s your idea of a slo
gan?”
“The full gasoline tank, bozo, the
full gasoline tank.” —Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
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The world looks at ministers oui
of the pulpit to know what thej
mean when in it.
He that would write what I
worthy to be read more than onc<
should blot frequently.
No one ever traveled the road U
fame on a pass.
