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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBINE
Hitler, Duce Lay Groundwork
For Five-Power Conference
To Escape War Over Danzig
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are those of the news analyst and not necessarily es this newspaper.)
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EUROPE:
Another Munich?
One fear long entertained but lit
tle discussed by France and Britain
is that Danzig might simply and
peacefully declare its union with
Germany. If Poland then went to
war, she would be labeled as an
aggressor. This crafty scheme has
been brewing in Adolf Hitler’s mind
ever since it became apparent that
German force in Danzig would be
met by Polish-French-British force.
But originally it was Benito Mus
solini’s idea, for a conflict over Dan
zig would eftmesh Italy just as a
war over Sudetenland would have
brought similar consequences last
autumn. Already tired of aiding
Germany’s aggrandizement at the
risk of their own necks, rank-and
file Italians were about ready to
junk the Rome-Berlin axis.
A more exalted statesman than
Der Fuehrer, 11 Duce sent his son-
RIBBENTROP AND CIANO
Danzig isn’t worth Italian blood.
in-law foreign minister. Count Ga
leazzo Ciano, to confer near Salz
burg with German Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop. The ap
parent decision, pressed by Count
Ciano and ultimately accepted by
Hitler, was that Danzig was not
worth a war. Having thus coun
seled moderation, Mussolini had
again pressed his pants a^d entered
once more the good graces of
France and Britain. He was now
set to repeat the history that led to
last year’s notorious Munich con
ference.
Rumors leaked out that II Duce
was loud in acclaim of the Vatican’s
sincere efforts for peace via nego
tiation. But II Duce was not so high
minded. Laying the groundwork for
a five-power conference (Germany,
Italy, Poland, Britain, France) he
intended to settle not only the Dan
zig issue but a few others as well,
attaining his own end by winning
colonial concessions from France.
(London heard that Danzig's League
appointed commissioner,Dr. Karl J. Burck
hardt, had visited Hitler in Berchtesgaden
uith British authorization to transmit a
"compromise” proposal. Hiller's counter
offer was reportedly taken back to Poland
by Dr. Burckhardt.)
While all Europe awaited an of
ficial invitation, the controlled Ber
lin press laid down a preparatory
barrage by thundering that the “Eu
ropean powder barrel may explode’’
unless the Danzig issue is settled
speedily. Significant in this picture
was Russia’s position. Should Brit
ish-French military authorities drop
their Moscow conversations like a
hot biscuit when Mussolini makes
his bid, observers agreed Paris and
London would be guilty of a heinous
crime. But both democracies as
sured no such thing would happen.
AGRICULTURE:
Paper Mo fey
Script first made news in farm
circles this summer when orange
and blue stamps were adopted to
help dispose of surplus commodities
to relief families. Successful, the
plan was next tried with non-relief
ers. Latest development is Secre
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace’s announcement that food script
will soon be used on a nation-wide
basis.
Briefly . . .
AT WASHINGTON—Round-the
world Flyer Howard Hughes ap
plied for a right to make a sub
stratosphere flight from New
York to Paris.
AT KNOXVILLE — A federal
court upheld President Roose
velt’s right to oust Dr. A. E. Mor
gan as chairman of TV A.
AT CAMPOBELLO, N. S.—
President Roosevelt announced
he would shove this year’s
Thanksgiving ahead from Novem
ber 30 to 23. Reason: To space
holidays more evenly.
AT LANGLEY FIELD, VA.—
Nine army fliers were killed in a
bombing plane crash. Same day,
at San Diego, twd navy fliers
were killed.
Coming up soon is even bigger
script news. In Washington, Geor
gia’s Sen. Richard B. Russell Jr.
made known a “certificate plan" he
will introduce at the next session of
congress to solve the farm problem.
Its gist:
The secretary of agriculture would
give growers certificates covering
their allotted portion of a normal
domestic crop. For example, a cot
ton grower who got 200 pounds from
each of his 10 acres over the pre
vious five-year average, would get
certificates for that part of his 2,000
pounds which is ordinarily sold do
mestically. To purchase this cotton,
domestic buyers must also buy the
certificates, paying for them the dif
ferential between the market price
and parity price. If the parity price
were 15 cents and cotton sold at 10
cents, certificates would cost five
cents a pound.
Biggest advantage of the plan is
that it lifts the burden of parity
payments from government shoul
ders. Disadvantages: (1) It is
merely a disguise for unpopular
processing taxes, and would ulti
mately raise costs to consumers; (2)
it still leaves the export problem
unsolved.
Other farming news:
<L Revised and extended to July 31,
1940, was the wheat export subsidy
program. Under the old plan, gov
ernment-purchased wheat was sold
to exporters. New plan: Export
ers will buy wheat direct from mills
and elevators, seek a foreign mar
ket and advise the agricultural de
partment how much subsidy they
need to finance the export.
<L Com crop estimates were placed
at 2,450,888,000 bushels, or 111,000,-
000 bushels under the previous
month’s estimate. Reason: Hot
and dry weather. Meanwhile win
ter wheat estimates rose from 547,.
767,000 bushels to 550,710,000.
BUSINESS:
What Challenge?
What congress did or did not do
to help or hurt business and labor
offers a meaty conversational me
lange this month. Reason: Con
gress' refusal to try more pump
priming left the burden of recovery
proof on the shoulders of private
enterprise. But at the same time
congress did little (in business’
eyes) to alleviate business’ tax and.
labor woes. Therefore both busi
ness and labor jumped into the na
tional political arena soon after ad
journment, one anxious to encourage
a trend, the other willing to hop the
bandwagon for whatever it was
worth.
First word came from President
Howard Coonley of the National
Association of Manufacturers, who
wrote his membership that business
should be encouraged by the “con
servative” trend in congress, but
that “further positive action” was
C. I. O.’S PHILLIP MURRAY
Had something on hit mind.
needed. One positive action.
Amendment of the Wagner labor
act.
(In Washington, the LaFoliette civil lib
erties committee opened its hearings by
accusing Mr. Coonley’s N. A. M. with “de
liberate” attempts to promote “organized
disregard” for the Wagner act. N. A. M.
called the report a “gross mitre pre tenia,
tion of fact.”)
Next day C. I. O.’s Vice Presi
dent Phillip Murray, whose Boss
John Lewis has been in the public
dog house ever since be called Vice
President John Garner an “evil old
man," appeared on a radio network
to urge that President Roosevelt
summon business, government and
labor leaders to a national unem
ployment conference. The Murray
position: “Unemployment is Amer
ica’s No. 1 social, economic, and
political problem . . . Failure to
solve it constructively might very
well rock the foundations of our gov
ernment.”
Hesitant to tack political implica
tions on what appeared to be an
honest, labor-sponsored move
against unemployment, many busi
ness leaders nevertheless held their
tongues-in-cheek wondering what
Phillip Murray had in mind. Should
C. I. O. emerge from such a con
ference as a Great Peacemaker,
business’ drive to modify John Lew
is’ pet Wagner act would be serious
ly hamstrung.
BAKER COUNTY NEWS
NEWS QUIZ
How well de you read the paper?
Deduct 20 from a 100 score far I
question you mitt. Anything above 60
it good.
^OREGON j IDAHO
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CAUF. \ :
\ ; ARIZ.
1. Arrow points to Carlin, Nev.
Why was it in the news?
2. Rio de Janiero was similarly
in the news the same day. Why?
3. What wealthy newspaper
publisher has been indicted for
evading income taxes?
4. What was wrong with the
heart of a baby recently born in
Manila, P. L?
5. True or false: Congress ap
propriated $13,000,«M,000 for the
fiscal year 1939-40.
(Answers at bottom of column.)
POLITICS:
New Forecasts
When wallop-trading between
legislative and executive branches
characterizes a session of congress,
there is every reason to expect that
each side shall take its version of
the story to that final judge—the
People. In themselves such post
session rebuttals are merely re
hashed opinions, yet President
Roosevelt’s peculiar interest in the
1940 election will continue to make
bigger and better headlines until he
decides to seek a third term or re
tire to Hyde Park.
Worthy of note, therefore, was his
comment on signing the Ashurst bill
TEXAS’ RAYBURN
“I am for . . . John Garner.”
creating a federal court budget of
ficer. At that time he boasted that
all objectives of the 1937 court re
organization plan had been accom
plished despite the plan’s defeat as
an entity. Next day he charged con
gress’ defeat of his neutrality and
lend-spend legislation was leading
business over a precipice. On the
third day he created a sensation
by warning he would bolt the Demo
cratic party in 1940 if the conven
tion decided on “conservative . . .
or lip-service candidates” and a
“straddlebug platform.”
This served to produce 1940 fore
casts from previously silent sources.
Nebraska’s Sen. Edward R. Burke
predicted the President would or
ganize and lead a new “liberal” par
ty. He also thanked Mr. Roosevelt
for bringing about such a realign
ment, terming the present labels
“Democrat” and “Republican” as
“an offense to the intelligence of the
electorate.”
Most sensational development,
however, came from the President’s
own house leader, Texas’ Rep. Sam
Rayburn. Probably smelling a par
ty rift, he wired this reply to a
query by the Fort Worth Star-Tele
gram: “I am for that outstanding
Texan and liberal Democrat, John
N. Gamer, for the presidential nom
ination in 1940, believing that if
elected he will make ... a great
President.”
Meanwhile, North Dakota’s Re
publican Sen. Gerald Nye saw that
a Roosevelt drift toward super-lib
eralism meant that all parties must
follow suit in modified fashion. Said
he: “If the Republican party is go
ing to get anywhere in 1940 it has
got to make up Mb mind that its
candidate and platform are going to
have to be forward-looking and pro
gressive. Both will have to . . .
maintain and improve some of the
advances . . . established under
the New Deal.”
Another voice, that of Minnesota’s
Farmer-Laborite Sen. Ernest Lun
deen: “If the A. F. of L. and
C. I. O. would get together they
would hold the 1940 election in the
palm of their hand. The farm vote
would swing in and they could
march right into the White House.”
News Quiz Answers
1. Twenty were killed. 60 injured when
passenger train was derailed in appar
ent sabotage plot
t. A Miami-Rio de Janeiro plane ex
ploded while landing in Rio harbor, kill
ing 14.
3. Moses Annenberg of Philadelphia.
4. Heart was exposed on top of chest.
5. Argumentative. Budget bureau
places actual outlay for fiscal year at
$10,472,354,914; Kentucky's Sen. Alben
Barkley places it at less; New York’s
Rep. John Taber calls it $14,061,596,619
& Household News
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HOME-CANNED FOODS ALWAYS WELCOME
(See Recipes Below)
Sugar and Spice
I’ve long believed that one reason
the art of canning and preserving
has been neglected is that many of
us have forgotten just how good
some of the home canned foods can
be. We’ve forgotten the teasing tang
of pickling spices, the mellow aroma
of rich fruit butters that used to
make the air fragrant at canning
time. Maybe we need only to be
reminded of all this to restore a lost
art to favor!
What pride of accomplishment
row upon row of jewel-colored jams,
jellies and mar
malades can cre
ate! And how
simple it is to
make them in the
modern manner!
You’ll find these
tested recipes
from my own
kitchen as practical as they are de
licious. Detailed instructions are in
cluded in each recipe; you’ll find
these general suggestions hblpful,
too.
For Success in Canning and
Preserving.
1. Make only a small amount of
the product at one time.
2. Follow the recipe exactly.
3. Be sure that jelly glasses, jars,
and covers are sterilized.
4. When they are to be filled with
hot food, place the hot glasses or
jars on a clean towel wrung out of
hot water.
5. Use a small, inexpensive teapot
for melting paraffin and pouring it.
It eliminates dripping wax all over
the glasses and your work table.
6. Store jams, jellies and pre
serves in a cool, dry place.
Apple Chutney.
2 pounds sour apples
% pound onions (chopped)
1 pound tomatoes (chopped)
Juice 1 lemon (strained)
1 teaspoon salt
Vt teaspoon garlic salt
IVt tablespoons ginger
Vt teaspoon red pepper
2 pounds raisins
2 cups vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
Pare, core and chop the apples.
To them add the remaining ingredi
ents. Simmer gently until tender,
then rub through a fine sieve. Seal
in sterilized jars.
Peach Conserve.
3 pounds of peaches (peeled)
2 oranges (cut in small pieces)
1 pound seedless raisins
3 pounds sugar
1 pound chopped walnuts
Scald peaches, remove skins, cut
into small pieces; discard pits.
Place in a sauce
pan with small
pieces of orange
pulp and peel,
raisins and sug
ar. Stir until sug
ar is dissolved.
Set over a slow flame and cook un
til thick, stirring occasionally. Add
the chopped walnut meats, pour con
serve at once into hot sterilized
glass jars or glasses.
Amber Jam.
(Makes 8 glasses).
3 oranges
2 lemons
4 apples
2 cups crushed pineapple
Sugar
Grate rind of one orange and one
lemon. Then peel the remaining 2
oranges and the lemon, being care
ful to remove all of the white pari
of the skin. Peel and core the ap
ples. Put all of these fruits through
the food chopper and then add the
grated orange and lemon rind, and
the pineapple.
Measure this fruit and to it add
an equal amount of sugar.
Bring slowly to the boiling point
and cook, stirring frequently, for %
hour. Pour into sterilized jelly
glasses and top with paraffin.
Note: Amber Jam is delicious
when used as a cake filling or as a
topping for ice cream.
Lindbergh Relish.
2 medium heads cabbage
8 large carrots
8 green peppers (or 4 red and
4 green)
12 medium sized onions
1 bunch celery
1 cup grated horseradish
Put all through food chopper. Add
% cup salt and let stand two hours.
Drain and mix 3 pints vinegar, 6
cups sugar, 1 tablespoon mustard
seed, 1 tablespoon celery seed. Do
not cook. Pour into sterilized jars.
Whether your cookie jar is an
old-fashioned earthen crock, or a
brightly painted tin on the pantry
shelf, it needs to be kept filled
to satisfy a hungry family. In
this column, next week, Eleanor
Howe will give you some of her fa
vorite cookie recipes—“Grand-
mother’s Sugar Cookies,” and
“Butterscotch Brownies” are just
two of the delightful recipes
you’ll find here.
Blackberry Jam.
Wash and drain berries; then pick
over and remove the hulls. Take
4 cups of berries
and 2 cups of
sugar; let come
to a boil, and boil
5 minutes. Add 1
more cup sugar
and boil 5 min
utes longer. Then
add 1 more cup
sugar and boil
approximately 5
minutes more, or until the jelly
stage is reached. Then place in ster
ilized jelly glasses and seal when
cold. Makes 4 small or 3 large
tumblers.
Pickled Peaches.
1 peck small peaches
4 tablespoons whole cloves
2 quarts vinegar
6 pounds brown sugar
4 teaspoons mace
1 tablespoon stick cinnamon
(broken in small pieces)
Peel the peaches and stud with
whole cloves. Make a syrup of vin
egar, sugar, mace and cinnamon.
Add the peaches and boil until ten
der. Pack in hot sterilized jars; cov
er with syrup and seat
Easy to Find Answers in This Book.
How to fry fish without spattering
of fat, how to cut grapefruit or or
anges into skinless sections, a quick
method of peeling tomatoes, how to
restore over-whipped cream—sug
gestions for all of these are found in
Eleanor Howe’s book “Household
Hints.” To get your copy now, send
10 cents in coin to “Household
Hints,” care of Eleanor Howe, 919
North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Illinois.
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an area of 13,000 acres and is 56
miles in circumference. Its main
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HUTWEAIHER
BIUOUSNESS
Have you noticed that in hot
weather your digestion and elimina
tion seem to become torpid or lazy?
Your food sours, forms gas, causes
belching, heartburn, ana a feeling
of restlessness and irritability. Your
tongue may be coated, your com
plexion bilious, and your bowel
action sluggish or insufficient.
These are some of the symptoms
of biliousness or so-called “Torpid
Liver,” so prevalent in hot climates.
They call for calomel, or better still,
Calotabs, the nausealess calomel
compound tablets that make calo
mel-taking a pleasure.
Calotabs give you the effects of
calomel and salts combined, helping
Nature to expel the sour, stagnant
bile and washing it out of the
system. One or two Calotabs at bed
time with a glass of water,—that’s
all. Next morning your system feels
clean and refreshed, your head Is
clear, your spirit bright, and you are
feeling fine with a hearty appetite
for breakfast. Eat what you wish
and go about your work or pleasure.
Genuine Calotabs are sold only in
checker-board (black and white) pack
ages bearing the trade mark “Calofabs?"
Refuse Imitations. Trial package only
ten cents; family package twenty-five
cents, at your dealer’s (Adv.)
Intellectual Whetstones
As diamond cuts diamond, and
one hone smooths a second, all
the parts of intellect are whet
stones to each other; and genius,
which is but the result of their
mutual sharpening, is character,
too.—Bartol.
How Women
in Their 40’s
Can Attract Men
Here's good adviee for a woman during her
change (usually from SS to 62), who fears
she’ll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and if you
need a good general system tonie take Lydia
E. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound, made
especially for women. It helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist ealxnipg
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
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A Loving Thought
Instead of a gem or even a flow
er, cast the gift of a loving thought
into the heart of a friend.—George
McDonald.
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Friendship Improves
Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship never.—Col
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The sun, shining through a glass
-ornament, set fire to a woman’s
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on the hat?
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