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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Thursday, September 30, 1937 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK... Scenes and Persons in the Current News By L e m u e l F. Parton National Topics Interpreted by W illiam Bruckart ▼▼▼▼▼▼ XTEW YORK.—Jack Doyle, the Irish crooner and heavyweight boxer, sometimes known as the I Washington.—Wall Street and the ington Mr. Douglas has done some- “mild Irish rose,” said the other had quit fighting. But now j securities market generally have thing to offend Postmaster General day he k“'4 been undergoing a Farley, and no man can draw an word comes from San Francisco j B ad C a te or bad case of the appointment as important as the that the mauling minstrel wants to J i t te n jitters. It has chairmanship of a great commis get back in the ring and that he been several years sion without Mr. Farley’s approval. has signed Harry Brodie of San since those dealing in money and Aside from personalities, various Francisco as manager. However, shares of stock have been so un phases of President Roosevelt’s his fiancee, Mrs. Delphine Dodge certain as to the future and this monetary policies continue to be dis- I Cromwell Baker Godde, insists that uncertainty obviously is the cause of turbing and in addition to these I he stick to his singing. Fighting, the jitters among all people who there is the certainty that new taxes she says, is too brutal. Mrs. Godde dabble in the stock market, whether must be levied. That is, new taxes is a daughter of the late Horace E. \ the dabbling be small or large, on must be levied if we are ever going Dodge, automobile maker, and an to balance the federal budget and heiress of the Dodge fortune. margin or for cash. At fourteen, Jack Doyle was heav It seems a proper time, there begin paying off the gigantic nation fore, to examine the picture and al debt which now amounts to more ing a 15-pound shovel on the coal docks at Queens try to see what lies beneath. And, than 38 billion. With a debt at the town. At fifteen, let me hasten to say at the very out highest point our United States ever H e’s C alled set that anyone who makes a posi has known, a great many people, ‘H andsom est’ he was sailing be fore the mast on a tive statement about the securities including bankers, have become Pugilist! Finnish vessel. At market these days must be either fearful of what they might get for a fool or a superman—and thus far United States bonds that they now sixteen, he was in the Irish guards, the supermen who have lived on this hold. It is obvious that this influ doubling in the characteristically | 1—Important matters of state occupied Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, as be rapped on the ence adds to the general uncertainty Celtic pastimes of singing and fight earth number only one. Prime Minister’s door at 10 Downing street, London, recently. 2—Streams swollen by heavy rains fail to But that fact does not destroy the although it is difficult to measure ing. deter the advance of Japanese troops in northern China. 3—As thousands of delegates to the American Legion He is six feet four and one-half convention in New York city were called to order, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York (left) and Mayor value of an examination of a con the exact influence of this condition, or to see whether it is a major or inches tall and weighs 217 pounds. Fiorello LaGuardia, wearing overseas caps, stand at attention. dition which exists as a fact. In deed, I think a review of the various a minor factor.• • • With his wavy black hair and still factors and influences at work now unmarred features, he is rated as Having enumerated a few of the the handsomest fighter in the busi- can provide a clarification of gen Her Photo Saved Tennis Queen on Comeback Trail eral conditions even though it may influences known to be at work, we I neSs. He once smacked down ten Life of Husband come now to that big bruisers all at once—but that fail utterly to show why men and B u sin ett condition w h i c h , was in Hollywood, when he was try- women act as they do with respect A copy of the original photo sent Condifiona heretofore always ing out for the screen, two years to stock market investments. to Gen. Francisco Franco by Mrs. has been basic. I ago. He didn’t screen well and First, it should be said that Wall Harold Dahl in a plea to the rebel Street, as the term is commonly refer to general business conditions picked up his fighting again, dump leader for the life and freedom of New Deal press agents have tried ing Buddy Baer neatly in one round. used, is not unanimous within it her husband, Harold Dahl of Cham self. The violent fluctuation of mar valiantly to make it appear that In 1930, he was champion of the paign, 111., who was captured by in ket securities in the last several business is booming; that prosperity Irish guards. Last April, he gave weeks might easily be said to be is here instead of around the cor Kingflsh Levinsky a handsome 12- due to the war crises in Europe and ner; and that the country has noth round drubbing. As yet he hasn’t in the Far East. Only, those fluctu ing to fear. Careful examination of any very notorious scalps on his ations are not traceable to war con official figures, however, show the belt, but he is still only twenty-four. ditions. Rather, the war conditions prosperity statements to be true Judith film actress, divorced are used by some individuals as an only in parts. The official statistics him last Allen, April, and he awaits a final disclose very definitely how some excuse—an alibi to themselves be before marrying Mrs. Godde, cause they fail to fathom the vari lines of business are enjoying a vol decree ous influences and factors now at ume of trade or production higher whose divorce from Timothy Godde, even than 1929. They show on the London and Paris textile exporter, work. I said that Wall Street lacked other hand a vast number of fail is also coming through. He has unanimity within itself. That is true ures, an increasing number of big been here two and one-half years because within Wall Street there businesses which are barely getting and writes home that he’s having a are all kinds of selfish groups oper by—which can continue providing wonderful time. ating. For example, an influence their present volume of business is like inflation is highly pleasing to maintained. If the volume of busi This writer thought the articles the brokers and dealers in shares ness slips, however, that category while the same influence frightens of business is going into a tailspin about the telepathy experiments at bankers and likewise gives a sick as sure as the sun shines. If a Duke university were one of the ening feeling to those who must part of the business of the country most interesting magazine serials of Helen Wills Moody, once the buy raw products. Bankers and begins to sink—well, a part of it recent years. Dr. J. B. Rhine, with “Bill Tilden” of women’s tennis, a large staff of assistants, made sound investors as well as tax pay began to sink in August, 1929, and who has started a comeback ers generally would be quite happy within two years the whole struc what appeared to be the first sci campaign in California. Here she to see the Federal Treasury’s budget ture had fallen like a house of cards. entific laboratory examination of is, just as spry as ever, during a thought transference. They report I am not saying that we are con balanced because if that were done match in a Pacific coast tourna ed it a fact of everyday life. Their fronted with another depression. I there would be a much greater ment. This was her first tourney finding was that minds can com sense of security, of safety for those do say, however, that we are facing since obtaining a Reno divorce. surgent forces while flying for the a condition that is not at all satis municate over long distances. Now investments. Spanish government in the civil The famous “poker-faced” ace of factory—a condition that can lead it is announced that Dr. Rhine’s war. Impressed by the beauty of the courts was triumphant in the A dozen other illustrations could to a depression as easily as it can book, “New Frontiers of the Mind,” match. She and her partner, the American girl, Franco spared will appear soon. It will cover the lead to sound prosperity in com be given to thus illustrate the point Francis X. Shields, defeated their the life of her husband and prom Duke university experiments. , . and show w h y merce and industry. doubles opponents. ised he would be freed. B la ck C a te Wall street can. Dr. Rhine qualifies as a disinter Astute observers and business In vo lved not agree. They men in the larger centers decide ested observer, having vigorously do not show, how their courses upon the outlook for assailed fake oc Capt. Heap Is John Roosevelt and Future Bride ever, why there is so much uncer the whole country, not for any par C la im t L ife cultism in the tainty and why the bulls or the ticular line of business or any par E x istt A p a r t past. Mrs. Rhine Wildcat Threat bears have been unable to adjust ticular section. The number of in From B o d y has been his co- themselves to the future probabili dividuals who see the picture I have worker and col Captain Don Heap, one of the ties. The reasons, therefore, must attempted to outline in the above laborator in exploring the world be most talented halfbacks in the Mid lie deeper. It is possible that the paragraph is increasing. As that yond the senses. They both took dle West, is the big threat in North appointment of Hugo Black of Ala number increases obviously the their doctor’s degrees at the Uni bama as an associate justice of wave of uncertainty expands. versity of Chicago, later pursuing the Supreme court of the United So, if one is compelled to make a studies of abnormal psychology. In States has had more effect on the guess why Wall Street is so con 1926 and 1927, they conducted in business world than any of us real cerned or so jittery, it would seem Boston an examination of “Mar ize. I have heard a number of cor that the explanation must lie in the gery,” the famous clairvoyant. They poration executives say that they combination of circumstances. No reported that “the whole game was hope they will never be involved in one of them, except possibly the ad a base and brazen trickery, carried litigation which will carry their cor verse business outlook, could ac out cleverly enough under the guise porations before the court on which complish as much doubt about the of spirit manifestations.” Mr. Black sits. If they entertained future. Commenting recently on his work that fear before, undoubtedly the Anyone talking with a hundred fear is deeper-seated and more different individuals will hear these at Duke university, Dr. Rhine said: “Our results have a bearing on widespread now that Mr. Justice various factors and influences men Blnck has been publicly accused of tioned. He will hear different the general problem of the survival holding a life membership in the Ku weight given by each individual to of life after death. They show that the mind has powers not dependent Klux Kian. Certainly the expose of each factor. upon the senses, an assumption that the typhoon that is swirling around • • • is made under the theory that life the head of the new associate jus We have been dealing with causes. tice cannot have any soothing ef Let us look at possible effects. It can exist apart from the body.” fect upon the minds of those busi Dr. Rhine is head of the unique . will be remem- ness .men who, as corporation exec N ow , a t bered how Presi- parapsychological laboratory of western university’s backfield this John A. Roosevelt, son of President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, utives, are trustees of vast sums of fo E ffects dent Hoover was Duke university. His telepathy ex fall. In addition to running and is pictured with his fiancee, Miss Anne Lindsay Clark, daughter of Mrs. the people's money. Undoubtedly, blamed for the de plorations included 100,000 experi passing he calls signals. He weighs F. Haven Clark of Boston. Their engagement was recently announced. unless Mr. Black can prove that he pression. He and the Republican ments in which he recorded thought No date has been set for the wedding as yet. is not affiliated with the Ku Klux party were punished on that ac transference over a distance of 1,000 172 pounds. Kian, few litigants will feel safe be count and badly licked in the elec miles. He said their validity, as fore the Supreme court. tions. It ought to be said in Mr. against chance, was in the ratio of Then, there comes the resignation Hoover's behalf that the conditions 100,000,000,000 to 1. of James M. Landis as chairman of which led to the depression had the securities and exchange com their beginning long before he was mission which regulates operations elected President. Indeed, they had The Paraguay rebellion is one of the great stock exchanges. Mr, their real beginning in the World more reminder that there are no Landis has been regarded as rather war. „ . halfway stations fair, rather just, in his dealings re President Roosevelt came into of H ow to C h o o se on the road to to lating to stock market operations. fice as a result. He started doing ol P o litic a l talitarian r u l e . His retirement to return to a pro things and gaining the confidence P h ilo to p h y J ^ G r a S S fessorship in Harvard, of course, of the country to such an extent opens up the question as to his suc that he was re-elected last year. co war hero, was driven out several cessor. This is to say that most of Probably he was re-elected largely weeks ago, because he wanted to the financial world is hoping and because of the bulk of the voters meet Bolivia half way and make praying that the new chairman will feeling he was restoring prosperity. concessions in the war settlement. not go off at a tangent; that he will I doubt, however, that Mr. Roose Now the rebels are trying to bring avoid extreme radicalism and that velt was any more responsible for him back. he will not blame the whole finan the return of a superficial prosper When he set up his dictatorship cial structure for the crookedness of ity than Mr. Hoover was responsi last October, Hitler was his model. a part of it. ble for the depression. He invoked the “noble ideal of de Thus, it becomes easy to see how But we are coming to another mocracy,” but proclaimed his own this minor factor may have weight election. If conditions should be personal iron-fisted rule. He an with some individuals dealing in come worse and business should de nounced an extreme of both regi corporate shares and bonds. Wil cline perceptibly again, Mr. Roose mentation and freedom. It didn't liam O. Douglas, a member of the velt will be held responsible just as work, but he may be president again commission, has been slated to be definitely as was Mr. Hoover. He and have another try at it. come chairman but developments in will be charged with having made a Old General Estigarriba chased recent weeks give considerable mess of government and any at doubt over that result. Mr. Doug tempt on his part to prove the con him out in February, 1938, calling las is recorded as being a radical. dition was natural will be regarded him a communist. By February 20, Bankers and investors in many as an alibi. The whole thing seems he was back in power, chasing both parts of the country fear that if he to be in the lap of the gods and no the old general and the communists. is made chairman he will become amount of political strategy or at He is now forty years old, trained in not unlike the famous bull in a china tempts to amend the law of supply the army, withdrawing in 1934 and Pan-Ameriea's Bermuda clipper la shewn circling over the Seven Seas, one of the few remaining full- back in for the war. cabinet. But, according to the un and demand will alter events. rigged ships, as she jockeyed for position at the start of the raee from Bermuda to Newport, B. I. The Joseph • Ctowolldjtod N «va Feature«. dercurrent of gossip around Wash- • WMtorn Ntwnpapar Union. WXU Sarvlr«. Conrad was her opponent in the race. N a tio n a l P r e ss B u ild in g W a sh in g to n , D. C. / a 5 Clipper Ships of Today and Yesterday 4
