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PAGE FIVE VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON IVeu'g Review1 of Current Event» CHARGES FILM MONOPOLY Government Sues Big Movie Producing and Officers to Break Control Companies Vincent Meyer, farmer of Johnson county, Kansas, received the first crop insurance policy issued by the Federal Crop Insurance corporation. Left to right in the picture above are: Donald Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, Rita, James, Joseph and Vincent Meyer, Roy M. Green of the Washington bureau of the corporation, and Roy Turner, Johnson county bureau super intendent. sßfauftüd. U/. * SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK © Western Newspaper Union. Film Companies Sued T JNDERTAKING to break up what the government alleges is a great moving picture monopoly, At torney General Cummings started a civil anti-trust suit against 8 major mo tion picture produc ing companies, 25 subsidiary or associ ated companies and 132 officers or direc tors, in an effort to divorce production, distribution and ex hibition phases of the cinema industry. The suit was filed Atty. Gen. in the federal dis Cummings trict court for the southern district of New York. Fed eral Judge Henry W. Goddard signed an order for the service of subpoenas on all the defendants, di recting that each appear before the court in New York within 20 days after being served. The government is seeking an equity decree, Thurman W. Arnold, assistant attorney general, an nounced, requiring the companies to divest themselves of ownership of theaters or of production and dis tribution facilities. The suit named Paramount Pic tures, Inc., Loew’s Inc., Irving Trust company, New York, as trustee in bankruptcy for Radio-Keith-Orphe- um corporation; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., Twentieth Century- Fox Film corporation; Columbia Pictures corporation; Universal cor poration; and United Artists corpo ration. Mr. Arftold said that allegedly mo nopolistic power exerted by the de fendants has a “tendency to drive independent theaters out of busi ness or to compel them to sell to the producer-owned theater chains on the latter’s terms.” Asserting the companies control “about 65 per cent of all pictures produced from the selection of the story to the final showing at the theater,” Mr. Arnold added: “The actual control of the prod uct is even greater than would ap pear from this figure, because from 80 to 90 per cent of the quality fea ture films upon which exhibitors are dependent for successful operation are produced or distributed by the eight major companies.” Mr. Arnold alleged that independ ent theaters are subject to numer ous “oppressive’,’ discriminations, such as block booking, high rentals and the imposition of preferred playing times. First 'Death Clause' Case A CTING under the utility holding company act, the federal secu rities commission began its first ac tion to simplify a major utility hold ing company system. Chairman William O. Douglas an nounced that a hearing would be held in Washington August 8 to de termine what steps the $300,000,000 Utilities Power & Light corporation should take to limit operations “to a single integrated public utility sys tem.” The commission will consider whether the company should be re quired to rid itself of interest in “any or all” of its 45 subsidiaries. Douglas said the commission's ac tion was being taken under section 11B of the holding company act— the so-called “death sentence” sec tion. Utilities Power & Light, with headquarters in Chicago, has sub sidiaries in mid-western and north eastern states. The company is be ing reorganized under section 77-B of the bankruptcy act. ---- *---- Russia vs. Japan CO VI ET Russia and Japan, quar- ° reling over a disputed territory at the junction of Manchukuo, Si beria and Korea, were openly threat ening each other. Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign commissar, in confer Á ence with Japanese Ambassador Shigemitzu in Moscow, told the lat ter that Russian troops would not be withdrawn from the area in question, that the territory was a part of Si beria, and that Japan would be held responsible for the consequences if the present “calm” there is dis turbed. The two statesmen used violent language and the situation was considered decidedly delicate. Pick-a-back Flies Sea XT ERCURY, the top part of the novel British pick-a-back sea plane, separated from Maia, the lower and heavier part, about a thousand feet above Foynes, Ireland, and then sped across the North At lantic, makjpg the crossing at mod erate speed and without mishap. Passing over Botwood, Newfound land, the pilot flew on 850 miles fur ther to Montreal, alighting on the St. Lawrence. After refueling the plane completed its flight at New York. The flying time from Foynes to Montreal was 20 hours and 20 min utes. ---- *---- Madden Is Accused T WARREN MADDEN, chairman of the national labor relations board, was charged with secretly conferring in Washington last De cember with C. I. O. officials con cerning the Weirton Steel company hearing at Steubenville, Ohio. The charges almost broke up a hearing of the board. The three members of the board were considering the appeal of Clyde A. Armstrong, chief counsel for the steel company, who was barred from the Weirton hearing by Examiner Edward Grandison Smith. Attorney E. F. Reed, acting for Armstrong, made these charges: That C. I. O. Organizer Kenneth Coe, active in the Weirton hearing, went to Washington last December, conferred secretly with Madden, and then returned for another confer ence with Lee Pressman, chief coun sel of the C. I. O. That another C. I. O. follower, an armed constable, served subpoenas for the labor board, while requests by Weirton lawyers for subpoenas were ignored for weeks. That Donald Wakefield Smith, jun ior member of the labor board, at tended the Weirton hearing last No vember 18 and made disparaging re marks about Counsel Armstrong during the taking of evidence. ---- *---- Strike Brings Martial Law OVERNOR KRASCHEL of Iowa declared martial law in New ton, home of the Maytag Washing Machine company, whose plant was kept closed by C. I. O. pickets de spite efforts of nearly half the em ployees to return to work. National Guardsmen with armored cars and machine guns occupied the area but before they got there the two labor factions had a bloody street battle in which many were injured. In North Chicago pickets of the Steel Workers’ organizing commit tee, affiliated with C. I. O., who had been keeping employees from re turning to a hardware plant in de fiance of court orders, were routed by deputy sheriffs with tear gas. Ten of the pickets were found guilty of contempt of court. ---- *---- British Monarchs in Paris JZING GEORGE VI and Queen Elizabeth of England went to Paris for a state visit of four days, and this was regarded as a vitally important event politically. Appar ently it was undertaken to let the dictator countries know that Great Britain and France would continue to stand firmly as allies. Britain’s foreign secretary, Vis count Halifax; the French premier, Edouard Daiadier, and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet held po litical talks to discuss the world situation during the visit. To demonstrate the strength France can lend the common cause with Great Britain, the French pa raded 50,000 men and their latest war machines before George and President Lebrun. This military display outdid that put on in Rome for Hitler, and it was significant that places in the reviewing stand were reserved for the German and Ital ian military attaches. After the re view the royal visitors were sump tuously entertained at the Palace of Versailles. ---- *---- C.I.O, Proposes a Purge \ I ORE than 40 members of con- gress are marked for C. I. O. opposition in the fall elections by a blacklist formulated by John L. Lewis and given out by E. L. Oliver, ex ecutive vice presi dent of Labor’s Non- Partisan league, the political agency of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion. Oliver said the opposition to those named was based chiefly on their stand on the wage- hour bill. He indi- John L. Lewis cated it merely was a coincidence that almost without exception those marked for defeat also fought Mr. Roosevelt’s government reorganiza tion and Supreme court packing bills. Among the Democratic rules com mittee members marked for opposi tion were Rep. E. E. Cox of Geor gia, opponent of administration poli cies in the house; Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia, against whom James Roosevelt and Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran have put up a young radical, William E. Dodd Jr.; and Rep. Lawrence Lew is of Colorado, chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. Included in the Lewis blacklist are Senators Tydings of Maryland, Adams of Colorado and Lonergan of Connecticut. ---- *---- Wheat Allotment U R. TOLLEY, AAA administra- 4 •* tor, announced a national wheat allotment for fall and spring planting of not more than 55,000,000 acres — the mini mum allowable un der the act. The action, which came as the result of the 967,000,000- bushel yield forecast for this year on a seeded acreage of 80,000,000, came in the form of an order signed by M. L. Wilson, acting H. R. Tolley secretary of agricul ture. State allotments for 1939 com pared with 1938 and 1928-’37 average acreage of wheat land in the major grain producing states include: Pennsylvania, 772,659 acres, com pared with 1,093,000 in 1928 and 1,039,076 for the 1928-’37 period; Ok lahoma, 3,783,954 ; 5,959,000 and 5,088,684; Texas, 3,684,863; 5,315,000 and 4,955,426. Illinois, 1,789,192; 2,074,000, and 2,406,116; Indiana, 1,481,810; 2,029,- 000 and 1,992,747; Iowa, 389,177; 686,- 000 and 523,367; Michigan, 669,954; 917,000 and 900,958; Minnesota, 1,- 418,702; 2,582,000 and 1,907,878; Mis souri, 1,705,277; 2,717,000 and 2,293,- 266; Nebraska, 3,049,982; 5,041,000 and 4,101,634; Ohio, 1,654,847; 2,415,- 000 and 2,225,448; South Dakota, 2,- 943,821; 4,277,000 and 3,958,867; Wis consin, 90,203; 128,000 and 121,306. California, 626,306; 815,000 and 842,260; Colorado, 1,314,022; 1,846,- 000 and 1,767,104; Idaho, 895,549; 1,- 253,000 and 1,204,340; Kansas, 11,- 067,349; 17,453,000 and 14,883,436; Montana, 3,414,642; 4,918,000 and 4,- 592,030; North Dakota, 8,300,488; 10,- 634,000 and 11,162,545; Oregon, 768,- 303; 1,013,000 and 1,033,218; Wash ington, 1,681,159 ; 2,295,000 and 2,260,- 832. ---- *---- 'Sneak' Flight Over Ocean P) OUGLAS P. CORRIGAN, a young airplane motor expert from California, couldn’t get per mission from the air commerce bu reau to fly across the Atlantic, so he started off secretly from Floyd Bennett field. New York, and land ed at Baldonnel, Ireland, 28 hours and 13 minutes later. The remarkable feature of the flight was that it was made in a rickety old single-motored Curtiss Robin plane that was not equipped with navigation instruments, radio or the ordinary safety devices. Cor rigan did not even carry a para chute. Having neither flight permit, land ing papers nor passport, Corrigan laughingly declared in Dublin that he had intended to fly back to Cali fornia but set his magnetic compass wrong and flew in the opposite di rection. His was the sixth west-east solo flight across the Atlantic. In the opposite direction only Mollison and Beryl Markham have been suc cessful. I Charles P. Howard Dies p IARLES P. HOWARD, president of the International Typograph ical union and secretary of the C. I. O., died in his sleep at Colorado Springs, Colo. He was fifty-eight years old. Howard was defeated for re-election in a referendum last May by C. M. Baker of San Francisco and would have gone out of office September 1. Owen Wister, author of “The Vir ginian” and other novels, died at his summer home in North Kingston, R. I., at the age of seventy-eight I HCW TQ SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PERSONAL Redae« Sensibly. Lose up to 7 lbs. weekly. Safe, and Inexpensive. Chart and informa tion Free. 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But Grandmother, placidly stitching away in her rocking chair, had tucked away in the pocket of her voluminous skirt, the only cash prize that anyone brought home from the Fair. Her crazy patch quilt is still a thing of beauty and a center of interest. It is perfectly at home in a mod ern living room today. Here is a corner of it and the leaflet offered herewith tells you how to make kind of quilt and gives de tailed instructions for dozens of stitches and combinations of stitches to be used for embroider ing crazy patchwork. NOTE: If you wish to use these weekly articles for reference paste them in a scrapbook, as they are not included in either Sewing Book No. 1 or 2. Book 1, Sewing for the Home Decorator, covers curtains, slipcovers, dress ing tables; Book 2 illustrates 90 embroidery stitches with numer ous applications; doll clothes and gift items. Order by number, en closing 25 cents for each book de sired. If you order both books, leaflet on making crazy quilts will be included free. For leaflet only send 5 cents in stamps to cover cost and mailing. Address: Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi cago, Ill. Combine ice cream powder anu sugar. Add milk very gradually, stirring until dissolved. Fold in whipped cream. Turn into freez ing tray of automatic refrigerator and freeze as rapidly as possible. Stir when frozen % inch thick on sides and twice more at 20-minute intervals. Freezing time: about 3 hours. Makes about % quart ice cream. •With the chocolate Ice cream powder, use Ik package (scant Ik cup) ol the powder and 4 tablespoons sugar. For about 114 quarts ice cream, double recipe above, using full contents of package. Freeze in one or two trays 3 to 6 hours, depending upon amount of cream in trays and freezing speed of the particular refrigerator being used. 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