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Deadlock Continues inGeneral Motors Strikep OV. FRANK MURPHY of Mich-

igan abandoned, at least forthe present, his efforts to end thedeadlock between the General Mo-

tors corporation andthe striking mem-bers of the United

j Automobile Work-ers, but James F.

*JBI Dewey, conciliatorfor the Departmentof Labor, remainedin Detroit, still hope-

{wLTßmH ful of bringing aboutlyK a peace conference.. William S. Knudsen,

o executive vice presi-William S. dent of General Mo-Knudsen tors, thus stated the

corporation’s position:"General Motors corporation rep-

resentatives immediately uponevacuation of its plants by employ-ees engaged in sit down strikes willmeet with representatives of theunion, but to accept the union’sconditions would have placed Gen-eral Motors in the position of con-doning their illegal actions. We can-not condone illegal occupation ofour plants.”

The union conditions, as set forthby President Homer Martin, were:

“We are willing to agree to with-drawal if negotiations are openedimmediately with an agreement thatall plants rempin closed, withoutmovement of equipment or resump-tion of activities until a national set-tlement is effected, and with a fur-ther agreement that all activitiessuch as circulation of petitions, or-ganizing of vigilante activities,threatening or coercing of employ-ees, be immediately stopped.”

About a thousand men, engagedin the sit down strikes, were thusholding up negotiations for settle-ment of the controversy which al-ready had thrown out of work near-ly 100,000 employees of the corpora-tion.

General Motors officials receivedtelegrams from a number of Ameri-can Federation of Labor units urg-ing no recognition of the United Au-tomobile Workers as sole bargain-ing agency for the motor car fac-tory workers. They were assuredthe corporation would not backdown on this point.

Making the situation more diffi-cult, the strikers in Flint engaged ina wild, riotous battle with theguards and city police that lastedfor hours and resulted in the injuryof dozens of men. The local offi-cers restrained themselves admir-ably though armed with machineguns, and the state police were hur-ried to the scene to aid them. Gov-ernor Murphy and other state offi-cials also went to Flint.

Kidnaped Boy Found SlainNear Everett, Wash.'T'EN-year-old Charles Mattson,

-*■ kidnaped from his home in Ta-coma, Wash., Dec. 17 and held forransom, was found beaten to deathin snow covered woods near Ev-erett. The body was nude and cru-elly battered. State and city policeand department of justice agents,who had been held back to give thelad’s father a chance to pay theransom and save his son, immedi-ately began an intensive manhunt,but their clews were few and poor.

France Ready to OccupySpanish MoroccoE' RANCE, according to reliable re-"

ports, is all set to occupy Span-ish Morocco, and expects the fullco-operation of Great Britain. TheFrench had sent toGeneral Franco,head of the SpanishFascists, one protest IfJ |§f||||llHagainst the alleged ' jMwfadmission to Moroc- t SR*co of German g|> J .troops, and thensent another beforetaking drastic ac-tion. If they do raHjjjjMmove, it will benominaUy in behalfof the sultan of Mo-rocco and because of violation of theFranco-Spanish treaty of 1912.France has 100,000 men in her Mo-roccan army and could easily andspeedily occupy most of the Spanishzone, which the Fascists control.Support by the British presumablywould come from the British fleetin the Strait of Gibraltar and possi-by from troops to replace Frenchforces taken from the German bor-der.

Franco sent a conciliatory replyto Paris.

At a reception to diplomats Chan-cellor Hitler talked with the Frenchambassador to Berlin and assuredhim that Germany had no intentionof attempting to seize Spanish Mo-rocco. /

Berlin has indignantly denied thepresence of German troops in Span-ish Morocco, asserting they are min-ing men and properly are armed forself protection. High CommissionerBeigbeder of Spanish Morocco alsoavers there are no foreign troopsin his territory. To a correspond-

ent he said: "You can declare nosoldier, German, Italian, or evenJapanese—for they will soon inventnews of Japanese landing hascrossed our frontiers.”

At Gibraltar there was a reportthat 3,000 Japanese volunteers wereexpected to land at Cadiz and Jerezde la Frontera to join Franco’stroops in a final assault on Madrid.Tokio said the story was fantastic.

Great Britain, angered by the airbombing of her embassy in Madrid,filed protest. Some of her mostpowerful warships were added tothe fleet at Gibraltar. The Britishgovernment forbade citizens to en-list in Spain, and continued its ef-forts to persuade other nations tostop the sending of volunteers to thatcountry. France agreed to intro-duce legislation to that effect, butGermany and Italy were still cling-ing to their conditions and allegedlycontinuing to give aid to the Francoforces.

Supreme Court Rebukedby the President

THINLY veiled but unmistakablewas President Roosevelt’s re-

buke to the Supreme court in hisannual message on the state of theUnion. Standing tri-

lopsidedly Demo- Bfi-

house in joint ses-sion, the chief exec- L jty

continue the task of

succeed."In that task the President

legislative branch Rooseveltof our government will, I am confi-dent, continue to meet the demandsof democracy whether they relate tothe curbing of abuses, the extensionof help to those who need help, orthe better balancing of our inter-dependent economies.

“So, too, the executive branch ofthe government must move forwardin this task and, at the same time,provide better management for ad-ministrative action of all kinds.

"The judicial branch also is askedby the people to do its part in mak-ing democracy successful. We donot ask the courts to call non-ex-istent powers into being, but wehave a right to expect that con-ceded powers or those legitimatelyimplied shall be made effective in-struments for the common good.

"The process of our democracymust not be imperiled by the denialof essential powers of free govern-ment.”

Sketching the program for his sec-ond term, the President said legis-lation he desired at this time in-cluded extension of the RFC, of hispower to devalue the dollar and ofother New Deal authorizations aboutto expire, deficiency appropria-tions, and extension of the neutralitylaw to apply to the Spanish civilwar. Conceding that NRA had"tried to do too much,” he contin-ued: "The statute of NRA has beenoutlawed. The problems have not.They are still with us.”

Congress Receives BudgetMessage of PresidentCTATING that he expects to bal-

ance the national budget and be-gin reducing the national debt in1939, President Roosevelt submit-ted to congress a budget for the 1938fiscal year. This, he said, balancedconditionally except for statutorydebt retirement—meaning that ifhis conditions are met the gross def-icit for the fiscal year beginningJuly 1 would not be more than$401,515,000, compared with $2,652,-652,774 in the current fiscal yearand $4,763,841,642 in the 1936 fiscalyear, which ended last June 30.

But the President warned the na-tion that conditional budget balancein the next fiscal year and completebalance in the following year de-pended on industry’s co-operation inhiring more persons from reliefrolls. All estimates were dependentupon continued economic improve-ment.

The President estimated that fed-eral revenue in the next fiscal yearwill increase by $1,475,466,378 be-cause of better business and highertaxes. He did not propose new taxesbut opposed the reduction of anytaxes now in effect.

The message allotted 451 millionsto a general public works program,excluding the Florida ship canaland the Passamaquoddy tide har-nessing project; 482 millions for ag-ricultural relief and soil conserva-tion; 835 millions for social secur-ity, and 316 millions for recoveryand relief.

The message revealed that Mr.Roosevelt planned to curtail reliefexpenditures sharply from the 1936-37 levels. But he found availablefunds insufficient for the rest ofthe current fiscal year and askedcongress to appropriate $790,000,000immediately, of which $650,000,000is to be expended for recovery andrelief between February 1 and June30 when the 1937 fiscal year ends.

Frank Is Ousted FromUniversity of WisconsinP LENN FRANK, president of the

University of Wisconsin, wasremoved from office by the boardof regents of that great institution,by a vote of 8 to 7, on charges thathis administration has not beencapable and that he has been ex-travagant in personal expendituresfor which the state paid. Allegedly,Dr. Frank was ousted because Gov.Philip La Follete demanded it. Asone regent said: "He has not beenvery Progressive.” Accused of play-ing politics in this affair, the LaFollete group replied that there isno politics in their attitude in thesense of political party affiliationsor convictions, but that they havebeen extremely patient with Dr.Frank over a period of years, andthat he has shown himself incom-petent in many ways.

Neutrality ResolutionApplied to Spain’s War'T'HE senate and house met the

day before the President ad-dressed them and organized, withMr. Garner of course as presidentof the former, and ■HpgSBMHSpeaker Bankhead K” %again ruling over Wi ,the lower chamber.The one matter of |interest in this pro- jAMrJEpHceeding was the se- ’■lection of Sam Ray- BL, <

burn of Texas asmajority leader of

Connor of New Yorkin the caucus, hav- „

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ing the potent back- ying of Vice President Garner andpresumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Ofthe total of 16 new senators onlytwo were absent, Clyde L. Herringof lowa and William H. Smathersof New Jersey, both Democrats.Two new Republican senators weresworn in, H. Styles Bridges of NewHampshire and Henry Cabot Lodgeof Massachusetts.

Immediately after the President’saddress had been delivered on Wed-nesday, both house and senate hur-ried with the neutrality resolutionapplying specifically to the civil warin Spain. The senate adopted itquickly by unanimous vote, butthere were parliamentary delays inthe house, and meanwhile thefreighter Mar Cantabrico managedto get away from New York withRobert Cuse’s cargo of airplanes

Maritime Commission toDispose of ShipsA NNOUNCEMENT is made by

the United States Maritimecommission that it will dispose offour shipping lines by June 29 next.They now operate 36 vessels in di-rect competition with private Amer-ican shipping.

The lines and the routes theyserve are: Cosmopolitan ShippingCompany, Inc., operating the Amer-ican France line serving Frenchports; the Southgate-Nelsin Corpo-ration operating the AmericanHampton Roads—Yankee and Ori-ole lines serving Germany and theUnited Kingdom; the RooseveltSteamship Company, Inc., operat-ing the American pioneer line serv-ing Australia, India and the fareast, and C. H. Sprague & Son, Inc.,operating the American Republicsline serving the east coast of SouthAmerica.

Landon to Build CountryHome Near TopekaALF M. LANDON retired from

public office, turning over thegovernorship of Kansas to WalterA. Huxman, a Democrat. He letit be known that he had purchasedtwo suburban tracts totaling 160acres west of Topeka and will buildthere a house of colonial type wherehe and Mrs. Landon and their chil-dren will reside. Until the placeis completed they will make theirhome with Mrs. Landon’s mother,Mrs. S. E. Cobb, in Topeka.

Program for Recoveryof Brookings InstituteIN ONE of its periodic analyses of* the economic situation the Brook-ings institute, non-partisan researchfoundation, summarizes proposalsfor "a consistent program of fur-ther recovery,” the seven points ofwhich are, briefly:

Re-establishment of a balancedfederal budget.

Continuance of the present policyof maintaining a fixed price of . goldand the establishment through in-ternational co-operation of a systemof stable foreign exchange.

Extension of the reciprocal tradeagreements "as the most practicalmeans of reducing artificial barriersto commerce and reopening thechannels of international trade.”

Preservation of the "generallyfavorable ratio of prices and wagerates.”

Maintenance of prevailing hoursof labor “as the only means ofmeeting the production require-ments involved in restoring dur-ing the next few years the stand-ards of living of the laboring’ massesand promoting the economic ad-vancement of the nation as awhole.”

Elimination of private and publicindustrial practices “which tend torestrict output* or to prevent the in-crease of productive efficiency.”

"Shifting of the emphasis in agri-cultural policy from restricted out-put and rising prices to the abun-dant furnishings of the supplies ofraw materials and foodstuffs re-quired by gradually expanding mar-kets.”

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"Jhmhd aboutInternational Fourflushing.

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—When the German troops

marched into the Rhineland,France was going to fight aboutit, but didn’t.

When the Italians moved againstEthiopia, Britain was going to in-voke force, but

WhenRussia poked Iher snoot into the l|

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Spanish mess, there W' Opßwas going to bearmed action by oth- pP ’MINIer powers, but ■- w m

When Japan began B - litfajfjto nibble again at ML jjefilMarChina, there was go- Wjding to be interven-tion but all that hap- Irvin S. Cobbened was that theLeague of Nations chirped despair-ingly and then put its head backunder its wing.

Somehow, I’m thinking of the twofellows who started fighting and,when bystanders rushed in to sep-arate them, the one who was get-ting the worst of it yelled:

“Five or six of you hang on tothat big brute. Anybody can holdme!”

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Curing Temperament.A JUDGE back east rules that

this so-called artistic temper-ament is not sufficient excuse fora so-called genius to beat up hisbride.

I tried the stuff once—just once—-but the presiding judge in my casewas a lady. For years I’d beentrudging as steadily as a milkman’shorse, whereas being a practitionerof a creative profession, I said tomyself I really ought to stage sometemperament just to make the fam-ily appreciate me. So I rehearsedmy act and went downstairs onemorning and put it on. So my wifelooked at me across the breakfasttable, and said: “I know what thetrouble with you is. You’re bilious.You’ll take some calomel.”

Well, what are you going to dowhen a beautifully staged emotion-al outburst is diagnosed, not as thepromptings of a tortured soul, butas liver complaint?

You guessed it. I took the calo-mel, and, I pledge you my word,haven’t had an attack since.

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The Law’s Delays.

ONCE a Massachusetts Supremecourt reversed a felony convic-

tion because the prosecution, in filingthe record, stated that the crime wascommitted “on the fifteenth day ofJune, 1855” but failed to statewhether the year was 1855 A. D.

And ever since then on quibblesalmost equally foolish—such as amisplaced comma or an upsidedown period—other high courtshave been defeating the ends ofjustice and setting at naught the de-cisions of honest juries.

Science has gone ahead, medicinehas taken enormous steps forward,but law still rides in a stage coachand hunts with a flintlock musket.Has it ever occurred to anyone thatone reason for the law’s delays isa lack of the thing called commonsense?

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Dinosaur Footprints.

BACK in 1858, a college professordiscovered on a sandstone ledge

in Massachusetts a whole batch ofimbedded tracks of the dinosaur—-familiarly known to geologists asdinah, just as among its scientificfriends the great winged lizard isfrequently referred to as big liz.

At the time, the discovery createdno excitement—merely a slightshock of surprise to the old familiesupon learning there was somethinghistoric in Massachusetts antedat-ing the Mayflower. For the natur-alists figured those tracks had beenleft more than 150,000,000 years ago.And they were suffered to remainnearly eighty years more.

But here recently it develops thatparties unknown have been chisel-ing Dinah’s footprints out and totingthem off. This would seem to in-dicate either that America is get-ting dinosaur-conscious or that dino-saurleggers are operating, or both.

So if a slinky gentleman shouldcome to the side door, offering aprime specimen for the parlorwhatnot, don’t trade with him, read-er-call the police. Next time hemay come back with a dornick offof Plymouth Rock or the corner-stone of Harvard college- or thename plate from Cotton Mather’scoffin.

IRVIN S. COBB©—WNU Service.

Meaning of "H. M. S.” on Ship"H. M. S.” preceding the name of

a vessel stands for His (or Her)Majesty’s ship. The letters are usedin connection only with vessels inthe British service. Popularly “H.M. S.” is supposed to be the abbre-viation of His Majesty’s steamer,but the letters were used in thenames of British ships long beforethe commercial development of thesteamboat. "H. M. S.” is also theabbreviation of His Majesty’s Serv-ice.

MIDLAND JOURNAL, RISING SUN, MD,

HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONSN Items of Interest to the Housewife

A simple way to freshen whitewashing silk which has becomeyellow through constant washingis to add milk to the rinsing waterand allow it to soak for a fewminutes before squeezing out.

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After putting water and soap in-to washing machine let it run fora minute or two to dissolve soapbefore putting in clothes, if youwish the best results.

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Chilled, diced oranges mixedwith pineapple and sprinkled withcoconut make a delicious dessert.

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Never put soda and water intoan enameled saucepan that hasbeen burned. Although it will re-

move the burned particles of foodit will make the pan more likelyto burn again the next time it isused. Use salt instead of soda.Fill the pan with cold water, leaveuntil the next day and then slow*ly bring to a boil.

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Chairs and sofas upholstered inleather will last and retain theirappearance much longer if youapply regularly a mixture of onepart vinegar and two parts boiledlinseed oil, well shaken together.It not only cleans the leather, butsoftens it and at the same timeprevents its cracking. Apply •

little on a soft rag and polishwith a silk duster or piece ofchamois.

Calotabs Help NatureTo Throw Off a Cold

Millions have found in Calotabs amost valuable aid in the treatmentof colds. They take one or two tab-lets the fifst night and repeat thethird or fourth night if needed.

How do Calotabs help Naturethrow off a cold? First, Calotabsare one of the most thorough anddependable of all intestinal elimi-nants, thus cleansing the intestinaltract of the germ-laden mucus and

toxines. Second, Calotabs are diu-retic to the kidneys, promoting theelimination of cold poisons fromthe blood. Thus Calotabs servethe double purpose of a purgativeand diuretic, both of which areneeded in the treatment of colds.

Calotabs are quite economical;only twenty-five cents for the fam-ily package, ten cents for thetrialpackage. (Adv.)

Considering Our DutyThat which is called considering

what is our duty in a particularcase is very often nothing but en-deavoring to explain it away.—Bishop Joseph Butler.

Diversity of InterestsNo one who is deeply interested

in a large variety of subjects canremain unhappy. The real pessi-mist is the person who has lostinterest.—W. Lyon Phelps.

Sore Throat PainsDUE TO COLDS

Eased Instantlylllif \ le Cruih and tlr 3 Boyar AspirinptHI MsJf (ot>ltn In yi glass of water.

2. GARGLE thoroughly - throw (jfllL lPyour hood way back, allowing a HK fi ; ,

little to trickle down your throat. v

- 3e Rep*°t gargle and do not rinsemouth, allow gargle to remain onmembranes of the throat for pr^

Just Gargle This Waywith Bayer Aspirin

Here is the most approve it. And you will sayf amaz‘ng way to ease it is marvelous.

the pains of rawness Get the real BAYER ASPI-of sore throat result- RIN at your druggist’s by ask-ing from a cold we ing for it by its full name

know you have ever tried. not by the name “aspirin"Crush and dissolve three alone,

genuine BAYER ASPIRIN m*tablets in one-third glass of I "I"pop a dozenwater. Then gargle with thismixture twice, holding your 2 FULL DOZEN FOR 25*head well back. Virtually lea tabletThis medicinal gargle willact almost like a local anes-thetic on the sore, irritated /membrane of your throat. Paineases almost instantly; rawness ///}

Countless thousands now use /this way to ease sore throat. /Your doctor, we are sure, will A

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