The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1936 Page: 3 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Livingston Municipal Library.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
THE
Magazine Section
CORRIGAN PRESS
CORRIGAN, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1918
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
New Tax Program Stirs Hot Debate—Black’s Seizure of
Telegrams—Norris Dam Is Completed—Italo-
Etliiopian Peace Draws Nearer.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
Middle West Trains Stuck in Snow
With snowdrifts reaching nearly to the top of telephone and telegraph
poles, many trains were stalled throughout the Middle West during one of the
worst snow storms In yenr3. This engine was part of u train that was snow-
bound 14 hours before the ears were pulled out backwards. Now a snow plow
can be seen coming to the rescue of the engine, one mile from Jackson, Wls.
New Orleans Old French
Market Obliged to Move
<»—. — - ...........—------------------—
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK.
Pretending Costs Money
A Japanese Widow
The Five Babies Are Well
Democratic Edward Vlil
war Is costly. Eng-
submartnes and air-
planes In the Medi-
terranean, Intended
to Intimidate Italy
and keep down dis-
content In Egypt,
represent no real
war.
England occasion-
ally discharges light
"depth bombs” In
the Mediterranean,
"bringing Italian
submarines popping
like corks to the
surface." Yet the
government tells
the house of com-
mons this Imita-
tion war costs British taxpayers five
hundred thousand pounds a month.
The twenty-four-yenr-old widow of
a Japanese officer who committed sui-
cide after the recent rebellion sends
a letter of apology to "Your august
majesty," the Japanese emperor, say-
ing: "I believe the spirit of my hus-
band, whose body lies In a coffin be-
fore me, also sorrows for those who
fell."
A most serious people, the Japanese,
particularly where their emperor Is
concerned.
Doctor Dafoe, modest man from
Canada, who understands quintuplets,
dropped In to say the five little girls
are doing well, fighting frequently,
sign of a normal condition. They like
sleeping outdoors with the weather 30
below zero, but In daytime only. It
would delight you to see their red
cheeks.
Three hundred and seventy-five thou-
sand visitors, nearly all from the Unit-
ed States, came to look through a fence
at the quintuplets last year; 500,000
are expected tills year. The baby girls
are a wonderful advertisement for
Canada. Many that go to see them
will buy farms and stay.
A democratic young person Is Edward
the Eighth, new king of England and
emperor of India. Broadcasting to
200,000,000 that live under the British
flag and occupy one-quarter of the
earth’s surface, he does not refer to
them as “my subjects" or "my peo-
ple," as Ids predecessors did, but calls
them “fellow men.”
And Edward VIII does not refer to
himself as "we,” which Is customary
with other rulers. Ills father spoke
of “my empire" and "my dear people"
and called himself “we."
A Joint resolution In the house and
senate suggests a congressional medal
of honor for the late Gen. William
Mitchell, head of the American air
forces In the big war. Few congress-
men would vote against a tribute to
a man who fought so well for Ills coun-
try, and the medal would please his
widow and children.
If congress wants to honor the mem-
ory of General Mitchell as he would
wish, It will build more airplanes and
lead the world In nvlntlon Instead of
trailing.
Uncle Sam paying rent to Panama
for the canal, offering the usual $250,-
000 rent Installment, was told: “No,
we do not lake 59-ceut. dollars."
Washington admits that while It may
try interesting experiments with Us
own money, and tell Us own citizens
"Gold Is too good for you," It has no
right to make the outside world suffer,
Panama will get an amount of money
equal to 250,000 of our dollars before
we slid off the gold basis and Into the
“Inflation bond" era.
Sometimes government ownership
gets things done. Germany's postal
ministry opens tho first long-distance
television-telephone In the world, be-
tween Berlin and Leipzig—the charge
for three minutes only $1.40, When
you call up, a "strong, bluish tight"
illuminates your face, which Is seen by
the person at the other end of the line.
That would have been Improbable
when telephones were Installed In the
big Paris exposition, not so long ago.
Four years ago the Lindbergh child
was kidnaped. Bruno Hauptmann,
convicted of the kidnaping and mur-
der, caught spending the marked gold
certificates that I.Indbcrgh paid In a
vain effort to get bnck Ids child, Is
still alive.
It Is said that he will have another
reprieve. Our system of Justice is not
hasty.
The post office shows that efficiency
In government Is not Impossible. No
private concern would send a letter
from Florida to Alaska for three cents,
collecting and delivering the letter.
<£) King: Kcntiiren Syndicate, lu<\
WNU Service.
CONGRESSMAN SAM B. HILL of
Washington and his subcommittee
of the house ways und means com-
mittee took up the heavy task of de-
termining how the
new revenue of $1,-
137,000,000 called for
by President Roose-
velt should be raised.
Treasury officials rec-
ommended that an av-
erage tax of 33Vi per
cent should be levied
on undivided corpor-
ation profits and a
tax of 00 per cent on
all refunded or un-
paid AAA processing
taxes. In this the
fiscal experts followed the suggestions
of Mr. Roosevelt. They told the sub-
committee that the proposed corpor-
ation surplus tax would yield the gov-
ernment $620,000,000 annually. The
President has estimated that this
amount will be needed to finance the
new farm program and the soldier
bonus.
The so-called “windfall” tax on
processors who successfully challenged
the AAA In the courts. It was be-
lieved, would yield another $200,000,-
000. This will be used to reimburse
the treasury for losses suffered n9 a
result of the Supreme court's Invalida-
tion of AAA. There remains an ad-
ditional $317,000,000 which It Is pro-
posed to raise through excise taxes on
a wide range of farm processors.
Chairman Hill said the experts and
the members of the subcommittee were
agreed that the tax on undivided sur-
plus should not apply to banks and
life Insurance companies.
There was wide divergence of opin-
ion concerning this tax among lead-
ers In congress. Senator James Ham-
ilton Lewis of Illinois, Democrat, for
Instance, declared himself against It as
an unnecessary additional burden on
business, and Indicated he would sup-
port, Instead, a plan to tax the In-
come from federal securities now ex-
empt. Senator Borah, Republican,
said that in principle he endorsed the
plan of taxing undistributed earnings,
while Senator Hastings of Delaware,
also Republican, denounced It as “con-
fiscatory.’’ Senator King of Utah,
Democrat, and Representative Knutson
of Minnesota, Republican, were moved
by the program to demand Immediate
cutting down of federal expenditures,
and in this Mr. Borah concurred.
Speaker Joseph W. Byrns and Major-
ity Leader W. B. Bankhead professed
to see no difficulties In the way of
the proposed measure.
One thing that boosted the chances
of the President’s tax program was a
report from Secretary of Commerce
Roper that corporation Income in 1U35
was 300 per cent higher than In 1932.
TN THE course of his probe Into the
A affairs of enemies of the New Deal,
Senator Black of Alabama, chairman
of tile lobby committee, assumed the
right to seize and examine their pri-
vate telegrams, and thus tils Investi-
gation was carried Into the courts.
Silas Strawn, Chicago attorney
learned the committee was about to
subpoena his telegrams nnd he ob-
tained a temporary Injunction blocking
such action. He has asked the District
of Columbia Supreme court to make
tills Injunction permanent.
The wholesale examination of tele-
grams was attacked by Representative
Wadsworth of New York, and defended
by Senator Black.
“It strikes me," Wndsworlh said,
"that we have reached a strnnge stage
tu the development of democracy when
private correspondence can lie seized
without court procedure or search war-
rant.”
Black said: “Repeatedly It hns been
held that the senate can call for what
it pleases. There appears to have been
a concerted effort by those who seek
to Influence legislation behind the
scenes, through subterranean channels,
to prevent us from getting evidence."
/GOVERNOR LANDON'S boom for
Vj the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation Is progressing In a way tlmt
must be pleasing to Ills supporters.
Kansas Republicans In a state conven-
tion pledged lilm the state's 18 dele-
gates to the Cleveland convention, de-
claring him to be "the best-fitted can-
didate.” That Kansas should support
Its governor Is natural ami expected,
hut lie also Is garnering a good many
delegates elsewhere, mid Indorsement
In some states where tho delegates are
unlnstrueted.
Sentiment favorable to London ap-
peared In New Jersey, nnd Hervey S.
Moore of Trenton, a Repnhlienn leader,
was contemplating starting un uctive
campaign for him In thut state.
N THE third anniversary of his
r Inauguration President Roosevelt
pushed an electric key In the White
House which set In motion machinery
that closed the sluice gates of the
Norris dam In the Tennessee Valley
project This signalized the completion
of that part of the vast work on the
Clinch river.
“I hope as mnny people as can will
go to see the Norris dam In eastern
Tennessee,” the President said In a for-
mal statement. "It exemplifies great en-
gineering skill, high construction effi-
ciency, and, above all. It Is the key to
the carefully worked out control of a
great river and Its water spread over
parts of seven states.
"The Norris dam Is a practical sym-
bol of better life and greater oppor-
tunity for millions of citizens of our
country. The nation has come to real-
ize that national resources must not
be wasted and the Norris dam ts evi-
dence that our program for conserva-
tion of these resources ts going for-
ward."
OENATOR BORAH and Senator Van
^ Nuys of Indiana, the tatter a Dem-
ocrat, Introduced a bill directed against
certain practices of the chain stores.
The measure would make It unlawful
for any person engaged to commerce
to grant any discount, rebate, allow-
ance or advertising service charge to
a purchaser over that available to the
purchasers' competitors. It also would
prohibit sales "at prices lower than
those exacted by said person elsewhere
in the United States for the purpose
of destroying competition or eliminat-
ing a competitor."
The so-called Roldnson-Patman anti-
monopoly bill, also aimed at chain
stores, will be passed by the senate
before very long, according to a prom-
ise made by Senator Robinson to a
mass meeting of 1,500 Independent mer-
chants who went to Washington to lob-
by for the measure. This bill legislates
against special prices, rebates, adver-
tising allowances and brokerage fees
giving sales advantage to chain stores.
'-pHROUGH Its committee of thlr-
*■ teen the League of Nations ap-
pealed to Benito Mussolini and Em-
peror Halle Selassie to consent to Im-
mediate negotiations
for an end to hos-
tilities and a definite
re-establishment of
Italo-Ethloplan peace.
Though consideration
of the proposal by his
cabinet council was
delayed a few days,
Mussolini, according
to advices from Home,
was disposed to ac-
quiesce provided ter-
ritory In Ethiopia al-
ready occupied by
Italy Is considered liers and left out
of the negotiations.
Haile Selassie accepted the proposal
without reservation. In recent dnys
his armies In the northern sector have
been routed In big battles nnd have
lost many thousands of men, nnd the
Italians have penetrated far toward
the Interior of the country; and in
the South the Invaders were prepar-
ing for n rapid advance.
Back of the league’s nppenl was
the standing threat of extension of
sanctions to Include nn embargo on
oil. This suddenly brought about a
situation rather disconcerting for the
league. Dr. Giuseppe Mottu, Swiss
foreign minister, gave a warning that
if the oil embargo was applied tils
country might feel it necessary to
leave the league In order to preserve
Its neutrality If the consequent threat-
ened war In Europe resulted. Motta
pointed out that If Italy quit tho
leugue and hosllitles ensued, Switzer-
land, through her membership in the
league, would appear In Italian eyes
ns a party to a hostile coalition, nnd
would he subject to invasion, by Italy
on one side nnd perhaps by Germany
on the other.
TYRITAIN’S government evidently be-
FJ lleves another war Is coming, and
Intends to bo well prepared. It made
public a gigantic program for Increases
In the army, navy and air forces and
for swift mobilization of man power
and Industry. No official cost estimate
v.us given out but authorities said the
total over a three-year period would
be not less than one and a half billion
d0Uora.
Forced to Make Room for
the Mississippi River.
Washington.—To the old French
market on New Orleans’ waterfront,
the river has given much. And now
the river Is taking away. In order to
handle the shifty yellow Mississippi
In Its S-curves about the city the levee
must be moved back, and the French
market must move over to make room.
It will be renovated at the same time,
substituting the odor of damp con-
crete for the odors of sanctity and
fish and vegetables of almost a cen-
tury and a half.
“In Its sun-drenched space between
tho city nnd the Mississippi, the old
French market Is a mellow symbol of
a vanishing era,” says the National
Geographic society. “Brilliant colors
smoulder in its deep shade, luring vis-
itors for a pleasant cup of coffee as
well as the sterner business of buying
and selling foodstuffs.
Market Dates From 1795.
“The market sprawls over three
blocks, a Jungle of awnlnged stalls,
piles of crates, and wlilte-tiled booths,
astir with the slow amble of chatting
shoppers. Covered banquettes, or slde-
Donald MncMurraj of New York,
student at the University of Chicago,
who Is expected to finish the four-year
course of study under the university’s
"new plnn” in one year. Ho arrived
at the University of Chicago last fall.
He took nnd pnssed four examinations,
each covering a year’s work, then
passed three more Inst December. With
only two more examinations he should
graduate from tho university In May
of tilts year.
walks, are littered with the overflow
of Informal merchants whose only
wares are a few baskets of fruit or
vegetables spread around them on ta-
ble or ground.
“On one side He dreary smudges
of railroad tracks, and then the Mis-
sissippi, here treacherous, yellow, and
muddy, with Its shuttling ferries and
moored seagoing vessels. Cityward
Its neighbors are the statuary of Jack-
son square, the Iron-bnlconled Pon-
talbn apartments, the Cnbildo In which
Louisiana was formally transferred
to the United States In 1803, and the
tranquillity of St. Mary’s church and
the Convent of the Ursulines.
"The market has a fascinating his-
tory. It was built under a Spanish
governor In 1795, for tho elegant Cre-
ole population of Nouvelle Orleans,
mainly pure-blooded French nnd Span-
ish born In America. A hurricane de-
stroyed the original structure, but In
1813 Its rebuilding as a meat market
began under the United States govern-
ment, with enough French patronage
still to give the new structure a French
name: Halle des Boucherles.
"In a few years the market covered
an adjacent block, dedicated to vege-
tables, and later still a third, for fish.
Thus the area between St. Ann street
and Ursullne street became honey-
combed with white-tiled cubicles nnd
their delectable stores of Louisiana’s
products.
“A coffee shop In the French market
modestly claims the honor of having
instituted the universal custom In New
Orleans of stopping during business
and after pleasure for a cup of thick
black drip coffee. Now many coffee
stalls offer the popular Creole bever-
age with a delicate seasoning of chic-
ory, and their tiny oll-cloth-covored ta-
bles are a popular pastime with visi-
tors nnd an established habit with res-
idents.
Many Noted Visitors.
"In Its patrons as well as In Its
history the French market has Inter-
national alliances. Andrew Jackson
and the pirate Lafitte are said to have
stalked across its sawdust-covered
flagstones. Adelina Patti, after mak
ing her first American appearance at
New Orleans' French opera house,
took a keen Interest la delicacies of
Creole cooking, delicacies which the
French market supplied. Audubon, on
his second day in the city la 1821,
found Ills way to the bird sellers In
the French market and lamented that
such a great array had been killed.
Surely the coffee shops knew Mark
Twain, O. Henry, George Washington
Cable, W. M. Thackeray, Lafcndio
llc-arn, and others seeking to fathom
Creole secrets.
“Rarer now are Indian women offer-
ing bunches of dried nnd fresh herbs.
Italians, both men nnd women, pre-
dominate among the venders. Farm-
ers and share-croppers, black and
white, sit stolidly by crates or baskets
of tlieir produce, or outside lean wlst-
Aged Man Advises
Sleep and Oatmeal
Emporia, Kan. — Eat oatmeal,
work hard and go to bed before
aundowu.
That Is the advice William
Thompson, ninety-year-old Emporia
truck driver, offers those who wish
to live long. lie Is the survivor of
the crew which laid the first tele-
graph cable across the Atlantic G9
years ago.
Thompson was born In Scotland.
During a visit to London when he
was twenty years old, he saw the
famous vessel “(Jreat Eastern’1 get-
ting ready for the cable Job. He
applied for a Job as common sailor.
lie came to America In 1880. lie
works In his garden, eats a large
dish of oatmeal twice dally, und
goes to bed before sundown.
Covey of Quail Smash
Glass to Enter Cottage
Ashtabula, Ohio.—VIer H. Snider,
Ashtabula Insurance man, hud a slick
little mystery on hts hands for a few
minutes.
Informed that the glass In the front
door of Ills lake cottage had been
smashed, supposedly by burglars, he
found upon arrival not a single track
In the surrounding blanket of snow.
As he entered the cottage, a whirr
of wings startled him.
A covey of quail smashed through
another window to escape and Snider
called n glazier.
TAKES IIUEY’S SEAT
Mrs. Huey P. Long, widow of the
late United States Senator Long of
Louisiana, who was appointed to fill
out the unexpired term of her husband,1
and has taken her sent In the senate.
Slice, Move Home
Newell, Iowa.—A residence, pur-
chased by Dr. F. O. Foley, was cut
into sections and hauled five miles
overland to a new location. The di-
vision was made necessary because
the sections were moved across sev-
eral bridges along the route. j
fully over the lowered tailboards of
their wagons or trucks. I
"Most attentive to the displays are
negro women, heads swathed In the
Ugnon, or bright bandanna, who car-
ry big market baskets or shopping hags
to fill for their 'white folks.’ To en-
courage them as regular customers,
merchants offer them lagniappe, or a
little bonus, on transactions.
“A tour through the French market
Is a visit to Louisiana's own Informal
natural history museum, with all tho
state's flora and fauna on parade la
ricti profusion nnd amiable disarray.1
Visitors and residents alike hope that
the remodeled market will carry on
the culinary traditions of the market
of old.”
Compton Out Trapping Cosmic Rays
Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, famous University of Chicago physicist and
Nobel prize winner (1927), Is pictured with his new cosmic ray meter aboard
the Aorangt. This ts the first time a cosmic ray meter has been erected on
a ship traveling through northern nnd southern hemispheres for the purpose
of checking the variations of cosmic ray action In both spheres. Under the
shield, which affords a screen of lead (through which cosmic rays but not radio-
active rays may penetrate), Is a body of matter on which the Impact of cosmic
rays Is registered by means of nn electrically-operated device. The readings
are recorded on a photographic film.
Even Imitation
land’s battleships,
Arthur llri.lmne
Rep. S. B.
Hill
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Gilbert, J. R. The Corrigan Press (Corrigan, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1936, newspaper, March 12, 1936; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth645204/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.