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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
7
Arthur A. Ballantine, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, argues that Supreme Court limits on government experimentation with industry are being bypassed by the President’s push to use taxation as a tool beyond revenue. He warns of costly industrial effects and urges open discussion before a rushed path is taken.
Emperor Haile Selassie calls for peace to protect Ethiopia’s modernization drive. He says war would derail education, road building, and commerce that provide work for liberated slaves. He notes ongoing radio station construction to integrate Ethiopia with global intellectual life and warns war with Italy would hinder progress.
Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring writes that the U S Army has become an intimate part of American life. He argues the armed forces, though small and under equipped, are the nation’s greatest stabilizing influence and have built an efficient personnel education system.
Former Canadian premier Sir Robert Borden argues that despite confusing conditions the world can improve. He urges active public participation by the best elements of society and recalls a 30 year vow to encourage vigilant youth engagement even in opposition to his own party.
Kanju Kato, representing Japan's trade unions, warns that war in China widens as imperialists nurture a war mood. He argues capitalist interests drive expansion, while imperial policy clashes with U.S. aims, foreseeing direct conflict between the United States and Japan as England recedes.
Henry Ford argues wages must rise to keep businesses viable. He warns that without higher pay, many enterprises will fail as the system relies on workers having purchasing power to sustain demand.
Senator Borah argues that government setting wages on relief work and monopoly fixing living costs dehumanizes workers. He warns that fixed wages and price controls have nearly squeezed the manhood from American citizens, turning workers into dependent spoons of the system.
Fashion writers note a rising trend toward front fullness achieved by shirring and draping in fall and winter designs. Oriental inspired gowns use gathered bodices and pleats, with chiffon and black silk gowns, Greek influenced waist sash, flat-heeled Grecian sandals, and Hindu turbans and berets signaling a dramatic new silhouette. The Paris scene showcases draped gowns, capes, and accessories echoing Hindustan and Grecian motifs.
Tiny fashion trend reports new hat and dress accessories featuring shells painted with coastal motifs. Crafts show seashells transformed into wearable clips, offering seaside flair for apparel.
A famous old French perfume house promotes skin perfume as the new vogue for sleeveless and backless summer frocks. Apply directly to skin for a personalized, richer scent. lilac fragrance for skin perfume enhances hot season wear. Also popular is a combined perfume and dusting powder in one scent for single, distinct fragrance.
Astringent lotion with a powder base serves as a strong foundation for makeup in warm weather. It can also cleanse the face several times during the day before applying powder.
A Mexican senorita sparked a deadly clash on a train to this city from Urecuaro. Two suitors fought, others joined, a gun was drawn and shots fired. Five men were killed and six wounded before the melee ended.
In Paris at Saint Julien en Genevoise a prison warden found a scrap of paper passed between inmates that identified the victim as Donald Ross, a Glasgow firm representative and British Intelligence member. Three men Rene Anchisi Pierre Guilleminot and Serge Sauvageot were convicted of murder after the clue led to their confession about luring Ross from Gare Saint Lazare to Mantes and killing him after a failed burglary attempt.
At the American Urological Association convention in San Francisco Dr. Hugh Hampton Young described an orphan child misclassified at ages seven as a girl after earlier being raised as a boy. An operation then aimed to remove male traits, but the subject, now eighteen, is definitively masculine and wearing male attire.
In Calcutta a last minute change toppled the planned dowry arrangement. The bridegroom confessed he could not meet the dowry, prompting family consternation. After bitter quarrels, the bride’s parents let the ceremony proceed, and a stranger then offered the dowry and joined the marriage midway.
Richard Clemen sen, fifteen, was pecked in the eye by an owl while climbing a tree to steal a bird nest. Doctors fear permanent eye damage and the boy may lose sight in the affected eye.
To open an old English padlock owned by Mrs. D. R. Peache at Chicago, the combination must spell the word Christ using the letters. The puzzle reveals a curious method connecting a name, a message, and a Victorian riddle set in urban Chicago.
Maurice Ries of Tulane University led a trek from Port-au-Prince to Cap Haitien and identified ruins he calls La Navidad linked to Columbus. He recovered a Queen Isabella ring, hawk bells, and a Spanish rapier hand-guard, suggesting the site. Ries notes Isabela and Mount St. Michel as related locations with quarry stones used by Columbus.
The London Sunday Express argues air routes bind empire by speeding communication. It cites Roman roads as life veins and claims modern planes would have kept Britain and America together in 1775, reducing later conflicts. More air links, fewer separations.
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